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The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

cuttings taken from soft wood plants,
but the "bloomers" for the house
should have been slipped and rooted
last May or June. Cuttings taken as
late as September Of the new half
ripened wood Of many ANNALS and
perennials viii make nice house plants
and some Of these should bear flowers
If well cared for.
Hardy bulbs may be planted among
shrubbery, and these win give bloom
at a time when the branches Of the
shrubbery are bare Of foliage lighting
up the grounds wonderfully. The
shrubbery VIII in turn serve to pro
tect the bulb flowers and foliage from
disastrous effects Of early, cold rain
storms and rough spring winds.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

To prevent your window plants from
blooming only on the street side, turn
them occasionally and you viii have
the blooms IN the room as well. Do
not give foliage plants as much light
as for towering plants; keep the ferns
in a shady corner; a north window Is a
good place.
Use as dry material only well rotted
manure. To prepare liquid manure to
be applied only after the ordinary wa
tering has been done, take an ordinary
barrel containing one-half bushel Of
fresh COW dung and if extra strength
be required add a couple Of quarts Of
fresh hen manure and cover with wa
ter.
After it has been fermented thor
oughly the coarse material win all set
tie to the bottom and you may I'll the
barrel With water and the solution is
ready to be applied to your plants.
An application every two weeks is
generally all that is required for most
plants.
For this process sand is generally
used, OF very light soil, as most favor
able for the formation OF new roots.
The geranium Is perhaps the easiest
to begin with and good healthy top
should be selected where wood has
formed Take a sharp knife and cut
below the Joint
Foliage plants are very easily prop
agated, and every woman can do her
own work Of this nature with great
aatisfaction
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

It was several days after arriving
home from the front that the soldier
with the two broken ribs was sitting
up and smoking a cigar when the doc
tor came in.
well, how are you feeling now?
asked the latter.
I've had a stitch in my side all
day" replied the wounded soldier.
That's all right. said the doctor.
1T shows that the bones are knit
ting"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07
satan and the ceruloan Deep.

Satan and the cerulsan Deep.
I'm in a quandary."
What about?"
81 have two invitations to dinner,
and I cant decide"
Which one to aocept?"
mo, which one to refuse. One is
to a home where a young lady has just
come home from piano conserva-
tory, and the other is where a FIVE
year-old boy knows a lot Of recita-
lions. Farm Life.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07
NoveItY.

Were you in the Easter parade?"
mo" replied Mr.. Meekton. Il stood
of and looked on. l kind of enjoyed
seeing Henrietta engaged in a hike
that didn't look like some kind Of a
political procession"
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07
Book Lovers Method.

What q wonderful library. How
did You acquire such g fine collection
Of books?"
"By always buying the sort Of books
that friends never care to borrow
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

No man who has tried to split kim
ding with one believes George Wash
ington chopped down a cherry tree
with his Ratchet
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

AREN'T you going to dress for din
ner. old chap2"
cts impossible, dear fellow. I dis
charged me man this morning. -
Puck.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

A full dress suit enables a $500
clerk to pass himself off for a $1,000
waiter.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

A woman who can't raise children
can often raise Cain.
The hummer. (Houston, Miss.) 1914-19??, 1915-05-07

A man who is pound foolish may not
be penny wise.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-27

he was Chuckllng TO F1IHlSeII
she was, and lonely, had come to re-
alize that
She pitfed the big man without a
woman to take care of him, to take
charge of his life. His coat was al
ways so dusty. She was sure he ate
things that were not good for him.
But since Crashaw had received six
months notice, according to contract,
Miss Thatcher had been worried
about her own future. At 80 a woman
of Miss Thatcher's type finds it diff
ficuIt to start at the bottom again;
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-27

THE DAY-DREAM
s&s So -
BY Eleanor w. Atwater
Copyright by w. G. Chapman.)
Crashaw was leaving Bryant & Co.
and little Miss Thatcher was in de-
spair. She had worked for the big
blond treasurer for nearly six years
and she could not bear the thought
of working for anyone else.
Crashaw was to leave because the
firm wanted cheaper man. Besides
the new management was a little
crooked, at least, in comparison with
the rigid standards of the original
Bryant & Co. The name was to re-
main, but the new blood" was not
blue blood. It was not good blood.
Mrs. Thatcher knew that, as every
one did.
She knew, too, that her position
was shaky. The new people were
dropping the old staff. They had the
new blood" mania, Besides, they
wanted people with the crooked
streak in them. Of course, it does
not matter what a plain stenogra-
piers principles are, but the new peo-
pie did not like the '1adylike" at
mosphere of the correspondence de-
partment. It wanted cheap, sIangy
girls who chewed gum and made mis-
takes, thereby being worth 81 or So
a week only. Miss Thatcher was get
ting $25.
Miss Thatcher was 80. She lived
alone in a boarding house and had
lived there, in the backwater of the
city, since she. came to the metropo-
lis, at %. And, living alone, she had
INDUCED in day-dreams.
Of late months Crashaw had fig
Ured largely in these. The big, sim
pie treasurer was a bachelor. He
was the best man on earth, in Miss
Thatcher's opinion. Because one is
J7oTrv DARING in dow drooT1oc oyyov, q
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-07-27

ton have inspired me with the great
est respect for you. Can I venture to
hope that some day you will honor
me by becoming Mrs. Crashaw?"
why, Mr. Crashaw, l never
dreamed of such a thing. Give me a
little time to think it over. Of course,
1 reciprocate your sentiments, but I
am not sure whether love you"
Nothing like that had happened.
Crashaw's Unfailing courtesy be-
trayed no tender feeling. And Miss
Thatcher, ignorant of life though
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18

Of the empire have expended money
freely to shelter. feed and clothe the
refugees, whose numbers are estimated
as high as 100000 by some who have
studied the matter.
The total cost will exceed SJO,OOOOOO.
Besides this. there must be reckoned
the huge sums involved in abandoned
property and the cost to the railways,
over which free passage was given and
whose operations were for a time
largely confined to removal of unfor-
tunate victims of the war
Besides distributing the refugees,
mainly peasants. throughout the rural
districts of European Russia. the gov
eminent is sending larger and larger
parties as time goes on to central Asia
and to Siberia. where it is allotting
lands to the refugees. it becoming evil
dent that the majority of them will
never return to their former homes, re-
CARELESS of the issue of war. Most of
them have lost all their possessions
except the parcels of clothing they
were able To carry with them.
Some of the worst sufferers in the
war are the Jews of Poland. who are
appealing to their coreligiOnistS and
others for aid.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
SIRES AND SONS.

Henry Clay Frick, the steel magnate.
is an enthusiastic golfer.
W. 81. Truesdale, president Of the
Lackawanna railroad, was once a
freight house clerk.
Secretary Of State Robert Lansing is
known as the best dressed man among
the higher government officials.
President Wilson knows quite a lot
about hymns. He earned extra money
during his earlier years while teacher
at Princeton as consulting editor Of
the famous old hymn book I'm Ex-
celSiS"
General Alexis Kuropatkin, recently
reported as the new chief of the Rus
sian Grenadier corps, is best known to
the world through his poor success as
commander Of Russia'S great Manchu-
rian army in the war with Japan. He
has served in the army from the age Of
sixteen.
General Foch pronounced "Fosh'O.
who has been referred to as the great
est strategiSt in Europe" and who is
credited with winning the battle Of the
Marine and also with preventing the
Germans from breaking through to
Calais. was born on Oct. 2. 1851. He is
a mOuntaineer and a southerner, fiery.
yet quiet and reserved, but a strict dis
ciplinarian.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Pen and Brush.

Nell Brinkley, the artist, has hair
that is so light as to be almost white.
Charles Goddard, co-author with Paul
Dickey of several novels, married Mr..
Dickey's sister. Mr.. Goddard is a
motorcycle enthusiast.
Tom Powers. the cartoonist who is
always making fun of the commuter,
knows what he is. drawing about"
since he sleeps in Stamford, Conn,
and works in New York.
NJ. Cammaerts, the Belgian poet
whose work is now attracting so much
attention. was born in Brussels in
1878 and was educated there. In 1908
he married the English tragedienne
Tita Brand. daughter Of Marie Brema,
and has since then been settled in
England. writing his wonderful poems
and doing tranSlating and other liter
airy work.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
PITH AND POINT.

While might isn't right, it is a fine
Imitation.
Most of the advice we get isn't the
kind we want.
You can take day off, but you can
never put it back.
In this world the self made man has
to be self starter.
1t is very. very hard to be healthy.
wealthy and wise all at the same time
The man who is blinded by conceit Is
likely to recover his sight sooner or
later.
An aeroplane has sunk a submarine
The wasp of war" has become king
fisher.
We are told that all things come to
those who wait, but the world is full
of walters.
Andrew Carnegie and Hetty Green
are each eighty years old. They are
reported as being fairly well cOntented
with their respective lots in life.
Edison predicts that the next war
will be fought with machines. The
present one. however, is hardly what
you could term a hand to hand strug-
gle.
A noted advocate of woman suffrage
admits that she proposed to her hus-
band. How the startled man must
have bluShed as he cOyly stammered
'Y-yesr'
"The war has resulted in an immense
number of important medical discover
ies," says an exchange. At present
Europe does have the appearance of
being the worlds greatest dissecting
room.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
DANES AND DAUGHTERS.

Mrs. W. ]. Bleese has become her
husbands law partner in st. Louis.
Miss Ida Vernon. now seventy-two
years old, has been on the stage for
sixty years.
Emily Frances Lord has retired after
working forty-one years for the Brook
lyn Eagle. She is seventy-seven.
Miss Emily Porter of Philadelphia
has been elected fire chief at Wellesley
college. The post is considered the
highest college honor.
Mary Garden does not believe in
mixing music with matrimony. A sing
er, she says, does not have time to
care for child, especially when she is
jumping around over a continent or
two.
Miss Margaret NJ. Hanna, confiden-
dal secretary to the second secretary
or state. Alvey A. Adee, is intrusted
with the most delicate matters pertain
Ing to the diplomatic service and has
never been known to betray a diplo-
matte secret.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
C2sasG 2S9N lgN A0AGSN
Photo @ by Arnold Genthe.

Photo g by Arnold Genthe.
THE NEW MISTRESS OF THE WHITE HOUSE
tary of state, officiated as first lady"
during his administration. Later when
her husband succeeded Jefferson as
president she added to her popularity
and left behind her the greatest social
traditions of any woman who has ever
presided at the White House.
Another great social favorite was
Harriet Lane, niece of President Bu-
chanan, who as mistress of the White
House was noted for her tact.
In a rather surprising number of in
stances the mistresses of the White
House have been invalids. Mrs. McKin-
lev was never able to be present at
public receptions or other large enter
tainments and when she did appear re-
ceived her guests seated in chair.
Mrs. Taft suffered from i'll health,
and Mrs. Andrew Johnson was like
wise an invalid. and when out Of bed
rarely left her chair. Mrs. Taylor was
a sufferer from chronic nervous de-
preston. Mrs. Pierce was n shrinking
and sensitive woman who had suffer
ed wretched health since childhood.
Mrs. William Henry Harrison was
never in the White House. At the
time of her husbands Inauguration
she was too i'll to make n long jour-
ney across the country. Delicate health
likewise afflicted Mrs. John Quincy
Adams.
Mrs. Fillmore on the same account
made little effort to promote social
festivities.
Mrs. Garfield's life in the White
House was one of seclusion. her taste
for society being but slightly develop
ed. The first Mrs. Benjamin Harrison.
i'll when she entered the White House.
died during her husbands term.
The first wife of President Tyler was
partly paralyzed and died not very
long afteS her husbands term began.
Later, and while still president, he
married quietly in New York girl of
twenty, Julia Gardiner. who was the
daughter of an old friend. He was
flfty-nine years old.
The shadow of the civil war gave
the Lincoln administration little chance
from social point of view. but any
way Mrs. Lincoln was not fitted for
the role of a social leader. Mrs. Grant
also cared little for such role.
The first mistress Of the White
House was Abigail Adams, wife Of
John Adams. the first occupant Of the
White House and second president Of
the United States. She was Of stern
New England stock and presided with
much dignity.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
MISTRESSES OF
THE WHITE HOUSE
An Infinity of Tact Required
of First Lady,"

TN no previous instance ever has a
mistress Of the White House
been a Washington woman. The
present situation therefore is
bit peculiar, especially in view Of the
circumstances that the presidents
bride, for all her descent from Poca-
hontas, has not been hitherto a mem
sooner was her engagement to the
president announced than, as a matter
Of course, the fashionable crowd was
eager to take her up and even to &C
cept her as its leader if she so wished.
Dolly Madison led Washington so
ciety, her reign continuing, indeed, for
a number of years after she left the
White House. So, likewise, did Mrs.
Cleveland. and the same may be said
of Mrs. Roosevelt.
The first lady," if she would lead
the coterie of fashion, must possess in
high degree the special faculty and
must do a great deal of entertaining.
Two White House mistresses have
been pronounced Puritans. Mrs. Hayes
banished wine. Mrs. Polk put stop
to dancing. of which she did not APP
prove on general principles and which
she deemed out of harmony with the
dignity of the presidential mansion.
The most unpopular mistress of the
White House was Mrs. James Monroe,
who had lived much abroad while her
husband was minister to France and
Great Britain. She was full of ideas
acquired at foreign courts, and she es-
tablished a code of rigid etiquette that
made the administration unpopular.
jefferson had two married daughters,
but they could be with him only at
times, and so it came about that Mis-
tress Dolly Madison. wife of his secre-
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Recent Inventions.

Rings instead of balls feature ma
chinery bearings invented by French
man.
To lessen the labor of threading
needles there has been invented a mag
nifying glass with a spring clip to hold
1t On needle.
A projecting lantern to enable a per-
son to copy n picture by hand almost
as accurately as by photography is a
German invention.
A New York woman has invented a
dining table for schools and institu-
lions i'm the form of ring. children be-
ing seated both inside and outside to
save room
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Current Comment.

Winter has this advantage-it brings
nothing to swat or muZzle-Chicago
News.
The most unkindest cut of all seems
to be located at the Columbia
State.
The best motto for the safety first
organizations is soak the speeders."-
Detroit Free Press.
Uncle Sam is confronted by two very
difficult problems to calm the
storm and how to raise the wind.-New
York Sun.
If the problem of diplomatic ETH
quette at Washington becomes much
more acute state dinner at the White
House will have to be carried around
by caterer to the various embassies
and legations.-Boston Transcript.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Echoes of the War.

At this stage of the game an apostle
Of peace seems to be without honor in
any country.-Judge.
Europe has long been noted for
cheapness. Now she has made human
life the cheapest thing.-St. Louis Post
Dispatch.
Another of the belligerents has called
its boys of 1918 to the colors. Europe
makes it but a step from boyhood to
manhood.-Detroit News.
Preparations continue upon a vast
scale for war far into the future.
Armies are being drilled and munitions
collected for next spring.-Cleveland
Leader.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Fashion FriIlS.

That fur rim on shoe tops is not
pretty thing. ladies. 1t breaks the con-
tinuity of line.-Cincinnati Times-Star.
Nothing looks bigger than a big wo-
mans feet incased in those white or
champagne cOlOred boots.-Pittsburgh
Sun.
The latest muffs are about the size of
a sack of tobacco. The remnants of
those big ones of yesteryear are being
cut up into strips to go around shoe
tOps.-Clcveland Plain Dealer.
As We get it from the lady that
knows, a pretty girls reason for wear
ing short skirts and ankle muffs is to
attract attention to the beautiful
feather in her hat.-Springfeld Union.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
The Royal Box.

Prince Umberto is the first heir to
the Italian throne to be destined for
the navy.
The princess of Monaco possesses
jeweled shoes of the seventeenth cen
fury, which she wears one day in the
year.
The car of Russia is great reader.
Among his favOrite authors are Jules
Verne. Scott. Kipling and Robert Louis
Stevenson.
Queen Margherita of Savoy, mother
Of the king of Italy, has written a
patriotic hymn. which is dedicated to
the wounded Italian soldiers.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Town Topics.

1t may be necessary for Chicagoans
who are abroad at night to wear anti
red pepper masks.-Chicago News.
New York thinks she has charms
enough for hoboes without a Hotel de
Gink. She will entertain this winter
with bucksaws.-Boston Herald
Detroit may not have all the advan-
tages of Manhattan, but at least no six
day bicycle races are sprung on the
public of this city.-Detroit News.
One of the Boston papers revives the
ancient statement that heaven is a
place like Boston. But this will not
prevent Cleveland from doing its best
to pass its old rival in 1920.-Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Tales of Cities.

Columbus (OD fire losses dropped
from S295.3S3 in 1910 to S131.562 in
1914.
Madrid is said to be the highest city
in Europe. 1t is built on a mountain
plateau 1900 feet above the level Of
the sea.
Boston has an ordinance limiting the
height of buildings to 125 feet. The
highest building in the city is the Unit
ed States custom house, 325 feet.
New York city has two Jones streets,
one plain" Jones and another Great
Jones. so named to differentiate 1t. the
naming having been In honor Of Chief
Justice David Jones.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Pert Personals.

1t seems cruel to exile Mr. Tod Sloan
to his native land. where race meetings
are few and far between and betting is
under the ban.-New York Sun.
Despite all the irritating things de-
vised by the Cleveland tax officials,
Mr.. Rockefeller remains calm, cool and
Observation-Disclosures Gazette Times.
What's that-Gene Debs not going
to be the Socialist candidate for presi-
dent this time? Why, it won't seem
like real election.-Indianapo News.
Andy Carnegie's picture as an infant
looks so hopelessly pious that we can't
refrain from congratulating him on
what he grew up not to be.-Washing
ton Post.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
Train and Track.

Venezuela's twelve railways have 534
miles of trackage.
All steel cars run by trolley now be-
tween New York and Boston.
Railway guards in Germany have
since the outbreak of war been re-
placed by $500 women.
There is an electric railway ten miles
long in south Tirol which is operated
entirely by adhesion, though the maxi
mum gradient is e. per 100.
To save locomotive enginemen in
wrecks a Texan has invented appara-
tus that when a lever is pulled drops
them into heavy steel caissons, at the
same time shutting off steam and ap-
plying brakes.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18

ADMIRAL JELLIcoE AND FLAGSHIP.
est naval positions in the world. 1t is
Great Britain's Kiel canal and Will
helmShaven all in one. The great fea-
ture about this base is its inaccessible
ity. The harbor is practically land
locked, broad and deep. 1t has a per-
feet bottom for an anchorage. and its
entrances are naturally deep. They
are narrow and crooked. but easy to
navigate.
Only the commander in chiefs flag
which she flies distinguishes the flag
ship. which is in the center of the fleet,
from the rest of the gray fighters. Sir
John Jellicoe takes his exercise and his
holidays pacing the quarterback. He
never leaves the feet, even for few
hours. The commander in chief is the
one man who must not be absent if the
German fleet should come out.
The broad ax. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1895-19??, 1915-12-18
BRIGHT BRIEFS.

The best way to get a living is to
earn it.
1t is big fault in one to look for lit
tie faults in others.
To err is human; to shift the RESPONSE
bility on somebody else-ditto.
It's absurd to worry about things you
can help or the things you can't.
Much of the war news is ranking
among the most popular fiction Of the
day.
There is no mystery about this being
the wOman's age, but the age of wo-
man is still Il secret.
An easy way to get reputation as a
good fellow is to starve your family
and treat your friends.
You never can tell. The fellow who
always has the hammer out is seldom
the hrSt to nail lie.
Hard luck is generally the name peo-
pie give to the thing that happens when
they have been acting foolish.
The doctors tell us that we have colds
because we live in houses Well, what
would we have if we lived in barns?
More OF the horrors of war? The
capitol watchmen at Washington now
really have to watch instead of loaflng
on the job.
America is doing and has done its
share to bring about peace. 1t begins
to look as if the time had arrived for
Europe to do its part also.
Persons with middle names must pay
extra taxes in Holland. The minister
Of finance. Marie Willem Fredertk
Treub, has sanctioned the plan.