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AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION
BY DR. ANDREW M. SOULE
i c Relation of Yields to Profits
The purpose of this article is to
point out some of the fearful
economic losses we suffer because
of our failure to understand and
place a correct value on education,
accurate, scientific knowledge and
the following out of correct process
es in the handling of many of our
farm crops. It is another illustra
. tion and confirmation of the fact
that “a stitch in time saves nine.”
It exemplifies most beautifully the
importance of providing the rising
generation with essential knowledge
* bo that they may possess the ability
to serve acceptably under the pecu
liar circumstances of any environ
ment by which they may be con
fronted. This privilege, education
Os the right kind never fails to con
fer on the capable individual.
We suffer many great losses
Which are not -properly understood
or appreciated. In the first place,
average yields are unprofitable, and
tt makes no difference to what crop
we apply the result. In 1914 a very
careful cost survey of cotton yields
Was made in Georgia. It was shown
at that time that when 172 pounds
of lint were harvested per acre, the
cost was 11.6 cents per pound. When
the lint yield increased to 258
pounds, the cost decreased to 7 1-2
Cents per pound. Our whole energy
and effort must, therefore, be di
rected toward correcting the fallacy
80 commonly accepted that average
?’ields may be regarded as satisfac
ory. We can never place our agri
culture on a satisfactory basis un
til we Increase average yields by 40
. to 50 per cent. Even then, we will
s- be conducting our operations on a
x narrow margin of profit. We must
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ler we can come to trebling average
yields, the more certain are we to
get farm operations on a proper cost
basis and so make the profits on the
farm of sufficient proportions to
make the business highly attractive
to our citizenry. There is a big task
lying ahead in this direction, but the
end to be gained is of so great im
portance that the effort involved is
a mere bagatelle.
Average Yields of Cotton Unprofit
able
Results of 1914 Survey
Yield per. acre Cost Pr. Lb. of
Lint —Lb. Lint Cot.
172 11.6 cents
258 9.1 cents
456 7.5 cents
On this page are shown types of
plants which will either hold down
the yield or enable us to increase
it materially. The poor type of plant
represents a stalk of cotton not dis
similar to millions of plants grown
in our Georgia fields. This plant
is characterized by the paucity of
its fruit which it set on and de
veloped late and is scattered about
the plant. A good part of the
plant’s time and energy has been
taken up in the growth of vegetative
limbs which yield no fruit. This
plant is like the beggar on the
street corner, an idler, a drone, a
thing to be abhorred and destroyed.
Average Yields of Com
Results of 1914 Survey
Yield per acre Cost Per
Bu. Bu.
8.2 bushels 80 cents
10.1 bushels 74 cents
16.7 bushels 57 cents
We cannot increase much above
average yields until we instill into
the minds of the farmer and tne
rising generation of boys and girls
the necessity of cultivating a type
of plant that has the inherent he
reditary ability to yield freely even
under relatively adverse conditions
Contrast this type of plant with the
one at the bottom of the opposite
page. Notice how freely this plant
fruits, how closely the fruit is set
to the ground, observe its compact
ness. It is like a trim, well-riggged
ship, ready for business. There Is
no surplus' of stalk or limb, no evi
dence of wasted energy, but only of
serviceable purpose. If this sort of
cotton plant were cultivated on every
acre of land in Georgia devoted to
cotton, our yields would increase
per acre from 40 to 50 per cent.
Yet we exercise no surveillance over,
the sale of cotton seed. It may or
may not be true to name. It may
convey disease to the fields of the
planter purchasing it. It may or
may not be adapted for growth un
der boll weevil conditions. It may
or m*y not be resistant <.o the wilt
fungus. We have not thought these
things worth while in the past, but
now under a new and changing eco
nomic era, they become the very cor
ner stone of a successful agricul
tural practice.
Importance of Seed Selection
College No. 4, lint, first and sec
ond pickings, 660 pounds; lint, first
and second pickings, 69 per cent.
De Soto, lint, first and second
pickings, 259 pounds; lint, first and
second pickings, 37 per cent.
As an illustration of what may be
accomplished through plant breed
ing, the college has developed an
early maturing type of cotton known
as College No. 1. It has been grown
in the same field for some years
with many other varieties of cotton.
In 1918 this cotton yielded 669
pounds of lint from the first and
second pickings. Sixty-nine per cent
of the entire crop was harvested be
fore October 1. De Soto, grown un
der the same conditions, yielded 259
pounds of litn from the first and
second pickings. Thirty-seven pet
cent of the crop matured before Oc
tober 1. What chance had the farm
er who grew De Soto to meet the
onslaught of the boll weevil? Strains
of College No. 1 have been found to
vary in their ability to yield oil
from 17 to 22 per cent. This Is a
difference of 5 per cent in oil yield.
Yet the highest oil yielding strains
proved to be the easiest and the most
desirable type for Tffeld cultivation.
There are simply millions of dollars
to be added to the wealth of Georgia
through the utilization of better
strains of seed. Good seed, like good
citizens, pay an increment on any
investment it .may take to secure
them.
BUI.ES and regulations gov
erning GEOBGIA CALF CLUBS
The purpose of the Georgia Calf
club is to demonstrate the value of
better methods of feeding and breed
ing cattle and to furnish instruction
to boys and girls in the feeding of
calves.
Any boy or girl between the ages
of ten and eighteen years living in
the state of Georgia is entitled to
membership in the club.
The Georgia Calf club shall con
sist of county and state clubs. The
county clubs shall make up the
state club. In counties where there
is a county agent, he shall be active
ly in charge of the clubs, co-operat
ing with the Georgia State College
of Agriculture and the United States
department of agriculture. In coun
ties where there are no county
agents, the work shall be done by
the district agents. Each county
club shall hold an annual show. The
calves winning the county contest
will be exhibited at the annual shows
held in Macon and Atlanta.
1. It shall be the duty of each
member to obtain at least one grade
calf and to provide Sufficient feeds
with which to properly fatten the
animal.
2. It shall be the duty of each
member personally to feed and other
wise care for the calf according to
directions outlined by the Georgia
State College of Agriculture and the
United States department of agri
culture co-operating.
3. It shall be the duty of each
member of the club to make a final
report to the Georgia State College
of Agriculture -at the county show.
USING A DIPPING VAT AS A SILO
J. 8., Jeffersonville, Ga.,
writes: I wish to know if I
could use my dipping vat as an
underground silo. It is made of
concrete. I will have lots of
peavine hay, and wish to know
if I can put it in the vat and
preserve it in this way.
Your dipping vat for cattle would
not make a satisfactory storage
place for silage. It would be entire*
ly too shallow for this purpose. The
silo pit should extend into the
ground to a depth of from fifteen to
twenty-five feet. For convenience it
should be circular in form and have
reinforced concrete walls finished on
the inside in such a manner as to
make it practically air and water
tight. It is cheaper and better from
our point of view to build a silo
above ground because you can ele
vate the silage by machinery into
such a structure. In the case of a
silo built below the ground you
would have to lift the silage out of
it by means of a tackle and pulley,
thus involving a great deal of labor
cost.
Peavines do not make a very sat
isfactory silage, and I am quite sure
they could not be kept in good con*
dition in a dipping vat. Peavines
will prove more profitable if made
Into hay than if made into silage.
The best crops from which to make
silage in so far as quantity, quality
and cost are concerned will be eiether
sorghum or corn ground singly or
in combination. Os course, you can
use one of the saccharine sorghums
and kaffir corn. This is the best
drouth-resisting silage crop with
which we are familiar. These crops
combined give the largest yield we
have yet obtained, but we do not con
sider the quality as quite equal tn
that obtained from a combination* of
corn and one of the saccharine sor
ghums.
The growing of legumes in silage
crops has not pfoven profitable from
our point of view simply because we
have not been able to secure as large
a yield owing to the semi-shaded con
dition under which they are produced
as is desirable. We have tried cow
peas for silage, and our experience
indicates that it is better to cut and
feed them as hay.
Finishing Cattle off a Gross
A. C. W., Cedar Grove, Ga.,
writes: I have some range cat
tle that I have fed through two
winters on high-priced feed.
Will it pay me to dry feed these
cattle and ship them or sell
them as grazers? It appears
that if I take present prices I
can not break even much less
make anything.
In your situation we would do our
very best to finish off the cattle
and market them this summer or
fall as soon as the good, natural
grass range is exhausted. We would
not attempt to carry cattle through
a third winter under existing cir
cumstances. If we did, it would be
on the condition that we had plenty
of silage available and a reasonably
good crop of corn, some of which
you could afford to feed to cattle.
We could combine this corn with cot
tonseed meal or peanut meal on the
basis of equal parts of each. It
should then be fed along with silage
at the rate of about one to one and
one-half pounds to one hundred
pounds live weight. This makes an
excellent ration to finish off cattle
with when they are to be lot or
stall fed. Such a feeding period
would probably continue from 120
to 150 days. In our experience cat
tle can be made and finished cheaper
on grass than in any othr way. It
may be that it will pay you to feed
a little grain while they are on
grass. Everything depends on the
nature of the pasturage and seasonal
conditions. When the grass is lush
and abundant, grain feeding will not
pay. If the pasture is, only fair in
size and the season is dry some
grain can often be added with prof
it. We have not found it desirable
to feed more than two pounds of
grain per head per day to cattle on
grass. The grain feeding period may
extend over a period of from 90 to
120 days.
Treating an Inflamed Udder
T. M. H., Draketown, Ga.,
writes: Would like to know what
is the matter with my cow and
what to do for her. One of her
teats near the udder swells, but
it does not seem to be caked and
does not affect the milk.
In case such as you describe in
your letter we would proceed as
follows: Knead the affected part of
the udder very thoroughly and gently.
The treatment may be kept up from
ten to twenty minutes at a time.
This may help to reduce the infla
matlon and cause a better circula
tion of the blood, thereby absorbing
the temporary swelling in the udder
about which you write. This treat
ment may be followed by bathing
the affected parts with hot water.
The water should be just as hot as
the hand can bear. It should be ap
plied for twenty minutes at a time.
Bath towels can bq used to very good
advantage. Wring the water out of
them and apply to the udder, thus
simulating a steam bath. The udder
should then be rubbed with any oily
ointment which will tend to keep it
soft and prevent it from chafing.
The repetition of this treatmen',
should affect relief in the course of
a few days. If it does not, the trou
ble ig of an organic nature and is
not likely to yield to any simple
form of treatment. Should this prove
to be the case, we should advise you
to consult a veterinarian so ’as to
prevent further injury to the udder
or its loss of function altogether.
How Long Does it Take Stubble to
Hot*
A. B. L., Atlanta, Ga., writes:
What is the average length of
time for stubble to rot after
being turned under with the
plow before it becomes avail
able for plant food?
The length of time it will take
stubble to rote depends a great deal
on seasonal conditions. During a
dry spell such as that through which
we have just passed decomposition
proceeds very slowly. This is due
to the lack of moisture in the soil. If
a wet stubble is buried to a consid
erable depth, it will decay in from
thirty to ninety days. The season of
the year, temperature and rainfall all
exert a material influence. The meth
od of handling the land is the de
termining factor in the rapidity with
which decay sets in and proceeds.
As soon as the land is powed, if it
is rolled and then harrowed fine,
fermentation and decay will pro
ceed much more rapidly than if it
is left in a light, porous condition
after breaking. Plant food supplies
of stubble land would ordinarily not
become available to growing crops
under from sixty to ninety days.
Dusting Cotton in a Poach Orchard
S. E. 8., Fort Valley, Ga.
writes: I have cotton planted in
a young peach orchard, and the
weevils are in the cotton. Will
the powder that is used to poi
son the weevil be harmful to
the trees?
A normal grade of calcium arsen
ate can be used for spraying the
cotton in your peach orchard with
out damage to your fruit trees. By
a normal grade of this article, I
mean that which contains no less
than 42 per cent of arsenic pentox
ide and no more than 75 per cent of
water soluble arsenic. As the ma
terial varies from this standard
there is danger of Its burping the
foliage not only of the cotton but of
the peach trees as well. There is a
good deal of inferior calcium arsen
ate now on the market. This ma
terial should be applied with a spray
gun according to the rules and regu
lations worked out. There is little
danger from its use. One should of
course, do the spraying in the late
afternoon or early morning, when
the dew Is on. Do not use over
5 pounds per acre at a single ap
plication and repeat the applications
about once a week or ten days.
Trouble in Churning imd its Correc
tion
• L. S„ Thomson, Ga., writes:
I wish some information in re
gard to my butter, it is so oily
I have to use a spoon to skim
it off in the churn. When tak
en out of the refrigerator it
melts before we finish a meal.
I have had the cow four vears
and never had this trouble be
fore. I feed her on cotton seed
meal and hulls and wheat bran
and graze her a little.
It is not surprising that butter
should be soft and oily at this sea
son of the year. The temperature
has ranged very high lately, and, on
that account, it is difficult to handle
milk to the best advantage. We sug
gest that you proceed as follows:
As soon as the milk is drawn
aerate it by pouring it from one
pail to another several times. Do
this in a place where the air is clean
and as cool as posisble. Next, re
duce the temperature of the milk by
setting it in a spring where the
water is running or in a can of the
coolest water you can secure. The
water should be changed several
times. Just as soon as the milk be
gins to turn a little acid, churn it.
Do this early in the morning. Just
before the butter breaks or comes,
pour a small quantity, say one-half
gallon, of ice cold water into the
churn. This helps to chill and con
geal the globules of butter fat and
makes them gather together more
readily. Wash the butter after the
buttermilk has been drawn off and
while it is still in the churn with
an additional quantity of ice water.
Then place it in the granular form
in the refrigerator to harden. Work
it the next day into prints. Take
out of the ’refrigerator only the
amount of butter needed for a given
meal. Keeping the milk and butter
on ice or near it will help the con
dition about which you complain.
There is nothing wrong with the
cow or the feed you are using. As a
matter of fact, cottonseed meal
should tend to harden the butter
very much. If you will make a
mixture of equal parts of bran and
cottonseed meal and feed with hulls
and grass and other green feeds you
can make available, you would im
prove the ration you are using very
materially. I
AUNT JULIA'S
LETTER BOX
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“Help for the Helpless—Kindness to All
Dumb Things'*
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No unsigned letters printed.
No letter written on both sides of paper printed.
All letters not to exceed 150 to 200 words.
Dear Children:
While on my vacation this summer I revived my interest in cro
quet, and it occurs to me to ask how many of you children have cro
quet sets and whether you enjoy the game, it is quite popular in the
east, and if there was a good court in a community, no end of fun
and healthy amusement would be found in having croquet tourna
ments, you could earn some of benevolent society money by having
benefits. Write me about it if you are interested, it would be a mighty
nice way for the young people to get together, and I assure you it
is anything but a slow game if played right.
Lovingly,
AUNT JULIA.
Thank you, Eula Pethel, for your picture. I appreciate it very
much; also the flowers from Emma McDaniel, and the cypress seed
from Loyce Ford. Thank yfcu, Willie Mae Arnold, for the crochet
and Julia Dorsey, for the tatting for the baby.
Hello, Aunt Julia! How are you 'and the
cousins feeling this nice spring day? Fine,
I hope. I am a new cousin, but have been
reading the letters in The Journal for quite
a while. Charlie G. Coker, I think your
letter was very interesting. You must come
again real soon. I see Aunt Julia looking at
the wastebasket now, so I will describe my
self and go: Brown hair, grey eyes, fair
complexion, weight US pounds and my age
is between sixteen and nineteen. Aunt Ju
lia, I surely hope you will print my letter.
Would be very glad if some of the cousins
would write to their new cousin.
PAULINE MECKLIN.
Mulat, Fla.
Dear Aunt Julia: This is my second at
tempt to write you, and I hope to see this
in print. What have you all been doing
this rainy weather. As for myself, nothing
much. I will describe myself; so, cousins,
don’t get angry: Black hair, brown eyes,
dark complexion, fourteen years of age.
Some of you cousins write me, as I am lone
some. Say, cousins, can you tell me where
Frances Garrett is, as I have lost her
address. Cousins, please write me one and
all. Sincerely,
LARA L. FISHER.
Cave Spring, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Let a
Georgia girl join your happy band of boys
and girls. I live in the country and like
country life. My father takes The Journal
and I'.like it fine, especially the letter box.
I go to Adrian High school arid like it. I
will be in the eighth grade next term. I
will describe myself and go for this time:
I am thirteen years of age, brown eyes
and hair, brunette, and four feet seven
inches tall. If any of you cousins wish to
write to a jolly Georgia girl, let the let
ters fly. Your new cousin,
MATRA DRAKE.
Adrian, Ga., Route 2.
P. S.—l am sending live cents to Yvonne.
Dear Aunt Juia and Cousins: I am a
stranger to all of you, but you are not «>
me. I always read your letters and enjoy
them very much, I wan’t to be admitted
to your happy band. I am a blonde, and
will enter the high school next year; am
between the ages of ten and fifteen; am
five feet two inches tall and weigh 102
pounds. I am going to be a telephone op
erator. I thought-a few years ago I would
be a musician, but have changed my mind.
Hope I haven’t stayed too long with you.
Would like to correspond with some of the
cousins. Love to Aunt Julia and all. Your
new cousin,
LUCY LOCKHART.
Maysville, Ga., Box 53.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Have been
thinking for quite a while that I would
write, so have time now and will make an
attempt. What are all you boys and girls
doing these hot days? I live on a large
farm and have to work pretty hard. Well
I will try and describe myself as the rest
do, so here I go: I am five feet three
inches tall and weight 118 pounds, aged
sixteen, have dark hair, black eyes and
fair complexion. Well I will write more
next time if this escapes the wastebasket.
All you boys and girls write me. I will
answer all letters. Yous cousin,
' PASCAL BATSON.
Perklnston, Miss.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: Have you
any room to spare for a lit th: farmer?
Thanks, I’ll just sit over there on the. floor
by the girl with the big apron on, as I
have on my overalls and it won’t hurt them
to get dirty. Don’t have to be so ’ticiilar
as those dolled-up boys and girls. I be
long to the overall club and always wear
them on Sunday to Sunday school and
preaching. All the little girls say I look
cute, too. Am going to try to be an ideal
farmer when I’m grown, but I’m considered
lazy now by my brothers and sisters. I
have a watermelon and muskmelon patch
planted and if some of you cousins will
come this summer, what a jolly time we
will have eating melons, fishing and going
swimming. Now I hope Aunt Julia’s letter
box is a large one and that this letter can
be packed in it somewhere. I’ll assure
you cousins that if you will w-rite me there
will always be plenty of room in my letter
box for your letters. Love and best wishes
to all. Your new cousin,
KERMIT TRAYLOR.
Lamar, Ala.
• Tap, tap, tap. Aunt Julia won’t you let
me in? I guess you will, for I knocked
once before and didn’t get ip. If Thelma
Potts will move over just a little I’ll take
a seat by Virgil Haile. Stop laughing,
Charlie Coker, and you, too, Clem Chappell.
As it is the rule, will describe myself:
Dark brown hair, fair complexion, five feet
seven inches tall, weigh 145 pounds, age 21.
Don’t run, cousins, I won’t bite you. What
do you do for pastime? I am a farmer; so I
guess you know I have plenty to do. Aunt
Julia, please print this if it is worth while.
If any of you cousins want to write to a
Georgia boy let your letters and cards fly.
I will answer all.
JAMES B. CALDWELL.
Gaggansville, Ga., Route 1.
Hello, Aunt Julia! Will you please let me
have a seat in your happy band of boys and
girls? I live in the country and like it
fine. I am ten years old and in the fifth
grade. We live in a very beautiful coun
try near a small creek and enjoy fishing
fine. I like to hunt wild flowers and wade
in the branched -and play with dolls and
cats. I have, three of each. I have two
married sisters in Atlanta; one of them has
two of the sweetest kids I ever saw and
the other has one, and their names are
Jimmie, Opal and Gerald. Well, I will
ask you all a riddle, as I can’t think of
anything else at this moment. What it it
I have not and don’t want but if I had it
I would not take, a million dollars for it?
I will write to the one who guesses this
riddle. Aunt Julia, please print this be
cause I want to get acquainted with some
other girls about my size for I get lone
some sometimes. I will not describe my
self, as I do not think descriptions inter
esting. Who likes to read? I do. My fa
vorite book is “Pollyanna.” I have lots of
flowers and I like to plant them. I will
close with best wishes to Aunt Julia and
Yvonne. From MILDRED NORTON.
Doerun, Ga., R. F. D. 3, Box 88.
P- S. —Inclosed find 5 cents for the French
baby.
Dear Aunt Julia and Cousins: WU you
let another little Georgia girl join your band
of boys and girls. I enjoy reading the letter
box. I live on a farm two miles from the
little town of Adrian. It is a nice town. I
go to school there, and will be in the sixth
grade this fall. I sure want an education.
I think every boy and girl should try to
get an education and be interested in work
and stop so much foolishness and talking
about loving the boys. For pastime I cro
chet and read. For pets I have two little
sisters, two little puppies and a grand old
Tomcat; he is some cat. I also help with
the baby chicks. We have a nice little
bunch of them and also have a nice gar
den. Well, I will describe myself and go:
Fair complexion, blue eyes and dark hair,
am 5 feet 2 inches high. You all know
I am a peach. I will leave my age for
you to guess. I will answer your letters if
you girls want to write me.
MYRTLE a. *.L LOCKHART.
Adrian, Ga.
Dear Aunt Julia: Here I come once more
after my long spell of silence, for I am
by no means a new cousin. Please, Aunt
Julia, have you seen or heard anything from
W. E. Hullender or Daisy Ward? I think
Dasy must have been somewhat shocked by
photo, as I sent it in my last letter to her.
As for Mr. Hullender, I have not heard from
him in a year or more. I am planning to
go on a camping trp this summer and know
I will have a fine tme fishing, swmming
and cooking, of course, for that has to be
done ,no matter how much we dread it.
Wish all the cousins could go. We would
have quite a large party. Guess I must
close if I ever want to return.
GLADYS HULLENDER.
Ringgold, Ga.
Helio, Aunt Julia and Cousins! Wil you
please let an Alabama girl in for a chat?
I have been a reader of the letter box for
a long time. I live on a farm. I like farm
life. How many of you all like flowers?
I do for one. I have roses blooming. Well,
I will describe myself: Gray eyes, fair com
plexion, thirteen years old, weigh 98 pounds,
5 feet /high. What are you all doing? I
haven’t been doing anything snce school
stopped. I am in the sxth grade. If this
is printed I will come again. If any of
you cousins write to me let the letters fly
to your new cousin,
ORRETHA WILSON.
Asheville* Ala., Route 3.
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MARY MEREDITH’S ADVICE
I TO LONELY GIRLS AT HOME
Please give a lonely girl some good
advice. Tell me, does a boy love a
girl if he sends her costly presents
and says he loves her? This boy
has broken up with all his sweet
hearts. He says he loves only me,
and I love him better than any one
in the world I know. Would it be
any harm to kiss him? Please print
fny name. I want him to see It. A
lonely girl.
KATIE W.
Usually a man thinks some
thing of a woman when he show
ers costly presents upon her.
But I do not think a girl should
accept expensive gifts unless she
is engaged to be married to the
man. She places herself under
obligations to him, and will cause
herself to be talked about if she
allows a man to do so. I do not
recommend kissing, though I
know it is indulged in. However,
‘do not permit familiarity. It les
sens a girl in a man’s eyes. We
do not prize anything we get so
cheaply.
I am a girl of seventeen coming
for advice. I have been going with
a boy of twenty-three for over a
year. He never mistreated me until
a month ago. I asked him about
going with a girl that is not nice, and
he gave me his right hand that he
wasn’t going with her. The jiext time
I saw him with her he didn’t make
much of an apology about it. I was
with him since then, and he came, to
see me one day. Did I do right, and
is it right not to want him to go
with her? Is he too old for me?
There is another boy who has been
visiting me, and he seems to like me
very much, and I do know I love him
with all my heart. He is twenty
two. How can I get him to write
to me, as I love him with all my
heart. My father and mother are
very cruel to me. I have thought of
running away when I am eighteen and
earning my living. Must I do this,
or can he make me come back home
after I am eighteen? Please tell me
what to do, as this is my third let
ter. Hope to see it in the next
paper.
A BROKEN-HEARTED GIRL.
First of all, you belie your
name. You aren’t broken-hearted
at all. You cannot possibly love
two men at the same time with
a heart-breaking devotion Get
over being silly, and try to get
something else in your head be
sides boys. If your friend still
keeps company with the girl
who isn’t nice after he told you
he would stop, then have nothing
more to do with him. Let him
see that you are at least a lady.
It won’t hurt you to give him
up as badly as you think. Your
father can make you return home
until you are twenty-one. Then
you are legally free, and are sup- '
posed to be clothed in your right
TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920.
The Country Home
BY MRS. VV. H. FELTON
Have System in Your Work
You and I have seen people in our
daily experience who are always be
hind in their work—and yet all the
time making frantic efforts to catch
up and get even with their daily ob
It Is needless to repeat here what
everybody knows, that they not only
make poor efforts but hinder every
body else that is connected with
them.
Os course you understand that help
may be scarce, or not possible, that
the most industrious people can get
water-logged and unable to get
things done, but I am talking now
about the sort of housekeepers who
have no system and their work is al
ways piling up ahead. until they
don’t know how to manage it.
Sometimes sickness hinders, and
that is unavoidable in the best ar
ranged households; but the home or
the business that is without system
is continually in a state of chaos. In
my youpger days, before I had a
sewing machine, I always tried to
cut o.ut some, but no more garments
on Monday or the early part of the
week than I could finish up by Sat
urday afternoon, with buttons on and
each hook and eye in its place. If
they dragged along over time, I took
a distaste to them, and the work be
came positively irksome. However,
I confess that I sometimes put off
the beginning much longer than I in
tended at the start, for the same
reason.
When the work table was cleaned
off and the house put in order for
Sunday, I found it heped my spirits
greatly. So I put in all the spare
time in getting my work squared off
by Saturday night.
In this way I accomplished so
much more than by allowing my
work to drag on my hands.
Children should have some system
also with their little jobs, and. espe
cially In getting them over on Satur
days if they go to school. It is pos
itively necessary to give children
something to do, and compel them to
the doing of it in good time and or
der before they are allowed to play
and thus shirk their duties. It adds
so much to their happiness to have
their alloted duties assigned and to
discipline them Ip doing It regular
ly. When I see a lot of school chil
dren idling their leisure time I feel
sure they are making a lot of need
less work and worry for the mother
at home. System and regular duties
are good for us all, young and old.
Good Character —For Representatives
Money is a. great factor in our so
cial fabric. The man or woman who
is rich in the common acceptation of
the word, can do and dare a great
many things that the poorer classes
would be ostracized for doing, and
their weaknesses are in many cases
overlooked; and they can be invited
to places, that would be locked
against humbler erring members of
society.
Nevertheless, there is a value In
good character, that will win out and
and which will be worth more to the
memory of “such good people after
death than all of a millionaire’s
money, who is lacking In that asset.
When people qnter public life and
offer their services as representatives
of the constituents, it is meet and
proper that such people should pass
in review before those who are to
vote for, or against them. It is need
less to say they should have educa
tion —that goes without saying. That
they should give evidence that they
are capable of managing their own
business. This is self-evident. But
it is just as necessary that our public
officials should be persons of good
and decent character first, because
they become examplars to younger
persons, and second, because an un
clean individual is not to be relied
upon either in church or state.
No bad man can be a self-respect
ing man; and this alone makes him
unworthy to do your voting in mat
ters pertaining to life, liberty or the
protection qf There is a
serious flaW'lh his ntfaite-up. It will
show itself Under’ strain. A com
munity is known by the people who
live in it, and who take part in its
public business. The Bible tells us,
”No man liveth to himself.” We
might go further and say that a com
munity, a county or a state, is esti
mated by the people who are selected
to represent them.
If our voting population cannot go
to,the polls and select proper repre
sentatives, it is because they under
estimate their privileges in our free
republic, by the protecting power of
the Almighty Giver of all good. The
people have a choice and can express
it, in a tangible way, by the ballot.
I heard a man say, some days ago,
that politics had become so rotten
that he had made up his mind not
to vote any more. I felt sorry for
his own weakness, but I felt more
ashamed than sorry for his cow
ardice. He should never be allowed
to vote again. In Georgia it is es
timated that one out of every five
of our population is a voter —or is
endowed with the privilege of se
lecting the rulers or representatives
of the extra four. Women, chil
dren. the depedendent, the insane
and the idiotic. That man fell down
on his job, and not only failed to do
his duty, but left those he represent
ed as to number, perfectly helpless.
Every qualified voter owes it to him
self to stand up in his place and be
counted —for the sake of the four
fifths that are not allowed to pro
tect themselves. In this year of all
sorts and conditions of elections.
Every person, qualified to vote,
should make it his business to see
that good men, men of good char
acter, honest in their convictions and
respected at home, should be elected
to office. Good character should be
a government.
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mind. Take my advice and give
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find happiness by trying to be
good and dutiful.
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Squeeze the juice of two lemons
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you ve a quarter pint of harmless
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Massage this sweetly fragrant lo
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Famous stage beauties use Lemon
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By Taking Lydia E. Pink
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Cairo, Ill.—“ Sometime ago I got
30 bad with female trouble that I
thought I would
have to be oper
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My right eide
would pain me.
I was so nervous
I could not hold a
glass of water.
Many times I
would have to
stop riiy work and
sit down or I
would fall on the
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doctors and every one told me the
same but I kept fighting to keep from
having the operation. I had read so
many times of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound and it helped
my sister so I began taking it. 1
have never felt better than I have
since then and I keep house and am
able to do all my work. The Vege
table Compound is certainly one grand
medicine.” —Mrs. J. R. Matthews,
3311 Sycamore Street, Cairo, 111.
Os course there are many serious
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others like it, amply prove that many
operations are recommended when
medicine in many cases is all thatil
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