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M “MW.W thm ._ . ~ to make it presentable? We had, and LAND THE WORST IS YET TO COME (- water frozen in little drops. A snap- dragon plant or two would not be out of place and it is so much fun to make the little flowers snap. In order to know where to place. the rocks, throw a handful of small stones and wherever they light. place the larger ones. A flat dish of some sort filled with water and perched on one of the stones will invite the birds. CURTAIN LAUNDERING. Curt-airs will last much longer if they are folded se veral times and then loosely tacked with thread before washing. Probably every housekeep- or has had the experience. of having curtains go to pieces in the process of washing. This is because when the curtain, heavy with water, is lifted the weight tears the delicate threads. Even new curtains are frequently damaged. Since curtains are seldom soiled in any one place, they may bu. thoroughly washed and rinsed before being unfolded; and even tender old curtains will come through without undue damage. Small delicate articles, such as lace} collars, cuffs, centrepieces and hand- kerchiels. should be placed in a gen- erous-si..ed cheesecloth bag before be- ing placed in the washer. They will emerge from the bag beautifully clean and need not be handled separ- ately until ready for drying. FOR CHILDREN’S PARTIES. Pleasing favors and table decora- tions for a child’s party may be made by combining animal crackers and ordinary wafers together to form barnyard scenes. To do this, melt a little sugar, without water, dip the animal’s feet in it, and stand it on the cracker. One must work quickly, as the sugar hardens rapidly and it Iv must not be burned. The lifelike re- About the House MY PET KITCHEN CONVEN- . IENCES. Have you linoleum on the floor? If not, strain every nerve to accomplish it. Of course, you may have a hardâ€" wood floor and prefer it. I had one and covered it with linoleum, and never had known kitchen-floor com- fort before. I can wash it immacu- lately in fifteen minutes. Some author- ities recommend waxing it. And while on the subject of linoleum, unless you have one of the excellent enameled- top kitchen tables, have light-colored linoleum applied to your table. This is a tremendous convenience. Shelves around the sink and in the kitchen pantry should receive a coat of var- nish. Have you in your home a white elephant in the way of a small marble- topped table, purchased in what is now referred to as “that awful per-l iod”-â€"too ginger-bready at the base I finally decided to have the base chopped for kindling wood and to establish the marble top in the kit- chen pantry, where it proved invalu- able'as a molding board for pastry,l bread, cookies and the like. I should find it hard to get along without it now As a part of the kitchen furniture include a high stool or chair to use when ironing, ‘ preparing vegetables and rolling cookies and so forth. This| also is invaluable. I Over the sink place a row of neat hooks. On these should hang a dip- per, egg beater, large spoon, a good sized strainer and also a small strain- er. There should be a pair of stout kitchen scissorsâ€"never to be taken from the roomâ€"for cutting not only paper and string, but for mincing parsley, shredding lettuce or dried. beef. Back of some pipe should hang a couple of sharp vegetable knives, a fork and a split clothespin. Why thel Clothespin? Try it as a scraper when' something has stuck on your petl aluminum or granite saucepan and5 you will never be without it again.l The dish mop should hang in the air- iest corner. These I regard as kitchenl essentialsâ€"for me. i A few of the more unusual aids that. I especially value are: Iron applcl parer; I have used the same one fori forty years and it will still give me‘ a. perfect, thin, entire paring. Egg and beet slicer; this dainty, well~made little utensil is expensive, but looks as though it would last forever. I should hesitate to keep house without either of the above. By means of the slicer a hardboiled egg is thinly and. exquisitely sliced in a tricc for salads and garnishcs. Cucumber latticer:1 this consists of a fluted knife set inn 3 board, and lattices cucumbers, cook-l, ed beats and raw potatoes in the mosr‘ attractive way. A box of garnishing utensils has proved a joy to my soul,l and the implements are simple enough1 to be practical: I use them continuallyi Sauccpans and double boilers 01" various sorts should he abundant and Spich and span. straight-upâ€"and-down glass jars withi glass covers, bought at the ten-centv store, are the. most. valued containers in my pantry. They hold rice, salt,; I l tea. heminy and {titer groceries, .Gingham, pongee or crepe are good 3 by the side of the house. A COMFORTABLE PLAY GARMENT. 4530. This style is easy to develop and has practical features. The leg portions may be finished with or with- out the leg bands. The inner seam may be finished for a closing, which, is desirable for very young children. materials for this model. The Pattern is cut in 4 Sizes: 1, 2, 3 and 4 years. A 1-year size re- quires 1% yards of 36-inch material. Pattern mailed to any address on receipt of 15c in silver, by the Wilson Publishing Co., 73 West Adelaide St., Toronto. Allow two weeks for receipt of pattern. Send 15c in silver for our up-to- date Spring and Summer 1924 Book of Fashions. A LITTLE GIRL’S ROCK GARDEN. A little girl will love a rock garden all her own where she can pile up stones in all sorts of funny shapes and where she may dig in the dirt while mother is about her gardening. She will find it an ideal place to hold tea parties with the family of dolls or with little friends, and much more interesting than a sand-pile garden where things do not really grow but are just stuck in. Such a garden need not be very large. A space three feet by five feet in the corner of mother’s garden will do very nicely, or a little place close l sults always delight the children, espe- 'cially when a pig seems to be walking I on its hind feet pursued by a cow, Ior an elephant balances himself on his trunk. ANY GIRL. A little home with a breakfast nook, And a snowy cloth, and a cookery book; A parlor lamp in rose and blue, An overstuffed lounge, and a baby shoe! These are the things I want, don't you? But whenever a soul’s around to hear I assert that I long for a career! â€"Mary Carolyn Davies. By ’Plane i0 the Pole. The schoolboy who was punished by _5 his teacher for saying that the mag- netic Pole was the North Pole had more imagination than the master gave him credit for. Once again it is calling, this time to the adventurous heart of Captain Roald Amundsen, the : Norwegian explorer, who beat Captain ‘ Scott in the race for the South Pole.{ Plans for the project (which was‘ almost turned down six months ago) are now in full preparation. I The most interesting feature is thati the intrepid explorer purposes to fly; over the Pole in an aeroplane. He will i drift by ship as far north as possible and then begin his flight. It is not generally remembered that Captain Amundsen is the explorer who actu-' ally trained polar bears to pull sleighs. -¢â€"â€"â€"-â€"- Tho Touch Test. “Johnny, your face needs washings Did you look at it in the glass this morning?" “‘No, mother. but it seemed all right. when I felt it." â€"â€"â€"oâ€"â€"â€"â€" Render unto all men their due, but. remember thou art also a man. ‘ perfection in our latitude. )1llilll lllllilllllllhil . , - 317156,... . ) "mi::mlmm-um. Soaking takes the place of rubbingâ€"â€" UST by soaking the clothes in the suds of this new soap,dirt is gently loosened and dissolved. Even the dirt that is ground in at neck- bands and cull-edges yields to a light rubbing with dry Rinso. Not a thread is weakened. The mild Rinso suds work. thoroughly through and through the clothes without injury to a single fabric. Rinso is made by the makers of Lux. For the family wash it is as wonderful as Lux is for fine things. All grocers and department stores sell Rinso. LEVER BROTHERS LlMlTED, TORONTO â€" 'spike when the first bud opens and al- The gladiolus is a flower that is. not grown as largely as it deserves. Prob- ably the two main reasons for this are, first, that it is not sold in the common seed packets; and, second, it is very easy to lose one’s whole stock of gladi- .oli if one forgets to dig them in the fall, for, like potatoes, they will not stand the winter's freezing in the ground. By getting a few bulbs to start with, however, one may soon increase one's stock; and there is scarcely any liner cut flower that will thrive and come to The gladi- olus grows from a bulb or corm, spring planted. The bulbs are not at all ex-. pensive, costing according to the rarity of the variety. The general period for planting corms would be about May 15. Plant, say. four inches deep. On account of the limited top growthâ€"only half a dozen or less sword-like leaves and a single flower spikeâ€"â€"one may plant the bulbs quite closely together, say- six inches or less apart in the row. Give a sunny location, not too c10se to buildings, and cultivate lightly throughout the season. A single good spike will hear about eighteen flower buds. The greatest Little stones,’ big rocks, flat rocks and round onesâ€"' i any kind that are conveniently handy, will do. The large stones will have: to he placed for her by someone 913e,} but little Miss Gardener will enjoy, bringing in the others from every-‘ where. particularly the sand pile; “'ith the smaller ones she may build' a castle. ("lose around the larger ones; she will plant her flowers, which may, be some of the same that mother has" in her garden. Su’eet alyssum. porIuâ€"i laca, snow~in-summer, annual baby"sl_ breath and the little old-fashioned; harebell all grow prettily around’ rocks. Wild sweet William carpets the ground in little drifts, and wood: Two_ “Ht lain lviolets are pretty tucked in between; q p ’ All of those first named; will grow from seed as will the ice‘ the rocks. plant, which is vo very interesting on account of its thick fleshy leaves and stems That appear to he covered with " _ "in ll RAMS 9F CHOEfiE Sfifité SY fill F3 “Benson’s Golden” Equal to the best Cane. “Crown Brand” “Lily White” The Standard Corn Syrup. “Lassics” Equal to the best Molasses. Manufactured by THE CANADA STARCH CO, LlMlTED, MONTREAL. ‘ '» l lllllillllllllnImu.n..m...............................................mmummuumlllllllllllllll A “White Syrup like _ lousy. lowing the flower to develop indoors. Every bud will open and more delicate coloring will develop than would be possible if left in the sun. Cutting the spike when the first bud opens is also a benefit to the bulb as the strength of the foliage is required by the bulb to develop for the next year’s growth and for this reason always allow two or more leaves to remain. About the latter part of September or after the first frosts appear, the bulbs should be taken out of the ground and allowed to dry. However, the more drying there is done the greater the loss c” vitality, and only enough drying should be practised to free the bulb of surpl ls moisture con- tained in the skin or husk so that there will be no tendency to mold. The bulbs should be stored in shallow boxes safe. 1:; in a reasonably dry air at a tem- perature of about éU. A cool cellar suitable for potato storage is ideal... Ontario Horticultural Association. 9â€" “Whai.’ll I do," sobbed the little boy, “when my lessons are bad Pop spanks me, and when they’re good teacher kisses me." There are reproaches which praise and praises which convey satire. r5". I: L r,‘ U I f . " L2f”: ll.