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River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-05
FARMING FOR WOMEN.
A Move In the Right Direction inaugural
ed at the Right Time.

A Move In the Right Direction inaugural
ed at the Right Time.
Farming is entirely suitable, dig
nified and profitable occupation for
women. The prejudice against their
employment in agricultural labor,
which arose from the british and de-
graded condition of the peasant wom-
en- in some European countries. and of
the women of barbarOus tribes, has
been gradually dying out. 1t has come
to be understood that the degradation OF
these women is the result of other con-
ditions than the mere fact of Out-of-
door work, and it has come to be rec
ognized that not only the superintend-
ence of the labors Of farm and its
financial management are duties
eminently suited to a woman's
best powers, but that the details of its
work are by no means beyond her
physical powers. The use of machines
in large farming makes much possible
to women which might otherwise be
beyond their strength, but even the
more arduous labors of pioneer farm
ing, the telling OF trees Tand fencing OF
land and breaking of sod have recently
been performed with entire success by
young women of no less education and
refinement than strength and courage.
Horticulture and Horticulture are
especially adapted to women, and
market gardening is a truly ideal oc-
cupation for women whose education
in practical finance is sufficiently
thorough to make them equal to the
management of business which re-
quires large capital and involves many
risks, but the labOrs of which are
admirably fitted for women, and the
profits of which, under intelligent
management, are enormous and seldom
failing.
One circumstance that renders farm
ing pre-eminently desirable as an in
dustry for women, is that its demands
are in no manner incompatible with
their duties as wives or as mothers.
Nearly every occupation Of equal
dignity and profit has its fixed days
and hours, and any ilTegularlty In
meeting its demands is disastrous; but
the exigencies of farming permit OF
such lexibility of plans and arrange
ments, as leaves ample room both for
the ordinary and extraordinary de-
mands of home and domestic life. Es-
pecially is this true of tree planting
and forest culture. an industry which
has vet to be developed in this com-
try, and which is especially woman's
business, since women rather than men
have a genius for minute care and for
patient waiting, and find it more easy
to live sparingly and self-denyingly
while waiting for future returns.
Too much emphasis can not be laid
upon the gracious influences of the con-
tact with nature, the free out-door-life,
the active exercise of farming. No
more wholesome correction of the mar
rowing tendencies of women's lives,
the minute economics, the petty care
fulness. the anxious consideration OF
minor laws and traditions, inevitable
in most of them, can possibly be found.
A marked improvement, not only in
health but in the moral tone of Amer
lean women, would be sure to follow
upon their adoption, on any considers-
BILE scale, of this industry in its various
Louisa S. HoUghtOn, IN
Lend a Hand.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-05

went sneakin' of towards where them
two grays was munchin' their
nOodag oats. They was tied TO a
couple o. ssplins', and it weren't
long fore | were on the back o. the friski-
est looking one of 'em and goin' il slam
bang through the woods. he'd a good safe
grip on Che short rein, l kin tell you, fell
lars; and knowed what | were about
The harness were all on, trim and trig, and
nothin' less'n partin with his own hide
would thrOwed me- l haint rid the trick
mule at the circusses, haint, fur n0thtH'
Yet / imagine | must looked perty scarf
fed as KEN yelpin' past the picnic party
at fearful gait--lookin' all the world like
the wax Nazepper l seen at that same mu-
syum last summer-only / were live and
kickin'l KickinH Well, should remark
and a thrashin' out with my best leg like
mad and succeedin' 'mazin' well in my OBJ
jeck-which were ter brighten the nag clean
outen his senses Clean outen the woods
we rushed like the wind, and when I'D got
out o. sight behind a little hill pulled him
cleak square round ter STAFFORD and went
gollopin' back agin. They was all lookin'
anxious toards where disappeared, and
John Gray were ready fur me las / knowed
he would be-, comm ter meet me on tother
gagrany. / yelled I" helpi' so you could
neared me plump mile, ana on KEN John
Gray toards my poor scairt beast.
o. course he cOtch us easy as wink-but
il looked like a wild West shOw-fur he
rode like Wild Bill and l yelled like
Comanchei When we was a quietin' down
and trottin' passive up ter the place where
their dinner was a-waitin' for them poor
'bused bosses, says:
Trick number two-oh, we're a-doin'
beeyootifulw
You little rascal-what are you up to-"
"rm up 10 my knees in catnip, if ger
please" says l. as l slid down from my
foamin' steed and shifted at the sweet
smell o. crushed leaves.
Some performance of congratulatin' us
both. Some claspin' of John Gray's hand
by her perty white one. Some blushin' and
turnin' away of eyes-but more light in
hern-and softness and sweetness that
were encOuragin' TO behold.
All us kids run like wild through the
Wintry woods. They was a perty little
stream called Silver creek, cause il were
so clear and ripply. jest stones throw
from the place dinner were eaten the creek
got wider m made dandy place to row
skiff in. Right on the banks of this stream
we ali shot of fire-crackers fur hours,
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-05
TREATMENT OF PIGS
Food That viii Make Them Grow Evenly
and Rapidly.

Food That Will Make Them Grow Evenly
and Rapidly.
The hog will prescribe for himself il
sick and allowed freedom. His remedy
for any little stomach trouble is clay
or some soft stone. II confined in a
close pen and highly fed, he will fat
up and soon die of the thumps. Pigs
allowed to run at large will grow and
thrive, but they will grow faster il
kept in pen and allowed to run out
but an hour or two day. They should
sleep the larger part of the time. One
thing must not be neglected: Their
nest must be dry and clean. II al-
lowed to sleep in wet or damp nest
their growth will be checked, they viii
be troubled with rheumatism and yari-
Gus other ills.
If the time be early spring or late
fall, pigs will grow much faster If the
pen is situated so as to receive the di-
rect rays of the sun. If midsummer,
their nest should be well-shaded. The
hog is an OmnivOrOus animal, and so
should have variety. IL it is the sea-
son for grass, that will answer for
green food. If too early or late for
grass. a few mangels will cOnduce to
health and thrift.
There is no food equal to new milk
to make u pig or hog grow, but it is
too expensive except for little pigs, and
skim-milk will soon take its place.
This, with a suitable amount of grain,
will send the pigs ahead with surpris-
ing rapidity. If one has sufficient
amount of skim-milk it does not matter
greatly what else he has. But TO make
the best growth attention should be
paid to the kind of grain fed. find
middlings TO be the best single feed j
can buy and | use more OF this than
any other feed. II the supply of milk
is sufficient the pigs will grow faster on
a mixture of middlings and corn meal
than on middlings alone. The more
milk they have the more meal can be
used. II milk be wanting, or If whey
take lis place, little or no corn meal
should be used. A mixture OF grain,
such as middlings, meal and barley
will produce better results than a
single kind of grain. II to the above q
little oil meal is added it will be better
still.-E. W. Darts, an Farm and Home.
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Good Times at Home.

One is forever hearing of men and
women who go away from home to
have a good time; whereas the proper
place for good time is right in the
home. The ways of having them are
as many as the sands OF the sea; but
there is one reliable method for start
ing a time and that is to do some
thing to please another member of the
family rather than yourself. A little
exhibition of unselfish affection, a
favor extended, a reasonable indul-
gcnce granted may start a train OF
events which win brighten whole day
and make an evening merry. IL in-
wolves less trouble and far more fun
than q picnic. interior.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-05

A. always. when doctors abound ve.y thick,
The patient grew nomently more and more
sick.
TIL finally they were constrained 20 agree
one thing might relieve him-a stront cup OF
tea.
With wild ine7ntatfons and desperate aste
5Msy made IL and sweetened IL MP 20 s taste,
men rushed 10 ms bedside, plumb fall Of sd-
vice
And poured the hot food down his throat IN
trice;
Which 10. from a crack in his eranium's top
orr Goddess 81 Liberty sprang with a hop.
All clad in the garments 81 wisdom and might,
WIN O. oud martial shout and a scrcech Of de-
light
7, or Johnny fcII over. as scared as a goose,
Qu,cluug something or other about the
abuse.
Vile mad exclamation that rhymes with
The same
Fell of from his lips in a way scarcely tame:
Bat the gods high IN council, hey greeted the
malt,
Declaring she shouldn't De cast in the shade
By her brow-beatins governor, not If they
knew it.
Iled better lie low, or n d certainly rue it,
TIE old gent recovered made up with his
daughter.
And gave her free passage over the water.
The years came ana went, and his confidence
grew,
He'd ict her sling. sometimes, her thunder
boItz. fqos
supply her win weapons OF soodIy ADVICE.
And though they cost nothing, they always
were Nee.
NOW when she does something remarkably
huc
lie smiles ~ a way that Is sweet and benign,
And. rhucil.ng her under her chin. exclaims:
-Ah.
Ms beauty how much you resemble your pa
Rud when De- is very -oofi uatured you know.
He viii iaks-Iu-t q mitc-0f the time long ago,
When ~ Thought in his soul he should certain
Iyd.e
OF tina. pain ~ his head on the Fourth Of July
JULIA II. THAYER
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A Queer Arabian Custom.

An Arabian tomb is SOFT of house,
more or less luxurious. according to
the family means. There are halls and
rooms or open courts. MourEers spend
the night and part of the succeeding
day in religious exercises. and disirib-
ute gifts and food TO the poor and des-
titute. Many a poor devil gets the
only square meal of his year on Good
Friday. 1t was a queer sight-the
motley crowd. There were rich ladies
yelled, showing only their dark eyes
and little white complexion-others
yelled, too, but revealing a skin face Of
almost ebon blackuess. There were
poor women with faces only half COW
cred. and forsaken women with uncov-
cred eounJenances. There were rich
men preceded by out-runners, and poor
men on donkeys and afoot The alleys
through the tombs are only few feet
wide. This motley crowd would meet
and jostle against each other. all in
tent upon their pious outing = Garter
IL Harrison, ia Chicago Nal.
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HeaIthfuI Effect of Onions.

1t is a pity that onions have the odOI
that ,they do, for their dietetic and
medicinal qualities are excellent Boil
cd and roasted onions are good
specific for cold on the chest, cough,
a cold and cloggiug of the bronchial
tubes. A medical writer recommends
the eating of young, raw onions by
children three or four times a week,
and of boiled and roasted onions when
they get too strong to be eaten raw.
Another writer says that during UNI
heal by seasons, when diphtheria and
like contagious diseases prevail, onions
ought to be eaten in the spring of the
yea < least once a week" The effect
Of onions is invigorating and prophy-
] cite in the extreme, and one ply.
stefan goes so far as to say that the
eating of onions has actually prevented
children from having diphtheria and
scarlatina. - Good Housekeeping.
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A Common-sense RemedY.

In the matterof curatives what YOU want
is something that Will do its work while
you continue to do yOurs-a remedy that
will give you HO Inconvenience nor inter
fere with your business Such a remedy
is ALLCoCK's PoROUs PLAsTERs These
plasters are purely vegetable ana absolute
ly harmless. They require no change OF
diet, and are not affected by wet or cold
Their action does not interfere with labor
or business; you can toll and yet be cured
shile hard at work. They are so pure
that the youngest. the oldest, the most
delicate person of either sex can use them
with great benefit
Beware of limitations, and do not be de-
ceived by Misrepresentation.
Ask for ALLCoCK's, and let no explain
tion or solicitation induce you 10 accept a
substitute.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-07-05
PITH AND PoINr.
You fight fire with fire, but power

You fight fire with fire, but power.
ty with industry. :,
Hear one man before you answer;
hear several before you decide.
Every young person who contem-
plates matrimony should do so with
psy-rent-al solicitude. = Washington
Critic.
The young man with slender
salary should choose for his bride a
young woman of small waste.
The best characters have a mix
ture of infirmities, and the worst have
some redeeming virtues.
An educated man is one who
possesses the largest capabilities OF
taking care of himself.
The man who never made mis-
take in his life is deaf, dumb, blind
and still unmarried SUDlmerUitie
Journal.
F-The flower called bachelor's-but-
ton is so called because it is always
coming off and never gets sewed on
" o. PicayHne.
So long as thou art ignorant, be
not ashamed to learn. Ignorance il
the greatest of all infrmities; and
when justified, the chiefest of all
follies.
Motives are better than actions.
Men drift into crime. OF evil they do
more than they contemplate, and OF
good they contemplate more than they
do.
A railroad conductor says he can
always tell what topic is uppermOst in
the public mind by listening to the
talk of the passengers as he goes
through the cars.
Bachelor philosophers have OBJ
served that the first baby generally
gets about ninety-five per cent. of the
parental discipline that is devoted to
the whole family of children.-JOurnal
Of Education.
-Congressman's Wife (suspiciously)
Henry, what does 'scoOping the
pile mean?" Congressman innocent
ly)-'Really, my dear, can't say. It's
something l never did in all my ex-
perience. ~ Washington Critic.
The innocence of childhood con-
sists not in rectitude of inclination, but
in incapacity for the commission of
evil. The vivacity of children is al
ways charming, because it is always
sincere. A grave child is rose with
out fragrance.
Love is the most easy and agree
able, and gratitude the most humili-
ating affection of the mind; we never
reflect on the man we love without ex-
ulting in our choice, while he who has
bound us to him by benefits alone, rises
to our ideas as "a person to whom we
have in some measure forfeited our
freedom Goldsmith.
1t is one of the problems of life
how to preserve the earlier spirit of
trust and hope amid the knowledge
and wisdom born of mature experience.
And it is because this problem is too
hard for many that they begin in mid
die life to degenerate in character.
FiRldySOn.
We say a thousand good things and
get no credit for it, but word that is
displeasing brings us all kinds of re
prOaches. People do not learn how to
set one thing over against another and
thus strike an honest balance; they
must see all as in agreement with their
beliefs and preposessions.-Untted Pres
byteridn.
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looks IN with his mouth 30 full o cheese
and crackers that most spoil my actin
and laugh out loud But he didn't move
anywheres near the tree, you bet, and Miss
Wiutrv screams. oh, save the child :.
AT these words of goes one mans coat,
and John GRAY is shinnin' up the tree like
mad. and in a twinklin' am Jerked up
1nter lie limb
You little monkey" says he, a
brcathin' and pautin'-
:. You kin bet I wished tucrc.'' says l..
a whisperln' back: ~ for monkeys have got
soft snap Of it-a wrappia their tails
round limbs o. trees-I had ter use this, =
and showed him the rope that KEEP me
from fallin'-
=. By al that's marvellous
Don't We git excited. siE; it's the f,tst
trick-and you lest fOllcr my lead ali day
and we'll come out ahcad-tha.'s ALI"
We slid down the big tree and vas met
by all the picnicSers with cries Of joy !
KEEP nv face straight, and when slic ken
IN and clasped his hand saw the blood 60
a fiviu' to his honest face, and he turned
away. shy and silent
Il were . rip-snOrtin' good dinner. Eel
lars. and no mistake. We bein' the lions,
eat the lions share-leastway / did But
I managed 10 sit through Il fore any O.
the others. You kin bet didn't slight
uothin' from sanditches ter pie bat Eot
through fust, as Iwera 3 tellia' yer, snd
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SANDWICH ISLAND POI.
dow the Favorlte Hawaiian Dish Is Made
and Eaten.


He takes piece of broken shell.
peels the roots. and takes few on n
piece of huge log, followed out
llightly in the center, and. sitting
Down cross-lcgged before it, COM
Mences his work. The kalo must be
pounded up into one smooth, sticky
mass; for this purpose he uses round
sd rock. the bottom of which is convex,
and about as big around as a saucer.
with a small upright handle surmont-
ed by a knob, weighing about four
pounds. Pound. slap. pound, slap.
The pound on the kalo. the slap made
by the wet left hand, which thus keeps
the face of the rock wet, so that it will
cot adhere to the mass, for so exces-
svely viscid is it that it has to be con-
stantIy wetted, water being often
thrown on the board also to prevent il
sticking. And now it begins to look
something like big batch Of dough,
only that it is of grayish-blue color.
This stiff. sticky mass is ready now for
the huge calabash which the old lady
is bringing ont to receive it.
Do YOU know what a native calabash
Is? Never mind about that, we will
End out all about them when we talk
over the ancient customs of the
Hawaiians. 1t is this kalo poi which
now interests us. Tomorrow 1t can be
lhinned up with water and eaten, but
it will not be good, for it has only
risen or fermented through the night,
and is too new; two or three days will
find it just pleasantly sour, and de-
licious with fat beef, dried fish, or
roast chicken; it also makes the best
adhesive paste in the world. it is so
rich in glutin. While we watched the
heavy pound, slap. pound, slap move
ment Of the old natives arm, we
listened to the stories of this same poi.
How that the wife of Kamehameha l.
was so enormously fat and so tromen.
dously lazy that she would not do her
own eating. but she was fed while ly-
ing down by her attendants, who pour
ed the soft glutinous stuff down her
throat in one contiguous stream until
her appetite was satisfied.
You remember how dextrous every
native is in the manner of eating
his poi. which he tikes up in his two
front fingers, usually giving it a quick
flip and twirl and then popping it into
his mouth. And as the hour approaches
for the native meal, and you see the
woman bring out the family calabash,
with a few dried fish, or pc haps raw
ones. as an accompaniment memories
of other such meals, in which the con-
slant smacking and sucking Of fingers.
making a series of small reports.
crowd upon your perhaps delicate d.
gestive organs. and you politely decline
the cordial invitations to ''ai hui (eat
together). and wend your way home in
the cool twilight. Salt Lake R0m@n's
ErDOnenk
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LAND OF FREEDOM.

Land 81 Freedom, qucenly thou.
With the crown upon thy brow,
ON o. cheek thu flush Of morn.
Han, th., day, when thou vert bOrnt
-. thy symbol ou the breeze.
ear the laughter OF the trees.
and the murmgr u the corn,
Grand Thy rivers. Fuisiu- down
Past The prairies past the town.
Io tbs mountains proudly rise
Like the pillars % the skies;
10 thy CULTS and lakes Of blue
Ever fash with glory new,
And the light 81 beauty eyes
But a uobler empires thine
In the heart. which thee cnshrinei
IN thy sons and daughters far,
In the children Of thy care,
On this day. behold they rise,
= ace and EIldncss in their eyes;
Happy. happy, everywhere,
May the realm from sea To sea
FaiFcr grow. while earth shall he;
Plymouth Rock and Golden Gate
The far boundaries of-thy State,
While thy harvest-iields Of gold,
Hills with metal wealth untold.
Make thee IN Ehty, make thee creati
Land 90 Freedom, fueenly thou
With Tie crown upon thv brow;
Girt with wisdom. grit with truth,
True o. Sod in very sooth,
when carth.s empires fade away,
when they mix with common clay,
God gives thee eternal youth
- e. REHti5. T. D.. ia Ggfisa R'fis
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Obeying Duty's Call.

Mary Jane" called out the hus.
band, fretfully, from the lounge, those
children are upstairs fighting again.
Can't you do something TO quiet them9
A sick headache is enough to bear,
without having to stand that horrible
racket besides
Poor Henry, am 50 sorry foryou,
replied the wife. pausing moment al
the door on her way out Il would
stay to battle your head and quiet the
children. but duty calls me away. Our
Society for the Moral Elevation OF the
Zulus meets this afternoon, '-thloagc
Tsl6sHe.
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So read the headlines OF many a ncwspa-
per column, and we peruse with palpitatIng
interest the details of the catastrOphv, and
are deeply impressed by the sacrifice of
human lives involved. Yet thousands of
men and women are falling victims every
year to that terrible disease, consumption
(scrofula of the lungs), and they and their
friends are satisfied to believe the malady
incurable. Now, there could be no greater
mistake. No earthly power, of course, can
restore lung that Is entirely wasted. but
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery will
rapidly and surely arrest the ravages of
consumption, if taken in time Do not,
therefore, despair, until you have tried this
wonderful remedy
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To test the power of Imagination in
the two sexes. DIR. Durand once gave
to one hundred of his hospital patients
a dose of sweetened water, and shortly
afterward entered the room, apparently
greatly agitated. saying he had by mis-
take administered a powerful emetic.-
In few minutes four-fths of the sub
jects were affected by the supposed
emetic, and were mainly men, while
all of those not affected were women.
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ayes, it pays" said big, fat physician,
with name which is known throughout the
medical world. Il lave a practice worth
$4,000 year" Women"l Yes, you've
guessed il first time. They pay $40 every
time they come into my office. When one
gets on my list tell you she stays and
DIR. H laughed long and loud. This is
quackery-gilt-edg genteel quackery-tO
keep suffering woman paving tribute year
in and year out, and doing them no good.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures the
peculiar weaknesses and diseases of women.
1t does not lie 10 them nor rob them.
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aTntoId seonv from C,atarrI,. >,

Prof. W. HkUsNER, the famous mesmerist,
of ithaca, ". y, writes: "Some ten years ago
/ suffered untold agony from chronic nasal
catarrh. Ny family physician gave me up as
incurahie, and said / must die. My case was
such bad one, that every day, towards sun
set, my voice would become 50 hoarse | could
barely speak above whisper. In the morning
my coughing and clearing of my throat would
almost strangle me. BY the use of DIR. Sages
CataTrh Remedy. in three months was well
man, and the cure has been permanent"