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We have weeded tho beet row this 
morning, and thrown out a dozen or more 
intworms. Yesterday, May 2, we en¬ 
joyed onions, lettuce and radishes. Our 
first, planting of beans has been frosted 
and is very yellow. Our peas are about 
half, a stand. Tomatoes almost ready 
for the open ground: sweet potatoes com¬ 
ing through the hotbed, and first, planting 
of Irish potatoes up. I can see the yel¬ 
low plum trees from the window; fruit 
are good-sized now, and I think surely 
will escape the 'frost, but one never 
knows; one can only hope. 
Lee’s pig club sow is the mother of 10 
baby pigs, and they go where they please. 
We are trying to dispose of them before 
the corn is planted near their run, but 
pigs seem a bit dull just now. 
The old-fashioned roses have always 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Divinity 
1 cannot hear Him in the running wind. 
And when the earthquakes wrestle 
neath the soil 
Within their mutiny 1 shall not find 
The cadence of the still, small voice of 
Cod. 
Yet I. where winds of April gently hush 
The new-born leaves, upon IIis pres¬ 
ence came; 
He spoke to me from but 11 is burning 
bush— 
Forsythia, with boughs of golden flame. 
-FREDERICK F. VAN )>E WATER 
in New York Tribune, 
ik 
Wt: have referred, on several occasions, 
to tile danger of fumigation with cyanide 
in a dwelling house. The New York po¬ 
lice have been investigating, recently, the 
mysterious and apparently simultaneous 
death of two persons, husband and wife, 
who lived in a ipiiet family hotel. The 
presumption is that they died from poi¬ 
sonous fumes which were used to fumi¬ 
gate a room below those they occupied. 
It was possible for these deadly fumes 
to travel through cracks around piping 
or similar crevices to the room above. 
The fumigation was done by an experi¬ 
enced person, but it is evident that the 
pervasive deadliness of the gas was not 
considered, and tragedy followed its use. 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
Only one-fifth of the buildings owned by the Bell System are shown in this picture. 
A Telephone City 
Above is an imaginary city, made by grouping together 
one-fifth of the buildings owned by the Bell System, and 
used in telephone service. Picture to yourself a city five 
times as great and you will have an idea of the amount of 
real estate owned by the Bell System throughout the country. 
If all these buildings were grouped together, they would 
make a business community with 400 more buildings than 
the total number of office buildings in New York City, as 
classified by the Department of Taxes and Assessments. 
Next to its investment in modern telephone equipment, 
the largest investment of the Bell System is in its 1,600 
modern buildings, with a value of $144,000,000. Rang¬ 
ing in size from twenty-seven stories down to one-story, 
they are used principally as executive offices, central offices, 
storehouses and garages. The modern construction of most 
of the buildings is indicated by the fact that the investment 
in buildings is now over three times what it was ten years ago. 
Every building owned by the Bell System must be so 
constructed and so situated as to serve with efficiency the 
telephone public in each locality, and to be a sound invest¬ 
ment for future requirements. 
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company 
And Associated Companies 
One Policy, One System, Universal Service, and all directed 
toward Better Service 
There was a local election at (’oko- 
ville. Wyo., May 0, ami a newspaper 
item says, regarding it: 
This town, once reputed as a hangout 
for “had men,,” held an election yesterday 
and Mrs. Ktliel Stoner was the success¬ 
ful candidate for Mayor. Mrs. ,T. P. 
Noblitt and Mrs. Richard Huberts were 
named to the City Council. 
The women defeated a men's ticker 
and they have announced their intention 
to “clean the city of bootleggers and other 
law violators.” 
Mrs. Stoner polled 70 votes, while R. 
A. Roomer, men’s candidate for Mayor, 
received 43. 
Reading between the lines, we think 
the women had become indignant over ob¬ 
jectionable conditions, and as direct ac¬ 
tion was needed, they decided to “do it 
themselves.” 
Montessori Educational Material 
devised t>y Dr. Montessori, tor tho leadline of 
chlhlrnu up to ten years of age. hitherto sold 
only in oompleta sots, may now tin purchased 
in sections, to meet the needs of ehildron of 
different ages. Thousands of parents are 
successfully using this apparatus for homo in¬ 
struction. Write today for tiee catalog R, N. 
THE HOUSE OF CHILDHOOD, Inc. 
103 West 14tli Street, New York City 
My coffee is no eon ft that people who 
1 drink It never rhnnge. 
You couldn't iioikc (rood bread of 
flour (fro mill from shriveled or 
mouldy wheat. Smidl, unripe, brok¬ 
en coffee berries will not make 
wholeaome coffee. 
My coffee is delicious became it in 
around from Inrue, plump. HICK 
berrien. It Is sstisfyinu end health v. 
It soothe* the nerves end help* ill- 
gestion. 
Ton c«a DRINK ALL YOU WANT! 
Send only $1.00 (check, money order or cash) for K lb- 
trial order. Money back if it doe* not please you. 
All postage paid by me. 
ALICE FOOTE MACDOUGALL 
Dept. A 73 Front Street, New York, N. Y. 
2132. Drees for misses and small wom¬ 
en, 1(1 and 18 years. The 10-year size 
will require 3% yds. of material 30, 40 
or 44 in. wide. 20 cents. 
appealed to me, and I see one open rose 
and two buds on the old-fashioned thorny 
yellow rose; the deep red rose with its 
fragrant perfume is just loaded with 
opening buds. The old-fashioned rose 
has always died out for me. My Penn¬ 
sylvania Iris has bloomed profusely this 
Spring; the deep purple is the earliest 
bloomer of the four varieties. 
They toll rue it is time to begin din¬ 
ner. What, will I cook? Yesterday was 
bMiii day; Irish potatoes have given out. 
Eggs? Yes, they like eggs; corn bread, 
milk and butter and a few incidentals. 
Our White Leghorns have surely kept 
up their side of the bill, but when one 
lakes n notion to sit one would just as 
well hunt up the eggs and prepare them 
for business, and while we have had 
very poor success with hatching chickens 
so far, we have lost but few, I start off 
each litter with a hard-boiled egg, shell 
and all. crushed fine. Sweet milk, warm 
from the cow, makes them thrive, Lee 
and Thelma each have a gang of their 
very own. and Paid wauls lo rear a drove 
of guineas. The hoys have a turkey hen 
each, and so they lake quite a bit of in- 
terest in the poultry. Rut the greatest 
thing is the mule colts. We have raised 
sutlicient coverlet money to purchase four 
young mules, ranging in price from $20 
to $35 each, lower than I have ever 
known them to sell. Next in view is a 
Jersey cow. That is a dream of the fu¬ 
ture. along with many needed things for 
the home, but we can only wait, work, 
hope and strive. 
Dinner over, dishes washed, chickens 
fed, a May shower sent them scuttling to 
shelter, hut the sun has broken out again, 
and all the earth looks refreshed anil 
green. Raul has gone to the forest to 
look for squirrels. They will hunt them 
to keep them from the corn, and because 
some of the men folks are very fond of 
them on the table, especially fried brown 
or in a big potpie. mrn, p. n. k. 
When you write advertisers mention 
The Rural New- Yorker and you 'll net 
a quick reply and a "square deal." See 
guarantee editorial page. : 
\ acitm ice cream jars, holding one 
quart, were noted recently for $2.S9. 
They are made on the same principle as 
a thermos bottle, and ice cream packed 
in such a jar remains in perfect condition 
for a long time. It would be a great con¬ 
venience on long automobile trips or pic- 
P. S.—Special Family Order 
SALT should be free 
from Moisture 
Who can tell ns how to make cheese 
from buttermilk, flavored with caraway 
seeds? It is made largely in Holland, 
and one of our readers asks for the 
recipe. 
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Did you know that salt, free 
from moisture, means you are 
getting all salt—full weight of 
salt flavor and salt benefit? 
The soft, porous, quick dissolv¬ 
ing flakes of Colonial Special 
Farmers Salt are free from mois¬ 
ture and all adulteration- That is 
why it does not cakeor harden like 
ordinary salts, and that is one 
reason why a 70 lb. bag is as 
big and does the work of a 100 
lb. bag of ordinary salt. 
Remember, only salt that dissolves 
completely, instantly, is good salt. 
Best for every farm purpose—cook¬ 
ing, talcing, butter making, meat 
curing and table use. 
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Tennessee Notes 
I have slipped away to the kitchen to 
try to get a few' uninterrupted moments 
with my pen. Mr. P. wants paper (o 
burn some caterpillcrs. Lee, w ho is braid¬ 
ing a rug, wants to know what color to 
use next. Four young turkeys want to 
be noticed. A crow near the turkey’s nest 
has caused Thelma to scamper off to see 
if the hen has yet laid. Paul, who is 
burrowing the newly planted corn, has 
come to the house for a drink, and like¬ 
wise to the. cupboard for a snack to eat. 
Some say it. ruins their stomachs to eat 
between meals, but if that be true they 
will all be ruined, for it is a very com¬ 
mon occurrence. 
The crystals or flakea of 
ordinary salt are hard and 
alow dissolving. 
Tho soft porous flakes of 
Colonial dissolve instantly. 
COLONIAL 
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