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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. f ' AH, »Si <* ■ , y%<- > «•%'*/ >f >j[ 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. ; f '**' \ I i K vr t-vvt- JN. 4 - • 4*• *'■ ii V* •«f. • £<r ■ • 3 -.; 1 . i • . - «dKi l '• k , -'A} '•! ■ #*'•*'!'*' .«. *>*,,: ' I \ 1 r -' j- ; L-V/vU*> !'*%'■ '*,**» ' j t," c.ira* ..»< «*•?:*'* ,i u -; .. j Daily Pattern “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. No. Size Name «.................. Street and No. .............. I Ctty State ........ 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 ■ '' 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. READ HERALD WANT ADS. 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 V V 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 READ HERALD WANTADST 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 READ HERALD WANT ADSI