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A funny man seldom sees any humor in his own product.
Cheer up! At worst this life is just one blissful dream of things
we never get.
A wise man ofttimes changes his mind. The fool has no mind
to change. &
Tell every stranger that you meet that this is a googd town. In
time you many think so yourself.
Smile and the world giggles with you. Scowl and you are just
a grouch.
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Even the buzzard, the lowliest of birds, is loyal to its home
Are you?
Yep, election time is trotting right along. It will soon be on
the gallop.
Perseverance is an admirable trait, but without the safety valve
of common sense it becomes a menace.
Even if you can’t keep your money in your own possession, at
least keep it in town. .
“Push and Go,” is bully in a kid, provided it dosen’t require a
push to make him go.
There’s a time for work and a time for play, but some people
forget to wind the clock. .
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Hang onto your pennies, boys. The growing scarcity of copper
many some day put a premium on the little devils.
It is alright to accuse congress of hunting for pork, but we
don’t know of a political district in this neck o’ the woods that
won't grab off all of the bacon it can get.
A man will tighten his belt and chase a rabbit all day without a
thought of hunger or fatigue. But when his wife wants an armful of
wood he promptly sends the kid.
PRACTICE COTTAGES IN HOME ECONOMICS TEACHING.
Homsckeeping cottages, in which the students obtain actual prac
‘tive 'in household work, are a prominent feature of current progress
in home economics according to a report issued by the Department
«wf the Interior through the Bureau of Education. |
“The practice house is as distinctly a legitimate part of the equip
ment for teaching home economics as the sewing machine, ironing
board, or individual desk with its cooking utensils,” declares the re
port.
“Home economics departments in schools and colleges are not
all so fortunate as to have residences in which to instruct in home
management and in house-wifery. There has been some hesitancy
among school officers because of the initial expense of a practice
house. But as it is recognized that these houses are quite as neces
sary as are good laboratories and that the maintenance costs are not
excessive, more departments are being thus supplied. These houses
offer opportunities for experimental studies in household adminis
tration, make practice in home furnishing possible, and afford excel
dent places for stdies in nutrition.
The report shows that home economics is now a recognized
«course: of study in all agricultural colleges to which women are ad
mitted. Thirty-one State universities offer regular courses in home
economics, and most of the private and denominationat colleges and
universities now offer similar instruction. So important has the sub
ject become in State public-school systems during the past two or
three years that now practically every State normal school has a
«course in home economics for prospective school teachers.
Summer schools are coming to play an especially important part
in home economics teaching The Bureau of Education received
announcement from 192 schools that were offering courses during the
summer of 1914 in 1915 the number reporting had increased to 230,
and still further increase is already assured for 1916,
Twenty-three states report an outline of lessons in home eco
nomics for Statewide use. A State manual of study for the public
elementary schools of Alabama contains an outline for lessons in
cooking and suggestions for the teaching of sewing in the grades,
with lists of equipment and references for domestic science teachera
in the grades. In California each county or city board of education
jrescribes its own course of study in home economics. An outline
{ur a course of lessons in home economics has been prepared for the
« ‘mmon schools of lllinois. This is made use of particularly in the
*aral schools. The domestic science section of the high school con
ference of Illinois has recently completed a comprehensive outline
for lessons in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eigth grades, thus taking
an important step in helping to unify the courses offered in home
economics below the high school. ;
THE LEAQER-F}; ~RPRISE AND PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1916.
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MANUFACTURERS' INTRODUCTORY PIANO SALE
TO thoroughly introduce our latest and most exquisite styles df
pianos and player pianos in Fitzgerald and vicinity, we have arrang
ed with our local Agent, The Griner Buggy and Wagon Company, to sell
ten instruments at factory prices. Instead of paying out thousands of
dollars for magazine advertising our plan is to sell a limited number of
instruments to the leading citizensin a city where we establish an agent
at prices that command immediate attention. |
Mr. C. H. Andrews, factory representative, will conduct the special
sale for the M. Schulz Company at the Griner Buggy and Wagon Co.’s
F———7 Warerooms in Fitzgerald, Georgia. This is your op
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I E__::__’_:_____JJL portunity to become the owner of one of the world’s
1;:%,_% famous pianos or player pianos at a saving of from
‘,:fi———/f'fl j,' $85.00 to $197.00 in price. Each instrument offered
h;E;//;J_J <\ at this sale is of the finest possible quality in tone,
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manatacturers tor e pert 60 yers, 11Z. Being constructed of the best selected mate
rials and by the most skilled workmen that may be obtained. Always
under the supervision of experts in their respective lines. Requirements
that are most essential in the production of a piano of merit. Why
should’nt they be good? They are. ‘
One of these beautiful instruments placed in your home not only
shows your good taste and .is of much co¥n.fort and /%_
pleasure to yourselves, but is a source of giving your | "l.g}.lifll _
children one of the most refined accomplishments f§
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Do not miss this one golden apportunity. Come in and let us demon- € g
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the purchase of one of these instruments. We cordially invite your in- simpl:- u;q”t‘:t. that a mzxr‘ :l::led c:
spection and criticism. sk Bl
For your convenience we will, on request, show and demonstrate these instruments any evening dur
ing this sale. Our prices are the lowest and terms convenient.
The Shulz Manufacturing Company
These instruments on exhibition at
The Griner Buggy and Wagon (o,
GOODBYE TO OUR OLD FRIEND, “FREE SUGAR.”
As announced in Friday’s Chronicle, the Democratic caucus—
which is now our very “democratic” way of settling national legis
lation in adavnce and without consulting the minority members of
of congress—has by a vote of more than four to one (84 to 20) de
cided to take sugar off the free list, where it was to go on May lst
next and give it a little “protection”—"for revenue only.”
All of which was expected and is, probably, the right thing to do
—seeing that te government has not been raising enough revenue
under the new tariff laws, and what is more, seeing that there is
still need for more and more—but, nevertheless and notwithstand
ing, we can’t restrain the feeling that we are parting with an old
political friend when we give up “free sugar.” And, of course, we
are giving it up for a very long time to come.
We have fought many a political fight together—we Democrats
and “free sugar.” It has stood by us in times of stress—when neither
free silver nor anything else “free’ would prevail—and great was its
power as a rallying cry. :
For years we have been told that we couldn’t get along without
“free sugar” that the breakfast table fairly groaned under the burden
of the Louisiana cane planter and the beet sugar baron; that the
Sugar Trust stuck its greedy finger in every man’s cup of coffee—
and that without “free sugar” pretty soon, this cogintry was in a fair
way to become a vassal state, or something equally reprehensible.
Moreover, we were told that the sugar tariff was a “direct tax”
levied on every breakfast table in America, and that it fell heaviest
on the poor and pure in heart—provided they were very fond of sugar
in theirs. = So the great American people rose up and smote the Sugar}
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barons hip and thigh; and “fm
just the lapse of a year or two or until May, 1916, to enable the peo
pie to get accustomed to this great blessing before it overwhelmed
them. r
But alas an dalack! the ere ides of May are here, our Democratic
bretheren in congress met in caucus and almost unanimously de
termined that the days of “free sugar” shall be withheld from us for
yet awhile longer—perhaps indefinitely. "And all because this coun
try needs a la*e army and a larger navy and must dig up the money
to pay for; $4,000,000 a year out of the sugar barrel, for eating.
And we are not complaining ; on the contrary we, really doubt
if “free sugar” would have made so much difference with the av
erage breakfast tahle anyway. _
But what concerns us is the way in which the Hon, Claude
Kitchin, Democratic house leader, revamped an old Republican pro
tective tariff argument, when, in explaining why we are not to have
“free. sugar” said the expense of preparedness would have to be
met “with as little burden and annoyance to the people as poiible”’,a
hence, they would just keep the tax on sugar., !
We seem to recall that the Republicans used muchghe same ':
language—that nobody really felt the tariff on sugar—fijhen our
Democratic spellbinders were telling us that if we didn’t get “free |
sugar™ pretty soon we would sink under the weight of the “breakfast‘“‘
table tax”—and, probably, die, in the end, for Wwant of a sufficient
amount of sugar in our system.
Truly, then we are sad. Not merely that we are to lose “free
sugar’—just before we got it—but even more at the manner of its
going.—Augusta Chronicle.