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Earning Her $37.83 Bj JANE OSBORN

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Wben Stanley A»ht o ■ creed to rfre thirty thousand dollars for tb* work of the ambulance corps by the student body of the college from which he soT»e dozen years before bad taken his degree, on the condition that the student body would raise a like amount, be little knew what a medley of unusual activities be was starting within the dormitories of that college. “1 know lt‘s going to be bard for the student*." he told the deen of the cot. lege when he made the proposal, "but the ambulance corps needs sixty thousand dollars It their work is worth while. Fm not a millionaire, sod I guess it Is as hard for get that thirty thousand dollars together as It will be for each of the student* to do hi* or her share toward raising the difference.' The dean was figuring on the back of an envelope as Stanley Ashton was talking to him. "Tea." he said, having finished his little sum In division. "There are 793 students enrolled this year—about 400 .girls and the rest men. That will mean about $37.83 a student, as I reckon It. In my cunounrement I shall suggest .that each student try to raise that sum. It will give test to their endeavors If each student knows Just what la 'expected of him.’ I So the announcement was made, and for the weeks that followed each student of the college went around more ■bent on extracting the sum of $37.88 from his financial endowments—wnd post of the students of this co-edoo-itional Institution were not possessed !of an oreradeqnate allowaace—than ion securing passing grades In their classroom work. Dances, athletics, theatricals—all the usual side Interests lof the college—were subservient to this desperate struggle on the part of the students, each to earn the allotted quota. The trouble was they were all doing It at once. Little efforts to extract the money from each other by blacking shoes, pressing clothes, darning socks, etc, were rather mu-less, alnce no student had the amount to pay for such wrvices while each was saving his funds for th( quota. Kndge was a drug on the market, for who bed money to buy fudge? , Margaret Benton achieved quite an honor for herself among her friend* by announcing that she would give up her Christmas holiday vacation. She had received a check for $2U from home to cover the ex]>en*e* of her trip and. with her parrots' sanction, she renounced this pleasure so that she might thereby snve the larger part of her quota. Then was $1V.83 to be earned. By going without fudge supplies herself for three weeks ah, erked out her funds till she had but JIG.Tfi to be earned. Thro she earnr-d 75 cents by selling one pair of old rubbers, two old textbooks, the gold Ups from two outworn fountain pens and a last winter's hot. Thirty cent* she saved by walking downtown and bark on three occasions. There then remained $15.70 to be earned, and there her fund rt>

mained.

Her allowance was exhausted and there was nothing to nave, and every | means of earning money seemed to be ^ In use already by aome at the 783. 1 On a certain gray day. when site bad Indulged herself to the extent of using 5 cents carfare to go to collect i •he pittance that the old-dothe* dealer j was to allow her for her old hat and | rubbers, she sat crowded In the sur- | fa- e car—so crowded. In fact, that she could no! help but hear the Conversation of two weU-overeoated men be-

side her.

“But what are you going to do about

It?" I he younger of the two asked. Tve done all I could to comply with the requ«-st of the department of agriculture. I had all my n.-!d» cultivated on our summer place, and then 1 couldn't get men to harvest ttu-m. I have had to pay $5 a day for a man to repair the hotbed frame*, and now I've had the beds planted to green vegetables In uc eflart to do my bit towards keeping the locftl market su|e piled with green goods. I can t get

to transplant the s.-edllngv

had seated her In front of a cheery wood fire and stood beside her. smiling as she made her proposition, held out against the price. He said It wasn't worth It. and that he could 111 afford to pay fancy prlcwi. But Margaret was obdurate, and finally the bargain wan struck. Margaret stipulated that she should be allowed to do the work when she chose. She realized that roost of it would have to be done afte* lecture hours, and mayhap by the light of a lantern. By the aid of one of the men student* In horticulture. Margaret gained a smattering knowledge of how the hotbed seedlings should be transplanted. She secured a lantern for her night work and, wearing under her lung coat a pair of working overalls, which she borrowed from the same student, she started out for her task. It was not easy, but she persevered, even when her hands were bruised and scratched. The second afternoon of her work Margaret determined to continue there until nine o’clock, snd accordingly took with her a package of sandwiches put up by the dormitory cook, at the direction of the kind-hearted house mother. Margaret was sitting In her overalls, eating the sandwiched by the light of her lantern In the worksbed for which her employer had given her the key, when the employer himself appeared at the door. At first bis obvious amusement at her position and costume embarrassed her, but It was so good-humored that finally Margaret laughed herself and offered him a piece of her last sandwich. He watched her work and did not criticise. Then, obviously only to have an excuse for lingering with her, he worked with her. always under her direction. i.od i-.vumlng no knowledge of the work himself. -you ar. a robber." he told her, aa he worked by her aide. “It was a holdgame for you to get so muib; but It was you or no one. so I had to give In. By the way." he said, asking a question that h»d been perplexing him since her first offer to do lift work, "It Is unusual to find a young woman need of funds. Pardon my rude-n.-sa." he hastened to add. “If you didn't seem to enjoy the work so much I should be sorry that I had let you do It There must be other more congenial. more remunerative aorta of

work."

Margaret did no! answer his question nor satisfy his curiosity, and altborgh they became well acquainted. In a measure, during the fortnight that followed, never again did the man Inquire more into Margaiet'a Identity. They did not even discover each other's names, for acquaintance In the usual acceptance of the word bar very little to do with the acquaintance that Is sometimes the precurser of a deeper attachment. On the last night of Margaret's work, when she had transplanted the last succulent head of lettuce and the last leuf of endive. It | seemed the roost natural thing In the world for the man to tell her that he , loved her. and for Margaret, standing there In her clumsy, baggy overalls, her hands loaded with the wunn. brown earth, to look quite frankly Into hi* eyes end to tell him that she loved him. too. "And now." he said, “tell me why and wherefore. Why did you stick me for $15.70—Just that and nothing more?" ‘Why did you bold out?" she rejoined. "You were dreadfully stingy." “A man has to be. when he bus pledged $90,000 and he Isn't a million- -

air*."

"Stanley Ashton 1” she gasped. •' Ahj. I somehow Imagined you were t-aldhradcd and sixty, with a beard and a diamond Mud. and creaky boots. 1 That's the wet of man I tnought you were. Then me have been really working for the same thing. How little my $37.83 look* compared to your $30,000.' especially when fra held you up for $15.70"You aren't the plucky little girt who gave up her Christmas holidays for the fun'll The dean told me about that. It was far finer than anything;

FAPM

GOOD CORN CROP VERY IMPORTANT Scarcity of Suitable Seed in Many Producing States.

WARNING SENT TO FARMERS

RECORD FOR WINTER LAYING Teat at Ontario Experiment Station Would Tend to Show Th*t Leg. horns Are Beet Layers. The egg record at the Ontario experiment farm la 111 for Plymouth Book. 120 f.w I^gWr*. ft* for Mloorcas. The Leghorns laid 81 Of their egga In December. January. February and March, when price* were highest During the same month* the Plymouth Bock* laid 17 eggs each and the Minoren* 18. This experience tends to

Still Poaslbla te Find Some Sound Bare Suitable for Seed—Ready Market for All That Is Not Wanted for Planting. i Prepared by the Called States Deportment of Agriculture.) A good crop of corn cannot be frown without good seed, yet In many af the principal corn producing state? there U a uearclty of suitable seed for planting the 1918 crop. Coleus every

Whits Leghorn Cockerel. show that Leghorn* are hex! winter layers, as well a* beat year-round layer*. The trial, however. Is hardly coocloslve because the total egg record was not a high one, which seems to Indicate that none of the breeds were go cared for as to lay to their utroogt capacity. A general Impreaol-a prevails among poultry keepers that the njidlum-slzed breeds ore the br&t win-

t good supply from which to select the wot ears for planting, this scarcity will not be averted. The seed-corn scarcity will not take care of Itself; the only rholce Is between making sure bow or raualng a scarcity In the planting aeaA warning Is being-sent out by the Culted States department of agriculture to the farmers at a number of ttatea for which a serious scarcity of «eed corn for spring planting In 1918 haa been noted. These status Include, ■n whole or part. New York. Pennsylvania. Ohio. Michigan. Indiana, Dllool*. Wisconsin. Minnesota, Iowa. Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. Not Too Lata to Select Seed Ears. Little corn of the 1910 crop Is available and adapted seed cannot be had from other sections. In this emergency the seed stocks committee of the Doited States department of agriculture urges farmers not to overlook any possible source of supply. It points out that on many farms in the states where seed corn Is scarce. It la stfU possible to find some sound ears which should be saved for seed, la some coses, however, this sound corn Is being fed because the owners do not realize Its value nor the need for U. They have been accustomed to planting much better corn and have not stopped to cooplder that every bushel of seed corn

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And then. In oplte of the muddy L.U'1» Stanley Ashton folded the little gardener Into his arms—those atrong arm*, that had somehow struck Margtr--' when she was crushed against tb-n. in the street car tvo *e.-k* before, e* arm* it would be very nice to be to'.ded Into.

Tempting the Stork.

It Is ruMotnary In Chiba, ubeo the numlo-r «f children—daughter* preponderating- begins to exceed Uifamily InoiSM-. in name the latent | comer “Enough.'' relates World Out1 I is. Acting upon tb>* superstition, the La-e*. B native Christian couple, presented thetr seventh child f<ir hap- ‘ "What 1* her name?'' Inquired the

] miaaiaaary pastor.

’ ■ "Enoughunnounced both parents

■' 'n fervent unison.

I "That will never do!" the pastor ] frowned. Think nf a more tiling u itm- r But Mr and Mrs. Lee were ilften with stage fright and rould

t' 'ok «f nothing.

PRACTICAL HEN HINTS (Prtpara« by Ur railed Mate* Drpsrtcjret at Agriculture ) Keep the hens confined to your own land. Don't keep a male bird. Ileus lay Just a* well without u B -le. Don't overstock your land. Purchase weU-maturvd pu eta rather than hen*. Don't expert aucceav In h* -hIng and raising chicks cnb-ss you have had some experience and have a gra*a plot separ.-.e from the yard for the hens. Build a cheap house or ahelti-r. Make the house dry and free from draft, but allow for vmtUatlon. Fowls stand cold belter than dampn<-»*. Keep tbe house and yard dean. Provide roost? and dropping board* Provide a nr*t for each four or five hens. Grow some green crop in tbe yard. Spade up the yard frequently. Feed table scraps and kU'hen waste. Also feed grain once a day Feed a dry mash. Keep hen* free from Uce and the house free from mltga. Kill and eat the hens In the fall as they begin to molt and cease to lay. Preserve the surplus egg* produced during the Spring and summer for u*.- during the fall and winter »h. a eggs art scarce and high In price.

INCREASE NUMBER OF FOWLS Endeavor to Insure Mere Chlckma and Egga la Conta.ned in tha Manim —Match Early. (Prom tbe Called Htatee Depart -nt of Agriculture ) An essential part <»f the endeavor to Insure more chicken* and eggtalned In the maxim—hatch ear The funner who hatebe* .-arty in the M'ring. either by Inculatlou or i - irol Ineth.ids. seems to have all tl ■ lawt of the argument. When chick „re hatoh.-l early In the spring tl .nature In the fall and lay egg* the winter. Then. In the spring tl - are ready to hatch early. Late Latched fowl* are late la maturing. <1. not lay In the wlnti-r. and do not *it until lute In the folio«in( spring. ma.ntain poultry on FARM Fowls Will Pick Up Ninety Per Cent cf Living From Scatteres and Wasted Grain.

they feed now would. If planted, produce a hundred or even two hundred bushel* next year. S«v# Bound Ears for Seed. Coder ordinary condition*. It pays to select seed curs In the field and to cure It carvfuity. but wed so oelected bud cured la not available for much of the corn acreage to be p lanted next spring. It will be necessary, therefore, the specialists emphasize, to use the very best seed that Is available. Past experience shows that It Is better to plant seed of an adapted variety, ever, though It Is poor In germination, than to piant much better seed of an uu adapt-d variety. For this reason, tie $r*d stocks committee urges farmers to pirk over their com and select Lie pound ears for possible use as aertl. If more Is saved than la iu*dcd. the e wHI be a ready market for it next Wring. Guard Seed Corn From Damage. This emergency ae*d ubould be aeparatid from the Immature or moldy corn Immediately, .o prevent further damage t.. it* vitality. If It is not already dry It should be dried at once sod kept at aa uniform a temperature aa possible From six to ten kernels from (Ufferent pari! of each ear should be taken and tested for germination. Tbe ears which ahnw all or nearly all dead kernels should t* discarded The re mnlnlng ear* should then be shelled by hand and the grain from each ear carefully examined, discarding all kernels i n which the germ* appear t-> lx- deud. In thl* way. It should be po* MMe for mrny farmers to get seed corn which will germinate from CO to Ou per cent. Thl j t.-ed can then be plant ed thickly enough next ►j.nng to produce n stand. • Those who ere not familiar with making single-car germination test* of coni can get Information ou bow to make the te*t from their county agent. fr.Ku the >tste exportlaeot station, or by sending to the Dnlted Slates depart metit ..f agriculture. Washington. 1>.

Take Caro to Prevent Bloat. • ben -iHaifa U panurod. grvat c uid Uv taken to prevent bloat.

IMPROVE SEED BY CLEANING By Running Through Fannin* Mill Weed*. Chaff and Sh.Xmksn Kernel* Art Removed. (Prepared by the United States Deportment of Agriculture.) Coe of the brot way* to utfUs* spare time In winter before tbe during ruab of farm work begins la to dean and grade the small grains that are to be used for seed. Wheat oots. barley and flax for seeding can all be Improved by running tbe seed through the fanning mill at least once to remove tbe weed seed*, chuff, broken straws and light, shrunken kernel* . The cleaned grain wlll run through the drill or other seeding machinery more evenly and thus Insure a more uniform stand than can be obtained from unclesned grain. Cleaning groin also eliminates most of the weak and diseased kernels, many of which may not grow at all. or U they do grow are likely to produce small, weak plants. Uniformly large, plump kernels germinate more evenly, produce stronger plantr and yield more than ungraded groin containing small, weak kernel*. Cleaning tbe grain also temoves a Urge part of the weed seed* It contains. Tbe preparation of tbe Und for seeding destroys many seeds that are in tbe soil and thus helps to keep weed* in check, but tbe value of this work la largely loct If foul seed Is sown. Weed seeds sown with tbe groin have tbe best of condition* for germination and growth, and tbe plant* produced from them compete strongly with the groin plant* throughout the season. Although tbe seed may seem to be of excellent quality It U well worth while to run the groin through tbe fanning mill at least ones. This is no time to take any chsncva. The demand for increased crop production necessitates, among other things, that the very best seed available be used in sowing tbe 1918 crop. Increases In yield of from two to five bushel* or mors to the acre are often ottalned from sowing dean. Urge seed, but a gain of even a basket to acre wUl .mean big wage* for tbe winter dnys spent to getting seed ready for sowing.

TttE KITCMEN CABINET

Greeting (air. aad r

HBLFFUL IDEAS. In buying a chicken or foe; f, more economical to buy a larp J than one that u * aa tbe propone j meat to the bto. , greater. Tbe bon n be covered with * after the mec •erved. with a , celery, a slice of ca with a bit of rice or ley making a good M Any bits of mot i be used la e.ttiM— with apple, potato or other vegtt* for a salad, or used a* atuBog | boiled onion* and thee baked or u white sauce on toast. Other weyi * occur to tbe progiaaWvc wornu dispose of bits of Chicken or •

SALT PRESERVES SOFT CORN Successful Treatment Reported From Prophetetown, III.—Good Ventilation

(Prepared by the United Btetae Department of Agriculture.) Some farmer* In tbe corn belt ore having success Id preventing soft or Insuflkteutly cured corn from spoiling by applying eight to ten quarts of nit to each wmgonload as It is bring cribbed. Farmers about Prophets! own. IU, where this pUn was practiced rather generally in 1915 and during last fall and the present winter, report that tbe salted corn keeps well, while similar corn without salt spoilt. They report that the salt draws water from the ear? and prevents beating, souring or rotting where there U sufficient ventilation to carry away the moisture. Although observations und Investigation along tbit Una by tbe office of corn Investigations. United States department of agriculture, have not progressed far enough to give definite result*, means of saving mature corn of unusually high moisture content are urgent and testa of tbe preserving power of salt are so promising of economic results as to warrant a trial by farmers who find It advisable or saary to crib corn containing 23 per cent or more of moisture. The cost of the salt will He less than one cent per bushel of corn. Even W. .h the aid of salt, good ventilation Is oeo

Cbeeo* Is a food which stunU | more commonly used. It li nutritious, very cohcentntrd end M no waste. Compared to many o! • high-priced meats It la ecoootr:-? a pound of cheese equal* two l* of meat as to food value. Cpm three time* o _ flour, threr tahtespooofuls of" I _ our and a half tablexpoonfulv of m meal, half a teoapoocful of tth. ik te*spoonful* of baking powder, a add three-fourths of a cupful of ol two well-be* ten egga. three tablrqa fuls of tod ted abort euing. all beat^ well, then pour Into butt twenty mina

grated coconut, two tabtespoonfej i Indian meal, one tableapoonful o! x ute tapioca one-botf cupful of ca* aes, one-fourth ot a cupful of a one PvbleaptaadS 'pf uhortealng quart of milk end salt to taste Into a buttered dish aad bake hours. Serve hot with cream. Fig and Nut Pudding.—Stir ■ teaspoonful of salt Into two rej of boiling water, add a half copfLi sugar aad stir in enough grahre. i to make a mush. Cook a half t then add a half cupful of choppri and a few finely chopped Brain : Serve with whipped cream. Tbs an emergency pudding which will good enough to try again. Paldaii dates may be mb-itlruled for Up other nut* may be used If deslrri.

SPREAD MANURE ON HELDS Important to Have Work Don* Boot as Feasible After Made—Food Is Badly Needed. Too much cannot well be said about tbe Importance of having manure thinly and evenly spread on the fields at the earliest possible date after twlng made. It Is Just as Important to cot> serve the things food la made of aa the food itself for next year and for untold number* of years we will need food ua badly aa now, and perhaps more so.

USES OF BUCKWHEAT •.Prepared Lr tb* L'altM BlaUa DoP«ru»»nt of AgrV ultura ) Buckwheat 1* valuable a* a human food. It la also an excellent feed for poultry. The middling* remaining a* a by-pro-duct after milling are. on account of their high protein content. a valuable feed for vlalry cowa. The production of buckwheat will help to provide food In many districts thl* year for local ronsumptlou and thu* help t<> avoid the danger of shortage due to possible lack of adequate transportation farllltl.-v

T! . beauty n( Ua hocaa K lira*tug of Uw boss* Is vwi the glory of the houa* 1* t

GOOD EATING. Those who are fortunate ennt^li be able to obtain rabbit will o* ft for for good

days, uot units* kep' ■ storage. 7? of the rsbK be told t>5 I iaw. Iftberv*; little hard nut In tbe paw v not be easily broken with tb? ■od finger, the rabbit la on oW <* It has entirely dlaappea-c: *=• paw resist* pressure It Is too aii“ anything except a *tew. Whet ft* Ing a rabbit tbere Is a tbln tae=» which extends from tbe flsnki *■ the Intestine*. If this U remov'd “ •u.ong flavor which to many 1‘ ^ objectionable, goes with 1L m»kW flesh delightfully sweet. Rabbit Fricaaae*.—A young r»t*i j tbe only kind to use for *uc h * ® After carefully dressing It ra ' “ In trrvlng-sited pieces or Into * ter* and eighths. Boll In hlgblf toned flour and brown In a l |:0 *. chicken fat. then simmer until t ^ and when nearly cooked add rt*** j rich milk. Cook until a nice formed, then serve hot with potatoes. Rabbit With Caeroto—I’ rr l" rabbit as for a fricassee, s* 1 browned add a quart or le*» shredded carrot* cut In n * piece* with a small cbooped "&* plenty of seasoning; add water roer and let rook slowly In » pan on the hack of tha stow < casserole two or three boor* . Lurveheen Dish.—Free from hone* and skin aid n fork To a cupful allove 8 u ^*' ful of flour with a quarter o- • spoonful of mustard, a cayenne, a tablmvooeful of n few duahes of salt. Bob gradients together, adding ' lemon juice to mol “ten and • scallop shells, cover with t> bread crumbs and art In th>- •' til well heated through. J Dry cake crumb* m**? ri1 puddings stirred Into • rt*** baked.

IMPORTANCE OFJ IVE STOCK "}t f ,

Farmer* Enabled to Convert c- ,,

and Forage Crop# Into High-

Priced Product*.

An Important function of live stock ..n the farm I* t„ furnish a market for the crops grown, enabling farmer* to j convert the grasfcea, forage crop*. !eguu'c*. >;nd ■«. on. Into higher pried products and to return to the ! '*' il 'k* - fkat food taken from 1l

Uneven Mr. Urban—I’see »!>• man g-'vornment put dostrike by threatening t" > Ur. Suburb (bUterty) thing* are In thl* wort*: would soon take htdd 1

The n