Part 16 (2/2)

In a special feature story onmosquitoes, a writer in the _Detroit News_ undertook to trace the life history of a mosquito In order to popularize these scientific details, he describes a ”baby mosquito” in a concrete, inforests or points out specifically its likeness to a huular little water bug You call hi about in a puddle His head is wide and flat and his eyes are set well out at the sides, while in front of them he has a pair of cute little horns or feelers While the baby ht up in the water, he is an air-breather and cos and her order

Like most babies the mosquito larva believes that his row up very fast This he does, and if the weather is warrows his skin He proceeds to grow a new skin underneath the old one, and when he finds himself protected, he bursts out of his old clothes and co process occurs several times within a week or two, but the last time he takes on another fore transition period during which he does not eat He noly takes on the form of a true mosquito within his pupal skin or shell

After two or three days, or perhaps five or six, if conditions are not altogether favorable, he feels a great longing within hi upon the water with his noinged body closely packed within The skin begins to split along the back and the true baby mosquito starts to work himself out It is a strenuous task for him and consumes many minutes

At last he appears and sits dazed and exhausted, floating on his old skin as on a little boat, and sloorking his neings in the sunlight, as if to try thereat peril A passing ripple may swamp his tiny craft and shi+pwreck hi A seeping close to the water's surface obble him down Some ruthless city employe may have flooded the surface of the pond with kerosene, theall of the thousand and one accidents thatwho milk at a model dairy farm, was effectively presented by Constance D Leupp in an article entitled, ”The Fight for Clean Milk,” printed in the _Outlook_ By leading ”you,” the reader, to the spot, as it were, by picturing in detail what ”you” would see there, and then by following in story form the course of thethe process clear and interesting

Here at five in the afternoon youin their ces are spotless from constant applications of ash, ventilation is scientifically arranged, doors and s are screened against the flies Here the white-clad, smooth-shaven milkers do their ith scrubbed and manicured hands You will note that all these entle inher outward placidity, is the most sensitive creature on earth, and there is an old superstition that if you speak roughly to your cow she will earn no money for you that day

As each pail is filled it is carried directly into the -room, for in that sterilized sanctum nobody except the bottler is admitted, but into the room above, where the pails are ee receptacle From the base of this receptacle it flows over the radiator in the bottling-room, which reduces it at once to the required temperature, thence into the mechanical bottler The white-clad attendant places a tray containing several dozen empty bottles underneath, presses a lever, and, presto! they are full and not a drop spilled He caps the bottles with another twist of the lever, sprays the whole with a hose, picks up the load and pushes it through the horizontal du-room The second man clamps a metal cover over the pasteboard caps and packs the bottles in ice Less than half an hour is consu, bottling, and storing of her product

PRACTICAL GUIDANCE UNITS To give in an attractive for in a certain way, is another difficult problem for the inexperienced writer For interest and variety, conversation, interviews and other forms of direct quotation, as well as informal narrative,fuel in cooking were given by a writer in _Successful Far of a farm woman's club at which the proble the members of the club to relate their experiences, she was able to offer a large nuestions Two units selected from different portions of the article illustrate thisin my furnace,” added a practical worker

”Potatoes bake nicely when laid on the ledge, and beans, stews, roasts, bread--in fact the whole food list--may be cooked there But one must be careful not to have too hot a fire I burned several things before I learned that even a few red coals in the fire-pot will be sufficient for practically everything And then it does blacken the pans! But I've solved that difficulty by bending a piece of tin and setting it between the fire and the cooking vessel This prevents burning, too, if the fire should be hot Another plan is to set the vessel in an old preserving kettle If this outer kettle does not leak, itprocess but also prevents burning For broiling or toasting, a large corn popper is just the thing”

”My chief saving,” confided thethings in quantities, especially the things that require long cooking, like baked beans or soup I never think of cooking less than two days' supply of beans, and as for soup, that is made up in quantity sufficient to last a week If I have no ice, reheating it each day during eather prevents spoiling

Most vegetables are not har in fuel it entails, it'sto know that you have your dinner already prepared for the next day, or several days before for that matter In cold weather, or if you have ice, it will not be necessary to introduce monotony into your meals in order to save fuel, for one can wait a day or two before serving the extra quantity Sauces, either for vegetables, s, may just as well be made for more than one occasion, altho if milk is used in their preparation, care must be taken that they are kept perfectly cold, as ptos that it pays to cook in large portions are chocolate syrup for , and apple sauce”

By using a conversation between a hostess and her guest, another writer in the sa in a novel way so celery

”Your escalloped corn is delicious Where did you get your recipe?”

Mrs Field suest ”Out of my head, I suppose, for I never saw it in print I just followed the regulation , and repeat, only I cut into small pieces a stalk or two of celery with each layer of corn”

”Celery and corn--a new colad to learn of it; but isn't it tedious to cut the celery into such small bits?”

”Not at all, with thwise strips, then cut them crosswise all at once into very small pieces”

”You always have such helpful ideas about new and easy ways to do your work And economical, too Why, celery for a dish like this could be the outer stalks or pieces too small to be used fresh on the table”

”That's the idea, exactly I use such celery in soups and stews of all kinds; it adds such a delicious flavor It is especially good in poultry stuffings and meat loaf Then there is creamed celery, of course, to which I sometimes add a half cup of almonds for variety

And I use it in salads, too Not a bit of celery is wasted around here Even the leaves may be dried out in the oven, and crumbled up to flavor soups or other dishes”

”That's fine! Celery is so high this season, and h for the table, unless cooked”

A nuested by a writer in the _New York Tribune_, who, in the excerpt below, employs effectively the device of the direct appeal to the reader

Aside froical ”First Aid” and the countless uses to which this useful reat number of household uses for adhesive plaster

If your pue and slip at the heel, just put a strip across the back and they will stay in place nicely When your rubbers begin to break repair them on the inside with plaster cut to fit If the children lose their rubbers at school, write their na material and put these strips inside the top of the rubber at the back