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IIEARST’S SrNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, GA., SUNDAY, APRIL 20. 1913.
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Boll Weevil Plague to Stop
Single Cropping for Georgia
Expert Says Fertility of State's |
Soil May Be Saved by Bless
ing in Disguise.
WHITTLE.
of Agriculture,
providential
t ot ton plan-
heck their cruel
soil
3Y CHARLES A.
Georgia State College r
■ S the boll weevil a
l plague, sent upon th
ters of the South to
demands upon the fertility of th
by the single cropping method 0
Pharaoh believed he had a right to
exact the last ounce of strength from
the Israelitish slaves, and he had a
revolution on his lands which he
could not manage.
Has the cotton planter been exact
ing "bricks without straw" until na
ture has revolted and sent out the
boll weevil to do battle?
Providence has ordained that the
South grow cotton, but Providence
realizes that the South can not con
tinue to grow cotton, much less sup
ply the increasing demand, unless
lost fertility is restored to the soil.
The Moses of modern agricult uro
have been on every hand preaching
and prophesying for years against
single cropping, hut deaf ears and
hardened hearts made it all of little
avail. Indeed nothing but the plague
of weevils Is going to take up many
of the cotton growers of the South.
Perhaps some will never turn from
their mistaken ways of growing cot
ton even though tin- weevil plague
them sorely till they are overwhelm
ed with disaster.
Not a few farmers stilT believe that
the weevil will not appear upon their
cotton fields. Somehow they suppose
that it will pass around. In fact,
they believe that the weevil is large
ly llction. that all that it will amount
to at the furthermost, will be no
worse than other visitations of bugs
now and then.
One South Georgia farmer said that
when the boll weevil reached the hot
sands of that region It would be all
over for Mr. Weevil. Thus, for one
mistaken notion and another, the cot
ton farmers of the region still un-
vlsited by the weevil do not half be
lieve what is said about it.
Nothing Checks Its Advance.
W ITH all the facilities which scicnc*
has devised for resisting the ad
vance of the weevil, none is suffi
cient. The Irrevocable decree seems
to have gone forth that the boll wee
vil will visit the entire cotton belt.
All that has been done has not even
stayed its steady march by even a
few mlies a year. One can calcu
late witty almost absolute accuracy
where the advance line of the weevil
will be this year, where it will be
next year and where It will be five
years hence
The scientists have been able only
to put Into the hands of the farmer
,^ome implements with which to com
bat the enemy when It appears, but
chief of all is rotation of crops
Search as scientists have for a spe
cies of cotton that is resistant to
the attacks of the boll weevil, none
has been able to proclaim entire suc
cess. The most scientists have dis
covered In this respect. Is that cer
tain-species of early and quickly ma-
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Diagram showing lilt* advanced line
weevil as it will be this year.
foratfe of the
turing (
well br<
can eve
If the
»tton, partb
d, are as n<\
he hoped fi
weevil hfls i
iilarly thrifty i
ariy resistant
>r
et agriculturists
to breeding up a strong,'quickly ma
turing variety of cotton, it has taught
an important lesson.
If the weevil teaches that it is wise
to gather tlie cotton quickly and de
stroy the forage of the weevil, it will
have added materially to the value
of cotton fiber over present indiffer
ent methods of harvesting, resulting
in deterioration of the crop.
Starves in Absence of Cotton.
W HERE it cannot feed on cotton,
the boll weevil dies. Thus far
nature seems to have held the weevil
to one diet and
vented it from
to it" i
ing for
has beneficently pre
adapting other food
Were it to acquire a lik-
thcr forage, then would the
Smashed
the Spinet
He Tried to Break
His Child
Are You Doing the Same?
(Stirring Stories of Great Musicians. No. 4./
A
N attic lit only by the moonlight, a child. He wit at an old
spinet, in his little sleeping gown, lost to all hut the melodies
he played.
Soitly the tones came forth, delicate as the echo of a iairy s song.
He played gently that none might know. Music was forbidden him.
He had crept there where none might hear; crept there to live in fantasy.
His tiny fingers moved, and glory came from them. Elfin spirits
seemed to mingle with the moonbeams. The spirits of song—dead
and to be bom—moved there. The child played on.
A harsh sound came, and heavy steps. An old man blundered
into the room, looking at his son with blazing eyes. He hated music.
He wanted his child to be a lawyer.
He broke the apinet—of Handel. ••••••
Have you broken your child’s spinet—his musical talent—through
thoughtlessness ?
You don’t know, you can ’/ know, just how gTrat that talent is.
Only a musical education and a good piano can tell you that.
A cheap piano ruins a musical talent; it has ruined the talent of
thousands of children like yours, by vulgarizing the ear and giving
it a habit for untrue sounds, which it can never breal^—a habit like
tiie bad “h” of an English cockney.
The delicate hearing centers of brain and ears take bad habits
quickly. The
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of the boll
YEARS TO EVOLVE
SPINELESS CACTUS
POT TT TRY C Qn the Average Farmer
1 UuLIIaI be Success ful With It? And
Why Has He Not Been in the Past?
By JUDGE F. J. MARSHALL
SANT \ UGSA, CAL. April 19.—A.
Digger is writing a series of articles
on the wonderful accomplishments of
Luther* Burbank, the plant wizard.
In one of them lie tells the story of
the spineless cactus.
"For xteen years Mr. Burbank has
noon experiment inwith the small
spiny cactus, a plant which has been
regarded as a post on account of its
countless thorns. He has finally
evolved the horticultural wonder of
our time -the spineless cactus. Nor
only have the spines been eliminated,
out a pant of i;o economic value
lias bee:i transformed *nto a crop
with four times * tie feeding value of
alfalfa* It will glow without irriga
tion and where the rainfall is merely
nominal, and yet t contains so much
moisture that cattl' feeding on it can
thrive for months without a drop of
water to drink.
“The r.plneless cactus will grow in
any country, no matter how hot. but
will not stand much freezing. It
will gro.v on cle ^rt wastes, without
cultivation, or ir. fertllo soil, under
cultivation. It v a tremendously in
teresting to see the different speci
mens In the proce-s of becoming per
fectly adapted to the* desert country.
Mr. Burbank firmly believes that the
spineless cactus will transform the
desolate windswept deserts of Ari
zona into prosperous, productive dis
tricts. capable of supporting a dense
population.
“We were fascinated by the novel
fruit of the cactus. Where merely
the foliage is to be used. Burbank’s
aim has been to secure a quick luxur
iant growth, where the fruit is a fac
tor he has chosen, by a long series
of selections, the plants which hear
the sort of fruit most desirable as
food.”
Southern farmer indeed be in straits.
If the weevil could survive on corn,
the Southern farmer could not afford
to grow corn. If it could survive on
oats, the Southern farmer could not
afford to grow oats. It It could sur
vive on legumes such as peas, soy
beans and clovers and interfere with
their growth. It wrtuld be a disaster
Indeed, lor above all else, the cotton
plantations are crying for legumes.
But Providence is very kind in re
stricting the depredations of the wee
vil to the cotton. Indeed Is not the
restriction almost startling In its mes
sage and the certainty of the signi
ficance?
In the government tests, a great
variety of vegetation has been grown
in infested areas to see If the weevil
would feed upon it. but only to dem
onstrate the weevil’s habit of eating
only cotton.
When confined in bottles without
cotton, the weevil has been found to
partake of various substances such
as apples and bananas, but under
natural Conditions it is quite certain
it would pay no attention to such
food supplies.
The squares of cotton are greatly
preferred as food and as places for
depositing eggs. As long as a large
supply of squares is present the bolls
are not damaged to any serious ex
tent. So long as the squares are be
ing formed therefore, the bolls have
a fair chance to develop. Whenever
frost or other uuikivorable weather
conditions causes the plants to cease
putting on squares, then the weevils
attack the bolls.
13-Million Offspring in Season
(~* OVKRNMENT reports siy con-
corning th
weevil:
“A conservative estimate of t
possible progeny of a single pair of
weevils during a season beginning on
June 20th and extending to Novem
ber 4th is 12.765, loo.”
The weevil is about one-fourth of
an inch, though often shorter, and
has a breadth about one-third of the
length. This measurement includes
the snout, which is about one-hali
the length of the body. The weevil
which has Just come into mature
stage Is light yellowish in color, but
it passes to a gray or nearly black
shade In a few weeks’ time.
Frequent reports come from terri-
tor> far in advance of the forage line
stating that the weevil had made
Its appearance, in token of which the
insect itself is produced, \lniost in
variably it is another kind of weevil,
of which t here a re many closel> re
cmbliim the cotton ciietm *
As soon as winter comes the boll
weevils can lie seen flying in every
direction from the cotton fields, mak
ing for woods, fence corners and
oilier quarters better suited to their
protection from the rigors of winter
than is afforded by the cotton plants.
However many do remain with the
cotton plants, making it Important
that the stalks of the Infested fields
be burned or turned deeply under.
When the weevil is attacked it
“plays possum,” feigning death, by
drawing up its legs and falling life
lessly to the ground.
During tiie cummer weather the
weevil lives only about sixty days, but
in winter has been known to live as
long as six months. These charac
teristics have Important hearing upon
eradication methods.
Nature Providing a Check.
: 117 HEX it is possible for a pair of
** we< \ ’ - to •rovlm. in a seasvn
about 13.000.000 of their kind, it is
easy to see how terrific would be the
I plague if man alone were pitted
against it Nature, however, sees to
it that the full force of the scourge
dots not fall, and by means of heat
and insects very greatly hold in check
the possible damage.
The weevil feeds only in day time,
anil can live In the hot sun for only
' . 'art t: ne I f S er* fore, in’ St?
shud\ places. When tiie infested
j squares fall to the ground the larvae
| are killed in a few minutes, the larvae
being able to locomote to the
le again When there is no shade
practically all of the larvae and pupae
are thus killed outright.
Forty-five specimens of insects have
been found that are enemies to the
boll weevil. Twenty-three of these
are parasitic. They plant their egg* 1
in the immature stages of the weevil
within the square or boll. The young
parasite develops by feeding on the
immature weevil, killing it. In this
way. It is claimed by scientists, in
creasing destruction of the weevil
goes on. the parasites increasing not
only in numbers but in effectiveness.
As higli as seventy per cent of the
weevil in one field were found to be
destroyed by parasites.
Yellow and brown ants are found
to be quite destructive to the weevil
in its larva state. Twelve species.of
such ants have been found feeding up
on the larvae, some of them habitual
ly devoting themselves to the fallen
.-quares, while others as habitually
attack those formed in the squares
and bolls on the plant. Often it is
discovered that as much as twenty-
live per cent of the weevils have been
destroyed by q,qts in the cotton fields.
More than forty species of birds
have been found feeding upon the
mature weevil. At first this was not
true, the birds acquiring a liking far
tin weevils after hunger had appar
ently driven them to eat it when noth
ing that suited them better could be
obtained. It may be assumed that
the destruction of the weevil by birds
will Increase in extent and effective
ness.
How To Starve Weevil.
IA OTATE crope. Where the weevil
can not get cotton he will not live.
Every farmer can rotate crops. Thus
engaging the weevil in combat, he is
certain not to be in a losing fight.
He can grow other crops than cotton
with as much or more success than
cotton, and what is more, if lie grows
the right kind of crops, he will be
rebuilding the soil which through
years he has been depleting.
By raising forage crops, feeding
them on the farm and by returning
the manure to the land, he is engag
ing in the most economical method
of soil restoration. If he chooses he
can turn under the green crops and
more quickly return to the soil the
humus of which Southern soil most
greatly stands in need. While rotat
ing his crops, if he will frequently
have winter cover crops until suf
ficient humus has been restored to the
soil, he will be practicing a policy
of -oil conservation very essential
to the cotton fields.
If, in the scheme of rotation, the
Southern farmer will take edre to
raise frequently a crop of legumes
such as clover, cow peas, soy beans,
velvet beans, and others of the kind,
he w ill be adding to the soil nitrogen,
the most expensive and one of the
most deficient fertilizing elements re
quired by Southern soils’.
Of course, somebody will have to
grow cotton every year or the world
will not be supplied with one of the
great necessities, it could be readily
seen, however, that if all Southern
farmers would cease growing cotton
for one year, the weevil would be de
stroyed. One farmer can not stop
growing cotton for a year and entirely
escape the weevil next year because
his neighbor will tide a crop of wee
vils over by raising cotton. The farm
er who rotates, however, lias the as
surance that he has put an end to
a large number of weevils, and with
all the farmers following the same
policy, coupled with the great assis
tance of the birds, the insects and
the parasite.-, there can be assurance
that the weevil will be so restricted
in the future as to be reduced to an
inconsequential factor. Without ro
tation of crops, there is no hope.
Aside from rotation, the scientists
of the Government who have worked
longest and with greater thoroughness
than any other, tell us further what
we can most effectively do. In sub*
utance they say: 1. Destroy the
vast majority of the weevils in the
fall by uprooting and burning the
plants. 2. Destroy many weevils in
fence corners, hedgerows, In buildings,
adjoining fields and woods by clean
ing up and destroying litter. 3. Lo
cate fields furtherest away from
places suited to wintering of the wee
vils. 4. Prepare land in fall, work
it in winter, plant in early variety.
5. Plant in wide rows and wide be
tween plants in the rows to assist
natural enemies. 6. Plant early a
quick.>-maturing crop, forcing ’o
quick maturing with plenty of fer
tiliz-r. 7 Chop early to a stand and
cultivate frequently but do not lose
the early fruit by cultivating too
deeply or too close to rows. 8. If
labor is sufficient pick first appearing
weevils and first infested squares.
9. Let Uie "army worm” or leaf worm
alone unless it begins at an abnor
mally early date in the summer. The
destruction of leaves permits the sun
to kill the weevils. 10. Do not go to
the expense of buying special prepa
id • •!." ■•!• -T’" mg ihe w ee\ ii.
V,
The average farmer is slow to take
on new methods. When once in 4
rut he seems unable to extricate him
self. It Is from no lack of ability on
his part, but simply because he is not
surrounded closely enough with the
people who are practicing the im
proved methods to become filled with
the germs of contagion. Some one
tells him that Mr. So and So is do
ing mighty well with poultry over
In another county. Or that Mrs. B.
lias paid for a nice fifty-acre farm all
from the products of her chicken
yards under her expert management:.
But if he gives these things a sec
ond thought he thinks that these peo
ple are persons really out of the or
dinary, and that he could not possibly
undertake such a thing and expect
to succeed. But he has miscalcu
lated. He does not have confidence In
himself.
In many cases he does not care to
have so much confidence for the sim
ple reason that he does not want to
be bothered with a lot of little fiddling
things such as are necessary in !rs
estimation, when caring for the poul
try. He wants to be let strictly alone,
as to the chickens upon the farm.
He does not object so seriously to
having a few chickens about the place
but he does not want to have to think
about them or fix up for them any.
He is content to have them roost in
the tool house, or buggy shed or in
the horse stalls. Such places should
be good enough for any set of chick
ens. They do not deserve anything
better. They are a lousy set at best.
But, Mr. Farmer, did you ever stop
to think that your chickens are not
responsible for these conditions? They
are not lousy by nature. They ire
simply preyed upon by these pests
just as you are by the malaria, ty
phoid or any other germs of disease
existing in your midst. This is right
where the rub comes in. Given a
good clean place in which to roost,
such conditions can soon be elimi
nated.
Poultry upon the farm is destined
to be a great business. Farmers all
over the country are making a good
thing out of poultry. You may not
have one for a next door neighbor,
which is your misfortune, but they
are scattered all about and it will be
but a short while until you will be
the exception rather than the rule in
your back number way of compelling
your chickens to shift for themselves
from start to finish. It will not be
very long until you will be pointed
out as the farmer who does not know
a good proposition when he sees it.
For years the farmer has been
termed the backbone of the country.
If that be true we think lie should
show a little more of it in his hand
ling of poultry. He should not back
off from it because it has always
looked to him as a small business.
There is money in eggs if you can
get them. This is the all important
point. This is the point that has dis
couraged many a farmer. Not making
a systematic effort to secure eggs, but
few are forthcoming.
In turn the hen is dubbed a fail
ure and not worth bothering with.
The men wjio say there is no money
in eggs are the men who do not get
eggs. They siw what eggs we do
get are produced when eggs are
cheapest. True the person or poul
try keeper who takes no care of his
hens or gives no thought to the
matter of securing eggs will get egg*
only during the balmiest days of
spring when all nature is striving to
reproduce, herself.
These men rank with all the oth
er “can’t do it tribe.” They know
just as well as we do that eggs are
I reduced In Winter nru\ at times when
eggs bring high prices. Which sim
ply proves that they are failures in
the business.
The successful man in any line
of business is the man who in the
first place is not above his business.
In other words there must be noth
ing connected with ills work that he
Is not willing to take a hold of to
do as well as or better than any one
else can do it. He must aim to do
everything right and at the right,
time. If his chickens need feeding
at f. p. m. he should see that they
get it at tiiat time. If chickens will
thrive and do better when clean and
free from lice and mites. h° must
proceed forthwith to produce such
conditions. It simply means go to
work and build a good poultry house
or two, to furnish the needed space
to comfortably house ycur hens
Use smooth roosting poles in the
house, and as a preventive of lice
and mites use grease on these roost
poles. Take tallow or lard or any
thing of that nature, heat it and put
it on the polos hot with a brush,
after having ad led a small portion
cif kerosene to H. An application of
this kind will not need repeating for
a whole year. Having provided an
absolutely clean and comfortable
roosting place for the hens you are
ready to begin the real work of poul
try keeping.
Now in the egg business, (and that
is generally conceded to be tU»-
most profitable branch of the busi
ness. there Is one principle, that must
not be overlook '-'. It is the select
ing of a heavy laying strain. There
are fowls for different purposes just
as there are hordes for various pur
poses. If one had a trip to make
to the city in a rush requiring a
horse to make eight to ten miles ill
an hour lie would hardly select one
of the heavx French draft horses for
this purpose. On the other hand if
we had a heavy piece of plowing or
harrowing to be done we wouid not
hitch a pair of thoroughbred driving
horses for the work. We have
breeds of horses which have been
bred in fine for years for just these
special purposes.
In the poultry realm breeding lias
beer, somewhat similar in character
It has been specialized, so that we
have th * meat breeds and the laying
breeds. Each for the purpose intend
ed, the special laying breeds not
setting to hatch their young. Bur
tn recent years special attention has
been given to perfecting heavy laying
strains of these so-called laying
breeds. Trap nests have been used
10 designate the laying hens and rec
ords kept so that the best o f ’ these
can be used for breeders. Not for
getting the male line in the breeding,
use a male produced by a heavy
laying hen. We might just as well
keep hen: giving us an average of
150 eggs per vea’* as the old-fashion
ed kind that did well if she turned
out 75
The matter of winter egg-produe- f
tion is governed principally by the j
pullets being hatched at the proper 1
time, say March the first. These are
the chaps that give us the winter
eggs.
Do not expect old hens three or
four years old to do much at laying
at any season, much less- during cold
weather. There is a farmer, not
j many miles from me. who, with the
! help of his wife and son, is making all
j up w ith a sharp stick Let us then
kinds of money out of eggs and poul
try. He had the foresight to see
what he thought he could do with
chickens, and the energy and deter
mination to push It forward, begin
ning in a small way and enlarging his
capacity from time to time, until he
is* now furnishing hundreds of eggs
daily' to special customers, besides
hundreds of broilers in season, being
the cockerels hatched in getting the
supply of pullets for next year’s
layers.
All this makes a fine business, to
say nothing of the hundreds of eggs
for hatching which he ships annually
to people who are anxious to get a
start from his prolific strain of chick
ens. These people are really doing a
land-office business right from their
little farm of about fifty acres upon
which they raise also fruit and vege
tables in abundance for the city mar
kets. These people are not aione in
this successful work. There are
many such places scattered all over
this country. The Northern States
are full of them and the South is
just now coming into her own, where
tiieve places are cropping up. The
intelligent farmer who says he can
not make poultry pay, either does
not know what he is talking about or
has but mighty little confidence in
his own ability.
If one man of average ability can
make good money with poultry, an
other man can make it pay if he will,
and if two can succeed there is no
reason why any number can not suc
ceed. Let us* wake up to the possi
bilities before us and staring us in
the face. Many of us need punching
hot wait longer to secure what
should come to us from the poultry
on the farm. It will not be many
years until the farmer will be pointed
at as shiftless who can not make as
good or better showing from his poul
try as from the best of his other
farm products. In fact, each and
every hen or pullet kept should show
a net profit of from a dollar to a dol
lar and a half for the year. Let noth
ing short of such a record satisfy
you.
TEAR IN Georgia
There have been organized in Geor
gia this year more than 10,000 boys’
corn clubs.
This is more than double the num
ber of clubs organized last year, and
twenty times th* number of three or
four years ago.
The average is about six clubs to
every militia district in the State,
which Is approximately one club to
every 260 inhabitants. white and
black, male and female.
Carrying the figures further, these
organizations run something like one
club to every 150 of the rural pop
ulation, or. finally, one club to every
40 f armers’ sons’
This is a remarkable showing, and
gratifying growth of one of the most
helpful movements ever inaugurat
ed in the South.
And *.n proportion to the remark
able expansion of the corn club
movement, the girls’ canning clubs
have taken on additional strength.
Whereas there were a mere handful
of them even last year, there will
be well over a thousand ready to
come to Atlanta next fall, with an
assembled exhibit likely to take up
as much room as the entire corn
show occupied las r fall.
Capitol Will Be Too Small.
Indeed, the State Capitol is not
expected to hold the Corn and Can
ning Club displays this year, and a.1- (
ready the program makers are con
sidering the question of going to the
big Auditorium-Armory with them.
There are few .farmers’ sor.s and
daughters nowadays in Georgia who
are not affiliated either with a corn
or canning club somewhere in their
vicinity, and the rivalry between the
various organizations is most healthy,
and. acute, whil • altogether friendly.
Those hoys and girls who capture
the prizes in Atlanta this year will
deserve all the honors that come to
them, for the winners will have to
make such showings in the finish as
never have been seen heretofore in
the South.
Nothing since the Civil War has u o
stimulated and extended the cultiva
tion of corn in Georgia as the organ
ization of these boys’ corn clubs. The
first organizations were scattered and
weak, but the benefits of the work
done soon became known to others
throughout the State, and from a
dozen or so clubs some five or six
vears ago, the magnificent total of
more than 10.000 has been achieved.
Corn Yield is Increased.
Lands that produced 25 bushels to
the acre at best, under old methods
of cultivation, have been made to
bring 100 bushels and more by the
Corn Club boys.
Some of the results obtained last
year will serve to illustrate what
may be expected this year. Byron
Bolton produced 177 bushels on one
acre in Cherokee County, and S6 Car-
roll County boys raised and brought
to Atlanta 4,812 bushels. Fifty Chat
tooga County boys came to town with
2.790 bushels, and there were many
other exhibits approximately as good.
The finest record ever made in the
State, however, was made year before
last, when one sturdy Georgia young
ster of 1C produced 214 bushels on
one acre. Tt will be strenuously up
to some boy to beat that amazing
record this year!
The average yield in assembled lots
of 1,000 acres and up ran last year
well over 55 bushels to the acre. This
year, the average is expected to climb
much higher.
Double Product of Land.
When one remembers that the av
erage yield in 1,000 acre lots five or
six years ago was about 25 bushels
to the acre, it will be seen that the
boys’ corn clubs already have doubled
ihe possibilities of corn culture in
Georgia, and are yet to reach high-
water mark in their great work.
Before another five years have
passed, the boys’ corn clubs expect
to raise the yield to 100 bushels to
the acre, in the average, to 1,000
acre lots of land.
Georgia ever since the Civil War
has spent millions annually abroad
for corn. The boys’ corn clubs hope
to put an end to this state of affairs
eventually, and it looks now as if a
few years of additional endeavor upon
their part will bring about the con
summation so devoutly to be wished.
%Xiss
*ValeskaSuratt
Vales ha Surati Is the Only <
Woman on. the American
Stage Who Wears No
Puffs, ‘‘Rats”or Switches
Miss Suratt in
Her $3,000
filack Velvet
Costume
Trimmed With
Rhinestones
This will
Apply this cream every morning with
the tips of the fingers, after washing
your face with very warm water and
and mix the whole together thoroughly, add
ing more water to make
one of the most
re movers it is possible to obtain. Sarsene is
liquid which you can get at the drug store by the
ounce. it makes a blood remedy which has an
exceedingly wonderful purifying effect in a very
short time. Take one or two teaspoonfuls of tills
mixture three or four times a day. with a little
water if desired.
You will, of course, appreciate the fact that T
am giving you something which is absolutely safe and lack of bust development by usin
in every respect.
You will find the difference in your face in
short order. I have had many use this formula.
and it h
fashion.
invariably done its work in brilliant
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„ readers my secret for whitening the skin, which cost you $1 at the drug Store.
% I believe you will say is really a marvel, it
will at the same time make your face bloom
-\ blespoonfuls of glyce-
\ u niun 'ano-jujg
\ jo amino euo Suj
> A -PP* 0IW* ‘Sufj
' -ills daaxj 'auij
S8&& is all dissolv
ed. Then let . ....
cool, if the result In a short time,
cream is too
thick to pour
o
NCF. 1 knew a lady.
"and a very nice
lady was she. whose
comb was always tangled with n
mass of broken and dying hair
after she had finished combing
it. Of course, some hair will
always come out on the comb or
brush, but what I mean is that
et every combing she drew out
almost enough hair in a week
to make a good-sized pin cush
ion.
If her hair had not been
naturally rapid in its growth she
would by this time be almost,
bald. She had to wear rats an l
pufTs and switches, of course, as
most women do. to make up for
lack of hair. She tried nearly
everything under the sun. and
quit disgusted.
That “nice lady” was myself. Now
this lady, very remarkable as this may
seem to you, wears no rats, no puffs,
no switches. She lias enough hair to
make it up in any way she likes in a
few minutes, without having to have
recourse to any of these subterfuges.
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How do 1 do it? How did I stop my
hair from falling out after haring tried
erenthing recommended by my friends and
most of the treatments advertised? Tt
flashed across my mind one day. when I
noticed that the falling hair was greatly decreasing
in quanUty. that the cause of it was a certain head-
wash I had been using for some time. I at once
“This Hair Formula f|
Sr ■ ■ afewG
Ihe Best I Hare
C&fn&E
Kwl,
U ' Ever Known.” 1A
ii _
“You \
Should |
Notice the
Difference
in Your
Hair
Anyway In
a Week or
Ten
Day..’
I.et the cream dry on the
face. Repeat this again
at night. Any good
druggist will sell you an
ounce of zintone for
about fifty cents.
CORA II Many women i|
. , _ . . . . , complain of red. rough n
experimented further, and found, what I have been hands, if you n . ail -JJJ
able to prove since, is the most remarkable hair my instructions above to sj
•ml ic.lp treatment I lure ever tued or Herd r "> ra Fret-Met, you trill -C
of, and I hare tried them nearly all. 8ur< " y Me u,e re5ult ln 0 short Ume ' 11,15 form " 1 * hot water.
a a
* * *
p |» p a sight. Also for crow’s feet.”
This formula should be applied very This is one of my beauty formulas.
MRS. ELLEN T. asks: “What can 1 do to cost YOU more than 30 cents,
gc' rid of Pimples? I have had them for years j ast quite a while,
and no creams or lotions seem to do any good,
ln spite of the fact, too. that I am very careful
what I eat."
Tiie food you eat has really less to do with
the presence of pimples than most people think.
Resides, you can surely get rid of them without „„ ... ,, .
having to diet, at all. if you will dissolve Sf,a P- L se ver> liberally. After you
tivelvi- ounces of granulated sugar In one half have applied it take up the flesh in vour
pint of water, and add one ounce of sarsene _ . * . J
>ie together thoroughly, add- fingers, pinch it and roll it for a few
'^Sd\n 1 ,r t ;-fT«tlv'filmrle ralnutes until the cream disappears.
Then apply your complexion powder.
This cream will not grow* hair.
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NAMELESS—You will find a remark
able difference in your scrawny neck
the following:
In a half-pint of hot water, dissolve
2 ounces of ruetone and half a cup of
sugar, all well mixed together. Of this,
take two teaspoonfuls three or four
.ORA 1 RE< IvI.ES I am surprised you should times a <1sv in a wineglass cif
cm til use such a rank poison on your face. ,mie * ldy m A w megiass or watei,
constitui* s the main principle in most of the after your meals. I have found this
lErS £ nSAats"!:;?., Z S rtS to be a peculiar tonic, giving astonishing
am! usually ruins all iiroape, is nf ,-rnr heimtl- results in a few weeks’ time. It will
fying the complexion. Sometime ago I gave my . .. . ., . .
... /r/rrrt tfAll V 1 n t t ir A /inn r. a + ama T, ... t 1 1 ,1 *
all you can ever ask of any treatment
r N^ like a rose, and as soft" as” velvet” i will for this purpose. You will assist the
few a words: here ln * development a great deal by massaging
Roil half a pint of the bust with the eptol cream men-
water. Add two ta- , .
tioned above.
* * *
EUNICE—If you will use the beta-qul-
nol formula treatment given above on
your eyebrows, you will find a decided
It is a very
powerful promoter of hair gTowth, the
easily from a best I have ever knowrn. It will do the
bottle, thin it down a lit-
tie With ' more hot water.
The cream will he white
and satiny. After bathing
in the morning, hold a wet,
hot towel to the face sev
eral times for several min- ^ . , , _
utes. Rub this cream on soap. Next sprinkle some neroxln gen-
’ ilr face liberally, erously upon a sponge made wet with
work.
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BARBARA, T. N.—For blackheads,
first wash the face with hot water and
Then rub well for a few
win whiten and soften the arms and hands most minutes on the parts of the skin which
are affect**! with blackheads. You
should be able to secure the neroxln at
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MRS. O. N. S.—Superfluous hair on
beautifully.
Here it is: With a half pint of water mix half
a pint of alcohol. To this add one ounce of beta-
qulnol. Shake thoroughly, and it will then be MISh KN iAGED I have had a great any druggist’s for 50 cents. You will
ready to use If you prefer you can u-; imported many requests for the best hair re- find this formula very remarkable in
bay rum instead of the water and alcohol. mover. Next Sunday I will give you full results if used faithfully until all black-
The beta-quinoi you can get at almost any drug details and the formula. I use it con- heads are gone,
store for not more than fifty cents. Tiie ordinary gtantly. The results will surprise you.
prepared hair tonics which you buy ln the stores ^ ^ ^
usually cost you one dollar. But this formula
makes one full pint of the best hair grower and kOXDA What shall T do for wrin- the face, hair in the arm-pits, and the
tonic one can ever hope to obtain. kled hands? I am only 31 and they are small "fuzz” that spoils the cleanly.
unblemished appearance of the faces of
so many women, can be removed with
freely on the scalp after brushing the I gave it some time ago. but will repeat the greatest ease, without leaving the
scalp generously for a few minutes all it here:
over. Rub the tonic thoroughly into In one-half pint of boiling water, pour
the scalp with the finger tips. This two tablespoonfuls of glycerine. In
will surely stop your hair from falling few minutes add 2 ounces of eptol and $1, but it will last you quite a while,
out. You should notice the difference continue stirring until all is dissolved,
anyway in a week or ten days. After At first it
a while you should notice your hair be- will start
ginning to take on new life. It will have
a more silky appearance and will begin stantly until cold. Keep in air-tight two
to grow so luxuriously that it wi
of your greatest prides.
be on*
least mark or reddish spot.
Get at any good drug store 1 ounce of
simple sulfo solution. It will cost you
$1, but it will last you quite a while.
Apply this solution freely with the fin-
will look like jelly, then it ger tips on the hair you want removed,
to cream. When it does Keep the hair moist with it until it has
this, remove from the fire and stir con- actually dissolved. This will take but
three minutes. Then wipe off
ir. You should be able to get eptol at with a warm, damp cloth and wash the
any good drug store and it should not skin with warm water.
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