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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

r HE prevalence of divorces In tie
1 United States is reproach alh
to the country and to the church,
the declaration of DR.. Robert Stusr
Macarthur. The American repubH
las most unenviable prominence h
this regard. The detailed accounts d
suits for divorce, as these suits are
pressed in the various courts, are dis
gushing in the extreme. They bring
reproach alike upon American men
and women in all parts Of our county,
These facts are admitted and at the
same time are sadly regretted by our
best citizens and our most devoted
churchmen and churChwomen.
The causes for divorce are numer
Gus. They are not limited in re
sponsibility, either to men or 70
women. 1t is not a sufficient state
ment to say that the broader educs
ton Of women and their emancips
ton from the greater subsection Of
former years is the chief cause, as
Mrs. Anna Rogers says. The men
and women who rush into the divorce
courts elicit our contempt for Their
yuigarity and cOarseness, not to use
even stronger terms. Ii is difficult So
to control ones moral indignation be-
cause of the vulgarity of these d.
vorce cases as to speak of them win
the restraint becoming a newspaper
article. How men and women can
sioOp to charge abOminable crimes
against each other in order to secure
divorces makes one ashamed Of bis
race. Idleness, lack of spiritual occuT
patton and suggestion, and vulgar con-
fOrmity to low ideals in life-thess
are causes largely responsible for the
prevalence of divorce. Hasty mar
riage is also somewhat responsible.
Many men and women rush into mar
riage with less serious thoughfulness
than they would show regarding any
ordinary business transaction. The
clergy also are somewhat responsible
by the haste with which they Of
ficiate at marriages without knowing
the facts In the case of those who DE-
sire to enter into this relationship.
Marriage must be made more hon
orable, its obligations must be lifted
to a higher level. In single word,
the correction of the evils OF divorce,
as In the case OF all other evils, must
In its finality, depend upon higher
spiritual ideals, nobler characters ana
more religious conceptions Of all the
duties and obligations of life in Ii
manifold relations. Uniform divorces
laws In the states would partially 70
move the evils of divorce. There Il
no one specific cause-there IL no one
specific cure. When men and womes
realize their dignity and glory as the
children OF God and heirs Of eternity
they will so order their lives that III
advised marriages will be rare. and
they Will then SO conduct thsmselvss
in their married relations that d
vorces will be practically unknown.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

rush Immediately and without second
thought to the divorce courts?
The reason, Il just got tired OF Al
fred" or Margaret became such
bore" has been given by more than
one person who has applied for di-
yorce. Looking in marriage for indi-
vidual happiness only, how could they
remember their duty to the state?
Sociologists. writer's, doctors and
legalists on all hands are asking,
What is to be done? Should there
be a uniform divorce law that all the
different states will ratify? Should
the magistrate, the priest and the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
Modern Man Too Busy.

Modern Man 90 Busy
1t is not uncommon for the wives
of business men to spend summer in
Europe and winter in the south, and
many times they find in these places
the romantic cOmpanionship and at
tention their own husbands had not
time to give them at home.
Like birds in a gilded cage" they
were treated, their husbands sending
them packages Of lace and bundles of
silks, and bringing them home hand
fuls of jewels, but if they ever sus-
pected their wives need Of romance
and tenderness they were unable to
supply it, because Of the demands on
their time by their many business in
terests.
Or is 1t that the modern inventions
for picking, preserving, dyeing and
cleaning have left the twentieth cen
fury woman with vast leisure" on
her hands, and has her lack OF domes-
tic occupations and cares made her
dissatisfied and hypercritical Of her
busy and worried husband?
And does she brood over his cold.
ness" all day because in his haste to
keep some business engagement he
hurries forth without the morning
kiss?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

When the census bureau began its
investigation it had to leave out near.
ly 100000 cases which were pending,
and of the 1900 investigators, clerks,
etc, employed in the bureau in the
preparation of this report 140 are still
at work getting it in its final and COM
plete shape.
France has only 70 divorce courts,
Germany only Is, England only one,
and the United States has 1921 courts
empowered to grant divorces. These
facts alone are sufficient to give the
thinker pause and ask What is the
remedy?"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

AM minister Of the gospel. be-
1 leve in the Bible. 1t is regrettable
that there are so many different state
laws governing divorce, and | feel
sorry for the children of all these d.
vorced people, says Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford.
No, It ia not the fault Of the new
woman" There is no new woman. "
A woman Is woman. There are good
women and bad women, but no new
women"
There are too many hasty mar
riages. This should be looked after.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The right sort of cotton holding
movement, that eliminates the banks
and the merchants, is the only success
full one. It's a darned shame that the
farmers of this country, the real
wealth producers, won get together in
anything without a bunch OF poliu.
clans at the head of the thing and a
bunch of bankers and merchants at
the bottom of it. The pride of the "in'
dependent farmer who feeds them all"
should come down, or else he should
have sense enough to make good his
pride and boast.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
From Various Views.

The different churches have diff.
ferent beliefs concerning marriage,
the different states have different
laws governing it, and they are both
content to rest their case there!
Thus the greatest sociological prob
lem in the United States to-day is be-
ing tossed back and forth as If it
were some rubber ball, and yet
100000 divorces in 20 years are sure
TO leave their influence on many lives
and many families.
Back in 174S Nine. de Chateauroux
said: * see plainly that there will be
a general overthrow if no remedy is
used"
What she said about the political
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

ent day back to Potlphar's VII.
David of old show it to have H."
same yesterday. to-day and fo,ssl
David's t"R wives are de,cs,t
as women of Comely countenaS:
of good understanding, and tho.
no record where either AbIgs"
Ahinoam closed their cook boob,
study law or uttered a single a.
the echo Of their joint husband
they had, who knows? Thew :,
have saved bim from the sin q, Il
ing the poor dittito to the afo,.,
Il the hottest battle that no m'l
take his beautiful wife Batbss'
Who knows had they seasonod !
samcness OF the married wav
an occasional dash of original tho
The sacred Milton, The divine n
ley, Cicero, Dante and the immo.
Shakespeare are all me,apcboIv !
amples of marital unrest ,b,'
none of them was divorced.
If divorce is growing create, y
not because martial unrest Is -.
ing worse, but because offenSSs
,,,or,;nro md by,., pri..,. a.,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

condition Of France then we NAV u
about the divorce situation in M
United States today.
The divorce congress Two years an
accomplished practically rothing vi
intentioned as it was. If federal lei,
lation is urged in the spring on d,
strength of the detailed report o. h,
census bureau it will be CHALLENGED ~
the ground of its being uncOnsit
ti0nal.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

into? Rev. DR.. Houghton, pastor of
1.-THE Little Church Around the Cor
ner," now has the bans called, which
means that three weeks public notice
is given Of all intended marriages In
the church.
Do husbands and wives expect to
find In marriage only a continuation
Of the romantic bliss Of courtship?
And when they find each day there Is
less ecstasy and more imperfectons
discoverable in each other do they
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The man who plants one crop a
year on his land is failure, in that he
is not earning what is his due. Plan
so as to get at least two crops year
out of every acre of your land; and il
you make three, you are just that
much nearer the point to which farm
ing is coming rapidly.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Don't get into the dumps and think
that God Almighty has picked out such
a miserable runt as you are upon
which to wreak out special ven.
geance; you aren't big enough for a
thing like that. Flies are not shot at
with cannon.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

There are not many men in this
country who have not many things to
be thankful for Those who have frit-
tered away all the past ought to be
thankful for the things that have been
offered to them, at least.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

After all that has been said and
done, the fact remains that individual
effort, while it Is the basis of all sue.
cess. is not sufficient to overcome the
obstacles that the farmer has to meet.
1t takes union Of effort and union OF
brains to thwart the army Of hangers.
on who are non reproductive, yet whom
the farmer must support.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
WHY?

the place assigned to you by nature,
be mans helpmeet and all will be
well"
Has higher education made woman
dissatisfied with the domestic sphere?
Or is it that the nigh tension of
modern everyday business life has
prevented the husband from giving
his wife the romantic attentions and
carcsses demanded by her nature?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Get together and see what your i'm
mediate neighborhood can do in the
way of cooperative buying OF seed,
planting of crops and marketing the
same. The competition one has to
meet now demands this.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The Farmers Union is not doing any
of "the arraying of cl5ss against class"
bat it has sense enough to see the sit
uation and move to take care of its
own class. It's movements may seem
a little wobbly sometimes, but it can
only hope to walk by walking.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Encourage the building Of the fac
tory. Every time you take a man out
of the field and put him into factory,
you take away one Of your competi.
tors, get a new customer and add a
competitor to your buying market
three most admirable things.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Farmers are the people; educate Is
the proposition; cooperate is the plan,
and Farmers Educational and Coop.
erative Union is the institution to car
ry all these things to the dignifled and
valuable end designed by nature.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Reports of full bags of birds are al.
most daily heard on the streets and
in the mainline the farmer must some
up smiling next year in his fight
against the boil weevil.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Is Sun at work preparing The complete
and official report,
This is an increase of 100000 in
the last 20 years over the 20 preced-
ing years, and the appalling part OF
It is that two-thirds, or nearly 100000,
of these divorces have been granted,
says the New York Sunday Herald.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The Santa Fee Railway IS planting
trees to raise cross ties for future use.
If they have figured out this as a good
investment, how much better 1t Is for
YOU to "plant tree every time you
have a chance"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Have you planted as many trees this
year as you have destroyed? If not,
you are leaving the world worse OF
in that respect than you found it.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The man who correctly foretells the
day on which cotton will reach Is
cents will eclipse any Of the great
number who lay claim to fixing the
date on which Galveston was storm
swept. -.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The potential enemies of the vehicle
trust that is getting the best of the
farmer are the good shed and bucket
of very oily paint. Use both very
freely.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
Other Reasons Given.

Or is It that young couples look at
marriage too childishly and do not see
the economic, sociological and political
sides Of the family? Do they not
realize its integral relation to the
state?
Do they consider 1t as personal
thing, and does their dull sense of the
sociological aspect Of marriage dull
them to the sociological aspect of di.
vorce?
Or are marriages too lightly entered
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

M ARlTAL unrest is neither an of.
AVA spring Of the new woman nor the
evil outgrowth of freer and juster d.
vorce laws, declares DR.. Clarke
Houghton. 1t is as old as the world.
To charge It up to the conscience of
the new woman" is neither fair mind.
ed nor rational. The Old Testament
reeks with 1t, and the biographers of
our great warriors, statesmen, poets
and prophets all the way down the
ages, from Earle or Gorky OF the pres
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The first step toward the real ele-
walton of the public school Is the build
ing of good roads. This is purely To-
cal matter. Make the roads good and
YOU can consolidate the adjacent
schools and raise the grade at once
and can have better teachers and bet
Ger houses.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Pigs, poultry, peanuts and prosper
ity is smilingly inviting the Southern
farmer to get busy and enter upon the
10y of real living.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Get ready to raise plenty of fruit and
tomatoes. You can put up all you
can't sell green, and the market is not
half supplied with stuff that is good.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

There never has been enough good
eggs to flood the market, and most any
sort Of an old hen is willing to swap
eggs for good feeding.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The main issue this year is good
crop Of such variety that there will
be something to the credit side Of the
ledger when the year is gone.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

The farmer who is trying to be
Union man and is not keeping few
stands of bees is making a sort of
failure, Fact!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13
STAND YOUR GROUND, FARMER

Hold your cotton, farmers! Don't
allow those Wall Street thieves and
plunderers to bluff you.
They abused you and bluffed you
when you asked the government &c
create real money to the amount O
$50 per capita. You knew that wha
the country needed was a larger vol
ume of real money. But they Laughed
at you, lied about you, cheated you
out of your votes and never rested UNI
til they got the constitution amended
by a treasury ruling and an act OF
Congress, and thus fastened the SIM
gle gold standard upon you.
Then, when the sound money gen.
tlemen had shrunk the volume Of mon
ey of final payment, they flooded the
country with a deluge of bank paper,
rested ten credit dollars on every sin
gle one of the real dollars, and Toasted
sumptuously on compound interest on
their own debts.
Then, one fine day, somebody got
scared and wanted real money. His
fright scared everybody else, and then
everybody wanted real money.
But ten men were clamoring for
each one of those real dollars, and ten
demands for it were made, at the same
time and place.
Result, panic.
But, farmers, stand firm!
Let those silk hat thieves and plnn'
derers who laughed at you and robbed
you, sweat awhile.
One of them has already shot his
head off. If the rest of them would
do the same thing, the panic would
become popular-sO much so, indeed,
that we would even becCne fond OF
these cheap and funny looking things
that they call clearinghouse certit1-
cateS.-Watson' Weekly JeffersOnian.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Most of the people in this country
who are too busy talking about hard
times have simply read about it in the
papers.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Tie Farmers Union is not bornd
down by any fads or fancies. but is
at all times open to any better ways
of doing things.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

pOulLIys
Cleanliness is conceded to be one
of the essentials to good results in
poultry raising. But that does not
mean to be forever working around
in the poultry house. Every time the
house Is cleaned the birds are dis.
turbed. Clean only when necessary
Use plenty Of air-slacked lime and
ashes.
Some sell their males too soon. Ma
turity is good for them. When too
young their offspring is weak.
The time of narrowing can never be
controlled if the male is permitted to
run with the herd, and it is difficult
to know when it is to be.
The best mating does not always
produce the best results. Pedigree
does not make an animal, unless the
quality and size are there.
Few object to paying high price
for first class animals. But it Is hard
to bear, when one has paid a high
price and obtained only an inferior
animal. This is fraud, and the seller
should be made to suffer for it
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

preacher when marrying couples, i'm
press upon them the sociological as
pect Of their union, as we'll as the
spiritual and romantic?
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Get busy getting ready for next year.
It is the ready man who gets all the
plums.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

You owe it to yourself to do all and
to be all that is in you. Are you
measuring up to your responsibility.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

1t Is about time to say again that
those In the boil weevil districts
should have big burning Of all trash.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Take day off to fight the imple-
ment and vehicle trust by painting up
your vehicles and farming tools.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

THIN the last 20 years
there have been 1900, 009
divorces in the United
States. These figures are
supplied by the census bu-
reau at Washington. which
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

There are bad roads where there
are no split log drags.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Get on good terms with the birds;
they are your best friends.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

It is always safe to plant pigs and
poultry.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

Think about Instrumentation.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1907-12-13

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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-09-13
How 10 Tell Good Salt.

The good housekeeper will grOwl at
the -four, scold the yeast cake, snin at
the butter, turn up her nose at the lard,
Inspect the meat with greatest care,
yet all her life wonder why she often
over or under salts her dishes when she
knows that she sailed them just right,
40 she always did, and as the recipes
call for. The reason 10 simple tho sea
soning value Of different brands OF salt
varies widely. This statement 10 easily
proved. Take Ave slices Of ripe toma-
toes. Apply equal parts Of Ave makes
Of salt upon the separate slices. Eat
40 soon as sailed. The differences In
favor, Dermeation, raDidity and equal
ty of dissolution. seasoning value, are
readily detected. A table salt should
be fihe. the crystals Of equal size,
quickly soluble and free from ingredi-
ents which absorb moisture from the
air. Large and small crystals will not
dissolve uniformly, consequently the
full sailing effect 10 not obtained until
the large crystals are dissolved. The
quickly soluble salt diffuses itself
through the food at once and gives an
equality OF SAVIOR. Sticky salt 10 an in
trusive nuisance. Failures 10 sailing
are largely due to changing from one
make Of salt to another. Get the best
grade. grow accustomed to It's use and
stick to It.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-09-13
New Firm, New Goods,
NEW" PRICES 7

YNHlS advertisement merits attention. We
a want your trade and we Intend to have
II lowest prices, fair dealing and highest
quality will get 1t.
W. As.we are sole agents for celebrated
Columbus Buggy Company Vehicles we can
sell you their best hand vehicles
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1907-09-13
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