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THE MILLEDGEVILLE NEWS
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STORY TELLING.
THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD.
Although the American people have been involved, di
rectly, In the great war for only a little more than a year
end a half, we have felt the effects, indirectly, of the great
struggle since August nineteen and fourteen, when the ter
rible conflict first commenced between the important Eu
ropean nations. Apparently, at least, we now feel that we
can safely count that the end of all this particular trouble
has come to pass, althcugli we will probably experience no
little difficulty in doing away with the rubbish, so to speak.
Visibly, America has really experienced but little chan 1 --
ps brought about on account of the great war in which
more nations were involved than at any time in the history
of the world. But let us not forget that old saying ‘‘all
that glitters is not gold," thereby creating the impression
.throughout the land 1 that great financial aud industrial
problems have got to be contended with in order to bring
(Conditions back to a n.omal stage.
We people of the United States have consumed more food
and clothing, according to our production, during the past
two years than at any time in the past. While we are not
confronting poverty or hardships, let us be mindful cf the
fact th.;t actual production only makes for us wealth and
wealth makes prosperity. The poor, the rich, the high and
the low benefit when we have abundant of stare and sur
plus, though on the other hand we all suffer when we are
Jacking of sufficient supplies of the necessities of life
It is not difficult for hardly any of us to recall the ad
vancement period of America when ’he people of this
county gradually laid' away a surplus of ail kinds of neces
silies and finally reached the point where wo could well
aflord any amount lururies. This *tate of affairs were
brought about dniy by the practice of thrift and the teach
ings tef this essential object.
It is by no means necessary that we should escape some
hardships in the future such as we have experinced in the
past. A little more yian a dficado ag£>, people in this
country were known to be in hard circumstances, financial
ly though in the last few years conditions have been such as
to alter matters in a favorable degree and these who were
responsible for the improvemnts resulting in better times
can well be compared with, in advance, those who will be
instrumental in successfully bringing about normal condi
tions in the reccnstruction period now just ahead of us.
By H. ADDINGTON BRUCE, in Atlanta Journal.
You appreciate the importance of story-telling to little
.children. You are aware that through stories mental de
velopment may be promoted and profound moral lessons
taught. But you complain that you find it hard to get your
little daughter to listen to the stories yon try to tell her.
In that case I would say to you, that either she is an
unusual child, or which ia more likely, you are not going
about the business of story telling the right way.
Perhaps you choose the wrong times to tell stories to
your daughter. Possibly you InsiBt on telling her stories
at moments when, in the full bush of physical vigor, her
mood ia one of active doing rather than passive listening.
Or it may be that you wait to tell her stories until she
Is too tired from her play to keep'her attention fixed on
your stories, no matter how Interesting they may' be.
Are you, for the matter of that, quite sure that the sto
ries you tell appeal to the mind of a child?
When you read stories to yourself, are you always most
interested, are you not, in stories with clearly defined char
acters and rapidly moving action? Do the stories you tell
your little girl possess these particular qualities?
If you clutter them with long descriptions, if you over
load them with details, if you fail to give reality and defi
niteness to the people or animals or fairies of your stories,
if you allow the action to drag, it is not surprising that
yoitr daughter would rather do something else than listen
to stories.
Iler reaction to stories of this sort is just as natural as
your reaction to tedious novels written by a bungler over-
ton.! of words.
Or perhaps you make the serious mistake of letting
your stories acquire too ‘‘preachy’’ a bavor.
Any story worth telling to a child should be a story
with a moral. But the moral should never be the story.
Consider the excellent animal stories by Thornton'W.
Burgess, stories which have delighted hundreds cf thou
sands of children, and will delight hundreds of thousands
more.
There is a lesson in every one of these tales of dho
little folk of forest, field and stream. And the lesson gets
to the mind of the child bone the less surely for being
taught indirectly.
If Mr. Burgess were not content with merely “suggest
ing’’ his moral, if he made his stories obviously didactic,
they would not merely become less interesting. They would
defeat their admirable purpose.
In the light of the foregoing, survey the stories which
you make up yourself, or which you select as being es
pecially desirable to tell your child. You may find that you
have been overlooking some fundamentals in effective story
telling for children.
Goverment Price Fixing
Its time to turn your
thoughts toward Christ
mas. Many useful gifts
for your selection.
Bell's
Just in by express new
shipment of ladies’
novelty Sweaters very
suitable for Christmas
guifts.
The Observer i3 not so sure that a victory was won by
the farmers who protested against a fixed price for cotton
ind peanuts. The price of c:tton seed was fixed, and while
the pric is not as high as it would seem that the short
crop might warrant, it is a reasonable price and seed are
being uo'.d and farmers are getting their money for them
md going cn about other business.
With cotton the situation i3 worse. The government
dabbled in the price fixing business just enough to scare
ff speculators r.nd the bull element, and the bears are
having the tinle of their lives.
We shall probably see the price kept down during the
marketing season and then we will either have price fix
ing by the government or a wild rush by the consumers
after a limited cotton supply and the price will go to
forty cents where it would, in all probability, be today but
for the price fixing scare. We believe it would have been
better to have fixed the price of rottrn at thirty-five cents,
and then fix the price of cotton goods on that basis.
And so with peanuts.
Ilad the government fixed the price of-peanuts it would
rrobably have been fixed around $125.00 a ton. As it is |
peanuts are selling for much less with small probability |
I of their going higher.
There is great uncertainty about the future of the mark
ets for cotton and peanuts, and hence the farmers are at a '
loss to know what to do. They feel that present prices are
too low, and yet it is expensive to hold either, and b-sides
it blocks business, has hurt the bond campaign and leaves
the farmers in an uncertain frame of mind and unfit to
about planning (■' r their next crop. Had the government
fixed the price of cotton and peanuts the crops would have
been sold, the farmers would soon have their money and
thc-y could give their full attention to the next crop.—Moul
trie Observer.
SPECIAL PURCHASE OF 50 DOZEN LADIES SILK HOSE, ALL COLORS. NO.
THING NICER FOR "A CHRISTMAS PRESENT. $1.50 AND $2.00 TT,
A WONDERFUL
SALE OF LADIES
FINE SUITS.
Very Smart Styles,
Individual Models i n
Newest Shadings of
Taupe, Navy, Brown
And Burgandy.
Only 43 Suits Left and We have Cut the Price One Third. Now is Your Op
portunity to Buy a Handsome Suit at a Small Cost.
9 Suits Sold up to $55.00, Your Choice,- $39.00
10 Suits Sold up to $45.00, Your Choice, $32.00
15 Suits Sold up to $35.00, Your Choice, $24.00
25 New Coats, Just in by Express, Bought at a Close Out Sale at About One
Third Less than their Real Value. New Models aid New Colorings. $25 & $35
Beautiful new blouses for the Christmas Sale just in by express
Crepe de Chimes and Georgettes, Specially priced,
$5.00, $7.50 and $9.00
s 100 Organdy, Lawn and Voil Waists, Specially priced,
_ $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50
7 KILL THE RAT CAMPAIGN.
During the week of November twenty-fifth to November
thirtieth, inclusive, will be known throughout the United
States as the period of "Kill the Rat Campaign.' This un
dertaking should receive the hearty co. peration of every
citizen of this country and with the proper effort millions. |
even lens of millions, of dollars will be saved ns a result I
of this one movement.
Practically every state in the untrn will join whole
heartedly in this method to do away with a great number
of the millions of these destructive, unclean and disease
carrying rodents and it should be the purpose of the peo
ple of Georgia to act well in observing the week set aside
for this object. In ‘ uniting in this undertaking, a great
and import: n accomplishment com be brought about and'
th, idea should be discussed on every hand in order -to
bring the matter iorcibly to the minds of everyone.
Right here in Mille ' .cville, as well as in numbers of oth
er cities In Georgia, rats destroy hundreds of dollas worth
of property and in order to remedy this situnMon, it is
necessary that every individual co-cp ora to in thinning oirt
the pests. The campaign begins next Monday morning aud
the people of this city should, bexin at once to plan their
methods for destroying those destructive little animals.
Don' delay in joining in tills national movement, there
by helping out in helping > uself, your neighbor and your
neighbor's neighbor.
THE BOLL WEEVIL IN BALDWIN.
The actual invasion of the boll weevil into Baldwin
county is now a matter of fact and it would be a wise idea
for the farmers of this community to begin preparations
fur combatting these destructive insects.
It is hard to conceive of the damage to be brought about
by the boll weevil, though the people in the counties in
Georgia where tHe insccis have entered the fieldshavo been
forced to practically abeudon the idea of growing the lleecy
staple as a really profitable crop, tfo no time should be
lost by the farmers of Baldwin in obtaining from the state
entomologist all the data that can be procured on this sub
ject.
Old Crusty’s Christmas
By OLIVE HARPER.
tiTI/FISTER, Mister- Please held me up so I can see.’-’
i-Y-i These words came from the lips of a baby of
four, blue with cold and quivering with a great desire to
tee the wonderful display of moving toys in the show win
dow of a large store.
This strange request in the qhildish treble caused an
;old man vqose face was lined and seamed with hard and
inloveiy wrinkles to s p and look down. He was about
to push the child away, but the little hands were raised
with such ulter confidence that in spite of himself he ac
tually did li o her in his arms and gradually edge his way
nearer t.he window through the dense crowd. The child
locked an 1 looked with staring eyes, as if she could not
take in enough of the wonderful procession as it went
or.tund its alloted space. The (fold hands clutched tightly
at the old map's collar and the blue lips were parted in a%
ecstatic smile which showed the tiny white teeth. The'
golden hair blew across the old man's f..ce. and somehow
he did not resent it, but when he had held her until the
procession had gone twice around ho began to feel tired,
for he was not young.
As ho turned to make bis way back through the crowd
he little clus’ heaved with a great sigh, but she did not
cry. The old man smiled n cracked and grudging smile as
the child said:
“Fank you—you is good.”
“I—good? Oh, 1 don't know.”
He started along thinking it time that Hie child should
be put in charge of her parents, but her tiny fingers clung
:<j h s hand.
“Where's your mother?’’ he asked.
"Muvver’s dead. See?" And she picked up a fold cf
her black dress to show.
"Ah!” said he, suddenly choking. And yet he had [
gained the name of Old Crusty in the neighborhood where)
be lived alone, and ho was also considered to be a stony
hearted miser.
“And my favver, too,” continued the child, still cling
ing to his hand.
“Curious how sumundnlgs influence one,” thought he,
"and how the enthusiasm of a crowd communicates Itself
I wonder what kind of a Christmas this child will have.
Everybody will havo something. I wonder where she lives
and if she'-would like a puppet.” He asked:
“ Little one. would you like a puppet?"
"Tat’s dat ?’’
“Why, a one of (hose babies?” pointing to the dolls
in'tlie window.
“I dt'nno. I never touched one.**
‘tLet's go inside,” suddenly said the old man, some of
Hie unlovely wrinkles disappearing. They went into the
crowded store.
“Let this little girl have anything she wants, tniss,"
said Old Crusty.
Special sale of ladies’ skirts as result of an extraordinary
purchase.
Be early for the first choice. Plaids, Stripes and Plaited
skirts
$7.50 to $15.00
Special sale of ladies black an i navy serge skirts
$5.GQ and $7.50
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just received by express a new shipment of suits,Taffetas
and Satins. All the new shadings.
$2.00 and $2.50
All the new evening shades in Satins. - Specially priced $2.
New shades in Georgette andCrepe de Chime, best quality,
Specially priced $2.00
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The American
- Lady Corsets.
/^ V iYJ ^ >’ ou wa nt your
YV" : \ gown to hang
gracefully,if you
want a good figure
combined with
comfort and ease
wear the Ameri
can Lady Corset
$2.00 to $5.00
Special Sale of Ladies Fine Shoes.
Bull kids, browns
and greys
$7.00 to $10.00
Light greens and
white kids former
ly sold up to $14
to close cut at $12
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ATTENTION GENTLEMEN
dozen men s socks bought at an extraordinary si
months ago. Interwovens are the kind to buy if you
want to wear darned socks. •*
f ‘ Special sale of silk socks worth $1 all colors 65c.
.>0 doz. men s new ties just in for the holiday sale. Sp
ly priced 50c, 75c and $1.00