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| anchor. 7 " About the House mea) How To Get Rid of the House Fly. House flies are recognized as a most common vehicle for the transference of certain diseases from sick to well persons. Their activities are especial- ly associated with the distribution of such diseases as typhoid fever, tuber- culosis and infantile diarrhoea, the germs of which may be found exposed in feces, and other discharges of sick persons. The flies infect themselves by feeding .on such substances. They caryy the germs on their legs and bodies, as well as in their digestive; tract and then pollute such food as, milk with the germs. They also carry organisms from decaying substances, which will promote decay in the ma- © terial infected. A fly that has fed upon feces of a typhoid patient may carry the organ- fsms of typhoid in his digestive tract, and vomit it on food for a period of at least seven days. : The best method to prevent their breeding.--House flies breed in decay-' ing or decomposing vegetable and animal matter and excrement. THEY BREED CHIEFLY IN STABLE MA- NURE. See that the regulations re- specting the storage of manure in urban municipalities is enforced In your town. In order to control the breeding of flies, manure should be regularly. removed every six days in the summer. and either spread on fields or stored at a distance of not! less than a quarter of a mile, the 20noying to others and betrays your further the better t*om the house or dwelling. Flies also breed in ferment- ing matter, such as kitchen refuse and garbage and in moist ean: some- times found around garbage and privy receptacles. Garbage receptacles should be kept tightly covered. If you have no garbage collection in munici- pality, all refuse that will ferment should be buried or burned within a few-days. When it cannot be disposed of at once it should be sprinkled with chloride of lime in summer. Rid your house of flies--First screen your windows and doors, especially those in the dining-room and kitchen, then drive as many of the flies out as possible through the sunny opening. lies naturally seek the light, and in summer do not seek dark cormens. To. poison flies--Mix two table- spoonfuls of 40 per cent. Formalin (a solution which may be obtained from any dmg shore) with one pint of equal parts of milk and water. This nrixture should be exposed in shallow plates in sunny windows, and a piece of bread may be placed in the middle of each puis to enable the flies to alight and eed. All dead flies should be swept up and burned. The burning of pyre- thrum in a room, preferably at night, is sometimes effective. Immediately after, the flies should be swept up and burned, as many are only stupefied by this substance. Stable flies--All of the foregoing methods may be applied in the ex- termination of the stable fly. These pests cause animals a great deal of pain and prevent them properly rest- ing. Money that ds spent in keeping the stable free from flies and their breeding grounds and for chloride of lime--to be lightly sprinkled in the troughs and behind the horse-stalls-- will more than compensate in the im- proved condition of the animals, and Will guarantee them comparative free- dom from the attacks of flies in the stable. How Can I Overcome Bashfulness? One of my girl readers wrote me! Tately that she had overcome a great deal of her bashfulness by paying Jmore attention to her clothes and ap- pearance. She found that if she dressed with care she had more confi- dence in herself and was happier. Her system is worth trying. Take comfort, too, in the fact that you will outgrow some of your bashfulness, but make | orange tone. always forget yourself in trying to do things for others. Read the ex- perience of this girl. I am sure you will find it helpful: i "It seems that half the girls who seek advice are asking how to over- come self-consciousness. A lot of us know just how they feel, for self- consciousness is that miserable feeling which comes when you are in com- pany, making you tongue-tied and awkward. I am not offering a posi- tive cure for this trouble, but I am going to tell you of a few things that I have found helpful. People feel bet- ter if they know they are looking well. One does not need expensive clothes, but something appropriate and becoming. Well-cared-for shoes, stockings and neckwear count a lot. See that your shoes are not run down at the heels, nor your gloves soiled. "While you are dressing, dress care- fully. No one can feel perfectly at ease who has dressed too hurriedly and feels that she is coming to pieces. If your hair is slippery, fasten a net over it, but not too tightly. It also pays to be particular about your finger-nails, for' nothing is more dis- concerting than to discover dirty nails after it is too late to attend to them. Having made a careful toilet you can forget about yourself entirely. Avoid fussing with your hair, picking at your face, playing with your necklace or drumming your fingers, for it is nervousness. "Practice good manners. Try to be natural and at the same time be as nice as you can to every ome all of the time. Think of nice things to say to people and say them even if you think it will kill you. It won't. "If you don't talk very brilliantly, try being a good listener. Be sympa- thetic and attentive. Find out what other people's ideas are. Be interest- ed in everybody and you will find them interested in you. 'Go out of your way to please them. Smile. Avoid culti- vating the little mannerisms of other people, for what is natural for them is not natural for you. When you meet strangers make yourself believe that you like them. By liking them you can make them like you. "Study yourself first, be sure of yourself, but most of all study other people so hand that you won't have time to think of yourself. Therein, I| "think, lies the secret of a charming personality." Place-Cards, Place-cards are used at formal din- ners or luncheons in order to seat the guests without confusion. The names of the guests are written on the cands and arranged at the places where the guests are to be seated. On entering the dining-room each guest seeks his or her name and in this way finds his place. The cards also have decorative value, especially when made to har- monize with the other decorations, or are in keeping with the purpose or special features of the entertainment, A Sunshine Room. My room is not the customary pink, blue, or yellow, but a room of sun- shine. It is a north room but still full of light. I decorated it in sunshine shade and trimmed it in black and gold. I purchased a package of wall tint, mixed it with water and applied it to the walls, giving them a delicate The curtains I dyed the same shade and decorated with black conventional design. They invite the sunshine. The bed, once green with brass knobs, and the glass candle- holders I painted the same shade. I then made bolster cover and bedspread of unbleached muslin with applique design. A: boudoir pillow matches this set. A number of Japanese post cards of black and white I have framed to up your mind not to let anything in-| terfere with your meeting people. Do! not avoid people, but mingle with | them whenever possible. Take part in! the things that are happening in your | 'neighbothood. Go to church and to | "Sunday school, and if asked to serve 'on a committee do not refuse, but do! what you can to make the work of that .committee a success. You can 7 -- The most agreeable of all companions is a simple, frank man, without any high pretentions to an ag- gressive greatness; one who loves life and under- stands the use of it, oblig- ing, alike, at all hours; ll above all of a golden tem- il per; and steadfast as an or such an one we gladly exchange the greatest genius, the most brilliant wit, the profound- est thinker.--Lessing. =~ /, have the pictures black and white. The candlesticks adorn a dark, low- cut dresser. I painted some weeds into winter bouquets and made jars de- corated with sealing wax to hold them. For the floor covering I dyed orange rangs, had them woven and decorated them with black yarn. It is a charming room and yet cost little. © My sunshine calendar says: "Give to your enemy forgiveness, give to your opponent tolerance, to your friend your heart, to parents defer- ence and to everybody sunshine." A room like this helps to make me feel moore sunshiny.--O. B. ~ : Seton? ' The first aerial time-table, consist- ing of nearly one hundred pages, has appeared in Germany. Pews were first placed in churches for the use of Norman nobles. Ordi- nary worshippers sat on three-legged stools. : To prevent the skin from discolor- ing after a fall or blow, take a little dry starch, moisten it with cold water "= Wolf and Lamb Up to Date. Here is the latest version of the tale of the Wolf and Lamb: Taking advantage of the universal disorder the wolf one day left the woods. He met a lamb that quietly grazed in the meadow. "I'm going to eat you," he said sim- ply. "No use asking explanations. I don't do it out of malice or vengeance. I am a wolf, thou art a lamb; that suf- fices." Sele The lamb asked for five minutes' re- spite and ran straight to the seat of the Society for the Protection of Ani- mals, where it made known its case. "We are here," they answered, "to pro- tect the animals from men, and not from other animals. If the wolf wants to eat you nothing can be done. It is the law." Filled with respair, the lamb re- turned to its doom. On the way it met an old he-goat, whe, on learning the lamb's misfortune, was seized with great pity. He took it to his house and powdered its fleece all over with pepper until the white lamb had turn- ed black. "Go now," said the old goat, "and don't be afraid." The wolf waited, full of confidence. It was difficult for him to recognize the lamb, but he snapped at it all the same. Immediately he choked and his eyes filled with tears. "Get off!" he said, releasing his prey. "There is no longer justice in the world. It is the end of every- thing." And, with his tail lowered, he went back to the woods. What does the fable teach? The answer may be suggested by the cir- cumstance that this version appears supposed to have had a narrow escape from being despoiled by Greece. ------ Interesting Customs of Bees. Volumes have been written on the life of bees; so full of interest are their habits, their laws and govern- ment. A queen is their greatest treas- ure, and they will guard her with their lives, but only one queen will they tolerate, although it will happen at times that two queens will be hatch- ed. in a Bulgarian paper~--and Bulgaria is | 8 MILES and the worst is yet to come _----\STINGEM'S GARAGE, RSS 2 fo FA Broken Bones. When a person meets with an ac- cident and breaks a bone his friends are likely to content themselves with saying that he has broken his leg or his arm, as the case may be. But that is mot enough for the physician; he is immediately concerned to know what kind of fracture it is. Broken bones are of six types: simple, compound, complicated, com- minuted, greenstick and impacted. A fracture may of course be. of more When this does occur a deadly com- bat-hegins the nomen] that the queens emerge from their cradles, and Huber was the first to remark an extra- ordinary feature in connection with this combat. Each time that the queens present their cuirasses to each other in such a fashion that the draw- ing of the sting would prove mu- tually fatal, the tvysmbssiors, stricken 'with simultaneous terror, divide and fly, only to meet shortly after and separate again should the double dis- aster threaten the future of their peo- ple. At last, however, one of them is bound to succeed in surprising her clumsier or less wary rival and in killing her without risk to herself, for the law of the "race has called for one sacrifice only. PERL RT Meanest Man. ~ Who was the meanest man that ever lived? Surely the doubtful dis- tinction was earned by the Irish knight referred to in Dr. Potumies de la Siboutie's "Recollections of a Parisian." This man, whose name was Flott, had established an unenviable reputa- tion for avarice. His wife, who used to keep a coffin in her berdoom at Dublin, in which she wighed to be laid after her death, died away from home. Flott thereupon dispatched the fol- lowing note to his steward: "Kindly send me her ladyship's coffin, and make use of the opportunity by filling it with fruit and vegetables, as no- thing of the kind can be bought here." The order was obeyed. The coffin arrived crammed with eatables, which were taken out and replaced with the remains of Lady Flott. Missed His Mark. Uncle was telling a yarn to his nephew, and he made it exciting.- What's the good of telling a yarn if it is not exciting? "The snow was fall- ing fast and furious as I tore out of the wood on to the plain in one of the wildest parts of Siberia. We had more than a mile to go to get out of the forest, that was plain. We heard tife howls of the pack of wolves behind us. I sérained every nerve, but all in vain. Now I could hear their panting breath. At last I felt their muzzles touching me. When--" "Oh, uncle," interrupted the nephew, "you must have felt glad!" "Glad, my boy!" cried the uncle in amazement. "Why ?" "Why, glad when you found out that they had their muzzles on!" RE i Ce Frank: "If thirty-two is freezing point, what is squeezing point?" Bob: "Two in the shade." Moths getting in clothing? An oe- casional brushing and - sunning will help to- get nid of them. Radium worth $20,000,000, but weighing only 6 ozs., has been pro- fuced in the last twenty-six years. Elephants seldom sleep more than and lay it on the injured pant. five hours a day. rdrugs. than one type. By a simple fractire Sis meart ame dr which the bone is broken only in one place and has not broken through the skin. In a com- pound fracture the skin is broken, a circumstance that adds enormously to the gravity of the accident, since it means an open wound, with all its lia- bility to infection. A complicated fracture means one in which other in- juries are sustained at the same time, as, for example, when a nerve is torn or an internal organ or blood xes- sel is hurt. A comminuted fracture is one in which the bone is broken in several places. A greenstick frac- ture is explained by its name; the bone is partly broken and is bent over | like a green stick. It is common with children, whose bones are without the | brittleness that comes with adult life, | In an impacted fracture the fragments | of broken bone are wedged into each! other, There is ome important lesson to] learn from an impacted fracture; in! the case of impacted bones first aid to the injured is a matter, not for the! well-meaning bystander, but for the! experienced physician. Until the doc- | tor arrives (the patient should be placed in the most bearable position | with the injured part well supported. and kept as nearly motionless as pos- | sible. He will be glad of that, for people with broken bones are anxious to be let alone. There are many good reasons for this "let alone" policy; | one is that the wrong sort of handling ' may very easily turn a simple fraec-| ture into a semious one. i When the bone has been put into: place and has knit skillful massage | and passive movements often aid re-! covery and prevent deformity. ! SATISFIED MOTHERS No other medicine gives the same | satisfaction to mothers as do Baby's Own Tablets. They are equally good | for the newborn babe or the growing child and are absolutely guaranteed to i be free from opiates or other harmful They are a mild but thorough lavative and camnot possibly do harm | --they always do good. Concerning | them Mrs. Jos. Ache, Coteau Road, | N.B., writes:--*"I think that Baby's Own Tablets are a marvellous medi- cine for little ones. I gave them to my little girl with such good results that i I now strongly recommend them to all mothers." The Tablets are sold by | medicine dealers or by mail at 25 cts. | a box from The Dr. Williams' Medi- : cine Co., Brockville, Ont. | Not the Piase For It. ! He (lingering in the hall) And, dearest, we shall grow old together, you and IL." i Her father's voice--*Well, you needn't start doing it down there, need you?" o The greatest truths are the sim-| plest; and so are the greatest men. --Hare, 4 NERVOUS BREAKDOWS When the Blood is Qut of Order the Nerves Are Starved. The nervous system is the governing system of the whole body, controlling the heart, lungs, digestion and brain; so it is not surprising that nervous disturbances cause acute distress. The first stages of nervous debility are noted by irritability and restlessenss, in wiliieh dhe victims seem to be op- pressed by their nerves. 'The mata" requires immediate attention, for nothing but suitable treatment will prevent a breakdown. The victim, however, need not despair, for even severe nervous disorders may be re- lieved by improving the condition of the blood. It is because Dr. Williams' Pink Pills 'enrich the blood that this medicine has proved beneficial in ner- vous disorders. The nerves thrive on the better blood made by these pills; the appetite improves, indigestion is better, sleeplessness no longer troubles the nerve-shattered victim, and life generally takes on a cheerful aspect. The value of these pills in cases of this kind is shown by the ex- perience of Mrs. John W. Macdonald, Cardigan, P.E.I., who says:--*"I have much cause to be grateful to Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills. I was suffering from nervous breakdown, and my con- dition gave alarm to both my friends and myself. I suffered almost con- tinuously from nervous headaches, my appetite was poor, I hardly got any sleep, and in every way I was badly rundown. A friend advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after I had taken them for a while there was a noticeable improvement in my con- dition. I continued using the pills until I had taken twelve boxes, when every symptom of the trouble was gone, and I have since enjoyed the best of health." You can get Dr. Williams' Pink Pills through any dealer in medicine or by mail at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50 from The Dr. williams' Medi- cine Co., Brockville, Ont. Wily Husband. Mrs. Tompkins was in need of new clothes and adopted her usual tactics with Mr. Tomkins. "A tree, you know, dear, gets new clothes every spring; a new parasol--new everything." "Yes," asquiesced her husband, , "and makes them all itself." ------e cee ; Not What He Meant. He--"Those flowers are lovely. They remind me of you, darling." She--"Why, they're artificial." He (quickly)--"Yes, but you'd never know." (; TEN Silent Power The mighty forces which open the petals of the rose and bring the color of the each, which unfold the aves and flowers, work silently, noiselessly. Scientists tell us that there is "chemical force, power enough in the sunlight, working upon a few acres of grass, to run all the ma- chinery in the world. Yet we hear no sound, not a particle of noise, although the forces are terrific. ¢ =