Musical Song Contest.
There have been bo many requests
for another musical pastime that I am
hoping this will fill tho apparently
great need.
Have some one behind a screen play
a few bars of each song on the piano
or sing it and let tho guests write
down the melodies which they recog
nize. I think some of you who have
more time than I have at present
might weave these titles into a little
Btory pr romanco. I have given mostly
the well-known songs, as every one is
not “up” on the songs of the day so
called “popular” and which I prophecy
will not linger with us as these have
done.
These airs may be found in bound
collection of old songs and your music
dealer will supply those you do not
have. The list will help you in making
up the contest, which may bo added
to or curtailed at tho pleasure of the
hostess. Vocal selections: Afterwards,
All’s Right, American’s Farewell, Annie
Laurie, Beautiful Moonlight, Ben Bolt,
Columbia, My Country; De Coontown
Cakewalk, Dream Faces, Flee as a
Bird, Grandma’s Shamrocks, Green
Palms, Guard tho Flag, Hail Columbia,
Home, Sweet Home; In Glory He As
eendeth, In the Gloaming, Juanita,
Kathleen Mauvourneen, Keep for Me a
Trusting Heart, Last Night, Lead, Kind
ly Light; Listen to the Mocking Bird,
Love'B Golden Dream, Lullaby (“Ermi
nte”), My Old Kentucky Homo, Non
E Ver, or ’Tis Not True; Nearer, My
God, to Thee; Only One in the World
for Me, Over the Moonlit Sea, Rocked
In the Cradle of the Deep, Sing, Sweet
Bird; Stay Home Tonight With the
Old F’olks, Sweet Chimes of Long Ago,
Take Back the Heart, The Dear Little
Shamrock, The Garden of Sleep, The
Golden Harvester, Tho Lost Chord,
The Star-Spangled Banner, The Sweet
est Girf of All, Then You'll Remember
Me, Until Then, Venetian Boat Song,
What Are the Wild Waves Saying?
When Life Is Brightest, When tho
Angels Have Lifted tho Veil, When the
Swallows Homeward Fly.
House Warming Shower.
A charming girl who was married
away from home was honored when
she returned by this unusual and very
acceptable shower.
Tho couide went right into the cot
tage which the bridegroom had built,
and about two dozen of their best
| friends went there one evening aoan
after their arrival (having announced
their coming by telephone) each one
carrying a parcel marked “for the new
house.” All the packages were placed
In a clothes basket, and what over
flowed wore tied to the handles; some
of the boys (I should say, men,) car
ried brooms, feather dusters, a wash
board was fastened about one chap’s
neck bearing a placard saying "Clean
liness Is Next to Godliness;” ho pro
duced soap from his pockets and car
ried a large scrubbing brush and a
package of washing powder.
The gardener of the crowd had a
hoe, rake and spade; another mar
trundled a wheelbarrow; one had a
pair of clipping shears and one a small
sickle. "
The girls had dusters, tea towels
bath towels, kitchen aprons, pantrj
shelfpaper, broom bags, etc. I assure
you It was the merriest kind of a time
At ten o’clock an innocent lookinj
suit case wias produced containini
sandwiches neatly wrapped in waxed
paper, olives, salted nuts and a jar ol
potato salad. Coffee was made on the
new stovo and paper napkins and
plates were used, the bride producing
her wedding spoons for the occasion.
Every one agreed that this was the
very nicest kind of a shower, and the
bride said she was delighted to have
It after the wedding Instead of before.
Of course circumstances alter cases,
and this affair just suited this especial
case.
Golden Rod Wedding.
One of the prettiest decorative
schemes for a fall wedding is to use
the gorgeous golden rod as the ex
clusive flower. It lends itself to eith
er a church or house ceremony equal
ly well; it does not wilt quickly and
is found in nearly every locality.
Massed in huge brown crocks and
jars, it fills corners and fireplaces; is
most decorative in flower holders
fastened to the walls and tied with
white and yellow gauze ribbon to the
ends of the reserved pews in the
church it is all that can be desired.
A charming canopy is made by
stretching wire netting that comes
by the yard, filling with vines and
ferns and then studding the whole
with clusters of golden rod. The
bride may carry white roses and the
maids yellow ones, and a beautiful ef
fect is made by having the attendants
in filmy white frocks over yellow
slips, with yellow sashes and hair or
naments.
Have yellow candle shades, yellow
Ices or ice cream, yellow bon-bons
and, if possible, use gold bahded
china. At a daytime wedding this
sunshiny color is most effective, as
it loses its radiant brilliancy a little
in an artificial light.
If cake boxes are used have the
monogram in gold. The most fash
ionable hour for weddings seems to
be at four or half after, and this is
just the time for this yellow color
scheme.
Everyone loves golden rod and the
dainty lavender and white asters that
aro usually found by its side.
MADAME MERRI.
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THREE HANDSOME DRESSES
THE costume on the left fs in tan
colored eponge cloth. The high
waisted skirt is slightly full at the
top, and has a white and tan
striped cotton front, a particularly
effective trimming.
The bodice has a vest and collar in
white, the lower part of tho vest being
embroidered w ith red and purple. A
narrow band embroidered in the same
color finishes the neck.
Materials required: 4 yards 42
Inches wide, \4 yard white 20 inches
wide, 1% yard stripe about S inches
wide.
The second is in cream lawn em
broidered at foot; it is finely tucked at
waist, and gathered in center front
under a band of insertion.
The bodice is of plain lawn finely
tucked, the bolero of piece embroidery
edged with ball fringe; the cufts and
collar are of blue lawn, trimmed with
buttons covered with the same; a
(trap of insertion Is carried round the j
upper part of arm, it is threaded with
blue ribbon tied in a bow; the waist
band is of wider blue ribbon.
Materials required:- 2 yards wide
embroidered flouncing, 114 yard inser
tion, 114 yard piece embroidery 36
inches wide, 2 yards ball fringe, 1 yard
plain cream lawn, 14 yard blue lawn
40 inches wide, 1 yard narrow inser
tion, 1% yard narrow ribbon, % yard
ribbon.
On the right the model is in old rose
Flaxzella; the style is quite simple.
The side seams of skirt are stitched
in the ordinary way; the wrap-over
in front is prettily cut, a cord orna
ment and button being sewn in each
point. Three buttons trim each
sleeve. Collar of white embroftlerod
lawn.
Hat of black Tagel, trimmed with a
blue feather meant.
Materials required: 4 yards 40
inches wide, 8 buttons, 2 cord orna
ments.
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FAIR-MINDED LOVER
Though It Took Several Thrilling
Episodes to Convince the
Widow.
By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY.
Stephen Hackett was a bachelor
thirty-eight years old, and a carpenter
by trade. There Is always a little cu
riosity as to old bachelors and old
maids. The query of: "Why don’t
they get married?" is always a live
one.
The reason Stephen didn’t get mar
ried was because he was always a lit
tle too late. When he had come
across a woman he felt that he could
love he discovered that some one else
was loving her and had the promise
of her hand in marriage.
Stephen Hackett had come over to
the town of Hillcrest to work at his
trade. The first job he got was build
ing a fence for Deacon Hardy. It was
a line fence between the deacon’s va
cant lot and one owned by the widow
Nixon. No measurements ltad been
taken, but the dividing line had been
guessed at. Therefore, when the car
penter found a dead apple tree in his
path he cut it down. Three hours later
he was sued for the sum of $25. He
went to the deacon’s house to state
the fact.
"Was that apple tree on the wid
ow's land?” he asked.
“I dunno,” was the reply.
“But you ought to have known.”
"Yes, I s'pose I had, but I didn't
think there'd be any fuss raised if we
n FnoA An Viam linn "
“What sort of a woman is she?”
“She always pays back borrowed
tea and coffee, but she’s a leetle
techy.”
“D’ye think I’d better see her about
this suit?”
“I don’t think it would do any good.
The widder has sued you because you
was workin’ for me. You see, we don’t
agree.”
“But why didn’t you say so?”
“I forgot to. You see the widder be
lieves in sprinklin' and I believe in im
mersion, and we can never agree as
to which saves the most souls.”
"You'd better cut the water out en
tirely and be neighbors!” advised
Stephen as he started off to call on
the widow.
Sho was at home, and he introduced
himself. “If I could find the right sort
of a woman I’d get married,” he
Bald.
“Sir!” she gasped.
“I am an even-tempered and a lov
ing man.”
“Sir!”
“I’ve got money enough in the bank
to buy a little home, and it’s time I
settled down and took some comfort.
I know you will excuse me when I
say I am pleased with your looks.”
“Sir, are you crazy!” the widow de
manded.
“No, ma’am. I'm just speaking a
word in advance, as it were.”
“You are most impudent, sir,
and—”
“If it was a man suing me for that,
dead apple tree I’d tell him to go to,
but with a woman, and especially a
widow, it’s different. You’ll get beat
en because Deacon Hardy is the right
party to sue. You will have to show
that a dead apple tree bears apples.
You will be asked if you don’t quar
rel with your neighbors. You will be
asked if your deceased husband was
not glad to die.”
The widow was speechless with sur
nvion ami oncror
w~---«-•
“And worst of all, ma'am—worst of
all for you, you will be asked your
age! Yea, ma’am, they will ask It,
and you must answer or go to jail
for contempt! I take it that you are
under forty, and I am sure that your
neighbors do, and what a sensation it
will create when you have to swear
to forty-three or forty-four.”
The widow Nixon turned pale and
sat down.
“You believe in sprinkling Instead
of immersion," continued the car
penter. “What will folks say if
you take me into court, me believing
the same?"
i “I—I—”
“And later on do you want folks to
say that you sued me before I would
marry you? They always get things
mixed up, you know. You can never
make anybody believe that you sued
me for a dead apple tree."
“Sir, what is all this talk!” demand
ed the woman as she suddenly found
her voice.
"We are talking about line fences,
dead apple trees, sprinkling, lawsuits
and getting married. Think it over,
widow—think it over. I am a fair1
minded man and will not take advan
tage of you.”
With that he walked out of the
house. The widow first shed tears of
anger. Then she went down to the
lawyer she had employed and said
she guessed she would withdraw the
suit.
“I think it’s better,” he replied. “We
can’t prove anything but a dead ap
ple tree, and anyhow Deacon Hardy
is the man we ought to have sued.”
It thus came about that Mr. Hack
ett heard no more of the suit. For
two weeks he heard no more of the
widow, either. Then he got an Idle
day and started off fishing. It was
also an easy day for Mrs. Nixon, and
she concluded to visit a friend a mile
away. To shorten the distance 6he
made a cut across the fields, and in
climbing a rail fence a sliver caught
her dress in such a was as to hold her
fast as if she had been nailed down.
The carpenter heard her cries for help
from where he was angling, and he
hastened to her aid and began:
“I suppose you have thought over
what I said the other day.”
“No sir.’’ was the huffy reply.
“Been too busy putting up currant
jell, effT Better think it °ver’
a vital question to both of us. You 11
never find another man to agree witn
you more heartily than I do that
sprinkling a convert beats immersion
all hollow. We may differ about
Dan’l in the lion’s den, but we never
shall about sprinkling."
“Ain’t you going to get me loose.
“Certainly I am. I don’t expect a
woman caught fast on a rail fence is
going to give much thought to matri
mony, but think it. over when you gel
home. I might walk along and refuse
to do a thing ’till you had said yes
to me, but I’m a fair-minded man, Mrs.
Nixon—a fair-minded man."
Mrs. Nixon decided to return home
but not to think. She kept saying to
herself that she wouldn’t give the car
penter’s words one single minute s
consideration, and then she sat down
and thought over them for t\«) long
hours! He was a queer man, was
her conclusion. She neither liked nor
disliked him. She wasn’t going to
ask him to call, but if he did call she
wasn't going to turn him outdoors.
A couple of weeks again went by.
Such villagers as had got to know Mr.
Hackett were saying that he was a
very nice man. The widow expressed
no opinion. She had been to the post
office, half a mile away, one after
noon, when a sudden thunderstorm
came up. She thought she could beat
it, but was forced to take refuge in
the porch of a church. The thunder
was rolling, the lightning flashing and
the rain descending in sheets when
Mr. Hapkett came running up the
steps to grasp her arm.
“You must get home, even if you
get drenched! lhe spire 01 luio
church may be struck by lightning!
Come on, and after you have got into
dry clothes, think it over. I am a
fair-minded man, and wilt take no
advantage of a woman in a thunder
storm!”
As he threw her into the gate of
her home a thunder-bolt hit the spire
and knocked it into a continental
cocked hat, and flames followed and
consumed the church.
The widow Nixon did some hard
thinking. She kept at it until she had
“thought it over." She almost wished
that Mr. Hackett would call, but he
didn’t. -The next she saw of him wa9
when she was out for a row on the mill
pond with another woman. An oar was
lost, and the other woman jumped
overboard and struggled to shore.
This left Mrs. Nixon alone and help
less, and drifting slowly toward the
high dam. She was getting ready to
yell when along came Mr. Hackett in
a boat.
“It’s a high dam, widow,” he calm
ly observed.
“Oh, I shall be drowned!”
“No one that’s gene over it has es
caped death.”
"Oh, save me, Mr. Hackett!”
“I shall save you, but have you
thought it over?”
“I have—I have.”
“Haven’t I said to you on sev
eral occasions that I was a fair-mind
ed man?”
"You have—you have!”
“And I shall continue to be. I
might take advantage of you on this
occasion, but I shall not Widow,
there isn’t a drop of water pouring
over the dam!”
“And I can’t be drowned?"
“Not any more than on dry land.”
“But—but—”
“But your answer?”
“Why, I’ll have to say yes, I sup
pose! I can’t keep on having
my life saved every few minutes,
can I?”
(Copyright, 1913. by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Mexican Chivalry.
Nearly two-thirds of the Mexican
population are peons. The remaining
third is divided into land owners, mer
chants and professional men. The land
owners are the ruling class and a visit
to their haciendas is alwaye interest
ing. There is a chivalry about the
Mexican haciendado which is exceed
ingly pleasant and covers many de
fects. Everybody has heard of their
proverbial politeness and it is pleas
ant to relate that this quality exists in
fact. It is often carried to extremes,
however, and has led to misunder
standings. According to Mexican eti
quette it is not considered good
breeding to admire unduly anything
belonging to your host; the code re
quires that such a thing must be im
mediately offered to the guest, and to
do so may not be always convenient.
It Is related of General Grant that,
when in the City of Mexico, he was
the guest at the mansion of a native
millionaire, and greatly admired one
of his paintings. He wae immediately
told that it was his. The general, in
his simple way, took the host at his
word, and sent a messenger to make
arrangements for the shipment of the
picture. The consternation in the Mex
ican household can only be imagined.
—jdax E. Schmidt, in Engineering
Magazine.
Getting Even With the Judge.
The suffragette story, which made
the biggest hit at the Park theater
during "suffrage week” dealt with the
ardent advocate of votes for women
who was committed to serve a term
in jail for contempt of court After
her release she was relating the ex
perience to a friend. ^
"You see, after the Judge got
through lecturing me,” she explained,
"I snapped my lingers in his face and
yelled ‘Fudge!’ He gave me ten days."
“And how did you employ your time
while you were in jail?” inquired the
friend.
“Why,” said she, “I embroidered the
word Fudge!’ on a sofa pillow and
sent it to the judge with my compli
ments the day 1 was released.”—New
York Morning Telegraph.
MAKING BUTTER DURING THEHffTttJ
This Illinois dairy maid knows how to take care of a ere I
and other dairy utensil*. Every part is first washed in teoidTS
water and is afterward scalded and *ried in the sen. '"“J
During the hot weather many farm
ers fail to give their cream the prop
er attention. In order to have it in
he best condition the milk must be
clean, that is, the cows must be clean
and free from any dirt that might
drop into the milk during the process
of milking. The milkers should have
clean, dry hands and the milk pails
must be clean.
The cream separator should be
taken apart and thoroughly cleaned
each time it is used and just before
using it should be flushed out with
clean hot water.
Experience teaches me that it is
better to run tha milk through the
separator as soon as possible after
milking, while it is jret warm, this
leaves the skimmilk in prime condi
tion for feeding calves and pigs and
the cream should be gcsded at once.
Those who have the dairy building
with running water will have no trou
ble in cooling the cream and those
who have not these f, •„
cool it very readily *n a?
in a cask of water For th?
the ordinary shotgun can L"
well, patriciilarly jf th.0 (1
stirred, and for stirring ( "
with a perpendicular Vh
center for a handle is verv!
For farm butter-making the
ing should be .done not 1'
three times a week in the!
Ripen the cream at £5 to ;o!
and then coo] it and keep it.
a few hours before churnine
Usually it is a good plan t,
cooling the cream before it i.
sour enough to churn because!
sour some while cooling.
The proper temperature for
ing varies with different localitj
in most cases from 50 touij
will be all right for the s
months. 'I
In the early summer chum
degrees.
SCALES ON FARM
GOOD INVESTMENT
Average Farmer Does Not Real
ize How Much He Loses Each
Year by Lack of Device.
(By R. B. RUSHING.)
I do not believe the average farmer
realizes how much he loses each year
because he has r»t a pair of good,
reliable scales located on the farm.
Nearly all of the farmer’s produce is
sold by weight, and it is not enough
to stand by and see it weighed on the
buyer’s scales. You should have a set
of your own in your yard so that you
may be sure you are getting all yeu
are entitled to. I do not mean to in
sinuate that buyers are dishonest, but
mistakes are sometimes too easily
made.
If you feed a number of hogs you
should have a pair of platform scales
to weigh them on when you com
mence to feed them, and then by
weighing the grain that is fed them
you should be able to tell whether
you were doing it at a profit and how
much. When you are ready to deliver
to market it takes just a feifr minutes
to weigh your wagon empty and again
after the hogs are loaded, and then
you are able to tell whert you are.
Of course you must ^.llow a little for
'shrinkage. From my own experience
I would say fat hogs will shrink about
two pounds apiece, drawing four
miles.
Here in southern Illinois many of
the hogs and cattle are sold to the
buyers, who come and buy them at
the farm, and unless a pair of scales
are at hand they are generally lump
ed off. This, of course, is too uncer
tain. The buyers are buying all the
time and are very apt to make a price
that is more than safe for themselves.
Besides there is not the satisfaction
in the deal that there is where you
see them weighed on your own
scales.
v\ nen you go to tne market to buy
a piece of meat or to the grocery for
sugar it is never lumped off, but care
fully weighed, and I believe that it
is a poor rule that won't work both
ways. If it pays these people to have
scales, why will it not pay you? v
If you are a fanner that does not
feed stock, but sell your hay and
grain to feeders, you certainly do
need a pair ®f scales. You cannot
afford to guess off a load of hay. What
you would lose Ik this way In a year
would usually buy a pair of good
scales if you do much business. If
V’OU sell your cor* to feeders you are
liable to lose money by guessing off
a crib of corn or by measuring ft.
This, as you plainly see, is not a safe
• ay to do business.
When you draw your wheat,'oats or
rye to market and try to load about
he same every time you may fin^
bat the loads vary 200 pounds or
more. No use to kick, unless you
lick yourself because you have i»t
bought a pair of scales, for they are
constantly being advertised in the
best farm journals.
The first year I had my scales I got
enough more money on two deals to
lalf pay for the scales. One was a
load of wheat that fell short 500
>ouuds, anil the other was wool, and
;ti!l some will say it does not pay to
bother with weighing everything you
ell. They are satisfied as long as
hey can see the weighing done, bat
jven this is not always safe,
I have In mini a pair of scales that
cs-n be thrown short 200 pound
in fre.nt of your eyes and eiert
out of eve ry dozen would not
it. When I first purchased my
ten years ago my neighbor)!
I was just sinking that mud
in the ground, unnecessarily,
have learned to consider them*
paying investment.
My custom weighing at ten
a draft paid good interest on I
vestment the first year, and baa
year since. Perhaps there1
some that will be interested
cost of good wagon scales. 1
a standard make of five tons a
and the scales, timbers for the
and platform, stone and mason
co*t me about an even $100, ini
a 50-pound test weight.
When you buy a set of sen
sure and get a test weight. 1
you keep them tested up your
will be as standard as any a
need not take a back seat for
weight. A pound is a pound,i
are entitled to it. Usually when
ers are buying and selling
themselves nearly everything®
ed off, but you cannot afford
this, or at least I think I n
hard for my dollars to swap tl
that way.
When you get ready to buyn
scales do not let a few dollnl
erence in price stand in the»
lead you to buy an inferior at
If you are buying a set of
scales for a lifetime, which Ji
get a set that will stand up, I
that you can stand behind,!
sure that the weights are corn
When you set your scales p«
where they will be handy l
don’t put them off in one coma
no one can get to them. Hu
handy to drive onto and coll
cents for ail custom weighing
are so many reasons »by
should be on every farm
seems to me that every ™
farmer should see, at least s
them, enough to cause him#
action.
LIMESTONE IS OFj
MUCH IMPORT®
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Poultry. fl
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Island experiment stati
try feed emphasizes
of permitting the o ®
ty of bone-forming
To compare the e j9
tion of bone ash 9|
amounts of groan lottlB
ration of |liU1,",y' i6|, GaB
14 two-weeks-old C “
Wyandot.- chiokb^ ^B
basal ration o d aifalh^B
corn, mixed ft 11 ‘ geed
mented with ec« fi
equal protein basis M
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stituents, lot - supPP»i
sro„„u
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mal ration, and tae jti 9
the same muon, but ■
as much lanes ton ■ begal®!
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ter part of Octo e [tlfl Bg
w eek in Pec-miber »
lot 1 had died. fl{ leg*®
began to &ho\ ®ceinber »>JB
the middle efD®e of !*■
afterwards died. 9