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Patrice—The trouble is that none of 'em want to be plain-clothes women, 1 suppose. Sure Proof. “How can a girl be sure that a young man loves her?" “Oh, there are reliable signs. Now, my beau stands for my father’s stale stories and even for an occasional touch.” The less a man knows about women the more wisdom he has. -^ Breakfast 1 Sunshine Post Toasties and Cream I There’s a delicious smack in these crisp, appetizing bits of toasted com that brings brightness and good cheer to many and many a breakfast table. Toasties are untouched by hand in making; and come in tightly sealed packages—clean and sweet—ready to eat with cream and sugar. Wholesome Nourishing Easy to Serve Sold by grocers everywhere. <>0<><><><><>00<>0<><> HER FH EUNICE By EVA TAYLOR. “George, ’ said Leslie, ' you have heard me speak about my friend Eunice Vane? I have ju9t had a let ter from her; she is coming to pay me a visit for a couple of days, with her two children, while her Wsband is away in New York. 1 haven’t Been her for nearly six years. You know we were at college together.” "Then I guess I'll have to spruce up tomorrow night.” answered Leslie's fiance, as he rose to take his leave of her. He kissed her and put on his hat. As he went down the steps Les lie looked after him with a vague dis satisfaction which she could not quite analyze. “Lucky Eunice!” she soliloquized, a little bitterly. “Here we are, both verging on thirty, and both engaged in the same month. And you have a rich husband and two babies, while I—” She shrugged her shoulders and went back into the parlor. George and Leslie had been engaged for nearly six years. She was a school teacher and George a lawyer in the same town. But Leslie earned more than George and he would not marry her—nor did she desire it— until he was earning enough to sup port her at home. They had meant to be married many years before, but first George's firm had failed and he had had to set up for himself, this in volving the expenditure of all the lit tle hoard that had been accumulated so carefully. Then had come a pe riod of sickness, when all Leslie's sav ings had gone on hospital and phy sicians' fees. Finally, just when they had begun to put something aside for furniture, a nation-wide panic had cut down George's earnings to the bare minimum of subsistence, and he was only just beginning to earn a liv ing wage again. “Happy Eunice!” sighed Leslie. And then she began to understand why she was miserable that evening. It was not altogether envy of her friend. The fact was—she felt that George and she were drifting apart. There was no longer the sense of ro mance, of rapture, in their meetings. I-1 I__I "Why?" Asked Leslie. And George was growing careless. He never asked her permission before pulling out that old pipe of his in the parlor. And he had said that he would have to "spruce up" for Eunice —had said it brazenly, as though ad mitting that it was not necessary to take such a measure for her! Leslie spent a miserable night. In the morning Eunice arrived with the children. Leslie was astonished at Eunice's appearance. She had always thought of her as the young, immature, rather sedate young girl with whom she had roomed at college. Instead of which she saw before her a matronly young woman, calm, self-posses6ed, with two children, a boy and a girl, who made I Leslie's heart ache as she kissed them. They found a certain sense of em barrassment in their meeting. They were conscious that everything had changed since their college days; their interests had become divergent; they had grown apart in many ways. And Leslie was painfully conscious that it was she who had stood still, not Eunice. It was not until after George's visit that evening that Eunice seemed to thaw. "So that is George," she said. Then she took Leslie by the hand. “My dear, ’ how long have you been en gaged?" she asked. “Five years,” said Leslie, rather frigidly. “Leslie, do yon know that you could have been married for five years and ; had that much more happiness?’’ ask j ed Eunice. Leslie began to explain the cir ! cunistances, the long series of misfor | tunes. There was a touch of envy in her tone which was not lost upon her friend. “My dear," she answered, "I know that you have made a great mistake— I should say the great mistake.” “Why?” &Bked Leslie. “Do you be lieve in marrying before one is in a position to do so? If George had had your husband's advantages—” "When Philip and I got married,” answered Eunice, “he had just $50 in the world. And we spent that on our honeymoon. We had no furniture, he had no prospects except those of a poorly paid clerk. The first three years were a continuous struggle. A month before Arthur was born we did not know where the doctor's expenses would come from. And we have been very happy all through it Philip al ways says that if he hadn't had me he would never have reached the position be holds today. “If we had waited, as you have wait ed—where would we be now? Dear Leslie, do you think marriage is a thing that should come after one has made one’s way in the world? Philip ■ays that it is part of life, not the re ward of life." Leslie hardly slept that night And on the next day. after Eunice had gone, she waa too ill to go to school. | She knew now that tt was not llke .V ly that George and she would ever marry. She had Been her face in the mirror; ahe had changed even more than Eunice, but instead of taking on the matronly aspect of a happily mar ried woman she had become a queru lous-looking old maid instead. Some day George would awaken to the un derstanding of what they had missed in life; he would marry some young girl, and she—well, it would be like those horrible breach-of-promise cases that she had read in the newspapers. She must let George go. She knew that he did not love her. She had be> come merely a part of the routine of his life. A ring at the bell—George’s ring! He never called at four in the after noon. Something must have occurred to make him leave his office at that hour. She fastened ber hair and slipped down tbe stairs. George followed her into the parlor and sat down heavily. His face was unshaven, his tie sagged from his col lar; he looked thoroughly dejected. ■•Leslie,” he said, “I have come to offer you your freedom. I can never marry you." She looked at him; a new-born pity rose In her heart. How men had to struggle! She had not thought before that George, too, might be as wretched at. she. "The bank has failed," he continued, in a monotonous voice. "Every penny is gone. I am at the bottom of the ladder again. It 'kill mean three years longer. Leslie, I can't hold you. Les lie! Why, what are you laughing about?" She laughed, and the tears in her eyes were those of happiness. She went across to George's chair and perched herself upon the arm of it, just as she used to do in the first days of their engagement. “My dear,” she said, "how would you like to marry me without the house -and the furniture and the new trunks and the outfit and the trous seau? Do you want me, dear, or do you want these?” He leaped up and caught her hands incredulously. "Do you mean that, Leslie?” he cried. "Why, I have never dared to make that suggestion. Do you—will you? Today?" "Tomorrow," answered Leslie, smil ing, and then a flood of happy tears blinded her eyes. (Copyright, 1913. by W. G. Chapman.) VICTORY WON BY DIPLOMACY When Mr. Thurlow Knew How to Soften the Heart of Hi» Charm er's Mother. Mrs. Darnton," said William Thur low, "there is a matter which I would like to discuss with you, If I may at this time.” Mrs. Darnton looked over her glass es and frowned. She was the secre tary of the Society for the Preven tion of Manly Independence, and she had a well defined idea of the nature of the proposition that Mr. Thurlow Wished to discuss. "Well, go on,” she said in her most impressive manner, what is it?" “I love your daughter and I have reasons to believe that she returns my affection.” "Have you dared to make love to her without first gaining my permis sion?” “No, dear lady. I have never call ed her sweetheart or darling, or any thing like that. I have merely gained the impression, owing, perhaps, to the pleasure she seemed to have in my company, that she might learn to care for me if I gained authority from S’ou to try to win her love.” Mrs. Darnton's features hardened, and she coldly asked: “What recommendation have you to offer for yourself? If you love my daughter now, how am I to be con vinced that your love will not be as evanescent—kindly mark the word—as evanescent as is the love almost every other man has for his wife at the be ginning?” "I am sure my love will not be evan escent. I shall love Geraldine always, I know. I shall never cease to worship her for her beauty. I have noticed that she takes after her mother. If I may say so, and that is a guarantee that her beauty will not fade as the ye-,rs go by. If I might, with permission, try to win—” Geraldine came downstairs and in terrupted them then, but the jury returned a verdict In Mr. Thurlow’s favor. Almost the Same Thing. A little girl, visiting her auntie, was compelled to sleep in a room colder than that to which she was accus tomed at home. Every night, before retiring, she took a hot bath, and auntie noticed that from the bathroom she made swift and straight flight to bed. “Don’t you say your prayers at night, dear?” asked the lady, in tones of gentle reproof. “Oh, yes, auntie dear, I say them In the bathroom, it’s warmer. I say them just the last thing before I come to bed.” “But,” said auntie, who had noticed the child's habit of lying flat in the water for a few moments before emerging from the bath, "you don’t kneel down to say them, do you?” “No,” was the unexpected answer, “but I turn over on my front.” Owed Life to Dream. Melton Prior, the famous war art ist, always averred that he owed his life on one occasion to warning dreams. When going out to the Zulu war he twice dreamed that be was shot and then buried. On arriving at Durban he received a letter from his mother telling of a dream identical with his own, and begging him not to go to the front. He obeyed her in junction, and engaged another artist to go in bis place. The unfortunate substitute was almost the first man killed in the fighting. One wonders why a warning dream was not grant ed him also. 4, Believed Fish Had a Language. In the old Roman days the murae nas, or sea eels, were supposed to be possessed of a "language”—“low and sweet,” it is denominated by one an cient writer, “and with an Intonation so fascinating that few could resist its Influence.” The Emperor Augustus, it was contended, was the only ssoitgl who could understand this ‘language-” USING COMMON SENSE IN THE HOG LOT Berkshire Gelts. In breeding swine we must consider the type of hog the nearest market demands. Never sacrifice a good body in or der to shorten the snout or decrease the size of the ears. Buy a boar of some reliable breeder who has been working for years to get the correct type of a pig and who is prepered to furnish the type you de sire. With well bred hogs your feed and care will produce the best results. It is mistaken idea that breeding an imals to do well must be fed only enough to keep them alive. At mating time both sire and dam should be in the pink of condition to produce the best results. Feed a pig all he can eat without squealing. This can be done only by watching him eat and knowing just how much he needs. An old school teacher once said to her class on physology, "the internal organs of a hog are the nearest like those of a human being and any dumb animal,” unless it be a man. Swine are natives of a tropical cli mate and should have warm and dry quarters. In this era of cheap woven wire ; fences there is absolutely no excuse : for a nasty ill-smelling hog yard near ; the house where disease is bred, and the best fertilizers of the farm dissi pated loto air. Is it any wonder that pigs lose their thriftness and constitution and be come weak in the back with crooked legs when they are confined in an 8 by 10 pen that is cleaned but once a year, and then when the owner has I time. Stop and figure the losses that ' result from pigs that do not do well and are restless when all they need to make them comfortable and con I tented is the run of a nice clean pas ture where they can leave their drop J pings to the benefit of the soil. USEFUL HINTS ON FEEDING THE HOGS — Animals Should Be Separated According to Size—Some La bor-Saving Schemes. As a general thing, on the average farm too much time is used in feed ing and caring for hogs. Unnecessar ily slow and tedious methods are em ployed, whereas shorter cuts in feed I ing than those practiced at present j would produce equally good results either by the use of horse labor, by the rearrangement of the feeding yards and troughs, by the more care ful use of pasture and crops that may be harvested by the hogs, and thus reduce the number of hours required to care for the animals and at the same time save labor, says the Iowa Homestead. Where one is feeding many hogs it frequently is a labor saver to use a horse in transporting swill, water and feed directly from the tank and bin to the pens, yards or field in which the animals are kept. Wide alley hogs houses make possible using the one horse truck, not alone for hauling feed in, but for hauling out the manure and thereby keeping the surroundings clean and sanitary. There are few who have taken the ; trouble to separate the shoats accord ! ing to size so that they could be fed more easily and satisfactorily. Many prefer to feed hogs of all sizes to gether, either continuing the feeding until all are full or else wasting time j chasing the larger ones away until the smaller ones are fed. Feeding all j the animals will hold is a wasteful method, while beating up the big ones while the smaller ones eat is not conducive to gains in either the old or young. It is always well in feed ing hogs to sort according to size and limit the number to twenty or thirty in a feeding place. FARM WATER TANK IS BIG NECESSITY Force Pump Is Great Help and Engine or Windmill Will Fur nish Needed Power. Water is used more often than any thing else in the home, therefore it should be of the best quality and handy. The old open well was a death trap for everything that crawls, walks or flies, and these, decaying, caused dis ease and a big doctor’s bill. So, writes B. C. Lane of Michigan in the Epito mist, have a good driven well and get the supply from below the surface water. Put on a force pump, and if you are using any quantity of water attach a gasoline engine or a windmill to do your pumping. Lay pipe to your house (be sure to get it below the frost line) and con nect the pipe with a tank. The pneu matic tank in the basement is the best, but an open tank with a loose cover in an upper room is all right. The size of a tank will depend on the quantity of water you use. Have it large enough to hold at least a day's supply. Or, if you can’t afford anything better, and it is for house use only, put in a good barrel on a stand' in one comer of the kitchen. If you put in a tank run a pipe from it to any place need ed, and be sure to have a sink with waste pipe. If you have only hand power for pumping, you will find it takes but lit tle more exertion to pump water into the tank, and it will save carrying— no small chore. One Cruel Method. The old way of carrying fowls by their legs or wings is not practiced by the present day poultrymen. It is a cruel practice. Holding the fowl firmly by the lege and allowing the body to rest on the arm is .a much better method. Don’t Winter Loafers. Put the old hens by themselves and feed liberally with com to fatten them for market Do not winter any loafers, but it may be well to keep a few for hatching purposes. BEST LOCATION OF THE POULTRY FARM Do Not Set Hens Late in Fall Un less Buildings Are Well Suit ed for Broods. Hens should not be set late in the summer or fall unless there are build ings well suited for housing the young broods. Chickens will not thrive if shut up on a barn floor. They are far better to be cooped up out of doors upon dry ground. They must have sunshine, air, exercise and a full supply of green food, in addition to their regular grain rations and plenty of clean fresh water given twice a day. It requires close attention to all the little points in the feeding and management of poultry to make the business profitable. It is not an easy business. Probably a large propor tion of sudden deaths amongst young chickens are due to overfeeding (cramming), badly ventilated coops and yards infested with germs. Give free grass range. Poultry cannot be kept healthy when kept closely con fined In small yards. Chickens require feeding three times a day and only a small quantity at each meal should be the rule. A very successful poultryman says: “One-quarter of a pint of corn Is ample grain for a hen for one day without any other food, and one tea spoonful of corn mush or coarse meal per day is sufficient for a young chicken.” In locating a poultry business, se lect gravelly or sandy land that drains naturally. A hillside sloping to the south, protected by a grove of trees on the north and west, with a stream of running water at the bottom of the slope should be chosen. Heavy limestone and red clay land, unless well drained, is not suitable for poultry. Such land, even with the best of management, is liable to be cold and wet in the eaFly spring and during most of the winter months. PACKING HONEY IN PRINTED CARTONS Neat Little Receptacles Are of Great Convenience to Dealer and Consumer. The best grades of comb honey should be put on the market in neatly printed cartons. They are a great convenience for the dealer, they serve to keep honey free from dust, and also prevent marring the delicate comb when handling from the grocery to the consumer’s kitchen. Cartons are so inexpensive and s< useful that it is surprising that more of the best comb honey is not put on the market in them. Of course, those using carton* should be very careful to see that only the most perfect sections of honey are put into them. A honey purchaser will seldom buy cartoned honey the second time if she has been once de ceived—by getting, for instance, a partly filled comb in a carton; or. per haps. a dirty-looking comb. 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