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The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11
To Fair Visitors.

We especially invite our Fair Visitors to visit the Steele-Smith Store during their stay in Birmingham. The entire store service is yours-check your parcels with us at no charge-use 'phones-in fact, in a visit to Birmingham Quality Store you will be repaid with wealth of new ideas and notions for fashioning your fall wardrobe COME!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11

We offer Monday-and all next week-a brand lot of one hundred little girls Bear Skin Coats One of the prettiest Coats imaginable. Made of good quality rough Bear Skn-cut double breasted, and with military collar Trimmed with gold buttons Lined throughout with good grade of mercerzed sateen. We have them in the wanted shades-Red, Navy, Brown, White md Copenhagen Blue. You'll be surprised to find coat so good-as reasonable as. .s2bO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-11

 19inch Chevron Stripes in newest shades 19inch Hair-lne Striped Tafetas. 19inch Pencil Stripe Louisines. 19inch Fancy Dress Silks Gall new designs. 3Oinch Printed Kimona Silks Cheney Bros.)
 at TABLE No. 2: 19-inch Swiss and Domestic Messaines. 19-inch Peau de Cynes. 19inch Satin Majestic. 20inch Self-striped Louisines.- 2Oinch Fancy Striped Dress Silks. 20-inch Chevrons in black and coors. 32-inch Italian Tatfeta in black TABLE No. 3: 20-inch Satin de Chine. 20-inch Fancy Chevrons. 21 inch Self Striped Surah. 20inch Foreign Messane. 2O-inch Soft Finished Satin. 21-inch Fancy Striped Messalines 35 inch Messaline Tafeta (wear guaranteed) 36-mch Messane Taffeta in all colors.
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WHAT TO DO FOR ROSES Now
Exercise Little Sensible Care and the Results Will
Prove Satisfactory.
Prove Satisfactory.

at some little distance away from the
stem. Often the roses will make So
much root that they fail to throw enough
power into the blossoming apparatus. The
slight cutting of the roots will serve in
many cases to correct this.
OF course all insect enemies must be
killed at once by spraying with kero-
sene emulsion or with whale-oil soap So
luton. Be careful to get 1t well on the
lower side Of the leaves. Frequently the
biggest colonies Of the green rose lice are
crowded together just where the leaf
springs from the stem. A close examina-
ton Is needed to discover them.
Do not let flowers die on the tea roses.
In cutting flowers from the ever-bloom-
ing varieties leave one or two outward
growing eyes on the stems below where
you cut. so that further set of blossoms
shall be assured.
Do not be afraid to cut the bloom from
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between thin slices of buttered graham
or whole wheat bread. Cut in neat tri-
angles. but do not reject the crust
Sandwiches From Cold Mutton.
Chop very fine. and to each pint add a
tablespoonful capers. teaspoonful each
chopped mint and salt. dash of pepper
and a teaspoonful lemon juice. Spread
thickly on buttered slices of whole wheat
bread. cover with other slices of buttered
bread and cut in triangles.
Chicken and Pimento Sandwiches.
Add to finely minced chicken. roasted
or boiled. an equal amount Spanish pimen-
toes. Moisten with mayonnaise and
spread between wafer-thin slices of white
or brown bread. A leaf of lettuce may
also be added if. desired.
White and Brown Bread With Cream
Cheese Filling.
For this use the steamed Boston brown
bread and a potato loaf of white. Take
the crust from the white loaf. using d
sharp knife. Then. instead of cutting
crosswise, cut in thin lengthwise pieces.
Treat the brown loaf in the same way.
side and do the same with a brown slice.
Put the two buttered sides together. with
thin layer of fresh cream cheese be-
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their pipes. for little song or more
chat.
1t is in such simple informal fashion
that the true graces of hospitality
abound, and we can all do as much as
that
In an East Side Settlement.
There are limitations Not every one
can compass a real out of door supper,
but they can come a close second. In
one Of the East Side settlement houses
in New York. Sunday night tea bring
together for rest and conference just as
many of the settlement workers as can
get there. The table is spread in the
top story sitting room, whose windows
command a view of the East river and
Williamsburg bridge. The windows are
wide open and the noise of the street
comes up, 1t Is true, but softened by dis
lance In the center of the table is al
ways a great bowl or jar of flowers, field
or wild flowers by preference. Sometimes
1t Is a Jar of star-eyed daisies. again
buttercups and daisies. or clover and
dogwood.
Each worker in turn makes it mat
ter Of principle to either go herself to the
woods or fields the Saturday before or
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ask some kindly couptry friend to remem-
Der them Refreshments are Of the SIM
plest-buns fresh or preserved fruit,
cakes and tea or chocolate.
All help themselves from the table and
eat perched on the stairs, on the window
stills, on chair arms, or even. in case OF
an overflow Of guests, in circles on the
floor
Among the sandwiches that go excel
lently we'll at informal Sunday night teas
are the following:
Japanese Sandwiches.
These are made of any kind Of left
over fish. baked. broiled or boiled. Pick
out every bit of skin and bone. and flake
in small pieces. Put into a saucepan
with just little milk or cream to moist
en-. and add little butter and a busting
of salt and pepper. Work to a paste while
heating. then cool and spread on thin
slices of buttered bread.
Cress Sandwiches.
Take thin slices of rare roast beef and
cut into small pieces. Add an equal guam
tity minced watercress dressed with
teaspoonful grated horseradish. a little
salt and paprika to season. and enough
softened butter or thick cream to moisten.
Blend the ingredients well. and spread
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any of your roses. Removing flowers be-
fore they fade on the plant is good for
every Towering growth, as it prevents the
plant from throwing its strength into the
work of seed-producing. If it is prevented
from this. its energies will be turned to
continuing the work of making flowers.
In addition. the removal of roses from
the bushes gives them just the kind OF
summer pruning that is good for them.
1t takes away the stems that have done
their work and that would thereafter
merely sap the plant.
Any further pruning than this. how
ever, should not be done during the grow
ing season. Leave all general pruning
till the plants are dormant. The only ex-
ception to this rule is in the case of stems
that are actually dead. They may be cut
out at any time cutting as close to the
live wood as possible without injuring it.
Intelligent care now will result in at
least some of your roses making bloom
much longer than they are expected to
do ordinarily.
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tween. Next butter the top of the brown
slice of bread. spread again with cream
cheese and lay a second slice of buttered
white bread on top. Repeat until there
are five layers. having the white last
Now. with sharp knife cut crosswise in
thin slices. Sometimes the cream cheese
filling can be varied with chopped pis-
tachio nuts or olives, or il can be omitted
entirely. In any case it is delicate and
appetizing.
Other Sandwich Filings.
Other timely and appetizing filings are
green pepper and cucumber chopped fine
and squeezed dry. then seasoned with
mayonnaise; any of the potted and dew
lied meats seasoned with chopped pars-
ley cress. with a teaspoonful creamed
butter to make it spread: cheese and
chopped spinach moisted with lemon
juice and mayonnaise; veal chopped fine.
with celery or cress and mayonnaise:
Camembert cheese heated slightly. just
enough to spread: Boston rarebit made
with cream and egg: leftover scrambled
eggs and cress; roast chicken and chopped
dill pickles: cheese and chopped dates or
figs. orange marmalade and sardines
pounded to a paste. with a few drops Of
lemon juice added.
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JUNE AND JULY CARE OF FLOWERS.
Methods For Stimulating Them to Obtain the Best
Bloom

and even the stems, if it touches them.
Its effect is wonderful.
Sweet peas. hollyhocks. roses. foxgloves.
pansies, morning glories dahlias. stock.
Saliva, nasturtiums. verbena, phlox. cos
mos, lobelia. portulaca. sunf1owers. ETC..
will all respond in a manner that seems
incredible.
REGARDING dahlias. a word of advice is
needed now. If they are not doing we'll
by the end of this month there is ground
for suspecting that the soil is not good
enough for them. II this proves true on
examination. remove the poor ground and
give them richer stuff II they are in
apparently good soil. feed 1t we'll Re-
move their lower branches If they are
thickly grown with leaves and bear but
few buds
In a moist season, with thoroughly con-
genial soil, dahlias should not need this
care Healthy plants should thrive per-
fectly.
BY all means stimulate the sweet peas
even II you leave all other Towering
plants to nature. The richness and in
crease of blossoms will repay you. These
flowers are hungry little fellows and they
need food.
cent he allows the outside leaves to re-
main attached to the stalk. While this
second head will be small with no white
center. 1t makes delicious boiled greens.
Pumpkin and squash seeds are not col
lected and dried. but left inside the vege"
table itself until the planting season. when
he opens and plants the seeds with the
fresh pulp clinging to them. Muskmelon
seeds he wraps in tow sack and buries
them in rich soil. keeping them very moist
until they begin to sprout. He then plants
them, and they appear above the ground
with mushroonlike rapidity.
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maN- Lay this mnlch ON hnsely- bun
cove. Tie ground thoroughly leaving just
a tiny open space around each plant Be
careful. however, not to pack the mulch
on tightly. There must be free circu-
lation Of air underneath. otherwise 1t will
get hot and defeat the very object for
which 1t is used. Hot-weather mulch is
intended to keep the sun rays from the
upper sod, but not to shut out the air.
If there is some especially valuable plant
that shows signs of distress from the heat
remove a few inches of the top soil around
1t very carefully. leaving rim one or two
inches wide Immediately around the plant.
With a sharp stick make half a dozen
holes leading toward the roots. doing it
very gently, Of course so as not to injure
anything.
Pour water into this cavity till the
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thew REQUIRE some time to do their work
Most horticulturists and plant dealers
sell prepared flower garden fertilizers for
the purpose of quick stimulation. Most
Of these are mixtures which will supply
nitrogen and phosphates in quickly acting
forms. These fertilizers cost from cents
to p cents a pound. and most OF them
can be used dry or in solution
A very quickly acting enricher is nitrate
of soda 1t is valuable only on account
of it's nitrogen, with which it parts almost
the moment it is put into the ground. 1t
costs from to cents pound.
Nitrogen is the thing that will force
most plants quite sufficiently. both In the
flower and the kitchen garden. So, on the
whole perhaps a ten-pound package OF
nitrate Of soda will be found to serve
beautifully for the purposes OF the aver
age garden through these coming weeks.
Dig a little of it under close to each plant
that needs forcing.
Equally quick. however. is liquid ma
nure. made by hanging bag of stable
manure in a barrel of water until the
resulting liquid is very dark brown. Pour
some of this around the plants. but do
it carefully, for it will burn the leaves,
rows. placing the plants at least foot
apart. This transplanted lettuce soon
forms heads of such immense size that
the bed resembles a cabbage patch. He
transplants beets in the same way. Onions
are also grown from the seed. and have
their roots clipped when transplanted in
the same manner. In an incredibly short
time they grow to be as large as saucer.
When he cuts off lettuce for market he
waters and cultivates the bare stalk.
which heads out again in about one-third
the time required to grow it from the seed.
Cabbage is treated in the same way, ex-
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Another simple way where plants are
In rows. as in a vegetable garden. is to
set a board edgewise along the south side
of the row Tor the sunniest side If the
rows run north and SOUTH, inclining 1t
slightly toward the plants so that 1t will
cast it's shadow on them These boards
are held in place by short stakes driven
at the ends.
Where plants are very thickly setS so
that it is difficult to keep the ground suf-
ficiently loosened. it can be prevented
from baking and thus causing the evap-
Grafton Of the subsurface moisture by COW
ering it with some fine, loose covering
such as lawn clippings. chopped straw.
chopped leaves or old flower stems cut
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ground has sucked up So much that no
more will soak away. Make the removed
earth as fine as dust by crumbling il be-
tween the fingers and throw it back into
the flooded place. Do not try TO pack II
in Simply replace the fine earth. This
simple process will often save favorite
plants that look If they were on their
last legs.
In a protracted drought the leaves often
become coated with fine dust. This must
he removed by generous flooding and
washing down with a hose. II IL is left
there il will act just as dust would on
the lungs of an animal or human being.
The leaves are the plants lungs. They
must be free and clean if they are to do
their work. In ordinary circumstances. OF
course. the rains will do this cleansing.
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be despised in cold and rainy weather
but now it is time to live in The open just
as much as possible. The Sunday-night
supper can be made ready while getting
dinner. packed in baskets or on trays
with all the dishes needed for it's serving.
Then the housewife can put on her fresh
frock and feel that the rest of the day
spells rest for her as much as any one
else. No bending over a hot fire: no
dishes to wash; no bother. Another point
in favor of the al fresco Sunday supper
is that you can afford to be hospitable.
If supper is to be served in the regulation
dining room and in the regulation way,
sometimes we stop to think twice before
we say, Come and take supper with u.s."
With gypsy supper. the more the mer-
rier: each one can fend for himself or her
self, If necessary
In a pretty California home where the
Sunday supper was always served on the
lawn under the shade of a big live oak
there was a trestle table stored in the
carriage house that the boys brought out
every Sunday afternoon. Early in the
afternoon it was strewed with reading mat
ter and the chidrsns Sunday games. but
when the supper hour drew nigh the chill
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"HE honeysuckles. or loniceras. are
many of them natives of our coun-
try With few exceptions they are
hardy and they are charming shrubs.
some with a trailing habit of growth and
others upright bushes.
The trumpet honeysuckle is a handsome
native trailing species 1t bears clusters
Of bright red flowers in June and usually
a second crop in the fall. succeeded by red
berries. 1t is often used as a porch
climber. Because of its struggling growth
it is most effective when left to ramble
over old walls or stone heaps. or over the
roofs of low buildings. 1t is often at
tackled by the green or black aphis. which
can easily be kept in check by spraying
with a tobacco insecticide.
Lonicera japonica halleana is an excel
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Tohn Chinaman's
Gardening System.

Now that young bee's and lettuce are
reaching the thinning out stage.
the man or woman who has garden may
like to hear of some of the Chinese gar
dener's methods in California.
When young lettuce reaches the height
of two or three inches he does not eat or
throw away the young plants in process
of thinning. Instead he clips off about
an inch of the root tip and replants in
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ROM now on and through July the
majority of summer blooming
flowers will be doing their hard

= majority or summer blooming
flowers will be doing their hard
est work If they are fed and
stimulated they can be made not only
to give vastly increased bloom. but to
keep it up much longer than they would
otherwise.
Ordinary fertilizers. such as barnyard
manure. compost. etc. which were so
effective earlier in the year. are not suit
able for this June and July service. They
require too much time to part with their
rich properties. What is wanted to force
flowers and vegetable growth now is to
apply some food that will give concen-
trated nourishment as soon as it is put in
II is not desirable. therefore. to apply
such matter as bone fertilizer. because.
as a rule. all the forms of crushed and
powdered bone are slow in their action,
yielding nitrogen. etc, very gradually.
They are extremely valuable for perma-
nent improvement of the ground. as they
give up every rich property in them.
wasting none.
Pulverized sheep manure and hen ma
nure are much quicker to action; but even
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dren themselves cleared 1t of. spread 1T
with the picnic cloth, brought out the
trays of plates. spoons and glasses. the
paper napkins. the generous platters OF
sandwiches made at noon and covered
with a damp napkin to keep them moist.
the fruit. cakes and pitchers Of milk or
lemonade. Every one was welcome, the
children asked their friends whenever
they wished whole families out for
drive would stop. sure Of a welcome and
and professors out for a stroll would turn
their steps that way. If chairs fell short
there were rugs and the good. green turf.
II dishes were lacking there were more
in the house. or In the hollow cupboard
of the live oak. II the supply of sand
witches proved unequal to the demand
there were always crackers and fruit and
such pleasant talk and happy laughter.
Supper finished (and there was no hurry
about it,, the children carried the dishes
in the house. piled them UP in the dish
pan and turned the water on them. so
thew would wash easily the next morning.
The litter and crumbs were brushed on
and carried into the chicken yard. then
every ono settled down. the men with
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FAVORITE HONEYSUCKLES.
Bear Beautiful Flowers and Prove an
Addition to Any Garden.

lent climber. vigorous grower. with
white. sweet-scented flowers. changing to
pale yellow. The berries. borne in au-
tumn. are black. II spreads rapidly from
underground runners.
Lonicera periclymonium is a native OF
Europe. a particularly fine specimen OF
climber having heads OF fragrant red and
yellow flowers in great profusion. There
are several varieties. those that do not
begin to flower until late in the season
being recommended for the northern
states.
Lonicera japoniea aurea reticulea. fire
variety with yellow reticulate vened
leaves. is sometimes employed as hedge.
and must grow in full sunlight to bring
out the color AS a hedge plant it re-
quires frequent shearings to keep IL SYM
metrical
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the garden. on the porch. in the sum-
mer house. on the roof. down on the
big rock in the pasture. over on the shore.
I'D on the HILL where you can catch the
sunset glow-anywhere. anyhow. so that
II be out of doors.
Four stout walls and a roof are not to
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"HERE are few home gardens so
small that fruit cannot be grown in
them to advantage. Apple. pear
and other fruit trees can be planted In
the border of the garden. and while they
may not do so we'll in titled orchards.
the results are generally satisfactory.
Along a back fence or beside a walk one
may plant a row or two of currants.
gooseberries or blackberries. or he may
make a trellis for grape vines If there
is a back yard fifty feet wide available
there is room in three borders for six to
eight fruit trees, with bush fruits between.
without encroaching too much on the
lawn.
Where space is more limited dwarf
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must plentyo air.
~ Of
ak will the paper down. and you will have per-
it In
etempor sha
eandbu stones Will roll away as soon as
For the average snan
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Sc weigh 1t whilst If is
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Exercise a Little

eHE chief disease that is likely to
affect roses during the rest OF
this month and the early part
d OF July is mildew. Bordeaux
MIXTURE will probably cure it easily II ap-
nl,ea in time Try to put it on when inc
indications are that there will be no I'M
mediate shower, so that 1t will not De
washed off.
Give them some liquid manure every
ten days, and mulch very carefully II the
season is dry. Dig up all the top soil
around them and see that 1t remains
loose. II 1t shows signs Of being ex-
nausted, dig some compost or other solid
fertilizer under and add a little nitrate OF
soda.
In cases where the plants have per.
sistently refused to bloom sufficiently.
though they look well and strong. take
a sharp trowel and cut deep into the earth
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SUNDAY MENU.
BREAKFAST.

ROM now on, granted pleasant
days, IL is the wise housewife
who makes her Sunday-night sup
nor movable feast Saryipu IL IN
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GROWING FRUIT.
Few Gardens So Small as Not to Allow
Sufficient Room.

trees may be grown. The apple is dwarfed
by grating upon small, slow-growing
types of apple trees. such as the paradise
and doucin stocks. The latter is the bet
ter. making a stronger tree. The pear IS
dwarfed by growing on the root Of
ounce. Dwarf apple and pear trees may
be planted as near as ten feet apart each
way. A dwarf apple or pear tree should
be kept at the height of ten or twelve feet,
and should not attain this stature in less
than ten or twelve years. A dwarf apple
tree in full bearing should average from
two pecks to bushel Of first quality ap-
pies Buy your trees from a reliable
dealer-first-class stock. 1t does not pay
to save at the sacrifice Of quality.