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Jackson County Home
Demonstration News
(Eugenia Boone)
Collecting Plant Material* For Dye*
Many handicraft workers prefer to
use natural or vegetable dyes for
coloring materials for hooked rugs,
hand-woven scarfs, coverlets, and
other articles. All through the sum
mer, flowers, and other plant mater
ials suitable for dyeing can be gath
ered. They are better used fresh,
for the colors will be brighter and
clearer, or they can be dried and
used when convenient.
Different chemicals, called mor
dants, are used with natural dyes to
help set the color on the fiber.
Those commonly used are alum,
chrome, copperas, and some source
of tannin such as oak galls or sumac
leaves. With different mordants, a
variety of shades and sometimes
even different colors may be obtain-
ed with one dye.
For example, on wool, coreopsis
flowers dyed with a chrome mor-j
dant gives a dark henna color and
with alum a light yellow. These na
tural dyes as a rule are more satis
factory on wool tban on cotton.
Wool absorbs mordants very easily
and therefore forms colors that are
fast to light and washing. However
some plant materials will dye cotton
very well also.
Many leaves, nut hulls, roots, and
bark will dye brown or tan, and al
most as many will dye yellow, gold,
or orange. A few plant materials
produce reds and purples. A good
blue is obtained from the indigo
plant, and by combining with
the various yellow dyes almost any
shade of green can be made. Rust
and terra-cotta colors are made from
yellow and red dyes, and a good
black by combining blue and brown®.
To dye brown or tan, goldenrod
flowers may be used; most of the
barks; butternut, hickory, pecan, or
walnut hulls; juniper berries or su
mac berries; lichens; and mountain
laurel leaves. Some of these plants
will dye yellow, depending on the
chemicals used with them.
Other plants that produce a yel
low, gold, or brass color are: Chinese
asters, broom sedge, yellow camomile
flowers, cotton flowers, goldenrod,
marigold, sunflower, zinnia, and the
leaves of the lily-of-the-valley, pri
vet, Lombardy poplar, and tulip
tree. Apple bark and black-oak
bark dye various shades of yellow,
also the osage orange. Dahlia flow
ers and onion skins give a good
oronge color, and so do some lichens.
Coroopsis flowers will dye a lovely
dark-henna color.
The barks of many common trees
supply coloring materials, particular
ly the black or quercitron oak and
other oaks, apple, yellow birch, hick
ory, hemlock, Norway maple, tupelo,
walnut, and willow. Barks are best
collected in the fall or winter. Gen
erally the inner bark is used and it
may be either fresh or dried. They
should be stored where they will not
become damp or moldy.
Additional information on speci
fic dye materials and methods for
using them may be obtained from
Miss Reba Adams, Agricultural Ex
tension Service, Athens, Ga. Mis
cellaneous Publication 230, Home
Dyeing with Natural Dyes, issued by
the Bureau of Home Economics, U.
6. Dept, of Agriculture, gives di
rections for using this dye material.
This bulletin may be purchased for
5 cents a copy from the Superinten
dent of Documents, Government
Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
Well-Dressed Windows
Gone with the windows of yester
year are old-fashioned curtains with
fancy loops and heavy fringe. But
even though styles in window cur
taining may change, the principles
remain the same.
Figured wallpaper calls for plain
walls. Curtain fabrics with small
designs are suitable for small
rooms with small windows. Large
rooms with large window's call for
larger designs. The large, formal
patterns often seen in damasks are
for larger designs. The large, front
al patterns often seen in damasks
are for spacious, formal rooms.
Chintz or cretonne curtains create a
friendly rather than a formal atmos
phere.
The character of a room usually
decides the type of curtains. For
example, lustrous satin draperies
are not used in a rough-plastered
room with a huge stone fireplace,
l>eamed ceiling, and casement win
dows. Curtains for a room of this
kind are usually made of rough-tex
tured fabrics, such as crash, home
spuns, or burlap.
If you have the time it usually
pays to buy good-quality material
and make curtains. Good-quality
Voile, net, lawn, organdy, marquis-
C. A. MEETING
The Girls Auxiliary of the Baptist
W. M. S. met Tuesday afternoon,
September 21, with their counselor,
Mrs. R. M. Rigdon. Meeting opened
with song, “Make Me a Channel of
Blessing,’’ followed by program on
Japanese. Marion Hardy, program
chairman, reud Scripture, Mat.,
18:1-5, giving the devotional
thought, “A Little Child Shall Lead.”
Interesting topics followed—
"A Mighty Tiny Country,” Mary
Purcell.
“A Great Need,” Betty Aderhold.
“A Boy’s Prayer Answered,” Bar
bara Beatty.
“Unhappy Kinni,” Johnnie Ruth
Hardy.
The business meeting followed,
presided over by Johnnie Ruth Har
dy. Minutes of August meeting
read, pnd approved. Offerings
made amounted to seventy-five cents.
Personal service reports made, and
suggestions given for new personal
service work for the next rmfnth.
A stewardship program was plan
ned for church service the following
Sunday. Also, a special program for
State missions planned to be given
at prayer meeting September 29.
The counselor made a report on the
Margaret fund given in August.
The G. A.’s agreed to hold a rum
mage sale, also to sell candy Satur
day, September 25.
No other business, meeting closed.
The following girls were present:
Johnnie Ruth Hardy, Carolyn Lord,
Marion Hardy, Marilyn Roberts,
Bettie Aderhold, Frances Bryan,
Mildred Gause, Mary Purcell and
Barbara Beatty.
WIDOW LIVES FOR YEAR
WITH BODY OF HUSBAND
The strange circustances of an
aged New York woman living for al
most a year with the dead body of
her husband has been disclosed.
The macabre discovery was made
when an investigator for the old age
pension bureau called at the home of
Frank Cudas, listed on pension rolls,
and was denied the privilege by the
man’s wife, Emily, who insisted that
her husband was ill.
On a second attempt to gain en
trance to the Cudas apartment, the
investigator was informed that the
husband was “in a coma.”
The investigator called the police
who forcibly entered the apartment.
Discovering the skeleton-like body,
covered with an old blanket, the pa
trolman and other officers found also
a death certificate, dated October 26,
1936.
She had not buried her husband,
the police quoted Mrs. Cudas as say
ing, because “I was waiting for him
to get up. I was told that I could
keep him for a year, and it is not a
year yet.”
Before Mrs. Cudas was taken to
Bellevue hospital for observation a
$1,500 uncashed life-insurance poli
cy upon her husband was found, as
was a bank book showing a S3OO
saving account.
She had lived as a recluse and the
neighbors spoke of having heard her
carry on animated presumptive con
versations in her little flat.
ette, theatrical gauze, chintz, or cre
tonne will launder well and give ex
cellent wear.
Window Curtaining, Farmers’ Bul
letin No. 1633, a guide for women
who wish to make their own curtains
and also for those who buy their
curtains ready-made, may be obtain
ed for 5 cents from the Superinten
dent of Documents of the Govern
ment Printing Office, Washington,
D. C.
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To Buy Or Not To Buy On Time-
Payment Plan
A great deal of electric and other
large household equipment, because
of its cost, is sold on the time-pay
ment plan. This may be a very
helpful way to finance such purchas
es, if the times of payment and times
at which the family receives its in
come coincide. The time-payment
buyer should understand that the
seller is entitled to and includes an
interest charge. Many rural fami
lies, however, receive most of their
income when the crops or livestock
are sold. For such families it is
possible, often, to save interest
charges entirely by planning to buy
for cash when the money is avail
able.
Two more points which efficient
buyers take into consideration be
fore starting on a time-payment plan
for buying equipment: Will it be
possible to make the payments re
gularly? Is the article selected suf
ficiently durable to be useful long
after the payments have been made?
THE JACKSON HERALD, JEFFERSON, GEORGIA
MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
TO CONDUCT PUBLIC
HEALTH PROGRAM
Six principal objectives toward
the better health and welfare of the
people of Georgia are embraced in
the state-wide educational campaign
on public health being undertaken
by the Medical 'Association of Geor
gia through its newly organized Bu
reau of Public Relations. Working
iQ co-operation with the State De
partments of Public Welfare and
Public Health, the Bureau will seek
to:
1. Inform prospective mothers re
garding the necessity of proper pre
natal care and thus reduce the 500
tragic maternal deaths in Georgia
each year.
2. Educate citizens to take ad
vantage of all known scientific ways
of disease prevention.
3. Cooperate with the State Wel
fare and Health Departments to
eradicate communicable diseases and
aid crippled children and the blind.
4. Furnish aid in cancer control
under the bill passed by the Legis*
lature extending state aid to indi
gent cancer patients.
5. Provide more effective tuber
culosis control measures.
6. Educate citizens in other heath
measures, including information on
medical education, practice, hospit
als, clinics, and needed legislation
for helping the indigent sick.
TUNG OIL IN GEORGIA
Georgia and five other Southern
states are now growing tung oil
trees on a commercial schedule.
Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
iana, and Texas, all contain soil and
climate in which the trees flourish.
People are coming from many coun
tries to study the methods by which
the trees are grown and the nuts
are processed. For hundreds of
years China was the one source of
supply of tung oil for all the world.
The United States alone uses about
$2,000,000 worth annually, or 140,-
000,000 pounds. All other coun
tries use it to a greater or less ex
tent. The tung tree grows wild in
China, but it must be cultivated in
this country. Efforts to grow the
trees above the Piedmont line have
not been very encouraging, but in
the Coastal Plains such efforts have
been successful. Americans are
great on carrying all their eggs to
market in one basket, and already
rosy pictures of fortunes from
growing tung trees are being paint
ed. In Brazil, where coffee grows
like weeds in America, the govern
ment has to haul it out in ships and
dump it into the sea to prevent the
producers or harvesters from starv
ing to death by reason of low prices.
In China, where tung trees grow
wild and nuts are produced in abun
dance, noboby hears of immense
fortunes to the Chinese tung nut
gatherers.
Last year 250,000 gallons of the
oil were used for enamel coatings of
tubes for shaving cream, tooth paste,
and cosmetics. Varnish manufactur
ers in the United States alone used
15,000,000 gallons. The General
Electric Company consumed 10,000,-
000 gallons to insulate the wires of
dynamos and motors. One of the 24
linoleum companies used 180 tanks
to top-dress their products; oilcloth,
raincoats, paper products, silk and
wools, also may be top-dressed and
waterproofed with tung oil. Auto
mobile brakebands are built up with
tung oil, so that gasoline, oils, etc.,
will roll off without doing injury.
Printer’s ink and all indelible inks
are among the many hundreds of
products depend upon the oil.
EXPERIMENT
The story has been going the
rounds of Rotary Club publications
of a city man who bought a farm.
While examining the line fence
which had been a source of much
quarrelling in the past, the neighbor
ing farmer said:
“That fence is a full foot over on
my land.”
“Very well,” said the newcomer,
“we shall set the fence over two
feet on my side.”
“Oh! But that is more than I
claim,” stammered the surprised
farmer.
“Never mind; I would rather have
peace with my neighbor than two
feet of earth.”
“That’s sure fine of you,” replied
the farmer retractably, “but I could
n’t let you do a thing ilke that. Let’s
not move the fence at all.”
It is suggested that the next time
you have a dispute about “rights,”
you try surprising the other fellow
by giving him more than he claims,
and then see what happens!
NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL
CAPITOL
(By E. B. Betts)
The United State Supreme Court,
which meets for the Fall term on
October 5, at the Corner of liist
St. and Maryland Ave., N. W., con
sists of nine members: Chief Justice
C. E. Hughes, Republican, and Bup
tist, of New York; Associate Justice
James C. Mcßeynolds, of Tennessee,
Democrat, and Disciple of Christ;
Associate Justice Louis D. Brandeis,
Democrat, and Jewish; Associate
Justice George Sutherland, of Utah,
Republican, and Protestant; Asso
ciate Justice Pierce Butler, of Min
nesota, Democrat, and Catholic; As
sociate Justice Hardin F. Stone, of
New York, Republican, and Episcop
alian; Associate Justice Owen J.
Roberts, Republican, and Episcop
alian, of Pennsylvania; Associate
Justice Benjamin Cardozo, of New
York City, Democrat, and Jewish;
Associate Justice Hugo L. Black, of
Alabama, Democrat, and Baptist.
They are all fine men, and represent
the highest court of the United
States.
I was sorry, indeed, to read in
your valuable Democratic paper last
week of the death of Mr. R. L.
House by accident on railroad at
Corinth, Mississippi. He came to
see me three times here in the Dis
trict of 'Columbia when his train
came to Washington, D. C. He was
a native of Jackson county, and a
fine man. May he rest in peace with
the Great Chief Justice of the Uni
verse, who doeth all things well.
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Thousands of people over the
country and here shed tears over the
passing of Mr. John S. Bennell, Su
perintendent of the Central Union
Mission in the District of Columbia.
He died September 1. He was a na
tive of Hartford, Conn.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt,
on September 10, pressed a key in
his Hyde Park, New York, home,
that set off a siren, heralding the
raising of the American Flag over a
mile long Wheeler Dam, which spans
the Tennessee River, between De
catur, Alabama, and Muscle Shoals.
Speaker W. B. Bankhead, of the
Seventh District of Alabama, made
the dedicatory address. A message
from the President was'read during
the ceremonies. Wheeler Dam was
named after “Fighting” Joe Wheel
er, the famous Confederate Calvary
leader.
Associate Justice Hugo L. and
Mrs. Black have sailed from Europe
on their return to the United States.
The Justice Department has paid al
ready Justice Black for twelve days
salary, from August 19, the day the
oath of office, $666.66. Each of the
nine Justices of the Supreme Court
receive , $20,000 annual salary, in
monthly installments of $1,666.66.
Justice Black is a fine man, and will
be a credit and shining light, not
only to Alabama, but the entire
South, on the United States Supreme
Court. President F. D. Roosevelt
made a wise selection when he ap
pointed him to succeed Associate
Justice Willis Van Devander, who
resigned on June 2nd, 1937.
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On September 17, at night, Presi
dent F. D. Roosevelt made a great
speech in the shadow of Washington
Monument, on the 150th anniver
sary of the Federal Constitution. He
spoke on the 17th at one o’clock p.
m., at the Battlefield of Antietam,
Maryland, where the great battle
was fought on September 17, 1862,
between General Robert E. Lee, of
Virginia, commanding the Army of
South, and General George B. Mc-
Cleland, of New Jersey, command
ing the Army of the North. It was
considered by the historians as a
draw battle, 50—50, when general
R. E. Lee invaded Maryland.
On September 16, in the primary
in New York City, for Mayor, May
or Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republi
can-Fusionist, was nominated. Hon.
Jeremiah T. Mahoney was nominat
ed by the Democrats. "LaGuardia and
Mahoney will fight it out for Mayor
of New York City in the November
election. Senator Royal S. Copeland
ran a poor third in the race for
Mayor.
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Mest all of the 531 members and
senators of the lower and upper
houses of congress are at their
homes in the 48 States of the Union
until the meeting of the 76th con
gress January 3rd, 1938. There are
435 members in the house; and 96
senators, two from each State. The
house membership is based on popu
lation. Quiet now reigns on Capitol
Hill, in the political arena of Ameri
ca until January 3rd, 1938.
DAILY PROGRAM AND
OF ATLANTA CENTENni Al
1537 Fair
THURSDAY—OCTOBER 7th—PREMIERE OPENING DAY
FRIDAY—OCTOBER Bth—CITY SCHOOL DAY
Portrait of First City School.
FIREWORKS Portrait of First City School Superintendent
DISPLAY Portrait of Newest City School.
u Portrait of Present Superintendent.
SATURDAY—OCTOBER 9th—GEORGIA PRESS DAY
AUTO RACE DAY
CIPFWORKS First Newß P a P er and Press.
MKLWun Modern Newspaper Plant and names of three am
DISPLAY papers over same. Atlanta
SUNDAY OCTOBER 10th —“ROCK OF AGES’’ and "ANGELES"
MONDAY—OCTOBER 11th—ATLANTA DAY
AUTO RACE DAY
FIREWORKS Portrait of First Mayor. Early Railroad Scene.
DISPLAY Portrait of Present Mayor, Modern Scene.
TUESDAY—OCTOBER 12th—GOVERNOR’S DAY
FIREWORKS Portrait of First Governor.
DISPLAY Portrait of Present Governor
WEDNESDAY—OCTOBER 13th—4-H CLUB, FARMERS' DAY
AUTO RACE DAY
FIREWORKS Early Ploughing and Farm Scene.
DISPLAY Modern Farm, Tractor and Gang Plow.
THURSDAY—OCTOBER 14th—PIONEER’S DAY
FIREWORKS oldest Citizen—Covered Wagon, etc.
DISPLAY
FRIDAY—OCTOBER 15tli—COUNTY SCHOOL DAY
First County School.
FIREWORKS First County School Superintendent.
AY Newest School.
u Present Superintendent.
SATURDAY—OCTOBER 16th—“CENTURY OF PROGRESS’’
The “Battle of Atlanta”—periodical historical scenes interwoven.
AUTO RACE DAY
The main spectacle for each night’s program to be a Grand Finale ol
The Battle of Atlanta —periodical historical scenes luterwoven.
RUBIN AND CHERRY SHOWS ON MIDWAY
24 SHOWS and 24 RIDES
Free Grandstand Show Every Night, 9 O’Clock
8 Acts, Thrills and Amusement
Neelds Concert Band
NO. 38
COMPLETELY AIR-CONDITIONED
ALL PULLMAN TRAIN
ATLANTA to NEW YORK
Lv. Atlanta 1:00 PM CT
Ar. Philadelphia 7:35 AM ET
Ar. New York 9:15 AM ET
CLUB CAR LOUNGE CAR
Latest Type Pullman Equipment
—including—
BEDROOM, DRAWING ROOMS,
COMPARTMENTS, SECTION SPACE
Other Good Trains Leave Atlanta:
8:25 AM 1:05 PM
6:10 PM 11:55 PM
E. E. BARRY
Asst. Gen’l Passenger Agent, Atlanta.
• SOUTHERN RAILWAY
J. FOSTER ECKLES J
AGENT 1
FIRE AND TORNADO INSURANCE
JEFFERSON, GEORGIA.
Dissolves Horse Hoof In Water And
Drinks It, But Still Has Asthma
Augusta, Ga.—A negro patient
told doctors he tried these remedies
for asthma before visiting University
Hospital for treatment:
He caught a toad, blew his breath
in its mouth and let it hop away.
That didn’t work, so he got the
hoof of a dead horse, dissolved it in
water and drank the solution.
checks MALARIA
UUU in 3 day. COLDS
Liquid, Tablets first day
Salve, Nose Drop. Headache,
30 Minutes.
Try “Ruh-My-Tism”-World’ Best
Liniment
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