The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 24, 1918, Page 17

N S N NS BY JAY FOX AM was a negro .mule driver, and he could han- dle a whip as artistically as any “mule skinner” that ever came down the o — pike. He could wallop the. wind out of an innocent fly at a distance of 30 feet. : Having the privilege of riding with him;.I was entertained by many ex- amples of his marksmanship. He took delight in picking insects off the leaves of flowers with the lash. Once, after making an especially fine swing that killed a bumblebee while exer- cising its constitutional rights to dig ‘its dinner from the recesses of a wild flower, I discovered what I thought " would be a splendid chance. I saw a hornets’ nest swinging from the limb of a tree, with a few of the inhabitants loafing, innocent-like, about the entrance. e Here; I thought, is a chance for Sam' that comes but once in a life- time .and to some men not at all. He can put over a stunt that will im- mortalize him in the eyes of the sporting world. “Sam,” said I, “here is your one chance to embrace Miss Opportunity. She will not return’ again. I'll step back out of your way (it was safety first with me) and you swing on those fellows and scatter them and their nest helter-skelter with a few swings - of your skilfully handled whip.” Sam almost turned pale at the thought. And when he recovered from the fright he burst out: “Look a’yar, man; wat’s you take this’ yar ‘bunch of ‘cullahed mattah foh? You think Ah’s had no ’sperience in life? You think Ah’s been cracking this ‘yar whip 30 years for nuttin’? No, sah, Ah done gone got no grudge against them thah ho’nets. Ah’d like .to swat 'em all right, but Ah respect thar rights. - “When Ah makes a pass at a bunch of flies, those. Ah don’t hit beats it to safety, leavin’ th’ dead and wounded to look out foh therselves, with no ‘care for th’ sick an’ no revenge foh th’ dead. Each fly he looks aftah his own bunch o’-flyness an’ don’t care nuffin® fol all th’ udder flies, ’cept to - hang 'round with them during times of peace. So, Ah can just smash into them thah flies whenebber Ah wants . to have mah fun, an’ show you what Ah can do with’anah whip. ; “But when it comes to ho’nets, boss, dat’s" different. Ah’s neutral thar. Ah don’t want to fool with them thar \‘ \\\ g\\\\\\ G N\ A N N \\\\ NN S NN “aad \\\ \ : W N N birds. - Ah respec’ thar right and Ah shovg my respec’ by passin’ ’em by without so much as raisin’ mah whip so there won’t be no misunderstandin’ 'tween them and me.” “But why,” I said, “do you allow these pesky hornets more right to life, liberty and the pursuit of hap- piness than you accord to the flies? Haven’t the flies got the same natural rights as the hornets?” “They have, Ah shud ’spect so, th’ same rights, but they ain’t got the same 'mount o’ common sense to de- fend their rights. Ah has no time to fool ’way lookin’ aftah th’ rights of flies; they got to take care o’ their own. rights, an’ when they don’t, how does Ah know that they want to have any rights? “No one has any rights in this yah world ’cept those what can maintain them. That'’s what Ah read in a pome an’ what Ah proved along this yah " road.” “Then,” I said, “just because nature did not give the fly a sting like the hornet, he has no rights.” - “You is mistaken, boss. It’s not the sting that makes me respec’ the rights of the ho’net. The bumblebee has a sting just as long an’ as sharp as any ho'net and Ah’s got no mo’ :pect fo’ his rights as Ah has foh the y.n “Then what is it about the hornet that you dread and makes you .so ‘re- spectful of his rights?” “ARh'll tell you boss, what it am. Them ’are ho’nets has a Nonpartisan league; they is shu’ organized. If Ah hits one with mah whip all the udders come right aftah me jus’ like Ah had hit them. They fights fo’ each udder. They ’fend each udder’s rights. They are all brudders in that yar nest and each one will ’fend the rights of all th’ udders to de las’ trench and you can’t sick me on to them boss, even if Ah do be a good whipcracker. “Ah can whip ’em all singlehanded, but they won’t wait to be beaten that way. No, boss, they knows better. They is wiser'n some farmers and workingmen what Ah knows. Just as soon as Ah touched one th’ whole gang would jump on me and beat me up so quick Ah wouldn’t know whar Ah was at. Ah don’t make no demonstration ‘round them like Ah would ’fore bunch o’ fool flies.” . “Suppose we farmers and working- men were all organized like that, each upholding the rights of the others, what would happen?” I asked. “What would happ’n, boss? Why, everyting would happ’n that we’d want to happ’n. Dem ho’nets sure would have nuttin on us den. But say, boss, you tink we got so much brains as ho’nets ?” PARCELS POST TO AID FARM 5 SHIPMENTS On May 29 Postmaster General Burleson issued an order removing ‘many of the restrictions on the ship- ment of farm products. Now they may be sent in'any kind of container which will protect the ‘goods and prevent ' the escape therefrom. Farm products may now be sent to any station which can bée reached before they would spoil. The weight limit has been raised from 50 to 76 pounds within the first three zones (300 miles) and from 20 to 50 pounds to all other: zones. S of anything 'PAGE SEV. MRS. HULDAH H. BAIN O WOMAN could be more enthusiastic over the Nonpartisan league than is Mrs. Huldah Harrold Bain. Her picture in the next column will be recognized by the country people of North Dakota and Minnesota who have heard her speak at League meetings. Sometimes she talks on food conservation, sometimes on win- ning the war for democracy, or on equal suffrage, but most often on the National Nonpartisan league. p Mrs. Bain is a Californian, and hav- ing the vote, wants every other woman to have the same privilege. Her husband is a captain in the United States navy. While he is on duty at sea, his wife is on duty at home, eager- to aid in winning the war and establishing a perfect de- mocracy. 3 This is the perfect patriotism, that we at home should save and work and plan for a better world after the war, while those in the army and navy make it possible. At home and abroad we must fight for right and democ- racy. BY MRS. MAX WEST m# | OTHERS realize that the ¥ | better care which babies | must have if 100,000 of them are to be saved during Children’s year z should commence before the baby is born. Every year three times that number of children under five die before they have lived much beyond infancy. A large part of this vast multitude of young Americans perished needlessly and many of the deaths could have been prevented by proper and sufficient care. The first and largest number of deaths among little babies is due to what are called prenatal causes.” This group includes the babies which were born prematurely, or too weak to sur- vive, perhaps with some defect of the body which forbids their living, and also those who are so injured by the birth process that they can not be saved. The babies’ lives can be saved only if their mothers have proper care at these most important periods. The essential features 6f good care - for expectant mothers are proper and sufficient food, rest, freedom from overtaxing work and from worry, medical supervision of her general condition and prompt attention to small ailments as they arise. A pros- pective mother needs a light, nutri- tious' diet of digestible foods such as she likes and her appetite demands. Fried and greasy foods, heavy -pud- dings, and all heavy or underdone pastries, or an excess of any one ar- ticle should be eliminated from her diet, as well as anything which she does not readily digest. It is also important that the expectant mother should drink a sufficient quantity of wdter each day. - During the last eight weeks before . the baby comes the mother should as far as possible be spared all forms of heavy labor, in order that her strength may be built up in antici- pation of the coming demand. The ENTEEN When to Begin a Baby’s Care - baby’s: proper development also de- pends largely upon the mother’s con- dition at this time, since the baby gains half his weight in the last eight weeks of pregnancy. The mother’s ability to nurse her baby depends largely upon the care she has during these last weeks and immediately after confinement. The mother should be under the care of a good doctor as long before the birth as possible in order that he may watch for and correct any un- toward symptoms that may arise. It is exceedingly important that the ailments of pregnancy be dealt with in the beginning before they develop into more serious matters.. At the first appearance of swollen hands and feet, or persistent headache, or pain in any part, or hemorrhage, or of spots before the eyes, a good doctor should be called. It is much easier and far cheaper to see that mother and baby have the right kind of food and proper care during the brief period before birth than it is to undo the results of im- proper food and care at this decisive time. 5 The Children’s bureau, Washing- ton, D. C;, will send to any one asking for it a pamphlet giving simple direc~ tions to mothers-to-be. ANNE TEEKZ If all the articles of furniture that came over in the Mayflower is ‘“sure enough” stuff, that Mayflower must have been quite an extensive fleet of merchantmen. If every lock of hair in the United States purported to be Washington’s ° hair is genuine, the hero of Mount Vernon must have had a recipe which the ladies of today do not know about. If Frances E. Willard tied on all the white ribbons that we have seen, she had enough experience in tying knots to qualify as justice of peace in all the civil townships in Texas simul- taneously. ; - e s e R S B R S S R SO