The Dearing Sentinel from Dearing, Kansas • 3

GROWING POTATOES UNDER STRAW MULCH BENEFICIAL It Will Bring About Good Results On Hilly Land Where the Moisture Often Does Much Damage. By T. M. Cisel. What the Lawmakers Eat in Summer time TWO NEAT DESIGNS OUTDOOR COSTUMES IN HEIGHT OF FASHION.

ber of the experts of the department while going up and down in the land made it their business to study the question and see whether there might not be a germ of truth, or, at least, some reason for the general belief that the moon's phases have an effect on animal and vegetable life. They have concluded after patient investigation that the moon myth is one of the comparatively few myths that dates back to pure savagery and has absolutely not a scientific leg to stand on. Almost every one, even if he has not reared in the country, has heard of the Idea about planting potatoes in the dark of the moon. The field workers of the department of agriculture For growing potatoes on hill land or where they are often damaged by moisture the straw mulch will be found to bring good results. For straw covering the potatoes should be planted the last of May or the first of June.

We have the soil well prepared. Mark off the rows two feet upart and not too deep. Straw potatoes require only about half the row space that cultivated ones need, as the vines are never so large and cultivation is not required. Cover the seed with two inches of soil and then with about ten inches of straw, or enough to make four inches when well beaten down by rain. This will keep the weeds down and hold the moisture throughout the Materials required: 7 yards eolienne, 2Vi yards tucked net, Vt yardi lace 18 inches wide, 4 yards ribbon, 6 pom-poms, 6 yards double width sateen.

Voile Dress. Silver birch pray voile makes up very prettily In this style. The shortwalsted bodice has a long, narrow vest of lace, with collar of the same; the shoulders are tucked Id sets which are divided by lace insertions; the fulness at waist Is gathered and set to a band. The tight-fitting under-sleeves are of the material finely tucked, the oversleeves are open up the outside, the opening is filled with lace, and the material edges bound with silk. The points are connected by silk-covered buttons.

The skirt is tucked at top, and is sewn to the bodice, each side fronts being trimmed with insertion, Hat of gray crinoline, trimmed with ribbon and roses. Materials required; for the dress, 9 yards 44 inches wide, 6 yards insertion, 1 yard lace for vest and oversleeves, i-yard silk on the cross. aruen-rany urcss in a sort onaao stoo.f Blue Eolienne Second Would novf Make Up Well In Silver Gray Voile, wor Dress. Eolienne In a ailUt shade of blue Is used for this The princess bodice is quite in, and continues well down over hips; the skirt of kilted material joined to lower edge. The bodice rs a yoke and tight-fitting under- and a dozen different acldy fruits that Carlsbad doctors tell you to avoid.

There is nothing in the world that lies heavier on a tired, flaccid, mid-summer stomach than an iced melon the first thing in the morning, yet a majority of the tariffmakers ate them daily. The internal chill their digestive organs get is a rapid cooler for tariff reduction enthusiasm. The capitol restaurant serves more dairy dishes and pie than at any other time of the year. The average lawmaker eats at noon a good habit in this country, if only he would eat digestible food. But he turns his liver with overdoses of milk, pours down quantities of iced drinks amid layers of pie and devitalizing food.

The one salvation is that roast beef generally cold still remains the principal blood making, brain sustaining, muscle giving meat dish of the capital. But it is the night diners tnat furnish the most amazing specimens of menus. The bills of fare of the leading hotels follow closely parallel lines. Their principal dishes can be classified as follows: Twenty-four different kinds of ices. Fifteen cold salads.

Fifteen different ways of cooking potatoes. Twenty-nine vegetables, hot and cold. Eight fish cooked in 15 different ways. Thirteen fresh fruits. Eight varieties of cheese.

Seventeen hot roasts and entrees, of which eight were chicken and birds. WASHINGTON. Among the thousand things that influenced the making of the tariff bill in congress, there has been overlooked one element that had indirect but important effect on the raising or lowering of schedules. Three times a day this influence got to work on the senators and congressmen perspiring in the mid-summer heat of the capitol. It was their daily diet.

The menus of Washington are a culinary jumble, a gastronomic hash, a geographical mixture of tropical and temperate zone cookery. They must serve the pie eaters of New England, the Frenchified palates of New Yorkers, the beefeaters of the north, the iron-clad stomachs of the west, and the uneasy livers of the south. The city has not completely acquired the art of hot weather dining that you can find best exemplified in Egypt, India, and the far east where Englishmen and Americans live in exile. It struggles between carnivorous appetites and tropical temperature. What sort of a tariff decision would you expect from a man who eats beefsteak for breakfast, yet this is what you can 'find on Washington bills of fare.

Then there are 17 different kinds of cereal foods that leave a sawdust nourishment in your stomach, RAFFIA SEEN ON PARASOLS. Those of White Linen and Ecru Pongee Have Strands in the Natural Parasols of white linen and ecru Members of Congress Hot After Mileage Potatoes Growing Under Straw Mulch. pongee are now embroidered with strands of raffia in natural color, The parasol is spread to its widest, the raffia is threaded into a long-eyed needle and some lengthy stitches of the flat Japanese style are sewn up and down, just as you would handle the work if it were in an embroidery frame. The design should first be traced upon each panel, or on every alternate panel, before the work is begun. Raffia has been dyed in the hank and the kindergarten supply shops will sell it in obligingly small portions.

Black raffia has a beautiful gloss which gives it a very handsome and satiny appearance ou the black pongee parasol. 6'4 I If for-THE-1 II immi 'Lajii 'I have found that at least 75 per cent, of the farmers of this enlightened country put in their crops and do a good many other things about the farm governed absolutely by the moon's phases. Almost any farmer will tell summer. Potatoes grown in this way are always free from scab, clean and of finer quality. Clover chaff makes a good covering, hut should not be put on so heavily as it forms a more compact covering, and with too much rain will cause the potatoes to rot.

There is nothing in the current superstition about planting potatoes in the dark of the moon and similar pieces of farm lore which have been accepted as gospel truth from time immemorial. This is the dictum of the department of agriculture, which made you that if you plant potatoes in the dark of the moon they will run to tubers, and if in the light of the moon, they will run to tops. This is said to be true of any root crop, and it is sleeve of finely tucked silk muslin. The over-bodice with half-length sleeves is of imitation Irish lace; it is threaded through with blue ribbon, the ends of which are finished by silk pom-poms. Mushroom-shaped hat of pale blue Ftraw, trimmed with bunches of small pink roses, moss aud foliage.

Gray suede boots with pearl buttons are attractively worn with gray walking suits. planted accordingly. There is only one difficulty abfiut this theory and that is that it is not so. The agricultural experiment stations all over the country have been defying the superstition for years and raising just as good crops when the moon was one way as when it was the other. ADDITION TO DRESSING TABLE a serious study of the moon superstition and laid the Luna wraith at least to its own satisfaction.

COPY THIS PARISIAN MODEL There is usually a basis in fact for any superstition, and the moon superstition was so deep-rooted that a num- As an evidence of the receptive disposition on the part of the members of congress it might be mentioned that the representatives voted themselves each $125 eatra "stationery allowance" soon after the beginning of the extra session. A great many of them do not spend more than $15 or $20 a year on their stationery. There are 391 members, four delegf tes and three commissioners who may draw this comfortable little additional $123 allowance, making 39S all told. The sum of this item, therefore, is $21,430. Every employe of the capitol working force was granted an extra month's pay, and as the salaries run all the way from $0,000 a year, experts, to $30 a month for messengers, and $2.50 a day for pages, the sum total is a tidy one.

The extra pay of the senate pages amounts to for the extra session. These youngsters, of whom there are 16, are given $2.50 a day, reckoning 30 days a month, The urgent deficiency bill carries a number of the items due to the extra session. Among them is one "for miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $25,000." Who gets it is not divulged in the bill. Another line in the bill reads: "To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the senate for expenses incurred during the first session of the Sixty-first congress for clerk hire and other clerical services, The official reporters of debates get $3,000 a year apiece and extra compensation for add tional copies of their THE extra session just closed is regarded in the eyes of the law as the first session of the Sixty-first congress, so unless a court ruling is made which reverses the treasury department the lawmakers will get no mileage when they come together next December. The senators and congressmen, however, have not given up hope of securing their mileage for the Dingley law session, for they carried the case to the court of claims.

Gen. Grosvenor, until recently a representative from Ohio, and one of the leaders of the Cannon machine in the house, is the attorney in charge of the case for the mileage claimants. The mere fact that most of the senators and congressmen did not return to their homes between adjournment on March 4 and the beginning of the extra session on March 15 does not lessen their desire to get the mileage. It is so much "velvet," if they can get it, and the majority of the gentlemen who go to Washington to GOVERNMENT IN REMEDIES FOR SCABBY POTATOES Tidy Is About the Most Useful Kind of Receptable That Has Yet Been Devised. Quite a new idea for a dressing-table tidy may be seen in our illustration.

It is often useful to have some kind of receptable at hand for odds and ends of jewelry, or for those safety pins and needlefuls of cotton, which are so handy to have always within reach. The pocket shown in our illustration is made in pale blue linen, em WILLOW BUSINESS Free Distribution of Best Varie Two Poisons Are Recommended to Prevent Disease, Formalin Being Less Dansrerous. ties Made from Nurseries Located Near Potato scab is a disease of the pota to tuber caused by a fungous growth attacking it in the soil. Spores of the fungus will remain in the soil from serve their country have the reputa tion of getting all they can. The statesmen get 13 cents a mile Dainty Cap for Baby Can Easily Be Made by Anyone Clever with the Needle.

A charming little cap for baby, that was brought home by a young mother from Paris, was so dainty yet simple of construction that it can be copied by the clever needlewoman. The straight strip for the cap was finished on the edge with a quarter of an inch hem, hemstitched in one hundred cotton. Next to the hem was a space quarter of an inch wide will) six threads drawn through the center and caught in the middle with a simple drawn work stitch. This was followed by space of similar width with a line of fine briar stitching through the middle. Next came a series of small squares an inch and a half big, formed by drawing threads vertically and horizontally.

The drawn thread was caught in the middle and in the center of each square was a swastika worked in briar stitching. Beyond the squares was another quarter-inch space briar stitched. The tiny crown was a small circle with a square of drawn thread in the middle and a briar stitched swastika worked in it. The ties wore of the material of the cap, finished at the end with a two-inch hem, hemstitched with lines of drawn work and briar stitching to match that on the body of the cap. over the longest possible route to their homes.

Some of the New York members get more than $100 for a trip. Your Picture Taken With Mr. Taft i come vn and have vooen i PRESIDENT TAFT broidered with a design of white marguerite daisies with yellow centers and green leaves. The four flaps, which are cut like those of an envelope, are bound at the edges with white silk ribbon, and on each flap a large pearl buton is sewn, the object of which is to enable each flap to be lifted separately and quickly. The ring or brooch can then be slipped in, and the flap dropped down again, without opening the entire case.

The government is right in the midst of the harvest of a most unique crop at its experimental farm near Arlington, just across the Potomac from Washington, where a corps of laborers in charge of trained foresters are preparing for the annual free distribution of 100.000 basket willow cuttings. Uncle Sam is encouraging the growing of high-grade willow rods in this country, and in the five years Bince the establishment of the holts at Arlington approximately a half million select cuttings have been distributed among farmers, with directions for planting and preparing for market. Particular attention is given to selecting the varieties and strains best suited to the soil where the plantings will be made. Willow craft is an industry which is constantly growing in importance in this country, yet the culture of basket willow in the United States made very little progress until five or six years ago. Even now, practically all of the best grades of basket willow are Imported from Europe, chiefly from France.

Experiments have shown that the best grades of willow can be grown in this country at a good profit. This year's harvest began early in March. Four approved varieties are being sent out, and only the best and most thrifty rods are selected for distribution. Cuttings for experiments, planting and information on manage year to year and on the tubers from one season to another. The disease causes the surface of the potato to become rough and unsightly and very often extends deep into the flesh, injuring its food value.

Scab on potatoes can be prevented by planting uninfected tubers in clean soil, and the danger of infecting may be reduced by rotation or by planting the potatoes in different soil each season. To insure a crop of potatoes free from scab treat the seed with some poison to kill the scab spores on them and plant in soil in which no potatoes have grown for several years. Two poisons for scab treatment are recommended. Formalin is the less poisonous and the one most commonly used. It costs about 50 cents a pint and one pint is used with 30 gallons of water.

Formalin solution may be used either in a wooden or metallic vessel, and, although a poison, there is little danger in its use. Let the potatioes soak in the solution for about two hours. After disinfection place the potatoes in bags which contain no scab spores. Spores of potato scab may also be killed by the use of corrosive sublimate. This is a very poisonous substance and must be used with care.

Do not usfe for food any of the potatoes after treatment. To use corro the Capitol, an obscure little photographer's shop floats on its frontal a drapery of white cloth bearing blatantly the black legend: "Come It? and have your picture taken with President Taft." The trick is turned, of course, by the simple method of improving the customer's figure beside the stock plates of President Taft with outstretched hand, as if in greeting, or in a friendly arm-and-arm pose. The illusion, however, is very good, and the perpetrator has been making money ever since the inauguration, when postcard fakers filled the street with similar enticements. The Capitol or White House looms convincingly in the background, and in the forefront there you are in the presidential grip and under the radiance of the presidential smile. Of course, your friends in Wayback believe they have ocular demonstration that you are the whole show when you come to WEAR PETTICOATS OF COLOR IF you want your picture taken with President Taft, come to Washington.

It's a sure-thing proposition. Whether the biggest man of the nation is at Beverly or Bullymahoo, it's all the same thing. For the nominal price of half a dollar or a bagatelle of that sort you can go thundering down to posterity on a piece of pasteboard clasping hands with the king of America or costly locking arms with His Honorable Greatness. Of course, as far as the president goes, it is absent treatment, pictorially speaking. All you've got to be particular about is to be on hand your own self.

'Way dovu "the Avenue," close to White Garments Are No Longer Considered Indispensable Under the Summer Frock. It Is good news for the girl who must economize that it is no longer considered necessary to wear white petticoats under summer frocks. They are still worn under white or pale colored lingerie gowns, but with dark gingham or linen suits colored petticoats are the style. A serviceable and easily washed Busy Boosters of the Latin Republics skirt is or grass linen, with edges of ruffles and bias bands of lawn either sive sublimate provide a barrel or other wooden vessel, as it attacks metals. Dissolve two ounces of the poison in two gallons of hot water.

When it was has dissolved mix it with 14 gallons of water and sprinkle or pour it over the potatoes, so that all of the tubers become moist with the solution. What is left over of the poison must be carefully disposed of. self-toned or in a contrasting color. One girl who expects to travel most of the summer has made herself pet ment of the willow holts are furnished those who make the request of the forester at Washington. The government recognizes the Importance of good cuttings, a point more commonly overlooked than the matter of cultivation.

Only the best and most thrifty rods are selected for each season's distribution. The forest service is receiving a constantly increasing number of requests for basket willow uttings. These requests came from farmers all over the country, many of them coming through members of congress. ticoats of cotton crepe in coolrs to match both her dark traveling suits and several of her lighter, dressier gowns. These take up little room in Mustard plasters made with the white of an egg do not blister the skin.

Daily exercise with light dumb bells eventually cures round shoulders. To cure a sting of bee or wasp, mix common earth with water and apply at once. Nothing takes the oil from the skin more quickly than a soap that does not agree with it. When a cut will not heal, saturate a piece of absorbent cotton with coal oil and bind on. A sure relief from thirst when water Is not to be obtained la derived from holding a dry pebble or a button in the mouth.

a bag; do not interfere with the slim- ncss of the "silhouette," still consid review number. John Barrett is director of the bureau and Francisco J. Yanes is secretary. These two are busy as bees, keeping the countries in which they are interested in the public eye. The July issue covers the activities of the 20 Latin-American Republics of the International union for the year 190S.

"The spirit of internationalism is its broadest application was the pervading characteristic of relations between the various countries of America during 1908," the bulletin says. "The year was marked by numerous gatherings of the representative elements of national life, both in Latin America and the United States, and on all occasions indications of a unanimity of sentiment and community ol Interest were markedly displayed." Exercise for the Horse. It Is a mistake to keep either young or old horses stabled several days at a time. They need daily outdoor exercise for development of muscles and bones. If the pasture Is too short for them to run In, allow them daily exercise in an open lot.

ered necessary, whether nature built you thin or not; and they can be THERE is none of the imputed Latin indisposition to work in those who conduct the International Bureau of American Republics here. The bureau, which, by the way, Is putting up a spick and span new building, acts as a sort of press agent for washed out over night, and be ready for wear in the morning. Slips for Frocks. the Latin-American countries. A pe The shops now offer at small prices slips of muslin, white or colored, to rusal of one of Its monthly bulletins is a liberal education in what the Lice Infection.

It is a mark of poor farm management to allow any animals to become Infected with lice. Hogs can not thrive when their vitality Is sucked away by these Insects. There are several good dips on the market, and kerosene and grease, mixed warm, are good common remedy. go under transparent frocks. These Brood Coops Face South.

See that your brood coops face the south at this time of year so as to give the chicks as much of the sun's raya as possible, but reverse this method as the season advances and the heated months approach "Other Americans" tre doing and in Hair of the Eyebrow. The hair of the eyebrow should be trained to lie close and smooth to the skta by the aid of a tiny brush. Dip the rush in brllllantlne or olive ill Eitlur one will assist the growth. have a lace-edged ruffle, are cut low th resources of their countries. in the neck and have straps on the The July, number was the annual shoulders edged with lace.