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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
SERVES A DOUBLE PURPOSE
Cultivation of Garden Reduces Cost OF
Living and Helps to BeausIfy
the City.

There is no good reason why the
occupant OF small lot in city or town
should complain about the high cost
Of living in the summer time, If he is
willing to endure sore muscles for a
brief period and to undertake perhaps
unaccustomed labor with spade and
rake.
Every back yard on which the sun
shines with reasonable warmth can be
made to produce fresh vegetables
enough to supply the average family
In abundance and variety not sur
passed by the menus of expensive ho-
tells.
Every food requirement can be met
with vegetables grown in the back gar
den. It is Indeed difficult to find the
soil or location which will not produce
good crops IL proper skill and care be
used in fertilizing and preparing the
soil and in choosing the seed.
Statistics have proved that the high
cost of living is not due to increased
expense In producing food. but that
the big proportion Of the high prices
goes to the middlemen. Every owner
OF a garden is independent of the mid.
dleman. No time may be lost by the
man who wants to try gardening in
preparing the ground and sowing the
seed.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
BUTCHER BIRDS DIET
Eastern Variety Consumes Moth
ing But Animal Matter.
Consumption OF Grasshoapers Far Out
weighs Harm Done to Other Birds
| and BeetIes-Capable OF
Doing Much Good.
BY F. e. L. BEAL.)

The southern butcher bird in SOME
of it's numerous forms, is found over
much of the United States, and Is
especially common on the Pacific
coast. ALI the forms retire southwark
at the approach Of winter and In
many localities are replaced during
the cold season by the northern
butcher bird, which comes down from
the north and winters in the United
States.
The butcher bird resembles bird
of prey in form Of beak and to a GER
tain extent in food habits, but 1t
has no talons such as enable the true
birds of prey to seize their victim
and hold it while tearing it to pieces.
For the investigation Of the food OF
the southern butcher bird 124 stom-
achs of the western sub-species were
examined and SS Of the eastern. The
western bird showed 25 per cent. OF
vegetable substances in their stomachs
but the eastern ones contained moth
ing but animal matter. The animal
portion of the food of western butcher
birds consists of SO per cent. spiders
and few snails, per cent. and YER
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28

there has been no room for beau,
flying things unless radical changes
should be made. Many an American
city has walked up to these conditions
and the result has been that all over
the country the architectural physt
clans have been called in to help
things out. If the pace keeps up these
architects venture to predict that with,
in twenty years the United States will
have a score, if not more, Of beautiful
cities, which cannot be surpassed any
where in the world for their size.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
Hone &Jk)
1TOWNV71< \ :
IS flEEL|- Z -pTS
TRUE SPIRIT OF THE WEST
Broad interchange of Ideas Ono OF
the Secrets of That Sections
Rapid Growth.

The western cities have commenced
their annual gadding around among
heir neighbors. Just as soon as the
snowdrifts melt and train schedules
become regular, boosters organiza-
lions from every Trans-Mississippt
hamlet and metropolis pack their
grips, charter a train and zigzag
through three or four states, which is
some territory as the west goes.
They have two missions-to spread
the gospel that their particular local
ity is the best in the country in
which to be happy and prosperous
and spy out, absorb and appropriate
any improvement. method or custom
OF value which their guests may
have and they lack.
This interchange of ideas regard
ing business methods, municipal gov
ernment, how to raise bumper crops
and swat the greedy corporations IS
the secret of the growth OF the west,
and also explains why it annually pre-
sents a new batch Of political and
civic ideas and backs them with a
solidarity that is amazing.
In unity there is strength, and in
cooperation and neighborlineSs there
Is growth. 1t is peculiar OF the west
and to the west that while the cities
fight among themselves for SUI
premacy they will drop all differences
and fight much harder for the vest
Philadelphia Evening Times.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
TAAEEEIyY ] lAll ] ~ N(OyIIES N|OIE%S

A COW has a peculiarly sensitive
and delicate organization.
Regularity should be the keynote
of every successful dairy system.
Make a study of foods. and feed a
balanced ration. This will save waste.
When cut in the milk and cured, the
oat and pea hay is most palatable and
nutritious.
A good dairy cow should have all
the feed she will eat and digest, and
keep in good health.
Successful dairying depends entire
ty on right methods in breeding, feed
Ing and management.
The dairymen who are not success
full do not apply ordinary business
principles to their calling.
Success in dairy farming depends
not only on good stock, but also on
good common sense work.
Stir the cream twice day, using
q long-handled spoon which will reach
to the bottom of the cream jar
With good COWS, good food, good
stables, all profits can be wiped out by
an ignorant or cruel stable man.
There may be occasional bad luck
in the dairy business, but it almost in
variably follows bad management
An exposed or an abused COW will
give less milk, and that milk of
poorer quality, than one well cared
for.
It is well known fact that the
COW that makes the largest profit is
given the best care and most COM
Portable shelter.
Heifers require larger amount Of
feed for the production of certain
amount of milk than do older cows.
They have to grow.
The man with the hammer really
is engaged in a process Of slow sui.
eide. And 1t isn't happy death he
Is treating himself to. either.
The demands Of cow are impera-
tive. The dairyman who consults his
own convenience. and disregards the
comfort Of his dairy herd, suffers
loss.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
Enforcing the Law.

For more than seven years Mr.
Roosevelt roared from the White
House that the criminal clause of the
Sherman antitrust law could not be
enforced. 1t never was enforced
while Mr.. Roosevelt was in office.
Sentences recently imposed on Of
ficials of the turpentine trust and cash
register company go to show that the
criminal clause of the Sherman act
can be enforced whenever officers of
the law want to enforce it Juries
will convict trust officials against
whom is brought satisfactory evidence
and the judges of lower courts will in
flict Jail sentences.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28

tebrates IL per cent The stomachs
of the eastern forms show 6S per
cent, spiders 4 per cent. and verte-
brates % per cent.
The difference Is undoubtedly due
to climate, the western bird being
able to find insects all the year round,
while the eastern one gets very few
during the winter.
While the southern butcher bird
eats a few birds and some useful
insects, its diet is on the whole very
much in it's favor, as the consumption
of grasshoppers far outweighs the
harm to birds and beetles. AS a
feature of the landscape, and as lend
ing animation to rural scenes, the
shrike, or butcher bird, in California
is a pronounced success, and. while
not so numerous in the east, it is just
as attractive and is doing the same
good by its food habits.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
Task Ahead for President.

To restore popular government. to
get rid of tariff and other monopolies,
to bring back the golden era Of Amer
icau invention, are wholly proper
aims. The achievement Of those cims
will be great task to accomplish in
four years Inder the limitations of the
Federal Constitution. Probably DR..
Woodrow Wilson realizes this as
clearly as anybody in the United
Satisfactorily Eagle (Dem.).
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
Rose-Slip Day.

Tacoma, in the state OF Washing.
ton. has worked out an idea that is
worth copying. 1t has Tacoma Rose
society, and this society has hit upon
the plan of giving away rose slips in
order to encourage the cultivation OF
roses and to help along the campaign
Cor city beautiful. The first rose
slip day was celebrated this year. The
society was not prepared for the de-
mand for slips. Crowds, many Of
whose members were children, clam
ored for cuttings. The society had
only $4,000 to give away, and this did
not come anywhere near meeting the
call. 1t has now announced that it
will be glad to receive cuttings from
any citizens who are pruning their
bushes, and next year 1t hopes to dis
tribute 100000 slips.
What such a L.anting OF roses Will
do for Tacoma can be imagined. or
course, rose-growers on the Paes5aas-
coast enjoy certain advantages which
their eastern kindred sigh for in vain.
But the Tacoma idea is worth copy
ing, If not in roses in something else.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
Sensible View of Situation.

The people of Florida can take
their share of the cuts and still gain
tens OF millions annually more than
they lose. The Democratic theory Is
that this is a government Of the peo-
ple and that none should be taxed to
supply special favors to Others Those
who hold to the idea that the gov
ernment belongs to special interests.
whether orange growers or steel man
ufacturers, should have voted for Taft,
and the monopolistic platform of the
Observation-Disclosures Times-Union.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-05-28
SaIed Shavings and sawdust Are Best,
Everything Considered-StraW ls
Too Valuable.

Always place bedding toward the
side and rear of the stall, as horse
lies well backward and On its side.
Should the horse kick and scratch
the straw too far back, place coarse
eocoanut-fiber mat under the straw
about where the hooks Of the horse
lie and there will be no further trou'
BILE. Otherwise, the hooks may be
capped and injured.
Wheat straw is good for bedding.
rye next and barley is tabooed, while
oats Is too soft. Besides. horse likes
oat straw and may be tempted to eat
unsanitary bedding, the salty taste OF
ammonia proving agreeable to a de-
praved appetite.
Baled shavings and sawdust are
best. everything considered; their use
stopping indigestion caused by eating
bedding. Straw, baled hay, old swale
and such matter rolls up too r'uch,
which fact, together with the steadily
increasing value Of straw, makes 1t
almost too valuable for bedding in the
horse barns.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

Sslf OF your American habit OF lean
ing on the elbow
Leaning on the elbow looks quite
attractive when a pretty slender girl
assumes the pose. But IL is most un-
slightly when q stout woman takes II.
and in any case II viii give you ugly.
coarse pads at the elbow. Break your
self OF the habit, and in the mean
time rub the elbows each night with
ieroline
ALWAYS RUIZ DowN.
Always rub down IN culuvatius
beauty OF either arm or hand. Ry fol-
lowing tho downward sweep Of tho
circulation YOU will acquire the
greatest possible shapeliness and get
the teporinE line OF hand and arm
that IL essential to their true beauty.
Swing very light dunb-beus or In
dian elIbs to acquire flexible. grace
tul motion ~ the hand or arm. Lift
the arms hrSt 10 tho Sides. then
straight NJ in front OF you. thSn 10
the shoulder level Ir each position
mex the wrist and turn the hand on
the wrist AS = pivot. Try eHpressins
your idea ~ various emotions with
the hands and arms. study Arranging
ths hnAvrs gracefully and yet NOS
loosely from the wrist to ACQUIRE tina
power 70 relax them easily.
And now, to crown your efforts
have your hands always well groomaa
and clean
II you cannot srtord a weekly man
iCurs, purchase manicure tools-an
orange WOOD stick or two. a naxihla
iile. some chsr,ots buffers, q bottle on
percNtds, CASTLE soap and good cold
cream. To this ADD . pair OF locq
ckanots gloves some ginger a.
SlueezsrS. SlyCcrtUs and some u.oiI.
recommended tr't ois that WI Sr>.-
lusfra 20 the ma lis
Assv SiSnG spsk fNuf naHo. "a,
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

Some idea of the enormous sum
spent by society women in Chicago
on personal adornment may be gath
cred from figures which were given
ut the half yearly convention Of the
Chicago Dressmakers' Club the other
day. According to these statistics,
several Of the leaders of society spend
no lees than $4,000 a year on dress,
while one hundred of the women who
form the elite Of the city are said
to have a yearly expenditure OF $780,
eco apiece Ten thousand others
spend a mere trife OF $4,000 per an
mum to deck themselves. In brief,
enough money is spent in the year at
their dressmakers, etc, by society
women there to build no fewer than
five superGreadnaught
Eminent Bess, a Jersey COW at Roy
Gross Farm. Houghton County, Mich,
has broken the worlds milk record.
In one year, under the supervision Of
the Michigan Agricultural Col
lege, she has produced 1878 pounds
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

warm soap Euds 10 which you have
ADDED few drops OF ben8oin. When
tney are soft and clean. push the cuti.
Gle back with a towel and cleanse
under the nails with the orange wooo
stick dipped in peroxide.
Not only must the nails be free
from dust and soil and spots OF all
sorts, but the flesh under them must
SHINE clear white through the trans
lucent nails.
Now rub a DIT OF lustre-creern or
powder on the nails and polish with
the buffer
Each night rub glycerine, w!th q
oft OF oamphor. or of oarbolic acid
and rose water (yuu viii be the best
judge OF which mixture best agrees
with your slCin), OF hands and about
the cuticle OF the nails Then don
tho loose gloves and let the sortening
ersc; OF your glycsrine preparation
so on
IN TIRE MORNING.
In the morning shape the nuEers Oy
applying the saueeEers to the singers
toward the tips, and be sure to keen
the joints supple and smooth.
When on the street always wear
gloves that are large enough for YOU.
When in n building remove the gloves
at once SO that no psrspirstioR stifrsn
the glove or chap the hand.
Never use highly scented SOAPS
Never wear ugnJ wristbands or cuHs
and be sure tle- your dresses slwsy.
have plenty VI lquW ,n Jbc arm.
holes.
u You follow these careful airec.
tlone. madam. think you will Nnd
Yourself pc sessed % pair OF suppls,
gre Nsful white hands aNd arrive And
either W motion or raposs the,
MI sod 20 ths .uut suss,u Oh. Of trus
oe4utl. =
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
BY ANNA HELD

Anna Held's Anstar Vans. b,tx
Under NAUAgsmsnt Cd JOAN uosLy
N<rv'Asht lOls, International New Service.
rance we consider a beautiful.
oppressive arm and hand one Of
NomAhIs great charms Do you
"o' tAihR this beauty is well worth
your cultivation
Hands arc so nuch-lH svid~nos u is
Important for ,very woman 30 try TO
make hsrs attractive.
~ course, the foundation fur all
true beauty 10 cleanliness. Grooming
ana care VIII make the satin OF your
arms and hands smooth and clear.
shApsinssS L. also within your reach.
Ana II YOU will but cultivate grace
shS eApresa.vshess. lou may master
beauty &C the hands and arms
In France We admire gesture and
tXprsEsiOu through q certain amount
OF free motion To You reposs is es-
ssntial fer the hands But tho grace
Of rspose ~ thsas that requires
study
Aliens! We proceed.
Battle the arms In bran wafer
uslng the bags OF son" ss told you
IN my talk about the bath.
Lave the arms In warm. but not ex-
tremsly not water, lest an UNDUE
amount o. blood De called 70 the
hands, giving them an uusiEhtly red
appearance
Nov beginning a. the shoulder rub
down very gently With sood sold
cream
- the sIobw |. un-tsHtly with cal
.oWs skin - goose 7esN make m
o.r r-'nS ihs' H. ug1t 1rasE you-
q
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
Advice to the
Lovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
HE is ACTING HUMAN.

Dear Miss Fairfax:
am 10. and have been keeping
company with a young man five
years my senior. / always thought
he cared for me- as he told me he
wanted to marry me, and thought
| would consider the matter, as
know he is a good boy and maxi
ing money.
A few days ago, while walking
together he said something to
me which hurt my feelings, and
did not speak to him, in spite Of
the fact that he tried to make me
speak, until We reached home. Be
fore We parted he asked me If he
could call the following night, and
all I said was No" lie didn't
ask me again, and he hasn't made
the attempt to, although we work
together and see each other daily.
Now, do you think he is acting
right? n. G.
He apologized, and you refused Ia
accept IT. What more do you want
him TO do? In all fairness, isn't the
,ext step up to you
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
ANXIOUS.
YOU ARE RIGHT

Dear Miss Fairfax:
l am past II, and know a young
man one year my senior who
wants to marry He is a news
butcher and earns SO a week. !
would like to marry him but am
pretty sure we could not live on
that MAY.
II would be difficult to live on twice
SO week, and suicidal to attempt
IT on less. Both of you are too young
to talk Of marriage seriously.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
HAS HE A SISTER?

Dear Miss Fairfax:
] am very anxious to become
acquainted with a young man in
the block where live. He Is very
polite, but seems bashful.
ANXIOUS.
III he has a sister 1t Will be easy to
form the acquaintance of one who is
80 near a neighbor. Or perhaps your
mother win call on his mother. Don't,
insist, speak to him until you have
had an introduction.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

TNHE fourth deadly mistake OF IHaVTIIHOH5 Is' =
| CUT OUT THE JOLLY BECAUSE YOU ARE
MARRIED.
During courtship fattery is aid to success After
marriage it is necessity It takes save applied with
liberal hand to grease up the domestic machinery so
that it does not creak and ,groan as it moves.
j Unfortunately while everybody knows this the ma
iorty OF people matrimony them the PRIV
ege of telling the partners their bosoms about their
faults and if revealed the truth about the
holy estate we obliged confess that we never
knew how many foibles and weaknesses possessed
until we got married.
1t takes a husband strip the last rag of vanity
from woman and make her see herself faded and old
and without charm wife to puncture the oup
bic of her husbands and make him realize
what an ordinary, placed, driveng bore ne Is
Who but husband would dare tell woman she is TAT
and looks more than years? Who but e would
knock the wind of mans story by yawnng IN MS
face and telling him that she had heard it 40 times
befo
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
No Wonder.

No wonder that married couples are 50 often dsliAu
other! No wonder that there are SO many
divorces The amazing thing is that any affection ever
survives the brutal candor Of matr1mony.
a matter of fact the naked truth has no place IN
the family circle We possibly survive knowing
what casual acquantanCes and neighbors tnlnk OF
our little pecuiarites, but not bear to know that
the eyes which most desire to shine see all OF
our weaknesses with merciess clearness No matter how
old she gets wants believe that she is stu
young and beautiful her husband, and a man desires
he is much hero of romance to his wire
as in the days courted her This is what makes the
criticisms of each other in which the husbands and
wives indulge endishly and barbarous. Every
word stabs right to a vital spot
When you think of it, is it little strange that
and should make such efforts to please and
make agreeable to everyone except the very
people that it is important that they should con-
ciliate?
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
Do You Know That

Of milk, yielding 1.132 pounds S
ounces of butter. The record for
Jersey cows was previously held by
Jacoba Irene, with 1925 pounds Of
milk.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

The first postoffice was opened in
Paris in 1862, in England in 1881, and
i'll America in the year 1710.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
How Different.

A who takes strange woman down to dinner
hangs absorbed her word, he listens TO hef
opinions respect pays her deft compliments He
wouldn't of such thing telling her that she
had dress that much too young for her that
made foolish that she didn't understand
what talking about, that she missed the point
Of her joke in telling it.
he doesn't hesitate to such things to his wife,
or to that he regards her fit subject
for a home inCurabe imbeciles
Nor are any careful Of their husbands
feelings, and gets the jolt of his life when
admirng little creature who has been
sitting his feet burning incense before marriage rises
up the wedding day and proceeds to correct his
grammar and his manners, and edit his opinions and
show him what poor miserable sinner he is i'll her
opinion
Probably nothing else explains why marriage is so
failure does the exit of the jolly and the
trance of the crit cisms the wedding cere
mony is
Because every of marries under the impress
sion that marriage the securing ourselves of
a life partner who will do nothing but throw bouquets
direction, and when find out that instead of
getting a press agent who will exploit virtues
have tied ourselves for life to kpocker, all feel
shrekng that have beeI gold briCked and
taken by false pretenses. ~
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

Many BelgianS pay about 5000 TO
substitutes in order to avoid military
duty.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

EACH NIGHT RUB GLYCER-
iNE, WITH BIT OF CAMPhOR
OR OF CAR5oLIC ACID AND
ROSE WATER you WILL BE
THE BEST JUDGE OF WHICH
MIXTURE BEST AGREES
WITH YOUR SKIM, ON HANDS
AND ABOUT THE CUTIcLE
OF THE NAILS. THEN DON
THE LOOSE GLOVES AND LET
THE soFTENlNo EFFECT OF
YOUR oLYcER.NE PREPARA-
TON GO ON.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
The Seven Mistakes Of
Matrimony
By DOROTHY DIX.
No. ".

TIME fourth deadly mistake of matrimony is IT,
| CUT OUT THE JOLLY BECAUSE YOU ARE
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06
The Reason Why.

Yes marriage is a failure because the
jolly II is y do things for those who appre
ciate them and VIII applaud efforts and tell US that
the greatest ever and it is so hard to do things
those who give pat the head
and say Good doggie, but who intimate that we might
have great cal better if had only been ntelE
gent like Mr. Smith Mrs. Jones.
And love the society of those who feed
sweet praise hattery, subtle and discriminating
makes us that while dull and senseless world
may appreciate how talented and what remarkable
creatures are, there is with the mind and soul
understand And how we loathe those-how soon
get enough of their socetyho point out to US
all of mistakes, who harp upon our blunders and
who turn searChght all faults and frailties,
The reason that consider their families a bur
is because their wives fail to reward them with
praise. The that dissatisfied and
complain of the notony of domestic life Is because
their husbands never pay them compliment.
The that the average home is battle-ground
husbands and wives hand each other biting
criticisms instead of soft soap The that
married off after other women is because
is bound to have woman to jolly him along
if his wife won't, he hunts a lady who will The
reason that married women seek ainities Is because
womans vanity is starving, and since her husband
won't feed it she TO the who will
1t is the jolly that makes the wheel of matrnony
around and those who the lubricant invite dis
aster.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

To Be Continued Tomorrow.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-06

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Under NAUAxsnsnt Cd JOAN Cost.j
N>iVFSht lols In4x-uatton.i E-v. srr1,c.