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tem gin I83 Wild Plum Conserve-â€"-5 lbs. pitted plums. 2 lbs. seeded raisins, 5 lbs. sugar, 3 oranges, juice of 2 lemons. Slice the oranges in thin slices, crosswise, removing seeds. Grind raisins in meat chopper. Put fruit, sugar and lemon juice in kettle with‘ just enough water to keep fruit from sticking,»bring to boiling point and simmer gently until the fruit is clear and thick and of the consistency of marmalade. Put in hot. gnu-mud After some tub races for the chil- dren, a game of prisoner's base and a lollypop huntâ€"the candy being wrap- ped securely in waxed paper and hid- den in trees for the children to findâ€" gather your picnic crowd around a fire in the evening and while marsh- mallows toast, hold a Whopper con- test. a prize going to the one who can tell the biggest story of wild life on something which has happened on the farm. Water Battleâ€"Most picnics are held near some place where bathing is possible, so there should be some sort of water contests. Choose sides and line up in the water, knee deep, fac- ing each other. Then give the word and watch the battle. With the hands only, each side splashes the other. try- ing to make it so terrific that the contestants must turn away from its force. If a player falls or turns shout, the judge blows a whistle and he is out of the contest. It will dwindle down to two, and as these: take their last stand it is bound to‘ be hilarious. I Blind and Halt Raceâ€"This race must be in pairs also. One is blind- folded, the other must lean upon the blind, walking only on one foot, drag- ging the other or hopping. Line the couples up, give the word and see which couple reaches the goal first. The poor blind one naturally goes slowly in caution and they do not make any great headway~unless recklesslyâ€"with such dragging weight. However, it is their privilege? to take any chances they wish and they usually do, making the race ex- tremely funny. i Bubble Race~Don't forget the kidâ€" dies. Give them all the laughter they want in a soap-bubble race, encourag- ing them to blow as large ones as possible and giving a prize for the one which blows highest in the air before bursting. course Play it like the oldvfa'Shioned game, throwing the flat pebble first into num~ her one and hopping after it and out of the square again. The first couple to go through all nine without falling or pulling each other down wins, of Picnic Hopscotchâ€"This should be played in pairsâ€"a man and woman, or girl and boy, taking the hops into the different/squares together, arm in arm, one happing on the right foot, the other on the left. If it is a beach picnic, mark out the squares on the sand; if in the woods, outline them with small stones on a smooth piece of grass. ‘Then, with hands behind them and blindfolded, watch the contestants ‘fc'liase" their cookies. The string be- ing pliable certainly makes the cookie jump, and once lost from the teeth it is mighty hard to find again. The one who first succeeds in eating his cookie wins the prize. ~â€"-have' several people in different places throw the peanuts while the chlidren run. This makes the scramble a little more difficult and therefore more interesting. Then try these games and contests: Cookie Chaseâ€"String lines between the trees and hang round, hard cook- ies from them by short pieces of string. The games and contests at a picnic thould include not only the old regu- lars, but a lot of mind and body re- laxing bits of fun. Arrange the pro~ gram so that everyone is interested, not only the young( "people, but also the settled middleâ€"aged fathers and nlothsrs and the grandmothers too. Start with some sort of scramble that will liven things upâ€"a peanut rush is as clean and good as anything. Buy these by-the bushel and they will not be so terribly expensive. If the‘ picnic is Iargeâ€"A‘or church or school USING THE WILD FRUITS Ier gently until thick mid of t nalade. Put i es or jars, cool )lce UN zpen steri Plum LIVELY PICNIC Boil vinegar About the House then Th 1 tbs plums with 31' bitty :sh add sup-â€" {carriesâ€"In Sep- 1 cranberries be- should be picked mt pit oda pt. vinegar, 1| sp. cinnamon,[ sugar Jtes qts. wildl GA M ES sauce, ld then , water plums, simmer and Put get a strzaight edge, I cut a ten-inch square from each of the fronts. In some cases 'these had bits of drawn work and in others small fragments of embroidery. However, the fronts, backs, and parts of the sleeves were good. Beginning by pulling a thread to get a straight edge, I cut a ten-inch In spite of all these precautions your baby may develop symptoms of the dreaded summer complaint. Give. Ihim enough Castor oil to Clear the bowels thoroughly. Depending some-' what upon conditions this may be from one to twa tablespoonfuls; don't overdo it. Stop all food, and give barley water for twentyâ€"four hours. Now and then, I find a very sick baby who frets- himself into a worse state because not allowed to eat. In such' eases, I compromise on unflavored gelatin, which is u’sually relished. If the baby is better at the end of one} day, you may begin giving a mixture: of barley water and milk. If he is' not markedly better you have waited long enough. Get the best doctor within reach. I I had in my possession several white voile and linen blouses whose style had become obsolete many sea- sons ago. Some were Worn around the armholes, some had frayed edges. others had mended collars. Leftâ€"“Whoopln’ 'em up" at the rodeo. Topâ€"Veterans 3’. Young mothers must remember that 1" milk must continue to be the staple t" article of diet for a child in his sec- 2‘ and year; in fact, it remains so for a; long afterward. No child over a year a'old should be given the bottle. He lshould be taught to drink from a cup. L‘ But it is just as important to have ll the milk clean and sweet as when he - took it by the nipple route. The posâ€" " sibilities for damage by impure milk [are not all put away when the bottle I is abolished. It is neither necessary nor advis- iable to maintain an exclusive milk "diet in the second year. The babyi .may have well-cooked cereals; oat-= ,meal, cornmeal, rice, prepared wheat. He may have some bread after it is twenty hours stale, and graham; .erackers are allowed in reasonable; iamount. Gravies that are not too‘ lrich are allowed on bread; and ichicken, mutton, or beef broth Withi iwell cooked rice may be served. ’ As he reaches the later months of ;the year, he may be allowed an egg. 'poached or soft boiled, and a smalll portion of baked potato. To add to' the joy of living, you may give him puddings of cornstarch, custard, rice. tapioca, and he may also eat stewed prunes, apple sauce and sweet ;oranges. No, I said nothing about candy. I bought a spool of No. 80 white PREVENT SUMMER COMPLAINT under-ripe as they then make better jelly. Carefully wash and pick over the berries and put in a kettle with just enough water to cover. Cook gently until 1h? fruit is tends-r. Strain through jelly bag. Add an equal am- ount of sugar to the strained juice, bring to the boiling point and sim- mer gently until it jellies. Pour in hot, sterilized glasses and cool and seal. HANDKERCHIEFS I MADE Celebrate Arrival of Royai Canadian Mounted Police enough water to cover. Cook ‘y until 1h? fruit is tender. Strain xgh jelly bag. Add an equal amâ€" of sugar to the strained juice, : to the boiling point and simâ€" gently until it jellies. Pour in sterilized glasses and cool and The men who have rendered the greatest service to the world asked nothing and gave everything. ’ We need be in no doubt that the WO- 1 men of those days valued their person- lal charm, and bpent as much care on preserving it as ever women do now! Every old mirror is a thing of mem- {ories. What a throng of shadowy : ghosts we might see in the metal ,mirrors taken from Egyptian tombs, ior in the palace mirrors at Holyrood and Versailles. or in that curious old looking-glass shown in the museum at Brighton and said to have belonged to Nell Gwynne! ’1 The cult of the mirror is easily one ‘l'of the oldest in the world. We can 3{hardly believethat there was ever a ’ time when ‘a charming [ace went whol- l ly unmirrored, however primitive the ‘ medium of reflection had to be. Eye gazed entranced at her own image reflected'in a glassy pool; and r, we know how. long before the inven- tion of glass, the women of old Egypt, " Greece, and Rome had their handâ€"mir- rors of polished metal~burnished discs of bronze or silver set in a more or less decorated frame. Some of those ancient mirrors, em- ployed as they were in the service at beauty, were things of beauty in them- selves. They had a kind of sacred ‘char‘acter, too, as symbols of the g0d~ (less of beauty, Venus Aphrodite, to whom their fair owners often dedi- cated them in the native hope that the goddess would impart to the faces they reflected something of her own matchless loveliness and fadeless youth. \Ve need be in no dnnm Hm Hm um, A well-balanced mind is the best remedy against affliction. Perhaps the old superstition that it is unlucky to break a mirror is not so very ridiculous after all. So much of ourselves seems to pass into a mirror. Selfâ€"complacency means that a man is either too proud of his merits or unaware of his defects. ‘opâ€"Veterans of the Scariet an Participants in the war dance nor was the vase valbable C7101 justify spending even a smell 1 of money. However, 1 had snm enamel, bought. at the tenvcent for my oil stove. I mixed a little black paint “ to soften it into a pretty gm. “flowed it onto the surface a vase. It dried quickly, COV91‘( the inartistic properties of the and left an object not unlike th high-lustre vases sold in art shi line Sibl the stove will thread and six yards each of two patterns of the tiniest Zace edging I could buy. 1 rolled the edges of the squares I had cut from the old- fashioned blouses and whipped m the narrow edges,‘and found myself the possessor of several dainty handkm~~ fluids of which 1 am quite proud. â€"«J. 2". H. ‘ I'U “‘ had in my possession wn-and-white vase with u x, but it had an absolute’ (- red rose painted on Gnu knew nothing of china heap white crepe paper nag) into squares a quarter the sin apkin and hung on a hook I 1' using MY ENAMELED SAVE Y0 UR HAN I; Mirror Magic. vill sfive your han-l pans. They can uK l absolute'y fin; :ed on one side. of china Duinti surface of th the new shops. ry EOC H Hiking vas tir old mee all ea: 01d 1d Oliver's greatest friend and com-i rade. Sir Joshua Reynolds, also lived and died unmarried. He, too, is credited with his love affair, and, al- though he painted all the loveliest wo- men of his time, including Kitty Fish- 'er, there seems to have been only one woman for him, and that was the fa-- moths woman painter and 'R.A., Anâ€"' gelica Kaufimzmn, whom he was wont to call “Little Angel." She made an unhappy marriage, and it might have» been well had she married her some- what elderly and very deaf adorer. Perhaps painters are “wedded to: their work," for it was a painter who! said that no artist should ever marry, and it is a fact that there are perhaps more distinguished bachelors among artists than among any other singlef There are famous bachelors in the modern world; and a list. beginningi with Lord Balfour, Lord Haldane. and the Hon. Maurice Baring, would be,‘ interesting. says an English writer.‘ But in the long list of the men who lived and died in a state of "singlei blessKe-dness" there are more than any single article can mention, and a few. of the great bachelors of the past must sufiice. There is. Oliver Goldsmith, for in- stance. His “Jessaniy Bride" is one. of the fragrant flowers of literature, but, although there is no doubt of his love for her, and her strong affection for him, yet she married another, and the author of “The Vicar of Wakefield" and “The Deserted Village“ died a, bachelor. l tions in reSDect of one of her daugh- ters, although even she did not know “which.” I , ‘ One of his lady apologistsâ€"end he had many who made excuses for such a “dear man"â€"â€"says: . His manner was likely to mislead : without his intending it. He could not write a common answer to a dinner in- vitation without its assuming the tone of a. billet-do-ux; the very commonest conservation was held in the soft. low whisper, and with that bone of defer- ence and interest which are so calcu- lated to please. He is said to have been actually “en- gaged” more than once. William Cowper, the famous author of “The Task,” and deemed almost the best of English letter-writers, died unmarried. Yet the poet had many 1 -â€"AND THE WORST [S YET TO COME FAMOUS BACHELORS OF THE PAST . WJ‘MQ‘i’o married her someâ€" rery deaf adorer. : are “wedded to was a painter who should ever marry, Are are perhaps helors among y other single SHAVE 5¢ HAlR-CUT 10¢ He is said to have been actually “en- gaged” more than once. William Cowper, the famous author of “The Task,” and deemed almost the best of English letter-writers, died tunmarried. Yet the poet had many women friends who were devoted to him, and many of his most sprightly and charming epletles are addressEd ‘ to them. Of course. he was subject to intermittent dementia, and perhaps that fact kept him from matrimony. else he might possibly have marrieg‘l in later life Lady Austen. the "Sister “Anne” of some of his most charming 3 letters In res-p4 Covwer attorne [cl-ass. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A, for Instance, was a bachelor. { But, although he never married, he was a “squire of dames," a very fas- cinating man, and there is no doubt he caused the famous Mrs. Siddons ta think that he had matrimonial inten~ Cowperfs Love Affair. _ It was she who, when the poet was distraught and melancholy, suggested that he should find distraction for'his thoughts in Writing a poem. “But what shall I write about?” said the poet. “Oh, anything~the sofa we’re sitting on. for instance," said the pretty, lively widow, and thus “The Task” begins with the words “I sing the Sofa," and the poem which ham“! write a common answer to a dinner in- vitation without its assuming the tone of a. billet-do-nx; the very commonest conservation was held in the soft. low whisper. and with that bone of defer- ence and interest which are so calcu‘ lated to please. But Co sen muc )hn o‘ I frivolously r ;e upon six ut Cowper’s n much earl rney msin. 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