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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Cold Potatoes.

In summer we viii find IL very con.
venient 10 have cold boiled potatoes
for use in potato salad or for frying
for breakfast or lunch or for creamed
potatoes.
We now find bacon and eggs so
agreeable and also so easy to cook
with little heating OF the house that
we can easily dispose Of the cold
potatoes by frying in bacon fat This
will save using Of meat while giving
a good tendency to balance the lighter
diet SO desirable In hot weather
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Fowls for the Fair.

Don't wait until near fair time and
expect by fattening to make weight
take the place Of size; the growing
bird must be given food to furnish a
good frame work; he must have good
bone and muscle as well as fat, and
the fat must not he the result of forced
feeding If the bird is to be used as a
breeder. Feed oats and other nitrogen
Gus foods. and make the birds exer-
else to get it. Ground bone once or
twice a week. about an ounce to each
bird. is a partial preventive OF leg
weakness.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
PIanked Beefsteak.

Take two pounds Of best round
steak. pound it we'll after sitting one
half cup -four over it; slice six on
ions over the steak. salt and pepper
we'll. shake dash OF red pepper over
also: 6ll dripping pan half full OF
cold water and place in hot oven
TO bake one hour: do not turn the
meat Serve from the dish It was
baked in.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
PROPER CULTURE OF ONIONS
Quite Valuable Crop II Best Varieties
Are Planted-Worked With Hand
Weeder and CuItivator.

The onion crop is very valuable
one, as there is a good market for all
grown and at remunerative prices.
Gardeners grow two crops of the
same land each year. To do this re-
quires deep, finely pulverized and very
rich soil. The first crop is raised from
sets planted early, just as soon as the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12

frost is out of the ground. The sec
ond crop is grown from northern
grown seed sown between the rows OF
SETS Both crops are worked with the
hand cultivator and harrow. The seed
is sown in 15-inch rows. For the fall
and winter markets the Yellow Dan
vers and Southport White Globe are
the two standard varieties. Potato
onion sets are mostly grown for the
select retail trade and for family use.
This variety natures early and is
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
HELP FOR ENGLISH FARMERS
Successful Career Of Cooperative
Credit Society Organized by Small
Farmers and Others.

In Norfolk, England, there is a small
agricultural village, Whissonett. In
1912 there were in and around this
parish about fifty holdings ranging
from one to fifty acres in size. In
1905 the tenants and owners started 2
cooperative credit society with Ia
members, but it now has about thirty.
some OF whom are small farmers,
some shopkeepers or artisans, and
some are workingmen who have taken
up land as an additional source Of In
come.
For the first six years the society
worked with capital accumulated from
deposits made by the members them
selves. 1t was a rule that each mem
Der should add to his deposit at least
20 cents month, or be deprived of his
interest. The deposits by members at
the end of 1911 reached about $3.50,
on which three per cent. interest is
paid The society had made IS loans
to members amounting to about $1,15O,
at i've per cent. Loans are granted
only for agricultural and home making
purposes, and then only when a COM
mittee has satisfied itself that such a
loan is likely to prove profitable to the
borrower, who is required. to find two
sureties for its punctual repayment.
Loans are generally made repayable
in IL months, though the time and
conditions may be changed to suit
special cases.
The loans have been used mainly
for the purchase of cattle, horses,
sheep. pigs, seeds, fertilizers and i'm
plements, writes James B. Norman Of
Maryland in the Farm and Home.
The first loan taken by a member was
for $25, which aided him to buy some
pigs, that he sold later at handsome
profit. Another member borrowed
SIS, to which he added $40 of his own,
and purchased some young cattle.
which he sold within year and
cleared a profit Of $25.
Many other Illustrations could be
given showing how cooperative
finance has helped to improve the eco
nomic condition Of the borrowers,
even when the amounts borrowed are
exceedingly small 1t proves beyond
question, however, that cooperative
finance serves best those who need its
benefits the most.
More business was done in 1912, be-
cause the society borrowed $3.50 at
four per cent, and had this to loan In
addition to the regular deposits. It
has made a special levy of rs cents
year per member to pay the salary
Of the assistant secretary. Since 1t
became self-supporting it can now Dor
row money when necessary. is enabled
to make larger loans to members, and
keeps its accumulated profits In a sep
arate deposit account as a true re-
serve fund to be drawn upon only
when authorized to do so by a general
meeting of the society.
Cooperative finance, therefore, even
when conducted on the simplest basis
and among the neediest classes OF peo-
! pie. brings about benefits which would
not come except from this source. 1t
has helped those who need credit
most; II has made the members more
self-reliant; 1t has added to their in
comes by enabling them to undertake
more profitable enterprises. It abok
ishes poverty.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Spotted Gala.

Spotted Gala is summer-blooming
plant, and should be reset in winter.
In the fall set the pot in frost-proof
cellar or room, and withhold water
from it until spring. Then, when
danger of frost is passed, bed 1t out
in a rather sunny place, and mulch
the soil about it on the approach OF
hot weather with stable litter. Or, IL
preferred, repot it, giving it larger
pot. and rich porous soil. In either
case the plant will bloom during the
summer.-E. " B.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Summer Shelter.

One of the best contrivances for a
shelter is the garden umbrella. for II
may be under circumstances that
would not justify the erection of a
permanent summer house or arbor.
These umbrellas are to be had in a
variety of forms, a very satisfactory
kind having a small iron table hold
ing a socket into which the umbrella
shaft fits 1t is nice to use anywhere
that shade is scanty.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12

Will uppCdi AOASA
bly, to the mother
who covets the
individual" in
h er children's
frocks. The little
short waist Is cut
plain and finished
on the bottom,
e d g e d W ! t h
S gu ares piped
with white. Each
alternate one OF
these is trimmed
with white but
tons. The short
set-in sleeve lie
similarly finished
and trimmed. The
frock buttons to
the left Of the
front with small
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
ia keen Mattre.ss, CLEAN.

Mattresses become soiled very easy.
A good way to keep them clean is to
get unbleached cloth. the cheap kind
is just as good and not so heavy TO
wash. Make case.just large enough
to At the mattress, SO It cannot
wrinkle.
Sew IL across the head. leaving the
foot open. Slip 1t on and draw It
down smooth, and just sew It here and
there to hold It in place. When It be-
comes soiled take 1t OF. wash, iron
and replace. Cool. clean and sweet
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Ducks and Chickens.

cuckling does not know how to
- out OF danger. Instead It win
seeome panic-stricken and remain
.Asy prey for the enemy. On the con.
1s'y chicken is always on the alert,
,Supering of to some hiding place
-s moment 1t hears some strange
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
About Stockings.

Having trouble with my stockings
wearing out at the heels. have dis
covered that very good way to pre-
vent this is to sew a piece OF velvet
inside the back of the shoes This
makes the stockings last much longer.
Exchange.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Fight the Flies.

The flies will keep you fighting
these days. Clean up every dirty
spot around the house and barn anc
go over every door and window
screen carefully to see that there are
mn broken places.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
FOR Brick F,oor..

A red-bricked Kitchen floor win keep
beautifully red and clean II instead Of
soap a drop of parafin oil is used In
the water. This mixture removes all
the grease marks.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
About Potatoes.

Put the potatoes to soak a little
while with a small piece of common
soda in the water, and you win find
they are much easier to scraps and do
aot soil the fingers.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12

ly have turnover collars in white or
any material; they have folded pieces
of thin white lace placed inside like
a quicker; the line is V-shaped and not
round as il used TO be.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
SHOULD Be Object in Mating.

"nen mares are bred much will
gained If they are mated with
49, general object in view-that
- ~ colt shall be a draft horse, saddle
49, se iarm horse or something def
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12

Of the deterioration of first-crop seed
comes, no doubt, from the weakening
effect of sprouting before the planting
season, which in warm climates be
comes a necessity.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
When Maklno Mimi saue..

When making mint sauce II hot
vinegar Is used instead Of cold II win
greatly improve the flavor and give
the sauce better color.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
A MendIna heIp.

When drawnwork in linen center
pieces is worn out and the centers
remain good. stitch a row Of insertion
over the
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
Get Rid of Vermin.

~. pays to get the best Of vermin
you can or they will get the
'sst Of your chickens
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12

Failure is the result OF waiting for
other people to do things first.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12
EASY TO GIVE INDIVIDUALITY
chiId's Froek Of checkered Bingham
Will Make Up to Please Both
Mother and Daughter,

Such an original little frock Of
checked bingham as appears today
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1913-09-12

crochet buttons. The straight narrow
skirt joins the waist with only a
slight fullness.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14
Song Of the Little Americans in Congress
By JAMES ]. MONTAGUE.

~ public buildings! pork!
| hungry Congressman to load his fork
Fight and wrangle jobs That is what we're for;
Rdicule the foolish chap that prophesies war!
Ships? We wouldn't for all the ships afoat
What's the batteships Sailors cannot vote!
lie the gives Us thrill
joining the YEAS" that public building bill
III dreadful sick the briny deep
It a postoffice make OUR pulse leapi
towns from Yuma clear to Maine
they make campaign!
are all make no foolish slips
any politics in voting battleships!
o training and getting stores OF coal
a politician the soul
Votes after. Notes.-The sentimental fuss
the dignity does not appeal to Us!
L.eto natio like fleets the
congressman will spend please!
we've heard and and then
We build please the gentlemen
Blu all his O defense for the nation.
with marked dsapprObation
threatened org We hGUen ships enough
WcE offend them Just let EN- make their bluff
Comply their demands, and gUe en-
We hapent amp Battleshps and Cere afraid Of J0ar!
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14

face, dressed in a convict's garh
"a criminal in his ancestry.
From each of these and from
countless others fading dimly
away in the past run the thread
like chains to the point, OF which
the young man is the center.
wrapping themselves about him
to hold him back.
That picture is the revelation
of a truth which modern science
convincingly offers to explain
more than half OF the failures in
human life.
1t is the truth about every one
of us, and it may well startle US.
Who and What Are You?
The next time you feel partic-
ularly independent of the circum-
stances around you and free to
carve your way at win without
anybody's permission, it will
draw you up sharply to reflect
that your independence and free
dom is something of a delusion
unless you have really achieved 1t
after the manner of Old Mortal
ity-by proper discount or cred
it of inherited forces.
You had four grandparents,
eight great grandparents, sixteen
reat-great- grandparents and six
ty-four grandparents five times
removed.
Calculating from the American
settlement at jamestown up TO
you, over 1000 men and women
have lived on this continent who
have come to a point in you.
They are everyone alive in you.
You are what you are because
they were what they were.
This would be terrifying beyond
endurance, but for the fact that
among your ancestors who have
come down in you are some
grandfathers and grandmothers
who kept sober, avoided gambling,
repudiated avarice and honored
the law.
They are also alive, and in you
they contest for the soul OF a
grandson.
The healthiest study a young
man can engage in is the study
of himself to discover his an
cestors, and the study of his an
cestors to discover himself.
If it leads him into collision
with some old grandparent who is
struggling viciously to get on top
and seize the reins, and he has to
smash his nose, metaphorically, to
save himself from moral disaster,
let it be done with good courage.
If such harsh treatment with
ones own Iith and kin seems to
traverse the law of filial respect.
let him look about and ne will
discover in the ancestral COM
pany an old grandfather and
grandmother beaming with joy
and cheering him to the echo.
Now that we are told that sci
ence will teach men how to choose
their. posterity, it should be the
next step 70 teach them how they
may manage IN morals to choose
their grandparents, who are wor-
thy Of gratitude, and cut off the
dead hands of those who deserve
only a plying memory.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14
The Young Man in Trouble.

The problem of the dead hand
is gloomily asserted in the new
Science of Heredity.
Formerly it was believed that
every man started life a fresh
and new creation, with a fair field
before him. We know now that
every man is perpetuation Of
forces physical, mental and NOR
al, which have long existed and
which are persistent in him.
Some time ago a picture was
sent to me by a friend. 1t was
the picture Of a young mana
typical young American. Before
him lay the glittering heights Of
fame.
He is making a desperate eff
fort to climb them.
Evidently something retards
his progress.
There is an agony of effort, but
also an agony OF difficulty.
Looking closely at the picture,
you discover that the young man
is in trouble with 9 mesh of gos-
samer chains about his limbs and
body. which are holding him
back. Then the genius of the ar
fist appears. These slender chains
are the handicaps of heredity.
In the rear is the shadowy form
Of an old grandfather tossing off
a goblet Of wine; not far away
is an old grandmother jauntily
dealing a pack OF cards; in the
central distance behind him is
another ancestor. a miser, clutch
ing a bag of gold: in the ghostly
area farther off is one Of hard
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14

There a few things for mothers o remember.
you worried about your baby have doctor it A
GOOD DOCTOR you not get good DOCTOR go the
Department HEALTH get at
pensary.
Don't the baby when the weather very hot if you
can possibly help when ILL., The change upsets
the digestion and may be fatal at a critical moment
FEED YOUR BABY REGULARLY.
Sacrifice everything to this important point The chds
stomach gets times dgests easily
at those times, if the food is regular
Get doctors advice about feeding baby it delicate
Every hours the daytime and every night
will do for a healthy child.
Don't dress your baby warmly, HAVE NOTHING TIGHT
AROUND ITS NECK OR STOMACH, KEEP EVERYTHING
LOOSE AND AIRY EVERYWHERE.
your windows open day and night Keep the baby
off the dirty floor where gets germs its little hands
puts them in its mouth
Remember that in the really hot weather the thnnes pos
sble clothing all that child needs One little thin
shirt lownecked and without sleeves will do while baby
is indoors.
Avoid strong draughts. But better draught than not
enough air.
Above ALL give your baby enough to drink If the baby
cries in hot weather give it two three spoonfus of water
cool BUT NOT ICED.
Boil the water that you give your baby. And KEEP THE
BOILED WATER TIGHTLY CoRKED IN CLEAN BOT
TILE so that germs won't get into it.
Feed it with a spoon dipped in hot water CLEAN
SPOON.
Dangerous signs of disease that carry children suddenly
vomiting and darrhoea Notify your DOCTOR the Health
Department AT ONCE
Let your baby REST. KEEP THE FLIES AWAY FROM
IT THEY BRING DISEASE.
young baby washed the morning with cool but
not cold water put its back almost naked
mosquito netting thrown top bu touch
ing the chd)-such baby fed regularly with water to drink
when it wants it, will be happy in hot weather
Don't let the children baby Don't let grownup
people play with and tire that it is GROWING
UP AND DOING NOTHING ELSE. Don't try to awaken its
intelligence make it laugh.
you stir up the little brain you disturb little stomach
Remember, WHENEVER BABY CRIES SOMETHING
Is WRONG.
Don't get cross; FIND OUT WHAT'S THE MATTER
that's your business. It may tight string bandage
drawn too closely around the legs need change linen or it
may be thirst.
Don't feed the baby every time cries Give it water
Remember that.
you offer TO baby it thirsty it viii take
the breast bottle RELIEVE ITS THIRST and thus
YOU FORCE IT TO ovEREAT
Incidentally, and work for better conditions in this
world which allows Of thousands children to die
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14
In This Weather==G YOUR
BABY A DRINK OFTEN
1t Cries for Water Oftener Than for Food
CopyriRht 1913

Warm weather unhappiy, the usual numerous and
unnecessary of children White hearse out in this
weather little white collins lined with satin. And the
mothers that have suffered to bring their children into the
world suffer intensely they them die And then they
use money might the other children pay for
expensive funeral which false ideas of respect for the dead
impose upon
Thousands of children the big cities killed every
year
York for instance because house
influence with politicians than mothers and children
dangerous diseased milk sold in spite of all
ngs and Health Board regulatonsmoney again import
ant than life.
And children die all the country the of
paseuraon has been thoroughly taught
ought better stupid enough oppose it,
which they best understand
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14
WRITTEN FOR THE GEORGIAN
By REV. DIR. JOHN E. WHITE
Pastor Second Baptist Church

TN Sir Walter SCOTS novel, "Old
Mortality" the central figure
is an aged man obsessed with
the idea that when people die
they ought to die and be forgot
ten. He therefore made it his
business to travel from church
yard to churchyard laboriously
chiseling off the names on the
tombstones.
The genius Of Sir Walter dis
cerned in human nature a ground
for "Old Mortality's" mad fancy.
To cut the names off the tomb
stones was the romantic way Of
protesting the clutch of the past
upon the present-the remorse-
less grip of the dead hand.
The apostles Of progress in
every age have made that pro-
test.
Mankind advancing discovers
its most formidable foes behind
It. The great obstacles Of hu-
manity are not in the path be-
fore, but in the pain behind, not
the hardship Of new difficulties,
but the handicap Of old weak
nesses.
Sidney Lanier's famous lines
are the best poetry on the sub
Ject:
old Past, let 90 and drop into the
sea
TIL fdthomless tCdters coUer
thee.
For I am HUiHg and thou art
dead,
Thou draUest back lChile forge
ahead
The day TO find.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-14
Rev. John E. White
Writes on
The Dead Hand

Young Men Are To Be Advised, He
Says, to Cut Off the Dead Hands
Of Their Grandfathers Who Hold
Them Back, and Listen for the
Applause of Grandfathers Who
Cheer Them On.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-07

BY Evelyn Nesbitt.
Chapter K.
Every visitor to penitentiary has
seen the women's department. Most
of the women there are paying the
price.
Charitable people struggle hard to
save the girls who have been be-
trayed. But it's a question whether
or not a woman can ever shake off
the stigma, get rid of the mark that
is branded on her before the rescuers
start to work.
In long after life the old compan-
ions and old influences may either
make themselves so strongly felt that
their call cannot be resisted, or they
may, for revenge, strike a blow to
blast the life of a woman who is try
ing to live down the past.
There was a woman in Los Angeles
known as Mrs. Hooper. Her husband
didn't know anything about her past.
there was year of her life that re-
manned a secret with her.
She had a darling little child. One
night, just after the baby's third
birthday, the little family was sitting
in the parlor of the bungalow, Mrs.
Hooper was playing the piano, when
she screamed and tOppled backward
off the stool.
OF course her husband was terribly
alarmed and mystified. He didn't
know that through the window she
had seen the face Of pal of the for
gotten days, older and more vicious
than when she had last seen him, but
easily recognizable nevertheless.
Maybe the old companion meant
no harm. He was a wanderer, and
by accident probably peeTed in the
window. But the shock to the wo-
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-07-07
"THE PRICE MUST BE PAID" SAYS EVELYN
NESBITT IN HER CONCLUDING ARTICLE


pride was wounded. He thought he
had been deceived and tTicked.
So he got a divorce and was
awarded the child.
Mrs. Hooper paid the price. She's
now living the old life again.
Blackmail is an eVer-present
source of danger. | have heard of
many cases where bIac<maiI ruined
homes. One little woman was bIed
for two years by old companions. She
saved and scrimped and took her
housekeeping money to pay them,
and got so sick and wan that her
husband didn't know what to make
of it.
Finally, in desperation, she told
him all. He forgave everything and
she thought she had paid the price.
The husband went to meet the
bIackmailers the next time they
called, armed with a heavy cane. He
never came back. They had killed
him.
So that woman heavily.
The leeches extracted nearly
81, 1000 from her in the two years
and then took her husband.
There was another case of a wo-
man who married one of the friends
of her hayward days. Both thought
they had reformed.
The man rose to a high position in
a big company, but as he grew older
the latent beast developed in him and
the wife grew to hate him. She en-
dured his beastiaIities for months, but
shot him finally at the breakfast
table when he tainted her in the
presence of the servant.
She was tried, pleaded insanity and
went to the asylum. She's paying
the price.
I remember hearing of the expe-
rience of a country girl who went to
the city to get employment as a ser
want. The white slave recruiters met