Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, April 9, 1910, Page 7

THE FARMER'S TALK TO FARMERS What Life Is—Mottoes that Fit—The More Civilized and Conventionalized We Get the More Monotonous Life Becomes—A Remarkable March and a Surprising Spring—Mice and Cabbages—A Speckled Pullet— The Season of 1910 Promises to Keep Us Guessing. (Written Specially for The Buflletin.) We've ali heard the latest popular phrase: “Life is just one d—n thing after another” it seems to have struck a respomsive chord in the hu- man mind. 1 am told that out west one sees it In hundreds of offices and shops and factories, sometimes printed and framed and prominently displayed on the wall, in companionship with our oid favorites, such as “This is my busy day,” “Short credit makes long friends,” “No trust, no bust,” etc, etc. It is simply a somewhat slangy but vigorous expression of the old weari- ness which, more or less, affects us all as we toddle along through life, doing the same things over and over, G after day and year after vear. It's just get up in the morning, eat a little, play a U vork & good deal, g0 to agai oday is vesterday made and tomorrow is going to be rose garden when “Think thae you are what yes- terday You were; tomorrow you shall not be soday setting =0 ing the same and over again in weari- n, that they have had to ‘ve myself seen davs when the hoe hamdle was an outrage and the omion bed a green etriped insult. ©Once I Tead of a Frenchman who blew out his brains because life was “noth- fog but buttoning and unbuttoning” end he was tired of it. The more civilized and convention- mlized we get, the more monotonous life becomes. 1 fancy our savage A cestors of some thousand or million years dack didn't find existence so Qull. They had to hunt a fresh tree or eave to sleep in every night, and Whis kept them interested. They had %o kil or catch their dinners before #hey could eat ‘em, and this kept them Buatling. They had to keep a mighty sharp watch out lest Old Sabre-Tooth ©r Mr. Meglosaurus make a meal of €hem. and this prevented any attacks ©f ennui. But we live in the same Bouses and sleep in the same beds and sat about the same canned goods off same dishes with the same knives forks and go to the same work and low the same paths and do the same things, over and over and over again. It's only rarely that a mad doz chases Bs lonx enough to Stir our stagnant biood into real action. When such a Ihing occurs we seldom accept it as a Blessing and a rellef from the eternal pameness of things. We're apt to dis- Bke the dog even more than we dislike our ordinatily humdrum lives. Oh, yes, life is somewhat “slow” to most of us: there’s no use denving the whdentable. BUT I sort o' think that we farmers are rather better off in this respect than those in some other avocations. Of course, the vears run their rounds about alike; we wallow in smow and slush through the winter end we parboil ang bake through the summer. Seed time and harvest come around with commendable regulariiv. We plow the same soil and plant th same sorts of seeds and feed the same rations to the same everlastingly hun- I we really want to feel suppose we could make have as monotonous an = as any convict could be con- to. If we do not want 1o feel but would rather enjoy our mplate our miser- fes, T think we can find cause for self eratulatior demned that war. Blessings than cont depends on ourselves. The the more I am inelined hat there are some folks who actually like to be wretched and to make others so. I know men and women who are said to “enjoy poor health™ I think that phrase is liter- ally accurate. In many euch cases there s no other visible explanation of their invaiidism than that they er it to the sane and wholesome iving which would produce good health. There are some, 100, who sel- dom say “Thank you either to the lord or their friende for any mess shown, but are forever finding fault with <verybody and everything. They ocertainly wouldn't do this unless it was their idea of pieasure. The most of us, however, would rather laugh than snivel—if we can. And its astonishing how much interest there in life—even the farmers life—if find and appropriate the interest it fers. While there's a deal of same mess about it, there's lkewlse a lot of variety. Natirally, we mus: be able o get interested in small things. Why shouMn’t we? It's the little things that make up life. These who sincerely voiced the feel- | want to get the most out of their I will find a real gain in being able to enthuse over details. before gave us ing! old_plow. | aheaa dresses, a day. will to lool in May. monotony Anyway, Even wonder and wise neighborhood. the other day. that's coming. be another after things. es Who ever saw uch a March as this spring Why, instead of the usual comment But Old Grumpety-Grump admits all this He had parsnips and salsify and horse- radish and dandelion greens two Weeks earlier this spring than ever before. But he's worrying about the weather “We've had May March” he says, “watch out and see if we don’t get March in May." right; let's watch out. 1f we do, there interesting month. What with the start things have got, if we do have some more winter a lit- tle later, it will just keep us humping I own up that I don’t want to see a snowstorm and ice bluster and blowing it was almost like May in its warmth and What a time to get out manure and fix the fences and do the early plow- Ivs been the constant subject for geniality. in my Nothing common and ordinary about this spring thus far. To be sure, it's the same old field, and the same’ old horses and the same 1 never had the dirt turn so lightly and look so warm and promising as some of my stubble land, Even the sticky garden soil has frothed up behind the mould- board invitingiy, as if it were actually ready for the seeds, and eager to ab- sorb them into its fertile bosom. shad-bushes on the hillside are weel of time in their white spring The roads, which in my coun- | try are apt to be deep slough holes of | mud through March and April, are al- ready hard and dry. remarkable things about this spring to keep an observing eved with interest for fourteen hours The There are enough farmer wide- in All But we're talking about the of life. And, it has been and ing to be an unusual season. no eall to complain of its duliness. say, wouldn't be anything commonplace and stupid about a sleighride on Decora- tion day, would there? It might not be ust what we'd like, but it wouldn’t be “the same old thing over again.” by a long shot. If the spring keeps on and fulfils all its opening promise, it will have been a wonder; about on Its heel, some of these days, and turns into winter again,it will give us something to do and to talk about. there Not 1f it whirls is go- We've the most ordinary year the farmer is always meeting new problems or new phases of old problems. For vears It has been my custom to bury a few cabbages in a pit when I cleaned up the gardens in November. They freeze in and, when spring thaws the soil enough to permit uncovering them, come out crisp and fresh. Sometimes they rot a little, if they’re covered a bit too deep. But lest winter the mice got into them, and over half my hundred cabbage heads I found wholly eaten up when T went after them. Now that's a new thing to happen on this ranch. I have got to study up some way to winter. m little speckled pullet; gone to laying eggs earlier than some of the pure bred single comb white Leghorns hatched the same time. Looks as if there must be something to her, after all. Then, too, my black horse, the one with the heaves; entered on his spring work in rather poor shape after a winter of hay and tly dry feed. But this year he's doing his full share of plowing and so forth without showing any more dis- tress than his sound-lunged mate. I circumvent those pesky mice. another And there’s that insignificant she's actually he’s usually find this fact mot only consoling but interesting. something_in the policy of watering before feeding—never afterwards,which I have been following with bim. May, of the Some garden seeds usually sow. T already got in & few rows of ust as flier: ing to find a lot of Interest in watching If they aren’t killed by @ late freeze I'll have some things mighty early for this latitude. Also, I'm trying some new experiments with fertilizers. They'll keep me guessing more or less all the summer. The oth- er day a stranger stopped to know if 1 had any pigs for sale. worth? 1 asked. their behaviour. It's just as easy It looks as If which till well along u know. there was 1 don’t towards I'm go- “What're they “Td glve $15 a pair for real zood ones,” he replied. Now, I hought that was Stranger,” says I, “I was never more sorry for anything In my life than that T haven't got about four dozen pIgs just such as you'd like.” going to be a farmer he can be a fairly happy farmer if he'll only cultivate the habit of keeplng up a fresh and lively interest in all the little things of his farm and his_garden and his stables and the ten thousand varying aspects nature which surrounds him. to be interested as to be bored—if you'll only think so. quite interesting. If a man is THE FARMER. OLD MEN FOR COUNSEL. United States Supreme _Court Not Made Up on the Osler Principle. During his four years in office Pres- $dent Harrison appointed four judges of the United States supreme court. During his more than four years Pres- $dent McKmley eppointed only one. During his Roosevelt appointed three. It is not at all unifkely that Mr. Teft may be called upon to fill_as many places upon the bench as Mr. Flarrison did, and we can wish him no Petter than that he shall show as sound judgment in the selection of men as Mr. Harrison did. The present conatitution of the court in which within the space of a year have come two vacancies shows how probable it is that within the next three years there may be more. The justices, the presidents by whom they were appointed. their ages and the length of their service are as follows: O. W. Holmes, Massachusetts, ap- Caillaren t-céy FOR FLETCHER'S CASTORIA Watch for the Comet. The Red Dragon of the sky. Watch children for spring coughs and . Careful mothers keep Foley' mey and Tar in the houe It is the Best and safest prevention and cure for eroup, where the need is urgent and Immediate relief a vital necessity. Its + use has saved many little lives. no opiates or harmful drugs. seven years President | | years o1 M. W veit), years oic pointed. pointed by served 8 years. | J. M. Harlan_ Kentucky (Hayes), 77 5_years old; 67_yvears old; 57 ye H. H. Lurton Tennessee (Taft), 63 on full pay. the same privilege before Mr. The average length of service upon this court is about fif- teen years. but the age at appointment has been generally below that at which Justices Holmes and Lurton were ap- term expires. own prophecy. Roosevelt; served 33 years. € years old; D. White. Loulsiana (Cleveland), served 15 years. J. McKenna, California (McKinley), served 12 years. Fuller, Ilinois ~(Cleveland), 77_years old: served 22 years. W. R. Day, years old; W. H. Moody, Massach Ohio served 7 years. ars old; served 4 appointed recently. (Roosevelt), 61 tts (Roose- years. The only man on the bench under 60 has been for months Incapacitated and may never fully recover his health. Justices Fuller and Harlan have both of them had the privilege for seven years of retiring from the service up- Justice Holmes will have Taft's The reading of thelr ages carrles its During the next three vears the president will probably have still other appointments to the court. —Syracuse Post-Standard, , Where Credit Is Due. Any credit for a drop in the price of eggs must be given to the hems and not to the ng interests—Wash- imgton Star. 4 Fond of Great Burdens. a grest burden—St, Paul Mr. Rockefelier says that riches are Pionser AS JOB JOLT SEES IT A strawberry patch in the berrying seuson looks more satisfying than a half-acre of onions. An old woodchuck can worry an old farmer about as much as a sore thumb can. o Theré is nothing that makes the worm in the soil sicker than scattered salt, or a drenching of lime water. Lana that has been overworked is exhausted. It needs a stimulant to cure it of paralysis. Many a woman who is a willing worker has a husband who wants it understood that his efficiency is in bossing. Cola in warm water makes & 8004 anti-crow soak for corn—a te spoonful to two quérts of water. Since Bill Bumble rides to plow, cul- tivate, mow and rake, Mrs. Bumble says she wants a riding house cleaner and a riding churn. Bad luck in the garden is as often due to atmospherical or metereological peculiarities as the cuitivator. The man who docsn’t know that the fine appearance of the farm bufldings spells thrift has comsiderable left to learn about agriculture. A flock of chickens can take more out of a garden patch in ten minutes than nature can put in in @ month. A good farmer’s wife is more'n half the team, and deserves full credit. Some folks take life too hard and some too easy—the best way to take life is day by day. The man who'll pizen his neighbor’s watch dog has a guilty conscience, When folks think that this is such a free country that it is not a crime to dig a farmer's potatoes their ideas of freedom is not Jeffersonian. How much winter work contributes to summer success! That's why the winter loafer is usually an unsucce: ful farmer. I don’t know how it is, but we plant beans with the eve toward the center of gravity and then the stalk grows straight away from it. I I thought my wife was an enig- ma I should be ashamed of myself; but Sol Salter tells me that s what his wife I The early morning is the time to put hellebore on the currant bushes. It sticks to the leaves when they're wet. I believe a poor cook In the kitchen can do more to ruln a man than three men back of the bar. THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: $250 third. Award made the last Saturday in in the Soctal Corner. petition? What Do You Think of It? Editor Soctal Corner: Do you think it is right for a man who has a second wife to be always praising up his first wife, when he says she always dis- agreed with him, and that -he finds most pleasure with his second com- panion? FLOSSIE. Undon. (From what you say of him, he is simply intolerable. It is more than likely that he made most of the trou- ble with his first wife. A maen who hasn’t sense enough to praise the liv- ing and grieve in silence for the dead is not qualified to have a second part— ner, or to kive in peace. He never can be a mate, for he is just a discord. Have a motto hung in the room t> he uncovered every time he indu'gs in marital reminiscences. Let it be ‘Fo t It!” He needs heroic Iroutme. o knows it is not right and he ¢ces not deserve to be tolerated.—Editor Social Corner.) The Well Trained Man. Editor Social Corner: My husband had a mother who knew how to make him useful when he was a boy about the house and he could before he was fifteen years of age do housework like a hired girl, and I think it was a good thing for his wife. He doesn’t act as a hired girl in the family, but when I am sick or overworked it i3 nice to find things done unexpectedly ~taat ere helps. He always does the woirk well whether he is employed in cleaning a room, making the beds or wasaing ihe dishes, and he knows how to handle a small child like a nurse. The w«man who makes her boys and girls neit zné useful about the house is -aiziag tle best of husbands and wives. ~0 ke To: by of wri to we ‘When Sari-ah shows signs of irrita- tion I know it is time to go slow. Nance Nearman would get more out of her egg money if Ben aidn’t borrow it three times in five to pey old debts with. Cy Cymbol says the backache is dis- couraging. There is always some- thing to discourage Cy. A patch of lettuce in the back yard is better'n four rods of weeds, if most folks don’t think so. JOB JOLT. SPENCER, THE LEGENERATE. The Story Spencer Tells. ‘When Spencer, the Springfield rob- ber and murderer, is tried we wonder what effect his story such as already told to the police, will have on a jury. In spite of good parents and 2 good home, he was wayward from the first; stealing before he was 12 years old: “holding up” little girls to take money and trinkets away from them: eager for ormaments and jewelry, which he could not afford to buv, and so steal- ing them at every opportunity. He says that he was selzed sometimes with uncontrollable tmpulses to crime, To a beating by his father when he was e Jittle boy he attributes the be- €innings of ugliness and thinks that a wound in the head may account for his vicious tendencies. The impression siven is that in his own mind he couldn’t help it. His crimes were those of bravado and sensationalism and culminated in murder without in- tention. Yet for days after the crime he faced his meighbors and associates without sign of feeling and appears not to have lost sleep or appetite. At the end, however, he broke down pitifully and threw himself like a penitent child into his mother’s arms, as though that were the only refuge left. What varia- tion from the exireme penalty will a jury feel that a man thus predisposed to crime ought to get?—Waterbury American. Hard to Account for Such a Career. It might be of value to know how much Bertram Spencer, the Springfield burglar suspect, was influenced in his sensational career by the story of Raffles. the cracksmen. He so closely aped that fictitious character in his methods that the inference is strong that he must have been a reader of the atory. Spencer was regarded as a young man of exemplary hebits. He Wwas—except when otherwise e Hie exploits ‘covering & sonsiacrdlls time caused much_ excitement - #n Springfield and baffled the police. The cold blooded and senseless murder of Miss Blackstone a few nights ago, now admitted by Spencer, aroused the city and detectives soon had the young fel- low in the tolls. It is hard to account for such a carecer. The loot of many daring burglaries amounted to practi- cally nothing. ‘There was certainly no profit in it. Furthermore, much of the stolen stuff was kept by him, mak- ing conviction on discovery almost cer- tain. And the wanton murder that led to his capture was absolutely brutal and needless, as he was not in the slightest danger of detention or cap- ture. Allenists may be able to account for such a character, but it is t00 puz- zling for most of us.—Bristol Press. The first taste of crisp, delicious Posl Toasties with cream, is its own good excuse for a call for more. “The Memory Lingers” Pkgs. 10¢ and 16c. 24 a home just right both sides stoull Lo able to do their part. AUNT HANNAML |4 Norwich. A Happy Thought. Soctal Cowner Editor: At last we have a newspaper “of the people, by the people, and for the people,” and it surely will be the paper “we cannot do without.” One of the most distressing sights at this time of the year is to see the growing girls with the hem of their skirts anywhere above their d to hear their mothers’ la- ‘Oh, she grows so I cannot keep up with her.” Of course she grows, and would be a curious girl if she did not. But mothers should plan for that growing in every dress they make for the girls. Above the wide hem make three one-inch tucks and run them in Dy hand with an occasional baclstitch. Then as Mary grows let her sit down on Saturday morning and take out a tuck herself, beginning with the upper tuck, instead of ing soap bubbles or doing some other useless thing. It will be quite an event when “she has outgrown another tuck,” and is easier then taking the skirt off from the belt 0 lengthen when turned down at the top. POPPY. Rockville. Ready and Tested Remedies. Editor Sooial Corner: Here are a few ready and tested remedies: To cure a «cold, take four teaspoonfuls of granu- lated sugar, one of powdered dry gin- ger and one of cream tartar, and put all in @ tumbler dry and stir well, and when all are mixed together thor- oughly fill the tumbler with cold water and drink wnd you will find it a pleas- ant and beneficial remedy. Remedy No. 2: To cure the hives in a very short time, take granulated su- gar two tenspoonsful and cream tartar one teaspoonful and fill the glass up with water and drink. The hives will soon disappear. This is also a fine and cooling summer drink, as it is good for the Dblood and eiso pleasant to the taste. I will close now with _best wishes for The Bulletin and The Social Corner. CRYSTAL VIOLET. The Husband With a Jag. Editor Social Corner: I do not know how many of the sistérs bave a hu: ‘band who comes home with a on. I know what @ heartache they have the first time it happens, and I know what a sorry time they have ahead. As my old jag used to say: ‘Whatcher goin’ to do about 1t7" At frst I cried, and then I dried up. I was always dumb when he was drunk, and for some days after. I noticed he wanted me to say something, but I let him do most of the talking from the humble-pie side of the house. What & good promiser and poor performer Bill got to be. It was not mecessary to ‘charge him with lying for undisturbed by opposition he became painfully aware of that and would confess. He awoke to his menhood finally and he had the fight of his 1ffe in acquiring sober habits. He is like a fruitful tree scarred by fearful experience. When ] think wime he was add think what he is I cannot help feeling thankful. A SINGED MATE. Norwich. Two Hints for Young Housekeepers. Editor Social Corner: I have been interested for the last two or three weeks watching the sparrows bulld- ing their nests in the closed blinds of my attic windows. How very busy they are! How they chatter as they fly to the nearby lane for the long, dry stems and grasses, or to the lawn for the softer grass—not forgetting to visit my neighbor's barnyard for the softest hen feathers, nor disdaining | 0dd bits of string, their bright Mttle eves are sure to find. They know just what they want and where to find it. I shall nmot open the blinds I shall let them atay there because—they are home building. They make me think of the brides to-be who, in the next two months will flit in and out of the stores, They, too. are home building. For will not June, the month of roses and of brides, soon be here? They think they know just what they want and buy it. jence alone will tell if they bought wisely or not. I have seen some roome 3o filled with useless nick- nacks that I was s for the one who must sweep it. I am sure the time the room was stripped an ready to sweep. the one to it, of or Postum Cereal Compan, Battle Creek, Mich. Lad, sweep. (often the Dride), would be tifed out. Allow then, nothing to enter your house unless it fulfils a purpose; each thing must be useful, precious, or reai- In Saautitn’ p EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants goo@ home letters, good business letters; gocd help- ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest. They ‘Should be in h.u'l:y ‘Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. [The Bulletin thanks the women for the live interest they are taking ‘This week there is a wider they give evidence that our friends are getting the right idea of this de- partment. Home Help and Home Entertainment is its motto. are not large but they are worth winning. Why don't you enter the com- [} ‘The 8. C's are going o grow into an interesting family. Do not (from the start) allow dear room, or any old place, for if he does that in June, his overcoat and rub- ‘bers will be there by December. The old adage—a place for everythi; everything in its place for every member and every depart- ment of the home. EXPERIENCE. Norwich. Editor Social Corner: eral Custer and his men were sur- rounded and most brutally butchered man from this section went down with the rest of the Indian fighters. From a boy up to manhood he was a con- tant reader of ten-cent novels of the most daring nature and his choice was Indian fighting, which was the cause battlefield of young in years. A call to want to topic that is ever by far the most influential and up- lifting—that of books, writers, liter- ature, We are what s good in folks are too prome to read the ill land. Good books are just as cheap, just as easily procured as this poi- Sonous stuff that is not worth the paper upon which it is printed. Let us all use our influence for reading with our friends; and read we have dome much to awaken a new thought alons this line. prison bars are today keeping many young men from open air that God has given us, and the cause of their downfall was the cheap, me. RURAL DELIVERY. Killingly. Editor Soclal Corner: very few people who know how to ‘buy a horse and buy it ri thime who don’t I have a dishonest, he will be sure to cheat you; have been the dupe of another man. 2. ton; rest, and you will discover his weak points, It sound, he will stand square- iy on his lmbs without moving ward, toe poiniing to the ground and heel raised, it is called mavicular bone out, toe raised and heel brought down, it has suffered from laminitis or fever harsh, and does not move smoothly to the touch, the horse heavy eater and his digestion is bad. 8. organs are at all impa Avoid a horse whose respiratory ired. If the ear is placed at the side of the heart. and to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to each month. cation of trouble. Let him go. 9. Watch out! nose to him by. A READER. of letters, and on or vanilla. for Cal The prizes Ome_cuptul five oils; lemon or vanilla. —Editor Social Corner.] m to throw his hat in the sitting molasses, one cup of mlk, one cup raisins, one egg, ome teaspoonful g and o—ia @ good rule |® Pretty stiff batter. tear as well as girls. A Call to Good Reading. When Gen- | home. Also boys should be taught the Indians, there was a young how can we expect grow older and can? his death, as It led Bim to the 1ast | o sesimg sether Hoine General Custor while reading is needed. Wi ive more thought te that wing and one they are mother the burden on their he should go, and when he is old will not depart from 1, is for every mother in the land. P. fiotting careless sbout terature. Our young itten, the trashy books that seem be in great quantities through the Correr. North Stonington, Taste in Naming Dogs. cause only one grand book to be ra |in the Soctal Corner since you say is everybody's corner. the beautiful, fres, with Bcotch name: trashy stuff that sells for a How to Buy a H spaniels with American names. There are |become them better than Bonaperte, t; but for few hints: Never_take the seller's word; if natfonelity or the nature of dogs, well seleoted, always fit. Let’ it disposed to be fair, he may |of. y Never buy a horse while in mo- | Preston. watch while he stands at Every Old Thing Made New. any them. If one foot is thrown for- Paint in tenderness; if the foot is thrown Carrell & & Son, Plainfleld. Spring Sale of Lawn Mowers There are three most important points to consider in buying a Lawn Mower. They are durability, ease of running and even cutting ability. We don’t ask you to take our word alone when we say that the Imperial High Wheel Lawn Mower possesses these points to perfection. Rather we would refer you to the superintendents of the parks of New York where 600 of these Imperial Mowers have been in constant use for over ten years. Experience has taught them that no Mower will give them such satisfactory service as the Imperial. If you want a High Wheel Mower, isn’t that proof enough? PR R i R SN A0S The Granile State Low Wheel Lawn Mowers are another type of Mower which possess the three important points. For over twenty years this Mower has had the larg- est sale of any make in this vicinity. Doesn’t that speak for Granite State Durability P & THE BEST $3.00 LAWN MOWER in the city. Our Cadet, 14 and 16-inch Lawn Mowers at $3.00 will give you years of satisfactory service. Light and easy to push. Lawn Rollers Lawn Rakes Eawn Seeds Preston DBros., Franklin Square Home Recipes—Practical Suggestions. Social Corner Editor: This is a valu- able recipe Lo have when eggs are Efikn Loaf Cake: Sugar two cups, one-half cup butter, two cups of sweet milk, one tablespoonful baking powder, three cupfuls of flour; flavor with lem- o sugar, espoonfuls of water, stir till it beat untll smooth; flavor with Recips for a Dark Cake: I think this is the best cheap cake I know of. One cup of sugar, one cup butter, one cup woda, spice to taste, and flour to make 1 wonder how many of The Bulletin mothers teach their little ones to sew, ‘boys as well as girls. I think that Nt- tle boys ehould be taught to mend a 1t is & wonderful help to them when they go away from help around home. I have often seen great boys sitting around home while their mothers and sisters drew the wa- ter and carried in wood; but, mothers, are we not to blame for this? If we do not teach our little ones to help us, them to when they I do not blame ave so used to seeing mother doing this work that often thoughtless; but if tell them somne day how very tired ehe was, don't you think they would be only too glad to take strong young shouMers. Train up a child in the way £00d text S.—Since The Courler Is a wel- come visitor in our home for the past |8 few years, 1 for one welcome the Social A MOTHER. Editor Soclal Corner: It looks to me @s if there was room for a dog fancier 1 ke to see dogs well named, but It _is rare that names fit. I ltke to see Scotch coliles such ae Lassie, Laddie, Bonnle, Bessie, Bairn, and Irish setters with good Irish names and setters with Bngiish names English and American bull terriers and cocker ‘When it comes to fighting dogs, what names Nelson, or Barry, or Jones, or Fighting Bob, or Jeffries. Names that show the give our dogs names they meed not be ashamed A DOG FANCIER. Ola kitchen ohairs, benches, lawn swings, porch furniture will require only a small can of our Domestic mouth cans to make them Jook iike new. Get it from L. W. Norwich; J. P. Kingsley & Whizzing sound is heard, it is indi- E Look in the horse's ee if there are any Sponges. If there are he is windbroken—pass Ean of of 0 wi he it or if L The Last Day of Our £ Annual 8pring Opening in every department of the Stors, we have = a seri of . Celebration Sales involving high class, seasonable merchandise AT VERY SPECIAL PRICES. £ sent, there are many other important Sajes all over the Store. H and share in the many: advantag Store during Anniversary Week. Men’s Suits Men’s Top Coats Coat to see our superb line. are now ready. —always a matter of some dollars les: of our Clothing values. g for Spring of— for this season’s wear, and a showing well and prices woman should visit our Millinery section Today. BOTH BLACK AND WHITE—AT THESE T FITTETTT TS e Anniversary Sale When the Btors closes Tonight our Anniversary Sale will end. Our nual Anniversary Sales are important occasions, as in addition to our In addition to the 37 Special Offerings which we herewith pre- Then Come Today which we offer to all who wvistt eur TR Men’s Store Everything in Men’s Wear Men’s “P. & M.”” Hats Men’s Furnishings ng upon a Spring Suit and " Summer Men owe it to themselves before deci. The correct styles for Spring We have no better apparel than you will find in other shops, BUT E SELL THE SAME GRADES FOR CONSIDERABLY LESS MONEY the s fority Visit our Men's Store Today and let us demonstrate Women’s Wear Visit our Second Floor Today and see our splendidly complete diep! Women’s Suits, Coats, Skirts and Waist It is an authoritative exposition of the latest productions of worth seeing. Come Fashion Today the new Spring styl Spring Millinery nery Department. A splendid showing in our M Trimmed and Untrimmed Hats, Flowers, Feathers, Ornaments, Et Hats made to your order — Hats ready-to-wear — all at moderate Our Millinery Department is one of the attractions of the Stors. Every SRALRESBARLIEIEIIRRERERARNNYLS 37 Special Offerings : Numbered from 1 to 37 SPECIAL No. 1 SPECIAL No. 20 Men's Half Hose 17¢ Chiffon Made Veils 770 regular. price 26c regular price $1.00 SPECIAL No. 2 SPECIAL No. 21 Men’s Working Shirts 37c Women's Spring Capes $5.37 regular price 50c regular price $7.50 SPECIAL No. 3 SPROIAL Mo/ Blue Serge Buits $10.37 P g regular price $16.00 st oy i sl SPECIAL No. 4 Boys’' Blouse Suits $2.37 SPECIAL No. 23 s e gty B Women's Tailored Suits $13.37 SPECIAL No. 5 value $16.00 and $18.50 Boys’ Two-pisce Suits $4.37 SPECIAL No. 24 Tegular price $6.00 Women's House Dresses $1.37 SPECIAL No. 6 regular price $2.00 Sedo Silk at 37c a yard SPECIAL No. 28 regular price 500 Women's Silk Petticoats $3.37 SPECIAL No. 7 e $5.00 Silk Messaline 870 a yard SPECIAL No. 26 PSRHIAY prics 3190 Women's High Shoes $2.37 SPECIAL No. 8 value $2.50 and $2.7 All Wool Cashmers at 37¢ i ersyigy MR orion 80 Women's Oxfords $2.37 SPECIAL No. 9 T $4es o5 8pring Suitings at 97c regular price $1.25 SPECIAL No. 28 SPECIAL No. 10 86-inch Curtain Swiss 7o Fast Black Satteen 17¢c THEUiAr. price 10 regular price 25¢ SPECIAL No. 29 SPECIAL No. 11 Tapestry Brussels Rugs $6.97 Women's 8plit-Foot Hosiery 17¢ regular price $11.00 regular price 19c SPECIAL No. 30 SPECIAL No, 12 Fine Wash Goods 7c a Women's Ribbed Vests 17c regular price 12%c Femilan prics. 350 SPECIAL No. 31 SPECIAL No. 13 Wash Goods at 17c a yard Wash Ribbon 7c a pi regular value 8¢, 10c and 12%c SPECIAL No. 32 SPECIAL No, 14 Ready-made Sheets 376 Women's Handkerchiefs 7o il eion §k "::‘E'C’I"A'“L""“’.“:; SPECIAL No. 33 Women's Kid Gloves $1.17 Pionchiad: Tomle Rasdle W1 PRI e, F14S, SPECIAL No. 3 RREIO-1v0r 76 Linen Napkins $1.37 a dozen Dress Suit Cases 676 regular price $2.00 regular price $1.00 SPECIAL No. 17 SPECIAL No. 35 Women's Umbrellas 97¢ Crochet Bed Sr)rfl-\.ds .37 regular price $1.50 Prioe $R.00 SPECIAL No. 18 SPECIAL No. 86 Nickle-plated Tea Kettles 97, regular price $1.39 SPECIAL No, 37 inch Embroidery 27c regular price 50c Copper Wash Boilers $2.97 regular price $4 ssessrssarRsRERRERIRE ar price L ———— SPECIAL No. 19 Embroidered Flouncings 57c regular price $1.00 Ostrich CONTINUATION OF SPECIAL SALE. e Plumes FINE OSTRICH PLUMES — VERY SPECIAL PRICES asnisese: At $ 1.39 — value § 2.00 At § 598 value § 8.00 H At § 1.89 — value § 3.00 At § 7.98 value $10.00 - At § 248 — value § 4.00 At § 8938 lue $12.60 s At § 298 — value § 4.50 At § 9.98 ul . At § 348 — value § 5.00 At $11.98 value 00 : At § 398 — value § At $13.98 value At $ 498 — val $ 7 At $17.98 valu, Jewelry : CONTINUATION OF SPECIAL SALE eces of clean, fresh and perfect Jewelry, bright and untarnished, 15¢ each, 2 for 25c. The assortment comprises Collar_Pins, ©Coin _Hold: g Link Buttons, Helt Pin H Beauty Pins, Soart Ping | Brooohes, Collar Button Se(s ] Veil Pina, Threo-piece Bets, Links and Soart Ping. § ALL AT 15c EACH, 2 FOR 250 he Porteous & Mitchell Co.