Hints From Paris
The smooth supple broadcloths
which are to ho the fashionable fabric
for the coming autumn and winter are
being manufactured in browns grays
and plums chiefly for street wear
The new shade of brown called
onion which is a lovely golden brown
will be one of the leading shades in
browns There will be several leaf
greens mole grays and nickel grays
Of blues little is said but of course
thoro will be several shades of rich
blues as there always are For house
wear there will be delicate helio
tropes light blue light gray and pale
green and tan and certain pinks in
cluding raspberry cherry reds and
several rose pinks as well as white
and champague
Lace for Ankles
pair of lace medallions left over
fr m the summer frock can be put to
excellent use in trimming stockings
lo match the gown
For instance with a pongee gown
piped with lace medallions a plain
pair of tan lisle stockings were made
very smart by the use of lace medal
lions one just above each instep
They were first appliqued on the
stockings with silk thread in very
fine stitches then the lisle beneath
was cut away and the edges of the
stocking buttonhole stitched closely
and finely to the wrong side of the
medallion Worn with brown suede
shoes they gave a dainty finishiiig
touch to the costume
The Fashionable JVhite
No material is more effective for
the afternoon costume of white than
the new bleached Shantung pongee
which is shown in this very charming
model combined with cream colored
point desprit enriched by motifs of
silk applique Both waist and skirt
are among the latest shown and take
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just the soft full folds that render the
simple silk tat its best The deep
yoke of the waist is peculiarly good
in effect while the tucks give needed
weight to the pongee and the simple
full skirt gives the long lines that
mean an effect of height To make
the waist for a woman of medium
size will be required C yards of ma
terial 21 5 yards 27 or 3 yards 44
inches wide with lyards 18 or
yards 40 inches wide for yoke and
bertha to make the skirt 9 yards
21 or 27 or 5 yards 44 Inches wide
Very Dainty Dessert
Slice a thin round from the stalk
ends of oranges and remove the con
tents Place the skins in cold water
for an hour to let them harden then
drain and when they are quite dry in
side fill them halfway with pink jelly
Put them on ice and when the jelly
seems firm fill them up with blanc
mange or cream Again lay them
on ice and cut into quarters before
serving Place little sprigs of myrtle
between the quarters Lenions may be j
used instead of oranges if preferred
Now for Pinafores
The old fashioned pinafore of child
Hbort has been adapted for -modern
fcOn up use in a very smart and con
venient fashion The modern pina
fore is of Japanese silk cut in one
piece with a lace yoke and some
gathers It is intended to protect a
more elaborate gown and can be
drawn in with a sash if desired- It
perfectly serves the purpose of a pina
fore without imparting an appear
ance of dowdiness
Vienna Puffs
Sift into a bowl two cupfuls of
flour half a teaspoocful of sugar and
a pinch of salt cream one level table
Bpconful of butter add by degrees the
yolks of foureggs then add alternately
v the flour and two cupfuls of milk then
the beaten whites of the eggs fill but
tered earthen cups half full and bake
twenty five minutes this will make
fifteen puffs
Vogue of Fluffy Parasols
The summer girl of to day while
she is athletic and appears on the
links on the tennis court and in the
automobile in plain severe and al
most mannish garb satisfies the long
ing for daintiness in the afternoon
and evening gowns and in the fluff
ness of hats and parasols Nothing is
more fluffy and charming than the
carriage parasol a tiny fan like para
sol in recent years used almost whol
ly by elderly women But the girls
of to day have recognized in the prim
old fashioned sunshade a means of
enhancing their beauty and behold
the little carriage parasol blossoms
like a garden One seen recently was
a tangle of white -chiffon and violets
hung over a foundation white silk
under lace The appearance was more
like an overgrown bouquet than like
an undersized parasol
Pretty New Colors
New colors are continually making
their appearance and many of them
are very attractive Onion is the name
given to one of the new colors It is
a creamy white tinged with gray and
green Gooseberry green is another
new shade and pale blue and laven
der combinations are quite as popu
lar as they were last season The
new shades ahd colors are a source
of inspiration to milliners For ex
ample a hat of pale blue silk has the
crbwh covered with little enomines in
all shades of lavender and knots oi
deep purple ribbon are the only othei
trimmings Orchids decorate pale blu6
hats and pansies in purples and lav
enders embellish both light and dark
blue straws
Strawberry Gelatine Fruit Salad
Soak a level tablespoonful of gran
ulated gelatine in a fourth of a cup of
cool water and dissolve by standing
in hot water Add the juice of half a
lemon three quarters of a cup of sugar
dissolved in a little hot water and
one and one half cups of mashed
strawberries rubbed through a sieve
fine enough to retain the seeds Add
more sugar syrup if necessary to
sweeten more Turn into a border
mold to harden Turn out and fill
with a mixture of seasonable fruit
such as sliced oranges bananas cher
ries pineapples etc Sweeten with
powdered sugar to taste and chill on
ice Good Housekeeping
Homc Made Wrist Frills
Now that there is such a rage foi
real lace and also for sleeve frills
the wide awake girl will utilize anj
old fashioned handkerchief trimmec
with lace such as real Valenciennes
or Duchess which she may be fortu
nate enough to possess for making
sleeve flounces By cutting them di
rectly in two joining the lace and lin
en carefully and shaping the linen to
fit the wrist a very pleasing and sat
isfactory effect is obtained
Mint Punch
Put into your punch bowl a cupful
of granulated sugar add the juice of
six lemons and stir until the sugai
melts Put in three peeled lemons
sliced very thin and leave in the ice
until you are ready to use it Adc
then a dozen sprays of green mini
and a quart at least of pounded ice
Stir well for a minute and pour froir
a height into it two or three bottles
of imported ginger ale
The Latest Idea in Sathes
Sashes of soft ribbons such a
louisine and liberty taffeta are showr
jivith the ends knotted at intervals anc
caught with a small artificial flower ii
the same tint as the ribbon Yellow
roses rose buds and cowslips ar
used with canary color sashes forget
me nots with blue almond blossoms
and roses with pink and poppy buds
and geraniums with cardinal ribbon
Colors for the Summer Girdle
For silken girdles to wear with thiD
summer frocks nothing approaches
in daintiness and popularity -the pom
padour and Dresden ribbons witt
borders of a solid color Another fa
vorite combination for girdles and cor
sage choux is in the pastel shades A
striking instance which tones perfect
ly with champagne frock is cham
pagne blue and lavender in paste
shades of louisine silk
The Popular Turqoise
The woman who is fond of tur
quoise stones will like the new dog
collars formed from four five or si
strands of small ones and held ii
place by straps of rhjnestones Thest
new collars are enjoying a heavy sab
with summer girls They look verj
pretty with gauzy gowns intendcdxfoi
summer hops
Lovely Japanese Fans
Lovely fans of black and gauze
have Japanese decorations represent
ing a flight of butterflies The moths
which are executed with true Orienta
craft are produced by a combinatioi
of water color painting and tiny se
quins gilt or silver
Gold Stamped Leather
Gold stamped leather is coming i
rapidly It is used for some ver
handsome belts as well as for hand
bags and pocketbooks Dark blue anc
black and occasionally white ar
seen stamped with gilt or silver
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Fattening Cattle in the South
Any man that travels through the
South especially if he is acquainted
with the great stock raising districts
of the West and Northwest will be
struck by the fewness of the beef
cattle he sees on southern meadows
Here and there a family cow is to be
seen but for the most part the beef
animal is wanting Yet the South
needs live stock and on account of
the mildness of the climate live stock
should be easily and cheaply raised
This is the view taken of the matter
by some of the leading agriculturists
of the South As a demonstration
me aoiucy oi tne soutnern stateM
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fatten and market cattle of high
ity the Louisiana station undertoi
the growing of 16 Angus calves which
they purchased in November 1901 in
Illinois and immunized against the
Texas fever The calves were thep
taken to Louisiana and fed largely on
by products from the three great sta
ples of that1 state -cotton seed oil rice
bran and molasses This last winter
the 16 steers were sold in the Chi
cago market at the top price for the
week The journey to Chicago re
quired six days from Baton Rouge
and some severe weather was encoun
tered during the trip As the animals
took the highest price for the week
the natural inference is that as good
beeves can be made on the by-products
of Louisiana crops as on the
corn of tho corn belt and the by
products of Louisiana are cheap in
price and labor is also cheap there
At Baton Rouge the beeves were
grazed on the pastures during the
spring and fall but received all the
time an extra feed of the materials
we have mentioned This test was
of calves born above the quarantine
line The station is now about to
enter pn another test of feeding calves
born below the quarantine line to
demonstrate that it pays to raise
beeves in Louisiana as well as to feed
them there
A few tests of this kind will doubt
less start the southern farmers to the
growing and feeding of cattle The
great bugbear has been Texas fever
and it was supposed that no live stock
industry could thrive below a certain
badly defined line If the South goes
into stock raising a new day will
have dawned there and agriculture
in the South will receive a new im
petus There are northern stockmen
who have been for ten years predict
ing that the farjns of the Gulf States
would yet carry great herds of well
bred cattle
Pure Bred Cattle in Argentina
Americans are interested in the
cattle conditions in Argentina for two
reasons One is that Argentina is a
competitor of the American stockman
in the English market and the other
is that the Argentine farmer is becom
ing a large buyer of blooded bulls
Whether these bullsare to come from
England or the United States the
American stcckman is interested In
either case it raises the price of Amer
ican bulls by drawing on the Ameri
can supply or diverting the export
able English supply from the United
States to Argentina Just now the
Argentine stockmen are making ex
traordinary efforts to improve the
quality of their cattle as is evidenced
by the high prices they are paying
for good bulls Frank W Bicknell a
special agent of the Department of
Agriculture of the United States says
that the demand for Shorthorn bulls
is increasing at a great rate There
is a better demand for young bulls of
this breed than ever before Every
ranchman is endeavoring to raise up
the standard of his herd The aim is
to produce steers for export of such
fine finish that they will be able to
compete successfully with the cattle
being shipped from the United States
This demand for bulls has been stim
ulated by the planting of alfalfa on
the great stock farms for this has
enormously increased the animal-carrying
power of the ranches In some
cases three times as many animals
can be kept as when the ranges were
left to the native grasses The Eng
lish quarantine against Argentine cat
tle has rather helped than hindered
the business as it has determined the
Argentine farmers to send out chilled
meat which costs only one fourth as
much to transport as did the live
cattle and sells for as much in the
English market Last November the
highest price ever paid for a bull in
Argentina was paid for an imported
Shorthorn the price being 7260 At
the same time two other bulls were
sold one for 3960and the other for
3080 It is evident that our stock
breeders have strong competitors to
face in the stockmen of Argentina
Question of Speed
The general farmer has little or no
interest in the trotting horse except
in so far as he may bemused to cross
on slower horses to give their prog
eny enough speed to make them use
ful as carriage horses The farmer
cannot afford to waste his time trying
to develop trotters The trotting
horse is not a farm horse as his great
speed can be of no use except as a
means of gambling Who wants to
drive a carriage horse at the rate of
a mile in two minutes What we do
want in horses for Vie farm is the
speed that appears In the walking
gait If our fair managers wanted
to really improve the speed of farm
horses they could establish contests
in walking
See that the waste land is cleared
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Weed Out the Poor Sheep
Ewes intended to be used in the
flock must be only of the best wisely
selected for the object in view says
W W Cooper The flock is now well
established and should be kept well
weeded out only the best representa
tives of the breed being retained
This system wisely followed for a
number of years will tend to estab
lish in a higher degree the uniformity
of the flock The poorer ones may be
culled out and fed for the block In
no case are they to be retained or sold
for breeding purposes Scrubs will ap
pear In the best of flocks at intervals
through freaks in breeding conse
quently one requires to be ever on the
watch Much can be accomplished in
the successful management of sheep
along these lines It is a matter of
some importance to have your flock
well at all times Something can be
done in this regard to add to their al
ready goad form by dressing and
trimming the wool from time to time
This remark applies more particu
larly to the Down breeds A fine
smooth appearance is presented to the
eye on the surface of back and sides
It is always to the advantage of a
breeder to have his stock look weV
at all times and seasons of the year
A flock well kept is always to be pre
ferred to one such as is too often seen
showing the appearance of neglect
Sheep are very unsightly when not
cared for properly but when in a
healthy condition and well looked
after there are no other animals of
the farmyard more worthy of your pro
found admiration
Good Breeding Stock
Very few men can make money out
of hogs if they have poor breeding
stock It may be that here and there
a man can raise scrubs and make
money out of them but it has to be
under conditions where the feed costs
practically nothing That is not the
circumstances under which most ol
our readers are raising swine With
them the competition with other
breeders is strong and feed has to bo
purchased often at a very Iiigh price
This high priced feed must be put into
an animal that can make the most
possible out of it in a short time and
this is the reason why good breeding
stock only is safe for the farmer on
high priced land Then the farmer
must have good breeding swine be
cause he wants animals that will give
him nllmerous progeny It is safe to
buy sows from men that make a busi
ness of breeding and who consequent
ly feed their animals in a way to give
them both strong bone and muscle
Such animals have vitality and tend
to produce a large number of pigs
rather than the small litters that
some are in the habit of bringing
forth every year It is no easy mat
ter to secure the kind of stock a man
needs A good many herds will need
to be looked over before the purchas
es are made The good animals will
cost considerably more than the poor
ones but for the foundation of a herd
the expensive ones are likely to prove
the cheapest in the long run
Spraying a Preventive Not a Cure
The man that believes in spraying
should spray whether there seems the
least call for it or not Spraying does
not make up for losses already sus
tained from the attacks of fungi or
insects It will not cause new leaves
to grow where the old ones have
been eaten off and it will not cause
the fruit to improve after it has been
shrunken by reason of being deprived
of food that the leaves failed to elab
orate they having been destroyed by
either insects or fungi Some of ou
most enterprising horticulturists have
accomplished wonders by simply
spraying on the principle that they
would thus insure themselves against
the presence of their enemies in the
fruit orchard Their trees have re
sponded remarkably so well indeed
that they have been led to believe fbat
previously their trees were assailed
far more seriously by insects and fun
gous pests than had been supposed
There is no other way to spray sue
cessfully The man that does not
spray till the Jeaves of his trees are
eaten up by insects or till they have
turned brown from the attacks of
fungi will pronounce spraying to be
a failure
Tests with Oats
The Farm Crops Department of the
Iowa Agricultural College is making
a test on the College farm of 29 of
the leading varieties of oats In addi
tion to the test Prof W H Olin of
this Department has arranged with
Mr A E Cook of the Brookmont
Farm Odebolt1 Iowa for a co-operative
test on a large scale of three of
the varieties of oats best adapted to
Iowa conditions Six hundred acres
have been seeded to oats on the
BrookmontTFarm for this experiment
One variety has been selected as the
best oats for feeding horses and as
a heavy yielder A second variety
has been selected to meet the de
mands for a choice milling oats and
samples of the crop will be submitted
to the great oat meal combination to
be tested for milling A third variety
was selected for good feeding quali
ties and high yields it having shown
a yield of 102 bushels per acre on
inro P fields Prof Olin will make a
I careful study of the habits of growth
of these varieties their yield and
adaptation to Iowa soils and will re
port through press bulletins
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Emergency Street Car Brake
On nearly every railway the passen
ger cars are provided with an emer
gency brake which can be operated
by any of the passengers or trainmen J
the instant an accident occurs often
serving to bring the train to a stand
still before the engineer is aware
that there has been an accident Thus
in case an axle breaks on a rear car
the train can be brought to a stop by
any one in the car long before the
engineer could be notified and have
time to reverse the engine and apply
the brakes It is now proposed to ap
ply practically the same idea to the
street car though in this case the
raotorman being the qne most likely
to discover an emergency requiring
prompt action is given control of the
brake This mechanism may consist
of a pneumatic pressure system or an
electro magnetic arrangement as de
sired but to actuate it the inventor
utilizes an electro circuit The
switch by which the circuit is closed
and the mechanism put in operation
is located directly beneath the motor
mans arm being attached to his body
by shoulder and waist straps The
instant he sees the necessity of stop
ping the car to avoid a collision or
running over some one he has only
to drop his arm and close the circuit
when the automatic brake is applied
bringing the car to a standstill before
he could have made the first move
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toward stoping it in the ordinary man
ner
Andrew J Brislin of Brooklyn N
Y is the designer of this brake
Cheap and Safe Lights
In Great Britain an invention
which it is claimed gives absolute
safety to oil lamps is being applied to
practical uses The device consists
of a circular metal box the size vary
ing according to the candle power re
quired in the box is a deposit of salt
over which is a layer of cotton waste
specialy prepared
Running through the cotton pack
ing is an asbestos wick woven by
hand and which is practically indes
tructible and requires only occasional
attention By immersing the box
in petroleum or paraffin the cotton
waste absorbs the requisite quantity
of oil in a few minutes through small
lateral interstices That accomplish
ed and the metal being dried exter
nally the application of a light to the
asbestos wick produces a bright
steady white light the candle power
being in proportion to the size of the
box the consumption of oil being
less and accordingly the cost oeing
correspondingly cheaper than if the
light were ol tained from an ordinary
lamp
Moreover it is claimed absolute
safetj is assured The asbestine
lamp may be inverted may exhaust
itself may be thrown down or whirled
about but there is no danger it is
iverred as there is no free oil or oil
gas that can be ignited and conse
quently there can be no fire or explo
sion The patent is said to bo appli
cable to every species of lamp from
the modest night light necessary in
the nursery through the pntire gamut
of domestic illumination to the drawing-room
lamp In the industrial world
it could be utilized in every direction
especially when a bright steady light
is essential such as engine headlights
and lights on ships
The Great Northern and several
Scottish and Irish railways are engag
ed in testing the capabilities of the
new process with a view to its adop
tion in railway work Every descrip
tion of lamp the bicycle lamp the
motor lamp the carriage lamp lamps
for domestic purposes lamps in
mines can it is declared be fitted
with the asbestine patent and oil of
any flash point can be used with per
fect safety and with the additional
advantage of considering economy
The problem of the safety lamp would
appear to have been solved
Sewing Machine to Cure Insomnia
The electric sewing machine is de
scribed as good remedy for insomnia
A Philadelphia physician has been
prescribing it successfully for several
months
Electrical sewing machines are or
dinary ones with a small motor at
tachment An electric light current
runs them they are attached to the
light as electric fans are and in op
eration they give forth a singularly
smooth sound
This sound is what makes them
good for insomnia The victim of in
somnia has nerves that are as it were
inflamed He needs something that
will lull and soothe him Certain
sounds will do this the sound of rain
on a roof for instance or the sound
of a running brook But brooks and
rain are not always at hand and
hence in their stead the electrical sew
ing machine is prescribed
Artificial Milk Trade
More than 750000 worth of artifi
cial milk was exported last year from
Germany and Franco to the United
States
EQUALIZING WORK Or HORSES
Simple Mechanism That Can Be At
tached to Any Wagon
H D Please publish a plan for a
three horse equalizer for a wagon
The accompanying drawing shows
the working parts of a three horso
equalizer attached to the front axlo
of a wagon It also shows the man
ner In which the three neck yokes
are attached to the two poles Tho
main trippletree is not attached to the
tongues but to the axle as shown by
the dotted lines The tongues aro not
fastened to the wagon but slip into
slots attached to the circle Tho long
piece to which the three neck yokes
are fastened lies loosely on tho
tongues Three horses hitched to a
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Working Parts of Three Horse Equal
izer
load by the form of equalizer repre
sented herewith will each draw an
equal share of the burden
Floor Paint
The mixing of paints Is a somewhat
troublesome process and as the ready
mixed paints can now be purchased so
cheap they are used almost exclusive
ly especially by amateurs If how
ever you want to mix your own paint
you might try the following recipe
which is highly recommended Soak
two ounces of good glue for twelve
hours in cold water and then melt it
in thick milk of ime prepared from
one pound qf caustic lime heated to
boiling point To the boiling glue
stir in linseed oil until it ceases to
mix About Svl fluid ounces of oil is
sufficient for the above proportions
Too much oil is corrected by the ad
dition of lime paste Mix this with
any color not affected by lime and
dilute with water if needed For yellow-brown
or brown red colors boil in
the ground color a quarter of its vol
ume of shellac and borax making an
excellent paint for wooden floors
This mixture is easily applied covers
well and is a great deal cheaper than
the ordinary paint
Cutworms
E C W How can I make a kero
sene emulsion to destroy grubs which
cut down cabbage plants
The simplest way to make the kcro
seno emulsion is to boil up one quar
ter of a pound of hard soap in two
qlarts of rain water When all the
soap is dissolved remove from the fire
and while boiling hot turn in one gal
lon of kerosene or coal oil and churn
vigorously with a syringe or spraj
pump for five minutes This gives the
stock emulsion which must be dilut
ed with nine times its quantity ol
water before using I do net think
however that this would be a prac
tical remedy for cutworms on cab
bages I think you will nave far bet
ter success by using the poisoned bran
remedy or by wrapping a piece ol
paper around the stem of each plant
at time of setting out J F
Wild Oats
D R How can I get rid of wild
oats
The wild oat is an annual plant like
the cultivated oat and differs from the
latter by its iighter and almost worth
less seed its iregularity in ripening
and its persistence in the ground
when once introduced The best way
to get rid of this weed is to plow
and harrow the land well in spring or
at any rate give the land a stroke
with the harrow in spring and then
sow with early barley or oats and at
soon as the wild oats which aro earl
in maturing begin to head cut the
whole for green feed There may be
two cuttings taken of this fodder and
the stubble may then be plowed
down The next year the land should
be put in to a hoed crop It will then
be ready for grain again J S
Building a Stone Foundation
E F Man PleasT tell me how to
build a stone foundation under a
house that has rather light timbers
The frame work of your house be
ing of light material it would be well
to leave the house where it stands
and build the stone wall under it
This can easily be done by building
the wall up to the sills between the
supports then take the supports out
and fill in the space with stone In
order to have the supports out of the
line of wall have a beam diagonally
across each corner of the building
resting on blocks on the outside By
having one at each corner it will brace
the building Along the sides and
ends run a beam under the sill rest
ing it on a block on the outside and
a post on the inside
Brazils Exhibit cf Wood
Brazil has made a remarkable ex
hibit of 1000 kinds of the woods of
that country in the forestry fish and
game building at the Worlds Fair
The exhibit will be presented to an
American university after the fair
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