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Show ANTS IN HOUSEHOLD BIG FACTORS IN CAN BE ERADICATED HOMEMADE BREAD Poisoned Sirup Is Recommended as Being Efficient. Affecting Final Cost of Loaf Pointed Out in Greateet Precaution Experimental Kitchen. Factors Many Should Be Exen Preparing Bait and in Safeguarding It Afterwards From Humana. cieed FORMULA USED IS IMPORTANT Whare Recipe Call for Shortening, Sugar 'and Compreased Yeaat Ex' pen I Greater Cheaper Way of Baking la Outlined. (Prepared by the United States Department of Af rtculturo ) Teats In the experimental kitchen of the United States Department of Agriculture show that the quality of flour used, the retail price paid for It, the method of buying, whether In small quantities or by the barrel, the bread formula used, the kind and price of fuel, the sort of oven used, and the number of loaves made at one time are all factors affecting the final cost of the homemade loaf of bread. Loaf Coat 7 Cant. In caae of a batch of five loavee for which materials were bought In small quantities and which were baked In an uninsulated gas oven when gas cost L20 a thousand feet, a single pound loaf waa found to cost seven and one-thicents. The recipe called for ahortenlng, sugar, and compressed yeast. Milk was not used In the formula tested and would have increased tha cost of the bread. Mara Economical Formula. A batch of eight loaves was made by a moya economical formula, and all material, though bought at retail 1- rd In (Prepared by tha United State Department ( Agriculture , An efficient remedy for household ants, according to the bureau of entomology of the United States Department of Agriculture, Is sirup poisoned with arsenate of soda, if it can be used The greatest precautions safely. should be taken in preparing this sirup and in safeguarding It afterwards from human beings or domestic animals. Aots will carry the mixture to their nests, so thut not only they but the are reached by the poison. The formula for the preparation of the poisoned sirup Is as follows: One pound of sugar dissolved In a quart of water, to which should be edded 123 grains of arsenate of soda. The mixture should be boiled and strained and, on cooling, used on sponges. The addition of a small amount of honey Is sold to add to the attractiveness. This method of control has been tested by the bureau of entomology for three years and has given very satisfactory results. Persons professionally engaged in Insect extermlratlon also report success with It. There are several common species of ants that get Into houses If they find attractive food, as well as the distinct g ants, such ..as the little red, or Pharaohs ant. Some of these are naturally lawn ants and have a colony or nest near the stay-at-hom- COUPLING CONTROLS THE OSCILLATIONS How the Vacuum Tube Radio Receiver Can Be Made Regenerative. If It were not for the bends In the e characteristic curve, the vacuum tube could not be made to produce oscillations of constant amplitude when self excited. It Is easily seen that if the characteristic curve were a straight line, the operation of the tube would be so unstable as to render the tube useless as an oscillation generator. A third condition of relative values of potential variations can exist, thut is, when the grid circuit potential variations are less than the potential variations existing In the tuned circuit between the points X and Y. When this condition exists, the oscillations in the tuned circuit cannot be maintained but the decrease in amplitude In the tuned circuit oscillations will reduce the grid excitation, and the tube will finally cease to oscillate. Thus the coupling that exists between the plate circuit through the tuned circuit inductunce L and the grid circuit through the Inductance 1, control the conditions that will or will not cause the tube to act as a generator of undamped oscillations. Suppose that the coupling existing between the two colls L and 1 is such that the tube Is generating oscillations. three-electrod- H lien i.j.nt.iilig Ui.tifl (lie luite. conditions, (lie tube Is used In 'regen era the" circuits of radio receivers to produce enormous amplification. When used In radio receiving circuits, of such kind thut energy is transferred from the plate circuit to the grid circuit, we have the famous Armstrong regenerative or feed back circuit which Is so generally used at the present time. Any vacuum tube radio receiver can be made regenerative by arranging the circuit in such a manner that the plate circuit energy is fed back into the grid circuit. This may be accomplished by either magnetic or electstatic coupling. In Figure XXXVI the tube was made self exciting by coupling an inductance C connected in the grid circuit to L, an Inductance in the tune plate circuit. A development of this circuit la shown in Figure XXXIX. Here the energy, Instead of being directly coupled from the plate to the grid circuit, is first necessary to an and then to intermediate circuit, M-the grid circuit. It is necessary of and M-course, that the circuit X-have the same natural period, that is to say, they must be tuned to the same frequency. If the frequency is relatively high, the condenser C can be dispensed with, and the capacity of the plate to filament used as a portion of the oscillation plate circuit. The circuit as shown In Fig. XXXIX is inherently the circuit used in low power undamped or continuous wave radio telegraph transmitters. By subM-stituting in the oscillating circuit rewith antenna an of the capacity spect to the ground, we have the continuous transmitter shown in Fig. XL. By placing a key In the B or plate battery to turn the plate battery oil and on the start and stop, the tube oscillating dots and dashes can be sent out by varying the coupling between house-inhabitin- house. The first step, therefore, In the control of ants In the house, Is the removal of all attractive substances wherever practical. Ants like sweet, starchy food materials, especially cake, bread, sugar, preserves, sirups, and even meat. By cleaning up promptly all food crumbs scattered by children, keeping all shelves and corners clean, and storing food supplies In glass or tin containers, or In tightly closed the ant nuisance may be largely limited. Dally supplies only of foods likely to attract ana should be purchased. Entomologists of the department have found that most of the repellents considered effective, such as camphor and naphthilene flakes or powdered mothballs, ale of little benefit. If the nest of the arts can be located by following the Workers back to their point of disappearance, a number of the ants In the nest may sometimes be reached by Injecting a little (llsulphld or carbon, kerosene or gasoline Into the opening by means of an oil can or small syringe. These substances are Inflammable and should never be used near fire. If food and other conditions continue to attraot ants and favor their continued breeding In the house, such control measures are of only temporary avail. The collection of ants by the use of attractive baits Is frequently recommended, but unless the bait Is poisoned. as previously described. It Is of doubtful benefit. Small sponges moistened with sweetened water will attract many ants. The sponges can be collected several times a day and the ants swarming on them destroyed by Immersion In hot water. The UBe of sponges moistened with borax and sugar dissolved in boiling water to poison the ants Is also sometimes Recommended, but has not been found effective. The distribution of sweet baits which do not actually kill the ants often results In Intreaslug their numbers ant-pro- Use of Milk In Baking Bread Increases Final Cost prices, were purchased to better advantage. 8trong flour which gives a high bread yield was selected, and it waa bought by the barrel, as the farm woman would be likely to buy It. Dried yeast was used, shortening was omitted, and the baking was done In a kerosene range. Under these condid loaf was tions the cost of a found to be only four and cents. The details and figures obtained In these tests are available upon application to the department. one-poun- one-flft- ICELESS REFRIGERATOR h PLAN Developed as Home Convenience for Us In Hot, Dry Climate Where Ice Is Scarce. was deThe Iceless refrigerator by extension workers as a home convenience for use In hot, dry climates where It Is difficult to secure Ice. A report has been received by the United States Department of Agriculture showing how the principle of the Iceless refrigerator has been successfully applied by a Wyoming woman florist to keeping cut flowers In good condition. veloped tar' SHEARS NEEDED IN KITCHEN More Efficient for Shredding Lettuce, Peppera or Celery Than Ordinary Knife. A pair of shears of medium size, not necessarily new, have a very definite place In the kitchen. For shredding lettuce, peppers, or celery, shears do the work better and more quickly than a knife. For mincing parsley, mint, or the tender Inner leaves of celery for seasoning, shears are tnvaluable. Farmers Bulletin 927. CEMENT FOR MENDING CHINA Traspoonful Each of Alum and Hot Water Applied to Piece Will Prove Satisfactory. ) A cement for mending china may be made from a tenspoonfu! alum and one tablespoon hot water. Place In hot oven until transparent. Hove pieces clean and dry. Place In oven until warm. Coat the edges thinly and quickly press together. It dries Immediately. Foe Nourishment. ice cream made entirely of cream aud whites f eggs Is 1 the same variations in the coil I. This weakening of the plate to grid coupling causes stronger oscillntlons in the plate circuit. The limit is reached when the plate current reaches the saturation point. After this point Is reached, further weakening of the coupling cannot increase the plate cud rent variations so that the transfer of energy from the plate to grid circuit now decreases, and any further reduction In coupling will cause Buch a reduction in excitation that finally the tube will cease to function. There is, then, a certain degree of coupling at which the tube will start to oscillate, a certain degree of coupling which will produce maximum oscillation in the plate circuit and an- - SUGARLESS CANNING All fruits may be canned successfully for future use without the use of sugar, by adding hot water, or, better still, hot fruit juice Instead of hot sirups, the United States Department of Agrlcultuure finds. products can hardly be expected to be as good, either In texture or In flavor, as are those canned In sirup. But fruits canned in their own juices are often highly satisfactory for jelly making, pie filling, salads aud other uses, particularly If they are very ripe and sweet. For Instance, peaches, naturally high In sugar content, may seem as sweet when canned without sugar as do add peaches canned In a 40 per cent sirup. (mwTmrnri M V Ilot-wat- 77, Dull tiles are sharpened when laid in dilute sulphuric acid. Let water run for a few minutes before filling the kettle in the morn ing, as the water In the pipes is un wholesome. the antenna inductance Is varied. SLUMP IS BENEFIT SUMMER Manufacturers and Dealers in Radio Apparatus Are Learning a Needed Lesson. Both The slump in the radio business during the summer months Is a boon to the entire Industry, declares Joseph D. R. Freed, In an Interview pubBoth lished In Radio Merchandising. the radio dealers and the more stable and serious manufacturers are learnlesson from this ing a For example, dealslump," )e says. ers are beginning only now to realize the truth of the fact that they cannot afford to carry a large and heterogeneous lot of odds and ends In radio apparatus In the hopes that they will be able to dispose of It. They are learning now, by a stern process, that hysterical overstocking of apparatus In an effort to meet the spasmodic demand of radio faddists' Is not going to prove profitable in the long run. They are beginning to realize that dependable apparatus, bought to meet the varying radio conditions. Is more to be relied upon than unknown apparatus that looks good in the catalogue, and is merely an ornament upon the shelves. Manufacturers, too, are lenrnlng their lesson from this slump. They are realizing that the time of order taking' Is past and that the time of 'order getting Is here. They are learning now. If they didn't know It before, that In order to sell radio apparatus, they must give good value, serviceable merchandise, attractive prices nnd real service and dealer well-neede- d other degree of coupling at which the tube will cease to oscillate. From the foregoing short discussion It can be seen that a three electrode vacuum tube can be made to function as a self excited generator of an undamped alternating difference of potential at radio frequency, or by exciting the tub, externally by, for example, an incoming radio signal, the amplified plate circuit variations in potential can be fed back Into the grid aud held to further increase the anipli tude of the plate circuit variations. In Mie former conditions the tube used ill continuous wave telegraphy and in radiophone transmitters. British Egypt Radio Service. Preliminary trials In direct radio communication between England and Egypt are being made with the stations at I.eafleld nnd Cairo. As soon as these are completed public telegraph service between the two countries will be inaugurated. All One Tone. Many of the new gowns are being developed entirely in one tone of brown a shade between tan and dark brown. Sometimes a touch of gold Is added. Drown hats and brown slippers nnd stockings complete the outfit. fine strand of darning cotton and then use rnvelings. Then thiead tke needle with a hair, turn the stocking right side out and work parallel with the woof until the darn is firm ajul neat. 1 When cutting cheese straws, make Economize With Mush. A way to economize cereal mushes a few rings and put a half dozen Is to add hot water to any mush left straws through each ring. over go as to make it very thin, says If a pan of cold water is placed un the United States Department of It can then easily be added der cake when baking in the gas oven it will never burn on t lie bottom. to u new supply. a Home-mad- e If the coupling be reduced, that is if the grid and plate coils and L and the colls be moved farther apart it will the antenna circuit, the transmitter Is require greater and greater variations adjusted for maximum power output. In potential in the coll L to maintain To adjust the wave length the value of one-tone- d Darning Stockings. To darn a place where several rows have begun to run, turn the stocking wrong side out and till in the opening diagonally with rav ciings, or with one information on question This is your corner. Make use ol it (or your and privilege to answer carebe will my pleasure that are puzzling you. It our full name and me. to submitted fully and promptly all questions For special information send address must accompany each letter sent will always be held in absolute con- stamped envelope. All communications fidencn addressed very plainly in pen and ink to sj10Uj i Helen Brooks, Box 1545, Salt Lake City. Dear Miss Brooks: Dear Miss Brooks: I have been very interested in your but you would not call it toa good time, submit to corner and thought I would have you would you, if you had treatment just to go places with answer some questions for me. of boys ? All hail to yon (1) If a girl should go to a certain this class success and happiness she May while friend girls! a meet and boy place and i3 attend home may your tribe inyou, back is there, when she gets crease. him first? she supposed to write to '2 Dear Miss Brooks I2 ,SupP?SIyU,,k?,v:V,.a a long you was We are very much interested in ycur a certain town go and see him and and wish to ask a few quescorner, is the then after you return home girl tions: supposed to write first? Hoping you Is a girl at seventeen too young will understand me, I remain, as ever, to (1) ? marry PEGGY. a friend, Should a girl at eighteen be (2) underan had have should (1) You her own boss, or should she take standing if the young man asked you her mothers advice all the time? to correspond with him, that he should (3.) Wouldnt it be well for a light write first, as this would have been to marry a light more proper. In either case you refer complexioned girl boy? complexioned for would be not you to, it improper (4) Is it proper for a boy to give to write a short letter letting them a very expensive birthday presa girl know had arrived home. you i 4 4 ent? Dear Miss Brooks: Thanking you for the trouble, I am very interested in your corner PEGG and TOOTS, Wasatch, Ut and wish you everlasting success. I (1) Yes, girls, quite too young to have a question or two. Is it a fact marry. You should only be beginthat girls and boys are better looking ning to go with the boys. (2) Your at eighteen to twenty than they are at mother, my dears, usually has more fourteen to sixteen years of age? (2) interest in you than any one else in an absolute cure for the world, and is not apt to advise la eczema? (3) In going away from you wrongly. She is supposed to ba your home town and going out with her own boss in a lawful sense at boys or young men whom your par- that age. (3) I scarcely think the coments are not very well acquainted plexion has a great deal to do with with, should you have a chaperon? (4) whether or not a happy marriage will Is Florence Vidor, an actress in the result. (4) No, you should not acmovies, a married woman? (5) What cept an expensive gift from a mere is the best way to leave your hair at friend. night when it is curly so it will not break off? (6 When a boy asks to Dear Miss Brooks: I want to ask you a question or two, bring you homit from a dance, should you ask your mother if he may or which I know you are capable of anjust tell him yes or no, as you swering. I have been reading every week your little corner in the paper think best? I am sixteen. Ever yours, And now I am sure you answer quesINQUISITIVE, Randolph, Ut tions, using good judgment, so hers Ill bother you for a little advice. Thanks, my dear. (I) No, it is not a fact that boys Its just a little misunderstanding and girls' are better looking at one between my fellow and myself. You (2) I would not have said Try not to let a fellow age than another. say the article mentioned was an ab- know that you care a great deal for solute cure for eczema, but if you him. Well, I do care for him, and will send your name and stamped en- no doubt he has found it out. But velope I can give you the name of a really I have been told and I believe it. guaranteed cure for eczema. (3) that he has said he will not coax any Strictly speaking, you should not at- girl. Nor he wont bother a girl that tend any public affair without a chap- doesnt care for him. Please sympaerone and when you take this pre- thize with me. He has heard I have caution you can feel you have left another fellow, and that I like this no room for criticism. This leustom other fellow better than him, and that is adhered to more carefully in the I am going to quit him the first time eastern states than it is in our west- he comes over. He lives twenty miles ern country, but it is always more from here. Before I knew about what proper to be chaperoned, artd is coming he had heard I wrote him a letter to be so considered everywhere. (4) I inviting him over to a dance. IIs have been unable to get a line up on neither answered the letter nor came Florence Vidor as to whether she is to the dance. I am going away to married or not. She is twenty-seve- n school within the next two weeks. I years of age, her home address is 1719 would surely like to see him before Selma Ave., Los Angeles, Calif., and leaving. But I dont like to write to her studio address is G642 South Mo- him again when he didnt answer the nica Blvd., Hollywood, Calif., so you last letter I wrote him- - Now please may write to her, if you wish. (5) I tell me what vou think would be --best would advise wearing a cap which fits to do. He is a real nice fellow. He the head snugly to keep your hair in doesnt smoke, he hasnt any bad haborder. (6) I think you could use your its, and has always treated me as well own judgment in accepting or refusing as a girl could expecL But he just the boys offer to bring you home. doesnt think I like him. I know that Dear Miss Brooks: part of it for a fact. He is going on I am very interested in your corner a mission, and if I go to school without Between You and Me, and would seeing him, he will probably be gone before I return. I know he would like to ask a question. Is good for dandruff? Is it a sure cure? never write to me. I hate to confess In your last answers I found the but I have been flirting a little. He words for the songs Sweet Adeline got an awkward misunderstanding and Memories. I like the words through some unknown party. Please very much and would like to have the tel me what to do. Thanking you music. I would like to play them on very much, I am a simple young lady the piano- Thanking you very much. living in Utah. You cannot afford to give your love May I come again? KITTY, Utah. unbidden, my dear. You admit you The tome you mention doeA not care for him and also say you think guarantee a cure for dandruff, u you he knows it, then later you say h send your name and stamped envelope, doesnt think you care for him. Dearie, I will send you the name of one which if a man loves you he will tell you does guarantee a cure. Will also about it; he just cant help it, and it send you the nam of a firm where is his privilege to do so not yours you can get the music to the songs to tell him. You have a right to have other friends if you are not em mentioned. gaged to this one, and if he lov Dearest Helen: he would be very careful not to' you Hail our approach! We hope we believe anything he was not sure of reach you successfully for this is our he received your letter he should If first journey to your corner. We are have been gentleman enough to antwo interested and very inquisitive swer it, regardless of misunderstandand girls, many questions which we cannot solve often confront us. From ings. Perhaps he did not receive it In that case, you might write him a our observations we find that the girl note telling him you are going away. who allows the boys to kiss her goodHe seems to be a worthy young man, night, and put his arms around her and as such, should be shown every 13 always the girl who seems to be courtesy, but not to the extent of popular, always having a fellow sacrificing your dignity, I do symand a good time, while the who doesnt allow those privilegesgirlsits in pathize with you, and I am sure this the corner and is never looked at, no affair will work out in a way that is best for you. matter how she tries to be sociable. You have raid in previous answers that a boy doesnt really respect a girl Rpiscnpil St liool for who allows him privileges; but why ROWLAND HALL Girl. doe.vn t he show his respect for a mod-egirl by showing her a good time AH Denominations. Suit L We hope you will be able to answer Write for Catalog ns this complex question without much BUSINESS COLLEGES bother. L D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. BILL and BOB, Utah. Qhool of Efficiency. All commercial branch. u arrived and are welcome. Catalog free. 60 N. Main St. Salt Lak City. Heaven deliver us (and you) from PLEATING A BUTTONS popularity gained in this manner, Dill and Bob, dont you Accordian. Side, Box Pleating. Hemstitching, say so? I Buttons, Buttonholes. Parlor. Kid Coraet reiterate that the right sort of bov does not respect the girl who allows! 4A E Broadway. Salt Lak City. him t.,ese privileges, and wh!le this1 SFK louit l't'BMSHZR seem scarce now, it rests ,ake rur huk HuviinK mr kind to your you girls who have been trairprl! 'Il1 pr,mr,- Leith', Trade Bindery, Salt I.nke proprrly and who consider vour hood a pure, sacred WRKS' MT' T8 thing, which Pyou' alone can keep undefiled and pure from contamination with the riff-rawho insults you b demanding such liberties and privileges-- , to so conduct ourselves that more boys may be brought to understand they have no right to think of offering such insults. There are such boym gtrs, anj you will find them, for like begets like end you are entitled to a good time- - st Railroad to Erect Sadtion. The Lackawanna rn'lroad is considering the establishing of a broadcasting station at Syracuse, for the purpose of keeping the trains of its sys tern in touch with division offices iird to supply passengers with nevva Chiffon Is Revived. Chiffon is one of the fabric revivals that stands out proi.fnontly in a new light for the fall dance or hnacr frock. Chiffon Is used as a group classification, the transparent f ibrics coming under tills head lulu,: chiffon of course, georgette aud roma crepe. lf, ' - ff J |