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fen © f TE ¢ of 7 ONIN Di" 4 =o it lightly, let stand for an hour, "should have four meals a day, at 6 - given a young child, nor should pies When You Remodel a Garment. If you are one of those unfortunate women who can buy what you want when you want it, and let someone else sweat over the bills, do not read this. But if you belong to the lucky majority who get a suit this fall, a hat about Christmas, and the gloves, shoes and hose that properly belong to the suit, when it is in its second season, this may be of help to you. Perhaps after you read it you may decide to make the old suit last an- other year in a new guise, and buy the accessories this fall. Up in the attic you may have an sld black broadcloth suit which went out of style before the war. If you have you are in luck, for both broadcloth as a fabric and black as a color are in high favor this season. And while the ultra dress has the long lines from shoulder to hem which look discourag- Ing to the home dressmaker seeking to convert a suit into a dress, there are really good models with girdle which give one a chance to ultilize the suit coat. Or a long black broadcloth coat right be converted into a smart new cress by using a front panel of satin or silk, In making over the suit the first step is to get your material ready. It shou'd be first ripped, using a safety razor blade, or a good sharp knife if you havent the razor blade: Then take out doors and brush the pieces with a stiff brush. taking, care to re- move all stitches and' lint. Pure wool may be washed with soap flakes or a good wool soap and soft warm water. Make a lather before entering goods. Do not rub on soap. Be sure that the water in which the goods is washed Ad dn which it is rinsed, is of the same temperature. Do not use too hot water. Changing the temperature causes the wool fibres to stiffen. . It is better-to leave a little lather in the | rinsing water, as otherwise the natur- al ofl of the wool is removed. The soap that adheres to the cloth will be removed when the material is hung outside. If the water is hard, soften with borax or ammonia. Run the material through a wring- er, do not twist with the hands, and hang on the line to partially dry. Then TT veis; ovo vioth, on the wrong reall R x If you are not 'sure of the quality of the wool it would be better to clean it in gasolene. To do this only a high grade gas can ba used, as the low the cloth becomes a dirt catcher. To test the gas, put a little on a sheet of writing paper, and allow it to run off to the side. If it evaporates (uick- ly and leaves no marks on the paper it is all right to use. Silks are better washed in gasoline. Or perhaps you will want to dye it. Georgettes, crepe de chines, and fou- lards dye well. If you decide to dye, first rémove all" the color possible. Make a heavy suds of a mild soap added to water enough to cover the goods. Enter the silk and boil until color is removed. Thirty minutes should be sufficient, fifteen is often enough. A little washing soda added to the water hastens the process. In dyeing, follow directions on the package you select implicitly. Before starting your work of clean- ing, study well your garment and de- cide on a pattern. Be sure that you have material enough to carry out your idea before you start ripping up the old garment. There are many good patterns on the market, and all will tell you how much material you need. If you are at all clever with the needle, you will be able to do the work yourself. If you have doubts as to your skill it would be economy to hire a dressmaker to do the work. Good Cheer From the Sick. Is there anything quite so beautiful as a radiant, happy soul in a deform- ed body? Many of the happiest peo- ple I have ever known were crippled; but how they spread sunshine and cheer over the whole house! I know a woman who has spent the largest part of twenty years in bed with a hopeless spinal malady who writes, "I ain anxious to give sunny thoughts to people, to help my com- plaining, fault-finding, pessimistic | friends." This brave woman is try- ing to give sunny thoughts to people when she has been a semi-invalid for twenty years. One would think that {if anyone had a right to be pessi- 'mistic, gloomy, sad, and discouraged, it would be such a woman. But no! She cheers people up. This ought to make those of us who are sound well ashamed of our fault-finding, complaining, and pessimism. If there is a blessed quality in the universe it is found in those who ex- press sunshine, who radiate happiness and good cheer under great suffering. For the Lunch Pail. grade oils remain in the wool and Mothers who are at their wits' end (; BY DR. J. J. Crescent, Toronto. HEALTH EDUCATION 4 Provincial Board of Health, Ontario Br. Middleton will be glad to answer questions on Public Health mat- ters through this column. Address him at Spadina House, Spadina MIDDLETON )) Diet~is a matter of great impor- tance at any time of life, but at wean- ing time it is especially so. When the baby is about twelve months old it begins to demand something more than a milk diet for its ordinary sus- tenance; it has passed from vhe infant stage and begins to train its stomach for the mixed diet of childhood. What to give the child at this crucial time of life is of very great concern. The best cubstitute for a whole diet of mi'k is cereal, such-as oatmeal, corn- mez" or cracked wheat, which should be well cooked and fed to the baby twice a day; for two or three months the cereals should be strained. In ad- dition to the cereal he should have four cupfuls of milk daily, and a little fresh fruit juice. When fifteen months old he may have at first a teaspoonful, later one tablespoonful of rare scraped beef, mutton or chicken; "when eighteen months old, he may have one-half of a mealy, baked potato, daily. During the second year, the child a.m., 10 am., 2 pm., and 6 p.m. No- thing but water should be allowed between meals. When two years old he may have most of the fresh green vegetables when they are thoroughly cooked and finely mashed. : Tea, coffee, cider, wine, beer, soda water and candy should NEVER be be given it. It would be a good plan indeed to tell the child when it grows older not to touch pies, as they are not good for little children. This can usually be done before the child ac- quires a taste for pies or pastry, and I remémber a few months ago meet- ing a child of five who did not know the taste of pie and did not want to know, because the parents had taught her to avoid it. | best, cooked fruits such as baked ap- ple or apple sauce, are appetizing and helpful. They should be given once a day after a child is eighteen months old, but the fruit should first be strained. Stale raw fruits are dan- gerous, especially in the city in sum- mertime, For a child of from two to three years of age, a suitable diet is as follows: Breakfast--7.30 a.m., the juice of one sweet orange, or the pulp of four or five stewed prunes, or apple sauce. Either a well-cooked cereal--corn- meal, oatmeal, cracked wheat, wheat- ena--all well salted and with not more than one-half teaspoonful of sugar and milk added; or, soft boiled or poached eggs with stale bread or crisp toast. Glass of warmed milk. 10.30 am. Glass of warmed milk. Mid-day lunch--1.80 to 2 p.m. One- half cup of broth or soup, which may be chicken, beef or mutton, thickened with barley or rice. Chop, rare roast beef, rare steak, chicken or broiled fish, boiled or baked potato. Aspar- agus tips, carrots, string beans, peas, spinach. All vegetables should be very thoroughly cooked and mashed. The vegetables should be cooked quickly, and not allowed to stay long in the water and lose any vitamines they may contain. Baked apple, plain bread or rice pudding, corn starch, custard, junket, or stewed prunes with skins removed. Supper--5.30 p.m. Well-cooked cer- eal, bread and milk, bread and butter and cocoa, stewed fruit, apple sauce. Glass of warmed milk. No food Between meals. Water several times a day. If the lady signing herself "A. T. Turriff" will kindly send her name and address to Dr. Middleton at Spadina House, Spadina Crescent, Toronto, he Although the juice of fruits is the will answer her letter, in planning the children's school lunch will welcome the following sug- gested combinations. Sandwiches with sliced, tender meat for filling; baked apple, cookies, or a few lumps of sugar. Slices of meat loaf or bean loaf; bread and butter sandwiches; stewed fruit; small frosted cakes. Crisp rolls, hollowed out and filled with chopped meat or fish, moistened and seasoned or mixed with salad dressing; orange, apple, a mixture of sliced fruits or berries. Lettuce or celery sandwiches; cup custard; jelly sandwiches. Cottage cheese and. chopped green pepper sandwiches; fruit cake. Hard-boiled eggs; crisp baking pow- der biscuits; celery or radishes; brown sugar or maple sugar sandwiches. If the sandwiches are wrapped in oiled paper, the lunch packed neatly and a paper napkin put in, the chil- dren's enjoyment of "the lunch will be doubled and the mother will be amply repaid by their enthusiasm for a mother who cares. WHAT T0 DO FOR STOMACH TROUBLE Good Advice From One Who Had Suffered Much. Nine tenths of all forms of indiges- tion or so-called stomach trouble are not due to the condition of the stom- ach at all, but are caused by other in- fluences. The cause of indigestion is thin blood. Good blood and plenty of it is required by the stomach to take care of the food. If the blood is thin the stom- ach functions sluggish, food lies undi- gested, gas forms and causes pains in various parts of the body. Instead of getting nourishment from the blood the system gets poison. Relief from this condition can be obtained by the tonic treatment which | Mr. D. Shaw, Mt. Stewart, P.E.L, tried and now warmly: recommends to others. Mr. Shaw says: "I suffered from indigestion for over four years, and have tried many of the well- known remedies fot such - troubles, but never obtained more than tem- porary relief. The .trouble was ag- gravated by constipation setting in owing to the stomach failing to do its work, and laxatives only gave relief to the bowels and left the stomach in worse condition, The result was my, blood was growing More and more anaemic, I did not sleep well at night and was growing despondent. I was in this wretched condition when a friend advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I got three boxes and by the time they were fihished there was - some change for the better. This greatly encouraged me and I continued taking the pills for some three months, by which time my stomach was all right again, my blood good, nerves strong and life was again worth liv- ing. My advice to all who suffer from stomach trouble is to give Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills a fair trial." 3 Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can be ob- tained through any medicine dealer, or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. : sole Jews From Russia Flooding Palestine. The sacred ways of Palestine, where Christ walked nineteen' centuries ago, may be the national home for the Jews, but now it seems probable that the dominant element there will be Russians. Tens of thousands of sufferers from Southern Russia are fleeing there from fear of famine, thanks to funds contributed by the Zionist Emigration Society, which has been organized by American Jews of Russian extraction. The steamer Cleopatra, of the Lloyd- Triest line, has been chartered to car- ry the pilgrims on their new flight zionward, and it is understood that a second steamer will commence direct operation from Triest to Jaffa early in January. The majority of these Israelites have succeeded in reaching Rumania and Poland after months of walking with only a small bundle of clothing as mementos to remind them of the Russian hardships. They had intended going to the United States, but immigration re- strictions interfered, and their friends in America solved the problem by gending them to Palestine as a nuc- leus of the nation which is to show light to the rest of the world when real peace comes. Greatest care has been taken to se- lect these emigrants, nearly every profession and trade belng included, with special attention to doctors and lawyers and those who nave had farm- ing experience, so that the community life of new Zion may be established as soon as possible after the allotment of homes. ee ee de ean People think religion is confined in an edifice, to be worshipped at an al- tar. In reality it is an atfitnde toward divinity which is reflected through life.--David Starr Jordan. great contributing: 7" --_--tt meer i -- me --_-- : a Tr ----T g EY E Tr ee 5 = ~ --_---- Cl --_-- = eo - -~ - cH--vwalngion-- Success Nuggets. We scatter seeds with a careless hand And dream we ne'er shall see them more; But for a thousand years Their fruit appears, In weeds that mar the land. --John Keble. \i *® * * No one truly lives until he conquers the devil of fear and worry and ar- rives at the mental poise which will not allow his life to be marred or even annoyed by the things which have never happened or things which do happen. = *® * * * That only which we have within, can we see without. If we meet no'gods, it is because we harbor none. If there is grandeur in you, you will find grandeur in porters and sweeps, He only is rightly immortal to whom all things are immortal--Emerson. L » - + In battle or business, whatever the game-- In law, or in love, it is ever the same; In the struggle for power, or scramble for pelf, Let this be your motto, "Rely on your- self." . For whether the prize be a ribbon or thrope, The victor is he who can go it alone. --Saxe. DE Women farmers in the United States. number over 260,000 THE FALL WEATHER HARD ON LITTLE ONES Canadian fall weather is extremely hard on little ones. One day it®is warm and bright and the next wet and old. These sudden changes bring on colds, cramps and colic, and unless baby's little stomach is kept right the result may be serious. There is noth- ing to equal Baby's Own Tablets in keeping the little ones well. They sweeten the stomach, regulate the bowels, break up colds and make baby thrive. The Tablets are sold by medi- cine dealers or by mail at 25 cents a box from The Dr. Williams' Medicine Co., Brockville, Ont. : me > Forest Fires Injure Everyone. Forest fires burn up millions of dol- lars worth of property annually. This is a dead loss, benefitting no ome; in- juring everyone. Canadian govern- ments, railway commissions, forest protective associations, and lumber- men, spend a million and a half dol- lars annually in fighting forest fires, but these organizations are powerless unless supported by the co-operation of citizens. An alert public opinion is one of the greatest safeguards of our forests. " e Submarines are forbidden to Ger- many by the terms of the Peace Treaty. Everybody declares that we live in "| a wonderful age, and when everybody. says a thing it is supposed to be true. Yet what a lot of things are waiting to be discovered and invented! Considering what a great advance dentistry has made, for instance, how is it that no antidote for the decay of teeth has been discovered? Nobody has been found yet who can prevent a man from growing bald. Though fortunes have been made by men and women who professed to have found preventatives, these are as nothing compared with the fortune awaiting the inventor who can pro- duce something which will make a man's hair grow again. The Secret of Sleep. Sleeplessness is a thing that nobody can cure. Although a doctor can give a man a sleeping-draught, and thus in- duce a kind of comatose state, natural sleep cannot be forced. The doctor who could put a wakeful patient into an "infant slumber pure and light" would be able to retire on his fortune in less than six months. Indigestion still awaits a permanent cure. Mr. Rockefeller's offer of a mil- lion dollars to the man who will give him a new stomach still holds good. As, in addition, the famous millionaire is almost as bald as a billiard ball, he might be induced to give the same amount to the man who is able to make his hair grow again. In spite of advances made in avia- tion and navigation, we are still very much at the mercy of the weather. We have to accept any weather that Nature provides, and look on while our crops are destroyed, our ships sunk, and our trees blown down. True, we are able to fly, but we can- not fly in the face of storm, like thd gull, while the sea remains our mas- ter. Fortunes Waiting to be Won It is not the man who can turn off Nature's tap who is wanted, but the man who can turn it on. Too much rain is preferable to too little or none at all. An invention for producing rain when and where required would mean fabulous wealth to the world. It would create new empires in the Sahara and the vast salt wastes of Western America, and it would make the centre of Australia as fertile as Tasmania. No man has ever made a noiseless engine or a noiseless gun. The one would make work in a mill or forge almost a pleasure, while the. other would remove one of the horrors of warfare. Incidentally, of course, the latter would be a great asset to tha strategist. Silencers have been in. vented for engines, but they only re- duce noise. They do not kill it, and, though smokeless powder has almost been attained, a noiseless explosion is a thing unheard of. When there is a | burst, there is a bang. Dodging Father Time. Nobody has ever disovered a plan for preserving the natural color of human hair. It still persists in losing its coloring matter with the approach of age, and sooner of later goes grey and then white. The genius who suc ceeds in discovering a device to eng able the hair to maintain the color of youth even in old age will reap a rich reward. : : The plough and the harrow, though a little better constructed, are much the same implements as our grand fathers used, and so are the spade, the axe, and the pick. The wh too, has never been improved upon ag a means of locomotion, the only di ferences being the addition of spoket instead of the solid wheel, the addt tion of cogs for machinery, and the in vention of flanges for rallg mad 1d the worst is yet to come ---- -----