Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-01-10

A gleam OF sunshine in the strife
That lightens many care.
sometime we wonder who they are
And meet them still unknown
In busy mart or passing car.
and claim them as our own.
There fingers in life's quiet hours
A picture wondrous bright.
Like the perfume of the flowers;
cur ships, that pass at night.
A letter comes from far away
Written by a strangers hand,
We are held, by friendships band
Dear unknown friends, send forth sweet
thoughts
To find lodging place,
IN lonely hearts, with blessing frought
That fills, with life and grace
ELLA Carpenter in Boston Ideas.
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Evils of Poor Ventilation
Much is said about ventilation of
sleeping rooms at night as a means of
preserving health. No less is there need
of careful ventilation of the other parts
of the house during the day, especially
in the latter part of the winter when
the strain of the season seems to come
hardest on those who stay in the house
most of the time
Notice that sometimes YOU feel chilly
though there is good fire. Very likely
y0uI head aches, too and you feel list
less. and don't want to get up to find
shoulder shawl or shut door This
meanssthat the air in the rooal is imDure
and the lungs are not properly supplied
vita good fuel, are not giving the blood
all the new life il calls for Not infre-
quently, while you are feeling so badly.
the children. especially the smaller ones
whose heads are nearest the floor. are
restless and irritable, their cheeks are
red and their mouths open, much like
that OF tish out of water. They, too,
are calling for pure air.
There is no use in trying to heat i'm
pure air; the added heat only means
added discomfort. Take the children to
some other. room, give the living room a
thorough 'blow out" however cold if
may be outside. Notice that after you
have closed it up again the room will be
comfortably, cheerfully warm in n very
few moments. You will be warm, your
headache and lassitude will disappear,
the children will become quiet and hap
Ply.
One ought also to give kitchen and
pantry and dining room at least one
thorough airing every day, unless ven
tilation is provided in some practical
way. One homekeeper the writer knew
in the past used to complain of getting
tired. exhausted in her kitchen, as
she did not, though working hard, in
other parts of the house. In accordance
with suggestion, she had a yentilating
shaft put up through the roof, directly
over the kitchen stove and 10! that
woman could work all day in the same
kitchen and feel no more tired than she
did when working elsewhere
Daylight has no magic power to ward
off the evils of poor ventilation
Rooms other than sleeping rooms. kept
closed and lived in, must be now and
are to be safe for those who must &C.
cupy them.-Jeannette n Phillips in
Mothers Magazine
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Primroses for Winter
The primroses have many advantages
for use in winter window gardens-they
are beautiful in flower and foliage, they
are inexpensive, they require little care
and they continue to blossom through.
most of the winter months.
The prinroses are especially suitable
FOR that form of window gardening which
is becoming so popular of late-the fill
ing of window box with plants of one
sort that make beautiful display while
in blossom. Three principal types are
now available for such use, although
more attractive results are likely to be
obtained through the use of one type
rather than a mixture of the three.
The usual large Powered primrose to be
seen in greenhouses Is some variety of
the original Chinese primrose, known
technically as primula sinensis; the
somewhat smaller lowered obconica
primrose and the still smaller baby prim-
rose are also both of Chinese origin.
Among the Chinese varieties there is n
great variation in the color and Struc-
ture of the blossoms; some are white,
others pink, others rosered some are
single, others semi-double and others
double.
The flowers of the obconica are also
extremely variable in the different va
rieties. both in form and color. Even IN
the same fiGwer-head blossoms of differ
ent ages show most interesting phases
OF color development In a plant now
before me the youngest flowers, which
are just opening, have the petals white
slightly flushed with pink, especially on
the inner surface. In flowers little
Older this pinkish flush has suffused
the entire inner front surface of the
iobes, while in those still older it has
changed to a deep pink which is still
deeper at the base, making the EYE"
of the flower formed by the contrasting
of the color of the lobes with the yellow
green of the inside of the hower-tube.
much more conspicuous. The violet-red
OF the expanded corola and the green
yellow of the eye make complete COM
Elementary harmony, the effect of which
Is enhanced by the touch of yellow green
IN the large globular stigma which is
Aeld In the center of the eye.
The foliage of this primrose is quite
distinctive, being much smoother than
mat OF the Chinese. The leaves have in
general a broadly rounded form with
"avy margins. There are hairs upon
ms margin as well as upon the stems
ana principal veins. Smaller BARS are
more or less sparsely scattered over ~
upper surface of the leaf blade. but the
them
One can sometimes find at the florists
an interesting yellow primrose. having
many rather small single flowers. The
petals are clear, bright yellow, only
SShghtIy darker at the center, with a very
large green stigma in the eye The
MOVERS arise from the central stalk in
Ihree circles. each beng borne on vi0-
Iet-red hairy stalk, which in the lower
sets of flowers is about an inch and a
nan long. The leaves are densely woolly
on both surfaces
One precaution is always TO be taken
IN the case of tba DrimrDsa ul1pts. in