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American Agriculturist, November 15, 1924 
Cabinet for Medicines 
Useful Kitchen Chest — Amusing' the Baby 
E VERY kitchen should have a medicine 
cabinet for the storage of all bottles 
and boxes which do not rightly belong in 
the cupboard. The cabinet shown, you 
will notice, is high enough so that small 
children cannot open the doors from the 
floor. But inside is a small compartment 
with a second door which is kept locked 
at all times. In this compartment are the 
poisons and the key is kept by an adult. 
To prevent taking the wrong bottle in 
the dark, however, each bottle of poison 
should be marked. One way is to place a 
cardboard disk about the necks of the 
bottles. Another is to glue sandpaper 
about the bottle. For boxes of poison, 
sandpaper glued on all four sides and the 
top will notify fingers in the dark that it 
contains poison. 
The cabinet is ten inches deep, eighteen 
inches high and about thirty inches wide. 
The sides and door frames are cut from 
half-inch pine while the panel effects are 
secured by nailing composition on the 
back of the door frames. When painted 
the result is quite attractive, yet no 
special tools have been required. 
Notice that the top forms a convenient 
and useful shelf.— Dale R. Van Horn. 
Dressing Up Cold Meat 
M AKE a sauce of 2 tablespoons butter, 
2 tablespoons flour, 2 peeled onions, 
parsley, 2 bay leaves, % cupful of gravy 
or meat stock, Yi cupful grape juice or 
the juice of a lemon. Make it exactly 
like a cream sauce, using the gravy in 
place of milk and adding the grape or 
lemon juice after it has thickened. Let 
simmer for hour. Then take out the 
onions, salt and juice of ]/o lemon. Put 
in the meat and heat through. This is a 
French concoction. Another sauce they 
use is: 
Tomato Sauce 
1 bay leaf 
4 sprigs of parsley 
pepper, salt 
1 tablespoon butter 
6 tomatoes 
2 large onions 
3-2 cupful of cold water 
k tablespoons flour 
1 cupful milk 
Put the first five ingredients together 
in a small pan and boil for h'2 hour, then 
put through a sieve. Reheat the liquid. 
Smooth the flour in a little cold milk and 
bring remainder of milk to a boil. Add 
the smoothed flour, the butter and the 
seasoning to the hot tomato mixture, 
stirring until it thickens. Thin as much 
as you wish with the hot milk and add the 
slices of meat. They will be better than 
a fresh stew. This sauce is excellent with 
fish, rice, macaroni, and vegetables that 
need something to give them flavor.—■„ 
Mrs. George Gray. 
Amusing the Baby 
ill THEN my children were babies, I 
7 V hit upon a very successful scheme 
>r keeping them busy while I did my 
ousework. The distracted mother, in 
ie story, who gave her young hopeful a 
ather dipped in molasses to play with 
ad the right idea so far as he was con¬ 
cerned. He must have been blissfully 
happy for a time, pulling the feather 
off first one finger then another and 
sucking the molasses. That's only a 
story anyhow, but I can think of things 
I’d rather do than wash molasses-gummed 
furniture, clothes and babies! Besides, 
suppose the precious infant had swallowed 
the feather along with the molasses! 
Acting on my experience as a kinder- 
gartner, I laid out my campaign of 
amusement. It applies to a very young 
baby not yet walking, as well as to an 
older one. The mother must, of course, 
use her judgment as to the objects selected 
in connection with the age of the child. 
First I secured two shoe boxes (you can 
have as many as you like) of the common 
paper variety. Next I scoured my house 
and my relatives’ houses for playthings 
to put in them. I don’t mean toys, 
necessarily. You know, a baby learns 
by handling things and at first he has no 
conception of anything outside himself. 
Soon he becomes conscious of his hands 
and feet and other objects which for 
some reason attract his wavering atten¬ 
tion. At this stage, where he begins to 
investigate toes and fingers, he will be 
vitally interested in a “box of junk,” as 
my son puts it. Something to handle and 
feel of. 
Paint Is Indigestible 
Right here, let me caution you, con¬ 
cerning this “junk.” Be very, very sure 
that there is nothing injurious in any of 
the boxes. Nothing with a small top that 
can come off and be sucked down the 
throat. Nothing with paint to be sucked 
off, nothing sharp and so on. You know, 
after the baby has held each object in his 
hand a bit, he will next try to see if it is 
edible, by any chance, and here is the 
danger. Of course you expect to teach 
your offspring, eventually, not to put 
everything in his mouth, but until then 
don’t take chances. It makes me posi¬ 
tively feel ill every time I think of the 
poor mother, of whom I read a short 
while ago. Her baby in some way 
managed to open a talcum powder box 
with which he was playing and drew the 
powder into his lungs. He died soon 
after in spite of every effort to save him. 
There are many safe objects with which 
to play, however—as safe, that is, as any¬ 
thing can be in this world. 
In my collection of “junk” there was a 
rubber ball (too large to swallow), a cloth 
dolly, a woolly lamb, a small cardboard 
box with sliding cover, a rubber tiger, 
a small wicker basket, several clothes 
pins, a stocking darner, a needle book 
(minus the needles), a small shiny silver 
dish, several empty spools, a tablespoon 
and other comparatively innocuous and 
attractive things. A baby who is Well 
will sit in his chair or carriage a long 
time, contentedly handling and fingering 
the contents of one of these boxes. When 
he is tired of it, remove it always, before 
giving him another, thus keeping a fresh 
and, from his point of view, a new box 
in reserve. Many an ironing and many 
a mending basket I have conquered, with 
my baby near me, entertaining himself 
busily with his “box of junk."— Esther 
Hull Doolittle. 
Do you stop, look, and listen at grade 
crossings? 
Stamped Towels for Gifts 
AN unusual embroidery bargain! If you order at one 
we C an supply two stamped and hemstitched towel 
1S by 37 inches, one yellow and one blue, on excellent quail, 
material, for $1.00 for the two. 
Order by number — E42-11. Towels are not sold sepi 
rately. Send to Embroidery Department, America 
Agriculturist, lfil Fourth Ave., New York. 
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egg production 
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of year when eggs are most profitable. 
Union Carbide itself is a crystalline material, like crushed 
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Over 409,000 Carbide-gas plants have been installed on 
farms during the last twenty-five years, and each year 
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Carbide-gas is made in a simple, easily-operated appa¬ 
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Carbide is brought into contact with water, which im¬ 
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cealed iron piping (which does not 
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carries it to the rooms where its cheer¬ 
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kitchen for cooking, ironing and heat¬ 
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If you already have a Carbide-gas 
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HEAR MUSIC ond TALKING 
I 1000 MILES AWAY j 
New Radio Set Has No Outside 
Wires or Storage Batteries 
The new Trans-continental Radiophone which is 
the most simple, and the clearest toned radio set 
you have ever listened to, is the invention of Mr. 
Coats, of Chicago. This radio outfit is entirely 
different from all others.No outside wires needed. 
No troublesome storage batteries. It comes com¬ 
plete, in a beautiful mahogany fin¬ 
ish cabinet(console typejand a loud 
speaker built right in so the en¬ 
tire family can listen to it just 
like a phonograph. It is guaran¬ 
teed to have a range of 1,000 
miles. Listen to the musical 
concerts, singing, lectures and 
speeches. Get the market re¬ 
ports, latest news and sports by 
radio. Mr. Coats wants to 
place one of his amazing 
new radio outfits in each 
locality and is making a 
special reduction of 40 per 
cent for the first outfit 
placed in each community. 
Write Mr. E.L. Coats, 
338 W. 47th St., Chicago, 
for his special low price offer 
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SUNMFG.C 0 .Dept 56 l Chicago 
Post Your 
Farm 
and 
Keep Trespassers Off 
i 
We have had a new supply 
of trespass signs made up. 
This time they are made of 
extra heavy linen on which the 
lettering is printed directly. 
There is no card facing to be 
water-soaked by the rain and 
blown away by the wind. We 
have had these new signs made 
up of extra heavy material be¬ 
cause severe storms will tear 
and otherwise make useless a 
lighter constructed material. 
We unreservedly advise farm¬ 
ers to post their land and 
the notices we have prepared 
comply in all respects with the 
New York law. The price to 
subscribers is 95 cents a dozen, 
the same rate applying to 
larger quantities. 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
461 4th Ave., New York City 
