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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
AENS BETTER Than
SOCIETY SHE SAYS
Tango Cant Lure Her From
Chickens, Says Miss Bor-
land, of New York.

society for society's sake only grows
tiresome. ] take a positive delight in my
The girls l know who have
some interest in life apart from society
are much happier than those who live for
society alone Miss Ella Borland. a
member of the younger set of the 600"
Having happily substituted poultry rails
Ing for society, Miss Ella Borland. %.
daughter OF Mrs. John Borland, of No. All
Park venue and Newport. announced
yesterday that she would spread the gos-
pei of farm life" for women among her
friends in the 400 as we'll us among
working women.
Miss Borland yesterday notified the off,
GERS of the Women's Industrial exposition,
which opens at the Grand Central Palace
on Thursday, that She would exhibit some
of her prize chickens, and that she would
be glad to impart to visitors during the 10
days exposition, knowledge of chicken
farming which she had gained from two
years experience on her 4G-acre farm at
New Hamburg, N. Y. She has 200 hens
and $50 turkeys.
eff women knew how intensely interest
Ing it is to carry on a farm they would
gladly give up other pursuits and social
frivolities,'' said Miss Borland. The first
year I did not understand the work suf-
ffciently and / met with heavy .lcsses: but
this year l am ahead. 1 keep 81 set of
books and a strict account of eN Arytling.
II found that the supply of eggs from
900 chickens was not sufficient to put the
farm OF a paying basis, so ] have been
buying eggs from farmers in che sur
rounding country, and now ! ara able to
deliver to my customers in town on an
average of LOCO dozen of strictly fresh
eggs a week. And j am able to yell them
about Z cents a dozen cheaper than they
could purchase in the stores"
Included i'm her list of her customers
are the Union club, the Downtown club
and several of the fashionable hotels.
mo, not even the tango can lure me
away from my chickens" laughed Miss
Borland. 81 haven't entirely given up So
ciety, you know. but, you see, my chick
ems come first"
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
The Ubiquitous French az"

Query Column. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Dear Sir: You have been more than
once the court of last appeal of a little
club to which 1 belong; that is my reason
for coming to you today. In an argument
over the word ''y'' that one butts against
so often in French, / mentioned that 1t
was an adverb. while the majority just
swanped me with Il unanimous assertion
that it is a pronoun. Who wins?"
If a man could be in the right and in
the wrong at the same time. that surely
would be your present position. "Y" is by
birth an advcrb. Its parent was the Latin
...ibi'' Gin plain English "there"l; during
by the time it reached its adult age, these
ter, "y," for convenience sake; so far so
good.
But in the meantime. likewise; people
had changed it's employment as it grew.
instead of indicating any kind of a place.
as our adver there does compare
'sit down there" hang your hat there -
atc.), it was somehow made to refer only
TO q place mentioned before and to carry
some such meaning as lin 1t" lat 1t" ito
It," ETC., and thus 1t fulfilled so much the
part Of a pronoun (since it took the place
Of a noun mentioned before) that it lost
Its status as an adverb M became to
Ill intents and purposes a personal pro-
loun. and is now treated as a pronoun.
And this accounts for the place 1t occu.
)ies in the construction of a sentence, go
different from Ia" which preserved and
still retains Its original adverbial forca
In the sense of there" pure and simple.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
Vanished Birds.
From the Chfcago RECORD

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
1t is probable that no great proportion
Of the present dwellers in Chicago have
ever tasted prairie chicken. Yet prairte
chicken, within the memory of the mia
dle-aged. was once a common feature at
the table of local households. and no great
outlay was necessary to secure it. Its
pleasant, gamy favor still fingers on many
palates, and the tiresome question, Light
or dark?" never arose to cause perplexity
or delay, for the bird was dark through
out.
Gone, too, are the quail. the wild duck,
even the grouse which was plentiful or
the prairies of northern Illinois, and the
wild pigeon which used to sweep in clouds
over the valley of the Fox, not 40 miles
from our city limits. And the nearest
haunt Of the prairie chicken is in farthest
Dakota. II any examples of that pictur-
esque, savor n once familiar fowl are
to be met with along South Water street,
they figure only as rarities and luxuries.
Two dollars would not carry the purchaser
far toward a dozen.
Though advances in transportation and
refrigeration W brought to our market
edibles from the ends of the earth and
made It a much more varied and compre.
hensive place. there is a loss. not to be
made altogether good. In the vanishing
of the fauna proper to our own locality.
When the prairie chicken passed out It
did not go alone. it took an epoch with 1t.
ExOttG kickshaws and fallals may be good,
but I'd some Of us the familiar home pro-
duce was better.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
Do Women Do the Buying?

BY Truman A. DeWeese, Buffalo. N. Y.
The literary fellows have a habit OK
stating a truth in the form OF a ques--
ton. In selecting the above caption L
nave followed this idea. 1 think the
answer will Immediately come to the
mind of nearly every person who be-
longs to we call the newspaper
reading class. AS IL matter Of fact 80
per cent of all the commodities IN the
average store are purchased by women
The newspaper stands first as an ao-
vertising medium because it is pecu-
liarly a home institution and. therefore,
sustains AN intimate relation tic the
family circle. 1t is for this reason that
it makes a strong appeal to mn
Did you ever stop to think Of the wide
range OF a woman's purchases? Women
not only purchase all the commodities
that are for her personal use, such as
her own apparel and household FUR
nishings, but in many instances she
actually buys nearly everything that
goes into the home, including the wear
ing apparel for her children and her
husband. OF course she selects the
furniture for the home, the carpets. the
rugs, the curtains. Also the utensils
for the kitchen and everything That
facilitates the management of the Gull
mary department; but she also in many
instances buys her husbands shirts, his
socks, his neckties and even his under-
veal In many instances 1t Is her
pleasant duty to select the husbands
shaving soap. and to discover those
little comforts and co%nveniences that
are not brought within the range of his
busy mind. Ii there is a boy in the
home she is very apt to buy his cloth
ing because her practical mind can
select that which is in the best taste
n is apt to wear the longest. She is
more interested in the garden, has more
time for enjoying it's pleasures and de-
lights and hence she buys the seeds
n the garden tools. OF course she
buys the musical Instruments for h
home, n If there is Il victrola in the
house her educated musical taste nat
urally leads her to select the records.
Ninety per cent of all the new novels
and even the more Serious books of
erudition and travel are largely rea by
women Therefore it follows that she
is the heaviest customer of the book
publishing houses.
With this brief survey OF woman's
purchasing powers it is easy to see
that the newspaper. because OF it's in
of action, must stand first as an adj
vertising medium for nearly all COM
modities that are sold in the average
store. The newspaper is not only the
best medium because of it's direct re-
lation to the housewife in the home,
but because it reaches the members
of the family at the best hour Of the
day when their minds are most re-
cept:ve. Other literature that comes
into the home is ead at leisure mo-
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
Mevie., Year Book.

The first cinematograph year book
has just been issued in London with
amazing figures on the rise and prog
rsss of that industry in Great Britain
and much information as to the bust
tess in other parts Of the world.
During IL months of the year 1918 the
moving picture shows in England were
visited by 100000 persons. There
are. according to the year book, lE,7OO
theaters where these shows are given.
Cinema ~tlieatcrs are popular not only
throughout Europe, but also in Aus.
tralia, China, India and parts Of Africa.
They have ever been started in the
islands of the Pacific as aids to mis-
sionary enterprises. It is said that
enormous sums have been paid for ex-
elusive rights to some firms. The
famous Quo Vadis" films are said t.
have realized 36,700 put up al
auction t$35. 500) and Antony and
Cleopatra" 9S.100 ($40. 50o). Amons
the famous actors and actress who
have acted for these pictures are sil
Herbert Tree. Sir Charles Wyndham
Sir ]. Forbes Robertson. Gertrude
Elliott. Charles Hawtrey, Elaine
Terriss, Seymour Hicks. Mrs. Langtry
Violet vanbrugh. Arthur Boucher
Gladys Cooper. james WEIGH, Martin
Harvey. Sarah Bernhardt.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
Poverty Stricken cit;e..
From the Cincinnati Eno,,,ra

from the cincinnati Enquirer.
what seems to be needed to end tha
modern scourge Of municipal bonded debt
10 some Spartan hand that will strike and
spare not. The education of the rod in
. ..a,Nngly indicated. In her interesting arr
uary Agnes Repplier recites an
anecdote of the famous Dr.. Keafe, .tha
terrible headmaster of Eaton" which ia in
POINT. Meeting q scholar whimpering and
cly1ng: DR.: Keate asked him why he went.
on being told that 1t was becaHse Of the
cold he grufhy said: You must NIT I'M
with 1t. This is no girls school" That
.Weeplne scholar died q hero's death Lead
Ing his regiment at Lahore in a cavairv
charge. :" S"s""S
Municipal officials and those seeking ex.
Penslve improvements when the treasury
- ~ n the debt high must be taught
20 puI up with poverty. Managing q large
city 10 no boys or no weakling's job. It is
q nard and dour task. When the pinch
comes the frtlls md embellishments Of
ovsInment must be discarded, Just as
the head OF e family FIRST s%urrenders lux
puTee's bottom comes into sight. This is
NOT merely academic opinion. IT il meant
70 apply to present conditions. There NAV
be . promise Of increased revenue from
sources yet untouched. Live. horse and
you'll have grass" 10 an old ana true saw
The fair thing and the only thing to do
u 20 teduce expenses to meet the In.
COME. Let there be q Ourceaoe from bond
II the income expands later.
~ anq. good. In the meantime, let off,
c!A!eI Ana utttsenss ''putaUp WITH the Geld"
u - oeth healthy and q good discipline.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
MOTLEY FAMILY FOR :
THIS CHICAGO WOMAN
Mrs. L. Bracket Bishop to
Be Mother" to is
Foreign Children.

Chicago-Mrs. L. Bracket Bishop,
suffragist, and SO years old, who an
nounced the other day her intention
of becoming the mother" OF Is chill
dren of different nationalittes. says
that she hopes to get her collection
together within a year. The name
of Bishop will he given to an Indian,
an Ethiopian or American negro. an
Arab. a Jap, a Chinese. an American,
a Malay. a German. an Italian. an
Irish baby. a Scandinavian. a South
American baby and other character
The babies are to be taken as
close to the age of I year as it
is possible to get them. Mrs. Bishop
wants them to be weaned, but de-
sires to nav them as soon as DOS
sible after hat start has been given
them.
She does not intend to worry over
the %parentage of the children. She
hopes there will be a few illegitimats
ones in the family" although the
fact of their birth will not be made
public on account of the prejudice
against them.
"Such children will be brighter
h said. "They always are"
When she gets her collection together
she intends to leave her comfortable
apartments in a Chicago hotel and get
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03

ments. The newspaper is quickly and
promptly read because its life Is only
"a hours and tomorrow it's news Will
be stale and uninteresting. 1t is, there-
cisive results-for making ar lmme-
date n definite impression upon tne
mind OF the reader.
All this emphasizes the need OF great
care and study in preparation of
copy" Anybody can write the mushys
stories in h body of a ana
most anybody can write the news
matter in the paper. but not every man
can write the kind of advertising copy
that will attract attention, that VIII
convince and persuade the possible
customer.
The chief characteristic of good adj
vertising cop must be d~ecisiVeness
and lucidity. Advertising copy must
say a great deal in a few words. me
space is valuable and the impression
must be quickly made on the eader
mind. Spending two days in writing
an advertisement of 300 words is not
a waste of time or grey matter. An
advertisement should be written n
rewritten until it is a modle of incisive
English. Hasty and imperfect copy is
a waste of time and money.
If we accept all these propositions
then it is easy to accept the conclusion
that am advertiser in a newspaper
SiiOuio q Sc SPoSS PN
sible to carry out any of these ideas In
small space. The attempt of a mer-
chant to tell t story of his past life"
in two or three inches of newspaper
| space is always a pitiful n grotesQue
fizzle. Tie wonderful development of
modern newspaper advertising makes
it impossible for the merchant to at
tract attention in small space. He Is
buried and lost in a mass of big adver-
Using of merchants who are doing big
things in a big way. But even if he
succeeds in attracting attention he
cannot say anything worth while in
| small space. There is something about
the bigness and boldness of a large ad
that arrests immediate attention and
inspires confidence in the advertiser.
The average reader says to himself.
M merchant could afford to advertise
in that way if he did not do a big
business and if he does a big bust
ness 1t is a sure sign that he has earned
the business through enterprising up
to-date merchandising" The same ar
guments in behalf of the use of hig
space also apply to the use of strong.
clean cut Roman type. the kind that is
easily n quickly read by the average
reader in the average home. To the
man who knows the attention value of
clean, strong. plain type, h use of
smaller types such as Old English type
and freakish letters is almost a crime.
What is to be gained by the advertiser
who prints An important message to
the consumer in type which the on
! sumer cannot cad
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
been fooled!
Beautiful mOrning?"
No reply.
Beautiful park"

Beautiful park?"
What asfls = happy bird the robin Isl"
Miss Blythe was now looking him
sauarely in the eyes.
Would that We're a robin to be
to me AGAIN. o ou 'pe""
Call me not thus. fair one. 1 admit
that ! admire. but it is with all due re-
spect."
Miss Blythe rose to her feet and out
came the revolver.
George said that it wouldn't be loaded
with.
However. it turned out to be another
Of those frequen cases of didn't know
masher's right eye. The girl didn't
know the trigger from the muzzle. 1t
f fan,t S %aa recalled sane t to thiS day MSn5 that an 1Ss
weapon about. but all OF a sud%en there
was an explosion.
A bullet not meant for anybudy took a
then went singing away into she brush.
The masher yelled out. He jualped clear
Of the ground. He clapped q band to the
bit gait and was soon out of sight.
What have done! oh. What have I
done. walled the girl as *he dropped
with her hands. having dropped the re-
volver as soon as the shot -s,as fired.
r, There was no one nearby: NO o. one ne came am
minutes to recover from tlie shock. Miss
Blythe started for home at a fast walk.
The evening papers Of that date had a
heads, the largest and blAalkest of which
a
Attempted Murder in the Park!
Osborne, son of the intu rance man by
that name. was sitting liz the park at an
early morning hour, smeking his cigar
mot q nicklc one), and reading his paper.
from the underbrush at Ms faithful heart
had hit him in the calf Of the right leg.
meant murder. No Suspicious person wal
seen by the park pol'e.. but q general
alarm had been sent cut to collar every
man in the city with = Roman nose.
Brother George had heen told about the
masher. and he was highly exultant.
When he saw the papers. however he
sobered up and saidi Sister. you Will
NV What at !, II that atm mean: she asked.
"You viii nave to seek the woods and
camp ont until this thing blows over"
Dunno. unless you tell mother you are
dying Of consumption and must have an
outdoor life for awhile"
| tried to plan. Brother George had ceased
to be a consolation. In fact. he showed
q disposition to skip the m All
as no on had seen the shooting. but the
shooter felt that every finger In the city
was pointing at her as the guilty one. She
/ without a word to any enc she set out
for the residence Of the wounded mans
MI. Guy Osborne was sitting up. with a
support for the wounded leg. A neat hole
bored through the calf would not trouble
him for long. The guilty and conscience
stricken girl was admitted to his pres
1T was I that shot you a. you sat in
:*sHow-whatr. he asked.
with my little revolver I did 1t. and
yousmay send me to prison."
Did Guy Osborne send. her there? He
didn't. He just fell In love with the
shooter, al wae ordained he should. and
II Il doesn't end In matrimony before
/ huclkleberries come again. th0Sl. Mf0
Grundy and lots Of other folks Will turn
out false prophets.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03

a house near of the parks, or pos.
sibly on the outskirts of the city, where
the children can have room to play
normally.
II am going to have a home like
Mrs. Bishop. Every variety. YOU
know. i am going to try to get chill
dren with distinct characteristics. We
shall see which nationality and which
race wins out.
II am going to be responsible for
them always. just as if they were
Will be developed, without being influ-
enced by me, however. I have brought
up my own boy that way. He never
has needed his mothers brains. He
mas been shown how to use his own.
AS a consequence every school teacher
ne mas ever had has called me to
school to explain him.
Il have been told 1 shall have a
nice fight on my hands with children
OF 10 different ~nationalities. I hope 1
snall. One young has called
II a human ZOO and another said I
might charge Is cents admittance and
make my home self supporting.
II am going to give the children a
plain. ordinary life and I hope to let
every child have q chance to really
and truly develop to the fullest extent
physically, mentally and morally. I
VIII no more shape their Characters
than their noses.
while they are young I shall use
the Montessori system. which brings
out their individuality. Probably after
ard they will 90 to the public schools.
e may DO such little savages that
the public schools won't want them.
I am not going to have n Of the
rough edges rubbed of to please the
schools" ~
There will be boys and girls in tho
family" No children will be taken
away from parents. They must be
orphans. Journals on their progress
and development will be kept and
Mrs. Bishop believes the experiment
Will not only make a comfortable
happy home for her. but viii be Of
great scientific value as well. The
nome part, h says, comes first
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03

Grievous as has been the damage
wrought in Europe by recent storms it
IL unlikely that they were more vio-
lent than England's great storm Of
about the middle OF November and 1t
Increased in violence until on the
morning Of the 26th few people ven
tured out of their houses. and on that
night houses were unroofed, buildings
torn dow and thousands of people
were killed. About 1000 stacks OF
around London. In the Thames only
four ships remained between London
bridge and Limehouse; 500 wherries.
800 %shipboats and 100 lighters and
barges were entirely lost, n many
were badly damaged. The damage in
London alone was estimated at $780,
600. 900.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
SHOOTING A MAN..
BY John Philip orth.

Copyright, 1914, by the Mcclure News
Mis-, n,vtbp payer Ri1w sydd kas tskine. a walk
IN the park at an early morning hour.
Her brother George had told her that II
she would get out early she would find
the squirrels hunting for their breakfast.
II she went around by the Zoo she would
find the h~fppopotamus jumping. through
paper hoops and playing a mouth organ
o'clock.
A hippopotamus has his hours for play
ana his hours of dignity. the same as a
S hnl5 Sien states Ss,s s%s q Ssgy ; ana whsn n anim 9ff
MISS Blythe saw the squirrels.
She saw the hippo.
Incidentally. she saw the kangaroo and
the giraffe. but they were side issues.
Some one also saw Miss Blythe. He
wasn't an animal, but a human being. He
was a young man under 30, and he had a
tache and wore a bogus diamond ring.
He might have been in the park to see
the squirrels and the hip. He was saun-
tering about and fiourishing his cane and
on the girl. He removed his hat with a
great flourish. He smiled. He smirked.
He observed that it was a fine morning
for a walk. +
For a moment Miss Blythe looked at
him IN astonishment. It was her first
meeting with a masher. Then the identity
and she drew herself up and Indignantly
exclaimed:
Sir, pass on about your busines.!"
See you again." he smirked as
What's the matter with the kid?'
asked Miss Blythe's brother George, as
Brother George. was u years old. and
he really hoped that something had hap
pened to cali for a display Of chivalry on
hi :M part. +n., n.r.,. .o,h., .,a s,.+.,
wild man?
'No-tame!"
What did he do?'
Bespoke to mel"
And what were you doing?"
:77nd a!dn 4 soa sssss'S his eyes,"
"And Q told him to 90 on about his
oo aYss's
IF he hadn't I was going to call for
r. MIN glad e. yos didn't hay. to-. .assly
f feP est. sds h SsG.h 4 you .,s eaa ay nsSef it. et II
you do they. will get you name and your
picture. in the papers. and a great lot OF
s s1uff :, apo ~ t yoar lighting Ehtn etc, to the iYsa last Sta gasp ?
know what sort Of a cowboy 1 am not to
SRut h shall I do IL I meet him
Tonight / shall hand you my revolver
II won't DO loaded: but when you 60 "a
s s1;sh park sr, IN the morning. you carry Il
And 1t won't go OFF, asked the siste,
with q shudder.
How can II! 9 want 1t simply to
AZ soon a. he begins bowing and smirK.
ms You . to pull your u on hin
Out Of thi. with you. base wretch. OIL
But he may laugh at me-"
anger Of that. II you speak in Z
mar scoa,ndreIs tha n,,aEa evor,, IN
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03

To students to see as
much as possible of the fatherland
provision has been made for student
shelters throughout Germany. where
travelling students can find lodging for
the night. There are SIG of these her.
bergen in Germany and Austria, which
furnish lodging and breakfast free of
charge to all students provided with
the proper cards. Practically the only
expense attached to enjoying the bene-
fits of the institution is the payment OF
2 marks approximately so cents) for
q membership card. Students must pc
at least 16 years OF age and attending
q high school or university to obtain
momhershin cards
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-04-03
The ARABIAN Nights" did not

The ARABIAN Nights did not be-
come familiar to Europeans until 1904.
when Galland translated them into
French. Scholars asst doubt on the
authenticity Of some Of Galland's work,
accusing him-like Fitz Gerald and
Omar Khayyam-of inventing rather
than translating. but with the public
the success of the tales was immediate
and immense. Galland used to COM
plain that students. returning home in
the early hours Of the morning, would
tatiOn of q tale.