House and Garden 
pail of hot water and when this cooled, 
it left the wax in a compact cake on top. 
When taken home these cakes were 
melted and run into ordinary candle 
molds. These bayberry candles give 
a steady flame, a pleasing fragrance and 
burn much more slowly than ordinary 
candles. If only used on special occa¬ 
sions they will last a long time. 
Old-time silver candlestick holders 
make a suitable setting for bayberry 
candles, or if you do not possess any ol 
these heirlooms, try something unique. 
The prettiest and most attractive kind 
of a holder may be made with rosy 
cheeked apples. They should be of 
uniform size and a hole hollowed out to 
set the candle in, so it will stand firm. 
Place a wreath of holly around it on the 
white cover .—Farm and Home. 
ROSES 
PLANTED too close to a porch or 
dwelling, especially in a partial 
shade, and without free circulation of air, 
roses are likely to be attacked by mildew. 
A sudden drop in the temperature, espe¬ 
cially after a humid season, subjects roses 
to subsequent mildew as quickly as the 
same cause does with indoor roses. For 
outdoor roses under an attack of mildew 
syringe thoroughly both canes and 
foliage with the following: One pound 
hard soap, one-half pound of flour of 
sulphur, ten gallons of water. Dissolve 
the soap in boiling water, stir in the sul¬ 
phur, then add cold water sufficient for 
ten gallons. Keep constantly stirred 
while using. This is a perfect cure and 
far surpasses the method of dusting with 
sulphur. The latter answers for light 
attacks and is applied when the plant is 
thoroughly wet with dew or water. 
PAY OF THE GRECIAN ARCHITECT 
TN 1897 the French school at Delphi 
unearthed two slabs of limestone 
which bear an inscription which is of 
great interest, dating, as it does, from the 
fourth century before Christ. This in¬ 
scription, which consists of about two 
hundred lines, gives the price of work 
for building operations in Greece at 
the period named, and from it we learn 
that an architect was paid at the rate of 
under T30 per annum. This is not a 
great sum, even if its purchasing power 
is multiplied, as it should be, by five or 
six.— Chambers’s yournal. 
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