HOUSE AND GARDEN 
234 
April, 1915 
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$2 Invested in Vogue 
! a tiny fraction of your loss on one ill-chosen gown. 
will save you $200 
The gown you buy and never wear is the really 
expensive gown! Hats, suits, negligees, that 
just miss being exactly what you want are the 
ones that cost more than you can afford. 
Why take chances again this season of confu¬ 
sion when simply by sending in the coupon below 
and paying $2 — an insignificant portion of your 
loss on a single ill-chosen hat or gown — you can 
insure the correctness of your whole Spring and 
Summer wardrobe? 
Before spending a single penny on clothes, be¬ 
fore even planning your Spring wardrobe, consult 
Rogue’s great Spring fashion numbers. Beginning 
with the Spring Fashion’s Number — 
You will receive 
these 12 numbers of Vogue 
Smart Fashions 
Smart Fashions for Limited 
Brides and Summer Homes. 
American Travel 
Summer Fashions 
In the Country 
Hot Weather Fashions 
Hostesses 
London and Paris Seasons 
Children’s Fashions 
Autumn Millinery 
Autumn Forecast 
April 1 
April 15 
May 1 
May 15 
June 1 
June 15 
July 1 
July 15 
Aug. 1 
Aug. 15 
Sept. 1 
Sept. 15 == 
Paris Shows Spring Fashions 
The great French couturiers, unmindful of the war that rocks the world around them, 
have been holding their regular Spring openings. All through the season Vogue’s splendid / p 
staff of Paris correspondents are gathering for your benefit everything authoritative » 1 
and new. X \ 
With the great European fashion journals cut off, with all ordinary sources of f I 
fashion news interrupted. Vogue has become more clearly than ever before, the ab- ^ A? 
solute authority on what is to be worn by the well-dressed American woman. X rvv 
And remember that Vogue comes not once a month, like the ordinary maga- f ^ 
zine, but twice each month, bringing thereby not only the very latest . 
fashion news but twice as much of it. w g 
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in the past six months of uncertainty. And this value reaches its * ^ 
very highest point in these few weeks, when everyone is asking, S o V 
What shall we wear this Spring? X 
To answer this very important question, don’t fail to consult * 5 
Vogue’s X 
Spring Fashions Number 
and the great series of special fashion numbers that follow it. f 
Read the list of these numbers — given above — and see whether you f ^ 
are willing to do without Vogue another season. ^ W O <0 o' ‘^Vo’ 
Or rather, see whether you can afford to do without it—when ^ 
its cost to you for a whole half year, twelve big numbers—is only 
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The Bride of the Sun 
By GASTON LEROUX 
Author of “ The Mystery of the Yellow Room." 
The action of Gaston Leroux’s latest story takes place in the 
mountain fastnesses of modern Peru where the hill tribes are 
said to continue mysterious religious rites of their ancient an¬ 
cestors, the Incas. They worship the sun and offer up a human 
sacrifice every ten years, with awe-inspiring ceremonies. Their 
choice for a sacrifice is the most beautiful girl of the surrounding 
country, who is rescued from a living death by an old family 
servant. 12mo. $1.25 net. Postage 10 cents. 
McBRIDE, NAST S CO., Publishers, 31 Union Square N. New York City 
buy from a man who has the reputation 
of keeping high-class stock. It is an un¬ 
fortunate fact that many day-old chicks 
have very brief careers. 
Another way to begin this month is to 
buy a hen with a brood of chickens. The 
plan of advertising hens with chicks has 
been tried for the past year or two in some 
sections and has met with a ready re¬ 
sponse. The hen will take care of the 
chickens until they are large enough tp 
look out for themselves. Then she can 
be made the principal item in the composi¬ 
tion of a palatable chicken pie. 
It is important to keep the brood coops 
dry, which is sometimes a little difficult 
when April showers come in cpiick succes¬ 
sion. Some of the commercial litters made 
of peat are exceedingly satisfactory in 
brooders of all kinds and serve equally 
well in brood coops, which they help to 
keep in a sanitary condition, even in damp 
weather. 
Cleanliness must extend to the yards. 
I f an attempt be made to bring up chick¬ 
ens on tainted ground the result is almost 
certain to be failure. In fact, that is the 
rock on which many poultry enterprise 
proudly launched and successfully navi¬ 
gated for a time has eventually split. 
Where only a few chickens are being 
reared it is not a difficult matter to keep 
them in roomy but portable yards and to 
move the chickens daily. Even when only 
a limited grass plot is available, it is pos¬ 
sible to keep the grass from being killed 
out when it has a week or ten days in 
which to recuperate. This is really not 
the best plan, though, for growing chick¬ 
ens need fresh earth as well as grass. They 
need the earth to dig and dust in, but it 
should be where at least one crop has been 
grown since chickens were allowed on it 
before. 
Chickens running with a hen are almost 
sure to have lice. There are several kinds 
of lice which play a part in making all 
poultry miserable, but the most disastrous 
to chickens is the big-head louse, which is 
best gotten rid of by means of a very little 
lard rubbed on the beach This, of course, 
is in addition to regular weekly applica¬ 
tions of insect powder. And perhaps it 
should be said that the Persian insect 
powder commonly used should always be 
fresh. It may be purchased at any drug 
store and costs but little. Probably most 
of the prepared insect powders are just as 
good, but they are not always available. 
Fireless brooders may be used satis¬ 
factorily at this season, as there is less 
danger now of the chicks becoming chilled. 
Of course, they require much less atten¬ 
tion than heated brooders. The one point 
to remember is that the chickens provide 
their own heat and that there is no warmth 
in the brooder unless they are in it. For 
the first day or two the fireless brooder 
needs close watching, the chicks being re¬ 
peatedly coaxed or driven to its shelter. 
So soon as the youngsters have learned 
their lesson, however, very little attention 
is required. 
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