prefer the cheap show of boarding-house or family hotel? Is it true that the art of home-making is not attractive to many of the women of the present generation? Is it true that the homely accomplishments of cooking and cleaning, the responsibility of women for the home-making of our land, are not included in the course of studies through which most of our girls go, nor in their home training? Are young men and women not willing to begin housekeeping on the plane upon which their fathers and mothers began ? Will the next war we fight in this country be to free ourselves from the slavery to things? Is it true that what we need is emancipation from the false standards that make permanent homes impossible to the innumerable thousands who are thereby deprived of the sweetest experience of love and life because of the lack of a home?

The Caterpillar Pest

The change of the grub to the butterfly loses its charm when it is the metamorphosis of a noxious worm into a destructive moth. Such a worm, known as the tent caterpillar, is now attacking the fruit and shade trees of New York State, and active measures should at once be taken

against it. These caterpillars are kept in check in the forests by the innumerable insect foes which their presence calls

forth. In settled districts man must himself protect his village and orchard trees. Orchards can best be rid of these pests by thoroughly spraying the trees with Bordeaux mixture, to which Paris green or some similar poison has been added at the rate of one pound to 150 gallons of the Bordeaux. Where this has been tried, three thorough applications of the spray have freed the orchard. The city of Rochester has protected its trees by enlisting the aid of the school-children in collecting the masses of eggs which the moth lays in June around the twigs of the trees. A few cents were offered for every hundred of the unhatched egg-clusters collected, and prizes for the largest number of unhatched egg-clusters collected. This method not only saves the trees but trains the children, and, if begun in the early fall, when the eggs can be seen on the twigs after the leaves have dropped, and kept up until the first of April, when the caterpillar hatches, will rescue the

beautiful trees of this State from devastation. Where the caterpillars are found in clusters and colonies on the branches of trees, canvas should be spread beneath the tree and the branch jarred, which at once dislodges the caterpillars and throws them to the ground, where they can be gathered up and burned. Professor M. V. Slingerland, of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, is making a careful study of the forest and apple tent caterpillars, which he will soon publish. From his publish. From his "Emergency Report on Tent Caterpillars" we take these directions for their extermination.

Books on Food

Dear Outlook: I wish to take a thorough course in scientific housekeeping, especially in regard to the selection and preparation of food for my family. I am entirely ignorant in this respect, as I know nothing in regard to the nature of food products. Can you give me a list of books pertaining to the subject? A SUBSCRIBER.

"The Spirit of Cookery," by J. L. W. Thudichum; "Food and Feeding," by Sir Henry Thompson; "The Chemistry of Cooking and Cleaning," by Ellen H. Richards and S. Maria Elliot, "Comfort and Cleanliness," by Mrs. Catharine M. Bucton; "Home Sanitation," by the Sanitary Science Club of the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ; "Evolution of the English House," by Sidney Oldall Addy; 'Prize Essay of the American Public Health Association," by Mary Hinman Abel; "Home Economics," by Mary Parloa, "How to Drain a House," by George E. Waring, Jr.; How to Build a Home," by Francis C. Moore, are a few of the books that you will find of practical use in the all-round science of housekeeping.

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To Time, Not to Hurry with the Boys
By H. C. Beeching

Let them be a little space,
Though they lack our crowning grace;
Though their talk be not about
Things we talk of, dining out,
Though their jokes are hard to see:
Let them be.

Could we once have been as they?
Fat and rosy, fresh and gay,
With such reverence for the fact,
With such perfect want of tact?
Yes? Well, all the same, prithee,
Let them be.

-The Spectator (London).

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