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SIX
Doing Something
Useful
(By Dorothy Dix.)
This is a time of peculiar upheaval
in the feminine world, t’p to now
the average American girl has ex
pected to stay at home until she was
married and then go to a home of her
own. And she could fairly safely
count on getting married.
In the last few years, however, this
comfortable programme of life has
been altered. The high cost of living
haw made it impossible for the man in
ordinary circumstances to support a
family of girls In comfort. The girls
themselves have heard so much about
the parasitic woman that they have
become ashamed of hanging like a
millstone around a poor old father's
neck. Also the chances of catching «
husband are greatly diminished, and
young women of presentable appear
ance are no longer certain, as they
formerly were, of getting married.
All of these conditions have turned
the thoughts of girls toward self sup
port. This is well. There is no more
reason why an intelligent and able
bodied young woman should be de
pendent on somebody else for her liv
ing than there is why a man should
|he. it develops a woman’s brain and
brawn and character to de some reg
ular work, whereby she earns honest
money to stand on her own feet in
stead of flopping, like a limp dish rag,
on some strorger individual.
But it takes a long time to rid our
selves of the superstitions of the past,
and one of the* most persistent of
these hoodoos is that when a woman
works she must always do some lady
like kind of work that Is, something
artistic or literary and that is genteel
—Just us it was considered in the past
more refined and elegant for a woman
to do embroidery than it was to do
plain useful sewing.
For this reason at least 00 per cent
of the girls who want to work want
to go on the stage, or to recite, or do
parlor entertaining, or write, or paint.
Also they want to do these things In
a dilettante manner and receive large
rewards for their labor. They over
look the fact that to succeed in the
fine arts as well ns In common occu
pations you have to slave like a dray
horse, and that there are absolutely
no short cuts or quick roads to suc
cess. Behind every star on lie stage
and every well-known writer there
lies an apprenticeship that has been
served In toll and sweat and blood.
Work Is the Keystone.
Now, of course, if a girl hns the
divine fire, and has giveij unmistak
able signs of a genius for acting or
painting, or writing, she does want to
choose the calling to which her talent
dictates her. But there is no such
thing as a girl making herself into a
Maude Adams because she would like
to be on the stage, or into an Ellen
Glasgow because she would be pleased
to see her name in print. Nature set
tled that question for her once and for
ali before she was born, and all the
sork of the world will never take
le place of talent.
lt*s ns foolish for an ungiftod girl
to think that she can make herself a
writer or an actress as it would he
for a short, stubby woman to think
Marshall Field 3rd Wins Fiancee on Ship
MISS EVELYN MARSHALL.
New York.—l r nlenH M fir shall Field,
Srd, and Miss Evelyn Marshall, New
York society girl, whom young Field,
the $§0,000,000 heir and grandson of
the late merchant prince of Chicago,
is to marry, change their determina
tion not to talk of their engagement,
the details surrounding the romance
will he a mystery. However, inti
mate friends of the young couple in
timate the good .Lusitania played a
prominent part In the romance. Field
and Miss Marshall were both passen
gers on the Lusitania last September
and were frequently seen together on
the promenade deck, in lho ballroom
and on the dining saloon.
Mr. Field is stopping at the Hits
Oarleton Hotel, surrounded by a corps
of butlers and other servants and re
fuses to talk of the coining wedding.
Miss Marshall is equally reticent at
her home in Fifth Avenue.
NO REA6ON.
“But 1 cannot understand why you
say no; your mother has no objection
to your marrying me?"
"No; and 1 have the slightest ob
jection to my mother marrying you,
so there you are.** —Houston Tost.
NO CHANCE.
“Since the war began the women
have been taking the places of tho
men on the Fans street cars.**
"Well, they’d do it here, but the men
are too ill-mannered to get up.”—Buf
falo Express.
NO REASON.
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Nhp coulil innKc herself Into a tall,
willowy Bodiless. It simply can’t be
done.
WAR BANISHED MUCH
RAG-TIME IN LONDON
More Particularly the “Coon
Song” Which Appeared to
Have Taken a Faster Hold to
English.
London. - - One of the most notice
able effects of the war on London's
life and habits is the practical ban
ishment of ragtime, more particularly
the erratic "coon song" type, which
seemed to have taken hold of the Eng
lish people with the unshakable ten
acity of a. plague. Up until the first
of August It was a veritable insanity
of ragtime everywhere, in the theaters
and music halls, hotels and restau
rants, clubs and banquet rooms and in
every home, rich or poor, in the me
tropolis Even the boys on the streets
whistled It day and night, while every
;.l fi.eiidirunt reaped a harvest
of pennies by launching it upon the
still night air with raucous voice or
teasing It from wheezy concertina or
wailing bagpipe.
Forgotten.
Now all this is changed and rag
time has been consigned to the great
garret of forgotten things. Since the
war began the listening ear of hab
itant and stranger is greeted quite as
universally with two Incessant melo
dics < >ne of these is Tommy Atkins’
marching song. "Tipperary,’’ and the
national anthem, "God Save the King.”
The only relief to all this musical mo
notony Is at the close of the perform
ance in the music halls. Then the
audience b, expected to stand for quite
20 minutes before leaving while the
orchestra plays successively the long
national hymns of the allied countries
fighting against Germany. Despite
this sacrifice to patriotism, however,
the halls are still doing an excellent
business, though the other theaters
are barely paying expenses, If they do
that.
Still ragtime Is dead and buried, with
no present signs of even a spectral
resurrection. What will take Its place
In popular favor when the war Is over
no one can even guess, and composers
are at a : landslip. Home of them In
despair over the future have enlisted
and gone to he front on the chance of
capturing an inspiration or winning a
crown of glory.
TRUE TO TYPE.
The Customer These grand opera
phonograph records are no good. I
can’t get anything out of half of them.
The Salesman They are our finest
achievement. You can tell when these
records will sing. They're so temper
amental. London Opinion.
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“iOS—SIMPLE COMFORTABLE DRESS
FOR THE GROWING GIRL.
Girl’* Drest with Three-piece Skirt.
Striped and plain gingham are here
combined. The waist fronts are tuck
ed over vest portions of contrasting ma
terial. and are finished with square tab
sections over a wide belt. The skirt
has tucks over the centre front. The
pattern is also good for serge, gala tea.
linen, percale, albatross, velvet, or cor
duroy Tile pattern is cut In four sizes:
4,6, 8 and 10 years. It requires 3%
yards of 40-inch material for an 8-year
size.
A pattern of this illustration mailed
to an: address on receipt of 10 cents in
tJiver or stamps.
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Name «..................
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WIFELY FINANCE.
"Hubby, can you pay me back that
dollar yoi borrowed from me?”
"Rut, my dear," he protested, "I
have already paid it hack twice.
Surely you don’t expect it again?"
"Oh. all-right, if you are as mean
as all thaU" —Kansas City Journal.
CHE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA.
“BACK TO
THE FARM"
VI. Farming—The Young
Man’s Opportunity.
©y C. V. WJIGORY.
ICopyrlght, 1010, by American Press Asso
ciation]
TO the young man on the thresh
old of life the question of
“What shall I do with my
self’r’’ comes demanding an
answer. During the past fifty years
the call of *he city to the ambitious
young man has been insistent. Today
the country Is culling for men with
ambition and energy and faith In Its
possibilities. To such men It offers un
equaled opportunities.
The opportunities of the farm are
not limited In size or extent. The
uiig uiuu wiili capital who is looking
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YOUNG FARM Ell ON HIS WAY TO MARKET
WITH A LOAD OP SHEEP.
for a business opening finds it on the
farm. The farm offers him the oppor
tunity to exercise his executive ability
by managing broad acres and herds
that number in tlie thousands. If his
tasto runs to quality rather than quan
tity it offers him chances in the pure
bred stool; business for the broadest
use of liis money and talents. There is
no occupation more fascinating tliau
the molding of living animals to make
them conform to nu ideal of perfec
tion. There is opportunity for loug
continued study of blood lines; then
are mouths and years of anxious wait
ing to see tho results of the union of
certain families; there are moments of
disappointment wheu an animal fails
to develop as well as expected. But
greatest of all is the joy of success
when tlie breeder’s efforts are crowned
with an animal a little nearer perfec
tiou than lias been produced before.
The man who can see such an animal
march out of a crowded show ring
with the purple ribbon without a feel
lng that ar least in a measure he has
achieved success has ambitions that
are indeed hard to satisfy. The pure
bred business lias some pitfnlls, but to
tho man who enters it with good Judr.
meat and an ambition to succeed it
offers financial returns that can be ex
Ceeded Iti few other occupations.
To the young man starting without
capital the farm offers uuequaled op
portnnities. The young man with a
few friends and a reputation for in
dUNtrv ami honesty finds it easy to
rent a farm and borrow enough capi
tal to equip it. There is a risk to run
of course. But what is a risk to u
young man with strength and nmb!
tion? Well considered risks are essen
tinl to success In almost any line, and
to the young farmer they are an incen
tlve to greater effort. Now that prices
of farm products have reached a prof
ltable level paying off the debt is a
matter of but a few years. Buying the
farm itself is by no means Impossible,
even in the most fertile sections of tin
corn belt.
Hundreds of farmers are looking for
managers for farms that vary In size
and equipment to suit the fancy of
any one. This line offers some of the
greatest opportunities to the young
man without capital. The salnries at
first may seem small as compared with
some of those offered in the city. Tsu
nlly they Include board and Inciden
tals, however. There is a better
chance to lay up money on the farm
at SSO a month than in tho city at
twice that amount For the man who
can "make good" tho first year's salary
is hardly an indication of what is to
follow. Most landowners are willing
to advance the salary as fast as the
manager shows his ability. Better yet.
they are willing to intrust more of the
responsibility to his hands and to give
him more capital, so that he can
achieve greater results. In most cases
after a man has shown what he is
worth it is easy for him to gat a shore
of the net profits in addition to his
salary. In many cases it is easy to get
In on a partnership basis. In either
case the manager ts as Independent ns
If he owned the farm, and the chances
for financial success are nearly as
great.
Tho great advantage of a position of
this kind or, in fact, of any kind of
farm work is that there are so many
chances to Invest money as fast as it
ts made.
The man on the farm has a dozen
places to invest every dollar. This in
Itself is a big incentive to saving, and
saving means prosperity for both the
Individual and the nation. The Invest
ment which offers the greatest returns
Is farm laud. Even in those localities
where land is now worth considerably
more than SIOO an acre the price limit
READ HERALD WANT ADS.
Is yet far from being reached. There
Is tittle chance to lose money on land
provided It Is wisely Invested. It is the
lack of knowledge of what constitutes
a good farm that makes land an un
safe investment for the city man
There may be some honest land
agents, but unfortunately they have no
trademark to distinguish them from
the other variety. To buj land with
out seeing it is a painless way of part
ing with hard earned money. As for
the promised profits, they usually find
their way to the pockets of the land
agent, leaving the invesi«r a sadder
and wiser man.
Between 1900 and 1906 the average
Increase In the value of the farm land
in the United States was 38 per cent.
Between 1900 and 1910 much of the
land in the western part of the Missis
sippi valley doubled in value. With a
system of farming that keeps up the
fertility prices will go higher rather
than lower.
The man who owns a farm has con
tinual opportunities to put his money
into better fences, better stock and
better buildings. lie has opportunities
to invest in more land at borne or far
ther west
From a financial standpoint farming
offers opportunities to young men that
nro Hnpljrtitefl in other Callings.
Farming as a profession is new. and
its ranks are still far from full. The
young farmer Is not entering an over
crowded calling where he must com
bine with his fellows and boost prices
unnaturally In order to make a bare
living. In agriculture there are room
and opportunity for all. The country
is throbbing with the vitality of a new
awakened life. The password is ambi
tion, and the reward is success.
It is not the call of money alone that
is turning the ambitious young man
to the farm. A calling that can offer
no reward but a financial one is scarce
ly worthy of the name. The chief call
of the city has been the call of the dol
lar combined with the call of the
crowd. Better roads and a denser pop
ulation have enabled the country to
offer a social life which is superior to
that of the city. Higher prices and
scientific methods have enabled it to
duplicate the financial rewards of the
city. In addition, it offers to the young
man the opportunity to live the broad
est, fullest life of which he is capable.
It offers him a business he can call his
own and an independence which he
could gain in the city only after a life
time of toil. The greatest need of
most rural communities just now is
leaders—men who can demonstrate on
their own farms the possibilities of
scientific agriculture: men who under
stand the possibilities and the need of
a broader community life.
The stories of some of the young
men who heeded the call of the coun
try and gave themselves to the devel
opment of their community read like
romances. A dozen years or so ago a
little Massachusetts community was on
the downhill road. The nearby cities
had sapped It of Its strength and vig
or. Injudicious cropping had taken
away much of the fertility of the
soil, and the people had lost all ambi
tion and were content to let things
drift from bad to worse. About this
time a young man, a son of one of the
farmers, graduated from au agricul
tural college. lie received a tempting
offer from the department of agricul
ture to take up work at Washington.
A brother in lowj wrote him a glow
ing invitation to come to the fertile
lands of the middle west. He rejected
both offers and went home.
The most optimistic resident would
have laughed at the idea of there be
ing any opportunity there. But the
young man went to work. lie did not
lecture to the neighbors or advise
them. He merely set out to show them
what the impoverished land was ca
pable of. He made the old farm pay.
and Its dilapidation changed to an air
of prosperity. His neighbors gradually
began to follow his methods and to
catch some of his sptrlt. The cot
nlty startl'd to go forward Instea
backward. As soon ns he could s]
the time from his farm the yot
farmer set about reorganizing the t
lage school. He gave one corner
THVUR IS NO LINK OF FARMING MORE FAS
CINATING THAN THE BREEDING OF PURE
BRED LIVE STOCK.
his farm for a school garden. He In
vited the preacher out to his farm and
got him out of the atmosphere of dead
theology Into the spirit of living prog
ress. The preacher caught the spirit
and the church came to be an aid in
the forward movement Gradually the
whole community became modernized
Tlie people grasped the opportunities
to which they were blind until some
one opened their eyes.
The young man who can go into a
community and by his indomitable
courage and stroug faith bring about
a change like this lias succeeded in
the truest sense of the word. It is
success of this kind, coupled with the
success of n happy life and a comfort
able competence, that the country of
fers to the vnnng man today.
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DAIRYMEN POINTS.
Things a dairyman should not
do:
Do not stir up any dust just
before milking tluic.
Do not sweep tho stalling at
milking time.
Do not milk with dirty hands.
Do hot use a wide top pail.
Do not allow milk to stand In
the stable.
Things u dairyman should do:
Keep cows clean.
Wipe flanks and udders Just
before milking.
Avoid dust In the stable at
milking time.
Have clean hands and clothing
while milking and handling milk
Thoroughly cleanse and scald
ail utensils and keep In clean
place.
Use a small top milk pail.
FALL FRESHENING
COWS PAY BEST
Unless you have a special all theyeni
around trade three-fourths of the cows
should come fresh from August to No
vember, writes L. W. Lighty in the
National Stockman. And even with
such a trade it is often good business
to have most of the cows come fresh
in the autumn. During the summer a
number of my best butter customers
would spend most of their time at the
seashore or in the mountains, and the
demand for butter fell off nearly a
third.
In the winter they were all at honn
and consumed a maximum quantity
With a few exceptions, we can make
the most money by having most ot
our cows coming fresh In the fall of
the year. * Why is this not generally
practiced? Because the majority of
us prefer to allow things in genera
to drift rather than make them com
our way. We pay little or no after
tlon to this matter and soon the her,
will be following the natural ancestiv
trait and freshen in the spring.
But we must always have absolute
control of our business if it is to tic .■
source of pleasure and profit By In
telligent management we can, in tit.
course of a few years, so breed om
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FV; in :
There Is no question that the Ayr
shire cow is rapidly coming to the
front as an all round dairy cow.
She has shown high form as a milk
producer, both in quantity and qual
ity. As an all around money maker
on the farm she stands near tho
top. The advanced registry work
has developed the fact that individ
ual cows have made wonderful rec
ords for a year and for two, three,
four and five years; also that the
average of the breed shows a re
markable datry ability. The illus
tration shows an Ayrshire bull of
pure breeding.
animals as to have n major portion o«
them come fresh wheu the most protii
cau be made.
There is a number of factors that
must be considered. The breeder who
has his business well In hand knows
each individual animal and knows bow
to handle her to the best advantage
He always makes calculations for the
future when breeding the heifers the
first and second time, and very often
careful and intelligent management
here determines the future profit In a
great measure.
The dairyman who would make a
profit cannot afford to allow any pari
of his business to go a drifting. As
much of the feed as is economical
should be grown on the farm. The ra
tion must be ample uud economical
The breeding and handling of the
yonng stock require skill and the most
careful attention.
Alfalfa For Dairy Cattle.
Figures front a cow testing associa
tion In California indicate what may
be expected of cows of dairy capacity
when fed exclusively on green alfalfa,
alfalfa hay or a combination of the
two. Of the 300 cows under test by
the association, forty-four exceeded 325
pounds of butter fat per cow. Tin
exclusive alfalfa ration is commonly
used by those farmers whose herds
are members of the testing association
The average production of butter fat
for the total number of cows is 272.5
pounds per year. The average pro
ductiou with that of the average ot
the forty-four cows s;>ealta well for
exclusive alfalfa feeding.
Dairy Gospel.
The Pacific Dairy Review Is i r»
cent Issue prints this hit of true dairy
gospel: "The attitude that cows as
sume toward their owners is Invariably
a criterion of profit nud loss. The dai
ryman who can go Into his pasture
nud have cows follow him about bus a
herd that works on the profit side
When they fear hioi and run away to
be rounded up by a dog and saddle
borne the cream check gets down to
small figures." Every man who has
successfully handled a herd ot milk
ing cows knows that the above U the
troth Kar«s« Farmer
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER S.
DAIRY and
CREAMERY
HANDLING DAIRY COWS.
Kind Tro.tment Makes For Profit In
the Milk Pall.
In order to secure large yields It Is
very Important thut the cow herd be
liandled properly and that the best
methods of feeding be employed,writes
a correspondent of the Orange Judd
Farmer. To begin with, the herd as a
whole should always be moved slowly.
Never burry a cow or strike her or
speak in a ioud, harsh voice. A gen
tle voice and a caressing touch are
quite as potent in milk production as
a digestible protein feed. If the cows
are so handled tbnt they are fond of
the dairyman the owner has learned
one of the most important lessons
which leads to profitable milk produc
tion.
The most successful milk producers
are tii dose tuuch with every animal
In the herd. The cow’s affection for
Cows of good breeding are always
in demand at good prices, and that
demand was never greater than
now. The grower of calves from
good cows can well afford to give
them the start necessary on whole
milk and the skimmilk necessary
to bring them to the point at which
they can exist on grain and hay
and pasture. A well bred, well
reared heifer calf at two years of
age and soon to be fresh will sell
for more money than a beef animal
of the same age, and it wiU not
cost so much to produce the heifer
as the beef animal. The illustra
tion shows a pure bred Guernsey.
the calf points to the desire to give
milk. If you gain her affection the
milk producing quality will be largely
developed. At the time of calving tho
cows should receive particular atten
tion. They should be very kindly
treated, should be groomed regularly,
should be rubbed gently and every
thing done to render them contented
and quiet
Whatever you do, don’t under any
circumstances send the dogs after the
cows. This causes excitement, and tf*
the cows are heavy milkers their ud
ders will be injured if they are forced
to run. Every cow should have a
name, and she should be called by that
name.
During the eight or nine weeks when
the cows are dry feed should consist
chiefly of roughage. 1 believe in an
allowance of from two to three pounds
of bran or oats or one pound of oats,
one of bran and one-half of linseed
meal or corn. Oil meal is an excel
lent feed for dairy cows near calving
time. Pumpkins, squashes, cabbage or
roots are also excellent, and, of course,
lots of clean water must always be
provided, the best results being secured
when the chill is taken out of cold wa
ter during the winter. Straw and corn
stalks are not particularly good at this
time. These, with cold water, cold
drafts or lying out in the night on
damp, frozen ground, are the chief
causes of caked udder or garget Just
before the calf comes.
Value of Balanced Ration.
The value of properly balancing tho
rations for dairy cows is shown In the
Instance of S. F. Nichols of Beatrice,
Neb. With a ration consisting of si
lage, alfalfa and ear cornmeal costing
$0.90 per day for twenty cows, tho
average product for three days was
SO7 pounds of milk valued at 3 cents,
giving returns of $2.31 per day above
the cost of feed. With the ration prop
erly balanced by addition of oilmeal
and bran and decreasing the ear corn
-1 meal, the cost of feed for the same
cows was $0.76 per day. The average
amount of milk given for three days
was 379 pounds, which at 3 cents gave
a profit above cost of feed of $4.61.
The value of the balanced ration above
that formerly fed was $2.30 per day
In Increased returns.
Feed For a Fresh Cow.
After calving the first feed for a cow
should be six or seven quarts of wbolo
or preferably ground oats, which have
been scalded with hot water half an
hour before feeding and the pall cov
ered. These are stimulating and aid In
getting her back to her normal condi
tion. Some give warm mash consist
ing of a quart of oilmeal and corn
or oilmeal and a little ground flax. It
takes a cow about three weeks to
reach her full flow of milk, depending
largely upon the skill of the dairyman
in bringing her to her full capacity.
Special care should be exercised not to
expose the cow to cold drafts at this
critical period.
The Profitable Cow.
It is a recognized fact among suc
cessful farmers aud dairymen that
cows, like persons, do their best only
under the must favorable conditions.
Well bred cows have a highly develop
ed nervous system and are more sensi
tive even than human beings to good
and bad treatment and to the effects
of sanitary and Insanitary surround
ings. The contented cow produces a
better grade of milk snd more of It
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