The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-06-20

them supplied with fresh grass cut
tings from the lawn.
There is no one of whose opinion one
woman is more afraid than that of
some other woman. Because of this
truth the gentler sex do a great many
queer things.
The nettle is a perennial and multi
plies by root stock as well as by seed.
For this reason the best and only eff
fective way to get rid Of it in lawn or
garden is to dig it out root and branch.
While comparatively few people can
attain to greatness in the generally &C
copied sense of the term, no one is SO
obscure but that he can be kind and
good. And this. after all, is most
worth while.
When house is quarantined for
smallpox, scarlet fever, or other con-
tagious diseases, it is we'll to place the
quarantine in such a way as to include
the family dog and cat. These are
often carriers of disease.
A lot of fellows who thought it was
time thrown away to test their seed
corn in an approved and scientific man
ner are just now beginning to cultivate
a half and third of a stand of corn.
It's a great business, 10 question.
It beats all how loath some people
are to contribute to a really worthy
cause, yet how often they will squan-
der all kinds Of money on fake
schemes and blue sky ventures which
are dishonest as well as unworthy.
Is the supply Of wood for the kitchen
stove next winter in full leaf now or
drying out nicely during the warm
months? While this is a question that
may concern the good housewife more
than yourself, it is none the less impor
tant
Seldom will the cows get so full of
grass during the day in the pasture
that they will not eat a wheelbarrow
of lawn grass between shutdown and
morning. This is particularly true
during July and August when the flies
are bad.
A high tide Of prosperity is indi-
Gated by the latest government fiscal
report, which puts the per capita
money circulation of the country at
$34.16 for our 85,838o00 inhabitants,
which is twenty cents per capita high
er than any previous figure.
It should be comforting thought
for US common, everyday, workaday
folks that he achieves the greatest sue
cess in life and contributes most to
the sum, of human happiness who
serves his fellows best, an avenue Of
achievement which is open to all.
The first evidence that the anxious
mother often has that her darling has
acquired the going in swimmin' habit
is when he comes home some evening
with his shirt on wrong side out
This may be taken as prima facie evi-
dence Of guilt in spite of anything that
Johnny may say.
In New York they propose to legis-
a 70 fhn 10 0G
recently enacted law providing that
whenever it shall be decided by local
sanitary authorities that an accumula-
ton of water in which mosquitoes breed
Is a menace to health they may sup
press or remove it at the owners eX-
pense.
There has not been a spring in two
score years when the need of seed
corn Of the highest vitality was more
urgent than it has been this year. We
believe this will be shown as the sea-
son advances, the men who took es-
pecial pains in the saving and testing
of their seed being the ones who will
suffer the least from the late cold
spring.
To prevent blight in potatoes they
should be sprayed with the bordeaux
mixture when they have reached a
height Of ten inches and at intervals
OF two weeks thereafter during the
growing season. shortening the inter-
val somewhat If the season is wet and
muggy. If the potato beetle Is doing
damage, he may be fixed by putting
paris green into the bordeaux mixture
at the rate of one pound to about $50
gallons of the solution.
Theoretically as we'll as practically
the best time for cultivation is shortly
after rain, which not only keeps the
soil from baking, but makes it mellow,
so that the moisture below does not
evaporate quickly. This condition not
only conseryes available moisture in