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Show WATERING TANK FOR FOWLS I Ofie Chicago Man Conatructa One With Automatic Opening and Cloaing Valve for Supply. FDIVOLITI ES From a tank placed on a bracket shelf near tho ceiling of my chicken house I ran a pipe down and Into the water dish, writes P. D. Merrill of Chicago In the Popular Mechanics. I then made a float of a tin can and attached It to the end of a lever with the float resting In the dish In euch a position that an In-- 1 TYPE OF MUSIC CASE crease of the amount of water would WITH SUMMER DRESS HANDY cause the float to rise and produce a Especially Appropriate for That Servdownward motion of the opposite end ice, but Might Be Used for Many of the lever. To this end I attached Other Purposes. ARE THAT PETTICOATS a DAINTY to which lever extended a cord above the water tank, operating MOST APPROPRIATE. This la a very handy type of case, and might be used for other purposes, as well as that of carrying music. It Jsual Material Employed, Though ths can be made wtih almost any kind of Ideas Ars New Princess Particustrong material, of a dark shade of color for preference, bound at the larly Useful With Transedges with narrow ribbon, and lined parent Dresses. inside with sateen. The materials can Here are two dainty petticoats for each be cut entirely In one piece of tha shape shown in the diagram on wear with summer dresses. The first haa a close-fittin- g top of the right hand side at the top of the flap, ranibrlc with deep embroidery flounce sketch, A forming the fold-ove- r 11 the back and C the front of the ret on by a band of ribbon-threade- d case. Portions C and C should be stiff shading. Materials required; One and one-lal- f Automatic Opening and Closing Valve yard 40 Inches wide, two yards on a Supply Water Tank for Fowls. yard bead-ng- . jouncing, one and one-hal- f cock valve at the top of the feed pipe The camisole la nfnde from flouncas shown in the Illustration. ing embroidery with ribbon straps A coll spring holds the valve open when the water in the watering dish aver the arms. Materials required: From one and Is low and allows the water to flow h yard 14 Inches deep, one In until the float rlBes, which doses yard ribbon. flow jnd until the valve and shuts olt the The other is a Princess petticoat the water Is again lowered In the rery useful for wearing with transdlsUT parent dresses. It Is made from camthe trimming being Valenciennes MAKING LATE HATCHES PAY bric, lace and insertion; ribbon-threade- d uiuslln beading joins the plaited Cockerels Will Grow Rapidly and flounce to upper part. Come In Nicely for Winter f Materials required; Four and six 40 Inches "Springers for Frying. about wide, yards and one-hal- f yards insertion, live and a as Midsummer chicks are rule one-hayards lace. not a success. The main reasons are that the hot weather and insects are FOOTGEAR OF MUCH MOMENT against them. But late hatches will frequently do as well as early ones Must Be Distinctive and Individual with equally good care. For late and aa Rich as the Wearer hatches set hens or the Incubator any Can Afford. ened with pieces of cardboard cut to time In August, to have the chicks fit, and sewn In between the cover come off In September, when the Some ingenious person has had the and the lining. The material can then weather Is cooler and the summer In- idea that we may aa well have our be folded at the point indicated by sects have begun to diminish. feet lu harmony with our faces, and so the lower dotted line and sewn togethCockerels from early fall hatches our hose are being made to match our er at the edges. No fastening is necwill grow rapidly and will come In veils in patterns of line cobwebby with this case, as the handles essary for lace, which are not quite so disfigur- are nicely for winter springers" arranged in such a manner that broiling or frying. Pullets from these ing on our extremities as they are the fold-ove- r Is securely held down hatches may not grow to he so large when making the presumably delicate while the case is being carried, the as spring-hatchepullets, nor will complexion of some fair lady! one handle being drawn through the Our lengtbelng frocks for evening other. A glance at the sketch will exthey lay this coming winter, but they will begin to lay next spring, and will wear do not give our shoes the prom- plain this. These handles should be continue to lay all next summer at a inence they merit, but Cinderella made of leather, and In an old narrow time when other hens are off duty In would find It dlSlcut to make any sen- strap plenty of material will be found the egg business. With a good num- sation In a modern ballroom with both, for this purpose. ber of pullets a contin- ing more remarkable than crystal slipDiagram D shows the back of the uous egg supply for all the seasons pers, for footgear Is most dainty and case and here the word Music" with, Is assured. artistic and Individual, no two pairs perhaps, the Initials of the owner underneath It, might well be worked. being alike. The distinctive extravagance of the If the case Is required for carrying BROODER HOUSE MADE HANDY season Is the slipper of gold or silver a large quantity of music, then It will be necessary to let In pieces of mateConvenient Coop for Poultry Keeper tissue discreetly veiled with real lace black at either side, but this can be over rial Brussels Chantilly gold, Can Be Made Any Size Desired over silver, the lace itself being fre- done without difficulty. Cover With Netting. quently embroidered with beads or Hollows Under Eyes. The Illustration shows a very con- even with precious stones of some conof One the worst enemies to beauty value. siderable venient style of coop for the poultry Is the hollow under the eye. This, keeper. It can be made any size Like a Sword Now. however, can be remedied by correct from 2x3 to 4x5 feet or more, to addition latest The my massage, and the cure will be much very The says the Farm and Home. If the patient remembers that scabbard Is a toilette arrangespeedier lady's Is smaller coop sufficient for a hen umbrel- this is generally caused by eluggisb which in ment the of leather and her brood, while the larger size la swings conveniently Just hack of circulation, general malnutrition ol the left arm. When a storm approa- the body, worry, loss of sleep, and a ches and threatens to annihilate a run down constitution, and that these brand new hat, one draws her eword may be cured by a rational diet, rest or rather her umbrella and the exercise out of doors every day, and re danger la averted. The new umbrella freshing bath taken every morning. scabbard Is made of narrow straps which pass over the right shoulder, Brooder Colony House. Shantung for Outing. the umbrella swinging in an arrangeShantung Is the material of all othwill held a brooder and accommodate ment of straps and loops at the oppo- ers which commends itself this seaa flock of 100 chicks. site side, under the arm. One may son for traveling or race coats and The yard should bo made in three now carry one's umbrella, shopping driving wraps of a light description. sections of 1x2 or 1x3 Inch strips and traveling bags, hold up one's Shantung unadorned Is, however, little mesh wire net- skirt and alight from a trolley car at seen, and the newest coats are chiefcovered with one-incting. If covered over the top with the same time. ly trimmed with a color. wiro netting, It will bn proof against cats and other Intruders. The coop YOKE COLLAR AN ECONOMY BLAZER GOLF COAT. cud house should bo moved to fr.sh ground weekly. Frills and Ruffles Add Much to Appearance of Gown, in Addition to Other Worth. h KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN Given Plenty of Good Pood and Well-KeHouee Hen Will Solve the Winter Egg Problem. pt Experience has led ine to conclude that cleanliness ia a profitable virtue Give the lien In poultry raising. plenty of good food and clean quarters and she will give no occasion for worry over the winter egg problems. We who have followed the chicken business either for pleasure or profit, for pin money or Income, have heard this time-oladvice repeated with religious regularity every new moon, writes Dennis II. Stovall of Oregon d In the Northwest Farmstead. When we give It heed, we win; when we let It pass, we lose. and Cleanliness In the henhouse the poultry yard Is a very simple thing, for the reason that It depends upon simple things. A few years ago 1 experimented with fancy roosts, pat-- r ut tirop boards. Intricate nest shelves, and various other contrivances calculated to make the hen lay, and to These uikp chicken raising easy. have all been discarded. They entailed too much care, and Involved far more labor than the simple, common sense melhods. I hare found nothing better for roosts than those of the sawhorse pattern. This gives a roost Ora i in T3hp jell! walk. "Sure, I can walk all right,' returned the patient, 'but I wish yon would fix those bandages so I can see. 'Why, man,' returned the physician. I left one of your eyes uncovered for the purpose.' Hut, doc, that eye you left uncovered is a glass one.' Indianapolis ECZEMA one-fourt- h Ks went up In ths attic, and dipped hi! pen In Ink lu-And Rcrai' his rhln and mopped lili brow and started In to think. When slyly through the ecuttle there crawled a Who wished to tell exactly how the winning vote was got. lf Carpenter's Horse Poultry Roosts. ahull' three feet high, and each one long nough to accommodate at least a r.uzfii fowls without crowding. rather than one Placed side above the other, they aasurc perfect cleanliness. They can be easily removed from the house for cleaning and treatment with lime, emulsion dr lye. With a smooth board floor this allows a chance for cleaning the henhouse perfectly; and I have found It a good plan to give tho house such a cleaning twice a week. The next boxes are also removable, so as to allow a thorough cleaning and change of straw, the old being burned. by-sid- CURE FOR DROOPY POULTRY Die Made of 8trong Bacon Grease and Warm Water Will Cause Feathers to Drop Easily. Pave all the strong bacon grease, especially the grease from fried bacon. When your fowls sit around picking themselves and looking droopy and shabby, get a large deep can or bucket; from its shape a large candy bucket la best; fill It nearly full of warm water; on this pour melted grease until It forms a thick seum over the water; catch your fowls, take them ono by one, by their wings, and with the head held straight up, dip them down, pretty hard, two or three times into the water; let the head go completely under once; do t.is quickly to avoid strangling the fuwl; then turn It loose. After waiting a few hou-- s for the water to drip from the fea.bers, drive Them Into tho shade, ho the sun will not Ulster them. For a shet time il be a sorry looking lot of they fowls. This treatment causes the foal hers to fall apart, so e body of the fowl Is cool, the water softens the skin; feaih'-r- s fall out easihe grease-ladeily. and the new ones push their vay through the skin and grow In masses of one or two In a place; the lime of moulting Is shortened; tho fi.tty crease kills ell vermin on tho feathfowl, v bile the grease-saturateers are death traps to any vermin that ir. ay g'-- t on them. !fh water Keep the bucket fPld and pour more grease on tho water irom time to time. Tho fowls should ho dipped early In the morning and made to roost under for several nights. Ty dipping fowls in tho early fall they become healthy and free from pests. h"nce stand the winter better, and In the spring have little or no vermin to annoy them and get on and kill their little ones. n d d h lu-l'u- r Molting season is at hand. Pullets hatched in March should be laying now. Vermin breeds much fdster In warm weather than in cool. Filth and vermin are the great profit killers and yet good remedies are In reach of everyone. Hens set in August will produce chicks that will grow into first class table poultry about February. If our chicks or older fowls are not thrifty, let us look into our methods and find out when? we are to blainc When the hmis begin to climb trees to roost, It is time to look to the ventilation and cleanliness of the homes. Hen afflicted with scaly leg cannot possibly give tho best service in egg production, and rough shanks lock bad. Do not use harsh methods lu breaking up the broody bens. Remember that broodlnces is nature's provision for rest. Authorities claim that the eggs from a hen will he fertile for ten days after the removal of the mala from Killed by Kindness. More brooder clilcks are killed by kindness than die of any other complaint A chick that is a little hungry will take exercise sufficient to keep In good health. Make your raabout tion for chicks cracked cane seed, and you will not have much bowel trouble, and sprinkle the floor of the brooder with good clean sand every day or two. the flock. The appearance of the fowls is not Vermin In Hot Weather. very attractive now, but when the Vermin breeds niuch faster In molting ordeal Is over they will look warm weather than In cool weather. all the prettier. Two essentials are absolutely necOften give the henhbuses, brooders summer-hatcheand brood coops a thorough disinfect- essary to raise ing with some good liquid disinfectant chicks: FlrtL an abundance of fresh and dust the fowla and chlcka well atr; second, protection from the heat with lice powder. lot the sun. one-thir- d He went out In the kitchen anil titd behind the tunge snirtid In to treat the theme: The Want a Change. " When awiftly down the chimney a wheel-hors- e bumped and slid, And In the tireless cooker still anothei one waa hid. And He !!d Into the cellar and atarted In ones more aaplent adviser peered out from the furnace door. Another bobbed up smiling from tha potato bin. And from the coal another crawled with bland and hopeful grin. A A I UiHwtfiN!, .N, this aiq-are- l whatever r Proof. they came Is Mr. Casey (sitting up In bod) aeroplanes; He sought the quiet countryside, they Molke. did yex put out the cat? m armed frnnwill the lanei; Mr. Casey Ol did. They dogged him In the morning, and Mrs. Casey Ol don't belave It! while he ate and slept Mr. Casey Well, If yex think Ol'ra to write how to him Each sought tell a liar, get up and put 'er out yerself. tha irirssHge: I accept." He went up Oddities of Nature. Have you ever thought of the pine apple?" asks the man with the In clplent bald spot of the man with the retroactive ears. I've meditated upon It as much ae Ol It deserves, replies the latter. course, a pineapple can't expect me to sit down and devote more than ar hour a day to thoughts of it, but try to be fair. I didnt mean to think of it in that way. What I meant was, did you evei think of its name? It Is called a pine apple and yet It does not grow on a pine tree and Is not an apple, conse quently It Is not a pineapple at all." Well, did you ever think of r cantaloupe?" asks the man with th. fluffy whitikers. edging Into the con venation. "I don't refer to the name but to the thingumajig Itsilf. There never was a cantaloupe that was one at all." 1 A very successful remedy for pelvlo catarrh is hot douches of Paxtlno Antiseptic, at druggists, 25c a box or sent postpaid on receipt of price by Tho Paxton Toilet. Co., Boston, Mass. Every time a man makes a bluff at paying attention to a woman she begins to look for something In him to reform. NERVOUS DESPONDENT WOMEN Find Relief in Lydia E. Vegetable Compound Quartet. Own Statements Their Simpkins," sai village quurtit So Testify. Pink-barn- 's The Village l hare, Ale the director of the which was practicing for the henefli concert for the suffering bandits ol When I wrote to yon Plates, Pn. Bulgaria, "what makes you sing youi first I was troubled with female weakpart In this song In minor keys all the ness and backache, time?" and was so nervous Mr Well, Ree wliix!" answered that I would cry at Ain't the song .Down in Simpkins. the least noise, it a Coal Mine ? would startle me so. If the face Is hot and covered wltl: sard. Second Politician We've had them perspiration wait until It bernim-- r cooled oft htforo washing; a heiiti-- l walking ii round in our ward for yeurs. perspiring skin causes It to bccotm rough. nlt fuij'rtl 205 Kanter Ave., Detroit, Mich. Some time last summer I was taken with ecxema. It began in my hair first with red blotches, then scaly, spreading to my face. The blutclies were red on my face, dry and ecaly, not large; on my scalp they were larger, some scabby. They came on The Inside of my hands my hands. were all little lumps as though full of shot about of an inch under the skin. Then they went to the outside and between and all over my fingers. It bIbo began on the bottoms of my feet and the calves of my legs, and Itch, oh, my! I never had anything like It mid hope I never will again. The Itching was terrible. My hands got so I could scarcely work. "I tried different ecxema ointments bnt without results. I also took medicine for It but It did no good. I saw the advertisement for a sample of Cutlcura Ointment and Soap and sent for one. They did me so much good I bought some more, using them as per directions, and In about three weeks I was well again. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment entirely cured me." (Signed) Ben, Passage, Apr. 8, 1912. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each Skin Book. Addrese free, with 82-post-car- d "Cutlcura, Dept L, Boston. lines. Quaint and Cool. Shier bnlihies are Miinctlmc flower n'jriggi d and Miiueilincft covered, on their while surfaces, with little colored figures lu convtndonal patterns. I BLOTCHES. RED Goodness gracious, He took his pen and papers and got upon hall I do? a boat, Professional Dan Kelly (equal to Far out upon the ocean he would alt and write and float the occasion) Shoot the nearest poCp popped a deep sea diver, who raised liceman and beef out: To the bush, Ills helmet then Sydney Bulletin. And offered some suggestions to help hii boys, to the bush! mind and pen. The young Indies on the golf links fall have dec Med that the ' blazer" rouls and hats ure the best for this sport. The wearing photograph shoes ihc coat made In Norfolk style, and of Irlur-etocolors of orange ami black with cap to match. CijyiLjui, IN He haetened to his bedroom and slid between the aheeta And started on The Crisis That This Teat tha Nation Meets, But from the wardrobe popped out a Always a Safe Remark. brave supporter's- head. Amateur Ned Kelly (sotto voce) And half a dozen scrambled from underneath the bed. j I've forgotten my jolty By Jove! Most economical are the yoke collars of embroidered mull and tucked or plaited point d'esprit and net, frilled with lace. They are wide enough and deep to cover the shoulders enough to reach below the bust in front and below tho shoulder blades In the buck, so that no other trimming Is necessary for the gown. Cuffs and sleeve frills are made to match. Fluted white muslin frills give it crisp ol freshness that proclaims them the trimming above all others for a sumA simple gray mer morning gown. cotton ratine morning frock is made attractive by a collar of black taffeta with an overlay of white mull finished with a hemstitched ruffie. The belt Is of taffeta to match. Ruffles of lure or tulle are worn hlouso In ths with the collarless street They are very smart and arc generally decorated at one side wi!b a knot of tiny wild flowers. Toby frills ure made both plain and point ed. One of many points Is innde ol black tulle, with the neck encircled with a hand of blark velvet ribbon tied at the side tinder a tiny lu.nch ol many colored flowers. Another Toby ruffie Is of white tulln wtih a neck band of ir.nnve velvet slipped tnruugb a rearl buckle. fni-tes- ' News. ane-elght- one-hal- EYE Physician Meant Well Enough but He Had Left the Motorman Seriously Handicapped. Frank E. Payne, a member of the itate railroad commission, said when investigating a troll, y accident recently, ho was told of a motorman on a work cur who was running at high speed when the trucks left the rails b oaiiRp of snow and sleet, and tho car was thrown to the side of the right way, bringing up against a telephone pole. The motorman was not seriously hurt, but was cut and bruised about the head and face by flying gluv. He was carried to a physician's office where bis wounds were dressed and bandaged. When the physician had placed the last pin, he asked the wounded man If he felt like he could D.NESBIT WILBUR i a m i OUT THE WRONG PICKED T,-o- I began to take LyMust Figure It Out. dia E. Pinkhams As to my merit," said the young remedies, and I dont man who was asking the lndy't have any more cryrather for her hand, you will have tc ing epells. 1 sleep sound and my nertake me at my face value." vousness is better. Well." answererl the fond father I will recommend you'll have to drop in later In the day. The market quotations on brase your medicines to all suffering women. Mrs. Mart Halstead, Plutca, i'a.. are not out yrt. Box 93. Here is the report of er.other genuine It Waa Triplets. Having heard that tho cigar (leal esse, which still further show that Lycr's household had been blessed with dia Ii. 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