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OCTOBER 30, 1908
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All Saints' Bvo
Why blowest thou not, thou -wintry
wind,
Now every leaf is brown and sear,
And idly droops, to thee resigned,
The fading chaplet of the year?
Yet wears the pure aerial sky
The summer veil, half drawn on
high,
Of silvery haze, and dark and still,
The shadows sleep on every slant
ing hill.
How quiet shows the woodland
scene!
Each flower and tree, its duty
done,
Henosinp: in decay serene,
Like weary men, when age is won;
Such calm old age, as conscience
pure
And Belf-commanding hearts in
sure; Waiting their summons to the sky,
Content to live, but not afraid to
die.
Sure, if our eyes wero purged to
trace
God's unseen armies hovering
round,
We should behold, by angel's grace,
The four strong winds of heaven,
fast-bound;
Their downward sweep a moment
stayed, .
On ocean, cove and forest glade,
Till the last -flower of autumn shed
Her funeral odors ' on her dying
bed.
John Keble, of the 19th.century:
tho finder of the thimble will not
marry.
Hido an army button, a pen ,a
palette, a medicine bottle, a needle,
and a bit of earth. The finder of
the button will marry an army
man; tho pen foretells a literary
mate.; tho palotte, a painter; tho
needlo, a seamstress or a tailor; the
medicine bottle, a doctor; and tho
earth, a farmer.
Put into envelopes pictures cut
from magazines, or drawn, repre
senting different industries, and let
them bo drawn from a tray by the
guests. The pictures will suggest
characteristics of their future mates.
Place three dishes on the table;
in one, clear water; in another,
greasy water; tho other, empty.
Blindfold a guest, turn him about
until ho has lost his locality, then
lead him to the table to choose the
dish. The clear water indicates a
happy marriage; the dirty water, an
uncongenial mating, and tho empty
one, a single life.
Greaso some needles; fill a dish
with water, lay a piece of tissue pa
per on top of the water and place
the needles carefully on the paper;
tho paper will sink, leaving tho
needles floating on the water. Each
person should name one needle, and
the amusement is watching tho mo
tions of tho needlc3, which motions
are prophetic of the future of tho
one -who claims the needle.
ting away. If tho used fat has a
dark color, put it into a kettle with
six times its bulk in water, boil for
half an hour, turn into a pan to cool,
when tho fat should bo on top of the
water in a hard cake, while tho sed
iments wllX fall to tho bottom. It
may then bo clarified and used again.
To clarify fat, put tho fat on tho
stovo in a frying pan as soon as it is
skimmed from the stock, heat slowly
and when melted, set where it will
just bubblo; let it stand at this heat
until no bubbles arise, and thcro is
no motion to tho greaso; the fat may
then bo either carefully poured off
of the sediments, or allowed to get
cold and hard, and the sediments
scraped from the bottom. If drip
pings or skimmed fat Is left without
clarifying, tho moisture and objec
tionable bits of food will cause it to
spoil.
Hallowe'en Pastimes
These are a few of the "charms"
to be tried on Hallowe'en:
Melt lead and pour through a
wedding ring or key handle; the
lead will assume suggestive shapes
as it cools.
Go into the garden and pull cab
bage. A straight, shapely stalk is
a good omen, while a stalk, the roots
of which bring up a good deal of
earth, means riches.
Bid all guests come prepared to
tell a ghost story; have an open fire,
if possible, and let each guest throw
a small bundle of fagots on the fire,
telling the story while the fagots
burn.
Put a few raisins in an earthen
dish and partly fill it with water;
pour on the water a little alcohol
and set it afire and try to snap the
raisins out of the flame.
Walk backwards down the stair.;,
alone, carrying in one hand a light,
and in the other a mirror; it is
promised that you shall see the face
of your future mate in the mirror.
Bobbing for apples will never
grow old. Name several apples and
put them in a tub or bucket nearly
full of water, and try to catch them
with the teeth.
Look at the moon through a silk
handkerchief that has not been
washed, and count the moons you
see. The number of moons seen, in
dicate the number of years that must
pass before you marry.
Hide a ring, a bit of money and
a thimble; the one who finds the
ring will marry first; the one who
gets the money will marry riches;
Hullowo'cn Favors
Pumpkins and sunflowers may be
made of tissue or'crepe paper. Paper
caps made in the form of half a
pumpkin, with the stem of green
paper, may be made of crepe paper.
These are to be worn by those who
serve.
Make tiny pumpkins of crepe pa
per, and fill with candy. The table
decorations should be yellow and
green and big sunflowers are in order
for table center pieces, wall decora
tions and mantel bouquets.
Corn tassels and ripe corn ears
may be used wherever needed to
give color, and the yellow corn eaTs
can be made into very handsome
ornamentation by cutting and taste
fully arranging the pieces. The
pumpkin masks and "Jack-o'-lan
terns" are too well known to need
specifying. Small pumpkins can be
-made out of card-board, and either
painted yellow, or covered with yel
low cloth. Tiny tapers may bo set
in these for illumination.
Cockroaches and Fleas
"A Header" sends in the following
for ridding tho place of fleas, but
says he has not tried it: Make an
emulsion of 80 parts of crude pe
troleum oil and twenty parts of whalo
oil soap. This combination should
be well mixed, and will form a jelly
which mixes freely with water, and
is generally used as a 3 per cent so
lution. A ten per cent solution is
said to destroy fleas with certainty;
apply it to floors, walls and cracks
with a garden sprayer. Wash ani
mals with the solution to relievo of
fleas.
Farmers' Bulletin 51, Bureau of
Entomology, gives this as a means
of destroying cockroaches: Mix plas
ter of Paris, one part, with flour,
three or four parts, In one saucer,
and place it where the roaches
abound. Remove everything eatable
from the room. Nearby -et a flat
dish, covering the bottom with wa
ter, and lay little sticks across con
necting tho saucers, to serve as
bridges, and in the water lay two or
three 'thin bits of -wood, floating on
the surfaco and touching the margin
of the dish. The insects are expect
ed to eat the mixture, become thirsty
and drink of the water, when the
plaster sets and clogs tho intestines.
There are seldom any dead roaches
seen, as the survivors eat the dead.
No matter what is used, eatables
must be kept out of the room infest
ed, and all damp corners, or cloths
be dried. Damp kitchen closets are
ideal places for the propagation of
these pests.
around hor shoulders, or with thin
nhooB. Many women owo their 111
health to their own rare loss nous in
risking oxposuro on'svnuh days.
To wash woolens properly, remem
ber to avoid olthor too hot or too
cold wator for washing, and do not
hang In groat boat, ns on n lino ovor
a rango, or too great cold, as out In
tho frosty air. Hand-hot water In
about tho right temperature, nnd all
waters, both for washing and rins
ing, should bo of the same tompora
ture, while tho heat for drying
should ho about tho temperature of
tho living room. Wooldns should
never bo allowod to freeze.
In hanging blankets to dry, do not
put them on tho lino doubled ovor.
Have the lino high enough so tho
blanket can bo pinned on It by tho
edge; If wanted as wldo as possible,
hang it by tho sido edgo; if length
Is needed, hang It by tho end edge.
Shako frequently whllo drying, and
do not iron wlien dry, but fold even
ly and lay somo heavy weight upon
lit
Keeping Cnunn Roots
As soon as tho frost blackens tho
leaves of tho canna, whllo tho noil
Is wet, dig the roots of tho canna,
and let as much wot soil as will, stay
on tho roots. If tho ground Is not
wot enough, water. well, to soak
ing, before digging. Tho soli dry
ing on tho roots, prevents the nlr
from reaching them, and when dried
bard, the roots may ho laid upon
somo frost-proof sholf to rest for tho
winter. Or they may bo dug, leav
ing what soil will adhere to them,
thoroughly dried, and packed in dry
sand; but the sand must bo per
fectly dry. Dahlia roots may bo kopt
In tho same way, but tho tubers must
not bo separated from tho stalk. Of
course, the tops should bo removed
when the roots are dug. A cellar
that will keep potatoes will bo about
right.
ASTONISHED THE DOCTOR
Old Lady Got Well with Change of
Food
AN OLD AND WELL TRIED REMEDY
Mns. WrNST.ow's Soothino Syrop lor children
teething should nlwnys bo usd for children while
tr-eihlner, It softens tho siihih, allays tho pain,
cures wind cnl c nnd Is tho bast remedy for dJar
rhoea. Tweuty-flvo cents a bottle,
Somo Helps for the Housewife
Butter-hands are small grooved
paddles of wood, and the grooves
may be either coarse or fine. They
are used for shaping the little pats
of butter for individual plates.
To get onion juice, peel the onion
and quarter it. Have a wooden lem
on squeezer to be used only for this
purpose, and squeeze the onion Lard
in this. There should be two table
spoonfuls of juice to each large
onion. If less is wanted, squeeze one
or more of the quarters.
To clarify butter for cooking, put
it into a porcelain lined stew pan
and set on the bac" of the range
where it will heat slowly; when melt
ed, a clear, oil substance will be on
top with a ciouay seaimem u.i tne
bottom of the pan. Lift carefully
and pour off the oil, allowing none
of the sediment to pass off. Tho oil
will be clarified butter.
All drippings, or fat that has been
used, should be clarified before put-
Remember that "village and farm
Improvement fevers" are "catching,"
and where one home shows care and
beauty, another will soon follow suit.
Once started on a village street, the
fever spreads, until there are many
beauty spots along the way. It fs
the same wltb tne farming commu
nity, and if the woman has her way,
there is no end to lovely things grow
ing, and the waste places are soon
filled with vine and flower and fruit.
Shall you be the first?
Odds and Ends
The "weekly wash" is accountable
for many "weakly" women, and
every means possible should bo em
ployed for robbing the work of Its
dangers. Soft water, plenty of safe
detergents, fuel at hand, labor-saving
machinery, and proper facilities for
laundry purposes should be provided.
The woman who toils over tubs of
steamy water should not go out Into
the open air of winter with nothing
A great scientist has said wo can
put off "old ago" If we can only
nourish the body properly.
To do this tbo right kind or rood,
of course, is necessary. Tho body
manufactures poisons in the stom
ach and intestines from certain kinds
of food stuffs and unless sufficient
of the right kind Is used, the injur
ious, elements overcome the good.
"My grandmother, 71 year old,"
writes a New York lady, "had been
an invalid for 18 years from what
was called consumption of tho stom
ach and bowels. Tho doctor had
given her up to die.
"I saw so much about Grape-Nuts
that I persuaded urandmother to try
It. She could not keep anything on
her stomach for more than a few
minutes.
"She began Grape-Nuts with only
a teaspoonful. As that did not dis
tress her and as she could retain it,
she took a little more until she could
lake all of A teaspoonfuls at a meal.
"Then she began to gain and
grow strong and her trouble in tho
stomach was gone entirely. She got
to enjoy good health for one so old
and we know Grape-Nuts saved her
life.
The doctor was astonished that in- '
stead of dying she got well, and
without a' drop of medicine after sho
began the Grape-huts." "There's a
Reason."
Name given by Postum Co., Bat
tle Creek, Mich. Read, "The Road
to Wellville," in pkgs.
Ever read the abovo letter? A
now one annears from time to time.
'They arc genuine, true, and full of
J human interest.
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