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About The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936 | View Entire Issue (June 24, 1904)
If IiM - 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 1 illy 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 II Design by May Manton 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 W bol iNvevni 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 ij u i i A US l 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 ci laway PLAN FOR WOODEN BARN 1 3 1 i o l n pj B il I HI l B i r k - ti If FtlD AUlV 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 AO 0tt 4 - 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 on the carrying charges I 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 ZtVJL f newoa and the v i0 huuu investigating 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 ns up a tai T utemogr Cl again Januarr and rmi a d March and 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 There are prediction fw lin the fr7 lois year again growers of JS have with trouble in thotTci barrels in suffic teSaSS them to market enabla tho cron nt u it should be dlsDoand J the me if PJ J r f t A 1 1 v V -1 I i A i - 4 f J 8 V j v i a T J W A