Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-03-07
Greenhouse and window Plants.

As the sun becomes more powerful
bloom will be abundant and plants
will start into growth, and need
more water. Ventilation can now be
given more freely, especially to window
plants. Insects will increase more rapid
]y and will demand attention. Those
who give their window plants daily care
are able to stop the first attacks of insects,
and save much future trouble. Fume-
cation with tobacco smoke is best for
the greenhouse, but is not easily practic-
able with house plants. For these shower
ing with tobacco water is best.
Tobacco Tea.-Pour boiling water
over tobacco stems, OF other from of
*'the weed" and when cool dilute it to
the color of strong tea; sprinkle the
plants with it, or what is better, having
the liquid in pail or in a tub, dip the,
plants in it.
The red spider, because so small and
not always "red," and living mostly on
the under side of the leaves, is often an
unsupported cause of much injury to
window plants. Moisture is the best
remedy; go over the leaves, especially
the under side, with soft sponge, using
very weak soapsuds.
The mealy bug, 50 called because it
is covered with q mealy powder, is often
great pest. It is usually in the forks
of the stems, and may be picked off
with sharp pointed stick.
Faded Flowers.--Flowering is very
exhausting to plant, and seed bearing
is still more SO: as soon as flowers be-
gin to lose their beauty they should be
cut away before the formation Of the
seed begins.
Roses. THE stems that have borne
flowers should be cut back to strong
bud, which will soon push.
Cameiias, when towering is over will
make then yearly growth rapidly. The
plants may be given a warmer place,
and will require more watcr.-American
Agriculturist.
Awonan's Need of Pockets.
Mary l. Booth in Harper's Bazaar.
If we were asked what is to-day the
great advantage which man has
over woman in the struggle for exist
ence, we should answer, without hest
tation, pockets. Pockets are the SYM
Dol Of an orderly mind OR logical mind, of
logical powers, practical requirements.
homogeneity. A bag, woman's bag, G
shopping bag is the emblem of the king
dom of misrule. Speaking roundly,
mans clothes contain dozen pockets,
In this convenient place lis change is
kept, ever ready, and never in the way;
in that receptacle are his knife, cork
screw and shoebuttoner; another COM
partment is sacred to his purse; still
another holds his handkerchief; his
gloves may have seperate home if he
will; his eyeglass lives in an aristocratic
seclusion watch, pencil case and tooth
picks are comfortably segrated, and he
has room, besides, for memorandum
book, letters, newspapers, the new mag
azines, visiting card and case of court
plaster.
Is it any wonder that he turns the
key of the worlds great lock easily and
we'll, having both hands free for that
exercise? And the fact that he has
conquered his pockets, SO to speak,
testifies to the supremacy Of man. II
his tailor demurred at putting them in,
that useful minion would find his occu-
patton gone. But when woman is told
by her dressmaker that only one, mac.
cessible pocket is to be allowed her,
sh Q supinely submits, and thereby pro-
claims her inferiority of sex -.