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Rh better to select for drying than sweet ones. You can use the smaller apples, if they are unblemished and solid, saving the larger ones for packing and eating. Remove the stem and the blossom first. Then pare the apple with a sharp knife, as thinly as you can. These apple parings need not he thrown away. Let them simmer, with sugar, in a preserving kettle, strain the syrup, and reboil. It makes very good jelly.

The apples should then be cored, whole. There is a circular cutter for coring apples that will do this very easily. To core an apple quickly, set it upright on a board, holding it in place as you press the cutter straight down inside. This makes a clean cut. When the apple is cored, it should be sliced crosswise in sections about a third of an inch thick. String these circular pieces on a cord that is stretched for drying them in a cool, dry place. If you have an attic it will be splendid for drying such food for the winter. Bundles of herbs may be hung there, too.

Having a Club with Uncle Sam will be about the best kind of work and play that boys and girls can have this fall. In the office of the States Relation Service at Washington the Chief of the Service has a very wonderful photograph hung over his desk. It takes a large frame to hold it for it shows hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls from every