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FIXING THE CH T A base for the Christmas tree is one of the simplest things in the world to * *" you know how to go about And you can make tree that will be as^one bought, few box boards, material, a ham all tha' required tree base shown in Inches wide and 26 inches long was us3d for thiB base. Fig. 2 shows the first step In its construction?the form ing of a pocket in the bottom of the box to receive the end of the tree. This is made with two pair of boards nailed together crosswise as in Fig. 3. Any boards of narrow widths will do. Cut pair A exactly as long as the inside width of tho box, and pair B exactly as long as the inside length of the box. For the end of a tree of me dium size, the pocket should measure two and one-half or three inches square. This means that the strips should be placed two and on-5-Irlf or three inches apart If the pocket proves tt- be a bit too large, the end of tho tree ,?3n be wrapped with a strip ri ? F ' B II i.n.bigpcsrj i f*' of cloth or paper to make it fit tight. This pocket frame does not require fastening to the box if it is made to fit snugly. The bottom pocket holds the end of the tree in position. A similar pocket in the top of the box is necessary to keep the tree from toppling over, and this is made by fastening one pair of boards between the sides of the box even with the top edge (C, Fig. 4), then crossing them with a pair nailed to the top of the box (D, Fig. 5). The base can now be completed by covering it neatly with cloth, but it will have a much more attractive ap pearance if you slant the sides as they are slanted in Fig. 1. This is done by nailing a pair of boards to the bot tom of the box (B, B, Fig. 6) so they project beyond the sides and ends as shown, anc? then nailing strips F to the ends of these boards. The pro jections of the frame thus formed should be equal. Now, when you cov er the bor. bring the cloth from the Waterspouts Escort Ship. Officers of the steamer Borinquen, from San Juan, Porto Rico, reported that just as the ship was entering the Gulf Stream four waterspouts were seen. Two were in the southwest and two in the east, and traveling at a high rate of speed before a westerly wind. The water temperature at the time was 78 degrees and that of the air 71. At first the lower parts of the spouts were vertical, and the upper pans Hor izontal. Later on more spouts ap The Carpathians. In the faraway school days there were the Carpathian mountains, and we see by the war news they are still there, comments an Ohio newspaper. They were then visions, lying away off under the horizon, sort of dreams with a name, and we thought, when we shut that old geography; we would i never hear of them again?that the k visions would melt into the mists. A Not so; great armies are gathered in the valleys and on the summits of ^Lthe Carpathians, and they have be A tm. top down over the edge of the bottom', framd, and tack it to the under side. Care must be taken when putting on this covering material to stretch the cloth tightly and evenly. Bring It to gether a? the corners and sew the edges ne-My. HOME-MADE TRIMMINGS FOR THE* ? ' CHRISTMAS TREE. It is lots of fun trimming the Christ inas tree with home-made ornaments, much more fun than with the kind you buy in stores, and planning and mak-. ing tree ornaments that will be both novel and attractive provides interest ing work for several days. In the illustrations below are shown several clever forms of ornaments that are easily made. The tip of the tree- should be crowned with a single ornament, and a double five-pointed star made after the fashion of that shown in Fig. 1 is most appropriate. The double star is prepared in two pieces cut from a cardboard box (Figs. 2 and 3). Mark them out alike with ruler and pencil, making the distance between opposite points 5 inches. Cut them with a knife or scissors. Each star must be slashed so one will fit over the other. Slash one as shown in Fig. 2, from point A down to B, which is one-half of the distance A I rrlo f Vi ft SV+'hoV* DO iiuiu n. iw auu oiaou uio viuw* shown in Fig. 3, from C up to B. Yon will see that by now crossing the pair of stars, and slipping the slash made in each over the uncut portion of the other, the star ornament will be put together to look like the one in Fig. 1. The cardboard must be covered witji tinfoil to make it nice and shiny, but before putting this covering on, cut two slender sticks for a support, fasten TO SANTA CLAUS Santa Claus, Santa Claus, Are you truly true? On your way a moment pause? Here's a test for you: Do you linger round the spot Where the sunshine cometh not? Do you seek the hearth that's cold With your treasure-stores untold? Is your smiling visage seen In the hovel poor and mean, Or are you the guest elate Of the ever-fortunate? Santa Claus, Santa Claus, With your pack of cheer, Arc you solid gold or gauze? Democrat or Peer? Do you seek the squalid lane vi luc auu tuc piaiu ; Do you take your Christmas i?ys To the pallid girls and boys, Little maids and little chaps Clad in rags and housed in traps? Do you load the Christmas Trees With rich gifts for such as these? Santa Claus, Santa Claus, Whither are you bent? To the frigid upper-floors Of some tenement, Where upon a bed of grief Lies one thirsting for relief, Thirsting for some little rift In the clouds that seldom, lift? Do you carry drafts of life To these scenes of pain and strife, Or are you the guest alone Of your sister Fortune's own? Santa Claus, Santa Claus, Are you truly true? On your way a moment pause? Here's a test for you: Do you give to those in need? Do you to the weeping speed, Scattering your gifts of cheer O'er the weary and the drear? Or do you your treasures pitch Into laps already :ich? That, dear Saint, beloved and gray, That's the test of Christmas Day! ?John Kendrick Bangs, Harper's Weekly. Mistletoe Hunters. Cevzy, in Brittany, annually becomes a center of attraction for mistletoe pickers, and the poplars that line the hillsides around about the village show an abundance of the precious evergreen, the sight of which would fill the heart of many a Norman mis tlet~a gatherer with envy. Here, nowever, tne trees are lorty and by no means so easy to despoil of their white berried parasite as the apple trees in northern France, which yield most of the harvest destined to find its way to the British market. Nevertheless clambering up into the tree tops sixty or seventy feet from the ground is not so difficult a task as it may appear to those who are un initiated into the modus operandi of the mistletoe hunters. With the aid of peculiarly shaped iron griffes attached to their feet, en abling them to get a firm grip of the trunk or stem which they wish to as cend, the skilled climbers make their way from branch to branch with mon keylike agility, and in a few minutes the tree is stripped oi its mistletoe crop. peared on either side, about two miles away. They were solid and nearly vertical. The dark clouds from which they appeared to descend were about 1,000 feet above the water. After about forty minutes conditions be came normal again.?New York Trib une. Ash Can Oni Wheels. A Connecticut man! has patented an ash can on wheel? the handles of which can be lockM to hold it sta tionary when not ntwied to move it. come the most dreac time. There are cl the roaring of cannd mangled and dying slopes of the Carpat dream of youth * realities of the :es of cavalry, fand masses of ?n along the s, and the soft nged into the horrid nightmare of H r 'Riches on Pacl An island in the p] French company has is believed to contaii of high-grade phospl more million tons of Island. ic of which a lained control "0,000,000 tons ;s and many !erior quality. fo: the ettcfcs to oppo ,and'bind *he thread. jB tree. an the ends of tfre sticks far enough slow the tree top to enable you to tod them securely In position, fhe four lower points of the stars aire excellently for attaching the up er ends of the ornamental chains to, large portion of ays of making popcorn on hread, using some white kernels itaining other kernels red, >ther colors with dress dyes joloring material that you land. Two cranberries strung on :hread between every Ave or six lels of popcorn make a pleasing iation in the popcorn chain idea. Dther chain that is of novel form is prepared by coating a piece of string ivlth glue or mucilage, and the iling bits of colored paper ove jlued surface. Cut up any colored pa per that you can find, or buy a small oil of colored confetti. Use plenty of mucilage or glue so the bits will stick. Fig. .PTUiis ana nuis ueiuus amuug mo Christmas tree's trimmings, and there ire many unique methods of hanging , i :hese from the branches. None are nore popular, however, than stockings ;ut and sewed up out of piecSh of tarle tan (Fig. 5), and hung by pieces of ribbon; and cornucopias made of col 5red paper and hung by means of rib bon (Fig. 6). Figure 7 shows how to :ut a piece of paper for a cornucopia. 2oat one edge of the piece with mu cilage, then starting with that edge, roll up the piece of paper into the form shown in Fig. 6 and paste to the >uter edge. Paste small colored pic tures upon the outside of each cornu copia. The little goblin shown in Fig. 8 [s only one of the many funny little people that can' be made with orange i leads and cardboard and paper ilothes. Cut away the outer portion : )f the orange rind to form eyes, nose ind mouth, and make the ears out of cardboard aud stick them into slits cut n the orange rind. Figure 9 shows a pattern for the ^ars, while Fig. 10 shows how to cut :he cardboard body. Stick the neck jf the body into a slot cut through ;he orange rind. To hang up the little , Igure, stick a hairpin into his head, ] ind tie a piece of thread to the loop , ;nd (Figs. 8 and 11). Paint the clothes )f the body with water colors or color ^ with crayons. If you make several of .he figures, provide some with hats , ind some with bonnets. (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.) Imports of Salt. I Common salt continues to be im- ; sorted in considerable quantity, more , Ur%*y nno millinn Korrolc rnmin cr in i ,uau uu^ Uliiiiwii vui* V4W vv^*ug WW Atlantic ports last year, according to 1 ;he United States geological survey. , rhe country is amply able, however, :o supply the entire home demand,-as i ;he capacity of its salt mines and ' vorks is in excess of the preccut out* ; jut. The imports last year were only 5.2 per cent of the total consumption, vhereas in 1890 the percentage was L7.2. Francis E. Clark's Life Work. Francis E. Clark, president of the International Society of Christian Endeavor, who recently celebrated his sixty-third birthday, founded the Christian Endeavor society in 1881, ivhen he was pastor of a Congrega ;ional church in Portland, Me. For he past twenty years he has devoted limself exclusively to the work of. the organization. In this service he has ;raveled 825,000 miles, gaining the iredit of being the world's most wide y traveled man. Confessions sf a Mail Order Man Br Mr. M. 0. X. Revelations by One Whose Experience In the Business Cavers * Range Prom Office Boy to General Manager ENTER THE MAIL ORDER BUSI NE33. With $30 in real money in my wcket I made my way to another city, jonserving all of this great wealth, for ;o me it was such, by saving railroad 'are. I rode In a box car all the way md I had $29 left when I decided that [ had traveled far enough. I didn't know the name of the city vhere I disembarked, nor did I care :o know. It was all sufficient that I lad escaped from the man who had ibused and overworked me. He had -harged me for the oil I used in the amp at nights when I lay hidden be llnd the grocery counter and studied ny books, for that was my one pas sion?to learn something. And I had earned, both from him and from the 3ooks. It was early on Monday morning nrhen ,J. walked up the street leading J**!?# the freight yards into the busi of the city. My $29 lay la my pocket Out in front of a stood a son of Abra teni, arms and blink out for display a rariety.^4wftwl^re or ,ess worn> md this set me' 4o thinldng. My had jeen*: jtfdfiKpCMKtorn during he rallied lotfrnjpy^ I intended to ook for job, n'oby X*0*". place, | JUL in B Dig uue, 11 i vuuiu 50L n, ind my boyish mind conceived the :hought that a job could be more iasily obtained If I were well dressed. [ sauntered up to the display and looked at a suit that seemed just ibo^t my size. "Good mornick," saifl1 the clothier, 'can I sell you somedlnjc?" "Anything to fit me?" I askedfWf.vt "Shurely," he replied, and sffidng ne by' the arm he led me Into his shop. The . goods were secondhand, but this made no difference to me. He fitted me- with a suit, Bhoes, hat, socks, handkerchiefs, shirts. and un lerwear, all of which I on, even to the shirts, to .fitted ne perfectly. The su!t Wa^%MLmade, 3f good cloth and had a "Btyrfsn l&>k. He even took down from a shelf a fair ippearing valise, imitation leather, of course, but I did not know the differ snce." "De whole outfit for vifteen dollars," tie said, as he beamed a broad smile. How startled I was! What a lump rf money it seemed! I began to take off the suit in a hurry. This would never do, to spend so much money. But the look on his face was one of despair. He saw that I was deter mined and as I took off one garment after another he beean to take the dollars off his price. Before many minutes he was down to $7, while I was down to?well, never mind?1 was satisfied with the price and paid It. . ' Dressed in taste and good clothing, I started on my quest' after a Job. Many rebuffs did I receive. I realized that there were other boys from the country in the city after jobs. Good gracious, how they have increased Bince that time, too! \ It was four days before I landed a place. And it was not in a big store,, either. I was directed to a place where a "young man" was wanted, through the kindness of a hardware dealer. Yes, I was hired at $5 a week. I went to work in a small room on the sec ond floor of a big building. I packed 100 watches in wooden cases and the new boss took these cases and pasted labels on them.. He had an express guide at his elbow and conferred at frequent intervals with an associate as to the addresses which he should write on the labels. Then he took a rubber stamp, something I had never Been before, and stamped the letters "C. 0. D." on each package. I observed that there were no or ders for these watches. We sent out hundreds of them, day after day, a careful record being kept of them, the name and address. No letters came to the office and no money came in except as the mysterious associate turned over moijey for my salary Tliis went on for weeks, and I had not supposed that there were so many watches in the whole world. Finally we finished this part of the work. Then we commenced again at the beginning with the list &f the names and addresses to which the watches had been sent. A letter was prepared carefully and with great seri-. Dusness. It was rewritten a dozen times before being acceptable to the bosses, and also to myself, for I had taken a hand in its preparation and had sug gested one or two phrases, which they 3eemed to think added to its force. The letter read something like this: ro The Express Agent, Barnesvllle, Minn. Dear Sir:? Some time ago we shipped a watch to John Smith of your town, express charges C. O. D. The value of the watch Is $15 and John Smith paid us a deposit of $7.50, agreeing to remit the balance as per bill of lading, C. O. D. Inasmuch as we have not received a re ply to our letters to the said party and to avoid having the watch returned with additional charges to us, we will give you the privilege of examining the same and If you will remit to us the amount of the C. 0. D., which Is $7.50, you may keep the watch as your property. Please advise us at once. Signed BLANK & BLANK. As I recall the watches I will esti mate their value at about $3 each, although there are now dozens of bet ter watches made which retail for $1 each. The whole plan was actually a fraud. There was no John Smith or whatever name they used, in any of the towns. The watches were bright and kept fair time. It was all a trick to sell to the ex press agents in hundreds of small towns $3 watches at $7.50 each. It was a great trick, the success of which depended on the skillful knowl edge of human nature possessed by my two clever bosses. In a few days after we began send lng out the letters the returns came in. Express orders, money orders, checks and currency. We realized about $7 from each watch after de ducting the express and C. O. D. charges. So we kept it up until we had marketed thousands of watches in this way. '1 believe those fellows will buy stuff straight," remarked one of my bosses to the other, one day. "They have fallen for the watches and other things." For we had sent out other ar ticles of jewelry on the same plan and had discovered an especit l demand for revolvers, guns, etc. * We moved Into more commodious quarters. We prepared a little an nouncement on a single sheet of pa per, the size of a letter sheet, giving Illustrations of the articles for which we had discovered the demand and printing the price, together with a stated value greatly in excess of the market price. It was a miniature cata logue, a mail order catalogue, because we sent it only to the addresses of those who lived in the small towns and in the country. But we suffered for lack of namesf. We must have names, as the express agents and railroad agents had been loaded up. They were on to the game now. * So we selected one or two weekly newspapers which had a cir culation in the small towns and among the farmers and we inserted an adver tisement in which we announced a fine revolver at a very low price. Yet this price gave us more than one hundred per cent on the cost to us, We selected other newspapers and ad> vertlsed watches, guns, jewelry, etc. As the names came in we filled the orders and sent to each customer our little catalogue leaflet. The orders came in by the hundreds, by the thou^ sands. My salary was increased. It rose to $10, to $12, to $1$, to $25 a week. 1 wore no more second-hand clothing T went tn ? night school, where 1 studied bard. I learned shorthand and typewriting. My value to the business \pas Increasing all the time, My bosses made thousands of dollars j Our catalogue leaflet Increased page by page as we added various articles ?But we did not carry these article! In stock. Oh, no. We had arrange j ments with various wholesale houses to fill our orders when they came In j We never bought a dollar's worth of goods ui.til we had the money In hand. We were doing business on other people's money. Can you lmag ine anything so easy and so profitable 'i A customer would send us $10 with which to fill an order. We would gc to the wholesale house and pay $4 01 $5 for the article, send it to the cuS' tomer and keep the difference, which was our profit.- Of course, there were office expenses to pay. There were printing bills and postage bills, but they were merely incidental to the great profits which we were placing in the bank. We planned all sorts of things. We that tha wnmnn In thf household was the easy one to deal with, so we played up to the female contingent. We appealed to her vanity, to her love of home decoration, tc her love of her children, etc. We wrote out carefully our catalogue con tents and then we worked It over e dozen times to get the best talking points for the women. We laughec over it. We shouted aloud when some particularly apt phrase or sentence would be evolved which sounded as though it would hit the spot. Oh, yes. we studied human nature We laughed at the poo^ country mer chants who found theirtrade slipping away from their stores and divertec to us by the clever printed mattei which we sent out/ There woufd be a big laugh whenever we would gel an order from a country merchant himself, but these were few and far be tween, because we realized that the nnnr omintrv mp.rr.hant had hut little cash to spend. We were getting al' of his profits, and we knew it, kW be fore he began to realize it.% f j As students of human nature we became adepts. An office was opened in a big eastern city. Then we dis covered that people took a pride in receiving Jetters and packages from a big city. We found out that people right in our own city would answei our advertisements and write to the branch office instead of writing tc our own home office right in the same city, both addresses being given in the advertisements. Business piled up until we despaired of taking care of the money that came in so bountifully. "We'll have to begin to pay storage on our money," said one of the bosses one day. "We have no room here foi it," and it was true. Activities of Women. Female knitters and spinners in Scotland make from $1 to $1.50 per week. Of the 188,854 voters registered in Los Angeles, Cal., 83,160 are women. Women are being drilled for duty as members of London's police force. American Red Cross nurses on the European battlefields will be known as ''Sisters." Recent Jtatistics show that males in I Tonon niifTinmhor fha wnmpn hV Olllv 567,775. In Cuba married women always re tain their maiden names in addition to the names of their husbands. Mothers of students in Pasadena (Cal.) high school will be taught how to cook. Mrs. Abbie E. Lathrop of Granby, | Mass., manages a mouse farm which harbors over 11,000 mice, 500 rats and 100 rabbits. She finds a steady sale for her little animals from medical Institutions, where they are used for research work. Had Him There. "Your voice," said the captious mu sical director, "leaves much to be de sired." "That's why I get so many encores," she replied.?London Eve ning Standard. Birth of Weli-Known Society. The first socicty for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in England in 1824 by Mr. Martin, M. P. Burmese rubber cultivation began in 1877. In 1913 the production was 650, 000 pounds. Always Have It en Hand. Don't wait until you get scalded or burned because that will mean much suffering while you are sending to the dealer's for Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh. Always have it on hand and be prepared for accidents. The Bal aam should give you quick relief. Adv. Coming Into Line. Two smartly dressed young men were discussing the present economic situation when a third whose holiday suit, straggling hair and grimy hands betokened a holiday at some distance from a hairdresser's and a hasty jour ney home. "Well," observed number one, "the pater says it's not only sensible but it's patriotic to economize just now,' so he and I have given up the two 'B's' and the mater the two 'T's.'" His hearers looked puzzled till he explained that the initial letters indi cated respectively "beer and baccy" and "tea and toast." _ "Since you put it in that way," paid number two, "I've dropped the two 'C's'?coffee and cigarettes." The third man, evidently feeling out of it, began to explain that he had only just got DacK rrom me iNortn or scot land and hadn't really had time, you know, to think it out, hut of course he'd have to come into line, etc. "Don't worry, old chap," interposed number one. "You go on Just as you are; and everybody'11 know that you're economizing on the two 'S's.'?scissors and soap!" Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Yeare. Children Cry for Fletcher's Caatoria / ; Astonished Minister. The proud father had come up from the country to see his sailor son on board his ship. * He had never seen a battleship before, and accordingly marveled thereat. Just as he caught hold of the two ropes which hung over the side to assist sailors to the deck, he was somewhat surprised to hear a clanging of be!ils>?the eight bells of seamen's time. As he stepped on deck he met the officer of the watch. He saluted him and said, timidly: "I beg your pardon, sir, I've come to see my son; Jack, but, 'pon my word, I didn't mean to ring so loud." The Magic Washing stick AGENTS WANTED: The Magio Washing Slick is not a soap nor a-washing powder, but a truly wonderful article which makes dirty clothes clean and SNOWY WHITE without a bit of rubbing. Price 25c. Mosey beck if not satisfied. Big money for agents. Write for particulars. Address Mr. Woodrow, P. O. Box 269, Sherman, Texas?Adv. Fooled the Spider^ Donald, who was a great fisherman, started to dress his own flyhooks. He was met by a crony one day, who said: "I hear you've begun to dress yer ain hooks, no, Donal'. Is that true?" "It's a' that," answered Donald.. ' "An' can you put them up on ony thing nateral like?" Inquired the crony. "I dinna ken for that," replied Don ald, "but. there wis a spider ran awa' wi* twa o' them yesterday." ; COLDS & LaGRIPPE ' 5 or 6 doses 666 will break any case , of Chills & Fever, Colds & LaGrippe; it acta on the liver better than Calo mel and does not gripe or sicken. Pric 25c.?Adv. [ A Sugar Plant. An herb, called by the natives caa > ehe, but botanlcaily Eupatorium re \ baudianum, grows wild in Paraguay, t It is Remarkable for its sweetness. In . deed, the native name means the s "sugar plant." It grow along the j border of the river Amamblhi, and i attains a heleht of onlv about five inches. The smallest bit of this plant when placed upon the tongue produces a surprisingly ^fweet savor, which, It rine Is wdcb greater than that of Y&ecaat^investigations indi cate thit^tftp nectareous element In this plant closely resembles that of the licorice root. It advertises itself?Hanford's Bal sam. Adv. Its Kind. "That old rooster over there is or dering a drink." 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' Practically every druggist sells res- f. inol ointment and resinol soap.?Adv. To Clean Milk Utensils. On dairy farms where many milk utensils are in use, the dishwasher will find that they may be cleaned easily by first scouring each dish with ashes. Rubbing them over once in this way is sufficient; then rinse twice. They should be washed in cold or pref erably tepid water/ to keep them sweet and clean. The treatment will prevent rust spots from: forming and keep the utensils bright without injur ing the tin?Mother's Magazine. Always keep Hanford's Balsam on hand for accidents. It's good insur ance. Adv. Fatal Disease. A young painter who bad just fin ished a picture insisted upon a fri-jnd calling to see it. "There, now," en thused the artist, "you see my picture. ' What's thp matter with that?" "I don't know," replied the bored friend, "but I should say it', was a case oi an iauurfv Plaint of the Pessimist. , "Half the world doesn't Tcnow how the other half lives." 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