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+ - TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1024, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG ani ee m------ NEWS AND VIEWS FOR WOMEN READERS a, ey EVSILLETY COMPANY LIMITE, = TORONTO, CANADA. Teeth Tell Age or Sheep. A lamb has eight sinall firsi-teeth on the lower Jaw. Woen the animal hes the age of about one year, middle pair are replaced by two anent teeth; at the age of about 0, the teeth on either side of these anent teeth, are also replaced & permanent pair; at the age of three, the next tooth on either side @ives way to a permanent tooth; and @t about the age of four, the last or Back teeth are repiaced iu like manner, 8heep with one pair of permanent tooth is a yearling; a sheep with twe Pairs is a two-year-old; with three Pairs, a three-year-old, and with four fs, a four-year-old. After a sheep rs years old, one cannot tell by the teeth about the age. However, 8ne who Is purchasing a sheep should #90 to it that it has not lost any teeth, or that the teeth have not become long and shoe-peggy in appearance. The noontide sun is dark and music discord when the heart is low. Preservation of the Binder. With some men the grain binder is ready for the scrap heap in five years, with other farmers it will last thirty years. A canvas cover large enouga to protect the machine from sun and rain should be part of the grain bind- er equipment. At the close of the harvest season the harves.er shouid be cleaned thoroughly and all moving parts oiled. The neeale and the guides through which the twine tra- vels should be greased. The knife should be taken out, dried and wiped over with a cloth soaked in oil, and then put away. The canvas convey- ors should be thoroughly dried, rolled up and put away in dry stor- age. The binaer sibould be packed Away In the barn or implement shed out of the way. Do im! let the chickens use it as a hou roost. A few poles wouid be cheaper and would serve the hens just as well , da Stevenson, 0. A. C., Guelph. A fine woman can do without fine clothes. CCORMICKS JERSEY CREAM SODA NVR * White Goods Whiter Colored Goods Brighter SURPRISE loosens and dis- solves all impurities from fine or coarse fabrics. By its gentle treatment and thorough cleansing, the pattern, color or fibre is not injured and takes on a new freshness. _-- Pasi, By ELAINE N. LECLAIRE. mn) The Clearys, husband and wife, were eating their supper, while Junior sat in his higuchalr and thumped loudly on its tray with a tablespoon. "You might have washed the milk bottles, seems to we." "Well, how'd I know that you Wanted them washed?" Herb inter- rupted miidiy. "Want them washed? Well, It's quite likely that 1'd meturn them dirty. People Usuaily do wash milk botiies, you know." "Well, 1 didn't, so that's all there is to it." His tone was foal, and he considered the matter finished as he helped himself to Puother piece of ple. "Awiul good apple ple." But Clara's thoughts were not yet diverted from the subject which had furnished her with conversation for the last tweive hours--the condition of the house when she and Juator bad returned home yesterday from a | week's vacation. This was the first 800d chance that she had had to teil | her hiisband what she thought of | things, for at breakfast she had been | too sieepy, and iuncheon had been a | trying meal, with the baby demand- ing everything within his reach. Hut DOW----- "You fried steak, too." "Weil, whatof 17" exclaimed Her- bert, taken by surprise. "'Good- night, can't a fellow try steak' with- | out you jawing about it?" '"Yes, but you don't need to get it all over everyining. I never saw any- | body make such a mess as you aid on that gas range." 'Oh, for govaness sake, He pubhed back his chair. daddy, Bertie." "l don't want that child called 'Bertte,' » "Oh, all right." The screen door | banged behind her husband and Clara rose to clear away the aishes. As she walked from dining room to kitchen, and .rom kitcuen to pantry, | to and fro, she sputtered somewhat audibly. Not even .the meekest of wives desires to return to a& house that was left spotiessiy clean and to] | dry up!" "Come to discover that not even the one ad- Jective, clean, dnscribes it any longer. Clara was not, whatever else her vir- tues, meek. Hhé put the baby to bed and then did the dishes. It had been a hard day and she hoped that Herbert would rétdrn early. When o'clock came she laid aside her knit- ting to him, form itsélt in her mind that he was really angry and, perhaps, would stay out just to bother her. She couldn't believe it, and yet she began ready for bed. . By anxiety, she was was tired out, She was awakened some time later by the telephone bell. When Her- bert's voice sounded over the wire she breathed a sigh of relief. "I'm | In Westbridge," he said very clearly, | "with Lizzie. Had a little trouble, and won't be home for some time. | What did you say?" "Nothing," returned Clara, She | mechanically answered his "Good- | by." Twenty miles from home with another! Lizzie! Who could it be? Why on earth should he tell her? Did he think he couldn't conceal it any longer--or what? Oh, what had happened? Shivering, she crawled into bed! and stared at the ceiling. And to ink that she had scolded about teak and milk bottle, and now! t was six o'clock when Herbert Cleary, 8r., let himself in. toe he entered his wife's find her lylng awake with . aves "and holding a damp bail of a handkerchief fy one hand. "Hello! What's the matter?" Her- bert paused in surprise, "Are you back?" "Sure. Why not? Say, you Weren't Dg over me, were you? 1 told you that I was all right." Clara looked steadily at him for a minute, "Herbert," she sald"in a strange tone, "who is Lizzie? Tell me the truth now." * "Lizzie?" "Yes, Lizsle. The woman that you were out with to-night while I aid your dirty dishes and put your son to sleep." - i . "What in the world--" | Then suddenly light came to both. | "Why, you little silly!" exclaimed | Herbert, leaning over to kiss his wife, ' "Did you think I was going off with & real flesh-and-bloc Lizzje?" "I guess I was . tired I didn't think at all," Clara murmured hap- Pily. "That was the worstgscare that lh tin Lizzie ever gave me, erb'." watch out of the window for A dull . conviction began to to get 1, in spite of her asleep, for she On tip- room, to reddened ------------------------ Very Siwuple. A celebrated sculptor had worried almost to distraction bya young fellow who had come to his studio on the pretext of giving an | order and at last took an opporynity which the bore gave him of showing | his displeasu re. " "Tell me," the youth said impul- ely, "is sculpture very difficult?" "No," snapped the artist, "it very and easy. You have only to take a block of marble and a chisel and knock oft all the marble you don't want." ------. ---- - A Mya? } teach bout to aa 2 0a gr hr on some of the most legends | last i MARRIAGES IN EGYPT, Many Brides Are Only Ten Years old. Egypt is a land of early marriages. | Many of the bride# are little more than ten years of age and very few | are unmarried at sixteen. ! Egyptian bachelors are rare, for | public opinion considers it 'disreput- | able for'a man to remain single once | he has reached the marrying age. The actual ceremony is simplicity itself. It is performed before two | witnesses by a fikl----that is, one who | recites the Koran. The husband never sees his wife- to-be before the wedding night, ail matters, including that of the dowry, | being arranged for him. Where the bride i# a woman who has not previously been married, there are great festivities, which, in | the case of the upper classes, may | a8 long 28 eleven days and | nights. These rejoicings are timed | to end on the eve of either Friday or Monday. { The bride 1s then conveyed tn pro- cession to the bridegroom's house, ac- companied by her° female friends, musiclans, and entertainers, The Mohammedan religion allows & man four wives, but the majority of Egyptians do not take advantage of it and are content with one. Women are regarded as strictly in- | ferfor in households where the old customs are still in vogue. They do not sit in the presence of thelr lord, but attend him at his meals. The mother is the only woman who enjoys anything approaching equality, al- though true companionship between husband and wife exists in certain circumstances. { Divorce is an easy matter. The husband has but to say, "Thou are divorced." and when this is repeated | three times the separation is com- | Plete and the dowry returned. ; Egyptian men exhibit a great lik- ing for European women. Not only do they believe that marriage with them heightens their prestige, "but they also know that the white wife retains her beauty and charm much longer than the Egyptian, who is past her beauty at twenty. The European woman by the act of marrying a Mohammedan is held to have embraced the Moslem faith and must be ready to accept the posi- tion of inferiority which women hold under that religion. Roosevelt's Big Stick. Not all of the world's most inter- esting relics find their way into a museum. Theodore Roosevelt's big | stick stands in the corner of a very humble little home in Washington, D.C.; a heavy hickory cane, with a star in one end, gift of the Grid-iron Club of California to President velt, now the prized possession of James Bailey, colored, footman for one of Washington's departmen: | stores, | An ordinary workday became 3 famous one in the Bailey family | when, on a morning in March, 1908, | three days before the president re- | tired from office, his the big stick down to James at his work and presented it to* him, to- gether with an autographed picture | of Mrs. Roosevelt. There was no dramatic incident for which James was rewarded. It was | Just, as James says, "for my service | here and for looking after the chil- dren while Mrs. Roosevelt shopped." When the day is over and it fa time for James to go home he can | frequently be seen shouldering the | big stick. He _gives the trophy no | chance to collect the dust. He uses ' it, as did his predecessor before him. | ------ Once a Blacksmith, One of the most remarkable per- sonalities who achieved fame as a result of the war is Dr. Masaryk, first President of the Republic of Csecho- Slovakia. This simple, though dignified, statesman, who visited London re- cently, began his career as a black- smith's assistant. His desire for knowledge led him to spend all his spare time In learning and in assist- ing the village schoolmaster, so that by 1882 he had taken his doctor's degree at Prague University. He was elected president of the new Republic in 1918, and soon proved himself 'a strong leader. When agitators planned a coup d' etat against him, he met them and sald: "Well, you want to govern, so we will have a trial of forces when we have agreed upon the weapon. 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