Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 11, 1919, Page 8

When you wash' your hair, be care- what you use. Most ' soaps and = shampgos co::nt.}in too muc‘h alkghl, whick is very injurious, as it S0 e ocaly S makes the Thatt brittle. The best thing to use is just plain mulsifigd cocoanut oil, for this is pure and . less. It's very cheap, beats the most expensive soaps: or anything else all to pieces. You ean get this at arny drug store, and a few ounces will last the whole family for months. Simply moisten the hair with water end rub it in, about a_teaspoonful is «ll thet H'ortoquh:ed It ' makes an rich, easily. The hair dries aquickly and evenly, and is soft, fresh- looking. bright, fluffy, wavy easy to hanglé. Besides, it lbosens and takes out every particle of dust dirt and dandrofr. Just Arrived 400 BARRELS OF Pillsbury’s XXXX Best King Victor Flour None better at any price. If you have never tried it—try once and you will never use any other. Chas. 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It is “instinct” which guides the new-born calf's mouth to its mother's udder; “instinct” which, when You take the calf away and ‘set out to milk the mother, leads her to “hold up” her milk for her calf. The romances of the nature-fakers are full of wonderful tales of this ani- mal “instinct,” some of which are very likely, true. The experience of every farmer who has to deal with animals contains more or less remarkable in- stances of the same functioning. But what about “instinct” in vege- tables. Does the very suggestion of a peossikility that they, too, may possess it, mimne you grunt incredulity >—If, by any chance, Neighbor Waterhouse should happen to read this, he would almost certainly say to himself: “I r ¢ ways knew John Farmer had a so-c spot in his head. Why'n tofet can’t ne keep it covered up, instead of ex - ing it this way?” But, if it isn't “instinet,” then what is it which enables plants to pick and chgose their food and, on occasion and by compulsion, change ‘their routine of life? On one of my garden patches I sow, early in the spring. rows of radish seed and lettuce seed and spinach seed and turnip seed; sometimes three or four varieties of each. . The ground is all about the same. It is manured aliKe. It is treated in all ways as nearly the same 3 I can treat it. So far as 1 know or can find out, there is no ap- preciable difference in the character or mposition of the.soil from one edge ©f the strin to the other. Nor do I ever know, tgl I get there with the drill, ?, L= Den’t Retire' Your Tire To the scxap pile just because it has been badly damaged. Bring it hor:‘ and chances are we. can vulcanize it into many more miles of service. Our work lengthens the life of tires and thus cuts down the cost of upkeep. Qur Tire Vulcanizing a decided help in these days of comservation. Silvy’s Tire Shop 114 FRANKLIN STREET NEAR WILLOW Open Evenings Until 9 P. VULCANIZING SHOP TIRE REPAIRING AND TUBES Ali Work Guaranteed HENRY DUPREY Yantic P. O. Box 153 TO AVOID MOTOR EVIDENCE OF INSTINCT IN PLANTS in which order I.am ‘going to put in the various seeds. Sometimes I pu* lettuce in first at'the east edge, sometimes 1 put, radishes or spina there and lettuce farther to the we 1v's largely a mafter of chance, for t.. soil is so like all over the patch, that one place ‘seems as good as another. Now, when I've drilled in those ten or a dozen varieties of seed, covering four distinct: families of plants, the seed first softens, swells, opens and sends out a teeny-weeny little root. Which root promptly begins its life- work, ‘viz, the feeding of the young plant. It ‘seeks, and obtains -this food from" the flue dirt’ particles which it encounters in its pushing downward and outward. These dirt particles are all practi- cally the same in" -composition. The rain-water which 'softens them and makes them give up their ju rootlets’ sucking is always of practi- cally the same composition. Yet the root which starts from a spinach seed takes from thel soil and the moisture only those forms of food which make spinach—never by any chance the forms which make lettuce or radish or iturnip. And . the root which . comes from the radish-seed picks out the food which makes radishes only. Some with the others.. Net only that but, if the seed put in one row-was Big Bos- ton lettuce and that in the next was Hanson lettuce, the roots will pick out for ome row the plamt food which makes Big Boston and for the other the plant-food which makes Hanson. Could you do it? Use all the brains God gave you and all the reason with which He’ endowed you, and all the knowledge which the accumulated la- bors of generations of chemists and cultivators have stored up for you, if vou will. Can you by the aid of all these make a soil which will contain only the lettuce elements, so that the radish seed you plant will _come up and make a lettuce head? You know very well you can't. that makes your seed grow into let- tuce. It's that dirty little root, bu-- rowing blindly in the darkness out'/ your sight. which unerringly picks c_. of soil and water the food which makes lettuce —and never radish— never, never, never! How does it know? Perhaps vou cealed sneer: “Wh: its nature Well, if ou prefer to call it with an » of course; ill-con- that’ “na- BIGGEST CUT PRICE SALE AT OUR STORE nd Sa a ces to the | i { It isn't the soil| Our Entire Manufacturers’ low that you cannot afford to miss. CAPES AND DOLMANS Were $30.00 to $50.00 — SALE PRICE $19.50 Were $18.00 to $27.00 — SALE PRICE $12.95 Were $12.00 to $16.50 — SALE PRICE $9.95 Few SILK DRESSES at $12.95, Were VOILE DRESSES Were $12.00 to $18.00 — SALE PRICE $ 6.95 GINGHAM DRESSES Were $6.95 to $8.50 — SALE PRICE $4.95 Were $35. Were $25. Were $20. Were $15. 140 Main Street, Norwich, ture,” you Tiave that right. call instinct” when the right past the barren and nectarless | flower to_dive imto the heart of a clov You call it “instinct” when the calf, as soon as he can stand on his But you bee flies it for the mother cow’s udder. and bunt- | it vigorously if it doesn’t at first| supply him with the milk he scems to | know is there. If it js “instinct” which | enables the bee and .the calf to know instantly their premer food and where to obtain: it.'why- ismt it “instinct” which enables the radish root to know instantly what ‘sort of food °-= select in order to become a radich # due course? For my part, | can’t see much ference ~ between tweedledum and tweédledee. ‘If a certain act in beast or bee is called stinct” why ouldn’t # simildr act. involving sim ilar functioning, be called “instinct’ the piant I've had two notablé instances of workings of ' this vegetable inst this unusual season.- I always sow number of seedings of spinach, so to have a succession in crop. The first sowings, last spring, were put in dur- | ing a wet time. They. grew. slowly at | first, but quite normally. Sometimes, | in’cutting, a plant would be pulled up. The shallowness af i(s root s soon attracted my nstice. Inst 2 long tap-root pushing straight| downward as usual. the tap-roots were | abnormally short and the rootlets cl to the surface and uncommonly ard_thick. All“this time the grou.. saturated with moisture ed every day, more. or les: the surface was always we in | A TROUBLE leave your repair work in our hands. 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From time with daily or bi-daily rains we swung into a month ‘without even drep of rain and with almost intoler able heat. Not only did, that top in of soil dry out-but the six or éig inches below dried out, t00. The roots, which had. obtained all peeded sup- plies right at hand close fo the s fate during the wet spell,. ‘suddem: found themselves trying to work in bone-dry dirt. ‘The later sowings of spinach stopped growth and begun to llow. The tap-roots made a nobl effort to correct ‘their ‘Initial mistake and get down to the watef-table. But ! it was too” late. .They: couldn't grow downward_as fast as the water-table lowered. Some of them did very well. ! I pulied one, last night, which, from an almost bulbous root near the sur- face, had hurried -down an: unusually | slender tap~root more,than six inches ! in a vain endeayor to touch moisture. | These later sowings, produced al- | most no saledble spinach.™TInstead of making a thick, - -meaty, Jjuley le growth, they produced only sparse and spindling leaves. but started seed- stems almost as soon as they got| above ground. Tndeed, in some case- | the seed-stems started before the sec ond leaves, fesulting in a stunted stalk | with a stunted .seed-head and not a leaf on it as big as a nickel. Now just reflect a minute on what happened uudergfound. These poo spinach roots, finding it absolutely im possible to get the food necessary 4 normal ieaf-growth, had - promp.. | turned a right-about-face, and set out to develop at least some seed. In plant | life as in animal, the first and most imperative command of nature is for re-production. . ‘That .command these starving rootlets obeved. Since they couldn’t find “food enough' to make Jeaves, they sét out-to make seed, if that much were otill ‘possible. Someone will say, perhaps 3 of course, things do poorly in a drought.’ That's nothing to make talk over.” Yes, ves: but why. did these spinach roots which, normally, would have: spent the firgt few days of their lives feeding -big. fat, luscious:leaves, why :did- they,-when ‘they found they ceuldn’t get material to make leaves | with, drop the attempt and turn all their remnant of energy to making seed? If-it is “instinet” whieh makes “Wh; W. E.” SHANLEY : - TINNING 499 Main 8t T 7103 T her young, why wasn't it whieh | % b the mother bird care for her eggs and “instin {rows to the dying tas] !season, was along In unsteady younmg legs, heads straight|. ito den {found no need of going linches below on. The; even to blossom. They simply went | and_the place which once knew them knows them no more. | But, ac: in pulling vines, | ing of forming seed } 13,416. The taxes are nings_of the to " the the species instance I've noted, this the same lines. I a better ggrmination or ear- h of peas, until the . rains and the drought asserted it- self. The vines stood this just .about a week. Then, in a single twelve-hour period, about half of them died. Sus- pecting a possible blight, we sprayed o preserve The other cor) r 3 dead ly gro eased 1=9 Iways, 4 pathetic attempt of the tap-root to telegraph adapt itself to the changed conditiong by a desperate thrust downward. | cent; Now you imay laugh at me, if you Wates, want to—I'm' willing to be laughed a:i ' 1 | } ®as per_cent. amounting The C. 992,44, 0., $186,102.92, phone and Telggr: to 51,445, ecticut ¢ the ring T ture they Like the spinach, had been ob ning period. all the m in the surface so They had | down and_had, | CORPORATIO violated their usual rule of | Instead of long tap-roots | had fibrous masses of hairy g © nto the top-soil than three pea the |do in animal in . reot THE FARMER. NS WILL PAY $2.713,416 STATE TAX/ r: needed toe therefore, conduct they, too, rootiets running nd often reaching le $36,230.28 and Tax Commissioner Corbin has noti- fied the public service corpcrations of | the amount of taxes which will be due ire Stock of Capes, Suits Dolmans at Much Less Than . Allsn o Big hit oF Veile Dvessin jast Bought will be offercd: ok SOME OF OUR CUT PRICES BELOW: SERGE AND JERSEY DRESSES One lot of Pretty White Bedford Cloth SKIRTS, Sale Price $2.89, Value $3.9 Few Children’s COATS and CAPES, Were to $10.00, Sale Price $4.95 Pretty White Lingerie WAISTS, Were to $2.50 THE SPECIALTY SH hadn’t time to set pods. Not |be paid by these corporations is $2,- levied on the gros: followinic fthere is oceasionally’ shown an almost | Steam railroads 3 1-2 per cent.; street ra express companies, compani telephone companie;; and clectric companies, the Southern oh Co. The Hartford Electric Co. will the Hartford City Gas | Light Co., $16,838.45. | SUES MYSTIC CONCERN 3 FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT | DAYS. EVER SEEN g 7 Cost X, SUITS" 00 to $55.00 — SALE PRriCE $22.50 00 to $35.00 — SALE*PRI(CE $16.50 $18.50 to $22.50. Lo 00 to $25.00 — SALE ‘PRICE $14.95 00 to $20.00 — SALE PRICE $ 9 = .05 , Sale Price $1.95 op Conn < B Cambridee, or" breach of ocon- tract. The plaintiff claim; that the | defendant <-m.wmrr‘i “{.fiyx‘x to keep‘a agreement .to. hirg, him, as gener. manager- and preSfdent of ‘the com pany and to issue to him 380 shares 2lof stock: A suit’ of equity has been instituted in_the Massachusetts courts Lo re-tirainsthe, nady | tdom transferRigsine 4 woerd S dombel 1t to issue the stock ta the plaintiff ac- porations, accord percentages: 3 per 4 per cent; i them, but with no beneficial effect.|if it will make _The New York, New Haven and|cording to agreement Then 1 pulled some and examined the pcheerful—but I'm fartford Railroad Co. 'will pay moge| The plant and real estate pf the | roots. The answer there, t0o plain | vegetable in: rthan: haif . the entire anfount, its’ taX | comnany in Mystic and nfoney in the L009.56. lo. will pay $43 New iingland American_ Tele- $62,654.03. pay Mystic Biver:Naglonal bank in Mystic | has been attached.' Papers in the suit were served by Liepuiy Sheriff. Manuel J. Martin and a¥e returnable before the superior court for New [Londan | county the first Tuezday ‘in Septem- ber. Hartford.~Steps ' for four councils.of the! Knights of Co- ferging the the surface. During the lumbus ‘Wwere taken recemtly, when & ns they had started out to produce | this year from them to the state next g Y y " Umusually rank vimes and foliage.| Tuesday, July 15, and he has fur-| Allen Spool and Wood Turning Co. | committee: of elght, composed of two When the drought fairly got zoing the | nished the state treasurer with a|of Mystic, a Massachusetts corpora-|representatives of each council, met dirt areund their root: dried up and |statement of the taxes to be pavable|tion, has been made the defendant in|and voted in favor of the proposition. then. The total amount of taxes to|a suit brought by they had absolutely no reserves to call C: Roy Cool of|The total membership is over 1,300 upee e ey e al- i Skt The first man's drink was water and grain. Bevo is the highest refinement of the natural drink of primitive man-~ the accepted drink of modern America-+ abeverage with real food value. A healthy and substantial drink at : the soda fountain,or with lunch at the restaurant , a comfort waiting for you in the ice~-box at home. Sold ovorywhoro - Families supplied by grocor, drugdist and doales. Visitors are invited to inspoct our planty ANHEUSER-BUSCH Stoddard-Gi Distribuors Ibert & Co. Ine. NORWICL, ST.LOUIS