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r^>i.-. • - -- m mSS FOR THE WIN DOW DISPLAY Although winter and spring flower- . The bowU and rases used must be i lag bulboua plants, such as hjraclntha, non-porous and without holes in the ! tnlip* fsi daffodils, are so easily bottom, so that they may be arranged . grown IB pbts, yet their culture by the . (n the home without te-xr of damage to ! borne ganlener is not taken up to the ' tai>!cs or other furniture. The most \ •ztent they deserve. | suitable sizes are from four and one- ; The flowers are in the dry bulb when | half to twelve inches in diameter and { parchased, and all that is necessary is , from three to Ave inches deep. | to place them in soil in pets and put i The peat or moss fibre to use in the ftway in a cool place until they are well bowls is a mixture of ttbre. charcoal ' rooted; then on bringing them into a and flaely broken shell. No drainage' heated room, preferably a sunny win- j ig required, but place several pieces of dow, every bulb will in due course ; charcoal at the bottom of each bowl . •.AND THF^ WORST IS YFT TO COME 1^ send forth its buds. | Neither greenhouse nor garden la raqaired to assist us in growing these beautiful flowers in pots or bowls, and there is little risk of failure, provided that a few simple rules are observed. ; To get the best out of our winter- flowering bulbs it is well to make an early start and so obtain abundant root formation before attempting to force them into b'.oom. It cannot. In- deed, be too strongly impreesed upon the grower that to pot them up and to absorb excessive moisture, and also i to sweeten the mixture. Over the chsrco.il spread two or three lnche.s of the iibre. Moisten it if it is at all ; dry. but it must not be soaked. | The bulbs are now placed in position on the fibre, and more of the fibre is ' worked In between the bulbs with the fingers; it mast be gently preseed, but beware of luaking It too tirm. Small bulbs, such aa crocuses, sclllaa and snowdrops, should be covered with the [ fibre, whereas hyacinths, tulips and ' then place the pots in. a warm room is daffodils are not quite covered ; allow^ •Imply courting failure. The pots must the tips of the bulbs to show above be stored where it is dark and cool, the surface. The bowl is filled to thus following the bulbe' natural habit • within half an inch of the top with of growth as when planting them deep- : fibre, thus allowing ample space for ly in the open ground. j watering. The hyacinth Is the favorite and ' The bowls are first stored in a dark most dependable of our winter-flower- ' but perfectly cool place, but from ln« bulbous plants when grojtn in the -which frost is excluded. Here they re- house. The most suitable compost for , main for from sis to eight or even ten potting is made by using tw^o-thirds of i weeks, depending upon the growth :good tui'ff loom, very oW dry-raanure I and also the kind of bulb. Examine that can be rubbed through a fine sieve the bowls once a week; If the fibre ap- and a little sand. To this may be add- ed charcoal broken up quite email. In- jtead of manure, leaf mold may be •abstituted. or good garden soil may be ujed Instead. The soli should be used In a aome- -what dry state to make the work of -potting pleasant, and herein lies the advantage of preparing the compost some time before It is required. If old pots are to be used, they should be washed, scrubbed quite clean and al The size most suitable for a single hyacinth bulb is a pot five inches in pears dry water must be .supplied, but excessive moisture at tPis stage may lead to decay. If the fibre appears to bo too dry tilt the bowl to drain oft the superfluous moisture. When growth is well advanced and the bulbs are brought to the light, water will be given more abundantly. Stories About Well-Known People The Home-Mak«r. "The greatH.M wo.k iu the world," is how MisAilaigaret Uondfleld. iS.f., diiicrtbes hum*^ making. "Some women." she said rect-ntly, ' seem to think tha' li is better to be an architect or a doolcr than a home- maker. I hold entirely the contrary view. It is the duty of women to build up the life of the family around ihem. I have no patience with women who leave their hiubands and children more or less to themselves while they ^bek outside work because it la more intellectual. Home and chi'dren need i the greatent Iniellectual effort in the '. world." Miss B::ndfield is (. u« of th« moat in- teresting women of the day. .43 Sec- retary to the Miniiitry of Labor she Is the first woman to hold a Ministerial post In Britain assistant. Painleve and His Trunk. Paul Painleve, president of the French (Chamber of Deputin-;. has a ' reputation for being at>«wu -minded ; which would seem to be justified by a 1 recent incident at the local railroad station. M. Pminleve came to Harva to attend the Franco-Belgian commemorative ceremonies. He was on the train, ready U) return to Paris, when be ftn- nuunci^ that hi» trunk was mlasing. Fie had his several valises, but no mink. Thf train was heid fifteen minutes, while all the nation crew searched for the mUsiuR luggage. Then M. Pai&p 'eve called the station-master aslde: "Uon't wait any longer; I have juat remembered that I did not bring a t.-unk." Comparing Notes. Mr. T. P. O'Connor, the famous Journalist and parliamentarian, once wadered away from h'.s native haunts^ and, finding himself In a golfing cooar try, looked up the local club .secretary She was once a shop- and asked for a game. The secretary I obligingly discovered and Introduced him to an old gentleman, and a game was arranged. As they drew near the first tee the visitor remarked: "I'm a four man. What axe you?" "I'm a grocer." replied the old gentle- man. frame. On this the pilot, enclosed In his miniature machine, will He tac^ downward. looking outwards through a front window or sideways and down- wards through other little windows. We \a,ugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did ^ 3,500 MILES IN THE ARCTIC lowed to dry before potting begins. -««>• Might not one imagine that sup- erior beings do the same, and for exactly the same reason? â€" Greville. Three thousand five hundred miles on foot across frozen land and frozen sea, the discovery of two new lands, ' meals of boiled sealskin and ox-hide, ' wading for mUes through icy lakes of water above a solid sea-top, and finally to be "marooned" on an Arctic island and dramatically rescued â€" with the thermometer sometimes down to 50 below zero, and blizzards blowing â€" such are some of the feature,? of Har- old Noice's "With Stefansson In the Arctic." Noice jeined Stefansson, and this relief expedition to Wrangel Island Lying Down to Fly. To lie luxuriousiy on soft cushions and thus pilot ycur own siiiall air ma- chine Is the latest possibility in aerial nigbt Tiny air-car^ are being deiigued and are to be tested in llight, in whicl: the narrow body, with wings on either „_ . , w 1 .»,, ,..,,.. side, accommodates Just one occupant, "Great oaken barrels, three tiers f-"'^^' "^'-"^ ^ 1 .J J < J â-  „ -nr^ lying prone. This will enable the tmy deep, stood cased in .snow and ice. We 'â- >""• i<ii"'= , ... I. 1 c ' enelne to drive the machine more opened some of the barrels, borne ; engme ^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^ ^^ contained heavy wool sweaters; . ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ air-ra-istance set up ne^ and recall him to his d«ty," said if a body was^ provided big enough for the friend. the pilot to asstime the ordinary sit- "But he pays not the leaat attention ting position. to what I say. He listens only to the Perfect comfort will, it is claimed, advice of fools. I -.vlsh you would talk be a&aured by a sofa-like reclining to him." Not What He Meant. .A man complained bitterly ot the conduct of his son. He related at lenpth to an old friend all the young man's escapades. "You should speak to him with flrm- others fine brass-buttoned, acarlet- colored, and satin lined broadcloth pea-jackets; others had brightly-color- ed, fancifully-designed mittens. There were barrels of long leather sea-toots, felt shoes, knitted underwear." Hercule Lummis of Wyebrldge, Ontario, is the envy of the other boys of hla town, because of his pet red deer, which he has tamed and cared tor since the animal was very young. Why is Lightning Forked? Science recognizes several kinds of lightning, although authorities differ as to whether fome types are not iden- tical and merely appear different be- cause of the peculiarities of human vision. Forked lightning is the most common type. The Irregular path of the dis- charge Is believed to be due to the last year, was nineteen when he went j pregeare of solid particles and electri- cal charges that make a jagged course in the whaler that discovered the "lost" Stefansson on Banks Island In 1915 â€" Stefansson, the head of the Canadian Arctic Expedition, w^ho, when his ship wa^ crushed in the ice. along the path of least resistance. Sheet lightning, which illuminates large areas of the sky. te believed to be merely the reflection of forked light- calmly set off northward ho! with two , „ij,g fj.om a distance, companions across the frozen Beaufort | ^he majority ot victims of lightning Sea. Intending to live on what he could ^re not killed Instantly. They are f^t^^'- merely stunned, and can be revived Sleeping In Snow Huts. j by the application of artificial respira- The world gave him up for dead. I "»° ^^ the other first-aid measures while he was in fact discovering Bor- ! commonly employed in cases of drown- den Lsland. ' ^°« ^^^ asphyxiation. Noice Joined Stefansson, tand this ' -^"^^ «' ^^^ exceptionally tall struc- book is the record of two years' ex- ploration with Stefansson hundreds of miles north of the .-Vrctic Circle, liv- ing mainly on seal and caribou, and Bleeping in snow huts. By the time he was twenty-one tures of the world have been struck by lightning more than once, but have 1 escaped damage because the lightning has been carried harmlessly to the ground by lightning-rods. The Elifel Tower In Paris has been struck many iinmeter. A six-Inch Ibree bulbs. size will hold Planting the Bulbs. The Kremlin. Peter the Great hated Moscow, and above all. that stronghold of intrigue Place a good piece of crock-broken and crime, the Kremlin He was raised there r.3 a child, but he never lived there In his mature years. When ilower pot â€" over the hole at the bot- tom of the pot, then fill the same with , >. , . i ,.„ the compost loosely. A hole is then the great Napoleon captured Mos«>w md« for the bulb, scooping It out with '° 1812, or rather when the despera ^ the angers, but not so deep that the R^^^i^"' ^'^ '""^ '^''^ "?J Vr!^,- n bulb i^ entirely covered. The top is , '"'^"'P '""«"8, "^ "â- "'"" J,^^ Y left above the soil. When in position ' «"" «"''^' a."^/*^.^ ^"JPf^-^^ -^?"''' « .V II J u . . . a _. 1 trifle theatrical, insisted on sleepir*" eea the soil down, but not too firmly. ' 'â- '^'"'^ . , '„ .. ,, „, ,. „. T.rt. ..1 . â-  . I . I in the bed of Peter the Great. It w When potting is completed give '" "â- "'^ ... „ ..«.., -â„¢ n fho,-n,„h «n«uin/».th J.t.r a boy's bed, in a .small and stufty roc Noice had done more than 2.200 miles [f™®*, '^.*'?1°!^' damage, despite the be by sledge and dcg-team. He had been the first man to set toot on Meighen Island â€" away north of where Frank- lin and his crew perished. Stefansson took possession of this land in the nam^ of the King on be- half of the Dominion of Canada. This was on June 15th, 1916. There were three men on the trip. The return from Meighen l.sland took them across an area previously reported as land. but. this supposed land they found "buried under some hundred fathoms of salt water." They found themselves "out at sea on near- ly impassable ice lief that lightning never olrikes twice in the same place. A single flash of lightning concen- trates many times more energy than could be. produced at one instant by all the power plants in the world. i . . I In Line With Her Wish. Fussy Patientâ€" "I felt so ill that I wanted to die. doctor." Doctor â€" "Ah, then you were per- fectly right to send for me." The window is shown in the church at York Factory which wem present ed by Lady Franklin as a memorial to her husband and a token of gratitude to tho.<-e who took part in the search for him after his last fateful voyagB. them a thorough soaking with water before placing iu the dark. If the com- post was very dry, it may be necessary to repeat the watering two or three i ttmos to make sure that the soil is thoroughly wet in the bottom ot the pot. The pots are now put away in the i dark for six or eight weeks, when they i are gone over and those in a forward state of growth are removed to a cool room and placed in subdued light. - As the pots are thoroughly watered when stored, no further moisture is needed until they are removed, when C|U'e must be taken that the so!l never becomes dry. When In the warm liv- tug room it may be necessary to water tbem at least once a day. With two or three dozen pots of hyacinths to draw «pon and by bringing two or more pots to the light at intervals of seven days the «oaaon ot bloom mav be ex- 1 tended for several weeks Daffodils or narcissuses are indis- peiwahle to our collection of spring- fiowerlnc window plants; their bright ysUow, white or lemon-colored dainty blossoms are unriraled by all other sprlnc blossoms. The bulbs must be well rooted before attempting to force thom, for It Introduced to heat before a stixMig root system has been com- pletod blind flowere will be the result A Fascinating Way of Qrewing. A nuwt fasclnatiivK way ot growing bnlbs is to plant thetn in flbre. All that is required Is a dark cool room, a snpply of gcod bnlbs. flbrs and soate bowls in which to grow theai. and iRter ft li<bi window. insisted on sleeping as room and very damp, but Napolelon curled up in It, looking anything but dignl- fled. The next morning he was asked how he slept and what he dreamed. "I did not dream," he replied, gruffly, "but I caught a confounded cc^d." Man^ people claim that their corns warn them of weather changes. But probably the corn is merely register- Next yearâ€" 1917â€" Noice went with '"« change in the shoe leather. This Stefansson still farther north across varies with the amount of moisture the frozen seaâ€" about level with the ^" ^'^ a'""- -^ - P*'" '^'^"*- change from top of Greenlandâ€" and the lltUe party normal either way is all the average barely escaped disaster. ^*'*''' ^"^ stand without discomfort. Modest Mouth-Organ of Physical Benefit. The littl^ harmonica â€" cr mouth-or- gan as it is known to most people in Canada â€" has been adding to its laurels of late. Ner,-.= paper dispatchej and il- lustration appearing in our papers have been telling of numerous celebri- ties who have recently fallen prey to the alluring tonal beauty of this modest little musical instninient. But the reason for siicli popularity ii not hard to seek. It can be cuninied ui) in fourteen words â€" "The mouth-.?- gan of the harmonica." he states. "I have experimented very extensively with this instrument to establish its value as a therapeutic agent. I have ascer- tained that the harmonicn !s a most effective agent in developing the chest and respiratory organs, and in anaemlo children and adults a programme of regular practice with the mouth organ, which develops breathing, rssulta In aeration of the blood and tones the sTT-tem generally. The development cf the breathing power, which can be obtained most effectively through the Encased In Ice tor Seventy Years, i Gold was probably the first metal "' giving forth wondrous music." Later a wonderful thing happene.l. to be ustd by man. Metallic gold was Thu-sc who are skeptical of the place They came to Dealy teland, off Mel- found in the beds of streams. It was lilayeJ by the mcuthL-rgnn in health. vUIe I.^land. and saw a pole sticking up used for ornaments before any other need only read what Paul V. Winslow, from a pyramid of rocks. Near it was i metal was discovered. The first metal M,D.. the famous ear. nose a:ij throat the depot left in 1853 by Captain Kel- 1 put to practical use was copper, made specialist, of Brooklyn. N.Y.. has to lett, of the Franklin Search Expedi- j into knives and other implements at say. tlon! least 6,000 years ago. i "Since my conversion to the cause harmonica, is an important factor in is simple to play and is capable building up the body. In practlcaHy every form of exercise deep inhalins and exhaling are striven for, and this Is exactly what you get in playinc the harm-snica. Therefore the hygienia results are men satisfactory. ".\nother important point is that the patient dc-es it along th« lines of least resistance. He is Interested in learn- ing to play the harmonica. He Is sre.'.'.ly ent-ouraged In his playing be- cause aavone can master this tiny in- strument and become a proflciant art'.'t alter just a few lessons." The great herring season, with its wealth of picturesque detail, has opened in England and the lifhing trawlers are working twenty-icu: a d*y hanrectlns their famous sea crop. Great Spertsmanshrp. [ A sportsman with a wonderful ( power ot imagination was telling how at one shot he had bagged two part- I ridges and a rabbit. His explanatioa was that,, tli-ough he had hit only ons pErtrldge, the bird In falling had j clutched at another iiartrldge and I brought that lo eavlh in its claivs.. "Bat how about the rabbit?" he was asked. I "Oh," was the calm re-ply, 'my gun I kicked and knookid irj over, and I fell on the rabbit as it ran past." They Had a Rosd Map. "I haven't got much faith in ihest newfangled doctors." said Jim BUv- vers, the black-smith. "Why col?" asked the neighbor whc^e borse was being shod. 'We;', to-day." said Jim. '"mo doctor told me 'o tako pills for uje heart, 1j1>>:3 f°r mc siomao!). capsaleo fer ' m-^ k: Ineys and relletj fer m* liver â€" an' what p1a7ie^^ me is. how- dv these . durn things know where to go whea I they get inside."