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A Combination Table 
The convenient little serving table il¬ 
lustrated was given by the Philadelphia 
Ledger as a reproduction from a govern¬ 
ment bulletin. It is attractive and con¬ 
venient, and not beyond the ability of an 
amateur carpenter. If nicely stained 
anu varnished, with a pretty scarf or 
doily on top, it will nrake an attractive 
piece of dining-room furniture. 
This convenience comprises a china 
closet, scn-ing table and roller tray all 
in one. It was built by using a box five 
inches deop for the top and placing it 
on four wooden posts for legs. Dimen¬ 
sions: Top of table, .311/^ inches long by 
IG^/i inches wide and 29 inches high, 
and a serving compartment five inches 
deep. The top of the table is put on 
hinges and straps or small chains fast¬ 
ened to it to keep the top from falling 
back too far when opened. The bottom 
of the serving compartment is five inches 
below the top. Around the sides of this 
compartment are little screw hooks on 
which the cups may be hung. 
In the compartment is space for serv¬ 
ing dishes for six. Delow the serving 
compartment is a drawer which is di¬ 
vided in the center by a half-inch strip. 
One side is used for the linen and one 
side for the silver. The side \ised for the 
silver is lined with blue outing flannel, 
because this serves the same purpose and 
is cheaper than felt. A spool was cut 
into halves to make the knobs for the 
drawer, and a pair of these knobs was 
placed on each side so that the drawer 
could be used from either side. The legs 
were itieces of wood inches .stpiare 
with rollers. Old rubber-tired wheels 
from toy wagons or discarded baby 
coaches may be u-sed. This is an im¬ 
provement, because the tray rolls noise¬ 
lessly. 
The (‘stimated cost of this convenience 
is: 
Dry goods ho.x .$0.25 
1 yanl blue outing flannel.10 
2 hinges .10 
4 rollers .15 
1 can mahogany stain.90 
Total .$0.90 
Making Friends 
“Yes,” said Mrs. Rolf, “this has certainly 
been a bu.sy, hai)py season, the happiest 
I believe since my own children were lit¬ 
tle. You see I was beginning to feel a 
bit lonely, with our oldest daughter liv¬ 
ing so far away, in a home of her own, 
and son .Tohn about to be married. Some 
way I just couldn’t help feeling that the 
home was growing too big and empty. So 
before Spring set in I just planned not to 
be lonesome a bit, and just be happy 
every minute. 
“Y^ou know Mis.s Hollis in the city? 
No? Well, she is mother and benefactor 
and counsellor, comforter of souls and 
bodies of hundreds of mothers and chil¬ 
dren in a very congested part. So I be¬ 
sought her to help me forget myself, dur¬ 
ing the Summer months of sunshine, i)ure 
air, good food, too much room, and all out¬ 
doors of fruit, flowers, brooks, lake and 
mountains. And bless you, she did; 
brought me the .sweetest, most fretful, 
emaciated baby^irl you ever saw, taken 
right from the hospital where she had 
been four months with pneumonia and 
boils. Think of it! seven great comfort¬ 
ers on that little baby; all caused by lack 
of care and malnutrition, the doctor said. 
She was a year old and weighed fourteen 
pounds, could not sit up or help herself 
at all. 
“They sent a formula, which was 
chiefly lime water, boiled water, and a 
little milk, and when she finished her 
I)ortion she would cry for more milk. 
Any mother of healthy babies could see 
that child needetl something more nourish¬ 
ing than lime water, which has its uses, 
l^it not to put flesh on the bone.s it Ava« 
supposed to build. Little by little I re- 
dticcd the formula until she had her 
(dght ounces of fresh whole milk every ' 
three hours. Her basket was kept on ! 
the porch or out in the sunshine, the win¬ 
dow of her room always open, the room 
had been freshly papered and painted. At 
first she coughed nights so it .seemed she 
would strangle. Rut little h.v little the 
cough grew less and finally disappeared 
altogether. In four weeks she had 
gaimd two pounds, and there was a touch 
of color in her cheeks. Finally in mid¬ 
summer she cut six teeth at once, but 
was not sick a day. One by one the 
dreadful comforters were disappearing. 
She could stand up in her crib or basket 
and was really growing plump. 
“Rut, my dear, how I loved that baby. 
You see a little child can’t thrive without 
love any more than a flower can grow 
without sunshine; and another thing was 
good, common mother sense. They sent 
a big, brov, n bottle of insipid, nasty'med¬ 
icine to feed that baby; the bottle of 
medicine still stands in the cabinet. That 
baby was a.s regular as a clock in feeding 
and sleeping. I never held her only to 
wash and dress her, or let anyone else 
si)oil her by jogging, rocking or dancing 
her around; never did that with our own. 
“Then a little oatmeal gruel was added 
to her morning portion of milk, a tea¬ 
spoonful at first; a crust of stale bread to 
chew on once a day, as her teeth devel¬ 
oped, and a little orange juice. She walks 
now, is the best-natnrod child you ever 
saw, and we do not feel that we can ever 
part with her. Would you? 
“Along toward Autumn Miss Hollis 
sent to me a dear friend of hers. ‘A very 
hard-working woman of a very superior 
type,’ for a vacation. I am just glad to 
have had the pleasure of talking to her 
friend ; who certainly was a sui)erior 
type. A cripple beyond recovery on the i 
downhill side of life, who shakes her cane 
merrily in the face of misfortune and 
.slowly pegs along the road with a cheer¬ 
ful countenance and a smile for the truly 
unfortunate. How she did enjoy the 
shady porch, the drives, the picnic by the 
water side. T cannot remember the year 
or the day in my life that I ever had a 
picnic,’ she said as we drove home with 
the baby sitting between us, and wild 
flowers and specimens of the pebbles along 
the shore tucked around. 
“IVe hope time will be kind with her 
that she may not spend the long weeks in 
the hospital this Winter that she did 
last, and that she will make us a good, 
long visit again next Summer. It just 
se(‘med to mo that all nature was kind to 
that woman friend, and that little baby ; 
they enjoyed it so. They fairly drank it 
in groat draughts, and grew strong.” 
THE COUNTKY GENTLEWOMAN. 
Our- Latest “FRIEND.MAKING” 
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333 WEST 30th ST., NEW YORK. 
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