Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1925, Page 8

BY RIPLEY. - G Twenty-Fourth Day. cuzco, dtans, with b Peru, February 18.— den-bent backs, trudge silently and stolidly along the high- way. When they reach the where the rocky shelf falls away a beautiful valley where lies dis- played to their the colorful panorama of the City of the Sun, the Indian stops, removes his hat, bows his head and murmurs 0 Ccoscco, Hatun culqut.” “—Ok Thee!” For Cuzco is still their holy city, | and the hand of time man can | never tear the veneration from their hearts. Holy cities, sanctified spots, always hold sual thrills for me And Cuzco, longer a great city glittering with gold and adorned with beautiful temples, is still thef “City of the Sun" and ‘ust as im-| pressive as Benares or Jerusalem; so | much so that I am moved to take | off my hat and murmur the Indian's | salutation In the time of the Incas more than 250,000 people are said to have lved here. Today not much more than| 15,000 dwell among the brok=a tem-| ples of their fathers. The Spaniards | stole their wealth and threw down | into Llacta, Napai Cuzco, Great City, 1 salute u; no spot | I was down town with ma this aft- ernoon and we came to a man with a big waying machine, saying, Step up, ladies, and see how mutch you way today, keep track of your welght, thats wat the docters tell you. Step rite up and get your correck weight for 3 cents. Ladies gentlemen and childern, this scale will give you a falr deel irregardless of sex or size, he sed. Wy dont you get on it, ma, you like to get wayed, I sed. ‘Well. T know I dont way eny more than 149 pounds, but then of corse theres allways the chance that IIl way less, the way Ive bin dieting lately, ma sed. I bleeve I will let him way me, jest for curlosity, she sed. ‘And she got on, saying to the man, Are you sure this scale is correck? 1 couldent be eny more sure with- the Sun to thelr the 10 the Virgins of adorn the bridal chamber of ruler: and over them passed | countless millions in treasurc adorn or ransom an Inca The ransom of the Inca Atahualpa |is as famous as it was fabulous, and the treatment accorded this young moharch by Pizarro and his hand is |the darkest page in all Spanish his- | tory. From the hour that Pizarro landed on Peruvian soil and began clamber- ing the Andes, the hand of friend- ship had been extended him by the natives, who regarded the Spaniards as something superhuman. Pizarro repaid the Inca’s kindness by invit- ing him to dine and then making him prisoner. Atahualpa was not long in discov- ering that gold was the object of Pizarro's visit to his land and in hope of gaining his freedom offered to fill the room in which he was con- ined with gold, as high as he could reach, and, standing on tiptoe, he stretched out his hand against the wall. Pizarro drew a line along the wail at the height which the Inca had indicated and called upoa him to make good his word. The froom was 17 feet wide by feet long, and the line was 9 feet from the floor. In one month this passed the buildings centuries ago. Now only broken walls of mar-| velous masonry stand along the narrow streets where d celestial | Incas and rulers—some to the execu- tion block and some to the throne Along these streets passed victorious armies in celebrations and defeated armies in retreat; through them Belt May Be High, Low or Normal BY MARY MARSHAL s no 10de hard and fast rule for of the waistline in the | Yet. among the most | present | | FROCK WITH TWO ONE ABOVE AN THE NORMAL LIN] W AISTLINES, ONE BELOW frequent questions asked by women seoking information concerning the prevailing fashions are these: “Is the normal waistline coming back?’ “Is My Neighbor Says: Tablecloths should alwuys be hemmed straight. When you hang them on the line double them and hang them by the hemmed ends, using plenty of clothespins. You may use the French method of dampening, which is this: Dry the cloths thoroughly, then dip half the cloth {n hot water, fold over the other end. Let it remain rolled up at least 12 hours. I prefer my way. I don't let the cloths get dry but fold them while they are still damp and leave them overnight. Of course, cheap linen has no body and will not be glossy. White soup or any vegetable soup is vety much improved by the addition of a small stick of celery cut up finely. Do not put more, unless you are very fond of the flavor, or the celery will overpower the taste of every- thing else. When you make ple crust make twice the quantity needed. Ple crust rolled in a damp nap- kin and put in the refrigerator will keep perfectly for several days. If there are grease spots on your stove, rub them while the stove is cold with a cloth dipped in turpentine. Go over the stove vast space was filled! The temples and palaces of Cuzco had been strip- ped of their glittering golden dec- orations. The wealth of this ransom has been estimated at 320,000,000 And then, instead of freeing Ata- hualpa, as he had promised, Pizarro ordered him burned alive in the pub- lic square of Caxamalca. the waistline still low?" ‘“Where shall belts and girdles be worn?’ The answer we give may seem like beg- ging the question, but It is the truest we know. The latitude of the waist- line doesn't matter. A dress must be made for the woman who is'to wear | it. Practically, in this country at least, this is something that doesn't very often happen. A model frock may be made for a certain woman, and it will be becoming to women of the same general proportions and type. The frock Is, however, bought by a maker of women's ready-made clothes and is reproduced in many different sizes and it is sold to women of every conceivable shape and pro- portlon. coloring and type of feature. But don't blame the manufacturer: If you must blame any one, blame the women who buy such frocks. If they | were possessed of real dress sense | they would see at a glance that a certain frock was not suitable. They | would look about until they had found frocks that really belonged to them When the master dressmaker makes a frock for some particular client his problem is rather different from that he faces when making models for the trade. To be sure, he recognizes cer- tain definite tendencies in fashion. There are certain things that make a frock smart and others that make it seem out of date. But the place of the waistline is not one of them. He can place that anvwhere that it looks best, or he needn't have any belt at all The sketch shows a frock that solves the belt question by having two. One is high enough to be called Directoire and the other low enough to be looked upon as ultra modern. In the region that we call the “normal waistline” there is no belt at all. The frock is of white lace over pale pink slip, trimmed with pink ribbons. (Copyright, 1925.) Bubble and Squeak. In these days when we do 80 much to make over left-over meats at- tractively, this historic old dish ought to be of interest. It calls for| thin slices of cold roast beef, cold mashed potatoes. cold spinach or beet greens and a little chopped onion. Trim the slices of beef to free from fat and gristle. Melt some beef drip- ping in a frying pan and fry the slices of beef to a nice brown and remove, keeping warm in the oven. Now throw the onion into the pan and slightly brown. Add the mashed potatoes and the greens, which have been chopped fine, and stir until very hot. Place this on a hot dish and place the slices of meat on top. - Pigs in Blankets. Wrap a strip of bacon around a raw oyster, and fasten it with a tiny wooden skewer, or with a toothpick or sharpened match stick. Then drop the whole thing in deep fat and fry until the bacon Is crisp. These are sometimes called, also, beggars on horseback WiHICH PROVIDED FOR TROOPS AMD TRIALIN one OF THAT PROVIMCE with blacking and when partly dry, rub with a brush, then a pliece of woolen cloth. ENSJAUD FOR O QUEBECACT, EXTENDED THE BOUNDARIES m", PREVENT THE AMBRICANS SETTLMG 1N THE WE ST, ——— out being absilutely positive, the man sed. Beingz a short wide man with a red mustash, and he started to move the weights on the thing to see how muteh ma wayed, saying, Yes, madam, I would trust this scale with my life it it was necesserry, though natural 1y T hope it never will be, not being a reckliss man by nature. Madam, you way precisely 151 pounds to the dot, he sed Wat, how mutch, and a Itbel and an outrage, I never wayed that mutch in my life and I dont fntend to begin today, and if you ixpeect 3 cents for insulting me to my face in that manner you can go on pecting to your dying day, the ideer, ma sed. 0, jest a moment, half a minnit, & cupple of seconds, the percolator wasent werking rite and Im afraid the scale dident register correckly, that happens on & average once every 7 yeers, would you mind stepping on agen, madam? the man sed. Wich ma did, and be wayed her agen, saying, 147 pounds to tha dot, madam, O, she’s werking bewtifilly now, 3 cents please. Thats better, heers a dime for your exter trubble, ma sed. No trubble at all, the man sed. Ony he took the dime enyways and wink- ed at me out of one eye, and me and ma kepp on going. thats a scandal What TomorrowMeans to You BY MARY BLAKE. Aries. Tomorrow's planetary aspects are, owing to their complexity, rather dif- ficult to interpret correctly. They are kaleldoscoplc and offer no evidence of continuity. For a brief space of time the signs denote hopefulness and op- timism. Suddenly they change to ad- verse conditions signifying disappoint- ment and despair. Then they revert to negativeness. Under these condi- tions it would be wise to follow the usual vocations of a Sunday. No harmful results can be brought about by the customary religlous observ- ances or by healthy recreation. At all times during the day, however. it will be essential to your happiness and to those around you to keep a firm hand on the emergency brake, so that when the occasion arises you will be able to curb any influence that may disturb your equanimity. The child born tomorrow will ex- perience sickness during the early stages of its young life and will not prove as amenable to remedies as may be desired. Much care and, above all, good rutrition will be needed to help it to lve down its weaknesses and attain a healthy physical condition. Its disposition will be rather glum and morose, but as it develops in years this tendency will be amelio- rated. although never completely eradicated. In character it will have fixed principles, which to it will be ltke the laws of the Medes and Per- slans. It will not reveal as much strength of character as obstinacy of spirit, and, solld and stolid, it will not be considered congenial Those of you who tomorrow cele- brate your natal day are careful and meticulous. You rarely give expres- sion to a thought, and never do an. thing without painstaking delibe: tion. This, however, does not prevent your making serious mistakes, as your deliberations are frequently in- judicial rather than based on impar- tial and unbiased thought. You often fool yourselves to the point of hon- estly believing that your course is de- termined by considering the subject in hand from all angles, whereas the wish {s too often the father of the thought, and your mind is made up before the deliberation commences. You are all home lovers and expend a great deal of time in making your honies, as well as those whom they shelter, both happy and contented. Well known persons born on this date are Henry Clay, statesman and orator; Charles Foster, statesman; Grenville M. Dodge, soldier; John S. Billings, physician and author; Frank K. M. Rehn, artist; Walter A. Wyckofs, author and sociologist. F HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY THE QUAI oF NEW C., SATURDAY, APRIL 1 s LerTer Box || [ITTLE CTORIES How Shall a Mother Save Her Lovesick Son for His Profession?—The Husband Who Is Jealous of His Wife’s Chum. EAR MISS DIX: T have a son 21 years old. lifelong ambition and desire has been to be a physician. He is very talented and his He is now starting on & seven-year course of study in medicine, and even with the hest of luck he cannot hope to be able to 15 years. My son imagines himself in love with a 16-year-old girl, and mother urges a definite engugement between them and encourages affectionate demonstrations to each other. wise nor safe, under the circumstances. marry and support a family for 10 or her them in What do you think? ANXIOUS MOTHER. Answer: T think that a long engagement is a blight on the life of any young man or woman. When a boy and girl pledge themselves to marry each other at some indefinite date in the future they glve « promissory note that nearly always bankrupts them. It is not only that romance cannot stand the strain of the wear and tear of the years, it Is that people change. They develop, tastes alter, so that the girl who was & man’s ideal at 21 bores him to tears at 35, and the vouth who looked a perfect sheik to Sweet Sixteen appears nothing more than a clod or a bounder to the sophlsticated gaze of the woman of 30. Yet many a man and woman who have clanked the chains of a long engagement after them feel bound to marr: of each other and found out they had even after they have wearled nothing in common, just because each expected it of the other and the public had bracketed them together us definitely as if they were husband and wife. There i8 no bitterer tragedy than that of the boy who gets engauged just as he is leaving home to seek his fortune. Environment and assoclation mold him into a different His needs and desires change. virtually & new man. form. He grows. In his new life he becomes He comes to admire a different type of girl from his old sweetheart, very often to love another Rirl, but in the end his sense of honor drives him back to marry the girl to whom he has been engaged, who has walted for him and whom he dooms to the misery and humiliation of being an unloved and undesired wife. The young man who is just starting to study his profession handicaps himself hopelessly by entangling himself in & long engagement. , for how can he concentrate on his books when a his mind off his studi pair of eyes is always coming between him and the printed page? It will take It will eat up his time, for his flancee will have a right to expect him to bewu her around to places of amusement if he has cut her off from the attentions of other men. And he will find his ambition strangled by desire, for to the man In love nothing really seems worth striving for but the girl. Desperate cases demand desperate remedies, and in order to save your son from the folly of a long engagement, Anxious Mother, I think you would be justified in telling him that you refused to waste en him the money it would require to put him through & long medical course unless he would g0 into it free and unhampered. For he would do poorly if he were distraught by all the exactions of a betrothal—if he had his mind upset by anxieties and jealousies, and lovers' quarrels and reconciliations; if he had to cut classes to keep dates and dance attendance on the girl, instead of on his professors. Probably the girl's mother wlill not be so eager for the engagement if she finds out that your son will have to start to work instead of as a highly prepared professional man. in some small job Certainly she is much lacking in intelligence, anyway, for a long engagement is quite as disastrous to the girl as it is to the man. At any rate, save your son from one, if you can I am married to EAR MISS DIX: are very happy together. chum. me. What shall T do? He has only one faul He gets mad every time I see her and doesn't like to have her visit That's your job. DOROTHY DIX. .« the dearest man in the world and we He is jealous of my MRS. C. D. M. Answer: Your husband is probably unnecessarily green-eyed, but it's natural for a man to wish to be his wife's best chum, and for him to feel that he suffices her, and that she doesn't need any other friend when he is around—that is, an intimate friend—consequently he is hurt and mortified when she has to have some of her family or one of her old friends around for company all the time. Also consider, Mrs. C. D. M., that your husband hasn't the old association with your chum that you have. ties as she is to you. She isn't endeared to him by old schoolday He hasn’t been with her on good times as you have and consequently hasn't the endless repertoire of experiences to thrash over that you have. You would feel .racuy the You know you can't help being a bit same way about one of his old friends. jealous when one of his chums drops in and they spend the evening smoking and recalling college pranks and reminisicing about girls they usecd to know. Now, can you? Anyway, when a man marries a girl he does it to get her for himself, and when he comes home he wants to monopolize her. He doesn’t want to have all of her old friends or her family cluttering up the place. One of the most promising marriages 1 ever knew was broken up by & wife's silly refusal to give up her girl friend. There was nothing the matter with the girl except that she just came and virtually lived with the young couple. The husband couldn’'t endure and the house. hner, for she ran his wife and himself The wife couldn't exist without her chum, however, so the husband left her and chum together while he hunted up more congenial companionship outside. ‘When you get married, dear lady, there's just one person to chum with, and D that's friend husband. Give all AR MISS DIX: Answer: No, who are extremely popular. of smoke, and drink, and be a wild woman to be popular? the others up. DOROTHY DIX. . e Is it necessary for a girl to kiss boys, and pet, and TWO GIRLS. I know plenty of girls who do none of these things, vet Of course, the girls who are free and easy in their manners and who put no restraint upon the conduct of men generally do have more attentions from boys than those who demand for themselves the respect due a lady. But it is significant how often these “popular” girls pass from man to man without marrying. You may see them a little more brazen, a little louder each year, with a deeper coat of paint and kalsomine on their faces and a more haggard look in their eyes, still going the pace on the road that seldom leads to the church And we also see the very men who played around with them marrying quiet little girls, who probably never those meant business. marry their playfellows. They like had more than one or two beaux, but It's worth remembering, my dears, that men seldom to kiss, but they don't rellsh the knowledge that their wives' lips have been free to every man who took them home from the movies. DOROTHY DI (Copyr'ght. 1925.) BEAUTY CHATS Public Nose Powdering. “Alice” wants to know whether I approve of powdering one's nose in public. T don’t know. Do you? On general principles I dislike anything that gives away the fact that all of a woman's prettiness isn't natural; so I suppose, to be logical, I must disap- prove of powdering in public, or smoothing rumpled hair with the “bob” comb; and certainly any one would disapprove of putting on rouge at a table, say, or of carefully re- shaping the lips with a red lipstick. There’'s no use avolding the fact that no woman is as pretty as she makes up te be. A shiny nose does detract from her charm, every ons will agree, and sallow cheeks aren’t as nice as dellcately pink ones. Of course, the obviously made-up girl had much bet- ter do without anything on her face, than spread paint recklessly from ear to ear. But I'm talking of the average woman who has learned that a little powder makes the nose prettier, and that if she needs rouge, she needs but a touch, while that dangerous weapon, the lipstick, is to be aveided except when abselutely necessary, and then its effects watched hour by hour. A natural mouth ringed about with a red outline, for instance, looks like a clown’s make-up, not a woman’s. Yet lots of girls ceming out of lunch- rooms, walk back to their offices in Just this odd condition—they had bet- ter make up in public, than go about with rouge half on and half wipsd off_with lunch! Generally, as Ovid once sald, the BY EDNA KENT FORBES. secrets of the dressing rooms had bet- ter remain secrets. There's something to the cartoons that show a man at the side of a table shaving, while his dinner companion complacently pow- ders and rouges. Yet—some girls look very attractive putting on powder and puckering up their mouths to get rouge on nicely. They might be al- lowed just that much making up in public. Glorified French Toast. ‘There is a dish that the Spanish call torrijas, that is a sort of glorified French toast. It may be that the Span- iards first hit upon this method of us- ing up stale bread and that the French cooks learned it from them, while we and the English, taking it from France, called it French. the Spanish dish, which would, of course, have to be modified in these prohibition days. It calls for two cups of milk, one cup of rum, one egg. powdered sugar and einnamon or nutmeg. The egg should be broken into the milk and whisked with the egg beater. Now sweeten slightly. Have ready neat strips of stale bread, about five inches in length, the crusts removed. Dip them into the milk. Tt is then that the Spanish cook dips them into the rum. They are then drained and fried in hot lard to a golden brown. Best results can be gained when fried in deep fat and removed with a skimmer. They should be sprinkled with powdered sugar and cinnamon or nutmeg. The “Intolerable Acts”—1774. L3142 CoLoNISTS LooKED Lmon THRSE AcTs e STRAW AND FOUND THEMSELVES FACED BYA CHOICE ABIECT SUBMISSION OR WAR TS BLOW 10 BOSTON, PARALYZ ED THE COMMERCE DWAS PELY 8 THE STR COMNES This seems to me to be neither | Here is the recipe for | JorBEDTIME . How Thunderer Drums. Patience and open mind The truth at t will surely find. 0ld Mother Nature. There is one thing about Peter Rabbit which Is exceedingly good. This 18 that he always is willing to admit his mistakes. He was quite up- sét when told by Jumper the Hare that what he had thought he had seen he hadn’t seen at all in regard to the drumming of Thunderer the Grouse. But when Jumper suggested that it would take very tough sides indeed to | stand the thumping of those stout wings of Thunderer's he saw right away that this was so. He just hadn't thought of ft. In fact, he hadn't done any real thinking. “Well,” said he, “when I watched Thunderer this morning it certainly looked as if he thumped his sides with his wings. It certainly did look that way. If he doesn’t pound his sides, what does he pound? He must beat something to make all that noise, “We'll go watch him again,” said Jumper. ‘““He is back on that old log now, so we'll just go over there and watch.” They dld. They reached a place where they could watch, yet were themselves unseen. There is only one whom Thunderer cares to see him drum, and that is Mre. Grouse. It is wholly for her benefit that he drums. So Peter and Jumper remained hidden and watched. They were quite close, %0 that they could see clearly all that Was to be seen. “Watch!" whispered Jumper, as Thunderer's wings flashed out and up. L RAlavy HE SUDDENLY BECAME VERY SHY AND PRESENTLY FLEW AWATY. out, up and down, out, up and down those stout wings flashed, gradually moving faster and faster. But before | they were moving too swiftly to be more than a blur Peter had made a discovery. “Why,” he whispered, “I do believe that all he does is to beat on the air! Jumper nodded. “That is all,” said he. “And if you will watch closely you will see that in the beginning, anyway, it is when he brings his wings out and up that he makes the noise, not when he brings them down. I guess that when those wings are moving so fast they may make the noise when coming down, but I know that they make it going up. Whether he does it one way or both ways, he does it by drumming on the air, and | that is all there is to it. He doesn't | beat the log he stands on, he doesn’t | beat his sides and he doesn’t beat his | wings together above his back. Yet I have heard it sald that he drums in all three ways. Folks are funny. They will beileve anything rather than take the troubls to find out the facts. Any one stopping to think at all would know that just feathers, no matter how stiff, struck together couldn't possibly make such a nolse. It is all in the way he catches the air with those wings. Isn't it, Thun- derer?” Thunderer had and Jumper hiding thers looking at them with suspicien those bright eyes of his. “I don't know what you are talking about, but if you say it is 1 guess it is,” said he. “What are you doing there, anyway 2" “Admiring your drumming.” replied | Jumper, promptly. “At the same time, | Cousin Peter here has been learning that the air. not a hollow log or your sides or your wings hitting together, is your drum. Isn't that so?” “Of course, of course,’ replied Thunderer. “People do get such fool- ish ideas. Of course I.use the air for my drum.” > “Drum again,” begged Peter. But Thunderer wouldn't. He sud- denly became very modest and shy and presently flew away. So this is how Peter Rabbit learned the truth about the drumming of Thunderer the Grouse. (Copyright, 1925, by T. W. Burgess.) discovereds and was in Calling It “Carrousel.” This word, which names the mod- ern merry-go-round, carries in its syllables a complete history of that form of entertalnment from its in- ception in the tilting exhibitions of old, when knights, sword in hand, ex- hibited their prowess on real—not wooden—chargers to the miniature merry-go-rounds which are occasion- ally seen in city streets today, gath- ering up children at & few cents a ride. “Carrousel” comes from the Itallan “carosello,” meaning tournament, which is a derivative of ‘garoso,” quarrelsome and ‘“guerra,” meaning war. There we have the first phase of the “carrousel,” the medieval ex- hibitions of sword-play and horse- manship, which were called by this name—sort of bloodless tournaments, whioh live again in the modern re- volving platform, on which prance children on wooden chargers! The word is also connected by pop- ular otymology with the Italian “car- ricello,” meaning a little car. And there we have the connecting link of the word with its modern significance of the mechanical contraption which was the substitute of the common people for the flesh and blood car- rousels staged by royalty of former times. (Copyright, 1925. BY. J. B\ May 74, roum REGIMENTS OF BRITISH RF GULARS WERE SENT TO BOSTOM, GENERAL GASE SUCCEEDED HUTCHMINSOY A3 GOVERNOR.,, THE TOWN WAS PUT UNDER MARTAL LAWY ling to success. Peter | WOMAN The Daily Cross-Word Puzzle (Copyright, 1925.) Fragtient of cloth . French coin . Serpent. . A meeting of the pec . Slides. Parent. . To be in accord New England State (abbr.). Yo use bar as 4 lever. . Prefix meaning three. Constellation. . Wing-shaped part. Exclamation of disgust Father and mother, Fermented drink. Finish. . Light blow. United States (abbr.) . Feminine sufx. etric unit of area. puzzling question Pronoun. . Ate. Instrument for drawing angles. Commotion . Small soft lump. . To request. Down. Male Sheep. . Open. To depart To droop. To utilize. Three-toed sioth . Small twig. Greek letter. . Line of light. . Allow. IN THE GARDEN Reported by Elizabeth Urauhart Seeds and Seedlings. The sowing of seeds and the of seedlings might be said be done after the same fashion world over, and providing the factors of heat, motsture and protection the only consideration. Yet it a garden is to be constructed from the seed up after the Burbank methods the amateur will find he has many other points to cover and much | to learn of the various details lead- care the A morning In_ early Springtime watching Luther Burbank at work Is an education in itself. | This man of 76 works 10 hours a| day, oversees a small company trained gardeners, some of them sent as observers from foreign govern-| and keeps under way count- experimen to say nothing of| finding time to read and review the many scientific books sent to him as fast as they are published. Yet Lo is never too hurried to walk about among his garden beds, to stoop to some apparently insignifi- cant plant, to answer an eager ques- tion and sometimes to talk a bit of| his early life and struggles and his| 80 vears of work. The boxes or flats in M bank's nursery gardens are of srd dimensions, measuring 18 inches square, outside measurement, and 412 inches inside. They are made of red- wood, or may be made of chestnut or cypress, but never of soft pine, if they are expected to last. The sides are of different thick-| nesses, two opposite sides being three-quarters of an inch thick, and the other two only one-quarter inch, while the bottoms are one-quarter inch, with one-eighth-inch spaces left for drainage, and reinforced by wooden cleats nailed across under- neath, thus insuring ventilation and drainage. Mr. Burbank also has the joints of the boxes dipped in linseed ofl before nalling precaution against rust and deca In addition to this, the boxes are sterilized every year by immersing them in bolling water and in the case of very valuable seeds, the soil is also sterilized, to destroy any fungus or peste. “Having prepared the boxes,” said Mr. Burbank, “the proper soil is the next important step. After putting a layer of gravel over the bottom of the flat for drainage the box partly filled with a specially pre- pared soil, smoothed and tamped to a flat surface | “This Soil is composed of 50 per cent clean coarse sharp sand, 40 per cent good loam, or better, forest soil | containing leaf mold, and 10 per cent finely powdered tres moss or peat. To this may be added 1 per cent of bonc meal or superphosphate. “In this soil the seeds are sown rather thiokly, being covered about twice their diameter, except in the case of very fine seeds, when only a light sifting of soil is put over them. The surface is then pressed smooth and the boxes are put into a square CARROLL MANSFIELD. | | | | | {As | palatable, starchy Grassy Part of Conjur To jump. srayish-orange Remains of a firc To imitate Before Girl's name Unusual . To decrease . Large deer. Negative. Southern State (abbr.) er‘A‘i E Liolalo] N6 WITH BURBANK and Edited by Luther Burbank. pan with water su ce of the soil. “When saturated the boxes are re moved, drained and coverad with a exceedingly thin laver of moss, siftes over the surface, proteoting the seeds from fungus and from washing of the =oil from future watering. Mr. Burban emphasizes the fact that no part of this process may v well be omitted or slurred over with out fncurring loss later on. In his of course, these boxes ar In a greenhouss, But whe 'den arrangements are on a smal’ er scale they may he kept in a she tered place, covered with glass ing. or if the season he e temperaturs of the enough to rise ic st experiment plant breed tato, Mr. Burbank said that he plant ed the twenty-six precious seeds i the open ground, but that fow he would have raived them under more careful conditions for safety. However, in the case of hardy per ennials, annuals vegetables, if the weather ba able and the soi in good condition for cul may be sown out of doors according to season and location They may be sown in prepared beds or still better, in open frames filled with fine sifted potting &oil and ocov ered with movable frames covered with mesq g, and frames may be when th are watered by In the case ¢ very fine Seeds. 1 to mix them with fine sand after planting them, sift over t a light cov ering of soil or Also cove such boxes with cheese cloth or mos to netting eeds will general trom 5 to 30 davs ceptions), and when they two to four leaves they m planted to other boxes a straight rows, allowing lings to a box, according to size. After sper another week two in the & ouse or under pro- tection, the boxes of scedlings a carried out f doc and kopt in a sheltered place or covered w movable lath frames as a protection until hardencd ready for trans planting into othe boxes or to the open ground, t ime varying from five to twenty d ‘Where birds are a vexing problem the boxes sh d be protected with a wire netting for which mosquito ne v be substituted germinate h_some have frc ay be trans d set out in seed- 05 Jack-in-the-Pulpit. Eeloved of all the children is the quaint Jack-in-the-pulpit. Leving rich woods and low moist places, this goodly little preacher sticks to his pulpit from now on for all of a month A long sermon, but as he preaches only Nature's creed one never wearies of him. Jack-in-the-pulpit is the rich rela- tion of the poor despised skunk cab- bage, and like that plant has a com- plex structure. The “Jack” part is a spike or spadix on which hundreds of tiny flowers, some male, some fe mals are disposed. The “pulpit” is but a leaf, most strangely modified is the still “richer relation,” the calla lly, the great white “petal” is but a floral leaf. Did any one when you were a child basely deceive vou into eating the tuber of Jack-in-the-pulpi It so, you have never forgotten the terrible smarting of the tongue. But Indiana used to eat Jack-in-the-pulpit, and they could do this, not because they had iron tongues, but because they boiled the tubers in several waters. In this way the acrid matter is drawn ot and thrown off. Thus “Indian as it is called, then a ver vegetable. to be said protection. Like all the very lovely flowers, he iIs the vietim of our American atrocities the ruthless picking and uprooting which the flower-hungry Spring ram- A “Jack curious and word needs bler thoughtlessly sometimes en gages in. But Juck is short-lived in captivity. He never looks so beauti- ful when brought home, and, like| most wildlings, i3 only at his best when left in his place.