Mower County transcript., 1908-09-16
FARMER BEN'S
COLUMN

COLUMN
A North Dakota woman who has
lust cot back from Paris and Europe
after bein' there several months punct
ures the tire of that famous Paris cook
in in great shape. Over here if any
thing is conglomerated by a French
chef we hav to gulp and say it's the
finest yet just because it's the thing,
you know. But this Dakota woman
has ben right there and I'll be jiggered
if my experience with French cookln'
don't corroborate and agree. She says
the French don't know anything about
seasonin' their vittes and their coffee
makes up in bein' strong for any idee
of flavor and their bread is so hard that
you can just crumble it up and break 1t
off and their fancy stuff is copglomer-
ated so that it don't fit the refined and
cultured American palate. ltell you
there's lots of truth in this. we get
30 kind of used to allowin' things to be
good because they're Dragged up that
we don't stop to hav independent tast-
in of our own and when we do we dis
cover q whole lot of imagination. Paris
cookan' amt what it's Dragged up to
be.
Its fright the way the forest fires
wiped out millions of dealars up In
North Minnesota last week takin'
towns and everything essse. It's seine
vhing that can't be replaced in fifty
wears. You can rebuild a town when
it burns but you can't put back *he for
ests that fire destroys until they grow
back. 1t looks to Farmer Ben like our
remainiu' forests was our:most valuable
asset and that still regulations should
be enforced to hav 'em,protected from
fire and damage and waste. 1t looks
to everyday no8a like prevention was
cheap compared with :the,awful loss of
millions at one crack and the danger
and fear of lesin' lnilkons more. l
never was anneh stuck on livin' in 4
heavy timber country anyhow but
that's neither here nw there. Every
body suffers when CROWN timber is de-
stroyed in big quantities and the put
lie is interested in hevin' sure and safe
protection to all our forests.
q q o
see that fashion jigglers havsde-
creed that the short sleeves and long
gloves hav to be replaced this winter
by long sleeves and short gloves hardly
comm up to the wrist. That's akwus
the way goin' from one extreme to the
other. But so long as lot of fool fol-
lowers are willin' to bow down ard
worship and meekly accept and adopt
and wear the ediet of Fashion so long
this thing will keep up. Now that the
hair is CROWN a good crop on all the
womenfolks arms that hav been in short
sleeves it's about time to cover 'em up
anyhow. It tmakes big money for some
one when the styles change so radical
ly that you look like a fright in last
years dresses when they show side of
the new styles that you get used to see-
in. 1t amt so with mems clothes so
much. I've got good coat for nice
that I've had for five years and it looks
spruce and stylish enuf today that
when I'm out in sassiety with it on
folks think I'm brother to John D.
One of the boys was tellin' me that l
was chump in thlnkin' that $4,000
or $4,000 was big wad for the trusts
down east to send into single con-
gressional deestrick to help elect one of
Gheir agents and tools. He says they
make it up easy enuf thousand times
over in not bein' molested. 1t does
look queer where so much money could
be spent in one deestrick but it takes a
lot to grease every heeler and pay $500
to newspapers to shift principles and
pay for advertisin' stuff and hire rigs
and automobiles to 60 into every corn.
or of the deestrick and hire influential
retainers to whip the rest into line and
jolly up the voters until they forget
what are their own vital interests, and
either vote agenst their own interests
to stay away from the polls in indiffer:.
ence. A congressman's salary at the
$4,000 clip for one campaign wouldn't
be small section and the rest must
come from highly interested sources.