Aad YY YYW 2 ; go o> Y Aah A As v = ~ Letthe Sunshine "About the House 1 --t) fmm Harmony in Flowerland. It is never too early to plan the summer beauty crops; sometimes I think them out while the seed pods of autumn are still swaying in the breeze. Planning a flower bed is like trying on new spring hats, each seems lovlier than the last and each must be considered with relation to its sur- roundings. ~~ To- illustrate: a flower bed, lovely in itself, may conflict with a neighboring bed, waging such posi- tive warfare as to mar the harmony of the whole delightful summer. Iam not strong for centre beds that cut into the restful sweep of a lawn; a rioting border along the boundaries or masses of one particular flower tryifig to outdo its neighbor in frag- rant display, are to my mind, more pleasing. Everybody can be treated impartially in-a jumble:bed, 'the only preference being in giving the shorter plants front -seats. Anything and everything, the more the merrier, from stately: aristocratic cannas at the back to dainty snow white candy- tuft in front, with all the colors of the rainbow tangled between. Be sure to include a generous sprinkling of blue blossoms to' get the best rioting effect; blue ageratum is splendid. Even a blue morning glory vine, plebian though it is supposed to be, may be permitted to trail its lovely bells across the cannas and down again over the front bushes. Years ago I started a hollyhock hedgs along our back fence and I have had fan reward every fall in a dainty wave of color across my kitchen view. For some reason the hapless holly- hock is generally required to fight it out alone with the weeds, but I culti- vate mine as carefully as John does his corn and had just as good a crop, even if we couldn't eat it! If you keep bees, plant the single varieties and prove to your John that holly- hocks can be made an eating crop as well as corn. Once I went in for bush nastur- tlums, surrounding the premises with ribbon beds that furnished countless bouquets of spicy gorgeousness and a most charming effect. I dug the beds very deep and just a foot wide, then set the plants about a' foot apart; well, you would have to see it to realize what an unusually beautiful éffect it made. I learned two tricks with nasturtiums that year: one, they should be picked as religiously as pansies or sweet peas; the other, a rather poor soil brings out brighter blossoms and less foliage. If you have a shrub or rose hedge, be careful that the prowling grass roots do not edge in on the rose roots; instead of a scraggly grass margin, 'keep it clean cut and have some quick 'blooming summer flower to take up Meringue made of whites of two eggs i i and sugar, and place in the oven until the pretty work after the last rose has faded. The delicate little portu- -laca is simply unsurpassed for filling in under roses, or any other shrub- .bery; or, tame daisies, pansies, Cali- fornia poppies, any of the low grow- | ing beauties can be used. If you love asters, try a new ar- -- then white, and on the other side the bluish and lavender shades. "Say" your patriotism "with flowers." Last year I mixed flaming single poppies with blue larkspur and had a bed of dazzling brightness; this sum- mer I shall plant the poppies solid and edge them with white candytuft for a more restful effect when Old Sol is doing his worst. White or blue flowers carry a suggestion of cool- ness; startlingly red blossoms (can- nas, salvia, poppies, geraniums) send the thermometer scooting. scorching day, a bed of red poppies resembles an army of butterflies ar- rayed for battle, and I am trusting fo the ever-lovely candytuft to wave the white flag of peace. ; wires The Farmer's Sunday Dinner. Roast of beef, cooked in casserole with apples and bacon, sweet potatoes, stewed tomatoes, pickles, bread and 'butter, cream nut pie, currant jelly, cheese, and coffee, This menu is planned with the idea of making the preparation of the Sun- day dinner a really easy matter and, at the same time, giving the farmer and his helpers the hearty and appet- izing food which.outdoor workers re- quire. A boned rib roast of beef is seared in drippings, or its own fat, and partly roasted on Saturday, at a time which is most convenient for the housewife. Tomatoes are cooked and seasoned, to be reheated. A thick, boiled cream for the pie is prepared in a double boiler (also on Saturday), and a pie-shell is baked in a--deep, oven-glass pie dish. The dough for the shell may have been left over from a former baking, and kept in a cold place until used. On Sunday morning the roast is placed in a casserole and dredged with browned flour prepared for this purpose. Peeled sweet potatoes are placed with the roast, and next to the potatoes are placed apples, which are somewhat tart. The apples should be cored, then stuffed with rolls of thin- ly sliced bacon. The casserole is then placed in a moderate oven where the food will cook slowly while the family attends church. On their return from church, the casserole is placed in the heating oven over the top of the range, leaving the oven for the com- pletion of the pie. The vessel con- taining the tomatoes is placed over the fire, for reheating. When the preparations are com- plete, dinner is served in the dish in which it was cooked. Bread and but- ter, pickles or other relish, accompany this course. : To make the pie, pour the cream into the pie-shell, sprinkle chopped nut meats (preferably hickory-nuts) over the cream, and cover with a a light brown. With the pie serve tart, red currant jelly and cheese cut in cubes. Coffee is also served with this course. The pie is served at the table in the dish in which it is baked, the use of this dish and the casserole making serving dishes unnecessary. rangement this coming fall. Get the seed in separate colors and plant them in stripes, the red and rose tints first, The housewife who wishes some freedom and leisure on Sunday must plan with care and do some of the .yarn.. A small floral design can be 'position. 'Clothes Brush. He spoke the truth! work on Saturday, otherwise she will not succeed, = Ail work and no play (or rest) is as had for the housewife as it is for "Jack." In the model home "mother" also has a day of rest. 'Card Table Covers, a Clever card table" covers dan be made from a' yard square of black oilcloth. Measure six inches on each side from each of the four corners, mark and cut off the corners di- agonally. Finish the edge of the cover by blanket-stitching in a bright colored embroidered in colored yarns in the corners or tiny crochet yarn flowers. Colored raffia can also be used for the flowers and the edge or bias binding On" alin bright colors is attractive, -Sew- narrow, six-inch lengths of black tape at the corners to hold the cover in EE -- Friendly Foes. + 'The -other day a. witty tailor de clared that his best friend, from a A good stiff clothes-brush in five minutes will do as much wear-out to a suit of%elothies as would come to them in a month's ordinary use. To prove that, get a remmant of cloth and brush it for a few minutes. Then examine'it under a strong magni- gying glass, and 'it will be seen that a percentage of the "nap" has been re- moved, and the woof and warp threads brushed out of their places." It is quite a moderate estimate to say that the life of a well-and-frequent- ly-brushed suit is shortened by at least six weeks, and that the average man has, in two years, to get a suit solely because Mr. Clothes*Brush has brought the others to an untimely end. The moral is--shake your clothes. It is fitting, of course, that the best friend of those who make boots 1s Mr. Blacking! A little polish is good; too much is bad. Most of us use too much! The leather is caked over, dries, and perishes. The moral is obvious. If it became unfashionable for shoes to be worn, and all of us wore boots, makers and purveyors ' of hosiery would lose an excellent friend. Shoes wear out socks and stockings at quite double the rate that boots do. The tobacconists' best friend is the smoker's weakness for his pet pipe. If it became the custom to use two or three pipes in succession, and not to fill up the hot bowl of one pipe con- tinually, everyone would smoke less. + Created the Demand. Her hat cbscured his view at the theatre, and he leamed forward and asked if it would be 'possible for her to remove it. A stiffening of the head was her only answer. After a few moments he re- peated his request. Then she turned on him. "There is no demand for my doing so," she said. i "No demand?" he echoed. He rolled his overcoat, placed it on his seat, and sat on it. Then he put his hat on his head. In a moment there were cries of "Take it off!" "Take that hat off!" And with a swift movement the wo- man unfastened her hatpins and re- moved her hat. in] Are you fagged and foggy when you wake up in the morning? "There's a Reason." Tea and coffee are known to affect many people that way. Often, too, these bev- erages cause nervousness, sleeplessness and severe headache. " Instant Postum, made from choice, roasted wheat, is a delightful mealtime beverage free from an Try it for awhile, coffee, and let the Sunshine in. At Your Grocer's In Sealed, Air-tight Tins Instant Postum For nEALTH A generous sample tin of Instant Postum sont, postpaid, for 4c in stamps. Cenadian Postar Cereal Company, Limited. 45 Front St, E., Toronto. Factory: Windsor, Ontario ile -- There's a Reason." y element of harm. instead of tea or IS "There's a Writes Reason" lobacco of Quali ty Titled Explorer Finds Fortune. After sixteen years of patient toil and research, Lord Carnarvon, and Stories About W AX People the salon of a great political, wire- {pulling lady; it is "mother's room." "Dame Margaret comes in, brisk, that distinguished excavator, Mr. How- | Smiling, simply dressed in a dark blue ard Carter, have been rewarded by a ;80Wn. I felt that I was shaking hands marvelous find in the Valley of the |With the least dismayed, least appre- Kings near Thebes. Together, they !Densive lady in the political world. opened the sealed doors of a hitherto Other women may be hysterically put- unnoticed tomb. There, before the ting on their rather rusty spurs. Dame eyes of the astounded excavators,: Margaret looked rather as though she spread out: "Gilt couches, inlatd with had descended thankfully from a long ivory and precious stones; innumer- able boxes inlaid and painted with en- unopened yet, the explorers hope to trancing hunting scenes; a wonderful | throne; a chair encrusted with pre-. clous stones and hundreds of other al-! most priceless ancient articles." A: tentative estimate values the treasures at $40,000,000. And in a third champer,' { and exciting journey. | "But I thought you wanted me to ! tal ed, when I asked a question about her- self. What woman, after all, wouldn't be rather eager to talk about a hus- band who, on this day after many years, was at last just a husband again instead of a Prime Minister. lk about my husband," she protest. find the mummy of King Tutankha.| "I shall be glad ' if he does get a men, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who est," she said. 'He is not a political reigned in Tel-el-Amarna and Thebes Machinej caring only for politics. The over three thousand years ago. | Prime Min----, I mean Mr. Lloyd | George--it is hard to remember to call A Realistic Accompaniment. jim that now after so long--is a very : . human man. He loves music. He This is being told of President Hard- | > ing: He was being driven to an im- | likes to go to the opera. He likes to portant meeting while a tremendous | play £olt, Ard all these years Le Bes storm was raging. The hailstones rat- | had so little time for his own life. On tled on the roof of the carriage. Mean- | a fine morning he would say he would while a band, undismayed by the, like to get some golf. Then he would "That is the most realistic music I have ever heard," said the president to a friend in the carriage. "What are they playing?" " 'Hail to the Chief,' " said Mr. Harding; "and they are playing it with real hail!" Sir Arthur's Sausages. The reputation of Sir Arthur Currie as a serious man still persists. But, as a matter of fact, he has a well-develop- ed sense of humor, which breaks forth into a smile sometimes as he sits ruminating at his deck at McGill Uni- versity, and the adventure of the saus- ages pops into his mind. One day, when G:aneral Currie was on one of his many tours of inspection to the front line, he happened to go down into one of the cook-houses. Encountering the cook on one of the steps of the dugout, he asked him to prepare for him a meal of sausages. When the cook asked him how he would like them done, Sir Arthur told him to cook them the same way as fish Half an hour later he returned and put down before the general a plate of skins. Very much surprised, Sir Arthur asked for an explanation. The cook rather nervously told him he had done what he was told and cleaned them out first. Sir Arthur smiled. "A Very Human Man." How did Lloyd George and his wife really take the defeat that meant their moving from No. 10 Downing Street? An English lady was curious to know, and this is what she discovered when she called. "Dame Margaret Llovd George's drawing room digpelled any. feeling of a visit of condolence even before she herself came in. Gay parrots and roses om chintz sofas, a bright fire, modest, but fresh, arrangements of flowers, portraits of her happy-looking daughters, wedding-group photographs, bock-cases that look as though they held school prizes--this is surely not weather, began to play. - jE down and find so much important work that he could not get away. He | is not a man who would have nothing j to do outside political life if he were . to leave it. " 'He has the power of throwtug ! things off. Yesterday was so dramatic that many people may have wondered how he felt at the end of it. But he did not sit up and go over things aga'n. 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