The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-05-13

| selves-sOme which have past their best
| days \ black straw or chip may be
| freshened with coat OF good shoe polish.
| White hats which have become discolored
| hy use are more difficult to renoyate.
Some of the druggists sell a preparation
| for bleaching hats which Is said TO work
well on many of them. 1t is wise to try
| first sample OF the straw or braid.
Valuable hats should be bleaehed by a
professional These madc-overs often
come out looking so well that they take
the place of second or common one and
save the best one for careful use.
II the dealer is censtred or fined for
selling toy guns and pistols, why not treat
in the same manner the father who allows
his young sons to play with them?
The Vermont Home Guards. that in
tcresting little paper which is a monthly
visitor in so many homes, has found its
way to the womans column editorial desk.
The annual convention for Windham
county will be held at Newfane June ,
and 3. by the w G. +. L. This paper
says that so harmful are the effects of
the cigarette that educational institutions
are beginning to shut it out. The Omaha
superintendent of schools says boys
must let cigarettes alone or go without
education" The official mandate from
Cornell faculty is 'cut out cigarettes or
leave the school," Doctor Seaver of Yale.
says tobacco and scholarship are not
friends. They cannot go together" If
correct knowledge is instilled into the
minds of boys and girls the ''Home
Guards of the future will have powerful
allies.
Women are often accused of crowding
men out of positions and occupations in
these days. But have you observed the
trend of things? Does it not SEEM in
stead. that women are being crowded into
these places because the boys are failing
ito qualify? How is it in churches and
their auxiliary meetings? is not more
and more of the work in these, (the near
est to our homes, of all public institu-
tions) being put upon girls and women?
There are exceptions, but it often hap
pens that boys and men of the family
Cannot attend or cannot take part can
not do soliciting cannot fill the vacan-
cies. These duties are forced upon the
women and girls. If this tendency con
tinues, one of these days the ballot will
be thrust upon us in the same way We
shall be compelled to use it whether we
will or no. We may do nothing to hasten
the day, may literally sit down and fold
our hands" The tide is setting this way
and will overtake us before we are ready |
for it. Every man and boy who refuses |
or neglects to take his place and the re-
sponsibilities belonging to it swels the |
tide one billow higher as it comes our
way. We may soon envy those women
who can sing the following lines from
Woman's Home Companion:
/ fear | am behind the times,
Yes, sadly out of date;
| take scant interest in woes
Of which my sisters pirate.
| do not voted rather not.
My rights away fling
We have MAN at our house
To do that sort of thing.
How did your roses come through this
winter? The soil around their roots
should be loosened up early. If fertilizing
was put on in the fall much of it
nay be mixed in with the soil, but all
'efuse and roughness should be raked off
md removed. Do you know that the popu-
ar Crimson Rambler can be started from
lips or cuttings placed in water or in
moist, sandy soil? They should be kept in
he house or in protected place until well
tarted. Some roses are successfully prop
gated by bending down a branch, hold
ng it fast, and covering for several inches
With garden soil until roots are formed.
There seems to be certain bond of love
nd sympathy Tor possibly of knowledge
nd understanding necessary in roofing
oses for while one woman will succeed,
Ter neighbor can do nothing with them.
he Hybrid Perpetuals and Everblooming
oses which are SO much sought after are