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What Can a Boy Do?
(Requested Poem)
What can a boy d , and where- can
a boy stay,
If ho'is always told to get out of tho
way?
Ho cannot sit here, and ho must not
stand there;
Tho cushions that cover that fine
rocking chair
Wore put there, of course, to be seen
and admired;
'A boy has no business to ever be
tired.
Tho beautiful roses and flowers that
bloom
On tho floor of tho darkened and
delicato room
'Are not mado to walk on at least,
not for boys;
Tho house is no place, anyway, for
their noise.
Tet boys must bo somewhere; and
what if their feet,
Bent out of our houses, sent into tho
street,
Should step round tho corner and
pause at tho door,
Where other boys feat have paused
often before;
Should pass through tho gate-way of
glittering light,
Where jokes that nro merry and
songs that are bright,
Ring out a warm welcome with flat
tering voice,
'And temptingly say "Here's a place
for tho hoys," '
Ah! What if they should? What if
your boy or mine
Should cross o'eMhe threshold which
marks out the lino
'T.wfxt virtue and vice, 'twixt puro-
ness and sin,
And leave all his innocent boyhood
within?
Oh, what If they should, because you
and I,
While the days and the months and
the years hurry by,
ATe too busy with cares and with
life's fleeting joys.
To make round onr hearthstone a
place for tho boys?
There's a place for the boys, they
will find it somewhere;
And if our homes are too daintily
fair
For the touch of their fingers, the
tread of their feet,
They'll find it, and find it, alas, In
the street,
Mid tho trlldings of sin and the glit
ter of vice;
And with heartaches and longings
we pay a dear price
For "the potting of gain that our life
time employs, ,
If we fall to provide a place for the
boys.
A place for tho boys; dear mother, I
pray:
As cares settle down 'round our short
earthly way
Don't let us forget by our kind, lov
ing deeds
To show we remember their pleas
ures and neods;
Though our souls may bo vexed with
the problems of Ufo,
And worn with bosetments and toil
ing and strife,
Our hearts will keep younger your
tired heart and mine
If w give them a place In their in
nermost shrine;
And to our life's latest hour 'twill bo
one of our joys
That we kept a small corner a placo
for tho boys.
Mrs. Bertha McCullop, West Lynn,
Mass., sends us the above words
isked for. Many thanks.
Somo Statistics
Statistics printed in the American
Grocer show that the United States
In the year ending June 30, 1913,
almost two billion dollars were spent
in drink: tho exact emenditnra for
J spirituous and malt liquors and wines
was $i,7Z4.bU7.ti. rnia is neany
twice the actual national debt of
$968,000,000. For coffee, tea and
cocoa, $269,059,239 was spent. The
per capita consumption of spirituous
and malt liquors was 22.68 gallons,
a quantity never exceeded except in
1907 and 1911. It Is estimated that
the users of alcoholic stimulants con
stitutes 25 per cent of tho total
population, this would make their
per capita consumption 89 gallons, of
which 91 per cent was beer. Tables
printed show an increased use of
spirits and beer and a decrease In
the consumption of wines, coffee and
tea. Tn nearly every city of any
size, "family beer saloon" will be
found on convenient corners, and
women frequent them freely, during
the hot month, at all hours of the
day," up to midnight. Women usual
ly carry the beer to their homes,
while the man either carries it home
in a pitcher or pall; or In the body.
According to the president of the
Pittsburg (Pa.) Bteel company, of
the wages paid 'to 5,000 employes of
that company. 20 per cent goes to,
the saloon. He further states that
the high cost of living is largely in
creased through the increased cost
of production rn acco.unt of the costs
due to accidents chargeable to those
who by reason of drink lose their
grip. 85 per cent of accidents occur
ring in the mills, ho claims, are due
directly or indirectly to saloons.
It is claimed that $1,000,000 each
day Is spent in New York for intoxi
cants; the national drink bill is near
$3,000,000,000, in round numbers
each year. America pours down her
throat every seven years intoxicants
equalling the entire value of Amer
ica. It io also claimed that 75 per
cent of all crime can be charged to
drink, and one-half of all the men
confined In our penal Institutions are
there directlv because of drink.
Kansas Weekly Capital.
quent showoring and washing, and
on the first appearance of the scale
insect you cannot mistake it use
a soft toothbrush and warm soap
suds to remove them. Make the suds
of warm water and good white soap,
not too strong of alkali, as this will
Injure the delicate foliage. Go over
each leaf and stem gently, rubbing
in the suds; let tho suds remain on
the plant for a few minutes, then
rinse the leaves and stems thor
oughly with clear warm water. For
the mealy-bug, which is just what its
name describes, take a toothpick and
a' small vial of alcohol; dip the end
of the pick in the alcohol and touch
the little white, wooly speck with
this, and it will kill it at once; then
wash off. Do not allow your plants
to get lousy. A lousy plant Is never
a thrifty one, and it is laways a dis
gusting object.
Habit-Forming Drugs
A national organization has been
formed t make war ol the evil of
consumption of opium and other
dangerous dugs of that character.
Nearly all the opium we import is
used for illegitimate purposes, and
so easily obtained that the victim of
habit can easily gratify his cravings,
in spito of restrictions, some states
and cities seek to Impose. Less than
10 per cent or the drugs are used
tor medicinal purposes, and the drug
fiend's cravings extend from opium
and its derivatives to morphine
but the most used and easiest ob
tained is cocaine. It is comparatively
a new drug, but nothing so com
pletely wrecks the health of the user,
or provides so short a cut to the
insane asylum as does this poison,
extracted from coca leaves. To get
the stimulating effect, the victim is
compelled to Increcise the dose con
stantly. .Its users Deome as mad
creatures, and when under its influ
ence, are irresponsible. Its use de
stroys and perverts character, end
ing in degradation and crime, and
the war on the drug habit in Amer
ica should be kept ud until the traf-
kfic Is completely crushed.-r-Medical
magazine.
and sifted through cheese-cloth, with
a few drops of perfume added is
better than talcum. A few cents
worth of lycopodium powder, and a
slight application of same just be
for dressing absorbs perspiration and
prevents the disagreeable odor.
With many persons, no amount of
bathiiio will sweeten the odor of
perspiration, as the body being dis
eased, and the pores of the skin act
ing as sewers, carry the bad odor out
wardly. The perfectly healthy body
is at all times awet. smelling. Try
to cleanse from vithin, keeping the
body sewage open and active.
For oily, shining skin, after wash
ing well with tepid water and mild
soap, apply a lttle of the following
mixture, using a soft cloth and let
ting it dry in: One dram powdered
borax and four ounces of witch hazel.
Use a very little good cold cream, and
If using powder at all, use a sifting
of powc ed corn starch, or rice
starch, instead of talcum. Softly
wipe off all the powder that shows.
Eat fruit and vegetables, and leave
off fried and greasy foods of, any kind.
A very bland soap is made by add
ing five parts of honey to four parts
of castile or ivory soap, and three
parts of white wax. Stir together
over a slow fire and add one dram
of benzoin and ono part of storax.
The heat must be very gentle, just
sufficier to melt and allow the In
griedents to blend 'perfectly with
stirring. Mix a little of this with
water, and use as soap; it is very
cleansing.
Some persons - secrete oil more
readily than others, ana for such,
soap Is a necessity , but only use a
pure oil soap.
Nasturtiums
If you had "goc luck" with your
nasturtiums, you should have quite
a lot of fine blossoms, and these
should give y a lot of nice seed
pods. These will furnish a nice rel
ish for the abli. Gather the seed
r-ds before they become in the least
hardened, else they will be tasteless.
Pick tho green seed vessels, cut off
the dried blossoms which adhere to
them, and drop them into a bottle
good cider vinegar. They will
"Elgin Butter"
Formerly the Elgin butter district
embraced the northern part of Illi
nois, the southern paTt of Wisconsin,
and a few counties in Michigan.
I .ter, it was enlarged to take -in
Minnesota, Michigan, and sections of
other states. Now th Elgin district
covers the United States. "Elgin
butter," therefore, simply means but
ter made in the United States that
COmeS UP tO the Eleln ntnndoWl
wich is ninety-three points perfect
on a scale of 100. The butter offered
as Elgin butter shall be fresh churn
ed, and must be offered for sale by
a member In good standing in the
Elgin board 'f trad a. Tn o,
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, Oontributed.Recipes ,
Sweet gravy or sauce for pud
dings: Puta lump-.of? butter tjie size
of an egg into a saucepan, 'over the
fire; stir Into Jt "until "smooth" one
heaping tablespoonful of flour; Then
pour in one, pint of boiling -water,
stirring briskly. Sweeten with one
cup of sugar, or, if yo have molasses
syrup,' use the same amount instead
DISAPPEARED
Coffee Ails Danish Before Postum
need no ookincr or Ronldlnir hnf will
soon 1 a sour an . spicy and ready for ?,K!n ' can te aPPUed to any butter
tho tabK They will nrobablv not J"0 ces up to the -requirements
n r,, ,!. v.i. .tni or tne Jilcin call-hnn-Kii
stay a green color, but they will have
a line flavor. Prepared this way,
they are a fine substitute for capers.
You do not need to seal them air-tight
as they will keep as long as the vin
egar retains its strength. Emma M.
For tho Flower-Lover
One must be watchful of their
plants, especla'V paims, ferns, Ivys,
for a little neglect will allow them
to become lnf jted with the scale
insect. Keep them clean with fre-
For tho Toilet
room evaporate the water, or pat
dry with a soft towe Do not rub-
surface "fo? ng the n"ttote
surrace. For the arm-pits, uso n
wet cloth with or fQW drpop' 0a
monla sprinkled on It. This dS
dorlzes. Pfcin corn starch, powdered'
It seems almost too good to be
true, the way headache; nervousness,
Insomnia, and may other obscure
troubles vanish when coffee is dis
missed and Postum used as the regu
lar table beverage.
The reason is clear. Coffee con
tains a poisonous drug caffeine
wnloh nnnooD tTifa fTnnVkl Vmt Pnnt.nm
contains only the food elements In
choice hard wheat with a little mo
lasses. A Philadelphia man grew enthusi
astic and wrote as follows:
"Until eighteen months ago I used
coffee regularly every day and suf
fered from headache, bitter taste in
my mouth, and indigestion; was
gloomy and Irritable, had variable
or absent appetite, loss of flesh, de
pressed in spirits, etc.
"I attribute thes things to coffee,
because since I quit it and have
drank Postum I feel less susceptible
to cold, have gained twenty pounds
and the symptoms have disappeared
vanished before Postum."
NaiTlfi crlvon hv PnaHim Cn.. Battle
Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs.
Postum comes in two forms:
Regular Postum must ba well
boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
Instant Postum Is a soluble
powder. A teaspoonful dissolves
quickly in a cup of hot water and
with cream and sugar, makes a de
licious beverage instantly. 30c and
50c tins.
The cost per cup of both kinds is
about the same.
"There's a Reason" for Postum.
sold by Grocera.
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