Midsummer Hats
LACES use Eels »•* more generally
•jm4 it tanking hats lor bM
»-ttsue*- thaa lor many seasons
They are Bee for remodeling
•hi.tee -hat have faeen worn hot are
aeaiiaTite Joe a second or third season
a* . I StiwraA and iBflans if the used
*ha;e is discolored or oot It periect
'epai-i. ruAoa of iace. se*ed one row
fche»e —wither. may easily corer 'he
rpjwr torts entirely. With a crown of
net draped orer a thin silk lor the
to; to part of the origins 1 shape is
rtetW earept the coder tons. Sue*
* tat ss shown la Fg i The lace Is
a tiers ac ral pa flora and is kt:le
platted making ruffle* A little less
thaa 'wo Itches wide. These are sup
•tar-toed to the trim
r »
The wreath of buds and foliage
ab< -t -be crown at the base is ali that
u> needed to complete the hat.
A ieghorn it. Fig Z shows the under
rim -. v- red to w ithin an inch and a
half of the edge wttb a dotted net in
paie blue A big puffed crown of the
net .= draped over a wreath of by
irungea*. which grows wider at
the beck, where it climbs to the top
' the -rown Very little of the upper
brie, is visible and the crown of this
hat :s almost wholly concealed. On
•be Town the net is draped over plaiD
r. "on a 'rifle i.ghter in tone than
Itself This is another excellent de
Mgn for a bat which is to be remod
eled from one that ‘hows signs oi
wear JULIA BOTTCMLEY.
CLEVER USES OF BASKETS
•*«»« try Pretty lirg -c-es by Ui(
d Cneag Water* a and Little
Artistic Sa il.
A woman who ike* to tare her
bow*e fall of grow.ng pUnt* in win
ter baa discovered the baskets which
fan be bough', for 1*' rents make very
pretty inrd.t-.rre* These baskets, in
oM-fnshloted willow ware, coat in
dark creer. deep red ard brown, and
any at them are effective with the
r-eer of the piii'» says the New
Tork Tribute If the baskets are
bought .a a lbeect store it Is meet
Hfce'y t: *t fne w ill need on.'y to go
U a*c*ter depart treat to boy for If*
cents tie pans that will eiartfy fit
then. : r-tore being filled by the fior
Sat the pans should tie painted grass
gn-er. or to match tbe basket
Owe at these baskets may also, m "h
a little m'tre max!; -iatloa. he made
to fir. the more pcnagjg sphere of a
work hoabe* :tned with Persian silk
It. hartsonir-iig rotors. On one side
Is a p» ket of s Ik drawn up by nar
row e'astir, and small bows bolding
In place an emery ball, a bodkin, a
glove mender and a needle book make
a pre'-y d«< ratio* at ng the edge
The cuter edge > trimmed with a
mode** ttle fancy fringe
style s "be brown one.
wo a ye'low added for brightness
Tte e t a mat in the bertom cut from
cardboard and coveted with brown
» Ik. w: • iaf-ned to the under
wide with g!a* The little silk eush
l*a, whirl, is of tbe tomato order,
n-eaeures four and a half inches
* roan Both mat and cushion are
t«-d a place by *wo stitches « strong
* • 'tat go through tbe bottom of
the basket a yard and a half of rib
* t free and a quarter irrhes wide
« he required to hold the spools
•t-d to make tbe bow A quarter of
a card of a w-tder rf.be* :a tbe came
* t-nde will do far the cushion
C<-*act***eS Cuff Links.
Cut ■ :.k* for mash waists may be
r ade *—<tt two crochet buttons, sewed
•ewe*bee Ufet 'he parts of a dumbbell
• * * b a frutr thread loop of the
fight Wng-h which u the* button
bmd e'er and aver These links win
wash. t-» pretty and are not easily
loot. t«- -oe* bethg eroccmlral
Cnames Trimmings.
Ac odd bet beuuttful event** gown
la d -hennas colored tulle, with em
■ MUMhi worked oc reel chamois
matter It Japanese style with floaa
silks The design* are '-hryaantbe
cut» la lovely shades of yellow, gray
and drab, acd here and there a dra
pc worked it silver thread.
GRACEFUL LINGERIE DRESS.
Beautifully embroidered in pale
blue and white
Horsehair Turban.
Among the comfortable hats that
have be»r. invented for summer wear,
espe ally when traveling or motor
:g is a turban of colored horsehair
The French call This material by the
name of <rin and it is woven out oi
* .ch silken threads that it has prac
tically no weight.
Tl> form of these turbans is Eas
Indian. They are wrapped or swathed
around a small frame of milliner's
wire and lined with white China silk
They are exteient for steamer wear
because they have no brim, and one
<: n lean bark against the chair with
entire comfort. Of course, for the
woman who m ist have her eyes al
ways shaded from the light these tur
bans are impossible, but for the ordi
nary mortal they are both stylish and
comfortable.
CARE Of THE GIRL'S ROOM
Tr.ce ef Ha* in* Apa-*mef»t Beautiful.
Attractive aid Clean la Simple
and Easily Learned
A *cr! rsa iewrc noth lag more use
ful Lap -he simple trick of bavin*
her own roam beautiful, attractive
aed clean. It is not sissy* possible
to Lave the furniture, but oae can
Lave a "fcomey lookin*" room. One
Tfcua* it absolutely nec«-eesry. a room
maat be dean, bedspreads, pretty
lltaen dresser pieces and chair cush
gn arrrsiTT Cover the trunk
(It kept la the room! with a « r-tonne
rover, and have a scrap basket to
toed little adds and ends which must
be burned On tbs table Lave well
selected and ma*azlnea Keep
*ay rascal cards ts a neat postal card
book. Do not decorate the nails with
them, for pretty as they are they soon
> -rooked and make a room look
untidy
Hare a place lor shorn, lor tf any
tt®* makes a room upset It is n pair
at tan shoes lytn*. p!«oea toed. under
the bed and another pair of black ones
under the dresser Keep the closet
in order so that when the door Is
opened you will net be ashamed to
have anyone see how you keep your
clothes If you put things away aa
you use them you. can have a room
like this Have ?|ie palm or fern
grace your room, and if it dies get a
new one.
Combinations Quick Sellers.
Combination garments have taken
so well with the trade that they are
now made In the cheapest grade, as
w«il as the highest priced numbers,
says the Dry Gocds Economist. Ef
fective corset-cover and drawer com
binations are made of wide embroid
ery. the corset-cover being made of
one piece. The embroidery being
wide enough to form the leg of the
drawer, a narrow yoke joins the cor
set cover and drawer section. So lit
tle workmanshipis required on these
numbers that the quality is exception
ally good In the cheap grades, as the
extra cost Is put Into the material.
Railroad Caruso With a Cyclone
in Either Lung.
Clyde Haye«, Who Calls the Trains ir
Chicago's Big Northwestern Sta
tion, Has a Voice Like a
Foghorn.
Chicago.—Clyde B. Hayes is the rail
road Caruso. Every day from 3:30 p.
a. to 11 he proclaims the departure of
more trams than any other station
caller. His concert platform is of ail
steel construction and it is located
way up near the splendid ceiling of
;he new Northwestern railroad Sta
tion.
Thirty thousand people each day
lend appreciative ears as he skylarks
he suburban schedule on the Milwau
tee and Galena divisions, plus enough
overland trains to keep Chicago and
the Pacific coast bound in close fei
owship. Presidents of the L'cited
States, fcov orators. world| lamou
ivangelists, divinities of grand opera,
oasebull umpires—none of these ever
lad the constant opportunities of Train
Announcer Hayes to enlighten and
tlectrify a listening multitude.
Passing swiftly over the poor boy
and burning ambition section of his
•ife. we find Hayes in full charge of a
night accommodation train in Nebras
ka. Yes, until recently he was a rail
oad conductor, and was treading the
threadbare aisle of a Nebraska ac
xmmodation, occasionally unhooking
a brightly nickled lantern trom bis
ieft elbow and dropping off into the
night to wigwag the engineer
One day the division superintendent
of the Northwestern line at Omaha
summoned young Conductor Hayes in
to his grim presence.
"Are you aware. Mr. Hayes, that
you have been ’turned in' a number of
I--1
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Caller Hayes.
times lately?" said tiie superintendent
to the conductor after the latter had
nervously placed his cap on the edge
of the glass topped table.
Hayes trembled and his heart sank
To be “turned in,” in railroad patois
means to be the object of complaint?
by passengers.
“\Vhat have I done, sir?" he mur
mured anxiously.
"You have disturbed the sleep of s
large number of passengers on this
line,” said the superintendent. "Let
ters bave come to me from traveling
men who ride on your train, and they
say that when you announce a station
at night your voice not only wakes
them, but scares them and knocks
them out oi a proper frame of mind
to do business the next day. Here
after, Mr. Hayes, when calling out sta
tions I wish you would not try to dis
place the window panes or experiment
with sound vibrations on the bell rope
But it seems that Mr. Hayes is e
walking library for volumes and vol
umes of stentorian noise. It couldnl
be suppressed, and as he had no time
to attend a ball game and let out
steam on the bleachers, he had to re
sume his old habit of standing at one
end of a yellow car and closing the
Joor at the opposite end by sheer force
of his low register. Also he would
cough when impelled by the platfortr
draft, and the stovepipe would col
lapse with a jangling noise. For a
time the gentle patter of cinders
would be stilled and the volatile dents
in the water cooler would take up tht
echoes. At least, that was the descrip
tion given by the sleep-eager passen
gers who signed a petition which was
sent to the big chief at Omaha err
another month had passed.
The railroad officials were deeply
puzzled by the case of Conductoi
Hayes, who had proved himself relia
ble and efficient in every other way
Some one suggested putting him cn i
day run, where people sleep at theli
own risk, or at the mercy of the trait
butcher.
in the meantime the hilarious story
of Conductor Hayes and the sleepy
drummers found its way to Chicajrc
and Conductor Hayes was ordered u
report here. He came wondering ant
promptly be was set to work learn
ing the list of train departures. Ther
when the new station was opened
like an admiral on the porch of a bat
tlesbip, be stood in his high balcony
and began his interminable recita
tions in earnest. For a day or so h«
wrestled with echoes and acousti:
snares, but now he has mastered the
problem of resonance in the great sta
tion.
Speed* With Horsp Car.
New York.—John Scott was fine*
$1 for speeding his horses attached t«
: a crosstown car.
Magistrate Corrigan warned the oh
driver that only his gray hairs save<
him.
"Hundreds," said Corrigan, "migh
have been shocked to death at th>
sight."
Breaks Wrist Swatting Fly.
Dubuque, la.—Willard Steiner, a mu
sic teacher, while following the injum
tion to “swat the fly,” broke hi
wrist.
MANY ADVANTAGES OF USING
CONCRETE FOR FEEDING FLOOR
Material Is Ideal As It Not Only Effects Saving In Feed
Shortening In Time of Fattening and Decrease in
Labor, But Also Affords Protection to
Health of Animal—Keeps Out Rats.
y j. 1/
Merely Several Sidewalks Side by Side.
Every stockman and farmer knows
the advantages of some sort of feed
tag floor, writes Percy H. Wilson in
the Prairie Fanner. Wooden floors
are all right for <- short time, but
they soon become rotten and infested
with disease germs.
In concrete the farmer has found
an ideal floor material. Such floors
not only affect a saving in feed, a
shortening in the time of fattening and
a decrease in labor, but also afford j
perfect protection to the health of the
animal. Concrete floors do not soak
up water and therefore cannot be
come infested with disease germs.
Their surfaces can be easily cleaned
and thoroughly disinfected with oils
and dips. Kats cannot nest under
them. Careful tests have shown that j
concrete floors, through the saving of i
(train and manure alone, pay for them- i
selves in the short period of one ■
rear.
Feeding floors are merely several 1
sidewalks laid side by side, and the
same general rules of construction ap
ply to them. Choose a site in the lot
where the ground is slightly sloping,
well drained and wind-protected and
convenient to feed and water.
Excavate to a depth of 12 inches for
the drainage foundation. and around
the outside edges of the entire floor
iig a trench 12 inches wide and 15
inches deep. (This trench, filled with
concrete, prevents hog wallows from
undermining the floor and keeps the
rats from nesting under it) Fill all
of this space (except the trench) to
;he natural ground level with well
tamped coarse gravel, crushed rock. ■
:he tile culls of brickbats. This fill j
forms the drainage foundation as for
sidewalks.
The floor must be graded or sloped
so that water will not collect on it in j
the winter and so that the manure :
washings may be caught by the gutters
ind run to the water-tight manure pit.
(To shape the gutter, make a mold or ■
temple by rounding the corners on the
flat side of a six-foot length of four by
six-incb timber.) A gentie slope, to
ward the lower comer, of one-eighth to
one-fourth inch for each foot of length
or width is sufficient. This is secured
by the use of & heavy grade stake
at each comer c: the floor, a straight
edge or a grade line, and a spirit ,
levet
It is an advantage to have a feed
ing floor Its full thickness above
ground. Make light floors four inches
and floors subject to heavy loads six
inches thick For the forms use two
inch lumber of a width equal to the
floor thickness. Begin on the icw
side of the floor. Mark the grade height
of each corner stake and set the forms
to a grade cord stretched from stake
to stake. Use only good materials and
mix the concrete one part Portland
cement to two and one-half parts sand
to five parts screened gravel or crush
ed rock, or ore part Portland cement
to five parts band-run gravel. Measure
the materials exactly; count one sack
of cement equal to one cubic foot
Always begin placing the concrete
on the low side of the floor, so that the
rain from sudden showers will not run
from the hard onto the newly placed
concrete. Fill the trench and the
slab section of the forms with con
Crete. Bring the surface to grade by
drawing over it a straight edge with
its ends on the opposite forms or with
one end on the form and the other on
the finished concrete. Four inches
in from the edge, on each of the low
sides, temporarily imbed the rounded
four by six-inch gutter mold acd tamp
it down until its square top is even
with the surface of the slab section of
the floor. Remove the mold and finish
the surface with a wooden float. The
day after the concrete in each section
is placed, carefully throw on a cover
ing of hay or straw and keep it thor
oughly, wet for a week. Connect the
gutters with the manure pit by means
of a trough, another gutter, or by large
drain tile laid underground. If con
crete feeding troughs and racks are tc
be built at some future time, make the
necessary mortises by temporarily im
bedding blocks or wooden frames k
the soft concrete.
Growing Berries.
One cf tfce difficulties presented in
growing raspberries, blackberries and ■
particularly grapes is to keep up tfce
supply of fcumus and available plant
food.
GOOD QUALITIES I
OF PURE-BREDS
Voice of Hogs Depends Largely
on Care and Attention Given
Them—More Uniform In
Color Style and Finish.
'Ey E. E. AXLINE. Missouri.)
"rhe value of pure-bred hogs de
pends largely on the care and atten
tion given them. Care and attention
pay well when given to any kind of
live stock, and if we have pure-breds
we naturally feel more interest in j
them an- will take better care of them
than if they were grades of Inferior j
quality.
Pure-breds breed evener. are more I
uniform in color, have more style and
finish. They feed quicker, mature or
develop earlier with less fat than most
grades. This makes them more profit
able for the farmer and feeder to
grow and feed and of course they are
better sellers.
As a breeder for more than twenty
years, I have found that it pays to i
breed pure-breds and as a farmer and
feeder for over thirty years I know
it pays well to raise the best for feed
ing purposes.
A car load .of pure-breds of any
breed of a uniform style and color
will always command a premium on
the market Pure-bred dams are
generally of a quiet and gentle dis
position and can be easily handled
at farrowing time, which is a great
help in saving litters, especially when
farrowed in bad weather, in win'er
or early spring, when it is very essen
tial that the young pigs be looked utt
er. '
Pure-breds of the best quality are
ready for market at any age. A pure
bred of from 100 to 150 pounds will
often sell for more per pound than a
heavier and older hog.
If disease should get In your feed
lot or even in your immediate neigh
borhood your pure-breds are ready
to go to market at any age and they
will always sell higher than grades ol
any breed of same weight j
It pays well to breed, feed and set
pure-breds of the very best quality
of any ;reed in preference to grades
SUPERIOR FIVE !
HORSE EVENER
Animals Work Two Against On*
and Three Against Two,
Which Is Better Than
Four Against One.
The illustration given berewitl
shows an excellent Eve-horse evener
As will be seen the horses are work
ing two against one and three agains
two, which is much better than fou’
it
Five Horse Evener. . i
against one. In the latter case th«
single aorse has a snap unless it ii
docketl several inches. This evene:
works well on a sulky.
Feed for Cow*.
While there Is a difference in the
value of feed consumed by different
cows In the same herd, this difference
in most herds will be less than $5,
and will rarely exceed $10. yet the
returns from the different cows in the
herd will vary from $30 to $S0, or. to
state it another way. $i worth of
feed will produce less than $1 worth
of milk from one cow. while in the
same herd another will produce more
than $2 worth of milk.
Buffalo Grass.
Farmers are not using much feed,
but stock are doing well on buffalo
grass, which cures up like hay. It
does not come up new each year like
other grass, but all the dry blades
become green again. Russian thistles
cured like hay are mostly fed here,
and what threatened to be a pest has
been a blessing.
Early Maturity.
Early maturity is a good thing, but
it may be carried too far. Calf beef
should not be called champion beef
until we have a new definition at
beef excellence.
Coal Ashes on Stiff Clay.
Coal ashes have no particular fei
til**ing value, yet they are good foi
stiff clay garden soil, making it light 1
er «nd easier to work. Wood ashes
are an excellent general fertilizer foi
both the vegetable and flower garden
as is also soot from stoves and pipes
Market Veal Calves Early.
Calves that are fit only for vea
should be marketed early as the price
is then higher than it is a few weeks'
later, and this, with the feed saved
by early marketing, insures consider
ably more profits than to hold the
calves till they are larger.
Three Things in Pruning.
If you prune an orchard, * you dc
three things; you grow more and bet
ter apples; your apples are easier to
pick, and your orchard ia easier to
cultivate.
When Not to Plow.
Do not plow when the ground ia
wet When this is done the soil is
compacted into hard lamps.
SHE WANTED FULL WEIGHT.
Butcher—Haven't seen you in my
shcp lately, ma'am. I hope you haven’t
stopped trading with me entirely.
Mrs. Blunt—Yes, entirely, sir. I’m
E woman that doesn't believe in hal£
weigh measures.
BABY’S HA!R ALL CAME OUT
"When my first baby was six months
old he broke out on his head with little
tumps. They would dry up and leave
a scale. Then it would break cut
again and it spread all over his head.
All the hair came out and his head
was scaly all ever. Then his face
broke out all ever in red humps and
it kept spreading until it was on his
hands and arms. I bought several
boxes of ointment, gave him blood
medicine, and had two doctors to treat
him. but he get worse all the time.
He had it about six months when a
friend told me about Cuticura. I sent
and got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent,
a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of
Cuticura Ointment. In three days
after using them he began to Im
prove. He began to take long naps
and to stop scratching his head. After
taking two bottles of Resolvent, two
noxes of Ointment and three cakes of
Soap he was sound and well, and never
had any breaking out of any kind. His
hair came out in little curls all over
his head. I don't think anything else
would have cured him except Cuti
cura.
I have bought Cuticura Ointment
and Cuticura Soap several times since
to use for cuts and sores and have
never known them to fail to cure what
I put them on. Cuticura Soap is the
best that I have ever used for toilet
purposes.” (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Har
mon, R. F. D. 2. Atoka. Tenn. Sept.
10. 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and
Ointment are sold everywhere, a sam
ple of each, with 32-page took, will
be mailed free on application to "Cuti
cura,” Dept. 16 L, Boston.
Generous.
“Was he generous when a boy at
school T
"Yes; he always let his school
mates take his share of the punish
ment.”—Judge.
Cole's Carbolisalve quickly relieves and
cures burning, itching and torturing sttir
diseases. It instantly stops the pain of
burns. Cures without scars. 25c and 50c
by druggists. For free sample write to
J. W. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls. Wis.
When the bill collector comes in at
the door the dead beat hikes for the
cellar.
^^
Laundry work at home would b*
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used, la order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces
. sarv to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness or the fabric is
. hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
j quality of the goods. This trou
ble can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
His Prescription.
A young doctor wishing to engage
1 the company of a young lady for a
, buggy ride, sent the following pre
scription:
One buggy, one horse, one good
road, one doctor. Take from 3 p. m.
on.—Judge.
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In all its forms among all ages of hordes,
as v,ell as dogs, cured and others in same
stahie prevented from having the disease
with. SPOHX’S DISTEMPER CURE.
Every bottle guaranteed Over 600.000
bottles sold last year *.50 and $1.00. Any
good druggist, or send to manufacturers.
Agents wanted. Spokn Medical Co., bpec.
Contagious Diseases. Goshen, Ind.
As Willie Saw It.
Ma—Is the,clock running, Willie?
Willie—No. ma; it's just standing
still and wagging its tail.—Judge.
Beaut.ful rest Cards Free.
Send 2c stamp for five samples of our
very best Gold Embossed Birthday, Flow
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731 Jackson St., Topeka. Kan.
You can t tell the age of a saw by
looking at its teeth.
Smokers like Lewis’ Single Binder cigar
for its rich mellow quality.
More people would succeed if more
would try.
A
and other ills, due to an inactive condi- i
: lira of the Liver, Stomach and Boweis, ■
; may be obtained most pleasantly and•
' most promptly by using Syrup of Figs;
! and Eh™ of Senna. It it not a new;
; and untried remedy, but is used by!
millions of well-informed families through
out the world to cleanse and sweeten!
and strengthen the system whenever a !
laxative remedy is needed
When buying note the fuD name
. of the Company—California Fig Synp
: Co-,—printed an every package of the
; Regular price 50* per hot one wan only.
; For tale by all leading diuggista. ;
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