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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Obedience a HELD.

There is woman down in Indiana
who is hale and hearty at the age of
100, and when she was asked to what
she attributed her age and health she
replied, "ObediCnce" And this, too
at a time when the women are having
the word obey" taken out of the mar
riage service and in other ways mani
Testing the most supreme contempt for
the old obligation 1t is not to be be-
lieved that there are many women who
will care to drag out an existence of
100 years in state of obedience, even
if a fair degree Of health is assured.
The holy scriptures do not tell us how
long the women lived, although we
know that Sarah survived until she
was 1877 and was so Obedient that the
Lord blessed her with Isaac when she
was go. And it is fair to suppose that
other good Hebrew wives were equally
! long lived and successful. Thus we
see that obedience is of the utmost
importance to the human race and is
the source Of happiness and prosper.
ity. Still the women of this age are
extremely stiff-necked and unreason
able.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
LIGHTING LORE.
AcETYLENE EXcELS AS AN !LLU.
MlNANT.
Gas for Lighting Formerly Confined to
Cities and Large Towns, now in
General Use in the Country.

The satisfactory lighting OF subur-
ban and country homes requires that
the means used shall be convenient,
safe, economical and furnish a bill
liant, penetrating, effulgent light.
Everybody admits that these are
not the characteristics Of the candle
or kerosene lamp, which, formerly,
were the only feasible means OF pro-
ducing light for domestic use in the
rural districts.
For generations there was a crying
need, yearning for something better,
which was not satisfied. A few years
ago delivcrance came in the shape Of
the chemical compound, Calcium Car
bide, from which, by the simple ap
plication Of water, the gas Acetylere
is derived Acctylene meets ALL the
requirements fully and admirably and
is being generally used.
Common lime and carbon in the
form Of coke or coal are the raw ma
terials which, fused in an intensely
heated furnace, make Calcium Car
bide, and there is no difficulty in OBJ
tanning it in any part of the country
The machine into which the Cal
cium Carbide is fed and from which
the Acetylene is distributed through
the building to be lighted, is but little
larger than thirty-galIOn milk can,
and of the same general form. 1t is
easily and cheaply installed, either in
the cellar or in an out-building.
The light from burning AcetyleDe
is exquisite, and lighting experts agree
that it surpasses all other known illu-
minants. 1t does not faint the air nor
strain the eyes and is not objection.
able in any respect Every up-to-date
rural residence should be equipped
with Acetylene light.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Passing Of the Camp Meeting.

A venerable American institution,
the camp meeting, is on the wane. 1t
is still far from dead, but those who
know it best perceive most clearly
that it's sunset hour has come. AS
the old preachers of to-day recount
in the past tense the experiences OF
the circuit rider, that pioneering apos-
tie Of Christianity to rev communities.
so the preachers Of tomorrow will
tell on occasions Of "reminiscences Of
the former glories Of the hilarious
camp meeting, when people got re-
ligion' and were not afraid to make a
noise about it. Fewer and fewer Of
the strongest preachers attend the
camp meetings. The more cultivated
church members become the less
taste they appear to have for this sort
of "oldtime religion" Plainly, the
camp meeting is on the decline.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
QUEER CRADLES
What Children Are Rocked Unjust
as Happy.


When a baby is born in Guinea all
;orts of funny things happen to 1t. It's
mother buries it in the sand up to its
waist, so it cannot get into bad mis-
chief and this is the only cradle II
knows anything about.
The little Lapp infant is Graded IN
a. shoe-his mothers. This is big
affair covered with skin and stuffed
with soft moss. This can he hung on
a tree or covered up with snow while
mamma goes to church or any place
where babies are not invited.
The baby of India rides in basket
which hangs from its mothers head
or from her hip, or in hammock. In
some parts the baby's nose is adorned
with a nose ring, and in others its
face is wrapped in a veil like It's
mother.
The Chinese baby is tied to the back
Of an older child.
The Monaghan infants travel about
ia bags slung on a camels back.
In some countries the mothers lay
their babies where stream Of water
falls on their heads. This is to make
them tough, which it does unless the
babies die as a result Of this treat
ment. Another mother covers her
baby's head with paste, while the Tar
tar baby is covered with butter. The
Turkish baby is salted-perhaps to
keep it sweet-while the worst fate
of all falls to the lot of the newly born
children in Bulgaria. Their mothers
put q hot Omelette on the little ones
heads to make them solid and protect
them from sunstroke The Bulgarian
baby doesn't like it any better than
you would. He makes a great howl
about it, but it is not a bit of use. His
mother thinks she knows better about
some things than he does, so he has to
submit, which he does with a very bad
grace indeed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
OF LIVES SAVED
BY "Mother's Medicine Chestr and
Patent Prescriptions.

Commenting on attacks made by
certain eastern publications on some
Of the best known and most valuable
Of the worlds proprietary medicines,
the Committee on Legislation of the
Proprietary Association says:
All through the country districts,
in every state of the union, you will
find in the farm houses the old family
remedies, sometimes called patent
medicines many Of which have been
in use in the same household for gen.
erations. Among such people the old
fashioned proprietary medicine, al
ways at hand with full printed in
structions for use, is one of the neces-
sites Of life.
ITO families in the country many
miles from a doctor such remedies are
invaluable Mothers medicine chest
has saved many life and met many
threatening sickness at the TIRES
hold and turned it out of doors. So
far from constituting self-prescription,
as is often pretended, acquaintance
with patent medicine often obyi-
ates the necessity of such step; for
here is a prescription already made
up, the effect Of which is we'll known.
One of the greatest advantages Of
such medicine is that its constant for
mula gives it the character Of single
drug, so far as uniformity of result is
concerned and the people who use it
know from experience just what they
can count on-Which Is more than can
be said Of many physicians prescrip-
tons frequently obtained at 4 far
greater cost and trouble"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
GET POWER.
The suppIY Comes From Food,

If we get power from food, why not
strive to get all the power we can.
That Is only possible by use of skill
fully selected food that exactly fits
the requirements of the body.
Poor fuel makes a poor fire and a
poor fire is not a good steam pro-
Queer.
From not knowing how to select
the right food to fit my needs, | suf-
red grieyously for long time from
mach troubles" writes a lady from
little town in Missouri.
1t seemed as If would never be
able to find out the sort of food that
was best for me. Hardly anything
that could eat would stay on my
stomach. Every attempt gave me
heartburn and filled my stomach with
gas. got thinner and thinner until
] literally became a living skeleton
and In time was compelled to keep
to my bed.
"a few months ago was persuaded
20 try Grape-Nuts food, and it had
such good effect from the very begin
ming that have kept up its use ever
since. was surprised at the ease
with which I digested it. 1t proved
TO be Just what | needed. All my un
pleasant symptoms, the heartburn, the
inflated feeling which gave me Sc
much pain disappeared My weigh
gradually increased from 9S to III
lbs, my figure rounded out, m!
strength came back, and am nov
able to do my Homework and EMO!
1t. The Grape-Nuts food did it." Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Greek
Mich.
a ten days trial will show anyone
come facts about food.
eThere's a reason"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Insomnia.
insomnia.
Slumber, hasten down this way,
And. ere midnight dies.
Silence lay upon my lips

Slumber, hasten down this way,
And. ere midnight dies.
Silence lay upon my lips
Darkness on my eyes.
Send me 4 fantastic dream;
Fashion me a-freSh;
Into some celestial thing
Change this mortal flesh.
When 1 know one may not choose;
One is helpless still
In the purple realm Of sleep; :.
Use me as you will.
Let me be a frozen pine
In the dead glacier lands;
Let me pant, Il leopard stretched
On the Libyan sands.
Silver fin or scarlet wing,
Grant me either one;
Sink me deep in emerald glooms.
Lift me to the sun.
Or of me a gargOyle make,
Face OF ape or Snome,
Such as frights the tavern boor.
Keeling drunken home.
Work on me your own caprice.
Give me any shape;
Only. Slumber. from myself
Let myself escape
Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
DOES NOT LIVE IN FIRE.
Popular Idea About the Salamandes
Is Faliacious.

Now that Spontaneous generation
has exchanged the realm of supersti-
ton for that of fact, an older theory
about it becomes interesting. In An
drews' Anecdotes Ancient and Mod
ern" Q7S9), one reads: Should
glass house fire be kept up, without
extinction for a longer term than sew
en- years, there is no doubt that sala-
mander would be generated in the Gin
ders." This probably accounts for the
popular idea that a salannnder lives
In the fire, fallacy so far removed
from the truth that the curious lizard
like beast so called cannot endure
even the heat of the sun, but skulks
away under stones to avoid 1t. It will
never lose its reputation for fire'eat
ing, though, which fingers still in the
heating utensil that is named after it..
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
a Sound Endorsement,

The home team having been inglori-
cusly beaten when it had victory prac-
tically in its grasp, the disgruntled
resident of Mosquito Summit, N. j.,
remarked sadly:
I'm just getting dead sore on base
ball because it is SO Internally uncer-
tain"
YES" eoincided his little nephew,
who was on visit from Boston, base.
ball, looked at from any point of view,
is certainly a fluctuating quantity"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Snuff Boxes AGAIN in Use

After having been on the semi-re-
tired list for many years, the snuff
bC,z is once again in evidence in the
shops. Even cigar stores had not
not been showing sneeze-producer
holders in recent seasons. The con-
sumption of snuff is considerably
Sreater in winter than in summer.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Suhterfuue Get Interviews.

Nine Duse, who has strong aver
sion to being interviewed, was recent
ly beaten by the Copenhagen report.
ers. One acted as waiter at the hotel,
another acted as shoemaker's assist.
ant, a third drove her cab, and the
fourth was assistant stage machinist,
and all. used bits CT conversation for
long interviews. t
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

In the bright lexicon OF youth there
is no word more attractive than vaca.
tiOn.-Boston Globe.
more probabilities.-Puck.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

You never learned-oh, vanished fair!-
You could not. had it been your wish
The latest way to best prepare
Your luncheon in a chatting dish.
| And cen perhaps you never read
The fact that hungry companies
Would rather starve than not be fed
From Mrs. Cookem'S recipes.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
You could not tell, I'll wager now.

You could not tell I'll wager now,
OF countless things the etiquette;
In spite of which. somewhere, somehow,
You got your start: and yet--and yet
1t really is a problem quite
To find what saved you from the bad;
You had no Hints" to guide you right;
Your mothers. they We're all you had.
Arthur H. Folwell in The Sunday Mag
aZine.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

NO" replied the pessimist; "unfort
unately, they never get the chance"
Detroit Free Press.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

A truly modest man is one who
keeps his opinion of himself to him.
self.-N. o. Picayune.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

No man can go hunting or fishing
without making an explanation after,
wards.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

When grandpapas a-callng came.
No chats with girls were yours to tell.
The Judgment of some worthy dame
The time to sound the Curfew bell;
And all in vain you sought the truth
They tell it now-if twas a sin,
When after dark cOmely youth
Had seen you home, to ask him in.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Mothers Are Helped
THEIR HEALTH RESTORED
Happiness of Thousands Of HeHss Due
to Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable Com.
bound and Mrs. Plnkham'S Advice.

A devoted mother seems to listen to
every call Of duty excepting the su-
preme one that tells her to guard her
health, and before she realizes it some
arrangement of the female organs has
manifested itself, and nervousness and
irritability take the place of happi-
ness and amiability.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

A mans heart is blamed for a lot
Of things that his head is responsible
for.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

In too many cases, a sanguine dis
position is merely disposition to Is.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

Mrs. Lena Smith, n. Cherry street,
cor Line, Nashville, Tenn, writes:
II have had poor health for the past
four years, pains in the back and groins,
and dull, sick headache, with bearing
down pains.
"a friend, who was very enthusiastic
about Peruna insisted that tryn.
81 took it for ten days and was SUR
prised to find thatf had so little pain.
II therefore continued to use it and
at the end of two months my pains had
totally disappeared
81 have been In the best of health
since and feel ten years younger. /
AM very grateful to yOu."
Catarrh of the internal organs gradu-
ally saps away the strength, under
shines the vitality and causes nervous
ness. Peruna is the remedy.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
Every real scepter of power comes
from some suffering in the past.

A wife has great deal of faith in
herself to think her husband can't be
interested in any other woman.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29
The Maid of Other DAYS.

Oh. vanished maids of grandma's day.
What darksome lives were those you
led,
Obliged in youth to pick your way:
Uncertain paths to keep and tread;
No experts had you to advise,
TO counsel, caution or direct
Your maiden steps; no mentors wise,
Or faithful watchers circumspect.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

A man who has been married six
times may still seek the seventh
heaven Of happiness.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-09-29

Waggles-"T should think If she's
repented she would have put one more
clothes"
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-20
Five HUNDRED PARTY

An affair of yesterday afternoon in
honor of a visitor was the Five Hun
dred party, given by Mrs. w. L. Graves
of 1047 South Figueroa street, in honor
of her sister, Mrs. w. w. Phillips of
Fresno, who Is visiting her. A daugh-
ter of the hostess, Mrs. VIII A. Strong,
and Mrs. Pembroke Thorn assisted the
hostess in receiving her guests, who
included Mesdames e. P. Clark, Mat
thew s. Robertson, William Lewis, Will
liam Johnston, A. M. Stevens Olin
wellborn, Charles Wellborn, H. G.
Gooding, Walter Lindley, Wesley
Clark, Rosalie Dreden, w. d. Wool
wine, Wiltshire, ST., L. c. McGoodwin,
Ellis Brandon, Jonathan Scott,
Charles M. Shannon, r. n. Ingram,
Walter Hughes, West Hughes. Hook
aday of Cincinnati, George Montgom-
cry, Cliff Page, Albert Crutcher, Shell
don Borden, M. C. Burnett, Charles
Hance, Evans. William R. Burck, Ben
Goodrich; Misses Sarah Goodrich, Liz
zie Lewis, McGoodwin and Gertrude
Gooding.
Scores for the game were kept OH
cards ornamented with water color
sketches, and prizes were handsome
pieces of Venetian glass. Pink and
white were the colors effectively used
in the living room and the flowers used
were pink sweet peas and hydrangeas.
The dining room was frightened with
yellow coreopsis, arranged in hanging
baskets. The hostess wore Paris cos
tune Of white, embroidered in violets
and trimmed with lace. Her guest Of
honor was gowned in crepe de Paris in
an odd shade of purple.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-20
For Five YOUNG Women

The Misses Susan and Ruth Water
man of Oakland, Miss Georgina Hodge
of Denver. Miss Marguerite F. Cooper
of Nashville. Tenn, and Miss Elizabeth
Coussens of st. Louis constituted a
company of five young women who
were complimented guests at a card
party given Tuesday afternoon by Mrs.
Robert K. Wilson of AL Lake street.
The hostess was assisted in receiving
by Mrs. Percival Glenn Winnett and
the guests were: Mesdames A. w. Hut
ton, C. B. Nichols, Burwell A. Holmes.
Benjamin f. Church. Augustus Brad
ley Cloes. Rose Nettleton, ]. r. Pom
der, Misses Mlgnonette Hutton, Eliza
beth Hutton, Roberta Smith, Hortense
Jones, Mary Holmes, Elizabeth Male,
Ethel Stokard. Susie Ponder, Italia
Bower, Exa, Willie and Alma Kerns,
Hazel, Kate and Julia Thayer Lulu
and Elizabeth Page, Emmie Muentzel,
Jennie Wyley and Mabel Church.
Carnations and ferns were used In
the decorations and scores were kept
on cards ornamented with sketches Of
Gibson heads. Handsome prizes We're
awarded.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-20
KANSAS LIQUOR BREATH

Some facts just related at Topeka Kas are interest
ing as sequel to the claim made during the anti
saloon campaign in Los Angeles to the effect that pro
hibition does prohibit" in the grasshopper state In
recent dispatch from Topeka to the Chicago Record
Herald find this:
Having failed in their efforts to enforce prohibi
ton in Topeka the temperance people petitioned
the municipal authorities to fumigate the joints'
There is nothing the matter with the anatomical
joints of the Topeka body polite might be inferred
from the concluding word of that quotation. The
phrasng of the petition explains the situation thus
I'VE do not appeal to your patriotism, your senti
ment your desires, but to you business men to
have the joints fumigated that the stencil of stale
beer and whisky will not endanger the health citizens
passing along the streets"
From this report 1t appears that In Topeka prohibi
tion not only fails to prohibit but the open saloons
offense is rank that 1t doth smell To heaven" Bad
the Los Angeles saloon is there has been appeal
for the protection Of pedestrians from It's breath Even
the "stench of stale beer and whisky" that may per-
meate the interior does not and hold up persons
passing the street The breath of the Topeka saloon
the contrary evidently is of the kind described as
strong enough to stop clock"
But Topeka is only of the Kansas cities that
demonstrate the impotence OF prohibition to prohibit
The dispatch quoted above says further
Governor Hoch recently declared that long as he
governor Topeka would be free OF saloons but
he has failed to make good his threats the other
leading cities in Kansas have been toerating open sa
looms for several years and Topeka has fallen line
at last"
All OF which leads back to the threadbare question
whether ID better 70 have prohibition that does not
prohibit or license that does regulate9
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-20
RaIdwln.Maaon wedding

Miss Gertrude Mason, daughter Of
Mr.. and Mrs. George Mason, and
James Pierce Baldwin were married
last evening at the home Of the brides
parents, corner OF Adams street and
Grand avenue. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Mr.. Bugbee and was
witnessed by members Of the family
and intimate friends. Miss Mason was
attended by her sister, Miss Edith Ma
son and Miss Azuba Higgins as brides-
maids and her brother, Pierre Mason
attended the groom as best man. The
bride was charmingly gowned in white
silk richly trimmed and carried bou-
quet Of white carnations.
White carnations and ferns we're
combined in the decorations in the
drawing room, where the wedding took
place, and in the reception hall Amerl-
can beauty roses were effective. After
the ceremony wedding supper was
served In the dining room and here also
white carnations and ferns were used,
forming pretty arrangement on the
brides table and the smaller tables sur
rounding it, while the same blossoms
were banked on the sideboard and used
in other parts of the room.
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-20
GRATED CHARITY

That the graft bacillus Is at work in Los Angeles
in the guise of charity is evinced by fact stated
that there than FIVE hundred alleged charta-
BILE institutions in this city"
Angeles is famed for benevoence and its citizens
The fact that there hundreds of such ostens
BILE bodies here, however is evidence enough that many
Of them gratis in the disguise of charity.
For the sake of protecting the public from mpostors
and for safeguarding the ciys official charitable ap
propriations we'll the plan suggested by the Mer
chants and Manufacturers association should be adopt
ed The importance of such action is disclosed in this
statement: @7-f7's
Printed reports made by number of the very
local societies and organizations having for
their ostensbe purpose the relief of the INDECENT help
less unfortunate and suffering show that all the way
from so to rs per cent of their purported yearly
cepts of money is spent in the payment of salaries to
ofhcers."y
The plan suggested a remedy for this abuse is
that has proved effective in other Cities nota-
organization commission, representing within itself
the relief of the city council and the ndorse
ment powers of the Merchants Manufacturers
ciaon having advisory supervision of all charities
This commission would rigorous examination
to be made of all associated and individual applications
for charity and would issue Endorsement such
found worthy Without being able to show such
card the inference would be attempt at imposition
No city earth is generous to the needy than
is Los Angeles and for this there probably no
other city exposed to the schemes of disguised i'm
posters
Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-20
Eor Eormer EIesta Queen

Mrs. Mark B. Lewis, she of La Fiesta
fame, was guest of honor at an after
noon tea with which Mrs. Morris Albee
entertained yesterday at her home 1929
West Twenty-th street Throughout
the home quantities of blossoms of
ferns to produce an artistic effect and
the handsomely gowned women added
the finishing touch. In the reception
hall, where the receiving party stood,
green was the only color used and in
the dining room pink was combined
with the green, pink roses being ar
ranged in tall cut glass vases. Pink
gladioli and Shasta daisies were ef-
fective in the living room.
Assisting the hostess were Mesdames.
Shelly Tolhurst, w. E. Dunn, r. H.
Howell, Frances e. Garnsey f. T. Pet
tigrew, Cora B. Freeman, George Mar
tin Of Omaha, Neb., Miss Mabel Garn-
sey, Misses Margaret and Mary Lee,
Miss Winona Huntley, Miss Rose
Smith and Miss Clara Mercereau.
The guest of honor. who was ever
ranked among the most charming of
charming Los Angeles women, has lost
none Of her grace, and yesterday she
wore an especially pretty gown OF
white organdie with a girdle of pink
satin ribbon and other trimmings OF
pink. Her hostess wore pink and white
lowered organdie over pink silk.