Who Does Her Own Work

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7871, 5 August 1911, Page 13

Who Does Her Own Work

WOULD not any bride be proud of this little home? The bungalow faces the oast and has . two ..pergola por- . ■ h ches so that the morning sun,is not excluded from the front rooms when it is • needed, but in very hot. weather canvas is stretched over them. For the foun-- : dation brick has been used, Tho roof is of shingles, stained, while the’pergolas are of rough, unsurfaced timber. In-the interior a pretty colour scheme has been used in this living-room and the. diningroom—the woodwork is stained . a soft sago .green, with the walls of a lighter - tone, giving a result which is both picas- . ing and restful. Beneath tho projecting * . • casement windows of the Uving-room is,!- -k : , a wide seat, , and on each side of tho fireplace in the inglcnook are built-in. L seats. The bedrooms arc close together; ; and tho narrow hall is lighted from a , window in a closet, which, in turn, has : an outside window.—''Ladies* Home Journal. J * -u • ——————————— A PLAIN MAN./ A plain man prays and goes his ways and gives his life to toil; ' A piain man keeps tho grain he reaps and tills his tithe of soil; # A plain man sees the joy of right and in . ;/ that life lived well. . : v , ' : Breatlics that contentment of whoso wealth ■ . he cannot sing nor tell. . ' - •- r A plain man has one heart to love, ono love to give complete, % A plain man plants the rose of : Ufe to' • . bloom about bis feet, 1 " : - And its blossoms, rosy—chocked, with child- • v hood's sparkling eyes', v • , He seos tlie measure of his joys in tenfold blooms arise. ; \ A plain man gives his neighbour hail, his brother help m need, - ■’■i' '2 A plain man's' heart proolaims a : ■ plain man’s wholesome creed; ; ,-i: A plain man scoffs at vain men’s show and .=■ comrade of the throng, : ’, r ! -r 1 A plain man learns the latent power to * suffer and be strong. . - ; ; , 1 A-plain man envies’-not his peers nor those ' ' ’' beyond him set . • , In covetous and kneed-grown zeal to get ■' and still to get; r !• 1 ► • A plain man loves his eittnpio life and for * ! rv:£ him wealth is but A rosebush by his garden gate, a lilac bv : * his hut. : ■ -h ■ / < , '•—Baltimore " Sun;'’ ■ ; APPLE PROBLEM FOR THF , BOYS . : The "Washington Post" declares that half the members of tho House of Representatives busied themselves, during a . -s leisure hour, over tho following problem 1 ' given them by a Now Jersey represon- . tative.- , A man who bad three sons called them ■' ■ together, and told them that ho "proposed to make a disposition of his property. Ho said that ho had 150 apples, of which he would give 15 to his youngest son, 50 to his second son, and 85 to’, 1 his eldest son. , “Now," he said.. "I want you to go ' ’ out and sell these apples at the same ' price, and yet each of you bring me the > same amount of money, and the eldest’ must fix the price." When the congressmen heard this pro- ’ blem they laughed, as if they were bo- ’ ing imposed upon. "It cannot bo done," said one. 1 "Is it a sell?" asked another. ■ . "Nothing but the sell of' tho apples,*' ■- .* replied the propounder. , ■■ With this assurance the statesmen' began to work. Por a quarter of an hour they figured, and then they gave it up.“Weil," said the representative, "tho ‘ boys went out on the street, and the youngest sou met a man who asked him what he would sell his apples for, . . v i ; “'You must go to my eldest brother/ said the boy, and the man did as ho ‘ was told. 1 .• ■■ ,: ■ ■_ - "T will sell you my apples for ono ■ cent ( a halfpenny) a dozen/ said the • 1 eldest brother. So he sold &4 of his : apples for 7 cents, and had one apple " left, while tho youngest boy sold 1 13 v of his apples for one cent and had three remaining. ;* •Tt was then very easy to comply with their father's requirements; The eldest son fixed a price of 3 cents a piece I : for each of the ’ apples left over. Ho '< !* •, sold his remaining one; for 3 cents andhad 10 cents; tho second boy sold four dozen of bis 50 apples for i cents, and the remaining two at 3 cents each, aud ‘ had also 10 cents; while the’ youngest* brother sold his remaining three-apples 1 ’ for 9 cents, which, added; to tho ono he already had, gave him 'lo cents. "So the three boys complied with thcii v ; 1 father’s conditions, and each -carried;’.; ' i,* home tho same amount of money.". BETTER STILL Mrs Griggs’ daughters were taking music lessons, and she called upon their instructor ‘to inquire as to their > progress. Upon her; return she seemed , thoughtful, and remarked to Mr Griggs: “1 can't ‘really make out what tho .. : teacher meant about the girls' voices." . "Wbat did ho say?" inquired- Mr Griggs. ,i "He said that Mamie’s voice v " - but that Maude’s was better still.'', :: ~ When preparing potatoes for bating •' out one paring around the largest- side of fho potato lengthwise, aud when baked fc the skin will slip off from each side very ’ readily.