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them any more serviceable, although making them a very 
pretty as well as useful Christmas gift. oo often we see 
the old rags, lint-giving things, in use as dustcloths. And, 
too, these same cloths seldom get the washing they need in 
order to do good work. The same can be said of the cloths 
used for cleaning silver. Washing is good for them, too. 
I know of no more aggravating thing than a dustpan with 
edge dented and curved, until there is no place more than 
an inch in length striking the floor. Perfectly good in every 
way save in having a straight edge, it is kept on and on. 
Trying it is to maid and mistress, yet, through lack of 
thought, it continues to try the patience. 
Egg-beaters with a hitch in the cogs, or a slip more likely, 
necessitating, perhaps, twenty turns of the wheel where it 
should only take one; chopping-knives which never see a 
grindstone; strainers which have lost the “lip” to hang on 
the edge of bowl or basin, or have lost the handle, making 
it almost sure that the fingers will get burned—all these are 
to be found. What man would stand it? 
Work is not only simplified, but it is made much pleas- 
anter by having one’s tools kept in order. It does take 
time, I grant you, but nowhere does the same expenditure 
of time bring greater results. All these things are worth 
the housekeeper’s attention, for they make possible a con- 
servation of energy that is a true domestic economy. 
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THE GARDEN OF ROSES 
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wood. Stake up longest canes: Lord Penzance’s Hybrid 
Sweet Briers, exceedingly beautiful, several sorts in highly 
contrasting shades; Refulgence, semi-double flowers over 
three inches across, dazzling scarlet, borne in large clusters, 
very fragrant, a fine distinct sort; Juliet, this and Soleil 
- d@Or (below) are Roses of a distinct new type; Hybrid 
Austrian Brier, very hardy, fragrant and free flowering, and 
having some flowers during Autumn (Juliet is very beautiful 
and distinct in having reverse of petals old gold, while the 
inside a rosy red, a striking combination) ; Soleil d’Or, fine 
double flowers, color from orange-yellow to reddish-gold, 
very pleasing. 
The “Baby Ramblers’’—This is the popular name which 
has been given to a new and very desirable type of Rose, 
most of which are Polyantha Hybrids. They are dwarf in 
habit, eighteen to twenty-four inches high, true perpetual 
bloomers, some of them blooming all year round, and very 
floriferous, the plants with their large trusses frequently 
looking like huge bouquets. ‘They are very valuable for 
edging and bedding purposes, and especially for pot plants, 
for which use they are as yet too little known: Baby Ram- 
bler Madam Norbert Lavasseur, small crimson flower, re- 
sembling those of the Crimson Rambler; Mrs. Cut-bush, 
cerise-pink, like Lady Gay Rambler; duchen Muller, bril- 
liant rose-pink; Katherina Zeimet, pure white; Mrs. Taft, 
fine brilliant red; Phyllis, beautiful pink; Little Dot, delicate 
pink, shading white; George Pernet, bright pink; Perle des 
Rouges, deep red; Snowball, very free flowering, white; 
Jessie, bright cherry-red, white center; The Orleans, bril- 
liant red, large white center; Leonie Lamesch 1s a very dis- 
tinct new Polyantha, one of the most remarkable and attrac- 
tive of Roses on account of its peculiar combination of 
colors, flowers are large and borne in trusses, ground-color 
Rose, shading deeper towards edges of petals, which are 
blotched blood-red, while the base of petals shows varying 
shades of yellow. 
Inexhaustible indeed are the pleasures and surprises of 
the Rose garden, and happy he, or she, who can, even though 
starting out with but a dozen plants, add from year to year 
the wonderful new creations of the painstaking hybridizers. 
April, 1912 
THE SADDLE. HORSE F OR THE COUNTRY HOME 
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gives the rider a rough voyage, while the stiff-legged ae 
cutting movement characteristic of the thoroughbred leads 
one to fear the danger of a fall as a result of stumbling. 
Dragging the hocks or carrying the hind legs out behind 
makes a collected unity of action impossible, and gives the 
rider an unpleasant sense of being roughly shaken. The 
neck should be what horsemen call right side up, in order 
that the horse may be able to take a collected form, by 
which is meant that his neck should be arched and his 
muzzle drawn in towards the chest so that it will be possible 
for him to have a responsive mouth constantly amenable to 
the control of his rider. The horse who goes with his head 
high and his nose stretched out is the one that will be beyond 
control and likely to incur disaster should he take a notion 
to bolt. 
Among the faults and defects that should be most care- 
fully avoided in a saddle horse are mutton withers, straight 
shoulders, impure gait, which means winging, dishing or 
paddling; weakness of eye or wind, drooping ears or long 
slab-side waists. A good saddle horse is wide between the 
eyes and has his ears close set and sharply pricked. The 
question of long or short tails is, of course, one of individual 
preference, with all sentiments of humanitarianism on the 
side of the tail in its natural state. The placid tempered, 
quiet going, sturdily built and muscularly developed horse is 
one that will give ideal service under the “‘pig skin.” 
The period during which saddle horses continue to be 
useful varies with the individual horse and owner, but well 
cared for they last for years. The undefeated champion 
saddle horse of this country, ‘Poetry of Motion,” is now 
fifteen years of age and as fit for service as at any time in 
his career and, in fact, is to all intents and purposes a better 
and more useful horse to-day than he was when four years 
of age. 
Practically every saddle horse is equally as useful in har- 
ness as under the saddle, and the fact that they are the most 
intelligent of any breed of horse is well demonstrated by the 
fact that although they are taught to go different gaits at 
a signal and to maintain that gait until given the proper in- 
dication for a change, they are also taught that in harness 
they are to go at one gait only, aside from the walk, and 
that they rarely depart from it. There is a curiously mis- 
taken, but very prevalent idea that the use of a saddle horse 
under harness in a sense depreciates his value for riding 
purposes. So far from this being true, it is a fact that 
practically all saddle horses are made perfect for harness 
use before a saddle is ever placed upon them; and there- 
fore the owner of a well bred saddle horse has one exactly 
adapted for the dual purposes of saddle and harness use; 
and, incidentally, it is proper to mention that, barring only 
extreme speed, there are no horses that can be used with 
greater satisfaction in harness or are better average road- 
sters than are the well-bred saddle animals. Because of 
the fact that they conform to type, and that a breeder can 
reproduce the particular sort of animal he cares for with 
measurable certainty, makes the breeding of saddle horses 
more probably certain of success and attendent by fewer 
precarious risks than is true of any other breed. By reason 
of the fact that it costs infinitely less to produce and bring 
to his finest estate a saddle horse than any other, this animal 
has an infinite advantage over all other breeds. The owner 
of a suburban home anywhere is the logical producer of the 
average type of saddle horse, and there are few things 
which can engage his fancy with greater certainty of profit 
and pleasure, or be attended by less of business risk. 
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