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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
FOOD AND BEAUTY.
Good Complexion Depends AltOgethe
Healthy Digestion.

| Good Complexion Depends Altogether
ON Healthy Digestion.
The seeker after rosy cheeks may
| ill a whole cupboard with lotions, and
spend half of her time in the beautify-
| ing bathtub, but success will not crown
| her efforts afterbeauty unless she turns
her attention also to her diet list.
Clear compilations do not wait on the
| tickle, nor rosy cheeks on the morning
griddle cake.
The woman who intends to have a
good complexion must make a careful
study of the food question. II goes with
out saying that sugary substances must
largely be banished from the bill of
fare. Candies are, of course, excluded.
Cakes follow in their wake. As for
pies and all other compounds of flour
and grease, they are ia tai to clear skins
Bread that is doughty or starchy should
rank almost as low as pastry in the
estimation of the seeker after good
looks.
Alcoholic drinks are banished al
most entirely, their effect even in small
quantities being mild form of con-
gestion of blood in the face, which
eventually coarsens the texture as well
as ruins the color of the skin. For
somewhat similar reasons all sorts OF
narcotics and stimulants are to be
avoided, for whatever excites the
nerves or overheats the blood tends to-
ward the final destruction of the
smooth peachy texture which is the
chief of every woman's ambition to at
tain.
Whatever has the effect of produc-
ing healthy action of the digestive or
gans is good for the complexion. Acid
and laxative fruits especially, if taken
at breakfast, are good. Entire wheat
bread and toast rank high among the
bread beautifiers. Red and Juicy
meats, green vegetables, milk and eggs
are all conducive to the attaining of
1 brilliant complexion.-G. II. DER.
hold, in Ladies' World
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Rape is said to make good hog pas
ture.
Bean or pea straw can be profitab bly,
baled.
Deep culture of potatoes after they
are in bloom is bad business.
Diversity. your farming. Never carry
your eggs in one basket or two.
The corn fodder shredder is a good
thing and so is the shredded corn fod-
der.
Time spent in preparing the ground
for wheat will pay much better than
you may think.
The acreage of wheat will be largely
increased. That is the way to do things.
When a market is good we smother it.
A young man announces in a contem-
porary that he wants a good strong
Christian wife to take care of the chick
ems and garden. There is chance of a
lifetime for some girl who has strength
in her arms and grace in her heart
Western Plowman.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
WhOn to Plant Tree.

EARLY fall is an excellent time fo,
planting trees" writes Thomas Nee.
han in the Ladies' Home Journal. ..Bv
early is meant as soon as the wood is
ripe and the winter buds fully formed.
This is usually month before the reg
ular fall of the leaf. The leaves are
stripped by hand. After the wood is
ripe it makes no difference whether
the leaves are taken off by Jack Frost,
the wind or the human hand. In the
eastern part of Pennsylvania this would
be usually about the 1st of Septem-
Der. and the work of planting can be
kept up during October, and often to
November or December. But late fall
planting in cold climates is as risky as
late spring planting. The moisture is
dried out by cold winds or hot suns be-
plenish the great evaporation. In
milder climates planting may be a sue.
cess all winter"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
How to Roll an Umbreu,

Seize the umbrella with the right
hand by the tips or ends Of the ribs.
bringing them evenly around the
shank Tor handle); with the left hand
straighten out ali the folds, and see thai
none are left in a punched or wrinkled
shape. Then, with the left hand, COM
monce at the top and bring the hand
down on the folds, turning the umbrella
with the right hand, keeping the tips
or ends of the ribs distributed evenly
around the stick. See that the folds
roll evenly. Keep the left hand moving
down gently toward the right past the
tie or band When the left hand meets
III right hold firmly with the left hand
and button the tie with the right. If
you desire very close roll, hold it as
before, and with the left hand
siraighten out the creases or folds, then
roll down tightly until you get to the
tie or band. Then hold firmly with
the leftsh hand, unfasten the tie with the
right hand, roll down past the tie, but
ton the tie with the right hand, and il
you are an expert you have a close roll
on your umbrella. 1t will lie in neat
folds and look as it does when il comes
from the factory.-Hardware
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
To E1ake Caramel Custara.

For six ordinary-sized custards melt
six tablespoonfuls of sugar, stirring
carefully to prevent burning. Pour
into the bottom of the custard cups,
give each sort of whirl that the
sugar may also line the sides. Beat
three eggs without separating; add
three taiolespoonfuls of sugar, half a
teaspoonful of vanilla, and cup and a
half of milk Stir until the sugar is
dissolved; pour the mixture into the
cups on top of the caramel Stand in
a baking pan half filled with water.
and cook in the oven Is minutes. Turn
while hot from the cups. Serve cold
Mrs s. I. Rorer. in Ladies' Home
Journal.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
CONVENIENT FEED BOX.

to devour a more or less amount of dirt
which is usually of such nature as to
be no good to them. In order to avoid
this, 1 would suggest that a feedbox be
made, having a door of Stats made OF
laths, as shown herewith; also. on the
side opposite from the door, I should
have Stats, as seen from the inside of the
box. Place the food in this, shut the
door, and the fowls can reach the food
from each side readily between the
Stats, but cannot soil it. Furthermore
dish of water can be set within it, and
the fowls can reach through and drink
but they cannot pollute it as they other.
wise would. By this device, stray cats
and dogs have no chance of getting al
the food, should it happen to be of s
nature palatable to them, and stealing
it away from the fowls. The semi
rotundity of the roof is to keep the
fowls from roosting on it.-Frederick
o. Sibley, in N. Y. Tribune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

yer horn lined with scarlet enamel.
The ring has little attachment, so it
can be made big enough to slip over the
hunting glove.
A gold bracelet is wonderful thing.
1t consists of big silver golf stick that
Is curled to fit the wrist. The handle is
a twist of silver. One end is fiattened
exactly like golf stick, and big pearl
is set in it for the golf ball.
These little articles come in imitation
jewelry, which is just as satisfactory,
if the articles are desired for the novel
ty only. They are the fancy of the hour
and the outdoor sporting girl likes to
make herself attractive in them.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
Mechnnical Enect of Dra,n.r.

The mechanical effects of draipaoe
are to deepen the soil and promote its
more thorough pulverization. It's frs,
effect is to dry its surface soil by draw
ing out of it all the surplus moisture. SC
that in early spring or late autumn il
may be worked with the pillow as advan-
tageously as at midsummer. A wet
soil can never be properly pulverized
and the blowing or working a clay soil
or even heavy loan, when wet, tends
only ito puddle it and render it less
pervious to water and air. Rain waite,
contains great quantity and variety
of fertaizing substances, and it depos-
its them in the soil during its passage
through it. Both these facts are per.
ceptible to the senses without resortina
to chemical tests.-Farmers' Review.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
AGRICULTURAL HINTS
THE cAMPHoR TREE.

1t Can BE Planted Successfully in
Some Southern States.
Cam phor trees may be grown either
from seed or from cuttings. They are
usually grown from seed, as the trees
fruit abundantly, and seedlings can be
grown more easily than cuttings. The
seeds are collected at maturity in Oc-
tober and November, and after drying
are packed in sharp white sand or some
similar material to keep them fresh un-
til the time of planting in spring.
About the last of March they are soyvn
in drills in the seed bed.
The soil of the seed bed should be a
good sandy loan mixed with about one
third leaf mold. The seed bed should
be kept moist, but not too wet, and
should be shaded from the direct rays
of the sun if the weather is warm.
The best soil temperature for germinat-
ing camphor seeds is from 20
to rs degrees Fahrenheit. The tenn
perature of the atmosphere may be ten
degrees higher. The seedlings will
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
WOMAN AND HOME.
NEW GAME OF WITS.
Tt Is Called Characters Quotations and
La Entertaining.

1t Is Called Character Quotation. and
Ii Entertaining.
The game of character quotations"
is new-fasbioned way of holding the
mirror up to nature and of seeing our
selves as others see US. 1t also fur
nishes an excellent method of passing
pleasant evening, for when are peo-
pie so interested as in talking about
themselves?
Long slips of paper are handed to
each participant in the game, who
obligingly affiXes his signature to the
bottom and passes it on to his neighbor
on the right. Beginning at the top of
the paper, the neighbor writes his inn
preston of the character and personal
ity OF its owner in an appropriate verse
OF poetry selected at random from some
remembered author. If the stanza is
comic, SO much the more fun; if it is full
some or sentimental, so much the more
confusion for the recipient when it is
read to the jeering assembly.
When the first neighbor has written
his impression he in turn sends it
around the circle, after having folded
down his own poetical estimate. If his
memory fails him altogether, or no
table rhyme comes to mind apph-
,le to q special individual, he is
forced by the laws of character quota
TONS TO compose a stanza himself. At
the conclusion of the game, when the
papers arc covered with scribbling, the
man on the right of the lady reads her
praises aloud, after which she retail
iates with his. Then the real object of
the play is seen-to fit each estimate to
the proper writer and to proportion
future punishment to the nature of the
crime.-Chicago Chronicle.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

taught poetry and gymnastics, with
something of arithmetic, geometry and
drawing; and adults spent their leisure
with rhetoriticians and sophists, pay
ing handsomely for the privilege. But
music was a sine qua non of Grecian
life. in school and in sport, in battle
and in burial. The epic and elegiac
chantings at festivals, the calm specula-
tons of Pythagoras as to the music
of the spheres, the choral outburst of
"the great fifth century," the material
odes of Tyrtaeus and Pindar, all show
the national love for melody of voice
as well as for high and harmonious
thought. An old-time Greek set down
amid the strident, metallic voices of
our occidental world would feel that
the Furies had seized either upon him
or the continent he was visiting.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

A. young leafy shoot, scale one-tflird; B,
flower cluster. life size: c. fruit, life size.
grow we'll at higher temperature, but
are likely to lack vigor and hardness.
The seedlings may be grown in pots,
which will facilitate transplanting at
any time, or they may be transplanted
in nursery rows early in April when
one year old. Plants two years old are
generally regarded as best for final
planting. At this age they vary from
20 to 40 inches in height.
When set out for ornamental pur-
poses, the camphor tree may be expect
ed to grow, in favorable situations,
about as rapidly as LIE Conte pear, and
to require about as much room. In
Japan, where the law requires that a
new tree shall be set out for every one
cut, they are not generally set in
straight orchard rows, but cultivation
there is performed almost exclusively
by hand labor. There are no records
showing results of regular. orchard
planting, hence the distances at which
trees should be planted must be de-
termined by the size and form of the
trees and the method of cultivation and
of procuring the gum. They may be
set closely in rows about ten feet apart,
and alternate rows cut and reset every
five years, thus producing bush-like
plants of ten years growth. They may
be planted in checks ten feet square,
and alternate trees cut every ten or
twelve years, or they may be planted in
larger checks, and all of the trees be
cut at the age of is or 20 years.
There are not sufficient data obtain
oh ioh 70 def nj 70 81 70
ments as to the best methods of plant
ing or the age at which the trees may
be cut with greatest profit for the pro-
duction of gum. recent English con-
sular report from Japan states that
.'although hitherto the youngest wood
from which camphor was extracted was
about 20 to 80 years old, it is expected
that under the present scientific man
agement the trees will give equally
good results after 25 or 30 years" Cam
phor of good quality has been produced
in Florida from the leaves and twigs of
trees less than 90 years old. one pound
of crude gum being obtained from a
pounds of leaves and twigs.
The trees will endure severe pruning
with little apparent injury. One-third
of the leaves and young shoots may be
removed at one. time without material
ly checking the growth of the tree. The
largest proportion of camphor is con-
tanned in the older, larger roots; the
trunk. limbs, twigs and leaves contain
ing successfully decreasing proper
ton. When the camphor tree is killed
nearly to the ground by frost it sends
up vigorous shoots from the base. 1t
may be expected to do the same when
cut, especially if cut late in the fall. Ex-
periments are needed to determine
whether this growth may be depended
upon. or whether it will be more profit
able to dig out the larger roots and set
out new seedlings.-Lyster II. Dewey
Assistant in Division of Botany, Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
The Culture of Ferns.

1t is better TO begin with the young
plants. Be careful not to over-pot
them; wash the inside of the pots clean,
and give especially good drainage; use
open, rich, fibrous soil, light rather
than heavy, and instead of filling the
pot with soil to the brim leave plenty
OF room to hold water. Ferns should
Fever get quite dry al the root, yet If
will not do to keep them soaking wet.
Many of them. especially the maiden
hair and gold and silver ferns. dislike
being splashed overhead, and hot sun
slime must never fall directly upon
these delicate kinds. Ferns are sure to
be killed by little dribblings of water
given every day. The same rule that
applies to watering other plants is
good with ferns: When the top of the
soil looks dry fill the pot with water
to the brim, so that the ball of soil
may have thorough soaking.-Vick's
Magazine
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
kLoNolkE IREMENs.
The Victim Always Sees Something
Good to Eat.

The Victim Always Sees Something
Good to Eat.
The Seattle Times prints this inter-
esting letter from Kiondiker:
Dear Friend: You can surprise the
dear people of Casper by telling them
that l am worth 5000, and that next
summer / will start back to buy the
town. Some people viii want to kiss
me when l get back who wanted to
kick me when 1 left It is bad trip
up here, but it is worth making if
money is what man wants. It is the
only place I ever saw where there is so
much money that people don't seem to
care for it.
1--WE sit around and talk about good
things to eat. That is what everybody
is thinking about. If a man gets to
talking about fruit he is put out of
the camp. We can't stand it to hear it
talked of. 1 have dreamed of seeing
peaches as big as car wheel. and they
say when u man gets the tremens up
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
HOUSEHOLD TELEPHONE. :

when the push-button in the dining
room fixture is pressed. This calls the
cook to the phone and the lady of the
house may give her orders in an under
tone and even in a whisper, which will
be plainly understood by the cock. The
mouthpiece is simplified microphone.
the membrane being placed just a lit
tie above very small electric magnet.
The same magnet is used for the push
button. In other respects thissinstalia-
ton does not differ from the ordinary
microphone, and its rapid popularity in
Germany will be understood when it is
stated that the manufacturers sell the
apparatus, together with $50 feet OF
wire, for about eight dollars
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
Protesting women.. Feet.

Now a woman has invented means
of protecting the feet of her sex from
the tranpling of men as they go OUT
and in between the acts at a theatcr.
It consists of an iron case, lined with
felt, to be clamped to the floor in front
Of the seats. The top of the case is
rounded, so that nobody can be tripped
up by 1t. When a man rises to leave
the theater the women in his row have
simply to slip their feet in these cases,
and they are safe. The man can work
his way back and forth without hurt
ing them in the least.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
SINGING AMONG THE GREEKS.
The Ancient Greeks Sang Rlitheiy
and Were Carefully Instructed.

The Ancient Greeks Sang Rlitheiy
and Were Carefully Instructed.
Our present system of public instruc-
ton is not so modern as some would
have us believe. Sparta had her state
superintendent, who, if distant report
is to be trusted, was an educational
Gespot. But, while he welded his walk
ing stick freely during official visits,
and encouraged his subordInates TO ply
the rod on all occasions, he was as
diiigent promoter of music as is any
humane and progressive educator of
cur era. AS result, the little Lace
daemonians sang blithely, no matter
what torment was going on under
their tunics. And all over Greece, in
those dim days, were schools, ranging
from infant grades instructed under
Arcadian hedges to the university-ex-
tension schemes harbored in buildings
uniquely termed places of leisure"
The infants were drilled in their alpha
beta-gammas; the older boys were
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

here he always sees fruit or fancies
that he is pulling radishes or Smelling
peas. This is hard country TO a man.
1t will make a young man look old in
two years.
You have heard of the golden calf.
Well. have something that beats that;
L have golden dog. a dog of mine
died and 1 have used the hide as a sack
for my dust. l have him as full of gold
as ne was of meat. i sometimes lay my
head on his body and dream of what
l will do with my dough when 1 get
back to the states.
My partner has ten one-gallon strip
cans filled with dust. Pneumonia is
bad, and many die from it. The scurvy
is bad, too, but it don't kill many, after
all. If man could have what he want
ed to eat up here it would not be so bad.
You can dress warm and fight the cold,
but it is hard to be hungry every day
and get nothing to eat but the things
you detest. My paper has run out. and
there is no more in camp"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

through the streets of that city a white
feather fell from the plume of his he'll
met and was picked up by the peasant
Toukianow, who is in the service of NJ.
Koch. Toukianow FASTENED to restore
the feather to the chief of police. He
was greatly surprised several days
later upon receiving from this official.
in the name of his Siamese majesty. a
casket containing portrait OF the king
and a massive gold chain decorated
with token of the same metal bearing
the arms of Siam in enamel. Toukia-
now has not yet recovered from this
unexpected piece of good fortune.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
He Re.embiea the Cake.

The landlady smiled sweetly on all
assembled at the table, and announced
that she had a conundrum.
what resemblance is there between
Mr.. Binks and the cake that is being
served to-night?''
Mr.. Binks got red in the face, and
they all gave it up.
81 regret to say" said the landlady,
with the same sweet smile, "that the
cake is little short tonight"
Mr. Binks thereupon made up his
mind that it was time for him TO move.
Chicago Post.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
SPORTING JEWELRY.

Novelties for the Girls who Cycle, or
Hunt, Golf.
So great is the love of outdoor sports
that all sorts of pretty trinkets come in
gold and silver for sporting jeweIry.
The girl who cycles is wearing tiny
silver bicycle brooch with the tires set
in semi-precious gems and the handle
bars inscribed with her name and the
name of her wheel. The pedals of the
bicycle are of a very pretty open filigree
work, and the saddle is a little enamel
affair, as pretty as it is delicate.
The hunting horn ring has a fox"s
head curled down over big open sill
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

ringing noises in his head that sleep
had been impossible. Suite says that
sometimes the noises resemble the roar
Of great cataract falling hundreds of
feet upon rocks below; again they
sound like a sawmill where great logs
are being ripped apart by buzzing
saws, then there are crashes as of thun-
der and the kissing of escaping steam;
always myriad of hideous noises ring
ing and echoing through his brain.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
HOUSEHOLD TELEPHONE
Tt Saves Lots of Stair Climbing and
Loss OF Temper.

1t Saves Lots of SfafF CIfIn bfnB SI1sst
Loss OF Temper.
A Berlin firm of electricians hassre-
Gently placed on the market combina
ton telephone and electric belis for
short distances. The illustration shows
its parts and its installation between a
kitchen and dining-room. The sim
plicity of the apparatus is one of its
principal points of advantage and its
usefulness is evident. The one shswn
in the dining-room is of an ordinary
egg, which at the pointed end has
small push-button for bell.
The egg-shaped fixture can be taken
apart. the short end being the trans
mitter, the longer end the receiver of
this diminutive telephone. The fixture
in the kitchen is of the ordinary tele-
phone type and has bell which rings
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
Qufnine Music.

In 1872 John Suite, of ST. Louis, was
seized with bad attack of malaria, and
took quinine to fight it off. One day,
during particularly bad chill, he took
SO grains at time, and from that mo-
ment, it is said, he has not slept wink.
The enormous dose produced such
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

Whistling is tabooed in the dressing
rooms of a circus. That it is an ILL
omen is one of the superstitions of the
circus people. Somebody is sure to be
discharged if anyone whistles. they
say.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
American Asphaltum.

Last year the only states that pro-
duced asphaltum were California, Col
cTado, Texas and Utah. Indian territory
also contributed some.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14
POULTRY FEED BOX.
1t Keeps the Fowls from Tramplins
Upon Their RatiOns.

Upon Their Rations.
Despite all that has ever been said tc
the contrary. the idea still prevails
in some sections that poultry can get
along and even thrive if their food is
presented to them in the simplest man
ner. This is mistake. Where soft food
is given, it is generally trampled upon
by all the birds before it is fully eaten,
and, in consequence, they are compelled
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1897-10-14

Lake Erfe's Big Fish Supply.
1t is claimed that Lake Erie pro-
duces more fish to the square mile than
any other body of water in the world.