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Pretty Pongee Coloring
1 The shantung and pongee silks have
appeared in champagne ciel blue re
seda green pale pink and othe deli
cato or unusual shades and are being
made up into effective shirtwaist cos
tumes
One of the delicate grayish blue
pongees rejoices in the name of Par
sifal A bright blue is called Madonna
and a rather bright yellow is termed
Yeddo
The rough unevenly woven pongee
is the genuine eastern product and is
the most fashionable as it is also the
most lasting These silks come as
wide as thirty eight inches and while
more expensive than the other varie
i2S are really cheaper as they wear
forever and clean and wash beauti
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There are any number of pongees
and of course the dark colors cardi
nal navy blue are shown and used
in quantities
I Return to Olden Styles
Early summer styles indicate a re
turn to the charming old fantasies of
our great grandmothers brought to
up-to-date requirements by the mod
ern loom
These are flowered organdies old
time grenadines in plaids or besprin
kled with sprigs of flowers veilings of
every variety mounting in the scale
from simple voiles to crepe voiles and
voile chiffons
Colors can only be described as in
describable Every possible gradation
of shade and light is extracted from
a primary color In fact the new
school is a wonderful school in color
training One no longer hears of bril
liant orange as a touch of color It
is the fashion to deal in tawny yellow
dregs of champagne banana tints and
almond leaf greens
To Clean White Velvet
It is almost impossible to clean
white velvet in a perfectly satisfac
tory manner However it may be
greatly freshened by an application of
chloroform First brush and beat the
velvet free of all dust Pin the velvet
smoothly on an ironing board or it
may be stretchel in an embroidery
hoop and have plenty of clean white
cloths at hand Dip a cloth in chloro
form rub lightly over the spot until
it disappears then with a clean cloth
rub over the entire surface of the vel
vet to remove all soil on the nap Do
the work very rapidly and finish by
rubbing with another clean white
cloth Haste is absolutely essential
because of the volatile nature of the
cleaning fluid and also to avoid a
stain
Waist With Pointed Yoke Collar
Nothing could be prettier for after
noon wear than this dainty waist of
sheer white muslin combined with a
yoke collar made of lace embroidered
insertion and frills of fine embroidery
Its deep pointed yoke gives the nec
essary droop to the shoulders and the
gathered portion below is softly full
and blouses over the crushed belt
most becomingly The model is un
lined and so become washable but
the many thin silk and wool fabrics
of the season are equally well adapt-
ed to the style and can be made over
the fitted foundation and with frills of
lace in place of needlework while the
yoke can be lace or any fancy mate
rial preferred and can be made quite
transparent or lined with chiffon when
ever such effect is desired
The waist consists of the lining
front backs and yoke collar with full
sleeves and Is closed invisibly at the
center back The soft belt is cut bias
and is gathered to form tuck shirrings
at the ends
The quantity of material required
for the medium size is 3 yards 21
inches wide 3 yards 27 inches wide
or 1 yards44 inches wide with 9
yards of insertion 3 yards of wide
embroidery and 2 yards of narrow to
make as illustrated
Childe Pinafore Frock
Frocks made In pinafore style and
worn over guimpes with full sleeves
are exceedingly charming and attrac
tive and so eminently simple that
they suit the small folk to perfection
This one is made of sheer nainsook
with trimming of embroidery but all
the white materials used for purposes
of the sort and pretty colored ging
hams chambrays and the like are
equally suitable and the latter are
even preferable for the hours of play
To make the dress fpr a child of 4
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years of age will be required 2
yards 27 or 2 yards 36 inches wide
with 54 yards of embroidery
Sicilienne Promenade Costume
All of the sheer and lightweight
fabrics are highly favored of fashion
and none more so than the siciliennes
with their silky surface and dust-repelling
qualities A tint
in sicilienne has much shirring and
depends upon fancy gold braids for
decoration The blouse coat has a
chasuble yoke defined with braids
the shoulder being extended down
over the arm and shirrings appear
on each side of the chasuble to af
ford the fullness which is pleated into
the deep featherboned girdle The
skirt is shirred around the hips and a
shirred flounce is applied beneath a
band of fancy gold braid The shir
ring is executed with the oscillating
stitch of the sewing machine with all
the effect of hand work A velveteen
binding of the same tint matching the
sicilienne finishes the hem
Frujts Out of Season
The wife of a wealthy fruitgrower
surprised her friends during the holi
days by serving watermelons musk
melons plums and grapes as fresh
as when they were gathered Asked
to tell the secret she replied It is
the simplest thing in the world any
one can preserve fresh fruits in the
same way The melons I first dip in
a wax preparation and coat the stems
with sealing wax After this I coat
them with a thick coat of shellac and
bury them in a box of sawdust to
keep them from rubbing together and
from freezing The plums are coated
in the wax onty but the plums and
other fruits are coated with the wax
and then with the shellac All are
carefully packed in sawdust
The Smartest of Shirtwaist Hats
A broad satin straw braid in a
champagne tint has tiny geld braids
interwoven to form a plaid pattern in
this exceedingly smart hat destined
for shirtwaist and other informal
wear The crown is low and broad
and the brim is bent into fascinating
curves eminently becoming above
the face -The large rosette of black
velvet ribbon at the side is centered
with a huge gold cabochon decorated
with cut steel work and this catches
the single white quill A long strand
of the velvet ribbon is threaded
through the brim to fall in loops and
ends on the hair in the back
Case for White Collars
A dainty device for keeping the
twentieth century girls white stocks
and starched collars immaculate when
not encircling her fair throat is made
of a round basket Line with silk oi
delicate hue with an interlining ot
wadding sprinkled with satchet pow
der A circular piece of pasteboard
covered and wadded serves for a lid
and also as a convenient resting place
for the fancy pins worn at the tront
and back of the stock collars
Women and Their Shoes
Women are paying more and more
attention to the shoes worn -with all
costumes Fashionable women are
wearing bronze shoes with their golden-brown
costumes grey suede ties
and pumps with their grey costumes
oyster cplored suede With a costume
of that shade and so through the end
less gamut of fashionable cokfcs
Light Colored Evening Wraps
To be fashionable evening wraps
must be light not in weight but in
color Almost every material fAm
lace to marabout ropes will serve
for their making but they must never
be black or red or brown and even
dark gray is a little under the ban
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An Englishmans Invention
What can make a building look
more unsightly than a lot of faded
torn and ragged awnings flapping in
the wind and adjusted at every angle
from vertical to horizontal Those
half or wholly raised form pockets
for the lodgment of snow or rain
with which to deluge some unsuspect
ing passerby the next time the shade
is lowered and even when folded as
closely as possible against the win
dow frame they present a rumpled
and unpleasing appearance Of course
while the awnings are new they add
much to the appearance of the build
ing during the few hours they are in
actual use but they cannot be main
tained in that position as the occu
pants of the rooms cannot do without
the light the shades prevent from en
tering It has taken an English in
ventor to supply an improvement over
the old form of awning as shown in
the illustration Instead of attacking
the upper edge of the awning to the
window casing by tacks or otherwise
this awning is mounted on a spring
roller which lies back of the face
board of the frame in a horizontal
recess or pocket formed for the pur
pose It will be noticedthat the face
board of the pocket is secured to the
outer end of the awning and to the
swinging rods which maintain the
awning at an angle with the window
frame When the awning is in use
as a protection from the suns rays
the face board is lowered with it and
the canvas unrolls from the roller in
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Rolls Into the Window Casing
the pocket but upon returning the
awning to its pocket the facing fol
lows and closes the opening in such
a manner as to completely hide the
shade from view The improved ap
pearance of a building thus equipped
is at once obvious
The inventor is Stephen Prebble of
Brixton England
The Power of Science
In the Popular Science Monthly
President Jordan of Stanford univer
sity says In mechanics we know
that the force of a moving body is not
measured by the substance Its mo
mentum or effective power is found
in its weight multiplied by its speed
This illustration has been used in
praise of American science The
power of science lies not in individual
erudition It lies in its striking power
American science is dynamic it is al
ways under way In every branch of
science the best American workers
have been those most strenuous in
their personal efforts most eager to
make their own work useful to the
world at large In almost every
branch of utilitarian science America
already stands m the lead This fact
England has already recognized with
dignified dismay We hear much of it
now we shall hear more of it still
later for quite as remarkable as the
growth of American science Is the ad
vance of American schools Whenever I
visit a department of applied science in
America I see that it has doubled its
power its staff and its equipments
since the time of my last visit My
visits are not very frequent perhaps
once in five or ten years let us say
but what will te the end of it To
double once in fifty years is a rare
thing in the universities of the old
world but even that in a few centuries
would accomplish wonders
Height of Waves
It has been decided that the aver
age height of all the waves running
in a gale in open sea are about twenty
feet But the height of individual
waves varies considerably Vauvhan
Cornish reports to the Royal Geo
graphical society During a strong
gale in the north Atlantic with a
heavy sea of more- than ordinary reg
ularity I have observed in the course
of a morning numerous waves from
thirty feet up to a measured height
of not less than forty feet when the
average of all the waves was perhaps
twenty five feet It is I think clear
that in any statement we may make as
to the size of the waves in a gale at
sea we ought not to neglect the men
ton of the larger waves which occur
tit fairly frequent intervals These
which I term the ordinary maximum
waves are I think what seamen real
ly refer to when they state the size
of the waves met with during a
rVrm at sea About forty feet is
a common estimate of the height of
the larger waves in a severe gale in
the north Atlantic and this estimate
is not really incompatible with the re
corded average of little more than
twenty feet
Bridge Over the Zarrbesi
A huge one span arched steel bridge
which is to carry the Cape to Cairo
railroad across the waters of the Zam
bfjri river just below the Victoria
falls will shortly be swunj into posi
tion This bridge will be the highest
in the world with a main span of 500
feel The materials usd in the con
struction of the bridge si e to bo
transported from one bank to the
other across the gcrgc by an electric
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PLAN FOR WOODEN BARN
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Ground Floor Plan of Barn
24 or 26 feet long and make a base
ment of eight feet under the barn
This will give you a more handy
barn with more room All the extra
cost would be the extra length of
posts weather beards girts and floor
and the same roof answers for both
To have the stables warm there
should be either a stone or concrete
wall one foot above ground
Oats as a Cover Crop
S W S I wish to sow oats in my
orchard following a hoed crop Would
such a crop be injurious to young
trees
I do not think that the oat plant
makes an ideal orchard cover crop
Nevertheless it is very much better
than no cover crop The fact that
you are to grow a hoed crop in your
orchard during the fore part of the
season increases the possiblitiy of in
jury from the using of oats in the lat
ter part If you can get a good catch
of crimson clover and can sow this be
tween the rows of your hoed crop I
should use it in preference to oats
If this is not feasible then sow oats
and peas but I would take care io use
a fertilizer with the spring crop
While it is true that the oat crop will
not be harvested yet the cereals draw
so heavily on the moisture of the soil
that should the season be dry it
might prove a dangerous competitor
for the young fruit trees This is a
system of double cropping and should
be conducted with caution J C
Alfalfa With Timothy
R A In seeding down a piece of
land for hay how would it answer to
add a little alfalfa to the timothy and
red clover mixture
Alfalfa is not well suited to con
ditions and treatment suitable for
timothy and red clover By the time
alfalfa is ready to cut for hay timothy
and red clover are not sufficiently ad
vanced for a full 3ield and if the al
falfa is allowed to stand until the
other crops are ready for cutting the
alfalfa stalks will have become tough
woody and indigestible and will have
lost many of their leaves which are
the best part of the fodder Again al
falfa should be cut three or our times
in a year while timothy and red
clover will produce only two crops at
most Some farmers mix in a little
alfalfa seed with permanent pasture
mixtures but for hay this plant does
not go well with red clover and tim
othy
Potato Scab
A S What will prevent scab on
potatoes
There are two more or less stand
ard remedies for the prevention of po
tato scab 1 Soak uncut seed rota
toes in a solution of one ounce of cor
rosive sublimate in eight gallons of
water 2 soak cut or uncut seed po
tatoes in a solution of one pound of
formalin in fifteen gallons of water
These solutions are about equally ef
fective and ones choice will depend
upon the ease with which they can
be procured Formalin has the ad
vantage of not being violent poison
like the corrosive sublimate
Plant Lice on Oxalis
W J B An oxalis is infested with
small green insects please tll me
what to do for it
Your oxalis is infested with aphis
or plant Hce These may be destroyed
by sprinkling the plant with tobacco
dust or by fumigating the riant with
tobacco smoke If the insects are not
very numerous you may wash them
off use soap suds first and then wash
with clear water Oxalis grows very
rapidly and it might be well for you
to cut off all infested leaves atd
stems allowing the plant to make a
naw cleaa growth
Mow Driveway and Cow Stalls All on
The Same Floor
W H B Please publish particu
lars of a barn 40x60 feet with cow
stalls on the same floor as the mow
and driveway I have plenty of tam
arack elm and pines and shall build
entirely of wood
The plan shown provides an 18 foot
mow a driveway of 12 feet and two
bents of 15 feet each in all 60 feet
The 15 foot bent comes directly over
the passage behind the cattle In
order to avoid placing posts in its
passage way they are placed on the
side of each gutter opposite each
other and a 12x12 in timber spans
from ona to tho other and the sill
rests on it The dimensions of the
stable and stalls are given in the
plan The 18 foot mow can be con
verted into a horse stable and gran
ary if desired
If you have plenty of timber on
your farm why not frame your posts
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Summer Made Manure
It used to be the custom to allow
the manure pile to increase in size
for half a year before using it on the
fields It was supposed that what it
lost in volume it made up in quality
and that the little well rotted manure
was worth more than the greater vol
ume would have been if applied
fresh Not only was the winter
manure kept till spring but the ma
nure that was made nightly in the
barnyard was carefully piled each
morning and a new pile allowed to
grow till fall and sometimes this
pile was incorporated with the new
pile that began to be made when the
cows were taken out of the pastures
and stabled for winter But we have
learned better now We know that
sun and air are constantly warring
against the accumulated fertility and
that the sooner it is brought under
cover of the soil the better The loss
is especially large with the manure
that accumulates in the barnyard in
the summer for the reason that the
temperature is so high that all chemi
cal changes are hastened and the
moisture escaping helps to carry off
the fertility especially such as can
change into gases So the summer
made manure should be carted to the
fields as soon as possible at least
once a week unless there is a covered
place that will protect it from both
rain and very much air In the barn
yard if manure is to be kept in sum
mer for any length of time it would
pay to have a receptable built up with
planks on each side and which may
be increased in height as the manure
increases In this way the air can get
at it only on the top and the fertility
in the lower portion will be preserved
Certainly this is a better arrange
ment than having an open pile with
all sides exposed to the currents oE
air The fertility locked up in this
manure is worth money and it should
be husbanded as carefully as money
would be
Account With the Fields
There are numerous account books
especially arranged for keeping ac
count of the cost and production of
the various parts of the farm They
cost but little and will be found of
value to the farmer provided he can
make up his mind to use them and
keep his mind made up to that effect
The greatest trouble with trying to
keep account with each field is that
the farmer neglects the items of ex
pense and receipts after a short time
In great and small business establish
ments particular persons are selected
to have the matter of bookkeeping in
hand It s found quite impossible
for the man that does the buying and
selling or even for the general mana
ger to keep the books It is there
made the work of one particular per
son or set of persons This will be
found to be also the best way on the
farm If there is a bright boy or -girl
that is interested in mathematics the
farm accounts are likely to be kept
Otherwise they are about sure to be
neglected It is easy enough to ad
vise the farmer to keep account of
everything he buys and sells It is
quite another thing to point out to
him any practical method of doing so
where he himself has to keep all the
items of receipts and disbursements
Yet the farmer needs to know these
things as certainly as the city mer
chant needs to know them If the
farmer himself has to keep his own
accounts the only practical way for
him is to carry always in his pocket
a small blank book and put down all
the items of sale and purchase as
soon as they occur This book can be
later written up into a larger one
It pays to keep an account with the
fields
High Grade Fertilizers Best
The wise farmer will buy only high
grade fertilizers and will not be
caught by the cry of cheapness If
one brand of a certain kind of fertil
izer sells for half what another brand
sells for it is almost certain that It
contains less than half of the fertil
izing elements to be found in the
other The manufacturers would as
soon sell the high grade as the low
grade but are compelled to put a
cheap brand on the market to hold
their trade against competition There
are a great many people in every
walk of life tnat are caught by the
idea of cheapness They seldom look
into the merits of an article They set
it down as truth that the man that
is charging the high price is trying
to swindle them and that the man
that sells the cheap article is the hon
est and friendly fellow If people will
persist in looking at things in this
way they must expect to get a bad
bargain in almost every case Espe
cially is this so with fertilizers which
have to pay the cost of transporting
and of handling The useless material
that is put in to cheapen the whole
product costs the farmer something
though it is of no value to his land
It costs something to mix it with the
high grade material and it costs as
we have said the transportation
charges The high priced goods are
generally the cheaper goods When a
farmer buys fertilizers he should pay
no attention at all to the cost per ton
but should figure out how many
pounds of phosphoric acid potash
and nitrogen he is getting Then he
should get as little waste material
with it as nossible that he may savo
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Mark Grafting Wood
Why will farmers keep worthless
apple trees on their farms when it is
perfectly easy to have all good in
t jA trPS or
an orchard oi a nuumeu
mixed varieties some will be very
good and some will be very poor xec
we have seen such orchards stand and
for twenty years bear the same old
kinds of fruit with which they started
The trees that bore only cider apples
at first continued to bear ciaer apples
Why do not farmers oftener graft their
best varieties of fruit onto the trees
bearing the poorer varieties Is It
because they do not think about it or
because they never get around to do
ing what they know should be done
By grafting we can in a few years
have all the trees in an orchard bear
ing good fruit During the summer
months Js the time to mark grafting
wood for it is altogether probable
that the quality of the fruit on differ
ent branches of trees varies and that
the fruitful bough if made up into
grafts will give better returns in
fruit than the unfruitful bough This
is the claim of some that have made
a study of the -subject though it must
he acknowledged that no one has as
yet probed Yery deeply into the mat
ter Some of the varieties like the
Gano have been propagated by mere
ly selecting certain boughs that bore
apples of a certain color and form It
would therefore be well to mark all
wood that is to be used for grafting
next year so tnat the orchardist may
be sure to have his scions from wood
that has the habit of fruit bearing In
this way some of the worthless fruit
trees that are now taking up room
without returning any rent for it will
become valuable
Silkworm Culture
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington D C is investigating
the possibilities of silkworm culture
in the United States It is hoped that
it may in time be developed to such
an extent as to prove of benefit to
those members of families whose time
is not altogether occupied in other
ways and also to other persons in a
small way as a side issue To persons
wishing to experiment and who can
furnish proper food for the worms the
Department is distributing free of
charge a small quantity of silkworm
eggs and also a manual of instruc
tions The proper food for silkworms
consists of leaves from the different
varieties of white mulberry tree and
the Osage orange The paper mul
berry with the fuzzy leaves is not
suitable nor is the common red mul
berry As the season is now open ap
plications for the eggs should be made
at once and must be accompanied by
a statement as to the number and kind
of mulberry trees or rhe amount of
Osage orange which the applicant pos
sesses otherwise the eggs will not be
sent If the variety of mulberry is not
known to the applicant a sample of
large leaves should be sent to the De
partment The Department of Agri
culture buys the cocoons which the
worms spin paying for them after
they have been dried 75 cents to 1
a pound according to their quality
The work will prove an interesting
pastime for women and children who
can devote to it odd minutes during
the day
Transplanting Trees and Shrubs at
Night
From Paris comes a report that the
gardeners and florists there follow the
practice of transplanting at night
trees that are in full leaf and have to
be transplanted in the spring or sum
mer It is claimed that the trees do
not wilt when transplanted at that
time This may be possible but wo
still believe that the time to trans
plant trees and shrubs is when they
are dormant In hot weather it might
do to transplant garden
truck in the
night We know that in wet weather
tomatoes and other transplantable
things do better if set out at that time
than they do in a time of drought
We would like to have our readers re
port to us the
result of any experi
ments carried on along that line Of
course a tree in full leaf is evaporat
ing a great deal of water during the
day and this process is quite small at
night even if it is not checked alto
gether The Idea of transplanting at
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Preparing for an Orchard
Speaking of the best soil for
an Qn
Pie orchard L A Goodman all
the preparation of the land and l
distance of planting We mns L J
rected by the climate the condm
of the soil and the
cumstances I believe surrounding the
her soil to be the best in ev5yn4t
It has proven such in all mv Lic
ences Cutting this timber t
and September burning ST
brush in OrtnW nn vb u aI1 the
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April have been
the be
courses we have ptpp Des-
for many a year never durinJ 2
life of that
orchard can that Zt
plowed again Prepare well thV i
therefore before planting Ud
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lin the fr7 lois year
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