The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-11-14

light and often until after dark. Sub
scribers generally worked out their sub
scriptions, and but little money was
used. AT the same time this road was
being built, another road three miles
south, and parallel with this, was being
built under the provisions of law.
While we built at cost of little more
than $500 per mile, the one under the
law, cost 50, 500 per mile, and the uni
versal verdict is the road built under
the law with its enormous burden of
tax, is not as good as our cheap road
built under common-sense and neigh
borhood enterprise"
The practical teaching of this sugges-
tive contrast is obvious. Let farmers
have more confidence in their own abil-
ity; rely on themselves; cooperate and
escape the meshes of costly red tape"
Teach Children to DO Things Right the
First Time.
Ifyou will teach the children and all
about you in the house to do things by
the FIRST Intention" or what is some
times called the primary movement,
half the work of housekeeping is saved.
For instance a boy sharpens a lead
pencil; he cuts it all over the sofa or
floor. There the shavings lie until
somebody has to sweep them up. 1.-The
had been taught to do the cutting or
any whiting over the waste basket, or
In winter over q newspaper, then
emptying his chips into the fire, the
whole performance is finished when it
is done. just so with the people who
strike matches and leave them where
they fall, on the tops of bureaus or
washstands, or on mantle shells. Every
burnt match should go directly into
some receptacle provided for it. or into
the fire. In cutting out materials
to make up it is perfectly easy
to gather up the scraps as they drop
under the scissors, and put them into o
little basket. In dress-itting do your cut
ting over a large sheet spread upon the
floor, which can be gathered up every
day, and its contents assorted for the
piece bag. In eating fruit teacha child
to put away the skin and pits at once
where they should go, eating them over
a plate or paper instead Of over the
whole place. There is no need of two
movements to finish what can be done
in one. When q crooked kettle is set
down upon q clean wooden table then
somebody has to scrub hard to get the
mark out. When fruit-dr1ppmg fin
gers are wiped in fair white napkins,
then there is trouble in the wash and
ruin in the linen closet. The primary
movement in both these cases would
have supplied the proper iron stand and
the colored d'oyley first. But it is
chiefly in avoiding the useless litter"
and confusion that children and their
elders make about a room that the saw
ing tells. 1t is just rs easy in opening
letters and taking off the wrappers of
newspapers to drop all the bits into the
waste. basket at once as it is to occupy
somebody's five minutes in gathering
them up afterwards. Teach the maid,
little or full-grown, that il she will
have clean hands before opening a door
then the door jam does not have to be
rubbed off afterwards with ammonia to
get the marks off. Teach the child
with its candy not to touch anything
else with "sticky" fingers; one small girl
in New York used to be set down at O
table with aplate before her, and taught
to eat her candy with q fork. This was
going to the opposite extreme; fork and
plate had to be washed afterwards, but
not the hands or the furniture. 1t ought
to be sufficient to have the child know
it must wash it's hands after such sweet
meats, and not spoil the comforts of
other people who come unawares on a
sticky" door-handle or chair back.
Every door-mat is q sign put out for
the primary movement and every scra-
per. When they are not used then
somebody has to sweep up all the foot
marks from the summer linen
floor covers, the delicate carpet
or the pretty oiled floor. If you
shut in your windows when the
blow cumes up that precedes a thun-
der gust you will lot have to spend a
half hour busting the house. If you
shut in the outside shutters at such q
time you will keep the parlor window
panes from being splashed and stained.
If you put a thick pad of cuttings from
old comfortables or the bought carpet
Innings for the stairs on the edge of each
step you will not have SO often to mend
or shift q worn carpet on the stairway.
All of this is familiar. doubtless to
Household" readers, but, there are a
hundred other matters that may be
considered as they come up in which
the first way of doing things saves steps
and time and trouble. Especially is
this to be noticed in fitting up the
rooms where you live or work. Have
the most needed articles close at hand,
even if you have to put up two or three