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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1913.
THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL
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Prompt and Honest Work
On Tariff Revision.
Democratic leaders have handled the tariff bill
thus far with remarkable, concord and celericy. In
troduced on the first day of the extra session less
than a fortnight ago, the bill has been thoroughly
considered in the party caucus; it will be brought up
for general debate this week and will probably pass
the House before the end of April. Though its prog
ress in the Senate may be somewhat slower than in-
the House, there is good reason to. believe that there,
too, this all important measure will triumph and
that the public benefits it guarantees will soon be in
force.
It is a significant and heartening fact that the
Democratic majority in the House has stood stanchly
by the Ways and Means committee on all the essen
tial points at issue. In certain minor details, the
bill has been changed to remedy defects which were
revealed through the caucus proceedings but its gen
eral character remains unaltered and unimpaired.
Despite the schemes and clamor of special interests, it
is still true to the vital principle that luxuries should
be taxed most heavily and necessities most lightly
and that the welfare of the people as a whole should
take precedence over the fortunes of particular groups
or individuals.
This is notably illustrated in the firmness with
which the Democratic caucus has stood by the admin
istration’s plan for free wool and for the immediate
reduction, with the ultimate removal, of the duty on
sugar. It. is around these two items that the war for
privilege has watted most hotly. By standing loyal
to the party’s pledge, the Democrats have thus far
shown their good faith with the people and by re
maining so they will justify the great confidence of
the nation.
It was only to be expected that interests, which
have so long enjoyed thb Government’.; patronage
would protest against the reduction or removal of
tariff duties. But the Democratic leaders have shown
their good sense as well as sincerity by remembering
the verdict, which the voters rendered in the election
last autumn instead of being swerved from their duty
tty the outcry of a few men, seeking special favors.
The great rank and file of the people think of the
tariff today just as they thought of it when .they cast
their ballots -for a Democratic President and a Demo
cratic Congress. They then expected a thoroughgoing
downward revision and they still demand it. Jmy
last week in the Thirteenth Congressional district of
Massachusetts, a Democrat was elected to Congress
over his Republican and so-called “Progressive” op
ponents in a campaign that pivoted on the tariff issue
in general and the Underwood bill in particular. The
voters in that significant election were shoemakers,
watchmakers, emptyyes in textile mills and men
whose interests were chiefly commercial and indus
trial. By a substantial majority, they chose a Demo
crat who is committed to the principles of tarff re
form.
That is the prevailing sentiment and judgment of
the country as a whole. It is to he hoped and it is be
lieved that the spirit of co-operation now existing be
tween the President and the House majority will also
be manifest in the Senate and that the pending tariff
bill will soon become a law.
An Effective. Campaign
Against “Pistol Toting” >
Moultrie, Ga., a!nd its neighboring communities
are to be congratulated on their vigorous campaign
against the carrying of conceals _ weapons. More
, indictments for their offense have been presented at
the current session of the Superior courts than ever
before in the county’s record, a fact which is due,
as our correspondent explains, “to the vigilance of
the officers, rigid investigation by the grand jury
and to a growth oi public sentiment in favor of the
law’s strict enforcement.” It is said that in nearly
every such case recently tried there has been a con
viction; an'd the penalties imposed by the court are
. as heavy, as they can well be made.
This wholesome example in Colquitt county is
worthy of the entire State’s emulation. The laws
against the carrying of concealed weapons are not as
thorough or stringent as they should be, but they
can, nevertheless, be turned to very effective account
in the hands of competent officials, supported by pop
ular sentiment. Indeed, there are few evils that can
not be greatly lessened, if not eradicated, in a com
munity whose people are determined that the evil,
whatever it may be, shall cease, it is to be hoped
that the Legislature will soon adopt more practical
and far-reaching measures against this particular
vice; but in the meantime it behooves every county
to follow the example of Colquitt where so much is
being accomplished through "the grand jury, the offi
cials of the court and the pressure of public thought.
As a result of its campaign against “pistol toting,”
Colquitt county will undoubtedly find all its laws
more respected and all its social interests more se
cure; for, concealed weapons furnish the occasion
for numerous crimes which otherwise would not be
committed. Abolish the “pistox toter,” and a long
step will have bee., taken toward reducing to a min-
. imum our appalling record of homicides.
The Bank of England’s
Reassuring Action.
The fact that the Bank of England has reduced
its rate of discount from five to four and a half
per cent is of world-wide significance, indicating as it
does that the financial stringency which has re
cently been felt throughout Europe and, indirectly,
in the Unifed States is drawing to an end. What
ever strain there mdy have been upon American
finance has been due to foreign and in no wise to
internal conditions. Now that this outward stress
is being relieved, there remains no occasion what
soever for doubt or misgiving in this country.
The dispatches recite that the beginning of the
Balkan war last autumn necessitated a five per cent
raje of discount but that recent improvement in
monetary conditions on the continent, together with
the prospect of early peace between the Turks and
the Allies has enabled the directors of the Bank of
England to make a relaxation of one-half per cent
from the abnormal rate. It is predicted furthermore
that this will soon be followed by another reduction
when the war is formally settled and “when the
money which is being hoarded in all parts of the
European continent comes ireely into circula
tion.”
The Bank of England is the world’s great finan
cial barometer. Sensitive to every disturbance, how
ever slight or remote, it registers all monetary con
ditions . more quickly and more accurately
than any other institution of its kind. In periods
of uncertainty its rate of discount rises and, on the
other hand, it falls when the basis of confidence is
restored.
The increase of the rate last October was due to
unsettled and threateniing conditions in the Balkan
peninsula. The possibility of a genei’al European
war bred excitement throughout the Old World. In
dustry was naturally hampered for the time being
and every sphere of business was rendered more or
less uneasy. Money became scarce and capitalists
grew very hesitant.
While the United States was in no way concerned
in this situation, its economic interests inevitably
felt the reflex results; and there, were fearsome
Americans who looked rather dubiously to the future.
The most pessimistic of them all, however, must
now be reassured, following the action of the Bank
of England, and must also be convinced that at no
time was there cause for apprehension over domes
tic conditions; for so soon as the source of European
anxiety was removed, the financial precautions that
had been taken were relaxed.
The truth is this country was never more pros
perous or more generally hopeful than it is today.
With the exception of a few localities where crops
were short, notably in parts of Georgia and the
South, the entire country has been unusually fav-
oi'ed and is today unusually optimistic. Industry
flourishes in all fields. Trade is active. The trans
portation companies are increasing their equipment
and the outlook for another plenteous season of agri
culture is cheering. The one and only disturbing
element, which lay in Europe, not in this country is
vanishing. Surely, all worthy interests have abun
dant cause to be heartened.
A tonsorial parlo in which only dumb barbers
were employed would probably do an immense busi
ness.
The Child Welfare Campaign.
One of the most cheering tendencies of the day
is the emphasis which social and educational work
ers are placing on the interests of the child.
Thoughtful men and women realize more clearly
than ever before that the great issues of life, the
great problems of society must be met around the
fireside, in the school room, even in the nursery,
and that when we grapple them in these early and
familiar seats we do far more for the world’s bet
terment than can ever be accomplished through par
liaments and laws.
From the ancient proverb, “Train up a child in
the way he should go and when he is old he will
not depart from it,” a richer and more radiant
meaning has sprung. We are concerned today not
only with the letter but chiefly with me life of this old
commandment. Wo ask ourselves more patiently
and more honestly what is the way in which a child
should go and what are the elements of effective and_
creative training? We are coming to see that “train
ing” is vastly more than mere discipline and that
the child’s way to usefulness and contentment is
not a narrow or isolated path but a great highway
astir with all the forces of civic and social activity.
A child is trained not only by its parents but by the
community as well; its destiny is colored and shaped
by a thousand far-reaching influences outside the
circle of the home aw, so, there come problems and
duties which the individual parent or teacher alone
can never meet.
Air Fleets.
-It is not surprising that European nations have
outdistanced the United States in acquiring airships
as accessories to the army and navy. Military prepa
ration of all kinds is far more extensive in the Old
World than in this country and naturally so; for,
the very isolation of America and its freedom from
international entanglements are in a large measure
pledges of its security and peace.
It was hardly to be expected, however, that our
nation would be surpassed in this particular by com
paratively minor powers such as Spain, Belgium and
Greece or by its South American neighbors, Chile
and Brazil. But a report from the chief signal offi
cer of the army shows that in the number of govern
ment-owned airships, the United States stands four
teenth among all the countries of the world. Ger
many, it appears, has developed an air fleet of some
four hundred machines and has spent to that pur
pose within the past five years twenty-eight million
dollars. Within the same time the United States has
appropriated only about four’hundred thousand dol
lars for aviation interests and now has only twenty-
eight aeroplanes in military service.
This record is exceeded by France, Russia, Italy,
Austria, England, Belgium, Japan, Chile, Bulgaria,
Greece, Spain and Brazil. This list Is interesting
not so much as a commentary on the United States
as an Indication that in every part of the world the
possible value of airships in army or navy service
is being realized. Though ■there has been scant op
portunity to test the worth of aeroplanes and dirigibles
in actual warfare, the weight of military opinion
seems to incline strongly toward them. In their
Tripolitan campaign, the Italians used aeroplanes
for scouting and r'econnoitering with substantial re
sults; and in the recent siege of Adrianople by the
Bulgarians, airships were similarly employed.
The Mexican Hurnpty Dumpty.
Huerta, heralded as the man of iron, has thus far
proved no more capable of ruling or guiding Mexico
out of its troublous ways than the man he betrayed
and overthrew. Madero was not a particularly strong
or sapient executive, but he was at least the country’s
constitutional head and his career was unspotted by
such crimes as have marked the regime which suc
ceeded him. Littl; wonder that the Huerta govern
ment has failed to inspire confidence and that Mexico
is again rebellious.
For many weeks past the insurgent forces have
been gathering strength both in the north and the
south. 'ffieir movement seems to be better organized
and more thoughtfully directed than any similar one
since the elder Diaz was banished. It seems to be
animated by a purpose higher and more serious than
the common impulse, for adventure and pillage. It
has associated the governors of six or more States
and has furnished a rallying point for hundreds, per
haps thousands, of Mexicans who resent the methods
by which Huerta and his confederates cut their way
to arbitrary power.
These forces insist that Huerta withdraw as pro
visional president in favor of Luscurain who, as min
ister of foreign affairs in the Madero cabinet, is con
stitutionally entitled to that office, until an election
can be held. It has been rumored several times of
late that Huerta would retire. Present circumstances
suggest that for his own as well as the country’s
good it would be well for him to do so.
The main difficulty with the government he is
striving to hold together is its pressing need of a
substantial loan. This, howeveV, is not likely to be
forthcoming under p'resent conditions. The army
is small and weak and spiritless. It is considered
doubtful that in a pinch Huerta could depend upon
anything dike a majority of the fourteen thousand
troops nominally at his command. Thus it would
seem that he lacks both a physical and moral basis
of control, and that therefore the end of his regime
is not far'distant.
What the outcome of the situation may be is be
yond prediction. Dispatches relate that foreign resi
dents are leaving the country by hundreds. “Out
going steamers are crowded. Some of the wealthy
travelers content themselves with quarters on the
floor of Stnoking rooms, while others are accommo
dated in the second cabin, although paying firstclass
passage.” So fickl and treacherous are Mexican af
fairs that the events of a week or a day ahead can
not he reckoned with any assurance. That another
revolution is well under way can scarcely be doubted.
But it is' hardly probable that its course and methods
will be as extreme as that which turned the streets
of the capital into a battlefield and topped itself with
deeds that shocked civilization. *
It is possible that Huerta will resign and that the
brewing disturbance will in a measure he calmed. It
is to be hoped that some really masterful figure will
emerge from the troubled situation and above all that
the Mexican people will realize their' responsibility
and will find a means to. govern themselves.
Japan evidently thinks we would he as- easy as
Russia.
Why?
"If American manufacturers can compete
with Englishmen in England and Germans in
Germany and Frenchmen in France and Italians
in Italy, why cannot they compete with any of
them in this country?”
With this one trenchant question, the Balti
more Sun clips through the ancient fallacy that a
high protective tariff is essential to the welfare of
the nation’s industrial life. The trouble with the
advocates of the present tariff system is that thqy deal
with an outworn theory and overlook, or pretend to
overlook, immediate and vital facts. They talk in
terms of an age long gone and utterly disregard the
transformation that has come to pass in the country’s
economic affairs.
The circumstances that justified the original
claims for a tariff that would protect our industries
against competition from the outside world have com
pletely changed, if not ceased to exist. Enterprises
that were once struggling to get firmly upon their
feet have developed the thews of a giant and the
power of an autocrat. It is not they but the rank
and file of the people who need protection now, pro
tection against prices that are extortionate and that
are artificially made, protection against the greed of
monopoly that blocks the way and kills the spirit of
free initiative.
Interests that are clamoring to be protected
against competition from Europe are today selling
their products more cheaply in the Old World than
at home. They compete profitably with the dealers
and manufacturers of Europe, Gei-many and France,
yet they ask the United States government to hedge
them about with a high tariff in order that they may
he spared from competition in this country. Their
course is like that of the pirates in Peter Pan who
whipped all vessels from the high seas but demanded
babyish coddling when they reached home.
Many a man fails to forge ahead because he has
the looking backward habit.
Mr. Morgan’s Will.
It is as a human document rather than as the,last
testament of a great financier that Mr. Morgan’s will
is chiefly interesting. The fact that he has bequeathed
millions of dollars is not so impressive as the spirit
which shines through these towering gifts and illu
mines, with an afterglow, the life and character of
the man himself.
“We never know what life is, ’till we die,” says
Browning. Certain it is that the will of J. Pierpont
Morgan reveals traits and shades of personality which
the world could but vaguely guess during his active
career. The will opens with a declaration of simple
piety and faith. It proceeds with a remarkably
minute care for those with whom he had been asso
ciated in the humblest as well as the highest con
nection. It discloses a warmth and a wide range of
friendships, a far-reaching regard for humanitarian
causes, a homely tenderness of which only those who
had known him most closely could have di'eamed.
The man who is called upon to cai’ve the turkey
never gets his proper share of sympathy.
Temptation may come to the woman who sits
clown and waits, hut a man usually meets it half
way.
And occasionally we meet a married woman who
is sorry she is not in the spinster class. These are
married Maud Mullers.
No, Cordelia, it isn’t necessary to use a fountain
pen when you want to write a gushing letter.
THE INCUBUS
BY DR. FRANK CRANE.
(Copyright, r913, by Frank Crane.)
There are sixty billion dollars* worjh of American
securities, says Mr. Lawson, and thirty-five billions
of these sixty (that is to say, nearly 60 per cent)
“are fictitious, counterfeit, inasmuch as they do not
represent any real capital or legitimate increase ypon
capital.”
This means that upon the great body of business
in this country rests an incubus of thirty-five billion
dollars.
The world of honest labor and capital is forced
to carry a dead weight equal to 60 per cent of itself.
We stagger under “an old man of the sea,” like
Sindbad the Sanor, and are unable to shake him off;
he i<as his fingers around our throat; at every effort
to rid ourselves of him he threatens our life.
These thirty-five billions, that stand for no value,
are also privileged billions; they must have their div
idends BEFORE the honest billions are allowed to get
theirs.
The American people are getting their eyes o£en
to the fact that they are being flim-flammed by the
esteemed gentlemen who are handling their finances.
For every dollar we earn we are handing 60 cents
of it over to the manipulators of accounts. f
It is loot, pure and simple; and the worst kind, for
it is legalized, eminently respectable, and custom-in*
trenched loot. To rob a people is much easier than to
rob an individual, for public intelligence is dull, pub
lic resentment slow,\ and public indifference monu
mental.
Is not this the deep cau^e of the labor unrest?
The workers demand more wage;" the employers reply
that more wage cannot be given without depriving
capital-of its due'dividends; all of which sounds well,
but 60 per cent of those dividends are unfair.
The prosperity of this country is enormous. Ad
vantage has been taken of this by the shrewd mana
gers of high finance to iay upon prosperity an eve^
growing burden.
Since the beg*nning of overnments the clever have
preyed upon the many. Kings, nobles, institutions,
and all magnificences have ridden on the backs of the
plain, hard-working people. We have changed terms,
but the old game goes on; and it is fully as expensive
to be ridden by a plutocrat as by an aristocrat.
Government ought to 'govern. And there is no
more vital task for government to attack than that
of squeezing the water out of the dropsical business
of the natio'n.
We make quite to-do over the injustice of the
tariff. The president and congress are busily engaged
in seeking some plan to prevent it from robbing the
poor and feeding the rich. 3ut beside the incubus
of unearned capital, false, empty, and foundationless
capitalization, the tariff evil is small.
It is time the common sense of the people rent in
twain the veil of the temple where the high priests
of finance carry on their mysterious ritual, and ar
range matters in justice.
For capital which represen s no real value to earn
dividends is as outrageous as for laborers who are
idle to draw pay.
/
Old King Nicholas-
oid King Nicholas of Montenegro looms up in his
photographs with a pill box cap on Ms head, what
look like skirts flapping around his knees and a gen
eral appearance of semi-barbarism. Pictorially he ac
cords well with the popular notion of what the head
of the Serbs in Europe ought to he; a somewhat west
erly representative of a very easterp people. But be
fore King Nicholas was ever czar of tlie Black Moun
tain he was a scholar with the best of European
training behind him. What is not generally known
is that two poetic dramas of undoubted merit stand
to his credit and that his counsel has been esteemed
in more than one great chancellory.
In bis present stand against the powers, we see
him cunningly revealing defiant courage for home
consumption, coupled with play on justice for use In
other quarters. “Scutari is the seat of our former
kings,” he says, “and is indispenable to our national
development. We will only renounce in favor of Ser-
via if the powers abuse their action by forcing us.”
From which one perceives that the “rough moun
taineer” is qi -a proficient in the art of brandishing
ethics in a velvet glove.—Hartford Times.
Captain j ° hn h -
Barnacle’sTravelogues W1S11AK
“Coal oil is something I have always been afraid
of ever sin-' the wreck of the old tank steamer Petter-
son down in the vicinity of Samoa,” remarked Captain
Barnacle, watching the njaid of all work t im and light
the lamp.
“It was cos- oil that caused the wreck of the
steamer which was one of the first that I commanded,
and yet it was this same coal oil that event, a^y saved
us all and enabled us to get back to civilization and
make some money on the side. >
"On this voyage we were bound from \ ancouvei*
B. C., for Hong Kong, with a full cargo of oil. We
had bad weather from the start, and I decided tj run
down around the line to try and get a little calm
and sunshine, even though it was a little farther across
the Pacific. But there was where I mauo my mis
take. I should have stayed in the colder latitudes.
“The first thing I found out when we arrived in
the hot weather was that th$ oil was expanding and
that gas was generating. Before I coruld arrange to
have the capo taken off the tanks there was a terrific
explosion and the ship seemed to go into a million
fragments. We were all thrown high in the air and
when we finally reached the surface it was *nto a s'z
of oil that we fell and not into a sea of water.
“But, as always, I had my wits about me. 1 called
to all th^. men to hang on to whatever wreckage they
could find and wait for developments. Pretty soon we
encountered a school of dolphin. As soon as they
reached the oil they immediately died.
"I grabbed a dolphin and skinned him and as the
skin was whole I immediately filled it with the oil
which floated about four or five inches deep o” the
surface of the sea. The crew followed my example
as soon as they saw what I was up to. By nightfall
on the first day we had over 9,000 dolphins skinned
and their pelts filled with oil floating nearby. Then
we piled all these ;kins together and awaited results.
1 knew we were in the south equatorial current ana
that we would soon reach land.
“Three days later we brought up at Pitcairn, the
famous island of tne mutineers of the good ship
Bounty. Well, they hadn’t had a bit of coal * oil for
more than a year and when they saw a whole ship’s
company riding into their harbor on a giant raft made
of skins filled with oil they thought the world had
turned topsy-tKrvy. Anyway, they agreed to give
me $2,000 for the entire oil cargo, and, of course, i
snapped at the chance. Luckily a ship touched there
next day ;id took us all off, for I heard later, that
the amoun x f sea water which had been mixed with
the oil had rendered it unfit for use. But, oi course,
when people make a trade like that they have to take
their chances. *
Pointed Paragraphs
Lots of family trees bear lemons.
* * *
Leaders of men are women, not infrequently.
* * *
Gossip is a cartridge fired from the gun of idio
curiosity.
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Whoever said* that there, is a remedy for every ill
never was a dancer and lost a leg.
THE MODERN WOMAN
II WOMEN IN THE HOME.
BY FREDFRIC J. HASKIN.
The modern woman recognizes clearly her duty In
relation to outside things that influence her home,
but at the same time she realizes that she must make
her own home circle what It ought to be in respect to
the things that’are there located. It may be her duty
to lead a crusade for clean streets, hut this does not
absolve her from an obligation to keep a clean kitchen.
* • .»
She believes that baa ponies ana uncomfortable
homes result In bad and uncomfortable lives, and that
even the woman of the best intentions may fall
through lack of knowledge to do for her home and her
family wha, she most desires to do. Therefore, flip
modern woman insists that the basis of good house
keeping is education in the science of housekeeping.
* * *
With the entrance of ^omen into other profes
sions a generation ago there came a temporary neg
lect of matters domestic, so that there was ground
for the complaint that the woman of higher education
was not a competent home maker. Now the pendulum
is swinging back and the supreme importance of the
work of women in the home Is becoming so well rec
ognized that most of the higher institutions of learn
ing to which women are admitted, are supplying courses
of study in home making. These courses of study are
but little less complete and elaborate than are the
courses preparing for medicine, law and the other
learned professions. The time is past when it is con
ceded that any woman can manage a home without
special preparation. The changing conditions of mod
ern life hr.v© brought so many complex problems into
the home that a woman cannot hope to solve them
without a knowledge of many arts and sciences.
* + * *
The modern home is equipped with a more or less
intricate plumbing system. The woman in charge
must understand something of its arrangement in or
der to take proper precautions to avoid the pipes be
coming clogged up, involving needless plumbing bills
and insanitary conditions. Sometimes this requires
a knowledge of chemistry also, as a careful house
keeper recently found to her cost. She attended a
lecture upon sanitation and cleanliness in which the
use of lye in drains and sinks was advocated. She
instructed her cook to put lye in her kitchen drain
each day. Presently the drain was clogged up and a
plumber had to be called. He found that the too free
use of lye had caused hard soap to form inside the
pipes because the cook, being rather careless dish
washer, had thrown a considerable amount of grease
into^ the drain. This united with the lye and formed
a soap, as a slight knowledge of chemistry would have
suggested.
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A few years ago the • liberality of Hon. George
Stout, of Menominie, Wis., made possible the establish
ment of a school for home makers which has become rec
ognized as a model of its kind, not only in this country
but abroad. It grew out of a training school for do*
mestic science teachers, because it was shown that
many young women desired to take a technical course
in domestic science who had no desire to teach and,
therefore, were unwilling to -take pedagogical work.
This school, which was opened in 1907, wook for its
basic considerations the economic, scientific, artistic
and ethical conditions which must be combined in the
making of home. It is planned upon the principle
that the family is a business organization, a social
unit and an ethical force. The woman Is the admin
istrative officer of the business organization of the
family. It is assumed that th^ nfan provides the
funds for carrying on thr business of the home and
that the woman disburses them properly. The scope
of the work in this unique but practical school is
broad but is subdivided into many courses. The first
deals with the house itself and includes sanitation,
decoration, furnishing and house management. This
last is especially important and, in order that tho^
students may learn it properly, cottages are provided
in which they may keep house for a year.
* • *
The course in business management in this school
of home n iking includes a thorough study in compar
ative values which is intended to fit the young woman
to secure adequr te results from the money expended.
It also give.3 instruction in the proper proportioning of
the family income «mong the different lines of home
expenditures, the systematizing and keeping of fam
ily accounts, the organization and division of house
hold labor, the question of domestic service and many
other topics. These subjects first are considered ill
theoretical discussion and afterward put in.o practical
application in the supervision and care of the homo
makers’ cottages, which i3 a part of the second year s
work in this school.
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Many other institutions make a specialty of in
struction in home making. Last year Columbia uni
versity, in New York, -gened a magnificently equipped
new building for this purpose. It also prints numer
ous bulletins which are available to home students.
One of its most practical publications is a monograph
entitled “The Feeuing of the Children in a Family
with an Income of $800 a Year.” Cornell university
al t so has published a number of bulletins upon the gen
eral subject of child feeding, and both of these insti
tutions provide excellent courses upon many * home
making subjects? Each year, hundreds of house
wives go to the University of Wisconsin to attend lec
tures upon special subjects. They learn how to tost
milk and how to preserve It in its purity for the use
of their children. They learn food values and dietics,
which subjects' have assumed real scientific value In
university curriculums.
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The study of food selection and preparation pre
sents a problem which, when properly solved, means
perfect nutrition to the human family, which is the
great end in view. It includes suiting the food to the
individual need and consideration of the effect of dif
ferent foods"upon the human body. For instance, it
recently has been demonstrated that one of the many
good qualities of corn bread is to preserve the teeth.
Among the applicants from the southern states seek
ing to join the United States navy, it is stated that
none is rejected on account of poor teeth. The reason
of tliis superior dental condition in the men of that
region is the fact that all their lives they have been
accustomed to eat a large proportion of corn bread.
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The knowledge gained by a course of food study
and preparation includes chemistry, biology, physiol
ogy and dietics, each of which is treated as a sepa
rate science. The object of the woman in charge of
the modern home is not to give her family the. food
which simply will satisfy their hunger, but rather
that which will satisfy all of the needs of their bodies.
Nutrition or malnutrition in childhood may be felt
throughout adult life.
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The woman in the home also has much, if not all,
to do wit.i the selection and purchase, of the family
wardrobe, and the care of it afterward. A comprehen
sive knowledge of the qualities of all fabrics is needed
to secure the best results. It is necessary that she
be able to recognize the difference between wool and
cotton and to know the-advantages of each used sep
arately, as well as the economy of fabrics for certain
purposes, ill which wool and cotton are properly com
bined. There is a difference between well-made cloth
of mixed wool and cotton which, for some uses, may
be superior to all-wool fabrics, and a cheap shoddy
mixture which is composed of the refuse products of
both. The latter will have no stable, wearing quali
ty, although it may be attractive in appearance when
new. The same necessity exists for being able to dis
tinguish linen from mercerized cotton, as well as to
know the quality of cotton fabrics and to tell which
are of pure weight and which are so heavily weighted
with starch and other dressing that they resemble
cheesecloth after the first washing. The care of
clothing includes mending as well as storing when not
in use, especially the protection of woolen garments
and furs during the summer, months.
Young man, you should not attempt to kindle a
flame in a girl’s heart unless your income is suffi-
cieht to provide fuel to keep the fire going.