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YOUR PROBLEMS Mothers and daughters of all ages aro cordially invited to write to this department. Initial! only will be published with eacti question and its answer as a means of Identification, but full name and address must be given In each letter. Write on one side of paper only. Answers will be mailed direct if stamped and addressed envelope Is enclosed. Address all correspondencs for this department to Mrs.- Helen Law, 23B Woodbine Ave., Toronto. Mary: â€" If the shades are not too badly soiled you can clean them with a piece of art grum or a brand-new white eraser. This, of course, will take a good t>it of patience, but it is what the shade experts themselves re- commend. Just erase the dirt. If tJie shades are very dirty try the old I'eliable soap and water. Do not use much water, but apply the lather on a j cloth v#rung out in hot water and clean a small piece at a time. All whi'te shades can be soaked and wash- ed and ironed just like a piece of linen. I am afraid to suggest this with yours, as the green might run. If you press the s'hades while damp the artiffness will come back to them. M. S.: â€" There is no way to remove the hair permanently without the use of the electric needle. If you bleach the hair on the lip with peroxide and a. little ammonia it will make it a good bit less conspicuous. Otherwise I would go to a reliable specialist. You can get a depilatorj' powder at the druggisifs that will remove the hair for a day or two, but it will come back. Be sure to go to a reliable druggist and make sure you are getting a reli- able depilatory powder. Grateful: â€" No-thing is really any trouble to us, Grateful.. And if it were, that's what we're here for. Sirice the medicine spilled on the white linen dress has iron in it you can go about removing the stain the same way you would remove an iron-rust stain. Lemon and salt might not be ! strong enough, although you might | try this lirst. Sprinlde the stain â-  â- with salt, moisten with lemon juice and place in the sun, more lemon juice be- [ ing added if necessary. If this doesn't remove it, try salts of lemon, to be bought in the drug store in crystal form. Immerse the stain in a solu- tion of one-half teaspoonful of lihe crystals to a pint of water and IxiU until the stain disappears. Then rinse. Young Mother: â€" About the fifth month of a baby's life the process known as the eruption of the teeth begins. The rule is that the lower teeth precede the upper, of the same class, by two or three months. They generally appear in pairs, and the usual order of their eruption ia as fol- lows : Upper set â€" two centi-al incisors, between the seventh and tenth months; two canines, between the twelfth and eighteenth months; two first molars, between the twentieth and thirty-sixth months. Remember that the lower teeth of the same class will be one or two months earlier than the upper ones. Mrs. K.:â€" To relieve bunions be sure your shoes tit properly, and re- move any pressure that there may be. Protect the joint with a felt ring. Re- duce the inflammation with tincture /of iodine, and then apply benzoinated ^llodion. Soak your feet in hot soap- suds and pare off tlie thick epidermis. Be careful and don't pare too closely. Repeat the applications of collodion. Lister: â€" Y'es, the need is- desperate, jTideed. Do you know that there are more tlxan 9,000,000 people in Bel- gium and Northern France who are practically witiiout bread? .And what do you think the men o fthe British Mercantile Marine have done ? They have agreed to a reduction of fifty per cent, in their meat allowance. When the heroic men of the British Mer- cantile Marine Iiave to have their ra- tions cut, surely the people of Canada will make the small sacrifice of eat- ing less bread and meat, and sub- stituting fish and vegetables. White Feather: â€" Starvation in Kuropo is not theoretical. White Feather. It is only too i-eal. It has been estimated by an expert that about 4,760.000 persons have died of starvation in Europe since the war began, while about 4.250,000 have been killed in fighting. Y'ou never thought «f hunger as having killed off more I>eople than Germany's guns, did you ? It ia wx>ith pondering over . Interested: â€" Bit by bit Canada is becoming quite a fish eating country. As a result ot the eflforts of the Canada Food Board no less than 53 per cent, of the total catch in the Wes-tern Provinces since January 1, has been consumed at home, as com- pai-ed with only 15 per cent, last year. This has resulted in a very large saving of meat. J. A. D.: â€" Your ten-year-old girl might contribute her share to the en- tertainment by reciting the following little poem: SPRING AND SUMMER Spring is growing up, Is It not a pity? She was such a little thing. And so very pretty! Summer is extremely gi-and. We must pay her duty. But it is to little Spring That she owes her beauty! All the buds are blown. Trees are dark and shady. (It is Spring who dressed thean, though. Such a little lady!) And the birds sing loud and sweet Their enchanting his'tries. (It is Spring who taught them, though. Such a singing mistress I) Spring is growing up. Leaving us so lonely, In the place of little Spring We'll have Summer only! Summer with her lofty airs. And her stately faces. In the place of little Spring Witli her childish giaces. INTERNATIONAL LESSON i MAY 26. Lesson VIII. â€" Jesus Silences Hia Ad- versaries â€" .Mark 12. 1-44. Golden Text, Mark 12. 17 ' Verse 28. Questioning together â€" The picture is that of the teacher sur- rounded by a crowd, in tiie temple pre- cincts, the utmost freedom of iiuestioii and answer being observed, and the whole colloquy giving scope to an in- terplay of wit, as now one now an- other member of the audience puts in a word of inquiry and the teacher, ap- proving the question or exposing the fallacy, pi-esses home the truth to the 1 discomfiture of the caviller. Know- I ing that he Had answered them well â€" I This scribe appears to have been an onlooker, who, noting the sincerity i and correctness of Jesus' replies, now puts f'#rth a question, not in the spirit â-  of criticism, but wishing for a re- I sponse to a vital query in Jewish minds . 29. Jesus answered. The first is. Hear, Israel; The Lord our God, the Lord is one â€" Jesus responds at once with what every Jew repeated daily, the sentences used at the beginning of morning and evening prayer in the temple, called by the Jews the '•Shema," from the first Hebrew word in the sentence. The oneness of God as over against polytheism. 30. Thou shalt love the Lord thy Godâ€" This is the Hr^t duty of man toward God and liere is at the same time a revelation of the nature of God, for it is only one who loves who de- mands love; since love in him is su- preme he demands love as the supi-eme duty. Heathen deities were not goils to love. With all thy heart . . . ; soul . . . mind . . strength â€" There can be no divided allegiance. Here is shown in a s-trong way that all our powers are to go forth in love to God. i ,31. The second . . Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself â€" This second st;\nds with the fir^tascom-, pleting the idea of righteousness.' None other gieater than these â€" For the reason that it exhausts the rela- tionship of man. Religious duty, there- fore, looks two ways, Godward and manward. Neighbor, in the Jewish sense, included only his fellow Jew, but Jesus widens the meaning of neighbor to fellow man. This wider WATER IN TliEFAR M HOME The Wife and Children Are Entitled to This Comfort and Labor Saver. ^ i By I. W. Dickerson. | Ask the women of any good faim- ! they are most susceptible to in- ; ing community what special modern | fluences for good or evil, learning' convenience saves the most drudgery , either to love the farm and to wish to and contributes most toward the com- stay with it, or to hate it and long to fort of tile family. .At least nine get away at the first opportunity; out of ten will answer. -'Running wa- whose wife haa labored hard at his ter in the kitchen and bathing facili- ! side with heart and hands in building ties in the home." i "P i-hc farm and home but whose only Why, then, i-s there only a small , labor-saving de\'ice has been a wash- proportion of fai-m homes having ing machine while he has invested in these conveniences? j everything he could find to make his | Running v.-atei- in the hou.se saves | sti-ength go farther and his labor. time and drudgery in cooking, dau-y ' more efficientâ€" does he realize that and laundry work, three of the tasks | three or four of his fat steers will which because of tlie lack of running* give his wife and children hot and water draw most heavily on strength ! cold running water in the kitchen, a and vitality. In preparing, serving | beautiful bathi-oom and a good sew- ^ and clearing away after a m^al for j age disposal system with comfortable ^ five persons, water is needed in from; indoor toiled? ( twenty to twenty-five operations. ' -A.re the steers so important that ho These include washing vegetables be- \ is willing to. have his family and him fore and after peeling, washing cook- ] self miss these comforts? j ing utensils, washing the hand.s, wash- I If a water-supply system, a saver i ing the di.siies and dish towels after definition of neighbor Is given by Jesus in the parable of the "Good Samaritan" (Luke 10). As thyselfâ€" The love of God imludes in itself all other alfec>tions, but this love of the neighbor has over against it a love of se'Lf with which Jesus allows it to divide the man. 34. Thou art not for from the kingdom of God â€" -He discerned per- fectly that love to God includes love to man and that no amount of ex- ternal ritual could atone for a posi- tive neglect of one's fellow man. No man durst ask him any que-stion â€" This was not mere logical fencing on the part of .leous, but it was his pro- found knowledge of the spiritual es- .senco of the law over against their hard and unspiritual interpretation. 41. Sat down over against the treasury â€" The "treasury" consisted of a number of chest with flaring, trumpet-«haped, brazen mouths into which the people cast their contribu- tions as they passed into the temple. Nine of these chests were for the ap- pointed temple tribute and for the sacrifice tribute. Four chestjs were for free-will offerings, for wood, in- cense, temple decoi-ation, and burnt offerings. And t)ehe!d how the multi- tude cast money into the treasury â€" It wa.s copper coin which the people, the masses, handled. Many that were rich cast in much â€" They cast in so much that a hw had to be enacted, we are told, forbidding the gift to the temple of more than a certain propor- tion of one's pos.sej3ions. It seems to have become the fashion to display this lavi.sh contribution of money to the temple. 42. There came a poor widow â€" In her loneliness and poverty, lost in the thronging crowds, but not lost to the eye of the Master. Tw-o mites, which make a farthing^It would take about ten of these mites to make one Eng- lish penny. It was the smallest Jewish coin. No one was allowed to contribute towards alms so small a sum as a single mite, but this was not forbidden for other purposes. 4.3. Called unto h'm his disciples- He here teaches them the great lesson in benevolent use of money. Cast in more â€" In this case the poor giver was the princely giver. The giver not the gift, the measure of self-sacrifice, not the amoimt of the contribution, is the standard of the Muster. She is a full partner in the business of building up the farm and home and has a right to a full share in labor- saving and comfort-securing eqirip- ment. .\long with arguments in her own favor she should be able to point out to the farmer how such a water system would work into his part of the farm work, such as providing fresh water in the hog lots and in the dairy barn. My own home was without conveni- ences until 1 was nearly grown and found out for myself how much could be done wth a very small amount of money I had ju-st made the first in- stal'-iM- ii when my mother died and How To Handle .Ailing .Vninials. Ill a great many cases, animals suf- fer more from the excitement and ex- iiaustion of being caught ami hajuUe<i than from any ailment they may have. Young catrle are often chased until they aie heated, then roped and thrown. Besides being detrimental to tile ailing animals, this often puts them in an awkward position tu work upon . To get around the <lifTiculty, squeeze gates are a great help. They are hinged to the front part of tlie stan- chion, into which the animal is coax- ed with feed, and swung around to prevent the animal from jumping side\vise. The gatvs are especially valuable for milch cows, when treat- ing eases of contagious abortion or In- fection of the genital passages. Their use insures greater safety for the one who is treating an animal. Stock should be carefully watched and when the pre.sence of maggots is discovered in wounds or in soiled wool, appropria/te i-emedies should be ap- plied. Chloroform is the best, remedy to apply tx) kill the maggots in wounds- .\fter the wound is cleansed some ef- fective fly repellent such as pine tar should be smeared over the wound and about its edges. For scoui-s in calves, give each calf rn'o or three ounces of castor-orl in which a teaspoonful of ginger is stir- red. Then give two or three times daily, two oimces each of lime-water and infusion of gentian. The infus- ion of gentian is made by boiling one punce of bruised gentian roots in one pint of water for ten minutes, then cooling and straining. More horses are sick on Monday i moining than at any other time. Gen- 1 erally this is caused by heavy feeding while idle on Sunday. When a horse is working hard his Sunday feed s.hould be the same kind and i)uality as that on other days, but the grain allowance should be cut at>out in half. If a small pasture ip available, let him out over Sunday, so he will have a ciiance to get some gra9S and soma I exercise . ' Wash the mare's udder with a two per cent, solution of coal-tar disin- fectant before allowing the colt to suck for the first time, and repeat this once or uvic-e Mih' for a week. Scour- , ing in the foal often is caused by in- fective matter taken in at the navel : or by way of the mouth from a con- i taminateil udder. To prevent con- tamination of the udder, keep the stall ! floor clean and well l>edded and give I the mare a daily vaginal injec-tion of i two or three quarts" of warm water •onitaining one teaspwonful of coal-tar [ disinfeiTant; or add a teaspoonful of permanganate of potash crj-.stals to i each quart of water. j Dropsical swellings in pregnant cows need cause no alarm, as they are quite common and usually due to lack of exercise during pregnancy. In most cases they indicate tliat the â-  cow is going to be a heavy milker. WTien that is so, however, the entire udder enlarges and the dropsical swell- I ing may extend to the fore legs and high up at the back of the udder. At once enforce exercise. . Reduce ridi ^ food if she is geftting that, or feed bet- ter if she has been living on hay and fodder. Two or three times a day give the swelling a thorough hand I rubbing in the direction of the heart, and at night rub in some liniment. lour home was broken up but I shall ; never forget what a wonderful help the sink and cistern pump were in igreatly lightening her work and sav- ing her steps . , "Keep the lamb.s growing from the day of birth," is the slogan of success- ful sheepmen. Since the greatest profits are from sixty-five and seventy pound lambs, on the early market, economical feeding is import- ant. The lambs' journey to perfec- tion starts when they are put on pas- ture. Good health and economical returns depend upon a liberal variety of grass forages and some grain Lambs should have access to clean biUegTiias, rape, and a grain allowance of ground oats and bran. Rape haa a remarkably good effect on lambs, hastening the time when ihey may be finished and marketed. Maximum growth depends upon starting the !aml>s early on grain. They usually start nibbling at the grain when they are from ten days lo two weeks of age. ,> Vegetables should not be cooked in an ij-on kettJe. the meal For each of these processes water is can-icd to the kitchen, dipped out and then carried to the swill pail or into the back yard. Each of these washings takes several steps some lift- ing and at least part of a minute of time. With water available and a sink for working, all this is very much simpli- of drudgery for the women and a com fort and pleasure of the family, costs little, ought not every substantial farm have one? In some rare cases the husband and father thinks more of his money than he does of his wife and children. The farmer sometimes has a hazy idea that such equipment is expensive and difficult to install. The hot-wa- ter system and shining sink and bath WANTED POUCTRY, KQdm and ptAtHine Hlah««t Prl«M l^«ld Prompt R«turQar~'^'° Commi'aioa P. POULiN & CO. SMOKE IlKlil I IS T&B PLUG Huro'i u tet Jna. MoLanion. ghft«r*UIe,F,(l wysuboiit C.-Vl'MAli HEWS RBMEDTl "I used CAPIT.KL HH.VVB RRMKDY bcforooii a horsot.iat another juau turned on « burs pusi iro to »i»rTe. I cured bcr wltS tho pondem. 1 cnu prove ttiii about the old hur«; I huvc her yet; >he hai n«T*r aliow«d Heaves ^^ln^o," feA mEE TRIAL OF V. â- * l;(»ve »!!:(' [i ( cr:i<leuoe i:t Ui'm rcuie-lT J l!mt wt) .'«'', Ill R lu'l week's trial fred. ^"r C^.tor j.uri'i^slAi/ORUd i^rai'i' ills'. y:-.::- ..s r vcTcm.wiiY sdpp! v House, â-  '' !v. 7.0 t'cfmrjlpwt. Q'l^-^t, Out. fied. The lifting of water twice is ' i-i>om fixtures which he sees in the practically eliminated; and the time , city homes, look complicated and he spent and steps taken ai-e tremend- fears his ability to take care of thorn ously re<iuced. In dairy and laun- ' properly, to siiy nothing of in.*talling dry work the lifting and walking are them himself. He also has the idea perhapa greater than in cooking. All ; that a kitful of special tools will be this water, not less than from six to i-equired to install them, seven bucketful* each day, must be I This is wrong. The installation of carried, some times from a distance a hot-water syt.k>m, with sink and as great as two hundred feet. bivth, is really a very simple opera- A convenient water supply not only | tion and any farmer who can cut and conserves time and strength and thread a pipe so as to make a good heateh but i.< I'eally a key which opens joint and who will follow directions the home to better ways of living, carefully, should have no trouble in Well the hou.sowife knows that other installing such a system, comforts such as hot water, bathroom The Uvsc of simple compression facilities, s<-wa;ro disposal and hidoor joints has done away with olie need closets, better heating and electric for .ipecial t<.Kils and skill in handling lig-bting probably will follow in the lead pipe and making wi|ied joints. wake of a good water system. No There is no necessity of a plumber's syistem sihould be considei^ed complete asskstance nor investment in exiien- whhout arrangements for hot water give special tools. The whole outlay oven though it may not be financially for working maicriaJ need not be over po^stbde to do this ait first. j fifteen or twemty dollars and most of Of all t-h-; home conveniences, the it usually can Iw rented from supply water syetem and bathixxwn facilities houses. ^re the ones most appreciated on the When it comes to in'stalling the t*ai-ni as they are in the city. This stacks and wasite pipes for a sewage ' W9tw «ywtem which lightens the bur- disp»>sal system, it might be advisable I d«ii of work in the house and on the to secure the servic<?s of a plumber! f&tV^ and which means mui'h to the (jomfort Bi\d self-re?pert of the whole family, coats a relatively trivial sum. Th« price of a good hog or an outlay for two or three days but unless a farmer can better afl'ord to hire some one to install his water system for him than to give his own time, even j of flftar dollars and aboii-t three or this expenditure is not necessai-y. j four a&y»' lalH>r wdl do away with ; The farm woman should l»e able to carrying wi^ur from the well and talk the a<lvantag©.< of a goo»i water- carrying it av.ny again after it has supply system and to discuss inlellig- (been used. S»'\ enty-live dollar.-; aiUlcd ontly the merits I'f the different sys- 1 to this will gi\e the family a h.)l-w:i- tems available and she should be in- ter system attached to the range an-l formed thoroughly on how to take a serviceable bathtub wiith hot and care of it and how to get the most out ;-<dd water tunijly. I of its opeiivtio:>. U wiil be put in, Dous this f;.thcr whc>.He bi ;.:::U Iwy if at all. largily for her benefit and nd girl aie eniering that cgc when ihrci-.ah h;r c.xeiiions and insisbeucc. ( TheBeard that Grows Outdoors on the face of an adive, vigorous man, is a very different rsizor test from the beard which grows at a desk or behind a counter. That's why three years' service in the trenches has done more than ten years* use in the cities to single out, for real, stiff shaving, the Gillette Safety Razor The man who doesn't get time to shave every morning â€" wnose beard grows thick, sun-cured and wiiy â€" he's the one who gets the most solid satisfaction out of his Gillette. Such an edge as it offers youâ€" always ready without honing or stropping ! How easy it is to adjust it, with a turn of the screw handle, for a light or close shave, or a tough or tender skin ! How neatly it works round that awkward corner of the jaw ! And how good it feels as it slips through the ^iffest beard you can put it up against ! There's certainly a treat waiting for you the day you buy a Gillette ! Why not make it soon ? Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Canada, Limited Office und Factoty : 65- 73 St. Alexander Street. XX) mt Ittitiki â- ^'^^â- '