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Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
entrance.
The Single Door.

outside entrance.
The Single Door.
The home has but one entrance
which would be insufficient in town
house and it may be in this one; but
another door can be gotten into the
plan only by a sacrifice of wall and
floor space, which can not be spared
or by increasing the size and cost OF
the house, which in connection with
this problem can not be done. If a
door is substituted for one of the three
windows in the south end of the liv-
ing room, the best part of the room
will be ruined. Moving the entrance
door to the south side of the porch
would not only restrict the uses OF
the porch, but necessitate an outside
door in the kitchen, which, in turn
would necessitate a corresponding in
crease in the floor and wall space of
the kitchen. If the door that opens
from living room to porch were
moved farther from the fireplace, val
liable floor and wall space in both
room and porch would be sacrificed.
These little details affect the size of
rooms and of the building, and there
fore the cost. They are sometimes
and of necessity, influenced more by
economy than by convenience; but by
careful study they may often be made
consistent with both. 1t is economical
for instance, to have but one outside
entrance to this house. With this en-
trance nearest the barns and the en-
trance from the highway and treated
as it is with the simple and inexpen-
sive pergola and benches, which sep
arate the lawn and the back yard, il
should serve every purpose of front
door and as well, also, kitchen door
In many 10 and IL room farmhouses
with three or four outside doors only
one door is much used, and that one
is either in or near the kitchen.
Notwithstanding the simplicity anC
the playhouse appearance of the build
ing suggested by the department, il
provides more disable space for the
daily activities of the family thar
many larger houses. 1t is more con
venient for a small family, more com.
Portable, healthful, and delightful
than many farmhouses costing twice
as much.
The Kitchen.
Very few residences of any size OF
cost have a kitchen more pleasantly
located, better lighted and ventilated
and more conveniently arranged thar
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
Fifty Cents Please.

1t seems sometimes that about the
only literary efforts that pay good
money nowadays is writing perscrip-
tions for the thirsty in local option
towns.
II is said that certain young lady
at Sheridan would like to have white
hands and one day while they had
company asked the advice of the
guests: Soak them in dishwater three
times day." was the reply. The girl
left the piano and sticking her head
into the kitchen where her mother was
washing dishes, said, "Ma, l wish you
would save the dishwater when you
get through"
They are trying to disbar a Saginaw
attorney for diverting $1,000. But
why him alone?
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
By J. w. Lafferty,

The merchant who tries to make
himself believe that he can not afford
to advertise makes a serious mistake,
because he is treating his advertising
as a non-productive expense, when in
fact it is the means through which he
CAN afford not only IT'S cost but
enables him to develop his business
rather than simply attend to it.
Ask any really successful man his
secret and his answer is "Advertis-
ing" Ask him the secret of Advertis-
ing and the answer is "Good Copy"
Ask the secret of good copy and there
is no answer that will adequately suit
everybody. Good copy is like a good
salesman; it can not be sIerotyped in
it's message nor wild in its argument.
l have before me an advertisement
of a shoe dealer in which the display
states in bold fearless looking type:
"Best $500 Shoes Ever Made-ask
the people who wear them" The pro-
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
"THE SINGLE TOP TRAIL
By FRED ID. KEISTER.

You're bloomin' lively visitor and
| am glad you're here, although l
can't believe your talk the way l did
last year; then your siren song en-
raped me, and your blossoms bright
l took, and though the snow was two
feet deep, my heart sang like a brook.
Twas springtime, gentleannie, and
the posies that l knew in your hands
were gorgeous, although they never
grew. Yes, once beneath your mystic
spell, all else is lost in fog; that's
why | pass you up this year-you
flower catalogue.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

There are farmers wives who raise
turkeys, chickens and ducks and make
butter the year around and who don't
even have bit Of money they can call
their own. Often one of the most ur-
gent duties of the housewife is max
ing dairy butter and preparing it for
market. The modern creamery was
instituted to relieve the farmers wife
of this burden and it isn't fair to her
TO not take advantage of the oppor-
tunity to make her work less. Don't
worry about her keeping busy. She
has enough other work to do.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

1t is a mighty easy thing for one
person to advise another to be kind
to his cows so that they will give lots
of milk. 1t is sometimes quite an
other thing to follow out such advice.
That person knows best who has tried
to milk a kicking heifer on a hot even
ing in fy-time. Of course there is
nothing to prevent being kind to the
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
Thoughts for the Dairymen

The popular and probably the best
way to improve the dairy herd is to
inject better blood by purchasing a
good sire. A more expensive way is
to buy the cows. Under the first
method it is only necessary to pur-
chase &c bull.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

Perhaps the majority of men are
only careless in this respect and don't
appreciate the fact that the good wife
on the farm is overwhelmed just be-
cause she doesn't complain. The less
she complains the more concerned the
man of the house should be about her
welfare. Patience is virtue peculiar
to women and particularly farmers
wives.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

porch will be in demand also as a
dining porch, sitting porch, sleeping
porch, and playroom. It's uses and the
comfort of the house in winter may
still further be increased by putting
in porch sash and a solid door.
The Living Room.
The living room is large enough for
the longest dining table that harvest
days will ever require and, with its
two routes to the kitchen, it is un-
usually convenient for feeding a large
number of workmen. With tribe
windows on the south and two on the
north, a screened porch on the east,
and an alcove bedroom on the west,
it is as pleasant a dining and sitting
room as a $4,000 house can afford.
and with a glowing fire in the hearth,
it may be as comfortable and as cheer
full in winter as steam-heated man.
sion.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
Ashamed of His Bedfelow.

Over at Matherton one of the boys
got thanked" uD the other day and
becoming sleepy lay down in the gut
ter by the side of a pig and went to
sleep. The village postmaster on his
way home to dinner saw the strange
pair and remarked: "a man is known
by the company he keeps" And the
four-footed hog got up and walked
away.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

A mans work is from sun to sun,
but a woman's work is never done.
This is especially true on the farm,
where a multitude of duties seem to
await the good housewife. Duties
that are often trying and too often
unappreciated by the men folks.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

When a man is kind to his family
he will make a success of the dairy
business and why this connection? 1t
lies in the fact that the man with a
kind disposition is most successful Elm
handling cows.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

1t is claimed that nice clover hay
is worth as much pound for pound for
feeding calves as whole milk.
Don't buy hand separator just be-
cause it is cheap. Remember that it
has TO separate the dollars for you
and you want all of them.
It is a mighty poor cow that will
not treat you well if you treat her
well.
When the dairy farmers of neigh
borhood begin buying pure bred bulls
it augers well for the dairy business
in that community.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21
Helps For Advertisers
By J. w. Lafery Grand Rapids Michigan
Grand Rapids, Michigan.


verbal feminine "Why ?" literally ex-
plodes all force of ads like this. Space
does not permit further criticism but
you could keep this dealer busy a,
swering questions, all of which couM
have been avoided had he given a
logical reason for making this state
ment The dealer evidently believed
what he wrote, but he forgot that the
public, not having inside information,
could not take this bold statement
seriously; certainly he never bought
that line on such an argument.
Good copy is never prepared hur-
riedly even though it may be made up
of only two or three words. Briefness
is essential to drive home the full
power of an advertisement and the
fact that a whole story is told in a
few words is evidence of the thought
full study back of it. Ask someone to
describe a nationally advertised arti-
Gle and you get an answer in an aver
age of twenty words; the advertiser
has taught us to describe his product
in his own brief language.
Reference is often made in this col
umn to the National Advertisers; the
purpose being to quote as examples
the ads that are familiar to all who
read and further-for the purpose of
demonstrating that which can be done
through the National Publicity Me-
diums can be done locally through TIM
medium of your home paper.
The good advertiser never fOrgets
that his ad must reflect the quality of
the article advertised and this he
drives home with the consciousness
that reDetition never tires as much as
it emphasizes.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

Some farmers when looking for a
market for their cream weigh the add
vantages of making and selling but
ter against the advantages of a
creamery. The look only at the dol
lars and cents side and even then, of
course, they generally decide in favor
of the creamery. But there is another
side to the proposition that they ought
to look at.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

IT'S better to have tried and lost
than not to have tried at all. The
man who tries hard to make sue
cess of his work accomplishes much
even though he fails.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

Get in the habit of using cement on
the farm. 1t is cheap and efficient.
Have a small supply on hand all the
time for patching floors, tanks, walks,
etc. 1t is easy to use and comes in
very handy for variety of uses.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

Up in the northern part of the STATE
some of the boys still refer to them
selves as eye editor"
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

heifer-nothing except human nature
and human nature always seems to
find some expression most easily UNI
der such circumstances.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

A Mississippi girl rs suing a man for
$4,000 for having taken a kiss with
out permission. If that rate were to
be established we know of a gent in
Carson City that is $685., 900 in debt
right now.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

Metropolitan papers speak of T. !,
ladies at a swell function as being
well dressed. Undressed would be
better.
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

A woman down at Detroit is suing
her husband because he struck her
with a club. Fie! Supposing he had
hit her with an old-fashioned soda
biscuit?
Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1914-03-21

Some Solemn Moments in History.
Locking Mayor Fred Green, Of
Ionia, out of the convention ball at
Bay City.
The American baseball players
meeting King Geo.
The killing Of Mr.. Benton.
William Alden putting the Span
iards to rout with his umbrella.
Organizing the Federal league.
The -Diedrichs debate.
Making a goat Of Joe u. Smith.
Nominating Mr.. Roosevelt for a
third term.
Reorganizing the Pere Marquette
railroad.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24
WORK NECESSARY To
Be TENNIS CHAMPION
Girl Tells Of Training Months
For a Single Match.

New York.-It is not an easy thing
for a girl TO win tennis championship.
But the hardest work is not done
around the nets while the contest is
actually ON; it is keeping in physical
condition for such a match.
Miss Clare Cassel of this city, nation
al indoor tennis doubles champion. has
compiled twelve rules which. she de
clares, must be rigidly adhered to be-
fore one can hope TO win success as a
tennis player They are: First, no golf;
second, no candy; third. no dancing;
fourth, no cigarettes; fifth, no reading
at night; sixth, no wine or cocktails;
seventh, no swimming on match days;
eighth, massage after each days play;
ninth, luncheon on glass of milk and
sandwich; tenth, plenty of rallying
exercise before each match; eleventh.
drinking nothing during a match eX-
cept barley water; twelfth. bed at 10
p. m. and nine full hours undisturbed
sleep.
Miss Cassel in telling of the work
necessary to keep in condition and the
strength necessary for a game says:
mo matter how primed man really
| is. a five set match finds him all in.
He has to play harder to win-or lose
than any man who goes through nine
1 innings of baseball. A championship
match with the players even and the
score often running to deuce games
and deuce sets will find both men ut
terly exhausted at the end of the play.
1t makes many more demands on the
players than two halves OF varsity
football.
And il tennis means this for men
perhaps one may imagine what il
means for women and girls. II you
play to win matches. If you long for
the brackets which proclaim you a
champion of your club or your county
or your state. you must be ready to be
grueled week in and week out, for ten
mis- of that class is a grueling game.
Consider the girls and young mar
ried women who follow the tourna
ments from place to place all the live
long season. II means FIVE months o
training and self denial. five months o
the hardest kind of work from Jun,
through October. And then they mus
play indoors at least twice a week al
winter long if they would keep IL
| form"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24
A "cRUsoEY IN LAKE ERIE.
Had Been Msrooned by Stranger and
Left Without Food.


Middle Bass Island, O.-That he was
taken to Middle Sister island, Lake
Erie, three weeks ago by a man who
said he owned the place and who left
him food enough to last week, but
who never returned, is the story told
by Henry Adair. fifty, who says he
lives in Detroit, brought here by mem
bers of a fishing party who rescued
him in what appears was the nick of
time.
Members of the party fishing in Lake
Erie off Middle Sister island, isolated
near the Canadian line seventeen miles
from here, were attracted by the fran
tic waving of shirt Drawing closer,
they discovered Adair. He was enact
ated and starving. All he had left of
his store of food was a few crusts of
bread.
Adair told his rescuers that man
accosted him in Detroit and asked If
ne wanted employment. He said he
was to have been employed to look
after the premises, although he found
on arriving on the island there was
practically nothing to look after.
His scanty food supply was eked out
with CLAIMS he found in the sand His
days he spent trying to signal hell
from passing boats.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24
WESTMINSTER WEST.

Berniee Holden IS working for Mrs.
Bert OrIhsby.
Mrs. Susan Houghton received news
Of the death of her sister in Dover, r..
H., last week
Miss Bertha and Miss Ethel Kerr Of
Bellows Falls spent Sunday at the home
Of their father, A. d. Kerr.
Carrie IIoughton and Henry Harlow,
students in the Brattleuoro high school,
are at home for the summer.
The ladies aid society met in the
church vestry Thursday afternoon
Mrs. Eliza Phillips entertained.
Z. G, Butterfeld and John Hitch
cock are at work in Westminster
building cement bridge over a stream
south of the village.
Hugh Wellman spent Sunday at tn,
homo Of his mother, Mrs. Rachel Well
man. Miss Mary Goodhue of North
field Mimi, is a guest at Mrs. Well
man :.
Miss Olive Hall came home from
| AIiddleburv college Saturday for tn,
summer vacation. She viii assist Mis-
Susie Gorham with her work the com
| ing summer.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24

make this Kentucky Legislation valid
unless the Supreme Court should at
some later day say that the much
talked-of amendment is not constitu-
tional.
Among the interesting decisions of
lesser Importance was one establishing
the validity of vows of poverty in the
Catholic orders Another decided that
a person travelling on a pass could col
leet no damages from railroad in case
of injuries.
The Louisiana sugar interests lost in
their plea to restrain the treasury de-
partment from granting to Cuban sugar
the 20 per cent differential provided by
treaty, in addition to the new reduced
rates of the tariff law.
Still another, and very peculiar de
cision, was one upholding the validity
of the state statute under which tn,
Supreme. Court of Tennessee held tha-
former slaves had no Unbeatable bloc,
and could not inherit property unde
the ordinary rules of kinship.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24
Sensible Graduates.
Manchester Union.)

Typical of the growing tendency to
ward general democracy and common
sense in the matter of graduation
gowns was the plan adopted by the
2l young women who received their
diplomas last week from Lyndon In
stitute, at Lyndon, Vt, the school which
Theodore n. Vail has made one of the
we'll known agricultural and industrial
educational institutions of New Eng
land 1t had been agreed in advance,
by the young women that none of them
should wear graduation gown exceed
ing in cost $50. Not one of them. it
is said, reached that hmif The gowns
were of white batiste, and each was
made by its wearer One of the crea-
tions is said to have cost only $l.06
In these modest and sensible home
made gowns the young women listened
to addresses by President Lowell of
Harvard, Major Henry l.. Higginson of
Boston, and Commissioner of Agricul-
ture L. S. Brigham of Vermont; and
| received their diplomas from the hands
of Theodore \. Vail himself. Not one
of them had occasion to feel the slight
est sense of humiliation at any real or
/ ina ginary inferiOrity of her dress az
compared with those worn by her class
mates. All were in the height of fash
| ion-for what, after all is fashion, but
a custom formally or tacitly agreed
upon?
And there is no valid reason to doubt
that these u young women graduates
looked as charmingly attractive in
their inexpensive gowns as would have
been the case if they had been attired
in more costly costumes. In the last
analysis, the beauty of dress lies not
so much in its monetary cost as in the
taste with which it is made and worn
Neatness is not necessarily mat
: ter of dollars and cents. 1t is not un
!, likely that the distinguished gentle
!, men who participated in the gradua
tion ceremonies at Lyndon institut,
last week experienced sense of relic
at the simple gowns worn by the youn;
, women graduates. The scene must hav
| been happily significant to men of thei
g intellig ence. Time was when the cir
valedictorian or salutatorian of a grad
uating class, the girl who, perhaps, ha
r led all her mates in scholarship froT
r the beginning of the course, might hav
: been overcome with diffidence, wit
needless but unconquerable shame, be
cause at the crowning point of he
! school career she could not wear as e1
e pensive clothes as some of her les
d talented classmates wore. That time
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24

President Elliott of the New Haven
road has written of the general rail
road situation for a western newspa-
per, in which he shows that the in
crease in wages per man and the de-
crease in railroad rates on the New
Haven road compared with ten years
ago alone account for $9,000,000 less
net earnings. This amounts to 81 per
cent upon the $157 ,00O,0 900 New Haven
stock outstanding. In other words the
New Haven railroad should be paying
per cent dividend today but for in
creased wages and decreased rates, not
withstanding the $l60,000,000 it has
spent the past 10 years in improving
its transportation facilities over the
whole system between New York and
Boston, or the $40,O00,000 it has in
vested in New York Westchester &
Boston, in the hope of eventually Sc
curing new terminal in Manhattan
Island or the $4,000, 900 it invested il
trolleys before they became unprofita
bic. Mr. Elliott further says: There
| have been three r S in the railroa,
business in the last 30 years = raisin.
wages, raising taxes and reducin;
rates. These three r s cannot 90 on
there will not be money enough to foo
the bills.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24
WEST BRATTLEBORO.

Clarence Covey began work Monday
in the Cloverdale store.
Mr.. and Mrs Otis c. Tuttle moved
yesterday from the Chamberlain house
to the house owned by Mr.. Whitaker
in Centreville.
Mrs. l.. H. Turner came from New
York yesterday and went to her sum
mer home on Ames hill to remain
through the summer.
Miss Jean Blodgett, who has been i'll
and unable to be at her work at the
Office of the Durham Brothers Co, is
out again.
Watson French is making several inn
provements aud repairs about his house
and premises, David Cooley doing the
work.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Williams Of
Dummerston were visitors the first of
the week with their daughter, Mrs.
Wallace Harris.
Mrs. Cornwall of Saratoga, n Y,
who brought her daughter, Miss Au-
| irey Cornwall, here to be operated up
on, will return to her home today. Miss
Cornwall is doing well.
William Squires, Miss j. Reed, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Williams and Mrs
| Emily Goodenough went in Mr.
! Squires 5 automobile to Keene, Win.
chester and Spofford AXE Sunday.
Miss Stella Marsden has returned Il
her home at Bennington. Her nephew
Donald Walker, will remain through
the summer with his brother. Jane.
| Walker, at the home of w. e. Pei
ierin.
Mrs. f. +. Smith of Forest stree
was admitted to the Melrose hospita
Monday for treatment The three
months old son of Mr.. and Mrs. NJ
MastalOr was taken to the hospita
Monday also. Joseph Goulette, stu
dent at Rev. Father Griffin S camp a
Spofford lake, was injured there Tues
day, and was brought to the hospital
The lad had dislocated two ribs an,
received other bruises about the hips
The infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
|. |. Michelman, who had been receiv
ing treatment for her eyes at the hos
pital, left there Sunday.
The school in district No. 10 close
June 10, Robert f., Hescock teacher
The pupils having no absent mark
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-24

There are now six suffrage campaign
states for this fall where up to Mon
day there We're but five. The Mis-
souri, suffragists have the necessary
$4,000 signatures to their petition and
it will go as number Is on the list
of amendments to be voted on in No
vember. The other five states that
will vote on suffrage this fall are Ne.
braska, Montana, Nevada, and North
and South Dakota. The chances OF
Missouri winning are the slimmest OF
the lot for there are tremendous brew
cry interests III the state and natural
~ the breweries are going to fight foI
| their existence.