House and Garden 
Paris Pattern No. 1796 
LADIES’ SHIRT WAIST 
7 Sizes—32 to 44 
Paris Pattern No. 1741 
GIRLS’ JUMPER DRES 
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Paris Pattern No. 1908 
LADIES’ WORK APRON 
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LADIES’ KIMONO DRESSING-SACK 
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which can be bought in iron cans, and 
use the solution hot. With a hot lye of 
this sort oil-color can be removed in a 
few minutes, and varnishes nearly as 
rapidly. As the solution attacks the 
skin, it should be applied with a cotton 
or hemp swab. A bristle brush is useless 
for the purpose, as the bristles dissolve 
almost immediately in the lye, leaving 
nothing but the handle of the brush, 
while cotton or hemp are not affected. 
When the wood is clean, it should be 
well washed with water. The strong 
soda-lye darkens the color of oak, but, if 
this is objectionable, it can easily be cor¬ 
rected by brushing the wood over with 
dilute muriatic acid, washing it thor¬ 
oughly as soon as the color is satisfac¬ 
tory, and finishing with a weak solution 
of soda, to neutralize the last traces of 
acid. In applying the acid, neither 
cotton nor hemp can be used, as they 
are quickly destroyed, but bristle brushes 
are not affected, unless they are bound 
with iron. In general, care should be 
taken never to use muriatic acid in 
rooms or workshops where iron tools 
are lying about, as the vapor, even from 
dilute acid, is quickly diffused through 
the rooms, and attacks all iron or steel 
that it can reach. The best way is to 
make all acid applications in the open 
air. It is hardly necessary to say that 
cotton or linen clothes should be worn in 
using the soda-lye, as a drop of lye, fall¬ 
ing on woolen cloth, makes a hole.— 
American Architect. 
SOME QUEER TREES 
A MONG the curiosities of tree life 
-L is the sofar, or whistling-tree, of 
Nubia. When the winds blow over this 
tree, it gives out flute-like sounds, play¬ 
ing away to the wilderness for hours at a 
time strange, weird melodies. It is the 
spirits of the dead singing among the 
branches, the natives say; but the scien¬ 
tific white man says that the sounds are 
due to a myriad of small holes which an 
insect bores in the spines of the branches. 
The weeping-tree of the Canary 
Islands is another arboreal freak. This 
tree in the driest weather will rain down 
showers from its leaves, and the natives 
gather up the water from the pool formed 
at the foot of the trunk and find it pure 
and fresh. The tree exudes the water 
from innumerable pores, situated at the 
base of the leaves. 
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