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Rare Bareain!

80 acres, houses, half in culti- vation. $15 per acre; two miles of Wheatley. Payments like rent, with small payment'at first. Reason for selling we live at Memphis and too far away to look after. Address
 JNo. w. HUMPHREY,
 Care w. M. Ball 6 Co.
 Memphis, Tenn.
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Bad sainy weather stlll con


 Dad rainy weather still con tinuoo.
 Everett Vadsn end little daughter. vyola. are visiting his mother at Helsna.
 c. ". Evans. of Clarendon, has been visiting in our town. Joe McC Conkey vert duck hunt ing last Wednesday and got lost. We do not know whether he kill. s,si any ducks or not, but suppose Inc had . nice time in the woods, At about ' o'clock, the whistles began to blow for MT. cConkey, 1 He reports that at first when th<
 whistles began to blow. he wa 1 so tar away he could hardly heal them. He managed to reacf
 home 1t 1l:20. We don't sup lpose he Will follow the ducks st
 for away.
 The people were much sur priced to hear the sound of wed ding-bells ringing for Sam But terworth and Miss Rosa Corley, who were joyfully bound in bonds Iof matdmony on last Sunday, J,
 | R. King officiating we extend ts them many joys along nfe's rug red pathway.
 Joe Smith was in Brinkle,
 Monday attending to business. 1 J. c. Johns Is much improved from . short spell of sickness. 1 The new gin has received
 now 30 H. P. Boiler and is now
 running again. Bring in you
 cotton now and try the nev boiler.
 Wild ducks are o plentiful il this vicinity. thst one can b!
 caught at night by a lantern. Hsrry Harris, of Clarendon Twas cen on our streets last week We are elad to note that Mrs Dsws is slowly improving afte having ben seriously Ill witt pneumonia.
 The mill It this place hos beel shut down . couple Of weeks be cause of 70 much rsin. H. P. Pearson. of Brinkley was in our town last Saturday Mrs. c. D. Schell, of Lepanta
 has been visiting Prof. Schell |of this place the last two weeks
 Misses Bsssie and Lucy Hal from Indiana, are visiting theil father. MT. Hall. who is sawyel |at the min.
 The sixth month of school il closed and the following is a par tial account being the ones per feet for the month: Elza Schell Jack King. Clarence King. Alvs DeShazo. Atchley Morris, Floyt McC Conkey. Plea Duke. Kennetl
 hradIey. Thomas Camp. Aver, l Crume. Olive Smith, Mari, Smith. May Grimes, Pearlie Nc Conkey. Estell Grimes. Birdi, 1 0'rear. Euna 0'rear. Graci, Bonds, Veachis Bonds and Mar | guerite Bradley. NAHMA.
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One reliable salesman to rel srrara House, Barn and fridge ,ints, twenty five years the tndard of quality. Salary or omission. Sample outfit free. aHE CARRAaA PAINT Co. I,sIISiI. Oaso.
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Monroe County Bank.
 Capital, @Se, ,ooe.o0
BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS C. F. Creenlee, M. R Simeon. Jas l. Wood. fin, Win. B. Folsom. Beni. EmmonA Inc. C. Blsss- ing. Jas S Mitchell. W. H. McLsan, l. x. Brown. Adolph Goldberg.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-06
To SAGE Serub5ins.

To save yourself much scrubbing, paste
together several sheets of heavy wrapping
paper; let them get dry, and lay down in
front of the doors through which there is
most passing back and forth from out of
doors.
Strip fresh young mint leaves from the
stems; wash and drain, or dry them upon
a cloth. Chop fine; put into a sauce boat or
bowl; add two tablespoonfuls of sugar for
three tablespoonfuls Of chopped mint; mix
and let all stand five minutes before pour
ing upon the ingredients six tablespoonfuls
of vinegar. If you object to the floating
bits Of mint, strain the mixture when it
has stood two hours and squeeze hard to
get the fun flavor of the mint. Make the
mint sauce two hours or more before din
aer.
Some think that a little Of the liquor
in which the mutton is cooked improves
the sauce. II is eaten with lamb or NUT
ton. as suppose everybody who reads the
Helping Hand knows.
In conclusion, let me say that pass
your paper on when have read it to
friend who has to sit up most of the night
with an invalid husband. Your corner is a
blessing to all. and breaches better SER
mons than one sometimes hears from the
pulpit. But 1t is hard upon shutins like
myself who might do so much If we could
act the minute we see the want to be
tied hand and foot and simply wait for
others to accomplish what we long to do.
81. c. G."
T wish you would let me have your adj
dress in full and allow me to pass it on to
those who could, perhaps, do something,
now and then, to lessen the monotonous
srayness Of your daily living. Our mem
bership Is large and we are Of one mind
with regard to our duty and privilege in the
matter of our beloved shutins. We might
send you reading matter at least, ana
some Of our sweet hearted women ask for
addresses to which they may write CHEEKY,
comforting letters Of sisterly affection. I
should like to put you into communication
with these minlsterfng angels. anticipate
requests from them when your touching
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Minor Talent TUNED 10 AccOu1t.

An instance of what a woman may do
whose one available talent Is of a vet
humber order may be of more practical
value to our correspondent. A widow. the
mother of boy of and girl of 6, lived
in a hustling manufacturing town that was
in a fair way to grow into a city. She had
never learned trade. She had no especial
bent for anything that she knew Of That
was what she would have said had she been
questioned as to her stock in trade . of
brains, energy, and aptitude.
Like our correspondent, she could not en-
dure the thought OF parting with her chill
dren. If she could but keep the little house
hold together until the boy was big enough
to go to work she would be satisfied. She
was no fool, for she evolved from brain
quickened by the exigency a scheme she
had never heard Of She became a " gen.
eral member
Scores of girls employed in factories and
stores trooped by her door daily to and
from their work. She reasoned within her
self that they could not mend their stock
ings and other garments in the evenings
when they were worn out by hard work or
had some frolic on foot. She called in per-
son at their boarding houses andfbargained
with Iandladies to allow each small COM
mission upon orders gained through her.
Then she arranged with the girls to whom
the landladies had spoken to do their mend
ing for so much month.
The bundles were left for her as they
went to work and called for on the way
home. In the course of time the boy was
big enough to deliver the parcels of neatly
mended garments and to call for the others.
The girls took a fancy to the pleasant
spoken little woman who repaired rents
and 6arned thin places nobody else had
ever done. Now and then a gown that was
out of fashion or which could be cut down
to suit smaller figure. although too badly
worn to be presentable upon the owner,
was passed over for the little daughter.
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The PROBLEM SOF5THEHSHIFTLESS HUSBAND

and, having learned the chief secret OF
SUCCESSFUL: to do her best every time
she set her hand to a task-she retained
her clientele. She was not intellectual;
she IVES not particularly shrevd. She had
what the boys would call "plain horse
sense" and she made it do its full share
of work. BY the exercise of this and every
day diligence in business, she brought up
her children to mans and woman's estate
and lived to patch the trousers and darn
the stockings OF happy, well cared for
grandchildren.
Each of the foregoing sketches from real
life has the same moral. First, find out
what you can do best and, when you do
it, see to 1t that the task is performed as
If the success of your whole undertaking
depended on the way in which that partic-
ular job was turned off. If the history of
failures in business were told as frankly
as the story of notable successes, we should
find that at least so per cent are caused by
relaxing care and circumspection after
success seems assured beyond the risk OF
loss.
Certain popular patented articles have
held their own in the esteem of the public
for half a century. Others, as popular for
a time, have dropped entirely out OF sight
and mind. In the one case the original ex-
cellent quality of the product is main
tanned as rigidly as If each new supply
were sample package" In the second
the desire to make money faster and more
of it suggests cheaper materials and less
labor " The public will be none the wiser
for the change"
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appreciate the reserve that leads you to
remain incognita- 1t Is possible that
may be OF service to you as a member of
a class which you say, with truth. is larger
than any OF US can believe without MAX
Ing diligent search into special instances.
I may have referred before in the
corner to the dry admonition of the presi-
dent OF a woman college in baccalaureate
address:
''I earnestly advise each Of you young
ladies', graduates of this year, never to
marry until you are able to support hub-
band
In view of facts that drift TO me through
letters like yours, and which are learned
from observation and reading newspaper
reports, the injunction sounds like common
sense and not jesting. Pessimistic jour
nalists and social re1ormers tell US the
young men nowadays are afraid to marry
for fear OF extravaganza wives and financial
ahipwreck. The college president would
remove that obstacle to general obedience
to natural laws.
Seriously and sadly, would lay the case
of this woman and a hundred other married
women who also are mothers, before our
readers, while I struggle in the fog of our
correspondents present distress.
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A woman who had learned dressmaking
in her youth practiced the trade to her own
satisfaction after marriage in designing
and making up tasteful costumes for her
children. She paid especial heed to the
manufacture of layettes,'' her babies sue
ceeding one another SO fast that she could
not afford to pay for having the dainty
outfits made. Moreover, as she confessed
she just gloried in the work." When her
husband died she had four little ones, and
little besides his life insurance with which
to maintain them.
She wrote her many friends OF her de-
sire to get orders for layettes," in full
or in part, and got as many as she could
handle within the year. The exquisite
daintiness of the wee garments excited
universal admiration. Embroidered coats
and frocks for children or a larger growth
were made to order and gave as much sat
isfaction. She kept roof over her head
and kept her children with her.
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- HAVE he@n watching and watch
~ ing and watching your corner day by
day and week after week for months
3 in the hope of seeing something
that would aso1ve the problem which
haunts me sceaseIessly. You tell young
women and men how to make a living. and
encourage houselrespers with incomes to
be economical with what their husbands
ssilow them for supplying the table, and
IN that. Not a word for women whose
husbands don't support them, yet who have
children who must eat and be clothed and
have tight roof over their heads.
Let me tell my story in as few words
as can, and preface It by saying that it
Is not such an uncommon experience as
you and other women who are comfortably
of may think. t@@
at have been married ten years. We
have three children. My husband is well
and strong. He never has supported his
family. He never wiJl Ee ds one of the
men who will never get on in the world.
It is not necessary to say why this is the
case. AS you have told us more than once,
& is in bad taste to wash ones soiled linen
in public. I have washed mine behind
closed doors for eight years. The neigh
bors may have their suspfcions-but never
mind
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Recipe for Nut Bread.

NUT BREAD-One beaten egg, half
a cupful Of sugar, one cupful Of sweet
milk, one-half cupfu1 Of ground walnuts,
a level teaspoonful OF salt. two teaspoon
fuls Of baking powder sifted twice with
two cupfuls of -four.
Mix alb well together, put into a but
tered baking pan and let it rise half an
hour. Bake forty minutes in a moderate
oven. "A. w. w"
Another bit of evidence in refutation
of the old idea that anything raised with
baking powders should be cooked as soon
as mixed.
We are wiser each day than we were
yesterday.
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MARION HARLAND'S HELPING HAM

and are easily Numbered. They may be
used Gor small irons and in handling curl-
ing and crimping tongs.
MRS. T. NJ. NJ"
ITO SEW ON HOOKS AND EYES EAS-
nY.-Choose a needle that is just the length
of the distance at which you wish to set
your hooks. Make eyes with double
thread by taking two stitches at the same
place the width of the hook. Work the
stitch in buttonhole and then run the
needle between the outside and the lining
of the material upon which you are work.
ing just the length OF the needle. This is
for the next eye. Go on in this order sew
ing the hooks needles length apart, and
you will get them at regular distances from
one another without stopping to measure
for each one. MARY NJ. G."
An Ohio member has the credit of the in
genious little device Has she other
" briefs - of the same kind for US?
. 4 +
Prune Pie Recipe.
A brief recipe from the =" Lady OF the
Casserole " is In different vein.
PRUNE PIE.-To the whites Of three
eggs whipped to a stif froth add cup
full of cooked prunes stoned and run
through a meat grinder; three tablespoon
fuls of sugar; one tablespoonful of vaniI-
la extract. Beat well and long, and bake
in lower pie crust.
This is enough for one fat pie.
MRS. ]. H. W."
We have in our family an old and priced
acquaintance yclept "Prune Souf1e.''
which is much like the above, minus the
crust. We eat it hot with whipped cream
and love 1t.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE

BECAUSE Of Tie enormous number Of
II letters senfto TIE department I must ask
contributors to linh their communications 70
100 saOrds. except IN cases Of formulas or
recipes Dhieh require greater space. waat
al my correspondents 70 haze shouting in
The Corner, and If my request in this respect
Is complied pih II wiu Be possible 10 print
many more letters.
Attention is called to die fact That Marion
HdTland cannot Teeeioe money for patterns,
as she has no connection S0iLh any department
that sells them. Marhsa Harldnd.
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Boil for five minutes after 1t begins to
bubble all over and turn into fruit cans
Seal while hot you would canned fruit.
It will keep well.
II saw awhile ago that a correspondent
asked for this recipe. hope she will see it.
PICALILLL-Chop peck of green to-
matoes fine, also four large green peppers.
Stir in a cupful of salt and let it stand all
night. In the morning drain off the super
fluous liquid and put the tomatoes into
kettle with enough vinegar to cover it; two
tablespoonfuls of cinnamon, one table,
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slowly turning once, carefully. Take up
with a perforated skinner and drain OF
every drop of grease. Serve on a hot plat
ter. Garnish with bacon. They make a
nice breakfast dish.
"GREEN TOMATO MINCEMEAT.-
Chop eight pounds of green tomatoes fne
and mix with four pounds of light brown
sugar Boil for two hours. Mix in with
this a pound of cleaned and seeded raisins
and the same of cleaned currants; one-half
pint of vinegar. two teaspoonfuls each of
cinnamon and cloves, and juice Of d lemon.
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Cheat Object of Contempt.

The public is wiser, and, the cheat once
detected, abused confidence wakes into in
dignant contempt.
But to go back to our woman who awaits
our verdict.
You are willing, strong, and not afraid
of work-three essentials for the task you
would find. You may see in the tales Of
what other women, no more gifted in in
tellect and affiuent in opportunity than
yourself, have done suggestion and in
spiration. What one thing can you do
so well that it might become marketable?
Study what has been related of other ex-
cursion into the world where things are
bought and sold, and think over your cap
itaL
For that is what every sane person has
-capital-if one knows how to use it.
" Capitalize your health, your vigor, and
your earnest desire TO find something that
will help you to take carr of the children.
Can you bake, or preserve, or pickle, or
make or mend clothing7 One resident of a
suburban town, where there was neither
gas nor electricity, cleared a neat little
sum weekly by taking care of lamps in
houses where mistresses and servants dis
liked the job so much that the lamps were
never properly attended to.
Another is a neighborhood house cleaner.
making $3.50 a week by it the year round,
and extras in spring and autumn clean
ings. Another braids substantial and
pretty rugs and sells all she can make.
Another makes her church money by cro-
cheting shawls and SACKS and the silk
crocheted handbags now so fashionable.
I wish you would write again and let us
assist you to the fulflllment of your hearts
desire in some way.
Meanwhile, our practical housemothers
will think OF divers things have not said
that may inspire you,
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biscuits. Next they began to get orders
from bakers, then from women exchanges
all over the country. For twenty years
the manufacture went on, gaining repute
every year and enIarging the extent OF
territory The invalid brother died, then
one of the sisters, and the other retired
upon the modest competency she had been
able to lay aside from the maintenance
of the household. The workers had not
amassed a fortune. They had made a
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of the world?
First, there was brought to me a dining
room chair of suitable height. Casters
were made fast to the legs, with caps that
slipped up and were adjusted in place. In
this was drawn from room to room. As
regained partially the use of my hands
and arms we had frame made from the
bottom Of an upholstered arm chair and
double casters fitted upon the legs. In this
could prepel myself al over the first floor
of the house. My elbows are crooked and
my fingers are stiff.
framed about TWENTY-FIVE pictures cut
from leading newspapers, and when was
too nervous to read some one would take
these down for me and weuld amuse my
self by changing the places of all the pic
lures. make scrap hooks of pictures we
have cut out and stored away in boxes
against a rainy day Every little helps
when one has few diversions.
81 A third Of my life has been passed In a
wheeled chair. find the best way of dis
tracing the mind from dreary thoughts
and useless longing is to try to help some
body else. So, II you will allow me, I
should like to suggest thing or two to
active housemothers. am not one OF these,
but I see much from my chair and turn
many things over Ia my mind.
If you spill kerosene upon the floor or
table. put upon it any cleanser you may
have at hand, and cover this with baking
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his absence from home set her active wits to
work to get the means for educating their
children. She had her house and furniture
and the reputation Of making such pickles
as nobody else could compound. She en-
larged the quantity manufactured in her
own kitchen gradually as orders increased,
making her invalid husband business man
ager and purchasing agent. Today she is
a rich woman, her boys and girls have gone
through college, and her pickles are ex
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Men Soon Among Customers.

The " gentlemen friends" of the work
ing girls, hearing of the gallant fight the
widow was making and of the wonders ac-
complished by her needle in prolonging
the usefulness of garments supposed to be
past worthy, craved permission to be num-
bered among her regular customers. She
had her hands brim full in less than year,
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decent living and saved a few hundreds
against a rainy day.
An energetic New England spinster, left
to make a living for herself and aged
mother, cast about in her mind for, as she
put IT, some honest means of support
that did not obige her to stand behind
counter or take in fine sewing" She lived
in a berry bearing region, and she liked
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Methods of Some Women.

What some women have done to support
their families:
One housemother, the wife of a badly
paid clergyman in country town, gave
the parishioners to understand that she
did not wish to be excused from subscribing
to missions and charities, and that she
could not deduct these subscriptions from
the salary that barely met the living ex-
penses of her household. She kept no maid,
and was herself an excellent cook.
Three times week she baked a big
batch of brown bread according to a
recipe of her own, acknowledged to be in
comparable. She soon had regular Gus
toners for all the loaves she could turn
out. Neighbors sent to the parsonage for
them, and she was spared the trouble OF
delivering her wares She kept this UP
for three yearB-the length Of her stay In
that town-and yearly passed over to the
credit of the church a handsome sum for
benevolent objects and for church mis-
sions.
1t may be said that this hardly comes
under the head OF self-support." In
reality, she saved the money she would
otherwise have drawn from the salary
designed to maintain the clergyman and
family. enabling her husband and children
to live more comfortably than if she had
no other treasury C1ergymen, I digress
to remark, are not excused from con-
tributing their full quota to every cause
that demands help from the wealthiest
OF their hocks. The charity of the poor
to their fellow sufferers is proverbiaI.