Middletown transcript., 1911-01-14
GUMPTlON ON THE FAR

Do-not Try the patience Of the good wife
BY giving her green wood to burn.
Many a man wears himself ont trying to
keep mp with his good intentions.
The funniest thing about big man is
that he is apt to have little wife.
Whitewash yonr barn, but never under.
take TO whitewash crooked politician.
There are more people dying for shelack
ofa kind word, pat on she back and a
little encouragement, than there are from
disease.
Hot water on the grindstone will spoil
II after little so that IL will have no grit.
Use warm water. not hot, for taking the
frost out Of your stone.
What lot of strength there is wasted
chollping with dull axes | Spend q few
minutes at the Rrindstone aud see how
nicely the world will go after that. =
Some folks make themselves 90 lame
kicking about things, that they tire them
selves all out and never make anything
out oflife. 1t doesn't pay.
The boys and girls ges enough hard
knocks ont in tie world without your
being stern and harsh with them. Let
your home be 20 them 3 shelter and q
refuge from the storms of the world.
Getslpretty slippery around the house
and BARN sometimes. Get barrel of sand,
coal ashes or sawdnst and when such days
come, scatter some on the ice sp' g.. Easier
to save bOnes than it is to mend them.
"Wh9 pays the taxes2' asks Wallaces'
Farmer. So far as we have been able to
discover pretty nearly everybody pays.
The tax collector is as relentless as death
aud few are able to side-step him.
Il belp b the wagon.maker to let the
mud freeze to the wheels when yon come
in from trip. You don't need to do it,
though. By taking little pains you can
get most cf the mud off while it is sofs,
and so savsthe wagon many years longer.
Do not tract mud into the house. Pro-
vide scraper and mat outside the door
and do not forget to use them before going
into the house. ScrubbiDg floors and
sweeping carpets are not easy tasks, and
the thoughtful man will not add to his
Wife's burdens.
The horse,blankets get torn sometimes.
Some blust1k y day, take stout needle
and thread I'D see what good JOB you
can do mend kng the rents. II is a good
thing for the men folks to do such little
jobs as this, and not call on the women
so much. They have their own work tc
do every day.
II ron are linking of moving, bettel
look around irst 10 see If the time
energy and money you would spend seek
ing q new location would not, if wisely
spent about tia old place, result in al
increase OF profit and comfort tIat would
Justify you in staying with the old home
Better do this than be sorry.
| To keep plows from rustinR; To thre,
pounds OF tallow mix a pound of whit
lead. When rising, heat tine mixtuT,
aud apply it with an old paint brush
In the spring jnst put the ploW in tb,
ground. This will clean the moldboart
as bright in fs, yards as it was before
The same applies to any farm tool uset
for cuItivsting. - :
| The rude, vulgar and often maIicioul
pictures pu: forth in the guise OF wit ant
caricature through the daily and Snnda!
press, are destroying the artistic sense
if not the kindly instincts, OF a who'll
generation Of younR people, who are grow
ing to maturity looking upon them a
one of the ordinary incidents OF life
Garry the &boninable things out of thl
hou,e with the tongs, for the sake Of th'
children.