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Show SOME SMILES THAT MASK agriculture OF EMOTIONS A VARIETY RTIC0LT0Rt TsEI The Beat Method Yet Devised for Concealing Thought Different Brands lor Use In Emergencies We All Arc Familiar With- --- vv - It has been said that words are merely a means of concealing thought, hut most people, especially if they are well bred, will have recourse to a A cavalryman whose smile instead. hat blows off his head while he is riding behind his regiment may enjoy the privilege granted to all good troopers, that of fervently and sulphurously addressing quite a burning speech to the But in society, say offending bat at an afternoon tea or reception, where a fair visitor calmly plumps down on an Immaculate silk bat carelessly left in the chair. Its wretched owner can only smile and say, "O, my own fault; shouldnt have left it In the chair; stupid of me; please Now the question don't mention It. arises, does the smile of the man who sees his best beloved silk hat crushed flatter than a buckwheat pancake stand for the same things that the In expressed trooper so fervently words? Persons often say that under some sad influence or condition they have to smile to keep from weeping, and ever; man knows that sometimes he has to smile to keep from swearing. So the smile Is generally the mask for a great variety of emotions, and it would be interesting to take up the study of smiles and find out their language. An ordinary smile may be set down as one that is the natural seBut quence of a pleasant thought. the real smile, the kind that Is worth studying, is the sort that is used when words would be decidedly objectionable. There are several sorts of smiles for use at dinner parties and receptions. One of the smiles most in demand at dinners is the one that the woman wears on whose party gown the man sitting next her has spilled a half a cup of coffee or dropped the nice, The greasy drumstick of a turkey. woman may feel like borrowing a few expressions from the careless trooper If she in the array, but she doesn't. trusted herself to say a single word Bhe might In spite of her best efforts drop a few remarks that would cause But she doesnt a mild sensation. She merely makes use of the smile that is especially provided for such cases. Perhaps it is better for the y. of ad. ol- - ne of ng ig tte & V. !y, up ne- - to re-re-- uer ug. itir by ow the my, re-- ged und aha sell smiles is when the precious darling climbs up Into his lap and puts one greasy hand on his new necktie. When the discovery is made that the infant Is using his hat for a ship In the bathtub he must assume the second sort of smile provided by custom and long usage for this particular case. There is the sickly smile for use The Worst Fool Under the Sun. He is a fool who sits and pines While other men push along. Who thinks that his lines are the hardest lines And croons a pitiful song He is a fool who sighs: "Ah me! I've arrived in the world too late! But the worst fool under the sun is he That nurses hate. He is a fool no matter how high Who fancies that when he dies No other ntav worthily occupy The place that he occupies He is a fool who claims to be Foredoomed to tile scorn of Fate, But the worst fool under the sun Is he That nurses hate. There was never a man who nursed a wrong. Intending to scourge his foe. Unless he dragged future sorrow And added to future woe. The anger we foster is sure to be Remorse for us soon or late. And the worst fool under the sun Is he That nurses hate. The Magical Knot. A very When You Taste Your Wifes Cookery. by the person who steps on a banana peel and hits the pavement a resounding whack in the presence of a large and well pleased concourse. Then there Is the smile of the man who calls to take a young woman out riding in an automobile and who is unable to make the obstinate thing budge. The whole family, and after awhile the entire neighborhood, offer suggestions and the young man would be sure to betray a lamentable early training, but a sweet smile saves him. Chicago Tribune. You An-- iter the coal at day king mall cut all ered I thea Smile When She Sits on Your Hat. awkward man's peace of mind that he la not able to translate the smile my If he lady gives on such occasion. icould he would probably fade away, 'for that smile if translated would read, 'Blundering Idiot, I wish I could mop Ithat turkey all up and down your white Shirt front and pour the gravy and the stuffing down your collar." The smile used by women when being photographed is more easily translated than any other. It says:Of I 'do hope that this Is an interesting and Coquettish smile and that my wrinkles dont show and that this picture will Some out all right, and incidentally what a blundering thing that photographers is, hut I know more in a minute about posing than he knows in tour years, so there! .4 Mr. Younghusband has to keep a number of smiles right at hand for Sae during the honeymoon and the first When few years of married life. lovey makes angel cake Mr. breaks two or three teeth and. fa a has Gate' ex- - 1 res-- 1 last ' :ourt and er Is a tfyo, 1. English Writer Asserts It Will Cure St. Vitus Dance. A resident of Farnham, England, I writes to an English publication: have a man who works for me and in the summer time is a great adept at catching snakes In this neighborhood. He boils them for the oil they yield, which he gives away to his neighbors. He says that it heals wounds and cures deafness; but you can Imagine a my astonishment when he made statement to me the details of which I Inclose: First catch your adder, then skin it as If it were an eel, then hang It up in the chimney over a wood fire. When dry and stiff It is fit to use, thus: Take a small portion of the dried adder and grate through a ginger grater quite fine, then take a teaspoonful of the grated powder and mix it with an early cup of tea, take this three days In succession, then miss three days, and take again In the same way until nine doses have been taken In all, and by that time the complaint (St. Vitus dance) will A patient who have disappeared. was completely cured thus has given his experience to the barrator. You In 1 M. t the icOoy Young-husban- d Ophir ginel i Smile SNAKE OIL AS A REMEDY. mt., am, and rand It two The Presidents Many Visitors. A man who is on duty most of the time in the white house offices and has a weakness for statistics has made a record for a month of the number of visits which certain public men paid few to the president. Here are a items taken from his record for February: James R. Garfield, sixty-five- ; Gen. LeoJohn R. Proctor, sixty-fouD. W. nard A. Wood, sixty two; Foulke, fifty eight; Senator T. C. Platt, thirty-five- ; Frank P. Sargent, forty; SecreSenator H. C. Lodge, slxty-one- ; tary of State Hay, ten; Secretary of War Root, eight; Senator Knute NelMr. Garfield takes son, sixty-twthe lead because he has taken much of the burden of the new department of commerce off Secretary Cortelyous shoulders. red-larg- e i, hit- state. ou Smile When the Baby Soils Your Necktie, Ving to bite through the steel plated mss, but lovey who Is watching him Ixlously, sees only the smile and Is If it were not for the Idecelved. bile, Mr. Youngbusband's faee would low plainly that what he Is really Say, is she doing this jinking Is: a bet or what? I wish she would ak this cake up with a rock drill id then soak the pieces for two year acid. I might be able to get a bttp en." But the smile is all sweet keiousness and lovey murmurs s to herself, Oh, how Jie that cake. I am so glad I wept J cooking school. When a man goes to call where tty ere An assertive infant he must be ready put on with great rapidity one of ee or four brands of smile adapted such emergencies. One of $heee ear-ol- d j 1 iw was id was idshed,' pk-y- if glan-- various , stats ip with , x fever num-- A knot Is tied with two ends of the handkerchief, and by apparently pulling the ends untied again. Take two ends of the handkerchief one In each hand, the ends dropping from the inside of your hands. Tie a single knot, when your hands and your handkerchief will be in the position shown in our illustration. Instead of pulling the ends C and D, grasp the part marked G with the thumb and forefinger, dropping the end D and pulling upon the end C and the bend B, when Instead of really tying you loosen the knot. All this must be done as quickly as possible to prevent detection. pictures, which he has thrown '.cto B box between times. When the Venezuelan war began he saved picture and clippings of that and now ha a first-rathistory of the war. Another book is made of clippings and pictures of the great coal strike, another of the faces of great men and another Is all about President Roosevelt One book contains an odd assortment of pictures of art and historical subjects clipped from the Illustrated periodicals. A man who was writing a book about the Venezuelan situation offered him $5 for his scrapbook. e Optical Illusion. This Is a perfect square, as may be proved by laying a rule along each side in succession. The apparent curvature of the sides is an optical illusion due to the circles. A curious effect of this sort, alarming to timid people, was produced at the recent opening and dedication of Physicians Puzzled by Boys Disease. son of John Kerns, a Hanford Kerns, died at Whitacre, Va. from a disease which has long baffled the physicians. Shortly after birth his body began to shrink and at the same time his head to expand. The disease could not be correctly diagnosed by the local physicians, bnt as It progressed the boys limbs and body so shrunk that he became a skeleton. At death his head measured 38 inches in circumference and was 28 new theater in Leipzig. The squar Inches over the top from ear to ear. The boy was unable to walk, having pillars of the lobby were wound with and would fall over garlands of leaves, according to become German custom, but in a peowing to the weight of his head. culiar fashion. Baltimore Sun.. The lower part of a pillar was wound with a the upper Spurs on Their Wings. Many game birds are provided with with a spiral, while In the spurs on their legs, while several middle the bands of foliage were horizontal. The result was that the pillars looked as If they had "buckled. time-honore- d right-hande- d Monument to Qulvira. was recently unveiled with great ceremony, near Junction City, Kan., to mark the supposed site of the famed city of Qulvira, which the natives of that section think lies buried beneath their feet. The obelisk Is the contribution of the members of the Qulvira historical society, who are scattered through Kansas, Minnesota and other northwestern states, the leading spirits of which organization are J, V. Bower of 8t. Paul, Minn., who claims to be the rediscoverer of Qulvira, and Robert R. Henderson of Junction City. The location and even the existence of Qulvira has been an active subject of discussion for a hundred years, and much has been written on tbe subA monument A Few Conundrums. If Mississippi wore Missouri's New Jersey, what would Delaware? Alaska.! Ill 8k her). Old Mother Twitchhead had but one eye, And a long tail, which she let fly; Every time she went over a gap She left a bit of her tail in a trap? A needle and thread. Why are men like facts? Because they are stubborn things. Why Is a lazy dog like a hill? Because he is a slow pup (slope up). Who is the greatest chicken thief Macbeth; spoken of in Shakespeare? because he did murder most foul, Why does a minister always say, Dearly beloved brethren," and not refer to the sisters? Because the brethren embrace the sisters. is the Which musical instrument An upright piano. most moral? When did George Washington first take a carriage? When he took a hack at the cherry tree. Why is life the . greatest of all Because we must all conundrums? give it up. species of plover found In South America, India and Africa have wing spurs, and sharp and effective spurs they are, too, The spur is situated just at the base of the thumb, and, like the spurs on the legs of other birds, consists of a sheath of horn fitting closely over a core of bone. Puzzle. ject It has been located at different times at various places in Mexico, Arizona, and other parts of the southwest, but this Is the only location which can lay claim to a substantial monument to mark Its supposed site. Those who doubt the existence of Why the Hen Cackle. Is the City of Gold, as Qulvira of the The accepted explanation Indians who the that of, say spoken cackling In which a hen indulges af- were supposed to have peopled the ter laying an egg is that she is so city, and who bore the same name, pleased that she wants everyone to were the poorest tribe known to hisknow it The rooster answers the tory. Scientific American. cackle with a crow, and this is taken as further indication that both are im' Toes of Animals. mensely proud of the achievement No animal has more than five toes, If This explanation is not tenable. the question is considered fairly, it Is digits or claws to each foot or limb. the ox la twoThe horse is very easy to see that Instinct would the teach the hen that to cackle Is to call toed, the rhinoceros three-toeand the elethe attention of the enemy to both hippopotamus four-toeCarnivorous animals herself and her embryo offspring, phant which she would naturally avoid do- never have less than four toes on each The hyena alone has four on ing. The cackle Is a relic of long by- foot gone days when fowls were not do- each fooL The dog has four on each mesticated, and ran about wild. When hind foot the hen wished to lay, she retired The Disc Puzzle. from the rest of the fowl community Here is a solution of last week's and performed the task. By the time commonshe was ready to rejoin the puzzle. which was to arrange the wealth the other members had wandered some distance, and she did not know where they were. She waited till she had gone some distance from the egg In order not to endanger it, and then she cackled, after also having taken a good look around to assure herself that no enemies were near. The rooster, hearing the cackle, answered it by a crow, and thus informed the hen of the whereabouts of the tribe. This sort of thing may be seen now among the ancestors of our domestic fowl in the Malay countries and India. -- one-toe- d five-toe- Cut out the several parts of the above illustration and paste them together on a sheet of paper so as to The form a perfect checker board. pieces, as they stand above, must be cut out whole and not subdivided. Why Chickens Never Fall. Little children who have big beds to roll around on often fall out In the for getfulness of Bleep, and wake to find themselves on the floor, usually more frightened than hurt. But chickens, whose beds are rarely more commodious than a slender rail, never, even in their deepest slumbers, fall off their perches. This is not due Electrical Energy for Toronto. An offer has been made by the Ham to superior Intelligence on their part, ilton and Lake Erie Power company but because a chicken's leg Is so made to the mayor of Toronto to deliver that whenever It Is bent the tendons that move the toes are tightened, and 30,000 horse power of electrical enla clinched ergy In Toronto at $20 per horse consequently the foot Watch a chicken and see how the toes power a year. close every time It lifts Its foot to take a step. Now, when a chicken Is The Composition of Atoms. on the roost its legs are bent under is of atom composed positive Every and the toes are firmly clasped or and negative electrons, vagrant It around the perch so that it actually In how Just space. electric charged, cannot let go without first straight in space or much a charge exists to an erect position. It thus wbat its mechanism is does not yet ening upto its perch and maintains clings appear. fixed position without any effort. Little Chronicle. Lung Fever in Chicago. one in two years In the last eight A Trip Around the World. of all deaths in Chicago have been Did you ever play the game called from lung fever. It is the Trip Around the World? very thing for a childrens party. Each Cables. Submarine of Length should be provided with The submarine cables, if joined, player small notebook and a pencil. Blank would reach to the moon. dance cards, with the tiny colored pencils attache-;- , are pretty for this Few Moslems in Bulgaria. purpose. The leaves should be num of But 2H per cent of the people bered to correspond with various arBulgaria are Moslems. Evil of Bachelor Life. of vital staStar, registrar-genera- l tistics for Scotland, declared his opinion that bachelor Ilfs was more destructive to males than the most unwholesome trade or the most unsanitary surroundings. I entertaining trick is done with a handkerchief. beans for Boston; a bottle of perfume for Cologne; a cigar for Havana, etc. The guesses should not be made too difficult, but just enough so to brush up the memories of laggard geographers. Prizes should be awarded to those who secure the greatest number of correct answers. A book of travels, a traveling cup, a book for notes, good pictures of the places named, are all appropriate souvenirs. When the company is marshalled for supper let the little ones find their partners by cards. means of duplicate postal These can be had now in the shops and are very pretty and interesting in themselves. They boy who gets a Pikes Peak card takes out the girl who receives a similar souvenir of Uncle Sam, etc. For the table tiny suit cases or little steamer trunks of bonbons or foreign conserves and imported fruits make pretty and appro' priate favors. Prince Adopted by American. Prince Imra, younger brother of the sultan of Sulu, has, at his own and his father's request, become the adopted son of Col. Owen J. Sweet of United States inthe Twenty-eightfantry. The young prince is now In Boston with the colonels family. Laramie Has Woman Undertaker. Mrs. Annie Rosenberg, of Laramie, Wyo., Is the only woman undertaker In the Rocky mountain region. She holds a certificate of competency from the Colorado Board of Health, having first engaged In business In that try-- i as pro ohn D. :ted of tides distributed about the room. The game Is then to guess the country or dty designated by each of these articles. A tiny jar of cold cream stands for Greece, a miniature pot of baked Growing Macaroni Wheat. Regarding the advantages from the growing of macaroni wheats, a government bulletin says: Although these wheats are considered to he of value chiefly for makiug macaroni, the Idea that they do not make good A very bread is quite erroneous. large amount of macaroni wheat Is annually employed In Russia, France, Italy, Spain, Greece and other Mediterranean regions for making bread, which Is considered to be of excellent quality; and the French especially ought to be good critics in this matter, for they are the greatest bread-eatinpeople in the world. A small per cent of softer wheat Is usually mixed with the macaroni wheat before grinding, however. The thorough establishment of this new wheat Industrv will be of the greatest benefit b agriculture In the semi-ariplains. A million or more of acres can thus be given to profitable wheat raising which on account of drought have heretofore either been entirely Idle or less profitably employed. In a few years time the result ought to be an addition of thirty to fifty million bushels to the annual wheat production of the Great Plains alone. The agricultural area will be extended much farther westward and the necessity of irrigation will thereby be diminished correIt will be advisable In spondingly. all localities where these wheats have not previously been grown not to bow a very large amount the first year, and to sow two or more of the best recommended varieties If possible. For spring sowing seed should be obtained that was grown pretty well north. The resulting crop is thus likely to ripen earlier and produce grain of better quality. In this coun- ' - -- g twelve disks above, each bearing some number from one to twelve, in six lines, so that each line should add up twenty-six- . FIND THE UNPREPARED HUNTER. come over the business of vegetable Tbe comgrowing In a generation. mercial vegetable grower a generation ago could make money out of his enterprise in growing vegetables under glass. His prices were high and his profits satisfactory. That was before the South had developed into a great vegetable garden to supply all the North with garden vegetables. the vegetable grower In the North finds It difficult to get ahead of the season. He must theres fore depend on growing vegetables and getting them to market In a crisper, fresher condition than does his southern competitor. In this he is frequently very successful. In the past little attention was paid to the supply of humus in the soil, In fact, little was known about this most valuable factor in the garden soil. The scientists knew about it, but even they did not give It Its real due. Had they known it, the growers of vegetables would not In so many cases have about ruined their soil by using nothing but commercial fertilizers upon 1L Later, when the soil bad failed to respond, they were told by the experimenters that the constant growing of vegetables by the use of commercial fertilizers alone had resulted In using up the humus or decayed vegetable matter In the soil, and that they must- restore it at every cosL Our gardeners know enough to use barnyard manure with the commercial fertilizers or to turn under green crops to keep up the supply of humus. To-da- y , first-clas- ' Tbe present gardener has this to bis crelt over the gardener of past times. In that he is not deteriorating try there are but three varieties that the soil that Is giving him a living. can be drawn upon extensively for seed. These are the Nicaragua in Texas and the .rnautka and Wild Goose In the Dakotas. Other excellent varieties are being grown by the experiment stations but on an experimental scale. Of these three varieties, Arnautka is likely to be the best An Example in Irrigation. to recent t reports of According United States consuls in India, that country now possesses the most extensive Irrigating system In the world. This is due very largely to the efforts of the British government, which has spent over $150,000, The works on 000 on such works. the Ganges were put into operation in 1854. Tbe length of the Irrigating canals near this river Is now more than 1,000 miles, and more than acres of land have been 1,600,000 brought under the system. During the last 60 years the work has com stantly gone on, till now there are many large systems irrigating a total of over 13,500,000 acres. These irriIngating canals have proven a good anvestment and are returning an nual interest of nearly 7 per cent part of these systems were planned by Sir Anthony Cotton, a hydraulic This was engineer of great ability. In 1835. His object was to cover all India with a system of canals for both Had his Irrigation and navigation. plans been carried out, India would have escaped many of her severe famines. Some of these canals are now used by the English for navigation. It is believed that ultimately the Irrigating ditch will banish fam-in- e from India. Barren Corn Stalks, The present gardener, If he Is Intelligent and successful, has learned that It pays to get the best seed whatever it may cost He has also learned not to believe every man that offers to furnish him with seeds. More and more he Is coming to experiment with his seed and to make sure before planting that what be is putting into the ground will germinate. Th old gardener thought that seed was seed. He had in many cases not yet learned that every seed had a limit as to Its life out of the ground. The man with old seed to sell sold him the old seed at the price of new and he took and cheerfully planted It, with the result, often, that he got no harvest at all. A complete loss of his crop was looked upon as one of the mysterious workings of Nature. The new gardener has learned better. He has determined definitely that next to. good land, good seed Is essential to success In hlB operations. i It Is a well known fact that a considerable number of barren stalks, L e., stalks which bear no cars, are to be found In all corn fields. By a series of counts made in several sections of the state last year, the Experiment Station found that the number of barren stalks was surprisingly large. Perhana the most Important cause for this condition Is the kind of seed. It Is surmised that barreness is hereditary, and that by planting seed which has been fertilized by pollen produced from barren stalks, the number of such stalks Is in- The Experiment Station creased. found the per cent cA barren stalks was greatly reduced, by removing barren stalks from the field before they produced pollen so that the ears were fertilized by pollen from only fertile stalks. As barren t talks use large amounts of soil fertility and Interfere with the growth of the plants producing ears, such stalks are the cause of considerable loss to the farmer. There Is little doubt that If the fertility which Is used by the barren stalkB was saved for the use of the healthy stalks, the average yield per acre would be considerably Increased. A. D. Shamel. I 8crap Picture Books. I know a boy of 9 who has half a dozen scrapbooks. They are all labeled and whenever time hangs heavy on his hands, as it Is likely to do on rainy Saturday and Sunday afternoons, he gets them out and sorts the Notes on Vegetable Gardening. Every vegetable gardener is struck with the great changes that have To Reforest Nebraska Sand-HillThe task of growing valuable forests of Nebraska on the barren sand-hillwhen the will begin this spring, Bureau of Forestry will seed about 100 acres of the Dismal River Forest Reserve near Halsey with Red Cedar and Jack Pine. If the seeding succeeds and is done with economy, the bureau will seed and plant the following year probably 1,000 acres In cedar and pines and will ultimately extend the forest by gradual plantings over a large part of the 208,000 acres In the Dismal River and Niobrara reA nursery has been estabserves, lished at Halsey, in the valley of the Middle Loup River, with a halt-acrseed bed protected by laths. A tool house and office building have been built Nearly 600 pounds of seed principally Western Yellow Pine, Red Cedar and Jack Pine, has been collected for planting in the spring. The sand-hill- s are unfit for agriculture. If large forests can be grown on them, the timber will be of very great value to a country now without where lumber brings high prices. The attempt of the bureau has every chance of success. s e Trimming Up Wild Trees. Groups of trees near the house are frequently by reason of old brush, accumulations of dead leaves and noxious weeds growing under and around them. Often the underbrush la of such a character that It greatly detracts from the appearance of the Such clumps of trees surroundings. may be made truly beautiful by cleaning up tbe rubbish, mowing the weeds, cutting away the dead wood and removing the most unsightly of tbe underbrush. A little trimming of the tops of the trees will Improve matters. It Is possible In this way to mend When beauty Is desired, nature. some trees must be cut out when they grow so densely that lateral development Is checked. Cottonseed Meal In the Pig Ration. A bulletin of the Oklahoma station Protein, the nitrogenous part says; of the feed, is the most important constituent In it Many of the common feeds on the farm, as corn, Kafir corn, etc., do not contain this ingredient In sufficient amount for the best results in feeding. A feed Is generally valuable in proportion to the amount of protein it contains. Cottonseed meal is one of the very richest feeds In protein and It is a very cheap source of this valuable food IngredlenL In cattle feeding, cottonseed meal la used quite extensively and with the best results where certain precautions are followed. It has been used only to a limited extent in pig feeding, as fatal results have followed as a rule in the general way of feeding 1L After feeding on It from four to six weeks the pigs would commence dying, and this has usually been tne case when even very, small amounts of the cottonseed meal have been tea along with other grain. The writer has found a mixcottonseed meal and ture of corn or Kafir meal to give most excellent results when fed to pigs, and with very few exceptions no pigs have died. If the cottonseed meal was not continued Jonger than four weeks. Later experiments at this station indicate that there are several conditions under which pigs may he fed a small amount of cottonseed meal with other grain for an indefinite time without Injuring the pigs In any way, and good gains obtained with a small amount of grain. One of the conditions is where the shoats have access to plenty of range and green teed. Again, If the cottonseed meal Is dropped after feeding three or tour weeks and atter a lapse of two or three weeks added to the feed again for three or four weeks, and dropped again for a few weeks, and so on until the pigs are grown or fattened, good gains will he obtained with practically no loss of pigs. 4--6 1--6 In packing face too good; use apples of uniform size, bright, clean an "althy, no and fill barrel with abopr v kind of apples. Use bushel barrel. Sha' each basketful is ad shake down well; c too much; then dont p: After thoroughly shaking should be about one lnch of barrel,' Use hammer as , possible on the head. divorce a suit of crisis In 'the The man who Is poor by nature is woman Is apt to be unmanned. cultivation apt to be C. H. Williamson says: dont ' . |