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0AD0Y3 EVENINQF
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6y Hiry Oraha^Ctonner
FOUR WOODPECKER COUSINS.
The early autumn hud come and Mr.
Hairy Woodpecker wag hard at work,
making a neat winter home for him¬
self In a tree In the hog woods. Mrs.
Woodpecker had found an old hole for
herself, for she knew perfeeily well
that during the autumn and winter
Sir. Hairy Woodpecker didn’t care
aim li about her.
lie wore a handsome suit of black
and white and a very beautiful collar
of red. Mrs. Hairy Woodpecker's
dress was more simple. She didn’t
wear red, and thero wag more brown
In her feathers.
“Why, there’s my cousin. Mr. R«*d
Headed Woodpecker, with hl« wife,"
aald Mr. Hairy Woodpecker.
“Hello, drum, drum; hello,” said Mr.
Red-Headed Woodpecker.
"Hello," said Mr. Hairy Woodpeck¬
er, "what are you two doing, may 1
ask I”
They looked at each other and then
at Mr. Hairy Woodpecker and they
smiled such beautiful woodpecker
smiles as though to say that they would
gladly tell what (hey were doing, and
that Mr. Hairy Woodpecker hud the
perfect right, to ask.
The Red-Headed Woodpeckers were
both handsomely dressed and they
wore a good deal of red, which color
they were very ffind of, for their head,
neck and throat were of gay and dash¬
ing crimson.
«< We’re going to flndi an old tree,"
said Mr. lted-Heailed Woodpecker,
and then we're going te take turns
hollowing it out. When Mrs. Wood¬
pecker works I’ll have a nice meal of
grubs and bugs and when she Is
through work then she'll Imve a meal
and a rest.”
"We’ll save some nut*, too, for the
hard, ctfld days are coining," said Mr*.
Woodpecker.
"Ha, ha,’ laughed Mr. Red-Headed
Woodpecker, "Isn’t ahe the fin* little
wife now. Always thinking of the fu
ture? Always planning to save some¬
thing ao we won’t ever starve 7"
"It will be ulJ right unless the squir¬
rels find out where we live," she said.
Mrs. Hulry Woodpecker looked at
Mr. llairy Woodpecker sadly, l'or they
weren’t sueh friends during the autumu
anti winter months. When the blrdllngs
were young Mr. Hulry was a devoted
mate but at other times he only eared
to look after himself.
“Well," he said, “it's nice for you
two to be such friends, but somehow
It’s hard to change one’s ways. Now
children go In swimming In the summer
time but never In thr winter time. They
don’t change their habits just because
they may hear that the polar bears
go In the Icy water at any time at all.
it So I can’t change my ways because
you are different, Mr. Red-Headed
Woodpecker.
Mrs. Hairy Woodpecker now snp’ed
a regular woodpecker’s smile but Mrs.
Red-Headed Woodpeckei- drummed on
a piece of bark and said to herself:
<*> That’s a joke I As though Mr.
Hairy Woodpecker thought he eoulil
make an excuse like that and have it
sound sensible. The very Idea of chtl
dren swimming through the iee be
cans- iltq put-.- hears do! A little far¬
fetched, a little lar-fetohed I will
eay. M
But Just then along came Mr.
Downy Woodpecker with his family
on his way to join some of his winter
friends, the nuthatches and chicka
dees.
"Hello, cousins," he called. He was
much smaller than his cousins; he
wore a black suit striped with white
with white bands over and under his
eyes. He, too, cared for red for he
wore a patch of It on the upper side
«f his neck.
"I’m going to drum and tattoo and
play in the band—or on the tree, and
I’m going to get insects, I am. Ah, but
eouRins, none of you know how to
drum as I do! For I can make love
drumming. I can keep cheerful drum¬
ming, I enn make my home and get
my meals doing the same thing.
“There, are few creatures like that.
When children say they love their sla¬
ters and brothers they have to use
words; when mothers see about the
meals they have to use stoves and
groceries, and when grown-ups build
their homes they have to get earpen
ters. And as for keeping cheerful,
they have to dance or play or sing—
and we can just drum, drum, drum.
drum, drum.'
“Helgh-ho, heigh-ho, drum, drum,”
said the Yellow-Bellied Woodpecker,
knowu as the Sapsucker; ‘‘I’m looking
forward to the spring days when the
sap will come from the trees, but In
the meantime I’ll have a worm or two.
But I won’t sray in this cold climate
all winter, I won’t. M
Did the Dog Know?
The Frenchman did not like the
looks of the barking dog barring his
WAV.
"It’s all right,” aald the host. "Don’t
you know the proverb, ‘Barking dogs
don’t bite? » *»
M Ah, yes,’ snld the Frenchman, ”1
know ze proverbe, you know ze prov
•rbe, does he know the proverbe?”
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Read The Leader-Tribune for all
hom# news, .....
THE LEADER -TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., JANUARY 8, 1920.
u Training Little Citizens. 11
This is No. 5 of the third ser ies of articles issued by the Nation¬
al Kindergarten Association, 8 W.4 0th st. ( New York City. They are ap¬
pearing weekly in these columns.
COME, LET US PLAY WITH OUR CHILDREN!
By Maud Burnham.
There are many mothers who are
careful to supply the material wants
of their children, but entirely over¬
look the importance of joy and
happiness which are the birth
right of every - child; such mothers
do ont enter into the play life of ;
their little ones.
The founder of the Kindergarten
appeals to parents thus—“Flay is
not trivial, it is highly serious and of
deep significance. Cultivate and fos¬
ter it, oh mother; protect and guide
it, oh father. To the calm keen vis¬
ion of one who truly knows human
nature, the spontaneous play of the
child discloses the future life of the
man. M
Parents who enter into the play
interests of their children gain their
confidence and affection. Where
there is real understanding and
sympathy in the home, children are
not tempted to go to outsiders for
amusement. It is only by taking a
real interest in what the child does
that we draw him to us. We can not;
demand entrance into his life. Par¬
ents may exact ogedience, but no
one can exact affection.
Happy the home where the mo¬
ther plays with her children. The
mother who works every moment is
no joy to herself nor to her family,
for if she does r>ot become irritable
she generally smothers spontaneity;
and happiness, nor does she ever J
know what it means to be the
RIFIED mother at the end of the;
WOMAN’S MISSIONARY
SOCIETY, M. E. CHURCH
(By Publicity Superintendent)
From Missionary Bulletin.
A Child Labor Day has been de¬
signated by the National Child La
borCommit.ee. It is urged that it
oe observed in ch-.irches January 25;
in synagogues January 24. and in
all schools and clubs January 20’
Uiis plan is most heartily indorsed
by Miss Jane Addams, Secretary
Lnne, and Commissioner of Educa¬
tion, P. P. Claxtion.
That the number of children af¬
fected by the federal law will not ap¬
proach the setiinate of 40 per cent,
is the opininon of Owen R. Lovejoy,
General Secretary of the National
Child Labor Committee. Comment¬
ing on the recent report, Mr. Love
joy says:
The federal law prohibiting the I
employment of children under 14
in factories, mills, canneries, and
workshops, and children under 16
mines and qn-.rries, applies to only
a small number of the occupations in
whieh children are gainfully employ
ed in the United States. By far the
greatest number of child workers un¬
der 16 years of age are listed in
other occupations. The federal cen¬
sus of '910 placed the number of
children 10 to 15 years of age em¬
ployed in farm wori: at 1,419,098,
and those employed in all other oc¬
cupations, exclusive of mines and
manufacturing establishments, at
338,420. Reliable reports tend to
show that this number of children
gainfully employed was greatly aug¬
mented during the war period, and
no evidence has been found that the
children who, either because of eco¬
nomic pressure or the increased de¬
mand for labor, left school to enter
industry, have returned to the
schools in great numbers. M
URGE YOUR PASTORS TO OB¬
SERVE THIS DAY!
The Steel Strike.
John A. Fitch has in the Survey,
November 8, an illuminating arti¬
cle entitled, “The Closed Shop.” Mr.
Fitch has been with the Survey for
twelve years. He has followed dur¬
ing this time “every important
steel investigation,” says the edi¬
tor of this magazine, "and his own
published findings have never been
successfully chalenged.*
In the coures of his article, Mr.
Pitch says: “I came away from Pitts¬
burgh more than ever convinced
that the issues of the strike are hours
and the right of collective bargain¬
ing. So long as 50 per cent of the
men work 12 hours a day, thousands
of them seven day* » week, with the
long shift of eighteen or twenty-four
hours every second week, no one
can claim for the steel industry the
maintenance of an ‘American’ stand¬
ard of living,
‘‘More important than hours Ss
the question of eollenctive bargain¬
ing. Onlr through, organization and
the meeting from time to time of
representatives of the company with
representatives of the employes for
the purpose of actual negotiation and
agreement, can there be cn assurance
of the continuance of favorable con-,
day.
The “glorified” mother is the one
who find.; recreation In having the
family together after the tea
things are put away. She can join
,'in the children’s games, such as
“drop the handkercheif, »» u hide the
thimble, ' I conundrums, parcheesi,
dominos or the simple card games
such as “slap jack” and “everlast¬
ing.” At othe rtimes she can read
aloud the bedtime stones, but, how¬
ever she may j nioher children in
play she should find it her blessed
privilege to bring harmony and re¬
flection out of the day’s exper¬
iences so that the children will feel
That God’s in his heaven
All’s right with the world. »»
Busy mothers who want suggest¬
ions on how and what to play with
children will find the following
books of great value. Mothers who
do not care to purchase them should
request that they be placed upon the
shelves of the public libraries in
their towns,
‘‘Home Occupations for Little
Children,” by Katherine Beebe; “A
Home-made Kindergarten,” by Nora
A. Smith; “Volumn I. Foundation
Library” (a series of eleven vol
umns for young folks, edited by E.
G. Rines Educational Society, 225
Fifth Ave., New York City-; “Play
Life in the First Eight eYars, ■ < by
Luella Palmer; tl A Montessori Moth
by Dorothy Canfield Fisher;
“The play Way, ’ • by Colwell Cook.
ditions even when they exist.
demand of the steel corporation that
the men shall remain unorganized
and silent is a demand that they be
kept in a position of weakness and
impotence so that they may neither
voice their grievance nor demand
redress. »»
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MARSHALLVILLE
Miss Sallie Sperry has gone to
Tampa, Pla.
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Miss Mary Niles has returned from
Atlanta.
i -f 4 4
Mrs. J. W. Neil 1ms taken rooms
in the King apartments.
.> * *
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Frederick are
spending several weeks at Miami,
4* * *
Edlar McKenzie, Miss Blanche John
son of Cordele, have been at home
the holidays,
*> * +
Mrs. Charles King, or Bainbridge,
has been the guest of her mother,
Mrs. W’. M. Slappey.
* * +
Mrs. Samuel Banks and children
of Newnan were recent guests of Mr.
and Mrs. I. F. Murph.
* * *
Mr. Felton Walker has returned
to G. M. A. and Mr. Jerome Walker
to the State University.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Miller of
Columbus, Ohio, were recent guests
of Mr. and Mrs. M S. Ware.
* * *
Many dinners, parties, family re
unions, suend-the-day parties and re¬
ceptions marked the holiday season
with festivity.
* * *
Mr. John D. Wade, professor in
English at the State University, iwth
Janies Lester and Felder Frederick
have returned to Athens.
Mrs. J. A. Edwards and Miss Kate
Edwards spent several weeks in At¬
lanta with Mrs. W. C. Lovett and
Mr. J. S. Edwards of Washington.
D. C.
* ❖ *
Miss Jennilu Jones has returned
to Elizabeth Mather, Atlanta. Miss
Clyde Martin to G. N. and I. C.,
Ida Mae Timberlake to Wesleyan,
Misses Edwards to G. N. C., Athens,
and Miss Leola has resumed her pi
ano lessons at Atlanta.
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Mrs. Gordon Rogers, Mrs. Annie
Wallace and Miss Ann Wallace
spent Friday with Mrs. Lewis Riley,
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A fine young- son is the guest of
honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Edwin McMillan and the subject of
cordial interest among their many
friends. The young gentleman arriv¬
ed on Monday.
The mam a±
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"fill not In battles of youth we train
The governor who must be wiee and
good,
And temper with the iterances of the
brain
Thought* motherly, end meek ae
womanhood.
Wlndom doth llva with children
round her kneee
VARIOUS AND SUNDRY THINGS.
The secret of successful sponge
cakes is In the beating of the eggs
and the care not to lose
the air Incorporated
when stirring in the
flour. Then the “baking
oven Judgment never
comes to some women in
the course of their lives,
say* Kale Douglas Wig
gin.
It is as unreasonable
to suppose all women
gifted in being good cooks as It would
be to expect them to be musicians or
artist*. Because the majority of wom¬
en are by necessity housekeepers, It
does not follow that they ure by that
necessity doing the work for which
they are especially qualified.
In these days of thin cream which
refuses to whip, a solution called vls
cogen will be useful, which may be
made at home and kept Indefinitely If
well stoppered. Take five ounces of
sugar and dissolve in ten ounces of
water. Add six ounces of cold water
to two ounces of quicklime and let It
gradually slake; then strain through a
fine sieve, to remove unslaked parti¬
cle*. Combine the two liquids and
sbnbe occasionally for two hours. In
three hours set the mixture aside to
settle, then siphon or pour off the clear
liquid. .Store in small bottles tightly
corked, as the liquid absorbs carbonic
acid from the air, thus darkening the
color and reducing the strength. Keep
either In n dark bottle or w-rap the
bottle In dark paper. Use one-fourth
of * teaspoonful of the vlscogen to
three-fourths of a cupful of cream,
well chilled. Stir well, then beat with
*n egg-beater as usual.
Kitchen Bouquet.—The browning
nsed for gravies and various sauces
may he made at home. Put a cupful
of sugar in an Iron frying pan over
the fire. Stir anil shake until it turns
e dark brown. Add a half-cupful of
boiling water, a clove of garlic, one
chopped onion, six whole cloves* a
teaspoonful of salt, a dasli of tabasco
sauce and a saltspoonful of black pep¬
per. Simmer twenty minutes, strain
and bottle for use. Use a teaspoonful
to flavor and color any meat sauce.
"HtJtUc 7H**irclG.
Peculiar Newspaper.
One of the queerest newspapers In
the world is the Knmloops Wawa, a
paper printed entirely in shorthand,
for the British Columbia Indians In the
Frazer river district.
The idea of the paper belongs to
Mgr. Le Jeune, a French-Canadian
priest, who works among the Indians.
He had difficulty In noting down the
sounds of the words spoken by
the Indians and bethought him¬
self of shorthand signs and found
them suitable to the task. The In¬
dians became interested In this
talk language” and studied It un¬
til they mastered It. Then the priest
wrote various parts of the Gospels
in this language. Later the Indians
showed a desire to know the things
of the (lay, and the priest turned out
a daily bulletin on a mimeograph. This
paper sold out so quickly each week
that he found It worth while to have
type cast and the weekly printed on
the presses of a journal in the nearest
town, Kamloops. Today the paper has
a circulation of 3,000 copies every
week, and carries a lot of advertising
matter.
Wondsrful Chronometer.
A chronometer which showed a va¬
riation from day to day of only six
one-hundredths of a second won the
world’s record at the Geneva (Switzer¬
land conservatory’s latest annual con¬
test. The method of scoring is by
points, 300 being allowed for dally pre¬
cision, 300 for immunity to tempera¬
ture changes, 300 for resistance to the
effects of changing position, and 100
for quick return to precision after such
changes. In the contest 111 wfttch
chronometers were entered, and five
ship’s chronometers.—Popular Mechan¬
ics Magazine.
Long Concrete Bridge.
One of the longest reinforeed-con
Crete railway bridges in the world has
Just been completed In Sweden, cross¬
ing the Ore river. The arched span of
the new bridge measures 297 feet 6
inches, and it is built to carry trains
running at speeds above 60 miles an
hour, with axle loads of 20 tons. The
construction cost nearly $560,000. the
original estimate, made before the war,
being $227,800.--Popular Mechanic*
Magazine,
No Special Bill of Fata.
’Tin bothered fierce with rats,” said
Mrs. Casey, owner of the boarding
house, as she talked over the back
fence with her neighbor. ,
tt Did yez buy any of thim rat bis¬
cuit for thim?” suggested Mrs. Kelly.
“Now, Mrs. Kelly, what kind av a
house do you think I’m runnin’7 Sure,
If the bastes can’t ate what the rest
of us do, they kin go hungry.”—
Youth’s Companion.
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Complete BUILDING aatisfactijn
Can coma only from good material.
There are very few concern* who
sell building material a* good a* our*;
and none who sell better.
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Necessarily is constructed of Good
Building Material. In this regard,
BE SAFE. Let us figure on your f '
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