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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13

S. S. Bertram, formerly land
lord of the Cottage Hotel here
and later in the hotel business at
Fordland, has moved to Spring.
field. He has our thanks for 81
on subscription.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1914-08-13
ock of beautiful Rhode Island

Reds. II love them becauee
they are so bright" she says,
and they certainly seem to APP
preciate her kindness. Although
they Eli look alike to n stranger,
she knows every one by sight
and calls them pet names as
they feed from her hand. She
knows which puilrts lay the ear
Hest and saves their eggs for
Matching for she has made a
study of poultry as we'll as the
other branches of farming, and
knows that in this way she i'm
proves the laying qualities of
the flock. when starting my
flock said Mrs. Durnell, Il de-
termined to have the best and |
still get the best stock obtaina.
ble." She selects her breeders
very carefully, both for their
early laying qualities and for
their color, and so has a flock of
which any fancier might be
proud, as well as one that re-
turns a good profit.
Everything is very carefully
looked after on this. little farm.
nothing is wasted. The clean
ings from the poultry house are
spread over the garden because
there are no grass or weed
seeds mixed with them to be-
come a nuisance. The cleaningS
from the COW barn are spread
over the meadows, and if there
is grass seed among them SO
much the b, tier for the meadow.
Nor has the inside of the
house been neglected because of
the rush of work outside. Al
though this homemaker has
learned to husband her strength
and not do unnecessary things,
still she has done the job thor.
oughly in the house also. Here
are rare bits of old furniture
brought from the old home, hand
made, some of it, and hand
carved. There is a fireplace,
made according to Mrs. Dur.
nell's own plan, with IA chimney
that draws even though she hah
to stand by the mason as he WAS
building it and insist that he
build it as she directed. There
are pictures and bits of china,
and there are books and papers
everywhere the daily paper
and the latest novel mingling in
pleasant companionslip with
farm papers and bulletins.
Mrs. Durnell says she never
has a dull moment, because
farming is so interesting. And
one can understand the reason
why, after being with her IN the
house and going around witt
her over the farm.
The whole place is carefully
planned for beauty, as well as
profit. The house is set on
rise of ground, which adds mucl
to it's appearance and at tho
same time viii allow of the
whole place being overlooked as
it can all be seen from the from
porch and windows. just soutt
of the house is the old spring
where marching bands Ct sold
iers used to drink in war time.
Not far away is the sink hole
a place where the rock shell 0.
the hills is crushed IN, making ;
cup-shaped hollow in the grounC
which gathers the water from
surrounding hills when it rains
This w4ter pou.s down through
a crack in the rock, sometime:
as large around as a barrel il
volume. to flow through tn,
crevices and caverns of the hills
emerging later, when purified
by it's journey; and flowing
away in springs and creeks Il
join the waters of the Gasconade
Mrs. Durnell has made a beau
tiful home out of a rough, wilt
piece of land and a wornou
field, and she now feels that it is
established on a permanent pay
ing basis. The fruit and gar
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ing of linotype machines-these are. the
things that strike the visitor when he
enters the governments immense pub
fishing house.
The infinite detail of the government
printing offlce-for that is the official
title of the publishing establishment
comes afterward. 1t is only after the
confusion of first impressions has
cleared away that the complexity of
the public printers problems are ap-
parent Perfect system, knowledge
of arrangement SO that the minimum
Of time may be lost in transporta-
ton. and individual efficiency are some
of the requirements
What publishing house, putting out
hundreds OF new editions in all sorts
of elaborate bindings, and running a
newspaper on the side, would not feel
that it was straining itself? That is
what the governments printery is do
ing. An insight into the immensity of
the work Is cleaned from the figures
of the post office showing that APP
prox1mately 95 per cent of the total
weight OF mail disposed of in Wash
ington is mailed under a government
frank.
Perhaps the rush work of the print
cry IS the most spectacular. Congress
must have its Congressional Record
every morning as regularly as the
suburbanite must have his newspaper,
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her two plump, pretty sons. Marcia re-
membered that Mrs. Smith had said knee
dandling was terribly unhealthy for the
child. and Marcia asked Mrs. Henning' s
opinion.
To dandle baby on your knee?''
Mrs. Henning repeated. We'll, Froebel
There came an interruption. Two
black-stockinged legs seemed to shoot
into the room, followed by two brown
legs. Two heads, one yellow, and one
black. were mingled in screaming con-
fusion. Two blue serge dresses were
wound together.
Dora. Esther" rebuked Mrs. Hen
ming. What's the natter
Dora knocked me down and kicked me
in the stomach walled Esther.
Didn't. You done it. l amt a story
teller"
Children! Such language" cried Mrs.
Henning. She rose, led them from the
room. and then Marcia. listening. heard
the sound of a spanking hand.
Mrs. Henning returned in confusion
Her face was flushed. She would not meet
Mareia's Marcia eye. II am SO ashamed. she
understand. After all that every one
says about your we'll behaved children.
But ! can't keep mine good all the time.
sometimes they behave simply angelically-
And then they have a streak"
Marcia gazed at her in amazement. OF
course her children were tolerably good.
They had learned to be. She had been
too busy to make them good by rule, SO
she had simply tried not to scold too
much. Although it had been hard. when
things went wrong and Fred was more
than usually discouraged,
I've tried every method" Mrs. Hen
ming said. discouragingly. First one
kind one week and another the next, the
same as my mother did. And what
method do you use?" she asked. eagerly.
"Tll try it: l don't care how much both
er it is"
81 never used any," Marcia confessed.
honestly. Her face was crimson. but
under her confusion ran great pity for
the woman before her. II never had
time. So I just gave them the best l
could in the way of food and clothes and
tried to keep them happy"
1t was Mrs. Henning's turn to blush.
DO you know" she said. dolefully, Il
never thought G that"
A month after Fred said. curiously:
wouldn't like 1t here! You said the
women were different and you didn't
seem to measure up to their standards"
Marcia blushed. Her husband had met
nine women leaving the house. and one
had said: II don't care what her method
is. 1t works"
You see I was SO busy all those
years" She paused.
Yes" said Fred. puzzled.
well. i didn't have time to know"
Know what?"
..To know how much I KNEW" she
laughed.
CTHE ENDJ
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Smokeless Chimneys.

FROM tne engineering Magazine.
A smokeless chimney may be produced
by flooding the fire with air. but this en-
tails a heavy increase in the chimney
loss with a consequent waste of coal.
This does not mean that il pays to make
smoke. although for given furnace and
set of conditions ii may be so. In other
words. there are cases when the losses
due to incomplete combustion as indi-
Gated by smoke may be less than the
losses due to the admission OF sufficient
air to kill the smoke. This is the
weak point of many so-called smoke con-
sumers." The science of the matter lies
in the production of perfect combustion.
which is necessarily smokeless and which
at the same time involves a correct pro-
portioning neither an excess nor de-
ticiency) of air TO the fuel. The produc-
ton of such combustion is not entirely
controlled by the simple matter of air
admission. but to great an extent by
the intelligent design of the furnace IT.
self This involves the maintenance OF
high temperature and the thorough mix
ing of the air with the combustion gases
and with the carbon. and constitutes a
science in itself.
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nature to take care of a child's car
riage. Marcia stared in puzzlement.
Then a slow red came over her face.
Marcia bought underwaists, heretofore,
at bargain counters. And beyond see
ing that buttons and buttonholes were
| tolerably stout she had not fretted over
them. And a child's carriage-well.
Marcia for moment thought that Mrs.
cia!
She looked wistfully at Mrs. Henning,
slim, proud faced woman who went
by occasionally in limousine with three
slim, naughty children beside her. Mrs.
Henntng called once on Marcia. 1t was
an uncomfortable period of time Mrs.
Henning almost was taciturn. Marcia
was i'll at ease Sometimes she feared
that she didn't ft in with these busy.
brainy. planning women who devoted
SO much thought to their children s
welfare. Poor Marcia sometimes wished
she would forget her children for half
loved them. but somehow 1t had been
easier just to be poor and manage
poorly than to be comfortably fixed and
have to take So much thought.
Mrs. Henning, SO the other women
told her had been reared along scien-
t1hc lines. Her mother knew Froebel
by. heart. knew calorics and the first
principles pr lies Of mr. moral suasion and the
been regarded as a model Of what a
properly reared child wouldSbe.
So 1t was with doubt and misgivings
that Marcia prepared to return Mrs
Henning's call. She wouldn't have re-
turned 1t at all. but that would have
been discourteous. The night before
III. aged six. asked inquisitively,
w hat are you reading, mother?"
Marcia blushed and invountarily put
a hand to cover the title page; as, though
small. Lily could read. What is it?''
asked Fred. curiously. stopping in a furi-
Gus knee bobbing which had as its OBJ
1ect the amusement of Fred, jr., aged
four.
''Mone-no, Montesorri," Marcia stum-
blingly pronounced. 1T is about develop
ing children.
Fred was mildly amused. "Oh. don't
train 'em into their graves he laughed
II never knew you went in for that
Marcia" he said, admiringly.
Marcia sighed. II the children hadn't
been listening she would have told him
that she was merely reading up to be
able to converse with Mrs. Henning. and
that she knew she couldn't pronounce the
name right II she practiced all night
And the next day, with a self-conscious
pink in her cheeks that was becoming.
although she was far too miserable to
realize 1t, she went to call on Mrs. Hen
ming.
Mrs. Henning received her in a pretty
rose and green parlor and they chatted
amicably about the weather and the con-
dition Of the country. touching on politics.
At least Mrs. Henning did. Marcia
nodded assent. Inevitably their talk got
to their children. The topic was has
tened by the sight Of Mrs. Smith with
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be laundered it is turned over to one of
these firms or individuals who make
business of such work. and the process
is more or less a secret one The leaves
are removed from the binding and each
is washed and treated separtely. Soap
and water are the prime elements used
in cleaning books and manuscripts. The
finish to the paper upon which books
are printed is given an application of
size or to use more familiar term
it is starched to make it stiff. Repeated
handling wears off tie finish just as the
wearing of garment that is crisply
ironed causes it to become rumpled.
When the smooth surface is rubbed UP
the paper gets soft and porous and alb
serbs dirt and grease readily.
Ink stains are usually removed by hot
size or hot water with a little alum in
it; but the process is delicate one and
frequently requires the application of
chemicals, permanganate of potash being
used IN solution. For the removal Of
grease; the book !aundress pours ether
over the spot and applies a warm iron
TO 1t over a piece of blotting paper.
When the volume is thoroughly cleansed
II Is gwen coat of size which serves
the purpose OF starch and restores the
leaves to their original crispness, after
which it is ironed, thus completing the
laundering of the volume. 1t is at this
point that the book is ready for the
bindery.
"A part of the repair work of the book
10 tollcS III ODllIcEaIlUR HOlcS
made by bookworms. This is done by
boiling old paper into pulp in hot size
and applying the plaster to the pune
tured leaves. 1t is a most difficult and
unsatisfactory operation. and one that
Is seldom attempted excepting in the
case OF books printed on heavy paper.
Rare and valuable books which have
been acquired by gifts or purchased by
the library frequently have pages or
parts of pages missing. When 1t Is
possible to do the missing parts are
copied from perfect volumes obtained
by loan from other libraries. Sometimes
in the case of inconabula, books and
manuscripts printed prior to the six
teenth century, and in some later vol
umes 1t is impossible to match the old
type exactly. but an effort is made to
nave the supplied portion as nearly
identical with the original volume as Is
possible. When a leaf Is simply torn 1t
is mended by the application of trans
parent tissue.
Occasionally an old book 10 so price,
less that it is taken apart and each
sheet mounted separately on leaves OF
heavy paper much larger than that OF
the original volume. and where cor
ner or part of a leaf is torn away the
passage is printed on the mount Of the
page preceding that of the missing
part.
Most of the old books have been
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the best magazines in the country. 1t
is the boast of the photo-engraving de-
partment that any picture in G. P. O..
publication can be rephotographed and
reproduced effectively. And this is one
of the tests of good engravings.
The Congressional Directory. volume
bound sometimes .in green, sometimes in
blue and sometimes in red, is one of the
most pretentious Of all the undertakings
which come under the head of routines.
In this volume are practically all the
general statistics relating to the three
branches of the government, including
the biographies Of the President. his
cabinet and members of Congress. An
error in a single date relating to the
happenings in the lives of any Of those
men would mean a storm of criticism as
! soon as the book came from the press.
Consequently the proofreaders go over
the statistics in this volume many times
SO that they are assured that the book
and the copy" tally absolutely.
Talking with one of the workmen in the
bindery department brought out view
which many employees hold regarding the
reason for the remarkable efficiency
shown in Uncle Sans printery.
THE wages are better" he said. land
the conditions in the building are much
better than would be found in a private
publishing house. There is spirit of
cooperation among the men. due largely
to the fact that they have confidence in
the higher officials and are not afraid
that politics will make them lose out"
Certainly the statement concerning the
conditions under which the men work is
absolutely true. Any newspaper in the
country could learn things if it studied
the government printing Office for
while. The main corridors are things of
beauty, the rooms are wide and on the
warmest day the employees in most OF
the departments don't seem to suffer at
all. OF course. in the rooms where metal
is cast. heat is essential to the work
Many of the publications which are put
out by the governments publishing house
have regular subscribeA who send in
their money. Notably there are the dip
lomatic and consular reports. which are
Of interest to every big business house in
the country.
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baster. too. was cut down in its youth
by reason Of the fact that the sharp eyes
of its editors anu the reckless freedom of
its own type made the life of every viii
lager burden OF fear lest he any morn
ing face himself in print of the most
damning and explicit character. So.
through the ingenious inventions that
only a boy can muster. these three boys
good" boys their sponsor calls them
pursued a varied and general good time
at the expense OF every live thing in
and roundabout the village where they
lived The whole book is breezy.
laughable account of the boyhood days
from which Judge Shute himself has.
happily. never recovered.
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THEENEN|NCSTOR
HER CHILDREN.
Copyright, 1914, by W. werner.)

Copyright 1914, by w. Werner)
Marcia had never really had much
time to spend rearing her children till
Fred got a legacy that enabled them
to buy a house and lawn in a suburb
40 close that he could get in to work
every day, and yet having all the in
timacy and sociableness of small
town. And there. from the other
mothers, Marcia learned and was
ashamed.
She was only twenty-four then. The
children had come fast and, as she
explained to herself-she didn't like
to tell any one else-they had rather
awed her, the first especially. The
first was six years old and named Lily.
Marcia hadn't been very old when she
and Fred got married. And Fred
wasn't making enough by one-siNth
for a sensible couple to marry on. And
SO between paying the rent and BUY,
the doctors bills. and making rompers
and little waists and blouses, and
washing and ironing: there wasn't
much time to rear children properly.
shoes are SO expensive-except the
paper soled cheap things, OF which
you have to buy two pair to one OF
good. SO really they are no economy. COM ny
shipping clerk In a wholesale grocery
house, and he frequently had to work
at night. So that evenings. when ne
house quiet for him. Quiet could only
be had by putting the children to bed.
and though Fred said it was hard on
the poor youngsters. Marcia insisted.
Fred's fine gray eyes took on a cob
webby frame Of lines trying to figure
how they could manage. Sometimes
Fred and Marcia figured all evening.
but that was before the legacy camo.
An aunt of Fred's died and left him a
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realistic writers of Scandinavia. novel
ist who rounds into drama the common
things, the. big and revealing common
things. that pass before his searching and
divining eyes. This story is a circum-
stantial picture of the social life Of
Christiania. By way of little group Of
friends-artists of one sort or another
the life of the city. in its meanings and
implications as we'll as in its appear
ances. is set out with vividness and vigor.
The atmosphere of this story is, to be
sure. local: an atmosphere of Norwegian
simplicity and austerity. But the human
element, in its nature and in it's idiosyn-
crasies, in its intertwined consistencies
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the reader knows enough to wish to know
vastly more. Mr.. Murphy is the kind of
good traveller who tells not only what he
sees. but he is the kind that evokes also
much Of the past in which many of these
immemorial places of Europe lie stepped
Splendid pictures-fine in choice and nota-
bly, good in production-go along with this
travel story. and maps help one to recon-
struct the journey for himself. A delight
full book for summer travel at home
SHALLOW SOIL. BY Knut Hamsun.
Translated from the Norwegian by
Carl Christian Hyllested. New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons Washing
ton: Woodward Il Lothrop.
knut Hamsun is one of the great
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total figure out correctly when the
Record makes it's appearance next
morning. All of this must be done
quickly, too. During the long night
sessions the copy keeps coming in
steadily. and sometimes the sun rises
before the last page is reached. Then
the pages are rushed to the bindery,
where they are put together. At noon
the next day the congressman has his
copy.
Some of the members make their own
changes. either in the stenographic re-
production of their efforts or after the
proofs have been struck. In such
cases nothing is changed, not even
applause Continued applause" PRO
longed applause" after some of their
best beloved sayings.
This Is the speed of the government
printing office. There are other parts
of the building where the most deli
cate work in bookbinding is accom-
plished. where complex machines are
devised to insure absolute accuracy
such as Is required by scientific bu-
reaus. One room on the sixth floor is
set aside for the work of correcting
copy, and it is reminiscent of the by
gone days, before the linotype super
seded the human typesetter Here are
the old-fashioned boxes, slanting to-
ward peak and containing the alpha
bet in a variety of styles. Most Of
the employees are veterans of the print
ing art-men who can set type with
their eyes shut.
There are several woman printers too.
The nestor of all the printers is an old
man with long white whiskers. and these
he ties up with a string in order that
they may not wander through the type.
nately proud of their regulations of ac-
curacy.
There isn't a publishing house in the
country, declared one man. that
wouldn't give almost anything to have the
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riase with the son Of a proud English
lord. in whose noble family she became
an object of something like alteration
through her wholly irresistible graces of
mind and person. The discovery of her
father in the family physician. a man of
great professional distinction and social
power. and, finally, the belated union of
her father and mother in lawful wedlock.
create a situation SO much at odds with
the common practice of a righteous world
toward this chiefest of all s1ns-the sin
of being an illegitimate child-that ones
enjoyment of this well-managed story Is
shaded off a bit through his conviction
that under no circumstances in life would
this good world permit itself to love and
favor a child of such glaring indescre-
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LAUNDERING LITERATURE FOR
THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

EHCMlGAIED books, books that have
gone through the process of being
starched, ironed and mended. with
thelr stlHened old backs rubbed and mas
sased ipto a semblance of the elasticity
OF their youth and a fraction of the
strength of their prime are the kinds of
books that occupy honored places on
the shelves of the Library of Congress
as a part of its many gift collections.
The books given to the library come
from various quarters of the world some
OF them, indeed, have been disinterred
from the very bowels of the earth itself.
For example. take the Schiff collection,
or that part of it which was gathered
through the efforts of Ephriam Deinard
IN the Holy Land an unusually fine COL
lection of Hebraica, rare parchments,
manuscripts and religious works. Some
of them have been resurrected from
graves where centuries before they had
been tremendously buried. Other works
in the collection come from vaults in the
synogogues of Jerusalem and adjacent
cities, and their plight was such that i'll
some cases heroic treatment was neces-
sary to restore them to a condition where
they could be handled.
FIRST of all, such a collection must nee
essarily be fumigated. Damp tombs and
musty walls leave their marks. When
q collection is being fumigated. the books
are set on end in rows shelves and
left partly opened. SO that the fumes
may penetrate to the binding. After they
are subjected to sulphurous odors for a
few Gays they are ready for more
Intimate process of cleansing and re-
pairing.
The enemies of books are time. dust.
stains. mildew rough handling. finger
marks and bookworms. To put manu-
script into condition for use by the pub
lie the marks of the enemy OF the vol
ume must be obliterated. and sometimes
IT is necessary to make book over al
most in its entirety. An old tome can
never be said to be actually rejuvenated,
but II can be washed, mended and re-
bound. so that its usefulness to the read
er is just as potent as in the days or
its youth.
The Library of Congress has well
equipped bindery under the direction of
Arthur r. kimball: but the actual proc
esS of laundering literature is the work
of private individuals and firms. rather
than of fastidious Uncle Samuel. who
refuses to conduct laundry for any
paper commodity other than United
States currency.
When a book in collection needs to