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SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS.
One defect prevents u friendship at
middle-use. Half u dozen are unno-
ticed at the age of twenty.
Best Joke on nn alarm elock is to
set it lit an hour when you don't have
to get up and then don't.
The BABY
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■Why do so many, many babies of to-
day escape all the little fretful spells
ond Infantile ailments that used to
Worry mothers through the day, and
keep them up half the night?
If you don't know the answer, you
lmvcn't discovered'pure, harmless Cas-
torla. It Is sweet to the taste, and
sweet In the little stomach. And its
gentle influence seems felt all through
the tiny system. Not even a distaste-
ful dose of castor oil does so much
good.
Fletcher's Castorla Is purely, vege-
table, so you may give it freely, at
first sign of colic ;-or constipation; or
diarrhea. Or those many times when
jou just don't know what is the mat-
. ter. For real sickness, call the doc-
tor, always. At other times, a few
drops of Fletcher's Castorla.
The doctor often tells you to do just
that; and always, says Fletcher's.
Other preparations may be just aB'
pure, just as free from dangerous
drugs, hut why experiment? Besides,
the book on care and feeding of babies
that comes with Fletcher's Castorla Is
worth its weight In gold!
Children Cry for
DAIRY
FACTS
COWS NEED WARM
DRINK IN WINTER
Successful winter dairying calls for
an adequate supply of water at a tem-
perature that will not paralyze the en-
tire digestive tract of the cow when
she drinks.
"Water is equally as important as
feed," says Dr. C. H. Eckies, chief of
l lie dairy division of the University of
Minnesota. "a cow milking 30 pounds
daily drinks close to 1(K) pounds of
water every 24 hours. Sometimes wa-
tering the cows means turning them
out of the barn once a day to drink
what they can stand of ice-cold water.
Can we imagine a cow which weighs
around 1,100 pounds drinking 100
pounds, or nearly one-tenth of her
weight, of ice water at once? Of
course she will not do it and conse-
quently will not give her owner 30
pounds of milk even though she has
the ability to produce this much and
has feed enough us well.
"The milk flow may he cut down
quicker by a lack of water, or by the
use of Ice water, than by poor feed.
Individual drinking cups In my judg-
ment pay more dividends to the user
than almost anything else in the line
of modern barn equipment. Even if
the water Is not warmed In the cups
the cow will take sucli small amounts
at n time, so long as it Is above freez-
ing, that no harm results from drink-
ing it cold.
"If cows must he watered from a
tank outdoors and under conditions
which mean ice water, it will pay to
install a water healer of some kind.
It is much cheaper to warm the water
with fuel than by giving the cow extra
grain to warm It within her body."
NAPLES
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Macaroni Factory in Naples.
Cows With Records Are
Decreasing in Number
Pure bred dairy cows of good type
and with high official records are
actually getting hard 1o find.
The shortage, according to Roy T.
Harris, supervisor of Wisconsin dairy
tesls, is caused by the fact that since
1020 there has been a marked de-
crease in official testing. Up to that
time there was an abundance of test-
ed animals, but as the demand for
pure breds slackened with the change
In economic conditions many breed-
ers discontinued advanced registry
testing.
"The oversupply of animals with
records is no longer evident," de-
clared Harris, "in fact, there is an
actual shortage of nnimals combining
desirable form with even good ad-
vanced registry, backing. -This situa-
tion indicates that the most opportune
time to start or renew testing is right
tills year."
Winter months are particularly
favorable for starting cows on test,
especially to make semi-official rec-
ords. Cows freshening in the fall pro-
duce as much as 15 to 20 per cent
more milk and butterfat than those
calving in the summer. Another ad-
vantage of starting the test in the
fall or winter is that on many farms
plenty of help Is generally available
to care for the cows when production
is highest. In short time testing,
ranging from seven to thirty days,
the best records are usually made in
the winter.
Providing Ice Storage
for Use in the Summer
As an aid to farmers in providing
Ice storage, the division of agricul-
tural engineering, department of ag-
riculture, University of Minnesota, lias
prepared blue prints of u plan for h
farm Ice house holding 10 tons. The
blue print shows just how the lee
house should be built, and Is distrib-
uted through the division of publi-
cations, University Kami, St. Paul, at
the nominal charge of 10 cents to cov-
er costs. With creameries paying
premium prices for sweet cream, more
and more farmers are becoming inter-
ested In providing Ice for use in the
summer In order that the cream may
be kept cool until It can be marketed.
Efficient Ration for
Bull Calf Is Outlined
A good bull calf ration Is ten
pounds of clover or alfalfa hay. to-
gether with a grain mixture of six
parts of corn, four parts of oats and
one pnrt of linseed meal. The grain
mixture should be fed according to
the appetite of the calf, the object be-
ing to bring about a gain of about
two pounds dally or a little better
To start with, live or six pounds of
grain daily will be enough for the
calf, but It soon can be increased to
ten or twelve pounds. In some cases
It pays to substitute bran for part
of the oats and to increase the lin-
seed meal in the ration to two pounds
dnlly.
Feed for Cows
Use home-grown feeds as far ns pos-
sible. Alfalfa or other legume luiy is
best. For most economical produc-
tion, provide silage. Feed one pound
of bay and three pounds of silage for
each 100 pounds weight of animal. If
silage Is not available, feed two
pounds of luiy for each 100 pounds
weight. Us a good grain mixture
containing a small amount of cotton
peed meal or linseed meal. Feed one
pound of grain mixture for each three
pints or pounds of milk produced.
(Propnrocl by the Nnttonal Goonraphlo
SocU-ty, Washington, D. C.>
NAPLES, Italy's largest south-
ern city, cannot boast the
architectural beauty of the
northern cities, but its peo-
ple, whether rich or poor, are strik-
ingly beaullful physically. From the
storied heights that sweep in a mag-
nificent amphitheater around the bril-
liant bay the old city struggles down-
ward in a picturesque huddle of dense-
ly-packed houses and other buildings,
tortuous streets full of color and bub-
bling with the nervous activity of the
South, black canyons of stone stairs,
often slippery with damp and dirt,
across which the teeming houses gos-
sip and quarrel in neighborly wise.
Nowhere are llsherfolk more pictur
esque in habit and costume; nowhere
Is there so salty a dialect, spiced with
such quaint and startling phrases and
exclamations. Bare and brown of leg,
dressed In ragged, parti-colored mot-
ley, a stout canvas band about each
sinewy body for luiullng In the net
without cutting the hands to pieces,
they bring ashore their shimmering
silver quarry right along the widest,
finest promenade in the city—the
handsome Via Caracclolo. Across that
broad street the charming Villa Na-
zionale, not a house, but a public park,
wholly conventional in design, con-
tains an aquarium which may fairly
be considered the most remarkable in
the world for both the variety and In-
terest of its finny and monstrous ex-
hibits and the thoroughness of its
scientific work. To it many of the
great universities of the world con-
tribute annually for the privileged of
sending special Investigators in zoo-
logy.
The commercial activity of tills sec-
ond peaport of Italy clings e! sa
about the skirts of the enormous royal
palace—800 feet long on the bay side
and 95 feet high—and the naval Icisln
and dockyard. Every smell and fumd
of a thriving seaport may be sn Mea
and heard, multiplied generously; ev-
ery Hag seen on the ships that ride
at anchor near the stone wharves.
On the streets men of every nice
mingle tongues and costumes and man-
ners'; Babel itself was only mildly
confused compared with this jumble of
Naples; and fhroughout all the throng
play the street musician, the maca-
roni eater—that is a trade, and a sat-
isfying one, apparently—the piratic
cabman, the guide, and the baggage-
smasher—all seeking whom they may
plunder with a gracious twinkle of
humid black eyes.
Street Singers Are Numerous.
Street singing is an especially Nea-
politan institution, and when for the
first time one hears beneath his win-
dow the more often than not off-key
versions of the snappy, lilting, Inex-
pressibly infectious Neapolitan songs,
lie Is enchanted, and throws pennies
freely. After a week or so of it as
a steady diet, day and night, he in-
clines much more toward heavy
crockery 1
The entire Neapolitan-littoral Is vol-
canic, from Vesuvius on the east to
tiie storied tufa heights of Cumue on
Hie west. Between Cuihae's ruins and
Naples lie those famed and mystic
Phlegraenn fields of our school days,
which ' nobody remembers anything
about. They have always been u the-
, titer of tremendous volcanic activity,
but the disturbances here have no con-
nection, curiously enough, with Vesu-
vius; also, the two areas are wholly
different In geological character and
formation.
The spongy natiire of the rock of
the Phlegraenn fields allowed the In-
ternal steam and gases to escape with
relatively little resistance at numer-
ous points; so, Instead of pne tre-
mendous peak being formed, as in the
case of Vesuvius, many little craters
wart the ground. Thirteen still exist,
among them Solfatara, .bellowing out
a. vaporous combination of, sulphur,
hydrogen, and steam, and producing
startling little special eruptions when
teased with a lighted stick; drled-up
Bake Agnnno, with Its famous, or in-
famous, "Dog Urotto," where about 18
Inches of warm, bluish, foetid car-
bonic acid gas snuffs out torches even
Uiore quickly than It used to the poor
dogs kept there for show purposes;
and somber Lake Avernus, In ancient
limes surrounded by dense forests and
dark traditions, one of which declared
no bird could ll.v across It because of
Us poisonous exhalations.
Tiie Cumiicnn Sybil was supposed to
inhabit a gloomy cavern In the south
Irnnii. Her room and others In the
'"' li ure probably part of the remark- I
ulile harbor works built by l be Km- j
i't'iuf Augustus. In this same region J
the Monte Nuovo, 400 feet high, .
thrown up In three days in 1538.
Dominatsd by Vesuvius.
On tiie east Vesuvius dominates the |
whole splendid region, lie is the
Cyclops standing, blind and massive j
iiinl treacherous, in tlie midst of his j
rich vineyards, olive groves, and vege-
table gardens; for, though he spreads
il' - ructlon In his blind rages, the fact J
is that tills entire plana is the nuir-
vcliuisly fertile soil that disintegrated I
lava and volcanic ashes make. It
Leafs huge crops, 1'ar greater and
finer than ordinary good soil can pro-
duce. Among other things, it yields
Hie grapes whose spicy juices are so i
precious their wine Is termed Lacrima
I'rlstl—Tears of Christ.
After the great eruption of A. D. 79 i
there were occasional eruptions which
varied in intensity, until 1500, when
the volcano became quiescent. The
crater walls grew up thick with trees
and scrub, while cuttle and wild hours
roamed the grassy plain inside—all
hut an ominous lower level of ashes
nail pools of hot, gaseous water. Then, !
in December of 1031, tiie whole in- ,
terlor was blown violently out, and
18,000 people are said to have per-
ished. Since then Vesuvius lias never
been entirely quiet.
It was horrible hot mud that over-
whelmed fashionable Herculaneuiu in
7fl, belched from the crater us torrents
of steam, boiling water, and scoriae.
Herculaneum is a rich and tempting
bait to the archeologlsts, for from a
*1ugle one of the ruins came most of
those exquisite bronzes In the Nnples
museum, and 3,000 rolls of papyrus,
part of the owner's private library.
What u contrast Is I'onipeli, de-
stroyed at the same time, but by
ashes! Though these gradually hard-
ened into something like cement, they
are much more easily removed than
the stone at Herculuncum, and most of
what, we know of the details of ancient
Latin life we have learned from Hie
stark, scarred, roofless lower stories
spread out before us in deathly pan-
orama within the old city wails.
Stabiae and Capri.
Where the pretty little modern wa-
tering place of Cnstellunimure dl Slu-
bia, with its cooling sea baths and
strong mineral waters, lies snugly in u
little bight on the neck of the Sor
rentlne peninsula, Stabiae once stood.
It is one of tiie very loveliest parts
of Italy, a region of tumbled hills
clothed with luxuriant groves of orange
and lemon, whose golden fruit adds
luster to the gleaming foliage. Untie-
ing roads of milky white wind and
wind, now between high-walled grove
and vineyard; now along open, skyey
heights, with the blue sea as a back-
ground hundreds of feet below, ami
the beetling cliff rising straight be-
hind; now beside villa gardens, wlieru
every brilliant color on nature's
pnlette seems to have been poured out
with prodigal fullness. The air Is
perfumed, the skies are soft and
balmy, the roads superb.
Capri, a great, twin-humped camel
of an Island, kneels In the blue just
off the tip of the peninsula. From the
s\vay-backed huddle of white, pink,
blue, prelim, and drab houses along the
large harbor, up the breakneck road
to the fascinating town nestling among
the hills, white-roofed and Moorish,
and on, stilt higher, by the winding
road or up the nearly perpendicular
flights of rock stairs, which furrow
t1i<j frowning crag with their sharp,
zigzag outlines, to Anacuprl, 500 feet
or so above, every step of the way
breathes the pride and splendor mid
degradation of the island's greater
days. ' "■
Here a cyclopean mnss o'f ■Shutterod
masonry In the warm emerald water
tells of a Itoman emperor's bath ; .voi-
der on a chimneylike cliff the sinister
ruins of a stout'castle keep whispers
of unfleirt* garrisons and plrjites, not
armed with automatic rifles or high-
powered artillery ; and here, overlook-
ing the sea, the vast ruins of a villa
recall "that hairy old'goat" Tiberias
and his wastrel voluptuousness that
turned fair Capri Into mttyrdom.
Capri today is richly dowered for
sightseer, artist, historian, antiquary,
and geologist. On every hand are
shaded walks and sequestered bowers
In the thick groves ot' orange and
lemon, laurel and myrtle; wild back
grounds of tumbled rock; titanic rifis
in tiie crest, Into which the sea, has
thrust long, Insidious blue lingers.
Soldering Simple Job;
Big Factor in Results
Ail Joints in the antenna should be
soldered to prevent corrosion and to
keep resistance low. in receiving, very
weult currents ure present In the an
tennn circuit, and therefore any resist-
ance tends to weaken the strength of
the signals.
To make a soldered connection the
following nre necessary: a soldering
iron, solder, flux and u piece of sal-
ammoniac to clean the iron.
While the iron Is being heated,
either in a blow torch or other flame,
or by means of electricity, if It Is
that kind of an Iron, carefully scrape
tiie two ends of wire for about four
inches. Be sure the wires nre clean.
Cross the wires about three Inches
from the ends and wrap each end
around tiie other wire. Tills gives the
best possible mechanical Joint.
When the iron is hot, clean the tip
by rubbing It on tiie block of sal am-
moniac and then apply enough solder
to the tip to "tin" It. Cout the Joint
with a thin Aim of flux. Apply the
hot iron to the Joint, and at the same
time with the other hand, touch tiie
solder to the tip of the Iron. If the
soldering iron Is sufficiently hot and
the Joint clean, the solder should flow
easily and instantly cool.—Fuda Bul-
letin.
Tube Prongs May Not
Be in Perfect Contact
Many fans have searched In vain
for trouble in their receiving sets
and falling to tlnd It have torn the
set npurt and built one from some
other hookup. And the trouble lias
been all the time that one of tiie tube-
pilings has not been in perfect con-
tact witb the springs of tiie tube
socket.
This is a small item, but one of the
most vital elements of the receiving
set. in the ease of contact of the
filament prongs, It Is easy to trace
poor contact because the filament will
twit light unless the contact is good,
and if it Is poor the filament will
flicker in such a manner as to give
some guide to actual conditions.
Hut in the case of the contacts
made by grid and plate prongs, the
tracing of trouble back to this source
is not so eusy. But making sure that
ail contacts are good is a simple mat-
ter, if the fan will only take this pre-
caution before wiring his set.
Take the tube sockets to be used
in the particular hookup being built
and Insert the tube to be used in the
socket for which it is intended. Un
less the socket lias a closed base, tt
will be an easy matter to ascertain.
Metallized Leak Will
Assure a Quiet Tone
Experimenters who are constructing
short-wave sets to receive the high-
frequency signals from the radio-
casting stations who have started I Ids
service should carefully adjust their
detector circuits for maximum sen
sitlvlty. In the usual radiocast re
ceiver in which two or more stages
of radio-frequency amplification tire
used the value 'of the grid leak Is not
very critical. On the other hand In
short-wave receivers, where little or
no radio-frequency amplification Is
used and where regeneration is neces-
sary, the resistance of the leak is
airly critical. To Insure quiet opera-
tion and constant resistance n special
leak such as the metallized type is
advisable.
Radio Building Is Far
From Being a Hard Task
Any amateur who knows how to
handle a screw driver and how to
bend a piece of wire with a pair of
pliers can build a receiving set. The
soldering of the connections is re-
duced to its simplest expression be
cause the wires used and the ter
initials on all the apparatus art
I tinned and the soldering, if required
is no difficulty worth mentioning. It
I Is not necessary to have a knowledge
, to read diagrams of hookups. To
build any standard circuit, full size
drawings are furnished showing plain-
ly the place each part occupies In
the assembly and the various wires
connected to each one.
| FOR THE NOTEBOOK |
A power amplifier will give increased
volume and minimum distortion.
Dust accumulates moisture In a set
and causes a drain on the batteries.
To suve the power unit, always turn
,Us power off before the filaments ot
the set art turned oft, and vice versa,
to' tuft) on the filaments before the
power units.
When' variable -condensers ure dltfi
full to tutlfc adjust meld may tie mudt
to jhe bearings or the friction ring
hut under no condition apply oil to tin
working parte.' j
Never burn the'" fllainents ot
vacuum tulte brighter than normal
Nothing Is gained and I be life of tin
tube Is unduly shortened. It mori
power Is required, use a target lube.
An orange wood stick oi sllvet trou
,1 fruit crate, covered with a piece ot
cotton. Is iiandy tot getting in closi
quarters to clean out dust and dirt
t he cotton can be moistened with a>
L'olioi. ' ' •'
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