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S‘F’acts‘From Hcre and There
Aztec Fort in Pre—Columbian Days
PreColumbian days. probably
«on before the period of the Az-
7’“ and Toltec peoples, and at a
the ,when a considerable portion of
1“ Iouth western part of this country,
1.. embraced in Colorado. Utah and
” Mexico was densely populated by
. ace well advanced in many of the
and. arts and industries. constant
m was carried on between fac-
rival tribes or different races,
evidenced by the defensive posi-
“1 picked out by the more peace-
“ inhabitants for their dwellings.
h nearly every one of the ancient
q-nmumn buildings can be found
“were and lookouts, with small win-
he or loopholes commanding all
hes. Usually the towers are a
w of the main building, but occas-
hully they are detached and stand
.1 some distance. and are built suin-
ciently high to afford a view of the
country on all sides.
One of these remarkable structures
has been found in Navajo, Canyon
which is included within the Mesa
Verde National Park, in southwestern
Colorado. The tower still stands on
ten of a sandstone cone about thirty
feet l‘igh and is perfect’., cylindricas
By the aid of steps worn in the stat r
it is possible to climb to the tower and
even to walk around \1. The walls are
twenty four inches thick, and although
thei— original height. is rot known
those now in place 91.1 over nine feet
high. This to ver, arising from the
bottom of the canyon to an elevation
above the surrounding rim. command-
ed» a. view of the adjacent mesa and
was undoubtedly the viewpoint train.
which warnings of an approaching
enemy could be sent out to the Cliff
Dwellers in the canyon below.
The Famous Basilisk
CCORDING to the ancient writers
the basilisk—sometimes called
«lattice—was a monster to be great-
ly dreaded. Its breath filled the air
ill: a deadly poison and burned up
' annotation. and the glance of its eye
‘3 fatal to both man and east. The
:1: creature that could ace it and
they said, was the cock and tra-
fiers Were advised to take loud-crow-
” cocks with them as a protection
against the monster. So much for
meretition As a matter of fact the
“lick is a harmless lizard, living a
r.
quiet life in the woods and feeding on
insects. Its appearance however, is
formidable, and it is this, perhaps, that
gave it a bad name. It grows to a
length of from twenty-five to thirty
inches, including its tail, which is
much longer than its body. Rising
from its head, and inclining back-
ward is a broad,w1ng-like expansion,
which gives it some resemblance to
the flyi..- lizard. The czest of this
expansion is formed somewhat like a
crown, and that gave t‘a basilisk its
name, which .5 from the Creek wen!
meaning “mug".
If Snow Never Fell
I!“ all the condensed moisture of the
atmosphere were to fall as rain
and none of it as snow, hundreds of
thousands of square miles of the
mtb’s surface now yielding bounti-
fl crops would be little better than
a desert. The tremendous economic
pin for the world at large which re-‘
mu from the difference between
.317 and rain is seldom realized by
u inhabitants oi! fertile and well-
‘atered lowlands.
It is in the extensive regions Where
trigation is a prime necessity in
agriculture that the special uses of
cow comes chiefly into view. all
inter the snow is falling, falling up
.1 the mountains and packing itself
firmly in the ravines Thus, in no,
mate’s great ice-house a. supply of
.oisture is stored up for the follow-
ing summer.
L411 through the warm months the
hardened snow banks are Inciting
gradually. In trickling streams they
steadily feed the rivers. which as
they flow through the valleys, are uti~
lized for irrigation. I! this moisture
fell as rain it would almost im-
mediately wash down through the
rivers. and would hardly be felt at all
in the-summer when the crops most
needed water.
In all parts of the country the no-
tion prevails that the snow is of great
value as a fertilizer. Scientists how-
ever are inclined to attach less im-
portance, to its service in soil nutri-
tion—for some regions that have no
snow are exceedingly fertile—Ahan to
its worth as a blanket during the
months 9! high winds. It prevents
the blowing oi! of the finely pulverized
richness of the top soil. This. al-
tb little perceived. would be a
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THE SOUTH BOR‘WAL‘K Ms W
AS the ,warm weather approaches
many letters come to me asking
questions such as these: Shall my
baby Wear flannels during the sum-
mer? Are woolen shirts and bands
necessary in warm weather? Is it
be: t for a baby to wear a petticoat in
“summer, stat My answer to each
question is "yes." If you would keep
your. babies well during the summer
keep them warm. Remebmer that lit.
tle babies do not feel the has , do
adults. They have much less strength
and vitality and very little of either
to spare; none must be wasted by
allowing their little bodies to become
chilled. ,Summer weather is variable;
young infants are more or less sus-
ceptible to changes, even slight ones,
and unless the stomach and intestines
are properly protected they are apt
to suiter.
It is not necessary to swathe in-
HE first two years the children
wont to school, I was often quite
distracted hunting "pieces to speak."
There must be pieces for Hallowe' en,
Thanksgiving. Christmas, New Year’ s,
Washington’s Birthday. May Day.
Flag Day and Fourth 0' July. I al-
ways saw and read to them such dear
little poems as the magazines for
those special months came, but that
was usually too late to learn any of
them. Finally I decided to be pre-
.c.red hereafter.
i had each child buy. out of his own
pennies, a big yellow legal cap tablet.
} we cut out every other page, punched
two holes at the top of the loose
leaves. and tied them together. and
each child wrote his name on his two
aflush,
LEEP, little pappoose minefll
The south wind sighs through the
whispering pine.
S
drugged wine.
And night' a cool stars o'er our wig-
wam shine.
Sleep, little puppooae mine.
summer Underclothmg for Bag
By Marianna Wheeler
Formerly Superintendent for Fiflcen Years of in: Babies’ Hospital, New YOfi ,
“Where’ll I Find a Place To Speak?”
One Mother' 5 Solution
qu INDIAN L ULLABY
By Agnes Ladder! Hug)?“
USE. little pappoose, hush:
The clay-era kneel
grasses lush,
Day steals away with a crimson blush,
The wildrose dreams with her face
Hush, little pappoose. hush.
The poppys cup brlms with aieep's The songbird sways in its soft brown
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fants in heavy flannels or an immod
crate amount of clothing in order to
keep them warm. Usually they do
not need additional heat, but what they
do not need is certain protection in or-
der to prevent loss of heat and energy.
Fabrics composed entirely of cutton
or linen do not seem to possess heat-
saving qualities; in fact, they absorb
considerable heat from the body be
fore they become warm. Not so with
wool; it responds almost immediately
to the heat of the bdoy, and holds it.
The ideal material for infant's under-
wear during the summer is that
which is light in texture and contains;
about onethird wool, mixed with cot-2
ton or silk. Cold extremities are pro
ductive of indigestion and colic, and
they are very uncomfortable to a
baby at any season of the year A
baby’s legs should be protected by a
flannel skirt and the tiny feet on
cased in stockings or bootees.
"books." Four years ago we began.
We went through all our back num-
bers of magazines, cut out andpasted
in the books, all the suitable pieces
Since then, every special day maga-
zine is gone over for pieces before we
lay it away or pass it on. We are‘n
careful not to cut a piece out if it cuts
into a story or helpful article, but copy
instead. The children do the work
of this themselves. But I, too, keep
a book, for I‘ve cut or copied pieces
that will do for later years, which
they pass by now. It only takes a
few minutes to do this, and the choice
of a piece to speak is a pleasure to
every one concerned now, instead of
a nerveracklng Job of hunting-as be
fore.
’midlt the
DREAM. dusky child of the West:
The dewdrop sleeps on the
pansy’ a breast.
nest,
And cloud
moon? mm
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I know many people who increase
their income in a moderate way by
selling eggs and chickens to to their
grocer and butcher, but few realize the
immense advantage to be gained by
taking up some of the special branches
of this many-sided business. The farm
wife thinks she is doing well if she
gets a reasonable price for eggs and
table birds, yet a little extra trouble,
and the exercise of a little business
ability, will make every egg and every
pound of flesh bring a top-notch price.
0! course, to realize the highest prices.
etc-:1: and methods must be higboclass.
The first consideration is to select a
'brecd and stick to it. for that is the-
only way to gain success Few people
can afford to buy prize winners at first,
but everybody ought to afford good,
pure bred stuck. Every large poultry
plant has what it terms "market stock”
for sale, at reasonable prices: birds
that can be bought for a dollar and a
dollar and a half each. They are the
progeny of high class stock, but do
not come up to showroom standard.
Ten birds would give you quite a lot
of eggs for hatching. Save the pallets,
save out the very best, and the his
losing your buy one or two (according
to the number of pallets you have)
really good roosters tor run with them,
and you will be able to raise young-
sters the next season that can com»
pete for blue ribbons a‘ your state fair,
and gain the prestige which will en-
able you to sell their eggs at two or
three dollars a setting, and the pick
of the young stock next season for'
from two to five dollars apizce. i say 3
the pick, for even when the most per-i
fort birds are mated. their progeny
will not all be beauties. Some mem~
bers of the family are sure to be just
workday side of life.
o
rem
By KatcV Saint Muir
u u necessary to pay some attention
to the culinary end of the business,
but you can still work on the higher
plane, as it is the most profitable.
Thorough bred birds are almost as ne-
cessary for the marketing branch of
the business ,as for the other. or
course they develop more quickly than
mougreis, fatten more easily, and look
better when dressed.
'
it has not yet become the general
market custom in this country to draw
and truss birds at once, but private
customers will quickly appreciate the
improvement in flavor that immediate
attention to cleanliness makes, and
before long, I firmly believe, the pre-
sent custom of keeping and shipping
undrawu birds will be condemned by
the authorities. When birds are go-
ing to customers. instead of being sent
in a sprawling condition they are truss-
ed as for roasting. leaving a piece of
charcoal inside to insure perfect
sweetness. ‘
We have coops six feet long by two
and a half wide, with yards-hair: by
ten, into which from five to ten birds
are placed three weeks before killing
Fowl: of a year old, when properly
prepared, make good roasters; taken
from the general yard they are tough'
and fit only for soup. Cookerels of
ten or twelve weeks old will. by special
fattening and inactivity, become plump
very quickly. The roost in the coop is
only a foot from the floor; yard and
floor of coop are of firmly trampled
earth, with no loose gravel, sand or
{scratching material of any description, 1 card s t e
the object being to keep the birds as
placid as possible
of ground feed.
one- -third of
in] or salt one pint of all??? 0011.?
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mashed carrots petal
ed and moistened 11 3:5 Sign hm 13:15 5'“
which beef suet has bee mk in
half pound chopped finn boiled One
for too quarts of milk:3 In whom
fifteen minutes. Feed 1 "libertin-
troughs as much as womb“, i
eat in fifteen minute it mu if“ i
allowed to stand h:iorc t} ustnot W
nuaily, or they will become0
it was an old lwmhman 5mm," L
me the hint about suet, whWhD {Mel
cellent, making the flesh die}; is ext ‘
muff“ and “my 6 cloudy:
ter the i111 tunin
fully accompiish- d giggiglegilfliuccen
dxessing must follow to than 11g and?
lence. Twenty four hours bet: um
ing', birds a1e remomd to indle‘mtl
coops, a foot and a halt squareh “A!
wire. netting sides flom of islet Withg
an inch apart, and legs mo {942:th
The open flooringr and elexated
tion allow the droppings to now
through and out or thr blrds’ {all
For twelve hours the} hme mil-leach.
fore them all the time but no i Mil
last twelve hours nothing but wig;
to insure the crop being empty. 1‘;
For such trade scaldins is not
missible ’lhc birds must be killml *
with a narrow sharp pointed but?!
Stab in the roof of the mouth, amide
pickhbeiore the flesh is (”Old ”1
T ere are many ways 0!
touch with private customer? “8:122,
to put an ad ertisement in the limit
p.ape1‘ A110 her is to have several?
11 inches square printed and L
get some of the stores in Your townl
to hang them up. Strange 33 ll. lllly'
111 com. 1
Morning, noon, and night, mash is seem, mliiinery and fancy “m is»
fed, as it is more easily digested and tablishments
ordinary creatures. fit only for the assimilated than whole corn. The first places for such card... as women ”‘4
For this reason lten days’ mash consists of one quart sure to see them.
are among the beat
RY a travel evening when you
have guests who may be number-
ed among the older set.
After the guests have gathered and
have spent a while in conversation.
pass a tray of post cards, and each
one present must take a card. These
cards are of noted plum or things in
The United States and elsewhere, and
mustlayhoodownwardaothatno
one can see what picture is being
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A TRAVEL EVENING
change it, sight unseen, with anyone
else who may wish to make an ex-
change. but that only one exchange
will be permitted. This brings about
quite a brisk bartering among the
guests, as several may wish to get
hold of a card representing a place or
thing with which they are more funi-
liar, for it must also be announced
beforehand that the holder of each
card will be called on a little labor to
tell morning ‘1 the picture on the
ruicdnwingicovoraunounce cord.
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and thus a very interesting and in‘
structive evening will be spent in dis-
cussing various fzuncus places my
things throughout the World. WM?
one may not know, someone else no»
hope will, and a short talk on most all
the, places is sure to follow. ,
Finally pencils and slice of m,
are passed around, and a vote taken;
as to the one who bps given the m
86 a will
will Mylar Tillage“ loatkég travel.
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QUALITY I MODERN GROCERY C0,, Inc l ECONOMY
Now Is the T 1me to Buy Your Sugar for Canning
We have been waiting a long time for this Opportunity. It has been our desire to notify the public
just when the mast Opportune time arrives to buy sugar for canning. At the present time we will
supply Our patrons with all the White Granulated Sugar they need, so that when the short season is
here you will have an ample supply on hand with which to do your preserving. YOU MAY HAVE
WHATEVER YOU NEED WHILE OUR PRE SENT SUPPLY LASTS AT 25c A POUND.
Bear' in mind that Sugar is not the only article we sell. Our high quality groceries are building a constantly growmg Pa
tronage. Rock bottom prices assured when you do business with us.
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Condensed Milk
size 14-02. can
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