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I , 4 THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 1913. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA. GA., 5 NORTH FORSYTH ST. . Entered at the Atlanta Postoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES R. GRAY, President and Editor. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE Twelve months "5c Six months .. ‘10c Three months -5c The Semi-Weekly Journal is published on Tuesday and Friday, and is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. , It contains news Irom all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a staff of distinguished contributors, with strong departments or special value to the home and the farm. Agents warted ct every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R- -BRAD LEY, Circulation Manager. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan, R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle, L. H. Kim brough and C. T. Yates. We will be responsible only for money paid to fhe above named traveling repre sentatives. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. The label used for addressing your paper 6hows the time your subscription expires. By renewing at least two weeks before the date on this label, you insure regular service. In ordering paper changed, be sure to mention your old, as well as your new address. If on a route please give the route number. We cannot enter subscriptions to begin with back numbers. Remittances should be sent by postal order or registered mail. Address all orders and notices for this de partment to THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlanta, Ga. I 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. • * • 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. * • 4 • 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. * • * 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. * * * 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. * * • 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. • * » 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.