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Show FOE WOMEN AM) HOME ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS AND MATRONS. down. It then A WORD OF ADVICE. hangs loosely as !n Yet, in spite of this To Tboge Coming to Alaska or th other seasons. loose hang, special attention Is given to the fit of shirtwaists. Most of them are either made at home or to order, for it is found that those bought ready are apt to bag in undesirable Highland Mary, an old Favorite Soma made For instance, it is very implaces. Current Notes of the Modes and Hints that the length of the back portant for the Household New fehlrt waists should he just right. Again, the undFashion Notes. er-arm seams should be wrell fitted, for on them really depend the appearance of the garment. In other words, An Old Favorite. the shirt waist of 98 will permit comE BANKS and fort and ease of fit whenever it does braes and not detract from the trim effect of the garment. That must be sustained at around the sacrifice of all else, if need be. A The castle o number of New York girls have formMontgomery, ed a club called the Shirtwaist circle, Green be your which meets once a week to make woods, and shirtwaists under a competent teacher. fair jour flowThey hope by the summer time to have ers, quite a stock of these garments at an Your waters expense little more tha the cost of the never drumlie! material. The Latest. streams There simmer first unfauld her robes. And there the langest tarry; For there I took the last fareweel O my sweet Highland Mary. How sweetly bloomed the gay green . birk. How rich the hawthorns blossom, As underneath their fragrant shade I clasped her to my bossom! The golden hours on angel wings Flew oer me and my dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary. WT mony a vow and locked embrace Our parting was fu tender; And pledging aft to meet again. We tore ourselves asunder; But, O fell deaths untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early! Now green s the sod, and cauld b the clay. That wraps my Highland Mary! O pale, pale now, those rosy lips, I aft hae kissed sae fondly! And closed for aye the sparkling glance That dwelt on me sae kindly; And moldering now in silent dust That heart that loed me dearly; But still within my bosoms core Shall live my Highland Mary. Robert Burns. Keeping House Millicent has been married but a few weeks, and her husband has made up his mind that he wants to keep house, although before they were married he often said that they would Millicent board for a year at least. would like housekeeping well enough, but she has been overworked for some years past, and wants a rest. She was the eldest of a large family of children, and had a great deal of care and responsibility. Does the editor think she is unreasonable in insisting that the promise to board be kept? Answer: Promises of all sorts should be kept whenever it is possible to do so. Especially is it incumbent upon young married people to begin life by observing the utmost punctiliousness in reMarried life on any gard to truth. basis other than the most perfect is likely to be full of truthfulness snares and pitfalls. When there is no dependence to be placed on the word of the members of our households chaos is surely come. As to the item of housekeeping or not, the husband should keep his word, and the wife should take pleasure in making preparations for fitting up the home as soon as the time of the promise has expired. New York Ledger. Klondike Gold Fields. One thing should be impressed upon every miner, prospector or trader coming to Alaska, to the Klondike or the Yukon country, and that is the neces- eity for providing an adequate and proper food supply. Whether procured in the States, in the Dominion, or at the supply stores here or further on, this must be his primary concern. Upon the manner in whiak the miner hms observed or neglected this precaution more than upon any other one thing will hi3 success or failure depend. These supplies must be healthful and should be concentrated, but the most careful attention in the selection of foods that will keep unimpaired indefinitely under a! the conditions which they will have to encounter is imperative. For instance, as bread raised with baking powder must be relied upon for the chief part of every meal, imagine the helplessness of a miner with a can of spoiled baking powder. Buy only the very best flour; it is the cheapest in the end. Experience has shown the Royal Baking Powder to be the most reliable and the trading companies now uniformly supply this brand, as others will not keep in this climate. Be sure that the bacon is sweet, sound and thoroughly cured. These are the absolute necessities upon which all must place a chief reliance, and can under no circumstances be neglected. They may, of course, be supplemented by as many comforts or delicacies as the prospector may be able to pack or desire to pay for. From the Alaska Mining Journal. A book of receipts for all kinds of cookery, which is specially valuable for use upon the trail or in the camp, is published by the Royal Baking Powder company, of New York. The receipts are thoroughly practical, and the methods are carefully explained, ao that the Inexperienced may, with it aid, readily prepare everything requisite for a good, wholesome meal, or even dainties if he has the necessary materials. The matter is in compact though durable form, the whole book Under a weighing but two ounces. special arrangement, this book will be sent free to miners or others who may desire it. We would recommend that every one going to the Klondike procure a copy. Address the Royal Baking Powder Oo., New York. MINSTRELS HUMOR. of an Irishman Who Never Argued with a Lady. The minstrels of Ireland are not all Witty Answer gone from the highways and byways of Erin, says an exchange. The mournful harp and plaintive pipe may have given way to the breezy banjo and crooning violin, but the song3 which these accompany are the songs of Ireland still. Down by the rotten Clad-dag- h wharves of old Galway town 1 came upon a rapt audience, says a n traveler, enthralled by the dulcet notes of Tim Brennan, the wandering minstrel of Tipperary" one of the sweetest singers I ever heard and one who would have been great were it not for his love of the cinder in it, as they aptly term the west of Ireland mountain dew. I had seen Tim Our many times before in Ireland. HION PLATES. trampings had brought us into the same relations of artist and. responsive auditor so many times that as he Poorly Paid Female Labor. tipped me a comforting wink of recogAn inquiry instituted by the Womnition I noticed that his violin had ens Industrial Council into the con- been replaced by the temporary.though dition of Womens Home Industries ample musical makeshift of a banjo in England show that women employed wrought from the head of an ancient as furpullers, who live and work in Irish churn. In the pause following the utmost poverty and filth, work, his ballad I felt emboldened to toss eat and sleep in an atmosphere tainted him back his' wink, with the query: with the sickly smell of skins, they And, Tim, why didnt you bring the themselves scarcely more human than churn with its head? Faith yer honthe animals whose skins tRey pluck, or, he replied, in a flash and with a owing to the thick deposit of fur winsome smile, holding the churn-hea- d which covers them from head to foot banjo aloft so all could see, faith and forces its way into their eyes, nose I never argue wid a lady an, yer and lungs, earn about 27 cents a day, honor, a bould Irish wooman stud at and all suffer from chronic asthma. its other ind! Match-bo- x makers are paid from to 3 cents per gross for making the N. W. Ayer & Son. boxes, and one woman earned but 12 N. W. Ayer & Son. the successful cents a day. Out of 384 cases in which newspaper and magazine advertising earnings were ascertained, 126 earn 25 agency of Philadelphia, have issued an cents a day, 127 from 25 to 37 cents a announcement stating that Albert G. day, 66 from 37 to 50 cents and only Bradford and Jarvis A. Wood were ad67 over 50 cents. mitted to partnership in the firm January 1. The new members are not beWant to Tan Bachelors. ginners in the advertising business. For fifty years New Jersey bache- They have been connected with N. W. lors paid $2 ayear for the privilege of Ayer & Son for years and have worked In 1887 their way to the top by careful attenenjoying single blessedness. the law providing for the tax was re- tion to business and painstaking work pealed and now an effort will be made for the firm and its patrons. In conthe measure. The subject nection with the new partnership anto has engaged the attention of the law- nouncement, N. W. Ayer & Son review makers in Massachusetts, Virginia and the history of the firm. From an humsome of the western states, and the ble beginning in 1868, when the busibill now being drawn for the considness of the first year amounted to but eration of the men of New Jersey is $15,000, the concern has jumped slowly fashioned after the measures that are but safely until its annual business before the legislators of the south and amounts to over $1,500,000 a sum that west. The tax that the bachelors will represents a daily payment to newspabe asked to pay will possibly be as per and magazine publishers of $5,000. Chicago high as $2 per capita. well-know- CURRENT FAS New Shirtwaists. entirely new shirtwaist is being brought out by one of the importing houses for next summer. It is very much like the ordinary waist in effect, but instead of a yoke it has a removAn able guimpe. This guimpe is made of white pique, and is worn with a high ct i t r standing collar of white linen, anu a white mull string tie. Shirtwaists for the summer are in the usual variety of colors with plaids largely in the majority. Aside from those with the separate guimpes they have the same yokes, pointed in the back and rather square in front. Below, however, the material is not gathered, but is laid inches In very thin plaits several Times-Heral- d. A recently patented folding umbrella Astonishing;. Mother And what do you think ol has the tip and handle fitted with screw sockets, so they can be removed tor my daughters Trench, Count? Count Eet ees ze most astonishing packing the umbrcLa in a trunk. French I haf evaire beard. Tid-Bit- s. DAIRY AM) POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. How SaccfMfal Farmers Operate This Department of tti Farm A Few Hints as to the Care of live Stock and Poultry. Wisconsin Dairymen Meet. (Condensed from Farmers Review Stenographic Report.) annual convention of the Wisconsin Dairj mens Association was held in Manitowoc February 9 The twenty-sixt- h that be can rightfully call his owra; he works hard, and so do his wife and children, rising before it is light la summer, as well as in winter, and continuing his labor long after dark at night. He has to do this because he gw's no help from his cows. He Is the man who complains about the times, and the low prices for milk and butter and cheese, forgetful of the fact that iverything except wages has declined in price more than milk has. The election of officers resulted In the choice of the following: President, H. C. Taylor; secretary Geo. W. Burchard; treasurer, II. K. Loomis. In the Poultry Yard Every little while one hears people talk of their fowls dying of the roup. Now the disease is largely due to It isnt a draughts in the difficult job to make a door that will shut, or to make shutters for the windows. Then, again, we are told what a plague mites are. I rise to say that mites is a question of cleanliness. The matron at my elbow remarks that her is clear of the pest. The reason, she says, is because she scalds It with soapsuds every wash day. Then, when some complain of chicken cholera, she avers that it is simply lice that ails the fowls. Vile, filthy she says, breed lice, and they so weaken the fowls that diarrhoea sets in and they die. I take it the matron knows, From the address of President Geo. for it has been many a day since I W. Burchard we make the following heard complaints from the hennery. I am astonished that the extracts: During the customary season of are not kept clean. The best manure g the association kept two in the world for small fruits comes instructors in the field from them. Scatter it over the strawcheese traveling and would have employed a third inberry bed, place it around the currant structor for a considerable portion of and gooseberry, the blackberry and the time if a man just suited for that raspberry bushes, and then jou will work could have been found. There see fruit worthy the name. It diswere such men, but, unfortunately for counts all the manufactured fertilizers us, they were under other engagements. ever made. By making use of it you For the coming year I recommend that kill two birds with one stone, i. e., preearly efforts be put forth to secure at serve the health cf the fowls and increase the yield of the small fruits. I least three competent instructors. am fond of a strawberry large enough Messrs. Aderhold and Baer were employed again last year and rendered the to make a respectable mouthful. EDWARD B. HEATON. association and the state most excellent service. The Instructors have made Prevalence of Flee. reports to me weekly and have subSome years ago The Farmers Remitted final reports which will appear in our printed proceedings. They are view sent an inquiry to many of its also expected at this meeting and will correspondents as to the greatest cause of loss among young chicks. The alstand up to be cross examined. most invariable reply was lice. Some differMr. Aderhold visited forty-on- e of the poultry raisers put this loss as ent factories, thirty-si- x twice of them and fifteen of them three times. He high as 75 per cent of total losses. It was paid for 150 days and collected is difficult to make people believe that from the factories visited $200, which the question of lice is a killing one. If wa3 applied on his salary. Mr. Baer any person should lose a few chickens visited forty-si- x different factories, from rodents or prowling animals he thirty-si- x of them the second time. The would at once make a campaign against factories he visited contributed $187.50 the destroyers. But the lice come in towards the paj'ment of his salary and silently and begin their work of deHe was employed 143 days. struction so naturally that the gwner expenses. of the fowls often pays little attention The total expense of these instructors for the season was $1,322. The state to them. But old poulrymen know that trade mark bill, which this association the first campaign must he waged has twice approved, is still pending in against lice. In looking for lice it is a good plan congress. It is gaining friends and adherents slowly, as all matters of that to examine carefully all of the chicks. character do. Various American ex- To look at only a few of the little fellows and find no lice is no proof that porters and English dealers have disapthey are not plentiful. It is a fact that proved of Sec. Wilsons efforts to estabAmerfor the lish a distinctive reputation parasites gather on the weakest ican butter in England, and have aschicks, leaving the strong ones free. The weak ones seem to fall an easier sumed to advise him to leave the soluin commercial of these prey, and the first thing the owner of tion problems the chicks knows a number of the littheir hands so that they might contle ones are found dead, and the wonof the Spitinue to enact the tragedy der and the Fly, in which they take the der is what killed them. Beware of role of the Spider. Happily the protests lice, and do not temporize with them of the gentlemen referred to were igFeeding Eggs. nored. best things that I evef of the One of the past year, 'rhe experiences fed to my young chicks just hatched among the dairymen of Wisconsin, d is eggs mixed with bread more that have demonstrated once writes one of our regthus crumbs skill, foresight and a wise adaptation an old fancier who ular subscribers, of means to ends insures a satistactory w'hat he is talking well full knows just in whereas dairyof success; measure This fact reFeather. the ing, as in all other occupations, the about, saysof statements we had seen man who trusts to luck in the selection minds us and the opposite or breeding of his cows, and then quite to the contrary, us to investigate prompted opinions covetousness or through ignorance true s.tua-tiotries to make them believe that marsh this matter and find out the stand who find We that many as as the best good hay and straw aie feed their young; in the profession for high clover and producing hay silage or four milk, is uniformly unsuccessful and chicks always for the first three bread mixed boiled with eggs days complaining. What Wisconsin dairymen need most crumbs. The eggs are boiled hard and is a realizing sense of the worse than mashed fine, shell and all, and mixed utter worthlessness of a poor cow. It with bread crumbs; many save all the is quite within the truth to say that clear egg3 when testing the sitting d of all the cows in this state hens or incubator eggs as it may be, kept by men who profess to be dairy- and boil them for the chicks. The men do not pay for their board and most delicate Bantam and the sturdy Brahma relish and prosper on this kind can not be made to pay, and are conof feeding, but at the same time it i3 another a at that loss; sequently kept third do no more than pay ter their possible to overfeed this rich food. It own keeping and make good this loss; i3 not the quality of the food but the cf all the quantity that injures the chicks, but if W'hich means that cows kept return no profit whatever, properly fed it is of the highest order and that only the lemaining third are of food for young chicks. This division genuine prc Place for the Incubators. A cellar into thirds may not be litriully exact, is an excellent place for an incubator no in exagbut it at least illustrates, because it is usually of an even temgerated form, the cow end of the dairy perature, especially if the cellar is one us confronts today. problem which that will preserve roots and fruits, but The cow that does not yield 4,000 the atmosphere should be pure, which a not in worth is yeai pounds of milk will be the case in winter. Any place keeping. What is the average yield per will answer for tee incubator that is cow in these lake shore counties? I of an even and regular temperature. am sure it ft not 4,000 pounds. There is in a room where the If the incubator may be a goodly number Which yield temperature no harm will rechanges is this but more than this, only saying, the watches the sult, provided operator In another way, that there must be flame and does not allow too lamp owns less. Somebody many Tlich yield much heat to accumulate. The hot waand feeds these poor, worthless yes, ter incubator must be oper(no worse than worthless, cow's. Who is it? ated in a warm lamp) if place, possible, in I cant tell you his name, but I can order to avoid loss of heat at night. his of is He symptoms. give you some Exchange. usually more or less in debt, and seloa never has dollar in his pocket dom The dairy farm does not run down. to 11, 1S9S. The addiess of welcome was delivered by Mayor T. E. Torrison. lion. Stephen Faville replied, calling attention to the fact that the products of the dairy are the surest of crops, and may be depended on every year. Other crops are subject to the caprices of the seasons, being totally destroyed by too much heat or too little rain, but dairy-- ! ing is more directly under the control of man. Most farm crops come at one season of the year, but the products of the dairy are received during the entire course of the j'ear. Remarks of a congratulatory nature were made by Bench, Hoard, H. C. Adams and Professor llaecker. hen-hous- hen-hou- e. se hen-house- hen-hous- s, es cheese-makin- hard-boile- n. one-thir- two-M.ii- - ds |