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The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Secret Of the Charming Woman.

One must be unconscious of self in
order to be considered charming. Fol
lowing the golden rule entities a wom-
an to be called charming. She must
be good or she cannot be charming,
not on a long acquaintance. That is,
where there Is lack of sincerity 1t is
easily discovered, perhaps not in the
course Of a few visits, but later on.
There is the difference in the true
and the false ring of a coin. Think
not to deceive. 1t is impossible. All
exert an influence for good or evil
upon those they come in contact with.
Why not let it be the former? 1t is
much the happier way. A pleasant i'm
preston never works harm to anyone,
and fingers in the mind as long as the
memory of the person lasts.
To deserve to be called a charming
woman one must be charming to WON
en- as well as to men, otherwise the
charm would be a one-sided thing, so
to speak. 1t is easy to charm a man
in many cases, not so easy q woman.
Is there a woman so unfortunate as
not to be charming to someone?
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
COTTON RAISING IN THE PARISH,

There appears to be a belief among
some that the culture of cotton in this
parish will have to be abandoned on
account of the boil weevil, but, judg-
ing by the experience of other sec
tons that have been invaded by the
pest, we think such a belief not justi-
fed.
The central fact that the weevil has
placed before us is that different meth
DDS and more intensive farming must
be adopted. Instead of making cot
ton the only crop, other crops must be
raised in conjunction with it, making
cotton practically a surplus crop. The
same number of bales raised IN the
past may not be raised, but the crops
as a whole should yield a larger re-
turn.
Cotton is one of the staple crops OF
this parish, and should continue to be.
There is no use to be discouraged, for
it is simply a matter of a change in
methods and when the proper change
is made, Lafayette will still grow the
staple with profit.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Oriqin of Names Of Breeds.

Spaniels were so called because the
original breed of this type came from
Spain. The Blenheim spaniel got his
name from Blenheim palace, where
this dog first gained popularity in the
time of the great duke of Marlborough.
In the same way the King Charles
spaniel owes it's name to the merry
monarch. Fox terriers did not gain
their names from a likeness to the
fox, but from the fact that formerly
they were used in hunting foxes.
Many years ago they were sent by
their masters down the fox's burrow
to draw and kill their quarry. 1t was
in those days a saying that a good fox
terrier never came out of a burrow
without the fox. He either brought
out his prey dead or never came out
alive himself.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Not a "Fussy" Mother.

IT am glad you aren't fussy about
football like some of the fellows
mothers" said the boy.
And the mother, being a wise WON
an, did not say anything about the
many times when, with her heart in
her mouth, she had watched the two
start off to a match, and wondered
whether they would come home whole
or not.
II made up my mind, when, after
much consideration, l gave permission
for them to play, that I would try
never, by word or look, to spoil it,"
she said to me once.
And she hasn't. She has learned to
rejoice in the successes of 'our team"
to sympathize in it's losses, and ever
to resist the temptation to speak in
an 81 Observation-Disclosures tone when
battered shins and other untoward &C.
cidents result.-Home Chat.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Fame Born of Cookery.

The naming of dishes for those who
have attained a success known to all
the world, in artistic or professional
lines, is an honor of NJ e place in
a list Of edibles and the names are
happily met. If a dish is fine enough
and has sufficient distinction to be the
namesake of a great singer or actress,
it's reputation may endure for more
than a generation. Long after the sing
er and her songs have ceased to de-
light us our menus will bear the leg
ends, "Melba tarts" and "Melba peach
es." And if Spaghetti Warfield' and
Peaches a la Geraldine" recent in
ventions of a New York hotel chef,
honor as they should the artists whose
names they bear, those who dine and
sup well 20 or SO years hence may
still rejoice in them.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
NOT TO TALK
THERE ARE MOMENTS WHEN 81.
LENcE is GOLDEN.
Advice Given Newly Welded May Be
Taken to Heart BY Those Who
Have Been Longer in This
Vale Of Tears.

NOW that she is all mine," said the
young husband fondly, Il shall try to
keep her perfectly happy" A moment
later the girl-bride slipped into my
hand the finger that bore the wedding
ring and whispered with beaming
eyes: I'm going to try so hard to
be q good wife to him!"
l twisted that band of dull gold
abort her finger as l said, half fear
fully, II know something that will
help you a lot"
WHAT" She was eager.
Learn when not to talk"
She objected, 90, but Roger and I
have promised each other that we
shall always talk things over. always
talk them out"
"AIl right" l said, "but don't do It
when you are frying a beefsteak."
Just then Roger himself sauntered
our way. There will never De n
misunderstanding between us, for we
shall start by talking everything
over"
Not while you are trying to shave"
l said.
They both laughed. Beefsteaks and
shaving had no place in their rose
colored future, but such homely things
have more to do with welded bliss
than most of us like to admit. Many
unkind words, in fact many divorces.
find their beginnings in just such low
ly sources.
And-think Of it-why not! There
| she is, the bride. Steaming over a
hot stove, her front hair in strings,
| her shirtwaist f1ecked with flying fat
and her fingers blistered. The hot
blood is almost bursting through her
face and she feels the pe%rspiration
| streaming down her spine.
Then something he says irritates
her. Can anyone blame her for
wanting to ease her mind by having
a quarrel?
If a man happens to pass through
the kitchen during the beefsteak or
/ deal let him tread lightly and with
his tongue held we'll between his
teeth, and let the wise wife refrain
from-remarks.
So with a man when he is shaving.
He has all he can do to keep from cut
ting his throat. Shaving is an inter-
esting operation; any oma can un-
derstand that If she is observing. 1t
takes a mans whole attention. He
doesn't like to discuss the theater nor
the %grOcer's bills.
Then, too, if the razor should slip!
1t is vastly safer for the wife to re-
frain from asking questions. If she
values his happiness and hers she
will maintain a dignified, sympathetic
silence until he is shaved, washed,
dressed and-has had time to heal.
Learn not to talk at certain times.
Just keep still, everybody, when things
seem to be going wrong. If there is
anything that must be said, say it aft
erward, when the house cool and
quiet.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
TRAMP NOT ALTOGETHER LOST.
Wanderer Took Abuse from h Fa-
ther, but Saved the Child.

George Tobin doesn't pretend to be
other than a genuine, experienced and
thoroughly dyed wonder. He says
he has lever killed any persons, has
lever made a break that would be
considered a burglary, has v de-
serted a wife and several children, Is
not addicted to drink and evil, and
works only when he strikes a section
where there are no handouts.
The other morning he was approach
ing Waterville, Me-, says the Times OF
that town, from a sequestered village
Of Fairfield, intent upon working his
way to Lewiston on the bumpers. AS
he was passing through the entrance
on College avenue to Rowe street his
attention was attracted to a house.
No. s, and he swung into the street
At a swift pace.
Tobin approached the back door OF
the house and was about to knock
when the portal was thrown open with
Q bang, and a good-sized man yelled:
"Git out Of this! We have fed all the
uODOeS we IntcuU W AOI ZIG AOA1 ~
years."
Tobin started in q conversation
twice, but his words were blocked. as
he was compelled, under the rapid fire
from the rear, to get out toward the
street. Reaching a safe point, Tobin
yelled:
Keep your grub, but you'd better
take that baby out of that screen up
there before 1t breaks its neck or
chokes to death"
John Cayoutte's boy OF two years
had managed to crawl partially
through a broken screen in the win,
dow of the second story. The child
was hanging head downward and was
strangling.
Tobin watched the father yank the
baby back to safety, and then pOked
off down toward the railroad yard.
Telling the story to a group of yard
men who were intent upon frustrating
Tobin's purpose Of free transit, he
said:
There comes the old duffer now"
Cayoutte came down the tracks to-
ward the men, and as he neared them
he discovered Tobin. Cayoutte stepped
up to Tobin and said:
1.-THE baby's all right. Will 81 do
you any good?'
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
DEAL LIGHTLY WITH THE OUNCE.
Reasons Why Some Children Simply
Cannot Learn.

A small coterie of French doctors is
at present studying school children,
and has at the moment under its es-
pecial observation that infantile phe-
nomenon known as the Ounce. The
existence of the Ounce is frequently to
be attributed, they declare, to faulty
hygienic environment, unsuitable food
or tactless treatment. incidentally
they assert that a disposition for
mathematical studies is no criterion
of a capacity for original or vigorous
thought, and that the ability to deal
with numbers is often observable in
the very weak of mind, says the New
York World.
The Ounce, they say, is often any
thing but a Ounce. The poor child
may suffer from weakness of sight, or
incipient deafness, and his teachers
fail to note the fact. Morbid shyness
and self-consciousness, often charac'
teristic in children, are the so-called
dullard's inability to learn. All chill
dren do not progress with the same
alertness. The phenomenon of grown
ups who are ten years behind their
age. in regard to mentality, has been
noted by all physicians. Corvisart,
Napoleon's doctor, declaring that
these minds often prove the finest
when they reach their maturity, and
that the fact of their backwardness is
invariably a sign that a ripe old age
will be reached.
The personal character of children,
say these French doctors, requires to
be trained in respect to pluck, initia-
tive and interest, before the purely
mental attributes can be expected to
come into play. Children who evince
a dislike to play should be taught that
success in play and kindred matters
is the surest guaranty of success in
the great game of life later on. Par
ticular care must be taken in the
selection of schools and schooLsur-
roundings for children who are I'M
usually fat or overgrown, or who show
a tendency to be what is known as
"Old-faShiOned." When children are
likely to become the butts of their
companions, parents cannot be too
careful in deciding as to how they
shall be trained. Observation and the
advice of physical attributes, are the
safest guides if the rearing of whole.
some men and women be, as it
should be, the end of early education.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29

moor land. but by fertilizing with barn
yard manure, and planting corn, peas,
etc. bring the soil up to a proper
standard of cultivation, and instead OF
Is tons, the yield will often reach 80
tons per arpent. 1t is always best 10
have less acreage and cultivate lnten-
sively. A good plan is to prepare IN
advance a piece of ground for replant-
ing when the old stubble is destroyed.
1t is a strange fact that, with n or
the largest and finest sugar rehnerles
in the State, Lafayette produces prac-
tically no cane for this refinery, near
ly two-thirds Of the supply coming
from other parishes. J. A.. Roy con-
tributes about one-third of the cane
to the local refinery. but outside OF
this, little, If any. is made.
Few people stop to consider just
what this means, not only to the far
mers around, but to every trade n
business in the community. Suppose
1000 acres of cane were planted.
yielding 10000 tons, as is the case at
Broussard, and all hauled to the refin-
cry by wagon, we have 10000 tons,
netting $25O,000, instead of barely 49,
900 tons and s55, 900. The difference,
nearly 5000. 600, now goes to other
points to build up industry and bene-
fit trade. Is this amount too insignlf-
cant for our people to consider? Yet,
again, how much cash would actually
be put into circulation throughout the
year for labor, farm implements, etc. +?
Why not keep all this money and
business at home? There has been
some complaint as to the management
of the local refinery, but there are
really no just grounds for these. OF
course, there are always some who
grumble when the limit is put on, and
they kick because they can't haul all
their cane in a week. This could well
be avoided if sufficient cane was
raised here to feed the mill.
Messrs. Won TreskOw and A. B.
Denbo, the managers, are not only
willing, but anxious, to facilitate their
customers in disposing of the crop.
Mr.. Hebert declared he would risk a
thousand acres with the Lafayette re-
finery if he had'sufficient seed cane.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Correctly Described.

the infantry regiments, relating some
of the experiences of the expedition,
said that one day, after hours of la
borious climbing up a steep and never
ending path, he heard a groan of des-
pair from a private soldier.
Look ere, Bill, I've 'ad enough of
this" the soldier said to his comrade.
Il was told as 'ow it was a bloomin'
tableland."
$50 it is. Can't We see ye're climb
in up one of the legs of it," returned
Bill, with a jocular superiority.-Phil-
ippines Gossip.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Coyote Against Rabbit.

I have been ranching on an island
for more than a quarter of a century.
There are no c%arnivorous wild ami
mails on my island but the coyote, and
l could get rid of him in a very short
time and at very little expense, but if
l did the rabbit would Don put me
out of business. I have experimental
along these lines, and know what I'm
talking about, and l declare here and
now that in my opinion the carnivor-
GUS wild animals of Texas save the
farmers and stock raisers hundreds of
millions of dollars by keeping the rab-
bit in check.-Houston Post.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Careful Analysis.

~ don't believe that man is nearly
as indignant as his remarks would
seem to Indicate" said Senator Sor-
ghum.
why, he seems to have run the
gamut of invective."
That's just it. No man who was
really in any such state of excitement
would stop to hunt up long words in
the th~esaurus."
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
The Great Land Steals.
New Orleans StateS.)

Secretary Straus has appealed to
Congress for an appropriation OF $780,
600 for the prosecution OF those VINO
have been guilty of land frauds, and
he takes occasion to say that the gov
eminent has obtained information to
the effect that more than S110, 100000
worth of lands in States west of the
Mississippi have been ~frauduiently ac-
Quired within the last two years by
corporations and individuals.
1t will be recalled that early in his
first administration President Cleve-
land pressed earnestly upon the at
tention of Congress the Importance OF
amending the laws SO as to guard the
public domain against the raids of cor
porations and individual land loOters.
But very little, if any, attention was
given to his repeated requests for ac-
ton, and it now appears they were
UNDECIDED because the land g~rafters
controlled the committees in Congress
and were able not only to strangle all
remedial legislation, but to prevent
the exposure of fraudulent transac
tons. Therefore, unless some drastic
measures are devised to the
land that has been stolen in the last
twenty years, and to punish the
thieves, the movement for the conser-
walton of our national resources will
be a farce, because there will be pre-
cious little left of them to be con
served.
At the last meeting of the National
Association of Manufacturers, George
H. Maxwell, of ST. Louis, urged the
business men of the country to bring
their influence to bear upon Congress
for the repeal of the sO-called timber
and stone act. He asserted that under
this act 5000 900 acres of public tim
Der lands, worth more than 100000
GOO in excess of the $3.50 an acre
which the timber SPECTATORS paid for
1t, had been located during the last
six years and passed from government
ownership into private ownership. He
said that there are now 10000, 900
acres of government forest lands in
the West which are being taken up
by spectators for $3.50 an acre that
are worth 5000, 900, 900 over and above
what the government will get for
them!
Mr.. Maxwell also made the rather
startling statement that the land
6idktlA6 SOulOllldtiOu III IuC WSSl 10
the most powerful political combina-
ton in the United States and has sue
ceeded in inoculating Western con-
gressmen with the sleeping sickness
micrObe." Recent facts gathered by
the field agents of the United States
Land Office show that this statement
is not exaggerated, but it is quite well
known in Washington that when for
mer Secretary Hitchcock had struck
the trail of a number of big and rich
land thieves and was on the point of
getting them into the net of the law
he was forced in some way to aban-
don the pursuit of his game, and soon
after resigned from his Office. 1t is
also known that some of the leading
members of the land stealing combi-
nation have had the run, not only of
the Interior Department, but were not
unwelcome at the White House.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
honored by the Mikado.

Prof. Abby Leach was presented by
the mikado with a golden cup; o mark
OF great honor. Miss Leach is a men,
Der OF the fellowship committee of the
American school at Athens, and vice.
president OF the school and college
organization Of the middle states. She
was the first Radcliffe student, then
Harvard annex, but took her degrees
rs Vassar, later studying at the Uni
versity of Leipsic. The cup is the
first sent by the Japanese emperor to
. woman, and is in recognition Of her
service to education.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Just Found Out.

Prof. McGoozle, in crossing the street
slipped on the muddy crossing and
hastily sat down.
In an equally unprecedented man
ner he made a few hasty remarks as
he rose to his feet.
Mrs. McGoozle said nothing until
they had walked another block. Then
she spoke:
'Lysander," she said, II never knew
you had such q magnificent vccab-
ulary."
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Another Refutation.

you say you Eve touched a penny
that you did not actually earn!" said
the investigator.
THAT" replied Mr.. Dustin Stax, is
precisely what l said. And I repeat
it. have numerous people in my m
ploy whose duty it is to receive all
the small change"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Gave Him Away.

The Boss Quietly stopping hugging
the ste%nographer and resuming his do
tation as some one comes in the Of
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. was the last word.
please?
The Fair Stenographer (very much
fiushed)-Why-er-er your last word
was dearest.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
Busy Year for Snake Killer.

Leon Case, the official viper killer
in the forest of Fontainebleau, France,
is now resting after an arduous sea-
son, in which he has killed nearly 700
snakes. His average is 800 a year and
he has been bitten SO often that he
has become immune to the poison of
the snakes bite. He is known as the
father of the vipers," and he sleeps
on a mattress made of vipers' skins.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
AZ Z He Had One.

YOU'D feel fiattered if l were to tell
you what Miss Pert said about you at
the hall last night"
~sWhat was it,"
She said you looked as II you had
something on your mind"
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
STAYED AWAY,

did you 60 to the theater last
week."
No Nobody told me there was any
ling I ought not to see."-Washington
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-01-29
CANE A GOOD
PAYING INVESTMENT

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