Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, June 4, 1910, Page 13

’HWEP%GUHEIKSTALK An Inquiry Answered—What Farming Means to the Farmer—How It is Regarded by Others—Skill and Strict Attention to Farming Gives Success. (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) ‘Can a man live in the city and do business there, and also run a farm? Probably he can. He can also stand on his head and walk with his hands, wusing his feet to swing Decoration day flage with. But I don't think many men would find this last topsyturvey- dom either profitable or agreeable. Nor do 1 think that many men, actively engaged in city business, would find absentee farming profitable, 1t depends larg y upon what one means by “farming. I have a neigh- bor whose farm lu noticeable among its surroundings by reason of the un- usually neat appearance of its build— tmgs, the trimness of its fields, the good repair of its fences, etc. The owner tells me he has spent on this viressing up several hundred dollars a wvear more than his farm has brought htm in for several seasons. To the casual passer his place carries an air of prosperity. But it isn’t prosperous farming when the farm fails to pay =il its own expenses and a fair i over and above running cost. Another neighbor lives in to undertakes to direct his farm from khis desk there, with occasional visits eur- ing the spring, two moutas’ during the summer, and of the place from Nirembar to Am And he’s wondering why his - pavabl egularly outvote nis receivable.” He has good nclp and buys plenty of fertilizer and gets gocd eeed. He can't see why I should get a living off -ny farm while his contin- ues a steady °xovnse 1o him. When one wants to make of himself @ watchmaker, he begins at the begin- ning and learns his trade from the bottom up. It takes him several years ©of constant study and laborious work before he attains enough knowledge and skill even to earn days' wages at his avocation. When one sets out 1o be a surgeon, he takes a long coucse in the schools and devotes weary hours to practice before he thinks of opeaing an office and putting out a sningle. Usually it takes years after tnat be- fore he aequires the skill und swvhiich enable him to do reaily operations. When a man sets be a banker, he has to do ver ordinate work at first. It fsa't after long vears of devotion calling that he wins to th desk or the president’s prir. ‘e But when it comes to farming average banker, bookkeeper, «octlor, jawyer, watchmaker—what v Wil — generally seems to think that all he has to do is to buy a famn with a house and some barns »n i:, iel! a2 'Lan to raise 0 many acres of potatnes and corn and oats and keep so many cuows end =0 many hens, tri-n the law set out a sufficient number cf Hy gea paniculata grandifiora and V/ gelfa rosea variegata and Do J.emoinei—and live happv forever ter. The man who wouldn’'t admit the possibility of a greenhorn learning his own particular complicated business without a long apprenticeship assumas that he can “farm it” without techr cal farming knowledge, without daily study of his farm and his cps, with- out hourly and ever-preseint devotion to details, without the farmi Skl which comes only from loag and la-— borious practice. This seems to me to indicate rather more self-confidence than good judg- ment. “How can a man succeed at fa~m- ing?” “How can he make faring pav?’ These and similar questions sre constantly flung at us old hay- seeds by people who seem to wonder why we can’t answer them in a sen- tence. How can one make farming ay? Wh how can one make bank- F.z pay? “By knowing how,” is my nvariable answer. And the only arthly way to know how is by learn- ng. 1 couldn’t make a bank pay— ouldn’t make +it earn its Jjanitor’s ages. Put me in charge of the Chem- \cal bank tomorrow and in less than Jwe weeks I should probably have a ceiver in charge of the wreck. Turn fhe best bookkeeper in that bank on , my gardens in May and I don’t be- eve he would raise enough stuff— jalable, marketable stuff—to buy his Jog biscuit. Why should he expect to, yny more than I should rate myself a Japable bank manager? I = mever karned his business; he never learned mine. | suspect that one reason for the yurious cenfidence which so many peo- ie feel in their ability to “‘run a farm” L es from their habit of considering ; as unskilled labor. They are | Wt really &0 seif-conceited as might | de thought. They see old Uncle Jabes among his cab- cocks. He is cer- looking old *pottering P—Ag‘.w a inly thap and he awkward, ungainly manners and uncouth customs of gpeech. The work he does seems to be about the simplest sort of manual | labor: something anyone ecould do. | Moreov Uncle Jabez himself, slow of | thought and doubtful in speech, is apt | to estimate his own farm lore and farming skill rather low. attainments of | e © lers it so commeonplace that | | it isn't worth talking about. Unlike the average city business man, who is prone to rate himself quite as high as | the facts wiil warrant, Uncle Jabez | minimizes 1 own knowledge and | erafismanship. i Yet the fact is that Uncle Jabez's success as a farmer has come to him only after vears of struggle, after heart-breaking disappointments and GLENN'S. SULPHUR SOAP A hme-tated Iemedy for skin diseases. Un- equaied for bathing and toilet purposes.’ Sold by all druggite. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye, black or krown, 50c. TO FARMERS | ure to try, and persistently try for the failures, after the slow acquirement of a really scientific system, after the painful winmnrr of high technical skill. Would a surgeon think himself capa- ble of directing from his office in New York the management of a hospital in St. Louis, including the treatment of the individual patients and the opera- tions in cases demanding the knife? As well might he think of directing a farm in New Hampshire from his city desk. Onme thing would be no more ab- surd than the other. The skill of the surgeon is a very delicate and wonder- fu] possession, The skill demanded in successful farming, is Jikewise, a won- derful quality. It is perhaps true that “any fool can ruu a farm’—into the hands of the mortgagee. But the skill required to win success at farming, while of an entirely diffes rent sort from that demanded for amputating an arm, is quite as hard to gain and fully as technical. Once | had as helper in haying a brawny lumberman. He was stronger than I, could chop down and cut into logs a big tree while I was just start- ing an “undercut” on a little one. But when it came to so simple a task as almost worth- less. as that seem- ed easier than “pitching on.” He couldn’t get a ton of hay on my Sx16 foot rigging w'thum. halg of it sliding Boss, that plta‘hin‘ seems ea. try that,” he said. So I swapped jobs with him. He put that hay up to me in such shape that it was like forking fog to load it; his forkfuls came from all directions, he left as much in the windrow and scattered over the field as he put on the rigging, and at the end cf that firrt load he was drench- ed with sweat and actually trembling with exhaustio I could have pitched on ten loads with less worry than two caused him—and have done it much faster and bette: Yet up to that time I had never thought of I ng as call- ing for special skill. It's about the simplest sort of manual labor which the farm calls fer. Anybody can dig dirt and perspire. If that were all the is to farming T'd shut up and stay shut. But it isn’t. Not by a long shot. The farmer needs physical strength and abounding ener- 8y to start with, for he must work and word hard and work long. But strength and energy by themseives will never get him anywhere. The loco- motive’s tank may e full of water and its tender heaped high with al: but it won’t make time on the tracks till there's a fire under the boiler and a trained engineer directing . . ‘Bhe farmer must add to his strength <ill in the handling of a hundred tool skill in the treatment of a score of | differing soils, skill in the selection of seeds and fertilizers to meet varying demands, skill in forecasting the va- riable markets and skill in meeting the hostilities of even more variable sea- sons and weather. He must know his farm, field by neld; he must know it the year 'rounda and for many seasons; he must know it winter and summer, in drought ang in freshet; he must “be on the job™ all the time, not just a part of the time. He must be able to understand the meaning of the whim- sical springs and be ready, hoe in hand or horses on the plow, to take advantage of the golden moment when it comes. Farming—successful farming—calls for as persistent attention, as assidu- ous devotion, as painstaking consider- ation of detdils as any trade or busi- ness on earth. To win out In the oc- cupation one must think and live farm; he must tie himself to his ac feel them an indissoluble part of him- self. He must give himself up to his avocation as wholly = edly as the suc geon does to surgery znd t 11 banker to finance v fast and loose with his. bu will soon play the dickens with him! THE FARMER. Matrimonial. People who are married act as if it was against the law for either of them ever to admit that the other ‘was right about anything.—New York Press. Necessity for Plainness. “He's very plain in his speech. He calles a spade a spade.” “Well, he would hardly get one in a hardware store if he calied it a pianola, would he?” The Genuine Ge tleman. After all, it isn't clothes or deport- ment, or money, or doing as you'd be done by that makes - a gentieman. You've got to be all right forget it.—Irving Bacheller, and then Only Possibie Failure. There is no failure, there can be no failure for those who really try. The only failure possible in life is the fail- best.—Joaguin Miller. Harmless. Even if yon think that what is to be will be, there is no harm in trying to make it whai it ought to be.— Puck. Sure of It. And nine out of ten women are con- fident that if they had been born they would be making better than their husbands ar men salaries ' Anxiety. Some men seem o be as anxious to separate you from your time as others are to separate you from your money. —Chicago News. Make Life Brighter. If we cannot strew life’s path with flowers, we can, at least, strew it with swile -Dickens The Unruly Member. A man whose !ul_;: unbridied works badly in harness. e is kind of The Only Real Test. one knows the wor The farmer who leans on the Lord more than he pulls on the hoe han- dle doesn’t get bumper crops. Samantha Psalter has more symp- toms than a dog has fleas. It is no wonder she thinks that she is an in- valid, Bill Bangs never did have charity for his neighbors. He says when he's down to see Cy Cymbal he feels as if he was as near Wobbletown as he will ever get. ! Sariah says the woman who looks down upon the beauty of the flowers and up to the glory of the sun every day realizes that God is! ‘We talkabout a morning in May as we do about a rare day in June, but some of them are mot so much differ- ent from a morning in January. We were all out looking at the comet the other night when Parson Dawson says our souls will speed for heavens like that some day, and Bill Bangs inquired: “Do you ’'spose they’ll make 1,900 miles a minute, parson?” If hired help worked like men, Eben- ezer Ensley would not brag about do- ing two men’s work in a day. A man’s work can't be doubled. Jim Jones is as human as can bhe. He is always going to do something that he hasn't done. I have known men who were too smart to do things as their fathers did, and the result was that most of ‘em did not do things as well I believe there’s a great deal more in a smile than there is in the Old Farmer's Almanac; but it can't be made out quite as easily. The man who licks his horse when he is mad with himself is only a lit- tle nearer a brute than a fool. The high price of feed and the greed of the contractors promise to make the Dbest cow unprofitable. After April corn has had cold feet it doesn’t make growth like May corn. “This is where the last shall be first, as sure as Scripture. Some farmers get money in the bank because they grow all they eat and do not have to pay out profits to oth- ers. I expect the girls stay on the farm because they can’t get off. It is too much of a tax to get clothes and money, too. A farmer who doesn’'t know enough to make the drainage away from the well and binds feel at home on his acres doesn’t get all that should come to him. The woman who brooms the cat will rolling-pin her husband if the provo- cation is great enough. A 17-year-old boy more than his father; and when has become a father he wonders how he knew so much when in his te¢ens. always knows A hen does not cackle any more over a big egg than over a little one, but the man who owns the hen doe A country minister can’'t keep his closet full by prayer; but some of his parishioners seem to think that he ought to. I have known deacons in the church who thought they did the best they could, when nobody else thought so. That old saw, “Tickle the earth with a hoe and it will laugh with a harvest,” is true enough, but the laugh always comes just before a frost, if I remem- ber right. ____JoB joLT. * MUSIC AND DRAMA Of Lewis Waller's revival of Rivals” The Pall Mall Gazette id: “We should have ‘been very happ, with more Sheridan and less scenery.” “The Henry B. Harris has engaged Harry Harwood, Jeffreys Lew Arthur Shaw, Willette Kershaw and Marion Kerby for “The Country Boy,” which will be produced in the fall. Laurence Ir n'g will act next sea- son in a new comedy by Harrison Rhodes (co-author with M Wise of “A Gentleman from Mis ppi) and Howard Herrick. Henschel has received from Edin- burg university the honorary degree of doctor of music. In the roles of singer, conductor, composer and pian- ist, Lco Ditrichstein, Vincent Bry Arthur Pryor are mak play out of the old Ditrichst “There and Back,” and it w duced in Chicago early Irene Van Brugh, the Englist s, is coming to th country 1son at the head of her own It is also reported that Hare is considering an Ame vasion. 1 be pro- in the fall mpa- John an in- The Chocolate Soldier” ed the distinction of ng had the longe 5.[ run of any show in New York ince it ovened in September it has pl ces through mor has achiev- *d to utive performances. The name of the new Augustus Thomas p! for next season is “The by Member from Ozar] produced in Detroit on Seplember T. N. Heffron, the new heavy man o the Poli stock company, wil ¢ the role of a politician in this pl and it v Bessie Abott, the prima. donna of the Paris opera, who comes to this country next_season at the head of her own company, was the Juliet to Jean de R on the occasion of the great tenor’s last appearance in gmnd opera. American-born “Ocular Opera,” or “Opera in Ac- tion,” is the title given to the per- formances of the Russian ballet in which Anna Pavlowa and Michael Mordkin, the Russian dancers, will be seen in this country next season. They will open their season at the Metropolitan opera house October 15. Now that competition between rival operatic companies has ceased, one thing that will be stopped will be the carrying back to Burope of such big sums paid singers for whom these rivals have competed. Caruso’'s earn- ings for the vear are put at 0,000, $50.000 of it from phonograph rec- ords: Geraldine rrar'’s at $60,000; Fadski and Fremstad, each, $50,000 iZmmy Destinn, who does not seem as vit to nographic favorite, 3$ $90.000, and Mary ;8 Renaud, $50,000, and Daimo What Wilhelm Told Teddy. Evidently the kaiser told our colonel that he, the kaiser, intends to be some- thing of a world’s peace-maker him- self.—Toledo Blade Mr. Henschel has achieved fame. | at the } than | i he | | rheumatic pain use a mi zke's Romeo | THREE PRIZES MONTHL third. Award made the last Saturday EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letter: ful letters of any kind the mind may ‘Wednesday of ,each week. NEW CONTRIBUTORS WELCOM No woman who can write a little letter should feel is proven attractive enough to Girls in their teens are eligible, in to the Social Corner. Everybody are added. It has Farmer Boy—a readable letter, too. little letters from them on any subject make all readers sit up and take nouce,—l'ibl TOR SOCIAL CORNER. An Understanding Sympathy For Men. Editor Social Corner:—I wonder v many women ever suspect that they may fail in sympathy for the men they love best—their fathers and husbands and brothers and sons. It is an under- standing sympathy that is needed. Perhaps only these women who have carried the double burden, the father's as well as the mother’s, the home-pr viders as well as the home-makers, can realize a man's struggle. These women lie awake at night often enough to understand what & business man suffers when he has a heav obli- gation-to meet and is not sure he can make his collections in time to meet it. They themselves may metimes be slow pa but never when they can help it; never from forget- fulness or carelessness or indif- ference. Besides. there is still in ine world a residue of chivalry and court- esy which comes to the aid of a womin who is known to be struggling against heavy odds, but men are never tender- ly considered. It is a man’s business to maintain hijs family. If he does not do it, or cannot do it, he is despis- ed. But many a man fails in his part, or partly fails, not wholly by his own fault. “To get one's self existed,” as CarlyYe puts it, is no light task. To succeed largely is, in these days of cut-threat competition, the good fortune of the few, not of the many. Occasionally I hear a woman say that a man has no right to marry until he can support a wife in comfort. This may be true; but hard luck comes sometimes to those who start out with bright prospects. Only yesterday 1 heard a woman say that she had no respect for any man who would allow his wife to do her own klhl!@n work. She said this, i : sertion of any Though childishly unreasonable, doubtedly there is more of this sort.! of fecling than most of us suspect. I believe most women do their part | in the home faithfully and uncom- plainingly; but I believe, too, theg no woman who has not had to earn for herself and for others dependent upun her, no woman not in the race or life, not in the struggle for exist ever fully realize or can realizc |lh> ‘weight of a man’s burden. Men do, as a rule carry their burdens as a matier of course, and meet their obligatioas | without making any fus bout it. THE WAYFARER. Norwich, Rheumatism. there roon owing? For ture of cqual 6il and wintergreen oil. Iy, birch oil is equal- | Cure and Diet for Editor Social Corne the cor: for the in parts of olfve Applied extern z00d and much less expensice. | ken internally, be sure to get pure | wintergreen oil. Dose, three drops, | mixed with half a teaspoonful glycerine and a little water, three times a day. Used ecternally, it will give relief. but rheumatism once ac- quired is like you. As to diet, I give some of the advice I have received during many years’ experience: Never the poor, “always with eat sweet; Acids refuse and never, never use Vegetables that grow in the ground Peas and heans are allowed, and some of the crowd lettuces, cabbage, green food Which growing in air can be found. any meat nor anything or and forms of On no account try any kind of And milk by all means decline, Unless 'tis your wish to grow Coffee and tea are not for such pie, stout. Nor cereal foods, and many ther ! And all the,good things read aboat, Fruit may be tried, if ever you've spied Any that’s not sour nor sweet, will increase. after being Or rheumatics and flesh Pure air may be taken, well shaken On general terms clear out to the germ Which are likely to cause your demise, the and Meantime I advise my sisters of corner to ick to wintergreen oil common sense, and possibly they iill outlive their advises. HANNAH HOMESPUN. Norwich. Mock Asparagus. I Editor Social Corner: When espara- | v is 25 cents a pound I am out uf but can subatitute a very good ra(-_ mile; it is this: Pick some young, | tender milkweed, remove the leaves, cut the stalk in pieces about two | inches long, cook in just salted hot | witer enough to keep from burning. | Keep cover on, as steam helps to it. When done, push to back of till you can toast some slic butter slices, skim out milkwe on toast, then cut cold hard hoiled egx round in rings, placing three or four white rings on one slice and the y iow yolk on the other slice: drop pi of butter into water milkweed was| cooked in; dissolve and pour over all. | There will be about two tablespoons- ful for each plate; take a shallow little glass dish, fill with bright red ! radishes and cover with water; put| toothpick in end of radish and dip in | open salt dish and eat from pick. This is palatable and economical. J. E. T. Yantic. | - A Nest Robber. Editor Social Corner: May I come| into your corner and be sociable, with you Every week I have rcad the enter- taining letters, and have hesitated each | time about writing, and then having| to read my own dribble; but last Sat- urday, May 31, when I read the letter from “Avie,” my love for the bird neighbors and a bit for the old house to0, cat led me on. My idea was to st that Kitty was not alone in breakin up whole families, but squirrels, snakes and blue-javs were meddle some, too; the climax is this, and the story iy true: The next th gude ol (Jast Sund:dy) the! " he went to this side | through the neighboring fields and | woods and under a pine of size sat! down and watched the birds visiting in| this little pine grove. When from a| little pine near at hand came such an | outory that we were both somewhat startled. Fathier and Mother Robin | called. eried, fluttered, showing in trua | bird style utter distress; then came day $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, | the | T woulg be very treatment ”'B:u.mdmhul btm D) u Y have so often udo;:'fivofi:ul m.l’. A Bachelor Woman’s Loaf. Bditor Social Corner: Coolking for one is difficult because food must be fills the bill, Procure an earthen mix- ing bowl holdi four or five quart Warm it on all les; pour into it two- in each month. good hel suggest. They should be in hand Norwich, Conn. ilmld about coming week new writers a letter from a Chatty This Corner must welcome. Every call out W | be acceptable. three other birds to their aid, and then the “gude mon”. He went to this side of the little pine, but could not see anything, even a nest; at his approach the birds flew a short distance away, but the robins from their retreat con- tinued their lamentations. When we started for the crest of the hill I thought I would investigate and find the nest and the trouble, if possible. 1 started to push into the pine boughs from the opposite side when my cry brought the *“gude mon"” quickly to my @aid, for there swinging down branch by branch was a big spotted adder with a baby robin in his mouth. A stout whip soon put an end to that home-destroy but too late to save aby robin. As we walked slow- up the hill Father Robin ceased his mourning, and when last scen had a worm dy to take to the remainder of his family. Brave little fellow, So pussy is not always at fault, WEE MAC. Norwich. A Farmer’'s Boy. oclal Corner: I like to read " because it gives useful Lints and throws light on many things. 1 am a farmer's boy, 16 years old. I chinery. I would very much be an auto-driver. 2 the city, but will have to that the country, or farm, much more healthy plm(_ than the noisy city. Especially the young peo- ple enjov themselves rather more on the old farm. There is more freedom, con- is a fess fresh air, I will not attempt to describe all lhp pleasure of farm life. I would advise all the boys and girls today to stay on the farms, or, at not gi up interest in the old urthermore would advise girl and boy to get a zood edu- It will prove a great help in v unexpected wa 1 like to go to school, but my father -4 my help on the farm and ation has been somewhat neg- 't truthfully say because my mind but I like to stay in count of my health. Tha farm is the place for nervous people. T like music. It comes as natural to me as a liking for machiner, I have use of an otgan, on which I can a very little. 1 have never taken esson on any instrument. I own a fine drum, a cornet that went through the war of 1861, a violin, harmonica and jewsharp. I play aill of these ine struments. Ag I am the country only boy in the family lonesome without mu- sic. I going to school very much, I can see the lack of educa- miss and also tion, too. I have wished many times that the boys of the neighborhood would get interested in music and get up a small orchestra, but their interests are In something besides music, MILTON WHIPPLE. Mystic. The Naming of Children. Editor Social Corner: I have a chum who 1s a way of naming children not common. e is the mother of four children, lmu girls and one boy, and she always gives then one nam at birth and when they were six years or thereabouts asks them their favor- ite name and then uses the name fir given them for their second nam One girl called for Mildred, another Maude, and another for Edith, and the boy called for Henr) T think it the best way to let them name themselves, so that they will be satisfied. I think | you will agree with me that they | chose pretty names—Mildred Violet, Maude Ida, I Edith Florence Henry Irving. SARAH JANE. Preston. [This is a very pretty way of nam- ing children, and in states where reg- istration is not required it would in no ways eompligate matters, but here in New England where the name reg- istered at birth is the legal name, it would have to be corrected, or in fu- ture matters of legal import it might e difficult to identify the two namw belonging to one and the same per- son. Legaj complications of this kind are better a\oklr-d 1—Ed. Mere Man Should Be Tolerated. itor Social Corner: I think that are right in the opinion that the 11 Corner isg calling out some 1t letter-writers. 1 have been sed and edified by the sentiments -d In the Corner. I like the sty Merry Marths ixperience Home- spun, Arethusa, and others whose pen names I do not recall. It is so helpful 1nd so social and sweet-spirited that [ of most of the letter: It is a good plan to let “a mere man” contri- bute when he feels like it, for with wen as with women, some are wise and some are otherwise. It takes an experienced and warm-hearted man to | talk sensibly about feminine affairs. | The way of the male is too often the! way of ridicule. When the Johns talk right T enjoy their criticisms. I hope that they will keep at it SUSANNA. A Few Things You Should Know. Editor Social Corner: There is no| danger that any of us will ever know | too much. The little helps to comfort‘ and heaith are good to have handy, as they not only prevent disasters but save money. Sciatic rhemantism has been greatly benefited by the use of lemons. Take four lemons and boil for ten minutes, from a cold water start, then squeeze out into a cup and sweeten. Take by the tablespoonful during the day and keep this up for two or three months, if it has been of long standing. By bolling you get the oil with the juice and that is why it is so much better. ran gruel is one of the 'best reme- for constipation. Boil the bran in sufticidut _guantity to make a thin gruel nd drisk instead of tea and e t meals. With a Mttle milk or cam wnd sugar added it Is quite pal- 1Zat some of the bmi. is a simple way for treating velps: Dip a towel one yard oldest water you can ‘get; as possible (having pre- ously foldéd It about four inches | wede), wind it around the leg and over all with a dry piece of old sheet, mnany thicknesses, or a Turkish téwel to keep the bed dry. Try this for nine varic long in the ng as dr thirds of a pint of warm water; drop fn half of a eourrromd yeast cake; two tablespoonfuls lard or soft but- ter; one tablespoonful sugar, and one teaspoonful of salt. Cover and let stand until the yeast is dissolved, then add three pintg of best bread flour. Mix well and stir For at least ten minuts Cover closely and set in a warm place to rise. It should be foamy and full of airy bubbies, Knead in more flour — enough to make a stiff, smooth dough. Knead ten minutes; cover and set to rise until double its bulk. When light enough knead down once more, Let rise, knead down, divide into loaves, put in pans to rigse, When double its bulk bake half an hour. Keep close- ly covered in a stone jar, ventilat- ing occasionally to keep the bread from becoming mouldy. A LONE STAR. Norwich, Looking for Emancipation. Editor Social Corner: Having paus ed to honor and memorize our past and present patriots in our beautiful Me- morial day, we are looking forward to our grand dsy of independence. Do you not, my thoughtful sisters, care for a wider scope to our fleld? Would you not like to have a front seat in the governing of our dear country-— take a real hand in the fight instead of waiting for the dear man to make up his mind who it is best to vote for? Do you not think that you could help to untangle the dreadful states of af- fairs, the high price of living that makes us spend pless nights as well as worrying days trying to make the small wage cover the big expense of food and clothing? Why not spend more time studying the political ques- tion and learning the ways of making yourself an intelligent voter when we shall have gained our real independ- ence? And, perchance, you'll soon have the pleasure of celebrating our long- hoped for EMANCIPATION DAY. Norwich Compromise Is a Good Dog. Editor Social Corner: What ¥Frank says about a woman's pride and a man’s comfort is true, but such a sit- uation involves at least the discom- fort of one. Situations in the house which tell for the discomfort of one are points for compromise, and com- promise is & good dog where harmony is unselfishly sought for. The home which is the wife's p#de should have 2 place of comfort in it for the loung- Ing, smoking hushand, A work room both where they may chat and read and work and he may smoke. Tobaceo smell all over the house might be well enough to kill kitchen smells and both tell against neatness. Sweet odors be- me a clean house. Frank and I could get on well, I see what he objects to. Wilful waste makes woeful want in more ways than one SBALLY LUNN. Too Big a Price. Does the pursuit of wealth eut the American man of business off from the old-fashioned relish of books and society? In other words, is he paying too big or dispreportionate a price in time and strength for wealth and commercial prominence? My answer would be: Yes, beyond question.— From A. Barton Hepburn's “The American Business Man” in the Ced tury. Hot Water for the Ey Nothing will better draw out fim flammation caused by tears than to soak the eyes in hot water. To do tals the cloth should be wet and laid over the lids, renewing as soon as the beat subsides. Ten minutes of this makes the whole face red and as the blood recedes, the lids bleach with the rest of the skin. Woman's Vindication. With a dripping paiot brush her only weapon, a New York woman dropped from a second-story window, jammed the brush down the throat of a supposedly mad dog and rescued several children from apparent peril. And yet some people make mean re marks about women who paint.—Man chester Union. Real Manhood. True maohood is openness without levity, generosity without waste, secrecy without craft, humility without meanness, boldness without insolence, caution without anxiety, regularity without formality, mildoess without timidity, firmness without tyranny. Lavater, The First “Blue Laws.” Tke name “blue laws” was glven to the first colleétion of laws framed for the government of the New Ha- ven colomy. They were published in collective form in 1650, the volume be- ing in a blue cover, which gave rise to the name that has clung to the laws ever since. Indian View of It Speaking of insanity, It is said thet there were never more than ten cases of identified insanity among the In- dians on the North American comth ment; and they were regarded as pos- sessed of a hoavenly spirit—Colum- bus Press-Post. Humane Principles. “Why do you begrudge me the pleas- ure of a little sociability?” said Mrs. Corntossel. “You seem to bate to have company.” “Well,” answered the farmer, “you see, I'm a member of the | 8. P. C. 'A. and I hate to have the More Bookshops Wanted. The business of bookselling remaine much as it was when the mass of the population could not read. There are millions of poteatial readers in the country who camnot get books for want of bookshops ~From the Aw thor. In the World of Letters. “What is Mterature?” wald the per sn who tries to start arguments. “Literature” apswered the man at the typewriter, “is something te put wround advertisements so thay cam be more effectively displayed.”