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TRAINING TODAY’S
m AND GIRLS
They Should Be Taught the
Meaning of Thrift.
FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW
Child Must Be Encouraged to Think
of Cost in Terms of Human Ef
fort, Rather Than of
Price.
By SIDONIE M. GRUENBERG.
WHATEVER benefits may flow
from the training of children,
they are supposed to have some rela
tion to the future; but the training
itself is founded upon the experience
of the past. That educating children
to live tomorrow according to the wis
dom of yesterday is not always a
sound procedure is illustrated by the
prevailing attitude toward “thrift.”
Everyone, nearly, pays formal homage
to the supposed virtue of thrift, and
everyone, nearly, resents in his inmost
heart the niggardliness and narrow
ness suggested by the word.
In this country thrift has tradition
ally meant the scheme of savings
worked out under pioneer conditions
during Colonial times. It applies, of
course, to the whole economic outlook,
but it is especially prominent in con
nection with the idea of saving. The
early settlers found plenty of land and
plenty of timber; but the products of
labor were to be attained only \yith
much effort. Raw materials that in
volved labor, such as wool and linen
and all of the metals, which had to be
brought from Europe, were carefully
hoarded. Clothes were mended and
patched until they simply could not
hold together any longer, and then
the rags were saved for carpets and
quilts, or for making paper. A patch
was an evidence of “thrift,” and thrift
was a commendable virtue.
But the cultivation of land was car
ried on in a most wasteful maimer,
and good timber was burned and de
stroyed with wanton disregard for the
future needs of the country. These
facts only emphasize the fallacy of
the common notion that we may teach
such an abstraction as a “virtue” and
then expect it to perform its function
in the regulation of human life. Thrift
was very earnestly cultivated, but it
had no meaning except in relation to
particular kinds of commodities. Fire
and fat had to be saved, but what
ever was plentiful was disregarded as
carelessly as the present generation
disregards matches and paper.
Yet every generation has to teach
its young the best that it knows about
the handling of the material basis of
life. The difficulty lies in not recog
nizing that economic changes are con
stantly going on, and that it is neces
sary to readjust past experience to
new situations. A little boy who had
acquired an interest in spending money
A Patch Was an Evidence of Thrift,
and Thrift Was a Commendable Vir
tue.
was given an opportunity to exercise
this interest by being sent to the
neighborhood stores to buy as much as
possible for the household. His fa
ther, thinking to combine the business
of learning with the pleasure of spend
ing, suggested that the child keep a
record of all that he bought for his
mother. “When I was your age,” he
said, “I kept an account of all of
grandmother’s household expenses.”
The child’s mother was at a loss. She
approved of the boy’s writing and add
ing ; but she also realized the difficulty
she had in making her husband un
derstand that the prices with which
he became familiar as a boy were no
longer current. She wished that he
had never been so thoroughly drilled
in the prices of the early 80’s of the
lust century.
This father, like so many others,
continued to think of cost and saving
in terms that no longer apply. In the
same way, every family cultivates its
pet economies—and its pet extrava
gances. In a certain family sugar is
looked upon as the index of frugality;
whoever takes two or more lumps of
sugar to the cup is extravagant, and
whoever takes one or none is thrifty.
In this same family are trunks full of
old clothes that no one will ever use,
and the rental cost of storing them is
equivalent to more than a tenth of the
total cost of the dwelling. Yet these
people think nothing of spending sev
eral thousand dollars a year on motor
cars —because motor cars came into
their lives after the standards of thrift
had become established.
We shall have to teach thrift, or its
present-day equivalent, from a new
point of view. We have learned that
materials of all kinds have value in
proportion to their contribution to hu
man welfare, and not in proportion to
their prices. On the other hand, wc
have learned to think of cost in terms
of human effort, rather than in terms
of price. The children can learn to
think of their surroundings in the
same way, although it is almost impos
sible to escape the idea of price en
tirely.
A teacher once observed a child
crumpling up a piece of paper that she
had “spoiled” by a few slight pencil
marks. On being reproved, the girl
affected an injured air—it seemed to
her rather small to make a fuss about
a cheap piece of paper. The teacher
got the attention of the class and set
before it a new problem in arithmetic.
There are so many sheets of this kind
of paper in a pad, and the board of
education pays so many cents a pad.
The little girl who precipitated this
problem curled up her lips triumph
antly—the sheet she had spoiled cost
a very tiny fraction of a cent! But,
the teacher continued, there were sev
eral hundred thousand pupils in the
schools of the city, and the average
attendance was about 175 days a year.
What would it cost the city to give
each child an additional sheet of this
paper each day?
The fraction of a cent is not worth
considering; but the wanton and un
necessary waste of materials is worth
very seriously considering. Instead,
however, of fixing the chiid's attention
Suggested That He Keep a Record of
All That He Bought.
upon the sugar or the paper, -we should
try, as quickly as possible, to get him
to think in the larger aspects of the
problem. A child of seven or eight is
usually quite capable of understanding
the principle of avoiding waste, and
of applying it quite generally to all
kinds of materials. The other side
of our problem is to establish through
the routine of the home a sane atti
tude toward the whole question of the
use of materials. It is not enough to
repeat from time to time the adage
about being “penny wise and pound
foolish.” It is necessary constantly to
keep before the children the idea that
the justification for getting is not hav
ing. but using. Material wealth is to
contribute not to our repute, not to
our power over others, but to life more
abundant.
Feeding the Infant.
The infant is born with a store of
iron within its body. During the nurs
ing period this store is gradually de
pleted, since the milk contains little
iron.
At weaning time the infant stands
in need of iron. This is usually sup
plied in egg yolk, beef press juice,
scraped beef, prunes, whole wheat
foods and oatmeal, and some phy
sicians of unquestionable standing
recommend spinach.
Egg yolk is of especial value as a
source of iron, calcium, phosphorus
and lecithin. But it is an exceedingly
rich food. It must be fed with great
care on two accounts, first, to avoid
making the baby sick, because while
it is usually well taken it acts like
poison to some infants, and second, be
cause the value of egg is so great that
it is especially unfortunate if you up
set the infant by an overallowance,
since it may be a long time before it
will regain its tolerance for this food.
Reconciliation.
In most families and among friends,
differences sometimes arise that are
decidedly unpleasant. In nearly all
cases these differences spring from mis
understandings. A time comes when
explanations, apologies and reasons
are in order, and a reconciliation takes
place. This- is a thing much to be
desired, and when it comes, wash the
slate clean. Leave no fragments, no
left-overs to be brought up at another
time. Wash the slate clean as you
would wipe out a faulty example.
Cleanse the heart of the last drop of
bitterness or resentment. Let love and
good will prevail. A genial spirit brings
more real happiness than a manner so
reserved as to raise doubt of the pleas
ure of meeting, doubt that reconcilia
tion was mutual. So forgive as to for
get. It has been done and can be done.
Such forgiveness wins good will and
cements friendships that fiil life with
joy. Hold yourself ready to “wash the
slate clean.”
Quest for Youth.
One child of the period was curious
to know what became of the old moons.
A greater puzzle is what becomes of
the old men and women.
People refuse to grow old; perhaps
because they are afraid to. They are
like the wonderful one-horse shay,
proof against the ordinary process of
gradual depreciation. They last so
many years, seemingly unchanged and
unchangeable, and then —suddenly drop
into pieces.
Old age is unfashionable, and gravity
pardonable only in the very young. It
is said that the majority of tango stu
dents are well over fifty.
A hoy may delight in bluebooks, a
Greuzelike young girl may addict her
self to the study of eugenics; but that
way fogeyism and frumpishness lie for
; the man or woman over forty.
THE DOUGLAS ENTERPRISE. DOUGLAS. GEORGIA.
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FOR SECURING FERTILE EGGS
Strong, Vigorous Male Birds Should
Be Used and Inbreeding Avoided
—Cull Sickly Hens.
The first essential is to handle the
breeding flock of hens in such a man
ner ns to secure a high percentage
of fertile eggs. To accomplish this
all small, weak or sickly appearing
hens should be removed from the flock
and only eggs from strong, vigorous,
healthy hens should be used for hatch
ing. The flock should be allowed con-
Buff Orpington Male.
sidernble range if this is convenient,
though extensive range is not neces
sary to secure fertile eggs. If the
hens must be confined in small quar
ters, green food or meat meal must be
used in the ration and the hens must
be compelled to scratch in clean lit
ter for part of their feed in order to
insure sufficient exercise.
Strong, vigorous cock birds must
also be used, and inbreeding should
be avoided. For all meat and egg
breeds one cock should be allowed for
ten hens and for the lighter weight
egg-producing breeds one cock bird
for every 15 hens.
MAKE PROFIT WITH TURKEYS
More Profitable Side Line Can Hardly
Be Found for Those Who Are
Favorably Situated.
For those who are favorably situ
ated for raising turkeys, a more profit
able side line can hardly be found.
Given plenty of range where the tur
keys can find grasshoppers and other
insects, green vegetation, the seeds of
weeds and grasses, waste grain,
White Holland Turkey.
acorns and nuts of various kinds, the
cost of raising them is very small and
the profits large.
Grain and stock farms are particu
larly well adapted to turkey raising,
and it is on such farms that most
of the turkeys are found.
Little has ever been done in the
way of raising turkeys in confine
ment, and where it has been tried the
results have been discouraging.
Plenty of range is essential to suc
cess in turkey raising.
CAPONIZE BIRDS FOR MARKET
Rhode island Reds, Plymouth Rocks
and Brahmas Make Best Capons
—Dress in “Style.”
(By M. E. DICKSON. Wisconsin Experi
ment Station.)
Don’t sell late chickens cheap; ca
ponize them.
Capons sell in winter et from 25 to
30 cents a pound.
Rhode Island Reds, Plymouth Rocks
and Brahmas make the best capons.
Keep fowls without food 21 hours
before caponizing.
Be careful to cut away from, and
not toward, the backbone when making
the incisions.
Always dress capons in “style”
—leave feathers around necks, hocks,
on wing tips and end of the tail.
Dry-pick capons to get the best re
sults.
Ship capons in dozen lots; they
bnng better prices
TALK ABOUT ITCHING
A well known Georgia dentist, Dr. j
R. H. Thomas, Valdosta, Ga., writes:
“I feel as though some encouragement
is due you for the good results J
obtained from Hancock Sulphur Com
pound, l suffered greatly for three
long, hot summers, with some un
known itch on my legs from my knees
to my ankles. There was no eruption |
—the skin perfectly clear and smooth—
but talk about itching, it certainly did
it. 1 have used one fifty cent bottle
of Hancock Sulphur Compound and
think lam nearly well. Many thanks.” ;
Hancock Sulphur Compound and
Ointment are sold by all dealers.
Hancock Liquid Sulphur Co., Balti
more, Md. Write for Booklet. —Adv.
Already Provided.
The minister was shaking hands
with a new member of his congrega
tion, a girl fresh from Sweden, and
said, cordially, "1 would like to know
your address, so I can call on you.”
“Oh,” said the girl innocently, “I baf
a man.”
IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY
but like counterfeit money the imita
tion has not the worth of the original.
Insist on "La Creole” Hair Dressing—
it's the original. Darkens your hair in
the natural way, but contains no dye.
Price sl.oo.—Adv.
Confirmed Pessimist.
“I never hear you discussing the
weather.”
“What’s the use?” asl 'd the melan
choly man. “Every time it rains some
body steals my umbrella and every
time the sun comes out 1 get ink spots
on my Palm Beach suit and I have to
send it to the cleaner.”
SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE
and constant use will burn out the
scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampoo
ing with “La Creole” Hair Dressing,
and darken, in the natural way, those
ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. SI.OO. —Adv.
Crazy Insects.
Bacon —Prof. 11. G. Walters of Lang
home, I’a., says insects frequently suf
fer from insanity.
Egbert—Of course; you’ve often
beard of a crazy flea, haven't you?
BANISH PIMPLES QUICKLY
Easily and Cheaply by Using Cuticura
Soap and Ointment. Trial Free.
Smear the pimples lightly with Cuti
cura Ointment on end of finger and
allow it to remain on five minutes.
Then bathe with hot water and Cuti
cura Soap and continue some minutes.
This treatment is best upon rising and
retiring, but is effective at any time.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere. —Adv.
Sleepy Philadelphia.
Church —I see that Philadelphia pro
duces yearly about 50,000,000 yards of
carpets.
Gotham —And there’s even a nap to
them.
COVETED BY ALL
but possessed by few — a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re
store It to its former beauty and lus
ter by using “La Creole” Hair Dress
ing. Price SI.OO. —Adv.
Looks It.
Flatbush —This paper says correc
tions made recently in maps of Green
land have shown it to be about 150,-
000 square miles larger than formerly
believed.
Bensonhurst —Why, I didn't know
Greenland had been having a war of
aggression recently.
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CALOMEL MAKES YOU SICK, UGH!
ITS MER«f AND SALIVATES
Straighten Up! Don’t Lose a Day’s Work! Clean Your Sluggish
Liver and Bowels With “Dodson’s Liver Tone.”
Ugh! Calomel makes you sick. Take
a dose of the vile, dangerous drug to
night and tomorrow you may lose i
day’s work.
Calomel is mercury or quicksilver
which causes necrosis of the bones
Calomel, when it comes into contact
with sour bile crashes Into It, brea«-
Ing it up. This is when ,r ou feel th t
awful nausea and cramping, t? vou
feel sluggish and “all knocked out,” if
your liver is torpid and bowel consti
pated or you have headache, dizziness,
coated tongue, if breath is bad or
stomach sour, just try a spoonfu of
harmless Dodson’s Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee—Go to any
drug store or dealer and get a 50-cent
bottle of Dodson’s Liver Tone. Take
a spoonful tonight and If it doesn’t
Perfectly Simple.
“Charley, dear,” said young Mrs.
Torkins, “this article says that the
old-fashioned stump speaker has al
most disappeared.”
“Yes?”
"Well, it's easily explained. The
government has imposed so many re
strictions on cutting down trees that
the supply of stumps has probably
given out.”
A great many men make their mark
in this world because of their inabil
ity to write.
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What Ammonia Will Do.
Ammonia in warm water will revive
faded colors, and it will remove grease
spots on rugs and carpets like magic.
There is nothing so likely to make
a man economize as the lack of money.
Improved Beyond Expectations
“My wife has been a long sufferer of
lung trouble, and frequently with hemor
rhages,” says Mr. R. C. Currence, of 5400
Pennsylvania Ave., Nashville, Tenn. “We
had almost given up hope of her ever being
any better. She has taken four bottles
of Lung-Vita, and she has never had an
other hemorrhage, or even symptom. She
has improved beyond our expectations, has
gained in flesh, and we are almost sure she
will soon be sound and well.” Mr. Cur
renee is a prominent lumber man of this
city and is connected with John B. Ran
som & Co. Take Lnng-Vita for consump
tion, asthma, and kindred troubles. If
your dealer does not have it in stock, send
us $1.75 for a thirty-day treatment or write
for booklet today. Nashville Medicine
Co., Dept. Y, Nashville, Tenn. Adv.
Filtration.
If all urban population of the United
States were supplied with filtered wa
ter, or water of equal purity, Ihe ur
ban typhoid fever death rate would be
14 per 100,000, states George A. John
son, consulting engineer, of New York
city. A reduction of (17 per cent in
the typhoid rate immediately follow
ing filtration has been amply demon
strated.
Children Cry For
CASTOR IA
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless snhstitnte for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Karcotic
substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys "Worms
and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty yeiyrs it
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation,
Flatulency, W'ind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels,
assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
Bears the Signature of
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CENTAUR COM RAN V. NEW YORK C»T> t
| straighten you right up and make yo«
' feel fine and vigorous by morning {
1 want you to go back tc the store and
get your money. Dodson’s Liver Ton#
is destroying the sale of calomel b«-
cause it is real liver medicine; entire
ly vegetable, therefore it cannot sali
vate or m you sick.
I gua r untee tha„ one spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your ri.ujp
gish liver to work and clean your bow
els of that sour bile and constipated
waste which is clogging your system
and making you feel miserable. I guar
antee that a bottle of Dodson’s Liver
Tone will keep your entire family feel
ing fine for months. Give it to your
children. It is harmless; doesn’t grip#
and they like its pleasant taste. — Adv
lie’s a wise man who makes tlie
mistake of guessing a woman’s age too
young.
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
Is her hair, if yours is streaked wttk
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change it in
the natural way. Price SI.OO. — Adv.
Deadly.
Bacon —A cucumber always reminds
me of a cartridge. It’s nearly the
same shape.
Egbert—But hardly as dangerous, do
you think?
Swift Matrimony.
First Stage Hand —What was the
row out in front during the first scene;
Bill?
Second Stage Hand —The understudy
nursemaid got excited and carried ia
the heroine’s baby when it wasn’t due
to appear until three years later in (he
fourth act. —Punch Bowl.
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lng mention this paper.
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W. N. U., ATLANTA, NO. 34-1916.