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arms of old friends and have merely to take up
the social threads where they dropped them be
fore at the expiration of their official residence
in the capital.
.No senatorial election, it seems, could give a
greater measure of satisfaction to such a large
circle of people in Washington as that which re
turned to congress the former governor of Colo
rado, John Franklin Shafroth, who has held every
office within tlie gift of the people of his. state.
During itis congressional service some years
ago Mr. and Mrs. Shafroth made a host of warm
personal friends, who will hail their return with
delight. Mrs. Shafroth is described by her friends
ns a model mother, and, to bear out this asser
tion, they point to > the three sturdy grown-up
sons, all of whom idolize their parents.
Mrs. Shafroth is a genuine home lover and a
domestic genius, delighting in her home and all
its details, especially in cookery, for she loves to
try her hand at all sorts of new recipes and ex
periments. She is an artist in the culinary line,
but she is also a woman of varied accomplish
ments and wide interests.
She belongs to a number of'clubs in Denver,
of which the Round Table lias perhaps held her
membership the longwt, since she has been en
rolled as an active member for more than nine
teen years. This club meets every Friday morn
ing and its members actually study. History,
literature, the classics, philosophy and all of the
‘current topics of the day are embraced in their
'-research. .No drones or inactive members are
'•encouraged to remain.
i Mrs. Shafroth was born and reared in Fayette,
Tioward county, Mo., and, after completing her
high school course became a student of and aft
erward a graduate of the Howard Payne college
of Fayette, Mo. For several years prior to her
marriage she taught In the high school of her
home town. Mr. Shafroth is also a native of
Fayette. Mo., and their marriage occurred there.
She is eligible to D. A. R. membership, through
Virginia and Tennessee ancestry.
like Mrs. Shafroth, Mrs. Ollie James is no
stranger to Washington society, for she has spent
several years at the capital during her husband’s
congressional service. Mrs. Janies was Miss
Ruth Thomas of Marion, Ky., the home town of
Senator James, and was born at Franklin. Ky.
She ts the daughter of a Methodist minister.
Her earlier education was obtained in privato
schools, after which she attended the Kentucky
college, a co-educational institution, now out of
existence.
Her marriage to Senator James occurred about
ten years ago, in December, at her home in Mar
ion. Ky. Mis. Janies Is in every sense of the
•word a thorough home lover. She belongs to no
nor societies of any description and de
votes practically all of her time to domestic life.
Mrs. James is greatly Interested in charitable
projects particularly those which dea'l with the
sick and afflicted, and she hopes to engage in
philanthropic work among the institutions of the
capital. She is a woman whose life is well round
ed out. for she does many things well and knows
■whereof she speaks with regard to a diversity of
accomplishments of a practical as well as an or
namental nature. She has made a study of scien
tific homekeeping, could make her own dresses, if
she chose, and, in fact, lias the science of house
keeping reduced to an art.
When asked about club work she exclaimed:
“Not a one! Why, I don’t even play bridge! I
suppose T am the only woman in Washington who
has not learned to do so, but you really would
not expect a minister’s daughter to be expert in
that line, would you?" t
Mrs James is also devoted to children and a
close student of various movements in progress
jj vi their welfare. She is an advocate of higher
education for girls, but says that if she were plan
ning the education of a girl she would assuredly
advise a technical course in addition to the
academic, if the girl had sufficient mental endow
ment. to take it, thus supplying the knowledge to
meet any emergency which liCn might unfold.
The more varied tlie knowledge and training the
better fitted the girl Is for domestic life, as well
as for the social and business world.
Mrs. Harry Lane, wife of the new senator from
Oregon, has the distinction of being one of the
few women of Washington who are registered
voters. She is an enthusiastic suffragist, though
in an unobtrusive way, and is particularly jubi
lant over the fact that her home state has joined
the baud which allows women the privilege of the
ballot. »
Mrs. Lane came to Washington as an absolute
stranger, and Is becoming more and more delight
ed with the city and its people as she gets better
acquainted with them. She is a typical American
home-maker; but, while the details of housekeep
ing and the care of her family have absorbed the
greater part of her life, she has always been
deeply interested in the uplift and social welfaro
of girls and women. Indeed,' it was the great
advantages which woman suffrage hopes to con
fer upon the working classes that first drew her
attention to that movement.
While never an active club member, Mrs. Lane
has been much absorbed in club work as well as
charitable work, and will in all probaßHfty take
up some of it in the capital She is a woman
whose life lias been devoted to worth-while pro
jects. In her home city every movement that
has had the betterment of women and children
for its primal object has enjoyed her indorsement
and support. And no little of the success which
attended Dr. Lane’s occupancy of his varoius pub
lic offices is due to his wife's interest and co
operation. As proof of her success as wife and
mother, her family are her stanchest admirers.
Mrs. Lane was Miss Lola Bailey, and was born
in Milwaukee, Ore., about six miles from Port
land. She and Dr. were childhood sweet
hearts, and w-ere married in Portland about thirty
years ago.
They have two grown daughters, one of whom.
Mrs. N. Macbride, resides in New Orleans, while
Miss Harriet is with her parents. She bids fffir
to become very popular, particularly among the
college girls of society. Being a “Tri Delta" she
is already finding hosts of congenial fraternal
spirits in Washington and Baltimore.
Dr. Lane is classed as one of the ‘baby sen
ators.” in addition to belonging to the same
family as the secretary of the interior, he is a
grandson of Gen. Joseph Lane, who ran on the
presidential ticket with Breckenridge and who
also wore a senatprial toga, besides being terri
torial governor of Oregon and the delegate to
congress.
Dr. I-ane has filled the office of mayor of Port
land and also that of superintendent of the state
insane asylum. He succeeds Jonathan Bourne
and shares the honors of the medical profession
with Senator Gallinger, who for years has been
tlie only doctor with a seat tn the upper house.
The girlish wife of the successor to Joseph W.
Bailey of Texas has the distinction of being the
youngest of all of the wives in the senatorial
circle. Though the very dignified and sedate
mother of a lively little daughter of two years,
Mrs. Morris Sheppard is but twenty-two years
old.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. San
derson of Texarkana, the home town of her hus
hand, where she was born. Texarkana, as every
one knows, is a dual township, as is expressed in
its name. Mrs. Sheppard was born on the Arkan
sas side. While she had always known her hus
band, since he was a friend of her father, their
romance had its beginuing in Washington while
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she was completing her studies in a seminary
here.
Her earlier education was obtained in the local
schools at home, for the higher branches she en
tered the Randolph Macon Woman’s College of
Lynchburg, Va., where she spent two years, after
which she came to the Washington seminary.
Despite her extreme youth Mrs. Sheppard pos
sesses a lengthy list of accomplishments. She is
expert in fine needlework and hand embroidery,
as her baby’s little garments bear positive testi
mony. She is a pianist of no smali ability, and
also a vocalist, planning to continue the study
of voice culture in the future. She is also a con
stant reader and a profound student of politics,
which, she declares, she finds most fascinating.
Her interest in political matters was naturally
much enlarged In the senator’s recent campaign,
during a goodly part of which she accompanied
him.
Besides being sufficiently Interested to investi
gate the new methods advocated for improvement
in homekeeping, pure food and home manage
ment, Mrs. Sheppard has recently become a mem
ber of the D. A. R. She is a member of the Con
gressional club and also of the Democratic
league.!
Another senatorial hostess who is no stranger
to Washington is Mrs. Joseph E. Ransdell of
Louisiana, whose husband has been in congress
lor the past fourteen years. Mrs. Ransdell comes
of a distinguished southern family, and was Miss
Olive Irene Poweil before her marriage, which
occurred November 15, ISSS, at her birthplace.
Lake Providence, La.
She is a member of the D. A. R. through the
records of her great-great-grandfather, Gen. Evan
Shelby, and his son, Capt. Moses Shelby. Her
grandfather. M. de Lafayette Shelby, fought in
the battle of New Orleans in 1814 and five of his
sons served through the Civil war. M. de Lafay
ette Shelby was named for the famous French
general by his intimate friend and companion,
Capt. Moses Shelby, one of the neroes of Kings
Mountain. She is an ardent advocate of univer
sal peace and a member of the D. A. R. interna
tional peace arbitration committee of her native
state.
Mrs. William Howard Thompson of Kansas
brings to Washington a personality which radiates
the wholesome energy and animation of the west.
She is virtually a stranger, though she has visited
the capital before in her travels.
Though protesting that she, has never been
much of a "joiner," Mrs. Thompson has a rather
generous collection of club organization member
ships.
Mrs. Thompson was Miss Bertha Felt, daughter
of the lieutenant governor of Kansas. She was i
born in Washawa, lowa, and was married almost
out of high school, for she was graduated in
June and married in August. SJjnee then Mr. and
Mrs. Thompson have resided in Topeka and Gar
den City, Kan. They have three children. Thel
ma Bertha, aged eighteen; Wilbert Felt, aged
fourteen, both of whom are at school in Topeka,
and a baby boy of two years, William Howard!
Jr., who is with his parents and who, with the
little daughter of Senator Sheppard, is the young
est of the senatorial children.
HANDLING COLTS DURING HOT WEATHER
IBy J M. BELL.)
Try to be patient with your colt, Mr.
Farmer. Remember that he is green
—yes, as green a 3 the grass he eats
so peacefully when you turn him out
to graze, and the harness no longer
chafes his soft young body.
All farmers know that a four-year
colt will stand more than a three-year
old. Bone and muscle are better ma
tured and generally of better size;
therefore, he is better able to stand a
day’s work. But when it comes to
that no green, unbroken colt should be
expected to do a full day's work in the
team of well seasoned farm or road
horses.
So many good colts have been aged
and made dull by this foolish habit
of letting them run absolutely unbrok
en into the spring when they are three
or four years old, and then catching
them and putting them at hard, steady
work just as the busy season comes
on, when time is precious, when the
A Vigorous, Well-Developed One-Year-
Old Colt—A Good Example for the
Genera! Farmer to Raise.
crops need work, when the flies are
rampant, and when neither the mas
ter’s nor the colt’s tempers are at
their best.
Imagine a farmer starting out to
mow hay with a green or half-broken
colt hitched alongside of a mule or a
steady farm horse to a mowing ma
chine, double row cultivator, corn
planter, plow or harrow!
All implements need a steady, well
broken team and the same time a good
driver, who in order to do his best
ERADICATION OF
MORNING GLORIES
Cutting Tops Does Little Good
and Plow Serves to Spread
the Roots.
On our lowland farms we find four
varieties of morning glories. The
field morning glory resembles the cult
tivated kind, and unlike the bind-weed,
grows only from the seed, so the only
remedy is to prevent the seeding.
The field bind-weed is a morning
glory with small flowers and vine-like
stems that entwine closely about any
thing they reach.
The numerous roots send out plants
from every eye. These roots being
spread by the plow or cultivator, form
new plants, until in a short time the
corn field is completely covered.
They start so early in the spring
that before the corn is large enougn
to cultivate the rows are so hidden
that they must be cleaned out with a
hoe before cultivation is begun.
Another variety called hedge bind
weed, pea vine, morning glory has
large funnel-shaped flowers and a
more slender vine than the other va
rieties.
In the central states we find still
another of the prolific pests. This is
the wild sweet-potato or man-of-the
earth vine. Its roots resemble in shape
the cultivated sweet potato, but are
much longer and penetrate far below
the plowing depth's.
Cutting the tops does little good, and
cutting the roots only multiplies the
number of vines, as all pieces of roots
grow the same as the edible sweet po
tato.
The plow only serves as a means of
spreading and transplanting the pieces
of roots which grow new plants. Cov
ering with salt or injecting sulphuric
acid into the roots are as effective as
any remedy for the weed, which, for
tunately, is not so common as the oth
er varieties of the morning glory.
Hogs are very fond of the roots,
and are a great help in clearing up
badly infested ground. Plowing dur
ing July and August prevents the
plants from growing again in the same
season, and will make them much less
plentiful next year.
Lambs also like the vines wonder
fully well, and few will be left in the
fall if they are turned on before the
bind-weeds go to seed.
A Promising Youngster.
| work, has little time for else than
quietly handling his team and imple
ment at one and the same time.
This man will not get much satis
faction out of a day’s work if he has
to worry with a green, restive colt,
who, chafing at the unexpected misery
of heavy work in hot weather, starts
up a little too soon or not soon,
enough, protests at having to walk in
a straight line at a slow gait, etc.
It is not possible that he will balk,
kick or rear upon what might be con
| sidered a very slight provocation, or
. no provocation at al! to a broken mid
dle-aged farm horse.
In that section of Virginia known as
: The Valley," famous for its notably
| heavy draft, horses, and their rule is
■ to break these big colts at two years
, old, never working them over half a
i day at a time, and beginning the pro
! cess in the late winter and early
! spring.
The first work to a wagon in a
steady team and with a quiet teamster,
, generally a white man who is used to
; the daily handling horses.
The writer visited that section re
cently and while the quest of a well
known horse breeder, saw four full
blooded Peroherons working to a ma
nure spreader, a nine-year-old mare
under the saddle, a three-year-old stal
lion in the off lead and a young mare
under the line.
The average weight of these splen
did horses was about 1,800 pounds
each, but the remarkable part of the
business was that these two young,
vigorous stallions were working quiet
ly with mares. Their teamster had
them under perfect control, but they
had been worked the same as the
two-year-olds, and had become used
to farm labor by degrees.
Of course advice is cheap and farm
ers get lots of it, and in the matter of
working colts aud green horses in the
summer time they have heard it all —
fitting on the harness, scraping the col
lars at niglit, washing off the shoul
ders, and sparing the lash.
I have only to say this, and I speak
from experience: if the farmer does
not go easy with the three and four
year-olds at this season they will be
old and sluggish before their time.
Our experience with bind weeds is
that spring plowing and persistent use
of the cultivator only serve to spread
the roots over greater areas.
The lowlands where the bind-wed
flourishes are also suitable for alfalfa.
VVe find that between the cuttings of
alfalfa the bind-weed has no opportu
nity to seed, and in a few years a
plant can hardly be found in an alfalfa
field.
The bind weed, when once establish
ed in a field, is there to stay or put
up a strenuous fight, and no half-way
methods will accomplish anything in
the way of getting rid of this pest.
When plowing or cultivating through
small spots of morning glory, it pays
to clean the plow or cultivator of all
roots to prevent the spreading of the
growth of new plants.
The use of the disk harrows and
disk cultivators will help to prevent
the spread of this pest.
CHECK ROW CORN
PLANTER ESSENTIAL
if Seed Is Substantially Same
Size Machine Will Drop Same
Number of Kernels.
tßy WALTER B. LEUTZ.)
On all farms where the fields are of
sufficient size the check row corn
planter is almost a necessity. If the
seed is substantially of the same size
and shape the machine will drop pre
cisely the same number of kernels to
the hill. If on the other hand, the
grain from the tips and butts of the
ears is included the number of kernels
in the hill will vary considerable.
The distance between the hills and
the number of plants to the hill will
vary more or less according to the va
riety that is planted and the climate
of the locality in which the field is
being planted.
Under ordinary conditions I believe
in planting four kernels to the hill
and planting the hills about three
feet six inches apart both ways. As
a general rule nothing is gained by
planting the field until the cold spring
rains are over. None but good seed
that possesses a strong germinating
power should be planted.
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