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TRIALS OF SALESGIRLS.
I pray you leave me now alone.
You worked your will
And turned my weary heart to stone-
Why haunt me still?
Methinks I hear your voice the silence
fill-
Why vex me still?
There is scarcely a pretty girl who
pauses before an alluring shop window
show the dresses,
devoutly hoping she has a prospective
customer. Every gown in the window,
and also those in the showroom are
tried on until the salesgirl’s nerves
are actually on edge, fatigued with
fetching, putting on, straining to re
duce a 38-inch waist into a 34-Inch belt,
pinning up, taking off, her eyes anx
iously on the clock, wondering if the
young woman will be suited at last
or if her precious time is likely to be
wasted in the end. She knows only
too well that if she is unable to make
sales, she will be discharged.
When such a customer calmly an
nounces at last, “I was just looking
today; I will make up my mind and
call again," brave is the salesgirl who
can force a smile to her lips, retain
her courteous manner and answer
without a tremor in her voice, “I shall
be glad to serve you when you come in
again to buy.” The average woman
does not mean to be unkind or to
reduce the salesgirl’s weekly wage.
She is simply careless. While it is a
fact that the careful woman must
search patiently, often, to be sure she
Is getting the value for her money—
which has been put together slowly
for months —and try on many to secure
the right one, yet she should be frank
with the salesgirl, telling her she will
buy if she finds something to suit at
such and such a price or that she is
intent on seeing at present, not on
buying. No embargo will be placed
upon her for looking about to her
heart’s content.
It is a subtle temptation to many
a woman to behold herself arrayed in
finery she never will own, before a long
French mirror. She thinks of the pic
ture she made, dreams of it, covets it.
plans, schemes, and, startling as it
may seem, it is the cause of her undo
ing. She throws over the poor but
honest young man who loves her for a
wealthy elderly suitor whose gold,
when she weds him, can buy her the
sumptuous clothes which changed her
from a merely good-looking girl into a
royal beauty.
Saleswomen who have spent long
years studying human nature in their
occupation usually have unerring judg
ment in regard to possible customers
or those who would uselessly waste
their valuable time. They know when
they are apt to be ruthlessly imposed
upon and when women are in earnest
in an attempt to make a wise selec
tion and purchase.
The pretty young thing who is wil
ling to try on everything in the most
expensive catalogue, regardless of cut,
color, texture, price, time, Is the sales
girl’s terror.
CLEVER PROMISES HE MAKES.
Golden opportunity is never offered twice.
Seize, then, the hour
When fortune smiles and duty points the
way,
Nor shrink aside to ’scape the specter
fear.
Nor pause though pleasure beckons from
her bower,
But bravely bear thee onward to the goal.
The average man contends that “all
is fair in love and war,” but it is poor
policy for a man to promise his sweet
heart luxuries after marriage which
he well knows he will never be able
to give her. He is careful to keep
from her the exact state of his
finances. He tells her that she will
not have to live with his folks 'or her
own; that it is his intention to furnish
a cozy little flat, a dovecote all their
own, where she is to reign as queen;
that the place will be big enough for
her father and mother, should she
cate to bHng them in after a while;
aye and for her little brothers and
sisters too —knowing all the while that
he hasn’t laid by the first red cent for
housekeeping as yet and his salary of
twenty per week would have to
stretch out considerably to enable him
to support her, leu alone her family,
whom he never intends .0 provide for.
He promises her pleacure trips ga
lore. though aware they will never ma
terialize—anything, everything that
will keep her good humored and in
love with him. He thinks she will
make the best of it after marriage and
settle down to the Inevitable—face the
situation and still have blind faith
and trust in him. Love is never so
near toppling over as when a woman
discovers, past all doubting, that the
man she loved has deceived her wil
fully, deliberately. Ever afterward
when he does tell her the truth she
is wont to suspect him from every
viewpoint.
How much better it would be if, in
stead of making clever promises, he
had said to her: "Dora, we love each
other and intend to marry. Now I
want to tell you what you are to ex
pect as my wife. In the first place,
my salary is but twenty dollars per
week. Up to the time I met you I
had no incentive to save money. In
consequence, I haven’t laid by any
money that I could use now to buy a
housekeeping outfit and pay a month’s
rent or so in advance. That means
if We wed now that it’s boarding for
us at present. If we wait to save up
the necessary amount it may mean a
long, dreary period of waiting. You
are taking a poor man and must abide
by what a man in my position can do
for you. I don’t want to run in debt—
I don’t believe in it. I want to be hon
est and straightforward with you,
leaving the matter in your hands, ac
cepting your decision as to what you
think best to do. lam going to prom
ise only what I know I can do —work
like a nabob to earn and save money
without cutting out a few necessary
pleasures for you which every en
gaged girl has a right to expect, such
as going to the theater now and then
or to a ball or an outing. It is best
for you to be sure of what’s before
you rather than be disappointed.
Moral—the man who has made false
pretenses has a hard life of it. He
has opened the door for love to fly
out. It seldom needs a second bid
ding. The lover who begins right re.
tains the respect of his sweetheart
and the love of his wife. Always be
honest and true in your dealings with
women. It pays.
TOO MUCH WEDDING FINERY.
We sacrifice to dress till household joys
And comforts cease. Dress drains our
cellars dry
And keeps our larders lean; puts out our
fires
And Introduces hunger, frost and woe
Where peace and hospitality might reign.
Ask the average man who is soon
to wed what he thinks of ceremonious
weddings and he will be pretty apt to
tell you that he would cut all that out
if he could have his way about it.
However, as neither of them expects
to be married but once, it is but right
to permit the bride to have just as
good a time over it, as much fuss and
feathers) as she craves for the great
occasion.
The average bride-to-be insists upon
having her fling. She orders twice as
many gowns as she actually needs —
dresses to walk in, to dance in, to
lounge in, to eat in, lingerie pink rib
boned, blue ribboned, mauve ribboned,
and beribboned in every other color.
She buys the town shoemaker out.
though he had an excellent stock of
white boots, gray boots, bronze boots,
and kid slippers of every color of the
rainbow, from green to silver and gold.
There are hats, veils, parasols, gloves
and silk stockings to match everything
she has and the things she wishes she
had.
It isn’t every young man who has
the forethought to ask his fiancee to
give him a little hint of the number
of trunks she intends to take on their
honeymoon, remarking that two suit
cases will be all that he requires for
his belongings. Woe unto the man
who forgets to find out this important
matter. One bridegroom who had been
too bashful to inquire about the num
ber of trunks faced a direful dilemma
when he discovered to his dismay a
veritable mountain of trunks accompa
nying them to the railway station,
fully a score or more. It took him so
long to check them he nearly lost his
train, to say nothing of nearly having
a hand-to-hand set-to with the check
ing master on account of excessive
baggage. The train hands took them
for a theatrical vaudeville team, their
bid for public favor being the lightning
changes of costume —a hundred
changes in twenty minutes. When
they reached Washington, that mecca
for brides and grooms, he found that
he was obliged to secure an extra ad
joining room for acommodations for
the trunks.
During their two weeks’ stay it was
a continuous battle between his bride
and himself with those formidable
trunks. If she wanted a costume to
promenade in, they were usually
obliged to go through the entire num
ber of trunks, finding it at last in the
bottom of the very last one tackled.
The same performance was gone
through to find shoes and gloves that
went with it.
Os course the average exasperated
man would say something scarcely dig
nified to ears polite, only to be recalled
to his senses by a burst of tears from
his bride weepingly protesting she was
going straight back to mother, adding
how could one know just what to take
and what not to take on a honeymoon
trip, when one had not been married
before, and that if he had wanted an
experienced person he should have
picked a widow for a wife, etc.
To settle matters amicably, both
concluded to have an experienced
■ packing woman come in and put in
1 one trunk the things that would actu
-1 ally be needed for a fortnight’s longer
> stay. One trunk was all they retained
• for the belongings of both. The other
■ nineteen and the ten suitcases wore
- shipped back home, and he had to en
t gage an entire baggage car.
1 But it was cheap at that, for his
I nerves and his almost broken back.
I Too much wedding finery turns out to
31 be a delusion and a snare usually.
where confections
of pretty gowns
are sold who does
not wonder how
she would look in
such bewildering
finery. To many
such girls the
temptation to try
them on comes
with such persist
ency—though they
know they cannot
afford to buy, be
the price fifty dol
lars or five —that
they yield to the
longing.
The salesgirl is
only too eager to
THE BULLETIN. IRWINTON. GEORGIA.
PROPER HANDLING OF SOW AND LITTER
-
Encourage Pigs to Eat Grain After They Are Three or Four Weeks Old.
(From the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
Farmers who intelligently feed and
care for their pregnant sows, so as not
to overload them with fat, but instead
give them feeds for the development
of bone and muscle, are on the right
road toward the production of strong,
healthy litters. Their .preparedness
program, however, does not end here.
Two weeks before farrowing the sow
should be put into a farrowing pen so
that she will become acquainted and
contented in her new quarters. The
farrowing pen should be dry and free
from drafts. Provide the pen with a
guardrail made of 2-by-4-inch planks
set 8 inches from the wall and 8 inches
from the floor to prevent the sow from
crushing the pigs against the wall.
Use only a small quantity of bedding;
leaves or straw are preferable. See
that the sow has plenty of fresh water
within easy reach.
It pays to keep the sow quiet. As
sistance at the time of farrowing
should be at hand if needed, but the
sow need not be helped if she is get
ting along well. In cold weather put
the newly born pigs in a well-warmed
basket, and after farrowing is over the
pigs should be placed with the sow,
care being taken that each one gets to
a teat. When the afterbirth is passed,
it should be removed from the pen at
once and burned or buried.
After farrowing, the sow should
have nothing but water and a little
DIFFERENCE IN COST
OF FEEDING CATTLE
Experiment Conducted by Penn
sylvania Station Favors Corn
Silage for Steers.
The Pennsylvania station has con
ducted several experiments to deter
mine the difference in cost of feeding
cattle by the common Pennsylvania
ration of mixed hay and corn stover
as roughage, and chopped ear corn,
or corn and cobmeal and bran, as con
centrates, and a ration composed of
corn silage, mixed hay and cottonseed
meal, supplemented by corn. In all
experiments smaller gains were made
by the lot of cattle fed the ordinary
Pennsylvania ration.
In one experiment, which is typical,
the average amount of air-dry matter
required to make a pound of gain
ranged from one to three pounds more
a head for cattle fed the common ra
tion than for tfiose fed the ration
adopted by the station. The cost of
producing 100 pounds of gain for the
entire period of the experiment, in the
case of the lot fed the Pennsylvania
ration, -was $2.87 greater a hundred,
compared with the cheapest of the
other lots, and $1.85 higher than the
most expensive lot where silage
formed a part of the ration. The daily
cost of feed a head for the entire ex
perimental period ranged from 22
cents with the common ration to 16.9
cents for the adopted ration.
The. experiment emphasizes a decid
ed advantage in using com silage for
at least a portion of the roughage in
fattening cattle, if they are to be fed
economically. Results also show the
advantage of feeding a large amount
of roughage during the early part of
the feeding period, especially with the
prevailing high prices of the various
grain feeds.
MAKING PROFIT ON
ANIMALS THIS YEAR
Feed Bill Can Be Materially Re
duced by Raising Different
Crops on the Farm.
It will be a difficult matter to make
a profit on the animals this year un
less you raise plenty of feed. The
profit will be largely in the feed pro
duced. The animals will consume the
feed, thus save the cost of marketing
and save the plant foods, or at least
a large per cent of them.
There are many advantages In feed
ing animals on the farm, but most of
them require that a large part of the
feed be raised on the farm. If this is
not done the feed bill Is likely to take
most of the profit.
thin slop for the first day. The feed
ing for the first three or four days
should be light, and the time consumed
in getting the sow on full feed should
be from a week to ten days, depending
on the condition of the sow and the
size and thrift of the litter. It takes
plenty of sow’s milk to make healthy,
growing pigs. If the pigs begin to
scour, feed the sow less and give her
plenty of strong limewater.
It is very necessary that the little
pigs have plenty of exercise and all
the sunlight that can be given them.
Do not allow the pigs to run out during
a cold rain. If possible, provide green
feed or roots. These keep the sow
healthy and cheapen the ration. En
courage the pigs to eat grain after
they are three or four -weeks old. Build
a creep for them so they Can feed
alone. At this age feed for bone and
muscle. Give them all the skim milk
you can. If skim milk is not available
give them some meal and plenty of
pasture. In about eight or ten weeks
the pigs will have practically weaned
themselves. After they have been
successfully weaned the most perplex
ing job is over.
By putting into practice the essen
tial points above mentioned the num
ber of pigs raised to wearing should
be increased. Hogs never fail to re
spond to good care. Kind treatment
always means contentment, with its
corresponding profits, and requires but
very little more effort.
SOME YOUNG LAMBS
NEED SPECIAL CARE
When Young Animal Becomes
Chilled Wrap It in Blanket-
Hard to Raise by Hand.
A farmer who keeps sheep nearly al
ways has a few lambs needing special
care in order to save them.
If one is found chilled, it should be
wrapped in an old coat or blanket, and
placed near a fire to warm.
A few drops of some hot liniment,
with a little of the ewe’s milk, warmed
with hot water, fed to the lamb a tea
spoonful at a time ten or fifteen min
utes apart, will soon warm it up un
less too far gone when discovered.
Sometimes the lamb -will need a
good rubbing around the throat and
limbs before it can swallow. They
should not be rubbed too much, how
ever, as the mother knows her young
by the smell, and it makes work to
raise them by hand.
This can be done successfully if one
is careful in feeding. A lamb will do
the best on a bottle, but it is a little
more work than teaching it to drink.
It is best to use the ewe’s milk, if
possible, for a week or two, as one has
to be careful in feeding with cow’s
milk. If cow’s milk is used, it should
be made half water, sweetened a little
with sugar. Feed sparingly, about as
one would a baby, about once an hour
at first, and farther apart as they grow
older. If the lamb is small a table
spoonful will be enough at first.
As the lamb grows older make its
feed one-third water and feed more.
PAYS WELL TO LOOK
AFTER YOUNG COLTS
Loss or Blemishing of One 01
Two Cuts Down Profits—
Don’t Neglect Them.
It pays well to look after the colts.
Those who have but a few head of
young stock are not in shape to lose
one, and those having a good deal of
money tied up in them should be very
careful as to their wellbeing.
The loss or blemishing of one or two
will cut down his profit on the rest. So
do not get so rushed with your work
that you neglect the colts.
See that they have plenty of water
and salt, and keep a lookout for in
juries they might receive.
Something From Nothing.
You never will get something from
nothing. Remember this when feeding
hens. They require so much to sus
tain life. When the ration is only
liberal enough to do this, poor biddy
has nothing from which to manufac
ture eggs, therefore no eggs.
CALOMEL WES KOU SICK, UCHI
ITS « 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 a
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, break
ing it up. This is when you feel that
awful nausea and cramping. If you
feel sluggish and "all knocked out,” if
your liver is torpid and bowelo consti
pated or you have headache, dizziness,
coated tongue, if breath is bad or
stomach sour, just try a spoonful 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
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Looked That Way.
The postman handed him the let
ter. One glance at the envelope sent
him nearly into hysterics.
“Heavens!” he cried, “the first chal
lenge I ever got,” “Duel” was in big
letters on the outside of the envelope.
“But I can’t fight and —”
So he hurried to the station house,
explained that he knew of no enemy
who should demand his blood and
asked for protection.
Three blue-coated arms of the law
presented themselves.
The detective force hurried out. By
that time the desk sergeant had recov
ered.
HO said it meant “Due one cent.” —
Utica Press.
Forgot the Hostess.
The Lady—The last officer billeted
on us knew no one else in the neigh
borhood.
The Officer —Great Scott! How aw
ful.
Perhaps adversity may prepare a
man for the life beyond the grave,
but it curtails his credit while on
earth.
A Famous Physician’s
Wonderful Discovery
After a series of careful experiments
and tests at the Invalids’ Hotel and Sur
gical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., covering
many years—Dr. Pierce, the medical di
rector of that hospital, made announcement
that he could prove that a medicine which
he called “ANURIC” was the best uric
acid solvent now to be had. As a rem
edy for those easily recognized symptoms
of inflammation—as scalding urine, back
ache and frequent urination, as well as
sediment in the urine, or if uric acid in
the blood has caused rheumatism, lum
bago, sciatica, gout, it is simply wonder
ful how quickly “Anuric” acts; causing
the pains and stiffness rapidly to disap
pear.
Swollen hands, ankles, feet are due to
a dropsical condition, often caused by
disordered kidneys. Naturally when the
Biliousness Means Suicide
The function of the liver is to purify the blood and keep the system free from poison and
decay. Constipation, biliousness, weakness, dullness, general lassitude and headache’s result
from an unclean liver. It is nothing less than slow suicide to allow such a condition to continue.
The established remedy is
Dr. Thacher’s Liver and Blood Syrup
It is a pure, harmless and effective vegetable remedy, prescribed by reputable physicians
for liver complaints, biliousness, kidney trouble, impure or bad blood, pimples, indigestion, sour
stomach, sick headaches. It contains gentle laxatives, which encourage the liver to do its duty.
The response is quick, sure and lasting. Buy a bottle today, 50c and $1 at your dealer’s.
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Has extraordinary cleansing and germicidal power.
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straighten you right up and make you
feel fine and vigorous by morning I
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson’s Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomel be
cause it Is real liver medicine; entire
ly vegetable, therefore it cannot sali
vate or mak< you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson’s Liver Tone will put your slug
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 gripe
and they like its pleasant taste. —Adv.
The Front Row.
“The British army has raised its
age limit to forty-five years,” said H.
E. Gresham, the British consul at
Cleveland. “The age limit originally
was thirty-eight.
“The army isn’t so exclusive, either,
as to age or as to physique as it was
at first.
“A slacker in Manchester tried to
get exempted the other day.
“ ‘l’ve got such poor eyesight,’ he
said. ‘I can’t see any distance at all.’
“ ‘Oh, that’ll be all right,” said the
surgeon. ‘You’ll have an excellent
view. We’ll give you a trench in the
very front line.’"
Plenty.
“I never saw such a lot of old shoes
as they threw after the bridal car
riage when Miss Ann Teek got mar
ried.”
“Well, you know, Ann was the only
girl in the family, and they’ve been
saving up shoes for a long, long time.”
Making a million dollars looks com
paratively easy to the man who has
been trying to get a crying baby to
sleep.
kidneys are deranged the blood is filled
with poisonous waste matter, which set
tles in the feet, ankles and wrists; or
under the eyes in bag-like formations.
It is just as necessary to keep the kid
neys acting properly as to keep the bow
els active.
The very best possible way to take care
of yourself is to take a glass of hot water
before meals and an “Anuric” tablet. In
this way it is readily dissolved with the
food, picked up by the blood and finally
reaches the kidneys, where it has a tonic
effect in rebuilding those organs.
Step into the drug store and ask for a
50-cent package of “Anuric," or send Dr.
Pierce 10c for trial pckg. “Anuric”—many
times more potent than lithia, eliminates
uric acid as hot water melts sugar. A short
trial will convince you. —Adv.
OUCHILUMBAGO?
Try Musterole. See How Quickly
It Relieves.
You just rub MUSTEROLE in briskly,
' and usually the pain is gone—a deliyious,
। soothing comfort comes to take its place.
| MUSTEROLE is a clean, white oint
ment, made with oil of mustard. Use it
instead of mustard plaster. Will not
i blister.
। Doctors and nurses use MUSTEROLE
and recommend.it to their patients.
They will gladly tell you what relief it
gives from Sore Throat, Bronchitis,
. Croup, Stiff Neck, Asthma, Neuralgia,
I Congestion, Pleurisy, Rheumatism, Lum
bago, Pains and Aches of the Back or
Joints, Sprains, Sore Muscles, Bruises,
Chilblains, Frosted Feet, Colds of the
Chest (it often prevents Pneumonia).
At your druggist’s, in 25c and 50c jars,
. and a special large hospital size for $2.50.
Be sure you get the genuine MUS
TEROLE. Refuse imitations—get what
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Cleveland, Ohio.
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