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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
GROWING or11atoes.

The middle of May finds most OF
the tomato plants In the garden. The
man who was wise enough to grow
his own plants in hot bed will have
ripe fruit quite a long while before his
neighbor, who has to depend upon
ha1f-dried, discouraged seedlings from
q department store.
Still, by insisting upon getting the
best plants you can buy, big sturdy
fellows, with lots OF leaves and roots
full of water, you can do very well
with purchased tomato plants. Do
not secure them until you are all
ready to plant and get them In the
ground as soon as possible.
AS usually handled. the amateur
gardener gets double crop Of foliage
and half crop Of ripe tomatoes. The
fruit splits, rots at the ends and q
large part of 1t fails 70 color up and
ripen before frost catches it.
The purpose Of this article Is to tell
how to avoid these troubles and Sc
cure twice as much ripe, sound fruit
with no more trouble. II is q simple
secret, but few seem TO know 1t.
Tomatoes need rich, deep, rather
heavy soil, well fertiIized. Muriate
of potash Is an excellent fertilizer, az
is also steamed ground bone. Use .
handful to each pint.
Spade and cultivate as for garden
crop and drive in strong stakes about
five feet long, placing them two feet
by four feet Set one plant four inches
from the south side Of each stake,
covering the roots firmly and soaking
the soil with water after setting.
Allow only three branches to grow
on each plant, and tie them to the
stake with strips OF cloth. When they
reach the top of the stake, prune
them back. If smaller quantity OF
the very finest and largest tomatoes
are preferred, allow but one main
stem to develop. Keep the branch
ends clipped as soon as the plant has
attained good size, and all Of Its en-
ergy will then go into making toma-
toes.
Now comes the secret! Where a
side branch leaves the main stem is q
fork in which thesfruit develops. IN
same place little shoots appear. Pinch
out these shoots as fist as they grow
and you cannot fail % get ma gnificeni
tomatoes. Do not plant one OF the
tree varieties, but select smooth
even, meaty type like Matchless
Stone, and many others Of their kind
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
VICTIM OF HOLD-Up
WHIPS TWO ROBBERS
Kansas City Druggist Disarms
One AssaiIant and Starts
the Other Running.

Kansas City, Mo.-When q pair of
highway men walked into George r.
Coopers drug store the other night
and one of them showed a revolver
against his stomach the druggist be-
haved in a most untoWard manner
from a highwayn1an's viewpoint.
In fact, he laid hold suddenly and
violently with one hand on the revolt
yer and the other on the robber,
showed the latter through the door to
the sidewalk and walloped him soIidly
on the nose.
The robber fell one way and the re.
volver another. and by that time the
other highwayman had recovered
enough to pick up the weapon and be-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Losses In the Manure.

One of the big leaks on many farms
which are liable to be short from the
standpoint of both soil humus and fer.
tility is in the loss OF a large per cent
of the value of the liquid manures
through careless handling.
The straw should be returned to the
land that produced it, and there Is no
way of doing this that is 80 good as
in the shape OF bedding used gener.
ously for the definite purpose Of alb.
sorbing the liquid manures. The soil
is In great need Of these two by-prod-
ucts and the good farm manager will
see to it that both are returned to 1t
With as little loss as possible.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29

The bodice and skirt are cut sep
arate1y, and are joined to the same
waist-band.
Materials required: 21s yards 40
inches wide, n yard 40 inches wide
for trimming.
The other would make a useful
little school dress in nut brown tne
serge; there are TIVE tucks carried
over the shoulder to fost of skirt each
side, the fronts wrapping over IN
points which show pleatings OF silk at
the throat and foot of skirt the
sleeves are set into the armhcle, and.
like the right front, are trimmed With
buttons set on In threas.
Materials required: 2ls yards 4s
inches wids. VI yard silk 30 inches
vida 2 doaen end three! hstsona.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29

me illustration on the left shows q
supple little style for girl six to eight
ssafs;; 1t Is made In gray-green cash
asfe 1t Is trimmed down the left
hae OF front and along lower edge by
sposted foufard cut In g. two-inch
vaao;; the collar Is also Of the foulard,
Z y the waist-band; the oversleeves
aas edged with 1t, while the under
ohss are plain.
Masesaals required: yards cash
as,e u inches wide. u yard foulard
70 inches wide.
ne next Is for a girl OF eight to
u years. Plain material Is used for
W afess Itself and plaid silk or silk
nv WOOL mixture for the trimming Of
saaH also the yoka. cuts and the
ssaiss Band
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Bad Any Way,

Chicago.-Bad names over the tele-
phone are as bad as aRy other kind,
by ruling Of Judge SABBATH. He fined
Mrs. Dagmar Johnson 81. She had
used the names through jealousy of
neighbor woman.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
SPREADING the oronninaa.

The dFoppings from the cattle win
benefit the pasture more IL they are
spread or broken up with spike
tooth harrow with the teeth set well
asgant. This prevents the grass from
being killed out and the weeds com.
ing In where tbs 6zopptngs haze Laid
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
nMenhiston coiffure.

One Of the smartest and also one OF
the most becoming coifures Is called
1.-THE Mephisto." A very narrow band
of black or scarlet velvet is taken
right round the head, and two thin
spikes Of wired velvet stand straight
up in front with a jewel cameo. or
flower to hide the Join.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Students Shine Shoes.

Princeton. N. ito pay their ex-
penses through college three Prince
ton students are conducting shoe
shine stand on the campus.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Would "Liek" Newspaper Men.

New York.-Again declaring there
we're two or three fellows" in this
town who own nasty newspapers -
Mayor Gaynor offered to lick them in
the old school boy fashion.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
prenarationa for Easter.

o,4 where the Enists drift to and fro,
Al, in the Easter morning.
,,,tle brown birds in quiet nest,
rvIttering low meath mothers breast,
a,v. Spring Is coming: let Us sing
our best"
marty on Easter morning.
inst as I was bordering In my mind,
!, my good colored auntie would say.
sow would amuse the children In
.lanning for Easter. Polly, my unfail-
70 one. dropped in and said: ''Let's
s M an old-fashioned Easter like we
s6 when we were young"
aput. Polly" walled, there was no
80 trust then. eggs weren't SO cents
Snzen, and we had real hens and q
,eal harm and we had mothers piece
MO and everything that children
haven't now"
IS Alter this wall from my usually
s,eerful seaf, Polly gave me this out
line, which I pass on: Ask just the
neighborhood childrens say six or
sght and save enough perfectly fresh
aees TO allow two for each guest. Set
sha time on the Saturday before East
o.. from three to five, and request
each child, boy % well as girl. to
bring an apron.
Hide the eggs in nests hidden care
fully behind the furniture. and warn
ina little hunters TO be most cautious
In handling the eggs. for they are to
take them home for their Easter
Breakfast It will be well to provide
small handled baskets for each one.
ne a bow OF yellow ribbon ON those
FOR the boys and white for the girls.
they will make acceptable favors.
After the eggs are found tie on the
aprons and go into the kitchen, where
squares Of bright figured calico may
be sswed tightly around some Of the
eggs and dropped into a kettle OF boil
/ linz water for a few minutes.
These eggs will come. out beautiful
IL marked with the colors and pattern
of the cloth upon them. On some or
. the eggs stick little dabs of beeswax,
J then drop in boiling cochineal water,
aud the covered spots win remain
white. These spotted eggs were q
great favorite In the olden days. Then
We did not have specially prepared
dyes, and used onion skins for our
] yellow, logWood chips for purple and,
oh, yes; forgot to say that the calico
pieces must be sure to be the kind in
which the coIors will 'srun."
On the solidly colored eggs the
names and simple designs may be
traced with a sharp penknife blade.
we'll remember how I used to cling
10 these wonderfully decorated speci-
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29
Thnuaat Iie Had ,En1.

Farmer Brown Hello. Johni How
you fee1in'
Farmer Jones Poorly felt Ill
right yesterday, but kinder think to-
day somethin's the matter with me-
u feel some o. the symptoms OF scia-
tica, lumbago, dyspepsia, ringWorm.
bronchitis an few other ser'us all
ments.
Farmer Brown-Du tell! What In
tn name o. Tophet did ye do las
night?
Farmer Jones wy, read the new
Farmers almanac till near mornin'.
Girls Gratitude.
"I gave up smoking TO please her.
Good"
"And drinking. =
.sWell?"
Nov she says she finds me very nm
interesting kansas City Journal.
A Wise Plan.
1.-THE French have the right idea.
They protect the woman" 81
How" ~
"Drav up q marriage contract.
aI see. Fix the alimony while the
groom is still In love-
IT'S awfully hard Tor girl 70 gss
used to stepfather.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1913-03-29

IT'S awfully hard for girl TO got
used to q stepfather.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-16
DIARY OF FATHER TIME

Among the historic tragedies of
the world the destruction of Pompeii
and Herculanean by the eruption of
Mount Vesuvius in A. D. 70 has gath
cred about it more of human interest
in calling forth sympathy through
the magical treatment of imaginative
literature than any other. Unlike
more recent catastrophies there were
none to witness it who could draw a
graphic pen picture. Yet in the vivid
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-16

descriptions given by Bulwer-Lytton.
in his Last Days of Pompeii' the
frightfuI scenes enacted at that time
are depicted in a most realistic man
ner.
Describing the scenes in the Am
phitheater at Pompeii, crowded to
the doors, Lytton says: There was
a dead, heart sunken silence. Then
there arose the universal shrieks of
women < the men stared at each 9TH
er, but were dumb The lightning
around Wesuvius increased their vivid
and scorching glare. Now brightly
blue, now of a ivid and snakelike
green. darling restlessly. to and fro
as the folds of an enormous serpent.
Suddenly al became lighted with an
intense and lurid glow. Bright and
gigantic through the darkness, like
the walls Of He'll, the mountain shone
"a pile of fire."
Recently the harbor Of Pompeii
was discovered, or unearthed, mile
inland. This mile-deep fill will give
some idea of the quantity of lava that
poured from the belching crater of
Vesuvius 1884 years ago.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-10-16

The class work is now being or
gained all over the state!
This is in charge of the Illinois
Equal Suffrage Association under the
direction of Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout,
who says:
..The idea is to put every woman
in the position where she is able to
vote-not the way think or the way
you think-but the way SHE thinks,
without asking for assistance.
'The work in the state is nom
political. Mass meetings are called.
The plan is made clear and then
classes are organized
Every class gives each woman the
opportunity to go through the actual
business of registering and voting
just as she will have to do on regis
tration day and election day.
The instruction is practical and
each step is carried out.
Each member is required to regis
ter, be sworn in, answer the custom
airy questions, ETC., etc.
Then a demonstration of the vot-
ing machine and the Australian ballot
system are given by the instructor.
The third step is actual voting by
both methods. Ballots are marked,
scratched and voted.
Some of the women act as judges,
and their duties are thoroughly ex-
planned to the class.
Everything that pertains to making
the business of voting an intelligent,
Independent act on the part of each
woman voter of Illinois is being con-
sidered in this statewide teach 'em
to vote" campaign instituted and car
ried out BY women FOR women.
|O-0-
nIADN OF EhTLER Time
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Walter Laidlaw, who Is flfty-seven
travelling skates salesman, advocates
roller skating as the best exercise for
old men to take if they would keep
II emselves young and timber in the
legs and body. While a bug for
baseball, as a thing to see, in the sum-
mertime, and f1end for ice hockey as
thing to look at in winter time, Mr..
Laidlaw is roller skating expert and
fan in all seasons of the year. So en-
thusiastic is he about roller skating
that he has constructed, at his home
in Marion, Ind, portable skating rink
which is nothing more nor less than a
table, four and one-half feet by nine
feet in size. The table is built much
like billiard table.
IT got the idea of building an elevat-
ed roller rink after the model of a bill
lard table" said Mr.. Laidlaw, in speak
ing of his roller skating fad. when I
took a dare in a local pool room. /
had my skates with me, and one OF my
friends dared me to put them on and
do a stunt on the table. took the
dare although couldn't Of course, do
much more than stand up. But this
gave me the notion to have a table
made especially and then learn to do
stunts on 1t. Since having my table
about everything that is customarily
done by trick skaters on ordinary rink
floors. I have been a skate fend for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

struck a vivid note Of color. here and
there about the room.
Serving punch in the pretty den,
which opens from the reception hall
were a trio Of lovely young women,
Mrs. George vikings, Miss Nellie
Flodine and Miss Edna Covington.
Here crimson carnations were used,
with ferns and native smilax.
The great cut glass punch bowl made
picture of tropical beauty, with its
decorations of Florida fruits. The lace
covered table was conferred with the
fruit embowered bowl, the base being
massed with pine apples, grape fruits
and oranges, with cluster Of grapes and
kumquats pendant from the rim of the
wide bowl.
Mrs. vikings wore charming gown
of white satin, with garnitures Of lace.
Miss FIodine was lovely in pale blue
crepe de chine, with eorsage Of pink
carnations.
Miss Covtngton was attractfvely
gowned In pale green chiffon over pale
green satin charmeuse.
Assisting in the diningroom was a
bevy Of attractive girls, Miss Lynn
Griffin. Miss Marguerite Finch, Miss
Grace Reilly, Miss Hortense Boyle
Miss Mabel Gonzales and Miss Kath-
leen Gonzalez.
The dining room was a symphony in
pink and wistaria, the decorators art
having been shown here in all its per-
lection.
Pink MY Maryland" roses and wis
taria blooms in exquisitely shaded Law
ender tones made up an ensemble of
color and charm rarely beautiful. On
either side Of the quaint mantel two
tall brass vases held the graceful, halt
opened buds Of the lovely pink roses,
and brass candlesticks with pierced
brass shades and pink fringe carried
out the color scheme. The cornice
lights on either side were shaded in
pink rose petals, and showered with
pink roses and the delicate wistaria
blooms.
On the buffet tall cut glass vases Of
pink roses were used on either side.
with silver candiesticks with pierced
silver shades, pink-fringed.
The treatment of the table was the
feature OF the whole decorative
scheme. the pink and mauve color mo-
tff being carried out most ar
tistically, hundreds of pink My Mary
land" roses being used, with wistarfa
blooms.
The table was covered with rose
point, over wistaria colored satin. A
tall cut glass vase rose from the cen
ter Of a reflector, the dozens Of ex-
quisite blooms with which it was filed,
and graceful sprays of asparagus fern
rising to meet the pink and mauve
dome above, in its covering Of pink
rose petals and violets, with the grace
full pendant blooms of wistaria. The
treatment of the electric dome was
most artistic, and beautiful. Hundreds
of delicately f1uted rose petals were
used as the basis, against which full
blown roses were caught here and
there with the graceful wistaria intro
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Washington, Jan. 4.-When Mrs.
Taft leaves the White House next
March, she will carry with her the
distinction of having made a deeper
impression upon the life of the capital
than any other chatelaine Of the White
House, since the days of Dolly Madi-
son
Possessed of unusual executive aIbil-
ity and lifelong knowledge Of Wash
ington life, all Mrs. Taft did by way
Of preparation on coming to the White
House, was to select for a secretary a
business like woman possessed of fact,
thoroughly in touch with Washington
life, and who moreover had no per-
sonal axes to grind.
With this equipment she set to work
to make the White House the centre
Of the official life Of the country. She
has succeeded beyond her hopes.
She completely reorganized Wash
ington's social set" showing the
army and navy officers and their wives
greater honor than they had enjoyed
hitherto. She surrounded herself on
wise, with numbers of army and navy
officers, and no matter how small the
fete, the officers appeared in their full
regalia, full dress" for wintert1me af-
fairs and "undress' for summer fetes.
The yearly musicales and the spring
time garden parties introduced by Mrs.
Roosevelt were continued, but their Of
fetal character was still more in evil
dence by the attendance of the presi-
dent, accompanied by his aides.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

many years and for q number Of yeArE
have been pretty much Of an expert as
a fancy and trick skater.
81 find the sport great stuff, for all
seasons of the year, and every day
take an hour or so at the exercise, try1
ing to learn new tricks, despite the fact
that they say 1t is impossible TO teach
an old dog new tricks. There Is no
finer, more graceful, more invigoratdng
or more manly athletic sport than that
of roller skating. In my opinion. Roller
skating is not only a sport for an sea-
sons but 1t is q sport for all ages. rES.
an ex-victim of rheumatism, but none
Of that thing has bothered me since /
took up skating as a daily exercise
THE fact is, 1 think, that roller skat-
ing is about the only athletic sport In
which men of fifty or sixty years may
become as reasonably proficient and as
greatly enthusiastic as do boys Of If
teen or men of thirty. Baseball play
ers, starting young. are dead ones when
they have been on the diamond ten or
fifteen years, football players are down
and out, after they leave college, and
prize fighters seldom come back. But
roller skaters? They are good from
early youth until they are ready to die
a natural DEATH
Twenty-Five years ago Mr.. Laidlaw
YVES a roller skater of no mean abil-
ity, but today. in his rapidly advancing
years, he is twenty-five times as good
a skater as he was in his youth.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

duced at intervals as an exquisite color
contrast, and the heavy brass chain from
which the dome was suspended was
wreathed with a garland of roses
From the central vase which rose
from the fern wreathed reflector crys-
tai chains were caught to four smaller
vases, each adorned with a soft knot
Of wide satin ribbon in pink and Law
ender, and freighted with dozens Of
the exquisite roses. Encircling the table
were electric lights shaded in nauve
and pink, the lights glowing softly
through shades of wide satin ribbon in
mauve and pink, the soft wide ribbons
being carried around each light, form
ing the shade and terminating in long
streamers and knots of the pink and
lavender, which fell to the edge of the
rose point cloth, dollhouse smilax ue-
ing caught In graceful garlands be-
tween each ribbon shaded light.
Pink candy baskets with decorations
of tiny purple tulips were filed with
mauve mint sticks, tied with narrow
pink ribbons, and cut glass vases held
big nix minis with white motifs.
The Ices were frozen to represent
pink roses, violets and purple grape
clusters, and the small individual
cakes were iced in white, with deli
cate decorations of violets and pink
wild roses.
Assisting in the dining room were
Miss Lynn Griffin, Miss Marguerite
Finch, Miss Grace Reilly, Miss Hor-
tense Boyle, Miss Mabel Gonzalez and
Miss Kathleen Gonzalez.
Miss Griffin was lovely in an at
tractive gown of pale green charmeuse
with over dress of dew drop chiffon,
worn with pink carnations
Miss Reilly was charningly gowned
in nile green charmeuse with over
drapery of net embroidered in crystals
Miss Hortense Boyle's beautiful
gown was of yellow crepe meteor, g.
corsage bouquet of roses catching the
drapery to the left of the bodice.
Miss Finch wore white messaline
draped in white chiffon, with rhine
stone and lace garnitures, the pretty
costumes being most becoming.
Miss Mabel Gonzalez pretty gown was
of pink charmeuse draped in pink chif-
fon, with lace accessories.
Miss Kathleen Gonzalez wore a
lovely gown of white satin charmeuse
with crystal trimmings.
This delightful afternoon reception,
opening the Season of 1918 so charm
ingly is a pleasant augury~ Of other
functions at which society will enter
tain, and was one of the prettiest
courtesies offered recently, a fitting
compliment to lovely girl who has al
ready won all who have met her by
her charming manner and gracious
personality.
Adding to the brightness Of the at
ternoon, was an orchestra, stationed on
the second floor. its delightful har-
n1ony making a charming finish to
perfect afternoon.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

girl Of fifteen keep steady company
CD Is it proper for a crowd OF girls
to go with their company to another
city, some miles distant, to theater,
without chaperone? 90 Should a
girl correspond with boy with her
mothers consent when the boy has
not been introduced except by HIM
self? "a Should a boy kiss a girl
before leaving? Do you blame a girl
for not kissing a boy even II he asks
her to? (5) Is 1t proper to call at a
boys home at the invitation Of him
and his mother?
VIOLET AND ROSE.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

~ My dears, a girl Of IL Is jus1
girl, and she has no business doing
anything so grown up as keeping
steady company. (a) Take a ohaper-
one with you. (s) II the mother is
satisfied that he is a good boy and If
you are willing to show her all his
and your letters I see no harm In it.
a. The girl would be very sensible
not to kiss him. O5 II the mother
sends an invitation for any special
call or entertainment she may go, but
she should not take advantage Of this
to call any time she feels like It II
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Dear Mrs. Thompson: Cd Should
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-01-05

Dear Mrs. Thompson: ~ Is it
proper for a couple to be engaged two
or three years before they marry?
That is, if they still love each other?
have been told that people will talk
(2) Could you give me any exercise
that will make the head larger? Ny
body is too large for my head