Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, December 16, 1908, Page 11

IN KNITTED WORK PRETTY AND COMFORTABLE JACKET FOR BABY. Article That Is Always More Satis- factory When Made at Home —Fastened with Ribbon or Strings and Tassels. About three ounces wool and a No. 10 bone-hook tricoter. Work 47 chain stitches. Row 1.—Draw up a loop through each stitch and work off again—plain tricot Row 2.—Draw up all the 47 loops, as working off all the loops, make three chain stitches. Rows 17-27.—Full rows of 50 stitches each. Work off 22 stitches like single crochet, and finish the remainder of the row in tricot as usual. Four more rows same length as last, 22 chain—to bring the work to its full length again. Then ten full rows of 50 stitches each. Work off three stitches like single crochet, 30 rows of 47 stitches each, add three chain, ten rows of 50 stitches. Work of 22 stitches, complete the row in tricot, and work the second front to match the first. Sew the shoulder pieces together on the wrong side. For the border, it will be found more convenient to use a short hook. Round the lower edge of the sleeve, work three rows of border like that round the jacket. This jacket may be fastened with ribbon or with strings and tassels, formed of the wool. Delight. When you are looking for a new and but work off 30 only, leaving ainder on the hook. Draw up loops through the titehes just made, and work off all before; the 47 stitches. Rows 4-14.—Full rows, plain tricot. Row 15.—Like row two. Row 16.—Like row three, but after tempting dessert, try Delight. For it you must whip a pint of good, thick cream and flavor it with vanilla. Halve and seed half a pound of white grapes, break up into small pieces half a pound of English walnut meats and cut into small cubes half a pound of very fresh marshmallows. Stir all into the whipped cream till it is the consistency of paste, and serve it in glass dishes or the stem sherbet glasses. If any of this remain it may be kept till the next day if put in a cool place. Odds and Ends Useful in Many Ways Scraps Properly Treated Can Be Made Useful in Many Ways. Never throw away a scrap of lace, rge or small, real or imitation, even it be badly soiled, for it easily can be washed and every scrap is worth g even if it is only enough to collar, add to a stock or finish id of a tie, and you know a piece seven or eight inches long amed at the two ends and be gathered tightly on the sel- se to make a dainty medallion to rt into a jabot or any other little lace be e all pieces of velvet unless they y soiled and worn. Brush efully and roll on a cylinder board and put away for future s are sure to come in handy at some time for trimming a collar, piping a waist, or even adding a wee perky bow to the yoke of a waist. The same treatment should be given ribbo: and scraps of silks and satin. arefully put away they will be iy for refreshing a waist or gown ithout any cleaning or preparation. Even allowing for the pieces which may be used, it will not take long be- fore enough pieces have been saved to make a handsome silk patchwork hem c quilt such as “grandmother” used to make or to have some of those stun- ning silk portieres made which blend so well with the colors of almost any oom (MITATIONS OF REAL STONES. Semi-Precious Jewelry Is Just Now Decidedly Popular. Semi-precious jewels are being worn nd more and can be bought in »od imitations from $1 to $50. ne of the semi-precious stones enuine, and fashionable women any sets to match, to carry out schemes in ball and dinner color gowns, and even for street use. Coral is a favorite imitation stone used, but among the best imitations are pearls, crystals, black onyx, jade, jet, topazes, emeralds, turquoise and iridescent stones. Jewelry comes in all manner of ar- tistic shapes at the most popular prices, with strong guaranties that they will not tarnish for many months; it seems to be a good time to buy Christmas gifts of beautiful ® elry while the prices are reasonable and the assortment plentiful. Many good pieces may be picked up now that may not be on the counter in Christmas shopping days, and which sell now for small prices. ORNAMENT FOR THE TABLE. Idea in Decoration Adapted from the Japanese. Pretty Pretty ideas for table decorations are always welcome, and one sketch illus- trates an easily-made ornament, that should be especially welcome just at this time of the year. It is construct- ed with slender sticks of wood ar- ranged in tripod fashion, and tied to- gether at the top with narrow ribbon. There are also three slender sticks at base, that help to hold the longer pieces in position, and they are tied together with smart little ribbon bows where they cross. To finish off the ends of the sticks, little pins with col- ored glass heads are inserted. Suspended in the center is a small Japanese pot (these little pots can be bought for a few cents, with holes in the rims already made, by which they may be hung up) and in which can be placed flowers or a small fern. Round and round the stick may be twisted the leaves of a creeper, such as smilax or small ivy, making a very pleasing decoration for winter, and }at other seasons there are always many pretty trailing plants available. On the left-hand side of the sketch the leaves are shown twisted round one of the sticks, and all the rest of buckles, hatpins, chatelaines, pendants and all manner of small bits of jew- the woodwork is left bare to show the way in which it should be constructed. EEE Make Use of Odd Moments of Rest " Minutes That Can Be Usefully Em- ployed with the Hair. When one has a resting time forced upon her, is the psychological moment to get busy with the hair. Every woman knows the benefits of tonic treatments, but every woman knows equally well what a sight she is during the process. Therefore, instead of bemoaning when the baby gets the measles or Ruth and Bob come down with chicken pox, shutting you in the house, improve the ‘opportunity to strew¥then your locks. You can even resort to crude petroleum without af- flicting callers. > Separate the hair into strands and apply tonics nightly; rub in vaseline ® often, and let the hair hang for venti- lation. A Good Combination. A black broadcloth skirt, black vel- vet, satin or ottoman coat with Na- poleonic collar and cuffs, embroidered with gold and the inevitable plaited jabot and high-neck ruche with the towering hat, nodding with rich feath- ers, strike the high-water mark of this season’s styles. To Avoid Chapped Hands. Take a small salt bag and put about a cup of oatmeal into it, tie it tight, and place in a small dish beside your soap dish, and when the children have washed and dried their hands with the towel, have them dust the backs thor- oughly with puff. FEEDING TESTS MADE | WITH A DAIRY HERD Results of Investigations by the Wisconsin Experiment Station Under Direction of George C. Humphrey, Animal Husbandman. The present Wisconsin _uni- versity dairy herd was_ estab- lished in 1898, since when com- plete records of the feed consump- tion and the production of milk and butter fat for all of the cows have been kept. The herd numbers about 30 milch cows, all but two pure-breds, the following dairy breeds being rep- resented therein: Jerseys, Guernseys, Holsteins, Ayrshires, and Brown Swiss. It is maintained primarily for instructional and research purposes, but it is aimed to have it return as much revenue as possible under the conditions present, through the sale of milk and cream and of surplus stock. The former purposes neces- sarily prevent the herd from making as high and economical production. as it might if it were conducted wholly on a commercial basis. In the management of the herd it has been our practice to surround the cows with the conditions best suited amounts of concentrates fed. The grain and the roughage eaten by each cow were weighed out at every feed- ing and a careful record kept of the amounts. These were charged on our record book to the respective cows opposite their weekly production of milk and butter fat, as determined by separate weighings of each milking and testing a composite sample of the milk produced by each cow during the week. The cows were carefully watched ‘to see that they ate with keen appetites. If they did not clean up their feed readily, it was reduced in quantity or varied as to kinds fed, so as to make certain that they were always in a thrifty condition and did not get off feed. A possible tendency towards fattening which is common in cows of less pronounced inherent dairy temperaments, was guarded against by changing the character of the rations fed whenever such a ten- dency was made apparent by the s if — Feeding Time, University Dairy Herd. for a large and economical production of milk and butter. During the entire winter period the cows were confined in comfortable stalls in the barn, ex- cept for a short time on dry, warm days, when they were allowed to exer- cise in the yard. They were watered twice daily in cement troughs in the barn and were not turned out on cold days for at least a couple of hours after watering. The following daily schedule of work in the dairy barn shows the system of manegement of the cows during the winter period: Daily Schedule of Work in Dairy Barn 4:00 a. m.—Grdin fed. : ‘ows milked. m.—Silage fed. m.—Cows watered. m.—Stables cleaned m.—Hay fed. m.—Cows groomed. m.—Cows turned out. m.—Stables cleaned. m.—Cows watered. m.—Grain fed. m.—Cows milked. m.—Silage fed. heavy milkers were milked three times a day, viz., at 4:00 and 11:30 a. m., and at 7:30 p. m. The roughage fed to the cows dur- ing the winter periods consisted of corn silage and mixed hay, largely a PorrUrPPPPPPpp and bedded. Fomeer Eb Sonnae ShSssKkssses timothy and clover, with occasional feeding of roots (sugar beets). The grain was made up of a variety of wheat bran, different feeds: corn weekly weights of the cows and by direct observation. The cows were turned to pasture at the close of the winter period, May 12, and the grain feed reduced; silage or hay were fed after that date last year. At the time the pastures began to dry up they were supplemented by green corn fed in the barn and later on“by corn silage. Similar quantities of soiling crops were fed as of silage, viz., 20 to 30 pounds per head daily, on the average; more or less grain be- ing fed through the summer in the case of nearly all the cows. The accompanying table contains a list of the cows which completed a year’s record on May 12, 1908, and shows for each cow the live weight, the cost of the feed, the milk and but- ter fat produced, the value of the prod- ucts, and the net profit over and above the cost of the feed eaten. The cows are arranged in the table in the or- der of decreasing net profits for the year. The following schedule of prices has been used in calculating the cost of the feeds fed and in determining the value of the products. The prices of feeds given may be considered aver- age market prices for Wisconsin, and are in accord with the prices assumed for the milk and butter fat produced by the herd. The amount of butter Broadway .. ‘ Average (27 cows)... VALUE OF PRODUCTS. 110 59 $45.28 | $95 SL 43.03 ‘80 OL 100 81 37 85 76 80 103 38 37 86 76 39 91 6 39 90 66 21 90 94 36 26 65.73 86 51 4071 64 06 Ti 80 27 82 62 9 82 82 36 75 62 48 83 34 34 26 61 97 80 63 36 73 55 33 79.27 33-87 55 22 78-84 33 82 53 65 7 O1 37 97 52 41 67 31 29 21 52 24 66 87 | 26 98 51 76 64 74 25°10 50 63 74 40 9 09 33 25 50 24 76 90 8.77 36 75 48 92 69 38 914 3118 47 36 69 63 829 32 77 45 15, 621 1294 36°40 41 86 61 18 8 45 BL 21 38 42 50 80 7 04 22:77 35 07 5211 764 31 74 28 O1 48 76 6 28 30 05 24.90 36 77 406 24 30 16 53 96 49 | $11 42 $33 84 $54 07 meal, distillers’ grains, oats, oil meal and brewers’ grains, the first three be- Ing fed throughout the period, and the others at times in smaller quantities. The standard grain mixture fed dur- ing the past year was made up of wheat bran, corn meal and distillers’ grains, in the proportion of 3:4:3, the nutritive ratio of the mixture being 1:4.6. The general practice followed was to feed as many pounds of grain daily per cow as she produced pounds of butter fat during the week, i. e. seven times as much grain as the amount of fat produced daily (or one- quarter to one-third as much grain as the amount of milk given, according to its quality). The cows received in ad- dition to this allowance of concen- trates, as much silage and hay as they could eat up clean, the amounts eaten varying according with the feed- ing capacity of the different cows, 25 to, 45 pounds of silage and four to six nds of hay being the usual amounts eaten daily. The nutritive ratios of the entire winter rations made up as described, ranged from 1:6.3 to 8.8, according to the production of the cows and the has been calculated by adding one- sixth to the number of pounds of but- ter fat and the skim milk by taking 80 per cent. of the number of pounds of milk. Schedule of Prices of Feeds and Products. Hay, per 100 pounds ... Wheat bran, per 100 pounds . Oats, per 100 pounds... Corn, per 100 pounds . Oil meal, per 100 pounds Gluten feed, per 100 pound: Distillers’ grains, per 100 pound: Dried brewers’ grains, per 100 pounds «2.0... Butter fat, per pound . Skim milk, per 100 pounds . bye BERS ERE: Et Keep Corn Knife Sharp.—Keep the corn knife sharp and do not try to cut off the stalks with a knife as dull as a hoe. It takes but a few minutes to grind it and thus save much strength. Try Whole Wheat.—If your flock is all run down in egg production, just try whole wheat for one ration a day. Feed it in the morning, warming it nicely. | pocketbook, need we hang down the MAKE LIFE BRIGHT SPIRIT OF GLADNESS ALWAYS WORTH CULTIVATING. Forced Cheerfulness Not Entirely Pleasing, But It Is Surely Better Than the Habit of Chronic Depression. If you want to get the worth of the bargain in life cultivate gladness. The one who enjoys mopes doesn’t en- joy herself, and surely no one en- joys her. Any one can be glad when things go her way; to be glad when the maid breaks your and the frock on best dinner set, which you’ve broken yourself turns out a fright shows a disposition that can be counted on to oil life’s wheels. There’s a lot of gladness going, but many of us are blind to it. What we want is to take life like a healthy child and find enjoyment in simple things. We can cultivate our critical sides until it takes the zest from every- thing. What if we haven’t an overflowing corners of our mouth when there are health and the outdoors and love to make for gladness? Does it come easier to look on the black side? Has the pose of misfor- tune become your natural state? For- At first that grin may be as strained as a caricatured Taft or Bryan “smile,” but most of your friends will think it more lovely than your usual hangdog expression. The brand im- proves with practice. Forced cheerfulness is not pleasing, but it is better than chronic depression. Keep pumping out that oil of gladness and by and by the dumps will be lubri- cated. 3 _ Gladness isn’t an effort to be glad; it is just being glad. You cannot wor- ry yourself into it; neither does it come by simulation; it does come from taking life easy and enjoying things whether they were meant to be enjoyed or not. You Sad One, try for a day to hunt tauses for gladness. Instead of sum- ming up your woes and mourning over the total, get in a receptive mood for joys. You'll be surprised at the end of the day to find how many have been the occasions for smiling. Does your head ache? laugh cure. Are the children obstrep- erou Don’t mope over your sorry lot, but charm them with a_ smile. Does the future seem a coal-black wall? See what kind of wedge a day of cheerfulness can make. Gladness never comes with time to think about your troubles, so get busy. The full life is rarely the som- ber life. Get grateful for your mercies; you may think it takes a magnifying glass to find them, but the eye is sharpened by the looking. If you have no other cause for glad- ness, if your friends are not what they should be, if fortune frowns and things Sample the get it and take to grinning. generally seem “rank,” just be glad you are alive! Character Influence d by Girls Room . Good Effect of Beautiful and Attrac- tive Surroundings. Of course outsiders have few oppor- tunities of reading a girl’s character from the appearance of her own spe- cial snuggery, but she herself will benefit by the influence exerted by or- derly surroundings. - A girl can learn nothing more use- ful than the simple little trick of hav- ing her own room beautiful and at- tractive. There are girls and girls, and rooms and rooms, yet somehow or other some girls care little for their rooms, and some rooms have the frowning aspect of a prison. It is not always possible to have fine furniture, but one can have a “homey-looking” room. One thing is absolutely necessary—a room must be clean. A few good pictures, a pretty bedspread, neat but not garish cush- ions, are necessary. Hide the ugly trunk with a cover and have a scrap basket to hold the little odds-and-ends which must be burned. On the table have well-selected books and maga- zines. Select pictures as you would friends, carefully and for their real value. Keep postcards in a postcard album. Do not decorate the walls with them. Have a place for shoes, for if any- thing makes a room untidy it is a pair of tan shoes lying under the bed, a pair of black slippers cuddled under the chest of drawers, while the table in the window is decorated with red woolen ones—a common sight in most girls’ rooms. Keep the wardrobe in *& —_—_—— order, so that when the door is opened you will not be ashamed for any woman to see how you keep your clothes. And whatever you have, let at least one dainty bouquet of flowers beautify your’ room. PRETTY TOQUE, With a cluster of roses tones of pink. in faded Odd Necklaces. Girls are now wearing necklaces made of rose quartz beads, onyx and crystal beads, of lapis lazuli beads, of cut coral, and of plain amber mixed with turquoise. Venetian Cloth Costume for Wear on Street ® Correct Street Dress According to the Latest Fashion. Mole colored Venetian cloth is used for the dress illustrated here; the skirt has circular sides, and panel front, with plait at the sides; it is or- namented with rather large silk-cov- ered buttons. The jacket, which is open in front, curves away from the bust, the edge is outlined with braid from which point- ed tabs of the braid stand out in two with buttons between each set; the sleeves are cut with a mitten wrist, and are ornamented -with buttons. Blue straw hat, trimmed with mole- colored velvet and wings. Materials required: Seven and one- half yards 46 inches wide; four dozen buttons, four yards braid, four yards lining silk. Colors Must Be in Harmony. No sudden or violent color handling of showy colors, in any way whatever, in suit materials, in millinery, or in dress trimmings and plumes, is to be met with this season. Perfect adap- tation and harmony reigns, which, of course, bespeaks exquisite taste in every direction. A word about these new colors will furnish the right idea of a distinct departure from the colors of last season. There is far less ob- trusiveness in the “prune,” which we knew as the plum shade, for the new tone has more red than blue in its tint, and is far richer in tone. Smoke grays, and two blues—a Beauvais and a royal blue, the first a tapestry shade, the latter that deep tint seen in a sapphire—are very lovely.—Vogue. Evening Gown Protection, In wearing a long coat over thin dress or evening costume, make a long slip to fit the coat of Japanese or China silk. Any woman can make it as it requires little fitting. The lining slip may be tacked inside the coat or worn simply underneath. It is espe- cially adapted under fur lined coats, as particles of dust are apt to lodge in fur and thus color or soil the gar- ment. Sleeves can also be made, al- though not essential. This can read- ily be laundered when soiled, and has as much body as when new. 4 ae av ae