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The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-08-12
LocA. AND PERSONAL

For job printing see the Record.
The Pioche record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1908-1925, 1911-08-12
Headquarters for:
Dry Goods

Comprising wide range of general merchan
class.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

Usually | arose early IN the morning
To pick my flowers those that were
arranged for the house or to make
into bouquets to give away The gar
den then sparkled with vigor ana
freshness. Most often il was toward
twilight that | watered the flowers
for during a dry spell that Is one of
their daily demands Then an ape
peared 70 he quieting down 20 meet
the hours of darkness, when the
weather turned cold or damp | noticed
that many plants actually made ptepa-
ration FOR the night by changing the
position OF their leaves so that the
cold could not strike them to their dia~
advantage, OF by closing the petals Of
their flowers
In the end my garden turned me
from nervous, over-sensltive woman
into one or saner WAYS ana strength
ened sinews.
Facts have come to me concerning
the benefits that other women have
received from daily work la their gar
dens. An ola friend, q man In middle
life, asked me one day. Have you
noticed the change in Winlfred 2Y
I4e spoke of his wife, q woman of
much charm and cultivation one VINO
for two years had been so deeply
that grave doubts had arisen about.
her sanity She took no interest in
any occurrences pf the day, she would
see nc one Of her friends; she thought
only OF the boy who had been the JOY
of her life.
IL response to my friends question.
/ answered II hear that SHE works Ia
her garden several hours each day"
Several hours" he exclaimed SHE
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

81 am like cur neighbor, Mrs. Gray,
responded. II have fallen ia love
with garden. 1t has made me young
again.
And you appear much less ner-
vous, persisted the member Of my
family
Nervous" ! had grown to dislike
the word. 1t offended me more than
the thought of rust on the hollyhocks,
a matter with which ! had contended
by spraying the plants in late April
and again in May with Bordeaux mix
tuye.
Although | labored so hard at times
as to be exceedingly weary physically
the work seemed always under the
guise OF play. Visiting friends. find-
ing me so we'll and happy, declared
that ! must have taken TO some form
Of mental control. and their interest
increased when | related that ! had
found my Mecca. in a garden II was
astonishing to me how strong my
plants were in personality how they
resisted weakness or disease
Ia midsummer the garden became a
blaze of color X attracted such gay
Visitors as the ruby-throated humming-
bird The hummlngbird- moth and myri-
ads OF butterflies. IL drew 70 il all
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

HAD been fiji very III, and Il seemed
n afterwara us ii annoyallces mNiA-
n pliea Within the four wais ol As
home. SAW the dust aeeHnu1at-
fnr. speck by specA. un the 'p3+sA ~
my mahogany. 1 heaFd TIE ehlps @ @satl
from the disnes ~ the panttst ih
Yoise III 4 mouse Ia khe @alis az AlaAt
ssassas ,n, 4. sWaRs Amd to g8fead unsl
dawn the on-comins "a an9tAst 1as
ue uefrhance The aas-cemihg oI lAt
Thp rharitably minded ntinAeis of
nay fa17iiy a1G frequent oee3SApn s.
refer Ia my high-strlng TEMPER i'is's'
bAt, for myseaf, | realized NhAt ! -
descended into llle dark valley VI
T@rv4s. the nerves thar afise and Qenil-
nate And the powss q when aoi@ IS.
GerstAn6s Hntil he haas AkFa u1-e'
Their gaYtTQA
A TIE winter passed ana the scent
OF spring came IA lte air I EeA . ses'
lassness fhas 4ais.X ran tiat VITA Ina
Of the tiny ssnf0ia1ns iaANss a1sats ~
il thex hAa m@g fauG4eA8 80 spAfs.
began ta notice about the spring a4so
d nervous energy. Mhscl ifsa@yd Pre-
yldea En@ myst sensation ~ tsai SYN
pAthy that had touched nle since he-
FORE the days 0f lly Illness. AAe
springtsms sabtly iared rae cut OF my
dafksaed reAiga, fascinated ms vain
the 1&AE4&INE bA k4tE N~AAAAA AtNA =
shower ana made nae afYieus oI ts
actsxixy.
I had never before been much OF an
observer Of nature, / mad taken the
seasons as they came, for granted
changing nay clothes accordingly
new watched the spring work. saw
the myriad of helpers it called 60 It's
aid, ana how steadIastly. ia spite Of
febufTs. Ii pursued its was IN IT'S
great wealth os energy 1 lest unae-
counfably my feeling OF unused
strength Ny nerves grew stronger
As practical expression of my de-
sire / Built 4 garden. Not large one
a rather small Intimate one, in which
no sprouting seed or faded leaf could
escape my eye, 1 built II on the one
bif 81 available space that | had, con-
ienting myself i'm its possession, IN
stead of wishing 1t OF different Size or
outline. Many q child, perehanee
would have planned a better garden,
and made more up~t0-aate choice ot
seeds and plants. But there was no
sense OF Rivalry Ia this garden, no
striving after unusual effects. Merely
Il WAS 10 be my garden of silent SYM
pathys a place III which 20 lose my
peeyishness.
After the seeds were sown and the
young plants SGT ia their places, /
drank to the fuu draft of patiencc
Tor seeus DC n0t aPtuNA, ~itat 0tto
bloom all In q day; even plants require
some time 70 accommodate themselves
10 the s0ii ana 10 test the temper ~
the season. 1 also began ~ observe
the wind. whether it were frienCly OF
cold and piercing: 70 smile when the
sun stretched itself Ia lengthened
measure over garden, and to watch
tne great expanse Of blue wiki some
thing of the interest that / had for
n4erig given 70 my friends gawns ana
the manner o. coi1ng their heads The
say indeed entered into ms HE not
only as something of beauty but as
an element ID which : held a part For
tile first time In my life ! Welcomed
the raindrops. since they would sink
into TIE soil and cause my seeds 70
sprout.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

tered the mothers head. They were
numbered among the plain people.
having no highly cultivated estate as
the wife Whitfield, but possessing
merely small garden, situate d a the
back Of their house ln IL they raised
Vegetables for their daily use be-
tween the vegetable rows OF their gar
den uprose many shirley poppies; Eoi-
iyhocks marked IT'S garthest boundary.
After the death of the boy. the gar
den died completely phe mother leit
that she could not enter il alone Fte
SPOT that had been her recreation ana
stAntlF Stunned SO passed three ioiS
wears,
Then a sisters child was bercft af
both father and mother. ana his sorly
pll@ht made SO suong an appeal t1at
the mother ~ the lost b0y took liita
into her home and adopted him as her
own
Toward spring she lea mn almost
unconsciouslg into the garden he
was stlll L haby, five years old hat
she told hiaf what bt ntiful pi4ee
ii had once been. Sire took q spade
ana showed him how her boy had cuG
the holes for plauts, $50 pointed oai
tp him where he had put tle early
radiehes. and where the cabhages had
GROWN Ii was 4 gay tittle ehhp that
sire had adopted and he htted from
one place tx another like a butterfly
The mother felt pleased TO have him
With her ana the thoMght presented
itself Tor the first TIME tilat her own
SON would be sAddened by seeing tAr
garden SO uegltcted II aaat put
something into this little ones llfe -
occupy hin" she thought. ~ Wiil IS,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

spends the whole Of the mornings
there, and often returns to e IN the
afternoon she welcomes her friends
to show them the improvements she
has made she drives out again with
me- commenting continually ON the
things we see. Her interest in general
affairs seems once more TO be estab-
lished. The garden has been her sal
yation."
Through observation of Natures
ways Winifred not only grew % look
upon the death Of her son as some
thing necessary to fuller. more COM
plete life. but she learned TO regard
her own health as a thing desired, and
OF Importance to her neighb0rs To-
day she SO abounds ia health ard sam
ity of thought that she seems TO radi-
ate it wherever she goes. The lesson.
nevertheless. was not learned in a day.
Another tale us garden triumph Is
current in the town where | live. It
also is about a mother who lost her
boy. a lad Of fifteen years, wen grown,
strong. an ideal son in every way.
That he would succumb SO early to
death was the last thought thst en-
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

war; Warn '.t,e tn9te than a
schoolgirl ta paer of t4e realtn an
a4raugenlent t.iat ~ her w8a utterly
distastefui i'be Deer vas dUuple hef
aye q man of AV hartl "a personality
@nd a renowned loysr of tle material
pleasures of llfe The GIL was ideal-
istic. high-strung ana nervous 20
le6ree
a few lays before the wedding she
reyol.ed openly II then became a mat
ter II nine days gossip that the peer
had been thrown over. Her relatives
and friends referred 10 her as Poor
Amy, ana as Amy who is Dit
queer" indeed, She felt herself to be
so amid the general disappr0val that
broke over her head she dreaded TO
gp anywhere, since everywhere she
fc!t that she was adversely criticized
At length her nerves gave way ana
she had q severe fit Of illness.
0ne CT the 6rst things thar interest
ed her after the crisis Was a bouquet
of jo. 4uils. They seemed to open up
a train Of thought that she had never
had before She wondered about them
a great deal
Some months later 1t was stated in
q society paper that this erratic lady
was growing danodils in extraordinary
ana that she had, moreover
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

sent men 90 foreign countries 20 hunt
for rafa Specimens of these plants ln~
uecd Aer collection Of daffodLls soon
grew to be as mueh Of an interest u
horticuHurists as the breaking Of her
enga cement with the peer had been To
society
When woman either through loss
or lack of Interest in the things OF her
life. or through natural love Of fioW-
.ess gfayitates toward a garden, IL
soon becomes desire with her to work
in it. rather than To sit passyely by
and see it grow under the care OF 9TH
ems. This desire then, is the first cali
TO action, and m this action, with the
necessary accompaniment of thought
and knowledge, there are lost the cor
roding annoyances, the subtle griefs
and displeasufes, that have formerly
held the mind in bondage.
A woman's work in a garden should
be tempered with moderation, even
peutleness. an attribute SO potent that
the 2efsians claim ii can lead an ele-
phapt by a hair. To rush madly into
garden work. beginning early while the
dew lies heavy on the ground; or TO
lean over thinning out seedlings, or
transplanting for long periods at
time, IS but to outline the path for
rhcumatiem and backache. -
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24
What Constitutes a
Good School Lunch?
Quality OF the Bread Of Prime mporance-sugges-
tons for the Childrens Lunch Box

TT you have children who must eat
thelf lunches al school you aic ask
4AC yourself just now what should
fe pat into The lunch basket iu order
4e nake the midday meal wholesome
and KUod 20 study en- You are ask
ing how the food should DE packed ih
order that it may look tempting when
the basket is opened and may pt0Fc to
l,,. agpetizing. These questions YOU are
.l-kine of yourself aHd answering for
yaurself with the heip 20 what son can
fnd il books and magazines ora the
sabseet ~ food Tor growing children
hut are you asking other questions just
as Important and joining Nith other
women 20 insist on having them an
sweredl Are you ashing where me
school children eat their lunches Is
there n pleasant attractiye room pro-
tided. or must they eat them 40 the
desks where they have been sitting All
The morning, OF in haN. cloukroom or
basement ~ a new school building IS
l.eiuE created are sen asking fhaf space
email be sci aside for a lunchropw ana
lor q little kitchen where SOUP Or cocoa
or ofher warm dish may De prepared
Perhaps you are wondering NhF the
preparation % part or aA uf schooi
nieaI would not De- a Kcry practical and
interesting lesson in domestic science.
There are other iuouiTics. TOO. of a die
fe-ent sort They relate t0 that nttie
shop across the street from the school,
or around the corner. where tho boys
.aaa r.rls spend fhrir pennies ls lt
safe and Is the food sold there clean
and wholesome
The Contents o. the Lunch Boz.
The answer 10 the ffst question.
egVnn- constitutes good school
.lunchgn is part ~ the answer Or the
larger question. what constitutes a
Eood meal for q child ' and to the still
farser question. what in general con-
stitutes 8 good mcalT" In the drst
place. = 5000 meal should be carefully
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

planned as well as properly cooked
llAe to think OF "a well-put-together
meal as containing something liquid
something sWrchy and something
meaty Ur tissue fOrming" as We have
been taught 90 say. something fat and
something hbery something sweet and
something sgvory How does that ap-
ply to "a school lunch In answering
this question we Will leave the LIQUID
uart OF the meal 90 be considered last
because that is the part OF all parts
-hat should be provided al school. both
for the reason that warm liquid
helps stir up the circulation. thus help
ing digestion and leaving the head
clear f0r study. and also FOR the rea-
son that the liquid portion is incon-
Nenient 90 carry from home.
Something starehy.
school lunch or any other. Is good
thoroughly baked bread Soggy bread
is bad Tor anyone and it Is partou-
iarly bad for children. for their teeth
need exercise. That Is the universal
opinion of dcutiats and physicians.
Rolls. the long narrow finger rolls
preferably. make good sandwiches.
partly because they are crusty and
partly because by cutting them open
and removing just iittle ~ che crumb
v0u can make good-siEed place in
which to put chopped meat or other
filling. Remember the children when
Nou make bread and make some of
these rolls or buy some occasionally.
Boston brown bread makes good sand
wiches. DO combines well with cottage
cheese and lettuce Make small loaf
e.r sandwiches in a baking powder can
al the saioe time you make thc larger
supply Zwlehack aHi many OF the
urepefed cereals which now come Bro
Tire form ~ crackers are eood food for
chiidren. bat theg are vather dry and
als1 crumbiy- The bes way 30 pack
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

them Is in the little tim boxes in which
mints or waters come Try occasional
ly making very thin slices OF zwieback
and putting Jelly or Jam between Them,
ZWlebaCk rs made by toastinG broad
m very slow oven 1T should be
crisp and a golden brown Zephyrettes
with cream cheese between them fur
uish pleasing variety if used occa-
slunaly | class plain cakes with these
stRrchy foods because lu the well-con-
strueted meal they do not take the
place 81 the sweet which seems neces-
sary 10 top OH with Here too, belong
doughnuts and coffee cake ud many
kinds of cookies.
Something Meaty.
In addition to breads the we'll
planned meal with am occasional eN-
cepuou. should contain one of The fol-
lowing Milk eggs cheese. fish. poul-
try. nuts meat ur beans OF these
milk ls most important for tho ,oung.
for ID is rich. not alone in ti- sue-form-
ing foods but also in the materials
which make bones and teeth lf school
boards can do no more they can at
least provide FOR having good milk sold
in the schools az cost
Meat for the school lunch should he
thiny Sliced or chopped ana mixed
with salad dressing Save "a little OF
the mint sauce served with the roast
lamb or OF the caper sauce served with
boiled mutton or the hnrscradlsh sauce
served with beef or the tomato sauce
served with veal 10 give a touch of
spice to the sandwich tlllinE. Try al-
ways 10 have boiled dressing ON hand
or mayonnaise Il you use tt, for that
makes 70 possible 20 make "a good filling
out of a little meat OF fish Mixed with
veal or chicken and combined with
lettuce IL Is best bat it can he used
with any meat or with cheese. or with
baked beans or chopped nuts. or with
nuts and cream cheese mixed. or with
hard-bolled eggs or with a mixture OF
hard-hOiled eggs and fish, or with let
tucc or Watercress. There are. in fact.
few foods with which salad dressing
cannot he combined 10 make good
sandwich nller.
II there Is place for a Jelly glass
ln the lunch box moist foods like cot-
tage cheese or baked beans or salad
may constitute the meaty portion o.
the meal So Far us the food value OF
custards Is concerned they Cbuf under
The head of ecsh-forming foods 30 they
are made with plenty of eggs The
davs when they form The dessert.
therefore. are good days on Whi,h 70
eerte -mf8fl sandwiches. plain
bread and butter. perhaps. or lettuce Or
cress ssndN iches.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

pint Of water for about fifteen minutes
Cool and add onc-third OF a cupfuI III,
lemon juice. Keep on ice tin needej
40 lhls may be added other fruit juices
on the syrup from canned fruits. The
water can be added at school. Lemon
or ORANGE Jelly and many of the more
Matrry fruits should, Ia making up the
biil-of-fare. be considered as LIQUID he
cause they are chiefly water.
The Luncheon as a Whole.
In the following sample luncheons
ene numbers refer TO the necessary.
parts of "a well-planned meal, l) a..
starchy % the meaty: 90 the fattv-
go the hhery t5) the sweet 90 the
saFoiy to the liquid or watery.
Suggested inches.
Milk o. tD, ham sandwiches II, 70,
i9l tbl, an apple and two or three dates
th, frosted cake (5l.
MIX - N)' egg sandwiches with sal
an dressing Q) 90 l3) (6); appI. sancc
'fli plain cake Ql; maple sugar 1s,.
stape Juice t0. cheese sandwiches Gi
'-) tal tsl. steWed prunes OF apricots "a.
cookies 'pi sweet chocolate (5.
Unbalanced Lunches.
The lunches given In ehik,rs, a..
frequently faGlty through e~cse- ,e
some one OF other Kind Of food For
example "
Too Meaty.
MIR 90 %. hard-boiled egg %, rosst
or cheese sandwiches I'D % ts). cusfs~d
90 tsl plain cake l).
Too starchy and Too DRY
Plain meat sand iches CD "a IA
g5 g-15-snn4ts 3D. cackers %. plain csks
Too Fat
N..k f-l O. veal sandwiches with sal.
-a -.... a;sssiag I'd 90 o., d5ugnnuts D.
Too Fibery.
lettuce sandwiches oD a, "a o,
,ase ,.a tb C1 radishes t0. raisin CAKE
Too Sweet.
Miik % %. cookies 0,. iallv sand
" 'eaes lp ll. frosted cake CD 20.
Too Moist
MIX Cl %. pear tD C). potat, salad
u 90 tel. lemon jelly C1. bread ana
'utter u CD.
Too spicy.
Neat sandwiches with highly sssa.
.aea eress-ng fh 20 81 90. pickles fs,-
nlaee pie 20 C lg. w,
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24
Regaining Health
Among the Flowers
How This Work Has Transformed Many Neurasthenic
and Sicay Persons Into Hearty, Robust Women

Then came days of thinning out
seedlings, of using a little fertilizer
htge and there, ~ routing insect pests
ana 81 struggles with weeds. HON
busy ] was, There was ne longer time
to worry about the chips that fell
from the dishes With q WORD of eau
tl4n concerning theif care thought
thar ] had paid them their due. At
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

night after wedding. j was 500 limb
weary 90 be aroused by the mouse IN
the side walls.
~ believe you are growing roses IN
your cheeks" said a member OF my
family instead OF in your garden
You are looking worlds better"
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

each must be acted upon by the di-
gestlte Juices, The sugar is, at the
TIME u is eaten. In very much the
condition that the -four Of pastry
reaches after an these processes. Put
Just little sugar OF some kind into
the lunch box two or three pieces of
pure candy or Of loaf sugar. or a
Attle maple sugar on sweet chocolate
Sweet cuolies come under this head
too AS % pastry save that ti!i a day
when the afternoon Is TO be spent in
festivities Of some kind not In study
when there is 10 be speaking or an
excursion To the woods Then make
some turnoFers, incl0sas the allinu
safely between Crusts Children Ike
these and they are easter 10 carry
than pieces OF pie.
Something savory.
This need not always be put in as
an eXtrai IL may be introduced in one
of The many sandwich nlings OF
which mention has been made Ham is
"a savoty and dried beef and bacon
and cheese. So are acid fruits lf the
term 'savorya be stretched a little IL
the sandwiches and the dessert are
both rather neutral in flavor it may
De well o. add "a little sour sells 0r
spice1 preserves The jelly can be put
up at the regular jelly-making season.
There are numberless little jars ana
wide-mouthed bottles coming into our
houses now that can be used Tor the
individual portions % felly Covered
with paraiiin. the small amounts keen
~ good condition without drying.
Something Liquid.
The question of something liouid~
for the school luncheon brings up the
whole matter OF the policy % the
school with reference o. the food of tbe
pupils We VIII suppose first that the
authorities do not help and That every
mother musf. settle the matter Tor her
sela Under these circumstance Tho
children themselves should be corsur-
Cd IL thev prefer OBJ have boxes rraf
can Re tiosel 4p tat when empty aud
lAus ieaNo ifLu compare lively hands,
lfee on the Way home. fp h1 tirg LIQUIDS
ana eEstaris sli other foods that ur-f
Dc CARRIED iI dishes with th-f- H-n,t-
cons, THAT shnuif settle The matter r-
many ul inc Consolidated rural err-rrs F
L.h hetef, ifinsIor is r-urlE.8 f
nere- and in other cases where rrrIs
p .le iack AND forth. the size anl -,ef-r-
n the llnrn basket need not h. .,r-
siaeie- Eik in these cases should b,
part o tre luncheon in wf.-r. -..s
lrl ar lemonade Cs other frnlt .,i.s-
ir SIMMER.
ine n1furIng material f1r lrnonas,
can N# f1a - un fn nuarfltIee ana ~.
on L-ri. Boil a -uutgl % sugar in i
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-08-24

that was merry and salutary i
charmed the small roguish boy OF the
ueighbOrhoud almost 20 It's own undo
ing: for while eyer merry he had No
reverence. and thought the most cher
ished bud appeared better in his but
tonhole than on its nghtful stalk