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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-09-11

If time is money, there are some
awful spendthrifts in this old world.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25

~ +he nursery more than in any other
room in the house, good taste must ally
itself to common sense, in order that tho
small occupants of the room may be made
thoroughly comfortable in body and mind.
First of all, the nursery must be we'll lighted
and we'll ventilated The windows should be
broad If possible, and not too low the lat
ter for the obvious reason that small child.
leaning over the sill, may easily fall out
when the window is open. Long windows
running down to the floor are undesirable for
another reason as well. A child, romping
on the floor may. by throwing back its head
unwarily, sustain severe injuries should its
head happen to crash into pane of glass
The furniture in a nursery should always
be adapted to the size and the needs OF
children You give the infant a crib to
sleep in and a high chair to sit in at meals
why should a tot of four or Eve be forced to
sit in a chair built for grownup, and at
table so uncomfortably high that its top is
at level with the chids nose or eyes? Good
table manners are acquired more readily by
children whose dlminutive size, in being
placed at the dining table is not lost sight
Of Fancy yourself. sitting at a Brobding.
nagian table, from which you were forced to
convey spoonful of steaming soup or
cupful of chocolate to your mouth at an angle
which forced your hand to remain above
your shoulder during the entire operation of
eating! Yet that is the position in which
children are frequently asked to eat.
Cheap bric-a-brac should be avoided in the
nursery. You may think that the Uniformed
mind of the child cannot discriminate be-
tween a in good taste and which there
fore is expensive. and some worse than
worthless gimcrack picked up in the ten-cent
store That is quite true. but how will the
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
Who WROTE the BIBLE!

to return to Palestine (538 B. c.. considerable
literary activity took place, the speeches of
the various prophets who had spoken before
and during captivity being collected, and
more or less shaped under the hand of Ezra,
the famous scribe. Jewish tradition states
that he decided which books were to be ac-
cepted as sacred and which rejected as I'M
worthy But many scholars agree that some
of the Psalms, the Book of Daniel and other
books like Ecclesiastes and Job, were either
written or added t. as late as the Maccabean
Period 167 B. c.. The facts seem to indi-
cate that the Old Testament was not closed
until after that time, so it took some two(
thousand years to write all that is contained
in is books
The composition of the New Testament
covers very much shorter period, for itl
has to SO with the life of Jesus and the do
ings of his immediate Apostles only, so not
more than century is given to its COM
position. The four Gospels were written by
Matthew, Mark, sLuke and john probably
toward the end of the first century. al
though the earliest date assigned to the COM
pletion of any of them Is now given as 100
A. D. 1t was at least a century later (220)
before the Canon of the New Testament was
at all fixed by the Church, but this was not
made really definite until S67, when the
Church decided which were to be accepted
as sacred books, and which had no divine
authority behind them
1t is plain now that something more than
1900 years were required for the writing OF
the whole Bible, and that, therefore, it is
necessary to take this into consideration
when studying the Bible, as it was natural
for different ideas to prevail at such widely
separated points of time and in the minds
of such very different men.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25

= 70. the Bible did not drop down from
M Heaven, gilt-edged anf morocco bound
Some persons are under the impression
that because all the books which go to make
up the Bible are bound in a single volume
therefore they were produced at one time
or at least put into the present shape within
a few years.
But if you stop to think about it you can
not fail to understand that the Bible is an
entire library; it might be called the spiritual
transcript of the Jewish people for more
than two thousand years
The historical part of the Bible begins
with the twelfth chapter of the Book Of
Genesis. where Abram receives his mission.
for it must be remembered that the purpose
of writing the Old Testament was to set
down the entire record of the progress of
the Jews from their very beginning. The
first eleven chapters of Genesis embody ira
ditions then current among the Babylonians.
and they find place in the Bible to show the
descent of Abram from Adam.
The period assigned to Abram (afterward
called Abraham) is 210O B. c.. now estab-
lished by the discovery of cuneiform tablets
bearing the names of kings mentioned in
Genes as contemporary with Abraham. This
proves that the beginning of the writing OF
the Bible, as we have it, can not antedate
200 B e. but it is uncertain who first wrote
down that early record
While Genesis is loosely spoken of as the
Arst book of Moses, it should not be forgotten
that the record of the birth of Moses IS
begun in the early chapters of Exodus, the
second Biblical book so that if Moses did
rewrite or shape the book of Genesis it was
from records and traditions existing when
he was born.
The old theory that Moses and other Bihli-
cal writer's received the Bible in the form
If dictation from God has long been aban-J
doned as it would lower Moses and Isaiah
os we'll as the other inspired writer's, to the
grade of mere stenographers. 1t is plain
that Moses could have written the books
attributed to him, for he had the benefit OF
crincelv tutelage at the court OF Egypt. and
M nation was further advanced in science
ana literature at that time than Egypt. Some
ori+ics held that Moses could not have written
these books because of the poor state of
literary composition at that time, but dis
coveries within the last twenty years have
moved that writing very common in MS
dav and he certainly had every opportunity
to learn.
After the time Of Moses the record is
more or less continuous though the writer's
are anonymous, with the exception of the
prophetcal books
After the Babylonian Exile, which ceased
with the permission given the Jews by Cyrus
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
Good and Bad NURSERIES

child learn to discriminate, I. you allow its
mind, uniformed and unguided to receiya
wrong Impressions? You may not think :,
possible that young child should take cog
uizance of and receive lasting Impressions
through the medium of it's surroundings. II
this were impossible, indeed, then the entire
kindergarten system of Froebel would ba
useless, which as you know. apparentlv
while the child is at play teaches it the pri
mary coors, the scale in music the simple
geome trical figures, such as the triangle and
pctagon, etc. AS a matter of fact, a child
acquires an enormous lot of miscellaneous
knowledge during the first four or FIVE years
OF its existence It learns language, how to
ADJUST touch to vision, how to walk--n fact,
1t learns the entire mechanism of life in its
three first years. You are careful are you
not to have your child hear pure Englishr
You correct it when it makes a mistake In
speaking and in doing SO you admit the
validity of the claim that a child's earliest
Impressions are of utmost consequence. And
what applies to language applies to all the
other facts Of life. BY surrounding a child
from its infancy on with good pictures, good
furniture. good chinaware, the child uncon.
sciously acquires the right taste.
1t has become the fashion these latter dav,
to paper the nursery with wall paper which
graphically depicts scenes from Mother
Goose, from Grimm and Hans Andersen. In
choosing the wall paper for your nursery il
may be well to take into careful considers.
ton your childrens temperament. II vour
children are normal, flesh and blood children
incltning to a phlegmatic temper. a wall
paper calculated to stimulate their magma
ton will do no harm IT, on the other hand
your little brood consists of highly.strunx
nervous children, avoid a wall pauer that
might tend to excite or irr1tate them. Choose
pretty, cheerful, laughable scenes. such a.
odd King Cole" and "Banbury Cross" and
avoid stirring illustrations such as the climax
of Red Riding Hood
The nursery in the famous Stevens Cast,,
in Northern Jersey was, when still in pss
as a nursery a model of good taste. Thor.
were windows in three sides of it; the wal
paper cheerful Delft blue with CON.
ventional design in slightly lighter shads
of blue; the rug matched the wall paper. and
the odfashioned fire place was set in Dutch
tiles, each tile showing different character
from Mother Goose. There was little po
Peep, Jack and Gill, Little Johnnie Horner.
Simple Simon and many others of that good.
ly company immortalized by the old book Of
rhymes. In this way the delightful atrnoa.
phere OF repose which filled the room was
saved from deterioatng into hstlessnesA
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
FOODS to Avoid HOT They Provide Too Much BODY FUEL

comes from difficulty of disposing of animal
heat, it follows that the most important thing
to do so is to prevent the accumulation of heat.
AS food is the fuel 1t Is advisable to use In hot
weather foods whose Matchmaking powers are
small. Oatmeal is always regarded as Win
ter food, and rightly, for its heat value ex-
pressed in the units of heat (calories) is
1850 to pound whereas tomatoes only Gre
ate los to a pound Corned beef is 1880.
eggs but $50; pork chops are 1910. leg Of
veal is $40; bananas are $50, apples 29O. II
is easy to see, therefore, that a woman who
had eaten for lunch a small plate of veal, with
a tomato and hard-boiled egg salad, and a
couple of apples for dessert (being the equiv,
alentof a half-pound of each), would have only
1879 units of heat to dispose Of, while man
who had eaten for lunch dish of oatmeal, a
hash of corned beef and pork and couple of
bananas. would have 2.435 units burning In
his system. or more than three times as much.
In other words, he would be three times as
likely to be struck suddenly with heat apo-
plexy as his absteminous companion. These
ere extreme cases, but where the margin Of
safety and danger Is so small. it is the wise
man who knows how hot he dare stoke bia
inner furnace when the mercury stands In tho
bulb at So and over and humidity ia brood.
ing over the land
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
AVOID Dangerous
MEDICINE CLOSETS

Jew people know how to stock their fam
- lily medicine ~loset wisely Nearly
very family has medicine closet, but
all sorts Of medicines and drugs go into
:. ard in many instances people have been
IL ID in. sometimes killed, by getting hold OF
the wrong bottles
In the first place there should be no
wrong bottles" in medicine closet. That
Is all poisons and all liquids TO, external use
onlv should be kept in square bottles. The
harmless medicines should be in round bottles.
After taking this precaution, have your
e..-..v musician inspect your medicine closet.
Get him to tell you just what to keep on hand
and Just what is dangerous 70. you to keep
This is the safest way The physician will
givs you list of all the household remedies
needed. Follow his advice and you will have
little or no trouble through taking medicines
by mistake
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
THE ELECTRICIAN

those achieved by Marconi. Edison Delaney, and
other great inventors and discoveries.
The difficulties he has to meet in trying to get ahead
are the limitations of the human mind in its struggle
to grasp the mathematics mechanics power and use
funess of the most wonderful element in all Nature
electricity 1t is easy enough the tools of the
wireman, to have them ready when called for the
job of wiring house or in laying cables in an cleo
trio conduit; but be must have the real talent of the
technical student and workman, beyond a mere taste
for mechanics If he is to reach paying proficiency
AS practical electrician he can from s25 to $40
a week; but before he qualities such his earnings
will be less than in many other occupations There
are practical electricians who large salaries as
managers, superintendent contractors craftsmen and
machine builders and operators in the electrical field;
and there are electrical engineers whose training abil-
ty and capacity for work have been completely proved
by study and practice who employed by corpora
lions glad to for their valuable services as high
as from $4,000 to $4,000 year
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
A BEAUTY Secret
For FURNITURE

nEoPLE rave over the charms of the old
fashioned card tables, and at the sam,
time they turn away in disgust fror
the modern card tables, claiming thoy A..
over-decorated. gaudy almost to the point a
vulgarity
When asked why they do this their oD,~
explanation is that the old-fashioned tables
are artistic. They cannot explain why" ana
the world to-day wants to know the why oi
everything.
The reason Of this lies in the fact that ira
antique tables heavily inlaid with satinwood
are made on the straightest and lightest ~
lines and patterns they have an almost ana.
tere dignity. This offsets the inlay work
Modern card tables are made in r,chay
more curving lines. which give them all the
richness necessary. The addition Of ,nlav
work to such tables simply "overdoes it."
Simplicity of design alone will stand for
inlay work in furniture
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
SECRETS OF SUCCESS

as the ordinarily understood by looking over
the currcuums of study that must be pur-
sued to enable students to qualify in the various
branches of this science 1t takes four of study
in correspondence school, at the rate of two hours
day for six days in the week, to complete the full
electrical engineering Such a course, though
not a complete substitute, corresponds nearly as
possible to a resident college course in electrical
cheering. Special courses can be completed in tele
phone engineering telegraph engineering, electric light
ing electric railways, interior wiring, dynamo
ming, in nine months, and half, two years
AS beginner, entering the trade 'unskilled'
helper to wreman, the boy has the right qualifca
lions if intelligence good health, willing hands
and lasts for mechanics. He becomes conscious from
the start that his work is in realm of magic that dis
closes wonders mysterious force which the patient
study of has been able TO understand and utilize
through ingenious inventions If he is ambitious
his imagination sees still greater possibilities than
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25

instructive The rapid closing of the eye
when dust flies near the highly complex but
unconscious group of muscular movements
whereby man may recover his balance when
he stumbles are but examples of this. Just
in the same way, if the weather gets hotter
or if the temperature OF the body Is raised
by bodily exercise (Which acts like forced
draughU, the compensatory machine in the
body sends more blood to the surface to be
cooled but when the surrounding air is colder
than the body this controlling machine causes
the blood vessels of the skin to contract. thus
reducing the loss of heat.
Humidity, however, is one OF the bodys
unsolved problems It has as yet, worked
out no way whereby an automatic prevention
or remedy can be provided. To reduce evap-
Grafton would answer the purpose, but this
would so greatly Increase the body heat that
the cure would be worse than the original con-
dition In hot humid countries the body is
a6opting the device of reducing the amount
of skin evaporation in two ways-one by les
SEEMING the skin matchmaking or perspiration.
the other by increasing the activity OF the
kidnevs. This device, however, cannot be re-
parded as one of natures successes, since 1t
is invariably accompanied by loss of ability to
endure work and strain.
Since the danger in hot. humid weather
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25

ITO have and to hold" carpenters tools is an art
Nearly every one has few carpenters toois
such as a saw plane and chse, but only few
know how to hold them.
Can you saw board without spntering it! Cab
you plane board and maintain smooth grain? Can
you use chisel without unduating the chiseed sur
face like a choppy sea? And can you use all these
tools with the least possible energy at the same time
getting the very best results?
AS with everything else there's right way and a
wrong way and the right way is easier For instance
when using a saw, hold it at angle of As degrees,
never try to saw up and down" "fatwse" with it
The 40 degree angle saves elbow grease and gives
the nearest to perfect workmanship because it allows
the muscles of the upper full play instead of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
The EASIEST Way with TOOLS

bringing all the strain the hand and wrist The
saw Will make straighter cut and leave no bother
some spliners in the ends of the board when held
this angle The plane is frequently wrongly used by
the amateur workman. 1t is really nothing but giant
chisel prevented by simple device from cutting be-
low certain depth, and it can do its most efficient
work only when held straight in the direction
of the surface you wish to make smooth. Of
course 1t takes less effort to push the plane
angle but this takes longer and also involves the risk
of pulling up loose fbres of the wood and making an
uneven surface.
When using chise apply the force of the blow so
that it will straight down the tool and be
the same time that the edge is straight with the work
you doing
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
By THOMAS w. HOTCHKISS,
Vocational Counsellor.

F-TFIE term electrician covers wide range of
patons in the study and use of electricity. Elec-
rical science is exact and exacting-in
81, abstract theories 1t laboratory experiments and its
annlcation in commercial life 1t includes telegraph
and telephone engineering electric lighting electric
RAILWAYS electrician running, dynamo running, wiring
and power-house work boy may begin as helper
in concern that does interior wiring, study at
homo much of the technical science of electricity and
in due time qualify practical electrician; but be-
yond this there is the field of the professional Eec
trcal Engineer who has had the advantage OF Uni
versity training his degree. The one may be the
skilled reparer operator and installer OF electric
machinery and appliances the other designs electric
machinery.
The young man can best determine the fitness OF
his natural qualifications for success as an electrician
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25

or lower, saturation of the air will cause ex'
IRENE discomfort, but nothing more, because
the decrease in the radiation of heat from
the body has not become SO great that in
creased loss of heat by evaporation cannot
compensate therefor At 49, the limit Is
reached, the making of heat just being equal
to the loss of heat, the body neither getting
hotter nor cooling off. At 49, and higher
with humid atmosphere, the heat making OF
the body Is greater than the heat losing, and
accordingly the body temperature begins to
rise Fortunately the temperature during
the night usually becomes lower, or some Of
the moisture in the air frequently is pre-
cipitated as rain, heavy mist or dew. but
even so the REDEEMED eyes of heat stroke
glare into the faces of men when the Their
mometer registers So and General Humidity
is abroad
The body is making heat all the time. 1t
must make heat or else it cannot continue to
exist, and health is absolutely dependent on
the ability to lose exactly as much heat as
is made. If a man loses more than he makes
or if he cannot create as much heat as he is
losing. he starves to death The dead are
cold because all the heat has radiated and
the mechanism which manufactures heat has
stopped running. In similar manner death
would inevitably ensue were man unable to
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
Why Humidity
Adds to the
Terrors of a
HOT WAVE

H o begin with, humidity has no more to
do with heat than with cold; it is an
atmospheric condition which prevails
at all temperatures, but, popularity speaking,
humidity is generally associated with Summer
conditions, and dampness with those of Win
ter. Summer humidity, especially in New
York is a serious matter, more serious tnan
is generally supposed, for it may be stated
with entire confidence that New York City
has never known a temperature high enough
to cause heat apoplexy or stroke had the air
been comparatively dry. The danger point
is low, however, when the air is saturated.
and every degree above that is fraught with
peril
AS long as the thermometer remains at 81
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
To Prevent Fading.

often not to the washing but to the
used directly the material and
washing
sure the only
enough properly by and
otherwise the fit of the WI"
he ruine
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
YOU MIGHT TRY
Darning Stockings.

darnng stockings
stitches around the edge
will be neither stretched
puckered tight then and
level with the goods
nstea of
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
Keeping Air Fresh.

GOOD of a fresh and slightly petumed
a the and put
of which one hardly
consc
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
Eating to Cure Rough Skin.

IF
eating able
trouble eating slowly and masucaing food properly.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25

Of
xertn
bodily
perature steadily he attempted to do
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
A F1y Discouraged.

they inside good keep them to
cloth saturated with kerosene
10
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-05-25
Making Peanuts DigestibIe.

difficulty digestng
~ If a
trouble kind wi be
The Coalville times. [volume] (Coalville, Utah) 1894-1923, 1912-04-05
HOUSE PASSES WOOL BILL
Twenty lnsurgent Republicans Join
the Majority In Voting for Measure,
Two Democrats Opposing.

Washington The Democratic wool
Oil passed the house. on Monday 1879
10 SO, with twenty insurgcni Ropubl-
cans voting for It.. Representative
Rucker OF Colorado. who opposed 1t In
icbatc and answered Present on the
roll call. and Representative Francis
Of Ohio, who voted against IL, were the
only Democrats who did not zine up
with the majority
Representative Payne moved to ~.
commit the bill with instructions TO
the committee to report the Republi.
can substitute. but this was lost. 1863
to los.
Supporters OF the bill declared 1t
would not cut the governments reye'
nue.. but would save more than $50.
100000 year TO consumers because
Of the rcadjustment Of rates All at
tempts OF the Republicans to amend
the bill TO increase the rates were lost
The tariff board came In for criticism
during the speeohmakinE