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The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
JEW HAD THE LAST WORD
Youths Who Thought to Have Fun
With Him Got Decidedly the
Worst of the Transaction.

There is more than one way of max.
Ing retort without resorting to the
vulgar You're another"
A Jewish street-vender of spectacles
was offering his wares when half a
dozen saucy fellows stepped up.
Keep still; we'll have some fun
with him." said the spokesman Of the
party.
"Shpectacles! Good vons!" called
the vender.
dot vos goot," said the young man.
NOW, what can you see through these
glasses, Mr.. Moses?"
Anything vot you like" was the
reply
fish dot so? Well, We'll see about
that" He took a pair of spectacles,
put them on, and looked straight at
the dealer. Nonsense, Mr.. Moses!"
he exclaimed. What have you been
telling us? Nothing whatever can be
seen through these glasses but black
guards" whereupon his companions
laughed.
"Vot? Ish dot 500" exclaimed the
vender, as If in alarm. He took the
glasses, put them on hastily, and
looked at the party. my goodness!"
he exclaimed, "dot ish So" The party
moved on, but this time they were not
laughing.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
GRAIN FIELDS
In EARLY SPRING
First Work Should Be to Provide
Egress for Any Water That
Has Accumulated.

The first work in the spring, when
the snow begins to melt, or after
heavy rains, is to let off any water
that accumulates in the low places
in the wheat. No matter how care
fully the dead burrows and outlets
may have been made in the fall, there
is more or less to be done in the
spring to provide free egress for the
water.
A few hours work with the hoe and
shovel, after an all-day rain, will often
drain off many gallons of water which
would otherwise soak into the ground
and keep it wet and cold for several
weeks.
In letting off water in the low spots
In the grain fields, commence at the
lower end and make shallow furrow
with the hoe. 1t is not necessary to
make wide or deep ditch, as this
would destroy too much wheat. 1t
should be dug just deep enough to
drain off the water.
See that the outlets to the under
drains are open, so that the water can
pass off quickly. This is a very i'm
portant job and is best done by the
farmer himself and not by an inexperi-
enced person. By this method we feel
sure that we save several bushels of
grain and much grass and clover.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
By L. r. JOHNSON.l


For several years we had noticed
that late In the season our local mar
kets ran bare of large and fine toma-
toes, being supplied only with those
that were borne on spring-set plants
and which were running small.
We thought we saw chance to
make some money by taking advantage
of this deficiency. We reasoned that
if we could set out plants late enough
to ripen their best fruit at this time
that we would find a good demand at
fair prices, regardless of the small
ted.
For this purpose we chose the Pom
derosa, known as the largest of all
tomatoes, but a sort that is not re-
garded with favor by regular truckers.
Several years trial, however, has
convinced us that it is the best variety
for our late crop and superior to the
standard market kinds.
An old strawberry bed of quarter
acre was deeply plowed in June, after
the berries were gone. The soil was
very rich with mulches of stable ma
nure and the plant tops made a good
green crop to turn under.
The tomato seeds were sown in the
open ground about June 1, and trans
planted to the rows during the first
week in July.
It happened to be very dry just at
setting time and the plants had to be
watered as set. Their start was very
slow and they lost in this way good
ten days.
There were several heavy rains
while the plants were about a foot
high and aftea that a drought set in
and not another good rain fell till
after frost in November.
Virtually, then, this crop grew, ma
tured and was gathered without bar
rel of water supplied by either man or
nature.
One row along the side was staked
to test this method and four rows were
made up of the Some, Matchless and
Truckers Favorite. l will say that
the four rows were failures compared
to others and would have brought us
little. or no profit.
They occupied about one-third of the
patch and this fact should be consid-
cred in estimating the gross returns
from the quarter acre.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

One may see in this group of sailors
the progression in width of brim as the
style becomes more summary in COM
position and suggestion. Under this
title of sailors, it seems, about seven
tenths of the seasons shapes may be
classed. A fiat brim of uniform width
leaves us in no doubt, but then there
are rolling brimmed sailors, too. But
these sailors shown in the picture are
selections to which the milliner points
with pride that is well Justified
while she turns her attention to max
ing new ones with increasing width Of
brim with which to greet the advanc-
ing summer.
AT the right pretty hemp hat is
pictured. 1t is soft-appearing,
pressed shape with slightly indented
crown, in battleship gray. Two bands
of velvet ribbon, unequal in width, in
a fairly strong blue color, encircle the
crown. Four ornaments are set over
these bands. They are made of suede
kid stretched over a supporting foun-
datiOn. The kid is in the color of the
hat and forms a background for a spi-
derived design in needlework wrought
in blue of a silk fiber used in millinery
Coral beads are added to this to make
the attractive and substantial-looking
ornament.
At the upper left beautifully
woven Chinese straw hat in the nat
ural straw color allows the use of mar
row brown faille ribbon in unique
are thrust through spaces between the
straws of. which the shape is made
Cherries are set in a close row about
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
SCARCITY OF FRESH
EGGS ON THE FARM
Trouble May Be Remedied by
Early Matches of PuIIets-
Give Them Good Care.

During the months of October, No
vember and December of each year
there is always a more or less scarcity
of fresh eggs, and the prices, in con-
sequence, go up.
This scarcity is due to two things
in general-the melting period for old
hens and the lack of early Matched
pullets.
1t is at this time of the year that
the condition powder and the poultry
food man begins to cry his wares, and
it is surprising to see the business
that he does do.
While we believe in the tonic effects
of a good condition powder or a sci
entifically prepared poultry food, we
do not credit these articles with all
that is claimed for them.
They should be used with judgment
"a little goes great way. To accus-
tom the fowls to them is but to lose
their tonic effect.
They are not so much calculated to
make eggs as they are to tone up the
tissues and to keen the appetite. In
that condition the fowl eats more
freely and better assimilates the egg
food that it gets from pure, good grain.
This scarcity of fresh eggs on the
farm can only be remedied by early
matches of pullets. Pullets Matched in
March and April, and we'll grown, will
begin laying in the fall, and continue
in the good work right through the
winter. The melting hens will again
start up in January, and by February
the combined work of the pullets and
the hens will give good supply of
eggs, and it will be noticed that in
February the market prices for eggs
are or the decline.
The great trick is to get the eggs
during the last three months of the
year, and this can be done by early
pulless given good housing, good tOeG
and good care.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Gets Job: Dies First Day.

John J. Cullen had been out Of
work since January. Almost every
day he had applied for work from the
contractors building a bridge across
the Passaic river between Belleville
and Arlington, N. J.
An extra man was needed and the
contractors put Cullen to work
Pleased at getting job, he worked
with zest until noon. AS he was leav
ing the bridge for lunch he fell into
the water a few feet from shore.
The water was shallow. Cullen
rose to his feet and staggered to
shore. Then he dropped again. When
men reached him he was dead. He
was thirty-five years old, and lived
at ZIG Cleveland avenue, Harrison.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

| The staked row did no better and,
most of us thought, not as we'll as the
unstaked vines that sprawled over the
16 square feet that each was given, for
the rows and plants were four feet
| apart each way.
Cultivation was given the rows as
| long as the tops permitted, which was
not long. Thereafter nothing was done
except to once take the hoe and chop
out a few big weeds that had come up
| early and escaped the cultivator
Of course, under the great drought
| the ground soon became dry and hard
| as cultivation ceased, and the daily
tramping of the pickers made it still
worse. During October, when the vines
| were yielding the most, it looked i'm
possible that such a mass of green
| tops and fruit should be able to ex-
tract enough moisture from the soil
| for their daily needs, which must have
| amounted to great deal.
Now for the results: The first bushel
was sold on the eighth of September,
| just about two months after the plants
were set. By the fifteenth we were
picking two bushels per day; by the
twentieth, three bushels, and this was
about the average for the rest of the
season.
Parties who had stopped buying,
firing of the little stuff they had been
getting, renewed their orders.
We then doubled the price, and sold
every tomato we could pick.
We sold direct to the consumer.
In, all, the quarter acre produced
$125 in round figures, without counting
some small lots, we sold after frost.
Some of the green ones we kept till
in December. When killing frost
came there were bushels and bushels
of green tomatoes of all sizes still on
the vines and growing right along
after three months without rain.
After the first light frost we picked
20 bushels of marketable size and
stored them away.
A great many of these tomatoes
weighed pound. Some believe the
Ponderosa is rough. I deny it. 1t was
easy to find perfect specimens with
out a crease in their big tops.
As for productiveness, I have never
seen variety that would beat them.
have counted a dozen pound tomatoes
at one time on single vine, beside
many smaller ones.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Marital Diplomacy.

Plunger-I felt awfully sorry for q
poor guy down at the exchange today
He lost five thousand on cotton and
all the boys were guying him, and as
he started off home they tainted him
with the prediction that his wife
would land on him roughly. The poor
chap acted as though he felt pretty
bad about it.
Mrs. Plunger (sympathetically)-
Poor fellow! No doubt he used his
best judgment, and If his wife turns
on him because of his reverses she
is not worthy to be called wife. But
who was the man?
PIunger -Why-er-it was me-
Woman's Home Companion.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

terminates in clipped ends on the
brim.
The third sailor is a fine milan in
sand color with big daisies and shaded
blue forget-me-nots set close against
the side crown. These (and all the
CROWN are yelled with malines in the
color of the shape stretched over them
Narrow velvet ribbon in blue, made into
small, fiat bows with triple ends, ex-
tends about the crown in a band with
bows posed fiat on the brim.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Hints on Decoration.

1t is very easy to spoil room by
choosing the wrong fabric. The deli
cate outlines of Chippendale chairs
and sofas demand an inconspicuous
upholstering, and the material should
at least suggest silk. Armures and
other small patterned silks are the best
choice, and the material may we'll be
fine, as the quantity needed is so
small. Never obscure the beautiful
back of a Chippendale chair or sofa
with any sort of cushion. The cane
work of good piece is as interesting
as carving. The same thing applies
to Jacobean pieces.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
In GirdIe Effects.

The narrow ribbons, usually of vel
vet, or with crosswise cord, or in
rather heavy grosgrain with a picot
edge, are sometimes drawn around the
waist and knotted in little bow and
short ends, or in long loops and very
long ends in the back; but they are
more often used to finish or trim some
other girdle arrangement, or to give
the effect of girdle lines without the
reality.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Gloves of the Moment.

White and black gloves are the
gloves of the moment, and the two
tones are combined in dozens of ways
One combination that is striking is
this: A white dressed kid glove. with
black stitching around the edges OF
the fingers. heavy black embroidery
on the backs and wide black straps
across the inside of the wrists.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

Aside from their office of furnishing
a decorative finishing touch of dainti-
ness to the apparel, collars are to be
considered from other points of view,
for this season, at least. With the new
blouses made with high or convertible
collars attached, some means must be
devised to keep the neck and upper
quickly soiled Wash silk and the
various silk crepes stand Tubing as
well as other fabrics, but it is hardly
worth while to overdo it by washing
the entire blouse because the collar or
shoulders at the back have become
soiled with single days wear.
The separate collar of lace or en-
broidered batiste is at hand, in mex
haustible variety of styles and pat
terms, to be worn with all sorts of
blouses. That portion which slips un-
der the blouse protects it from per-
spiration, and the collar lies over the
collar of the blouse and keeps it clean.
Another Office of the separate collar
lies in its provision of touch of white
or cream color on the blouses and
dresses of dark colors. Here it is al
ways good, and no one-unless it is
the palest of blondes-can afford to
dispense with white. or pale tint
next the face.
Two collar designs are shown in the
picture. One of them is wired ruff
of 1ace Sewed to a small cana of null
which hes under the blouse. The Wis
ible portion of the other is of daintily
embroidered batiste. and contrives to
he high at the back. lower at the sides
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Warm Evening Wraps.

Evening wraps are very cozy this
winter, for so many ordinarily wealthy
people are now reduced in income and
are travelling by the bus or subway,
denying themselves the luxury of a
taxi, except on wet nights. A new
and charming idea for an evening
wrap is a long cloak of radium blue
ripple hony cloth. set in gathers, on q
capelike fur yoke that fits we'll and
closely over the shoulders.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

and altogether absent at the front.
where the throat is uncovered.
Many of the new silk blouses are
designed with special reference to
these separate collars-or, in other
words, separate collar is part of
the design, and one of them goes with
the blouse, while extra collars are to
be added when they are needed.
JULIA BOTTOMLEY.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Goino Too Far.

There is no way of conquering the
overbearing and dictatorial attitude of
a man." remarked the determined
looking woman.
Il thought your husband favored
your ideas in most matters"
"He is a tyrant at heart. l asked
him whether he thought women
should be permitted to vote and he
said he thought they should be com
PEELED to do so.'
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Can You Afford Tin1e2

Do not order many novelties unless
you have time to take care of them
and can afford to be disappointed in
their behavior. Novelties are often
of value and interesting, but are too
expensive to plant for main-crop fow-
ers or vegetables as a rule.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
Causes of Stiffness.

There is nothing that produces stiff
ness, Inflammation and unsoundness
any faster tran standing in stall day
after day.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

Lots of people are married secretly,
but the whole world knows when they
are divorced.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

The wise man really looks broken
hearted when his wife goes for a two
weeks visit.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

The fortune hunter must act as his
own guide.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16
No Time.

Judge-Why don't you look for
work?
Casey-Oi haven't the tonne to
waste in such Improbable employ
ment.-Judge.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

A cynic is person who knows the
price of everything and the value Of
nothing.
The Odanah star. [volume] (Odanah, Ashland Co., Wis.) 1912-1916, 1915-04-16

Some kings and all babies are born
rulers.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-23
HOW SOME PEOPLE SUCCEED
Some Guideposts to Success, Set Up
by Librarian leeler of the Chi.
cago Public Library.

A few guideposts to success were
set up before employees of the Chi.
cago public library recently in the form
OF quotations contained in a rule book
issued by Librarian H. E. Legler.
Here are some of them:
Do what you are paid to do-and
then some; it's the then some that
gets your salary raised.
Folks that never do any more than
they get paid for never get paid for
any more than they do.
Some men are ground down on the
grindstone of life, while others get
polished up. 1t depends on their kind
Of stuff.
Let's be of good cheer, remember
ing that the misfortunes hardest to
bear were those that never came.
You will never push yourself for.
ward in this world by patting yourself
on the back.
The man who thinks he can learn
thinks a great truth.
1t may be more interesting to mind
other peoples business. but it's more
profitable to mind your own.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-23
Farmers Educational
I'M and Cooperative
Il Union Of America
Matters # Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist

Angels men marry soon shed their
wings. Ts-.
Let a woman talk herself to death
and she will die happy.
Our intellect never gets us any
where, but our will does.
Good, honest work to do is a pana-
cea for many Of our troubles.
Some folks are born lucky and 9th.
srs can't keep from making speeches.
When women kiss each other II
means about as much as a tombstone
epitaph.
A woman always has something In
mind that she's going to get when she
can afford 1t.
To make perseverance paying
thing one must first be sure he Is in
the right way.
Some folks pride themselves in their
piety when all they possess is puck.
ering of the heart.
Many "dull' child brightens up
wonderfully when his eyes or adenoids
are properly taken care Of.
The foot-and-mouth disease is again
breaking out among the office seek
srs, and no quarantine in sight.
And It sometimes happens that a
newly made widower feels like man
who has Just escaped from prison.
There's no monopoly on wisdom, al
though now and then the scarcity OF
1t would lead us to think there is.
The world Is full of humorous situ
atoms. 80 per cent of which are con
tributed by people who are serious.
The trouble with life as It is now
is that there are too many ways to
spend money and too few to save It.
In time the consolidated school Is
coming, but that is no reason why one
should neglect the present means OF
education.
This country has turned out some
great politicians-and there are lo'
of others in Office that ought to be
turned out.
The farmer should receive the same
returns for his capital invested and
labor performed as other men do in
other business.
The man who beats his horses Is not
merely cruel; he is as stupid as the
engineer who would hammer the
valves OF his engine.
Nearly every man feels he could be
rich II he Just had the capital to start
on, Just as every woman feels she
would have good figure II she could
afford SIS corsets.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-23
SWEET CLOVER GOOD
TO RENOvATE SOILS
One Of Best Crops Available to
Improve Land-Makes Fine
Green Manure Crop.

There are few plants which will
put rundown farms into condition for
producing crops as quickly as the once
despised sweet clover.
Because of its nitrogen-gathering
habit and the fact that its deep. tap
roots bring large quantities Of min
eral plant food up from the subsoil
1t is one of the best crops available
to improve land. II plowed under it
makes fine green manure crop.
Sweet clover is biennial plant and
may be used with profit in the rota-
tion of crops. 1t is being used more
extensively each year as forage crop.
1t makes excellent pasturage for
horses, sheep, cattle and hogs. 1t may
be pastured early and late, and live
stock learn to eat 1t more readily II
they are turned into it early.
There is little danger Of bloating
stock on sweet clover. but to be safe
avoid pasturing when the clover Ia
damp.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-23
CHARCOAL AS CURE
FOR CONSTIPATION
Trouble Is Easily Started and
the Hog Breeder Must Be on
Constant Lookout.

The hog feeder must watch out for
constipation. because It is so easily
started, and can easily lead to other
troubles. A sure safeguard against
constipation and similar troubles is
proper feeding. 1t is best not to over
feed the pigs. but rather let them be
eager for their feed and clean it up
quickly. Allow them free access to
wood ashes and charcoal. The char
coal is tonic, and the wood ashes
build bone as well as keep them in
good condition. Bone ash is good to
supply material for the bones.
The most convenient way to secure
the charcoal is to burn corncobs
Rake the cobs into a windrow, and
start them burning by means of cobs
dipped in kerosene and placed in the
windrow at short intervals. When
they have burned enough scatter
them 80 they will not burn any more.
It is good plan to sprinkle little
salt over the charred cobs, but this
is not necessary.
Pigs should, Of course. have pasture
when 1t is available. Besides the ef-
feet of the pasture in balancing the
ration and causing growth, the exer-
else taken in getting the grass is bene-
fcial to the pigs.
The Raymer enterprise., 1915-12-23
COTTON ACREAGE NEXT YEAR
Considerable Increase Is Seen by ST..
Louis Man Who Has Just Re-
turned From Texas.

Having visited Texas recently |
would say 1t was a safe prediction
that the cotton acreage in that state
next year would be considerably in
creased over the somewhat reduced
acreage planted last spring." said M.
V, Martin of St. Louis to Birming-
ham Age.Herald representative the
other day, 'and II need not be sur
prising to see a normal acreage in
several, II not in most, of the cotton
states.
But even with normal acreage
the South's 1916 crop could hardly ex-
ceed 100000 or 13,500,0 900 bales, for
the simple reason that comparatively
little fertilizer will be used. And while
the yield per acre will be much below
the average the cost of production will
be low enough to make up for a low
level Of prices. But 1t seems to be the
prevailing opinion among Texas farm
ers and Texas merchants that 49,
100000 bale crop In 1916 will bring
good prices. Some statisticians esti-
mate that consumers needs ne3s wear
will be sufficient to more than take up
the surplus carried over fret, the
bumper crop made in 1914 and all of
this years short crop.
"The 1916 crop now being marketed
will hardly exceed lO,5O0,0OO bales. All
men In the cotton trade as far as |
am informed expect to see 14-cent or
l5-cent cotton before next spring"