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The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-06-26
CATTLE BRANDS.

MY brand is q spade. The public Is
warned against buying cattle with This
brand, without my consent.
J. C. MAGEARL.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-06-26

The public is hereby warned against
cutting and hauling wood from the
Alfred Doyle and Sid Black places
under penalty of the law.
CHAS. WEYDERT, Agent.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-06-26

Ali trespassing of any description 10
hereby prohibited, under penalty OF the
law, on Alandale plantation (formsr.y
Phillips place.
ROBERT BUTLER, Agent
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-06-26

From and after this date all parties
cutting or removing wood from Pecan
Grove plantation will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
II M IEAKE
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-06-26

Saturday, June 26, 1915.
The true Democrat. [volume] (Bayou Sara [La.]) 1892-1928, 1915-06-26

Hunting, fishing, lettering or tres
passing in any form on Laurel Hill
Farm is hereby prohibited under pen.
atty Of the law.
HY. M. STEWART, Manager.
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
DAILY EDITORIAL
For Women Readers

with the socalled hardening pro-
cess" is one Of these. Nowadays the
phrase mentioned has a sinister mean
ing, and 1t Is considered bad form and
indicative Of low order OF intelli-
gence to even suggest that little
child. or n growing girl or boy needs
hardening"
The result is that everything is
done for our children They are
soft physically, mentally and
morally at an age when they should
be able to stand on their own feet
and give a definite promise of their
manhood or womanhood.
The necessity and the demand for
the Twilight Sleep is a logical re-
suit of this "softeninx," this lack of
hardening Of our women and girls.
The resultant weakening Of character
would no doubt be more pronounced
were it not combated at this par
ticular age by the woman move
ment; by the recognition of the pos
sibility and the partial existence OF a
weakened sex.
The mother who cant do enough
for her children and for her girls
especially is harming them. The
mother who forgets and frowns upon
the hardening process employed
by her mother or her grandmother,
is overlooking one of the most ma
terial aids known in the raising OF
children.
Moderate hardship experienced with
acquiescence and common sense
rather than protesting self-denial.
would do well to be included once
more in the slogan of child training.
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
Miss Vida Sutton, Feminist
and Monologist, Returns
From Study Abroad With
knowledge of Interna-
tiOnal SelfiShneSS. n
Universal Peace Will Come
Only in Decade, When
Leaders Have Overcome
Present HandicapS to Fus-
ion of Sentiment.
BY FLORENCE E. YODER.

How long?'
That Is tho question all Europe is
asking. that every child Of think
ing age is wondering, and that the
whole world has taken to praying.
Little wonder that no conversation
is complete without II, and that a
recent interview with a prominent
woman monologist and suffragist,
Miss Vida Sutton. who spent the
past year in Europe studying the
feminist movement in different coun-
tries, should have begun quite pre-
cipitately with the question of peace
in Europe.
How long will the war last?"
was merely another way of finding
out from still another source the
possibilities of peace, and Miss SUIT
ton, blue-cyed and golden-haircd,
with the translucent look of the
clairvoyant in her eyes, seemed emi-
nently fitted to answer me.
But, like the fairy in the nursery
story, her answer seemed almost
beside the point. and the meaning,
until she explained it. obscure.
"As a man thinketh, so is he.t
And then she went on to explain,
in the simplest of ways. just how
preparing for war, and fearing war,
and thinking about 1t day in and
day out had brought war on Europe.
1T is all so very simple" she said
smilingly. when people want re-
publics. they have revolutions and
get them. When they want peace.
they have 1t. and when they want
war, they get that, too. II every
person in Europe today wanted
peace, and was willing to amalga-
mate with other countries, there not
been any war.
The war has merely proven that
there are still great number of
people in the world who are not
broad-minded enough to see the
other fellows point of view. War,
the insistence Of every person. in
the absolute justice of every detail
of his cause. Is narrow mindedness.
The different countries of Europe
are not willing to admit of the eX-
istence of any other country. They
each one wish to be the only coun-
ttry-the country. They have not yet
learned to do what America today
IS! A population such as we have
today, fused, mixed, and II need be
representative of many nations,
polyglot Is much moro fertile
ground for the planting of ideas of
peace than Is Europe.
For there the people are intent
not upon a comparison of the plans
of all toward a better civilization
while at the same time focusing at
tention upon one line of work but
upon focusing all OF the matter of
the mind toward selfish, to the ex-
clusion OF common, ends.
The time has como for nations
like people to see the value Of the
impersonal viewpoint. No person
can succeed who cannot think more
about the thing upon which his mind
is engaged than about himself. The
main trouble with women and the
greatest lesson which they have to
learn in the life Of affairs is that the
important point is that for which
they strive. and not themselves.
The whips and scorns Of fate in
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
AfternOOn.

en- lattices of her lord and masters
home, learned in the miracles of en-
broidery and music, Miss Han and Miss
Vonling are today among the most in
teresting women who have visited
Washington in many months.
To begin with both of the girls, who
come of excellent families in Shanghai,
speak English fluently and write far
moro Iegibly than many Americans, and
they possess that gift often rare in for
eigncrs-the ability to wear the frills
and furbelows of American women be-
comingly, although they frequently ap-
pear in the costume of their native land
They are at present students at the
Rye Seminary. at Rye, n. Y, and are
new visiting in Washington under the
chaperonage of Mrs. S. J. Life, prin-
cipal OF the school. who this afternoon.
IN their honor, gave tea at the Pow
hatan, where many members OF the
Chinese legation as well as men and
women of wealth and culture called
upon them.
Although neither of the girls have be-
come sufficiently accustomed to Amer
ican Institutions to talk freely for pub
lication, p. Z. Wong, of the Chinese le-
cation declares that they are ex-
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sun gives warmth. And there, bless
her, was mothers sister, Aunt Minerva,
tall, spare. kindly and older I always
fanCted than most any one in the
world.
I don't know why the sight OF Aunt
Minervas face gave me such feeling
of comfort, but 1t did. And the chief
reason, I imagine. WAS because I knew
that Just as long as Aunt Minerva was
in town | should be nace>i-gently
and firmly. and in an altogether de-
lightful way.
There was . surprise in store for me.
Aunt Minerva marshaled us all TO the
curb, where an oldfashioncd carr1ase
was waiting with an old negro on the
box, who chuckIed and rubbed his
hands at tho sight of me. Many and
many time in boyhood days had he
driven Inc about.
"Well.i' said Aunt Minerva, adjusting
her glasses, the secrets out. I've cun.e
here TO live. Peter, and I'm all settled
and I'm going to manage the family"
You always have" put in Dad slYIy
Mary's mother and father. Dad and
mother. Mary and !, and Aunt Minerva
ate that evening in the old rose garden.
Good heavons!'' ! exclaimed. hs we
came forth from the house into the rose
garden and the lawn. Aunt Minerva,
yardr'
7 have" said Aunt Minerva crisp,y,
TO keep the cats out and any other
back fence excrcscences that are likely
to disturbe my peace. like to dine out
here"
I shook my head hopeIessly
Aunt Minerva" | said suddenly, Il
know perfectly well that you and l are
going to quarrel lot in this dear old
rose garden
Bless your heart. Peter" cried nly
old aunt. that's precisely why moved
here Back home / had nobody to dis
agree with me-
TIL drop in nights and argue Violent
| ly." ] warned
And keep supper waiting" put in
| Mary ruefully.
We sat and talked until the dusk set.
| tied over the rose garden and the stare
| began TO twinkle. And | know Mary
and l were glad TO get home
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
ADVICE TO GIRLS
By Annie Laurie

Remember. men like to do the pur-
suing.
y
Dear Annie Laurie: ! have been
going with "A very nice boy for about
a year. lie is sixteen. and am
fifteen. lie often wants me to kiss
him or let him kiss Inc after he has
taken me home from some place.
Once he did Kiss ME, and ] became
very angry at him. The other night
he wanted to kiss me again. and |
didn't let him. Would il do any
harm if he did kiss me once in a
while? Please tell me so l will know
what course to take. MARY JANE.
What a sweet and old fashioned
name you have, Mary Jane. and
your letter is as sweet as your name.
You did exactly right when you re-
fused 10 let Your boy friend kiss you
goodnight. No matter how angry he
was because you refused, he could
not help but like you better way
down in his own heart. Just tell
him that you do not think you should
let him kiss you. Tell him you think
. 1t would be wronS, and ask him If he
does not think you are right? Ask
him if he would like his sister TO
permit a boy to kiss her? Don't
worry 50 much about boys, Mary
Jane. Forget them for q whiIc-a
long whileTuntil you are lots older.
1915 Newspaper Feature Service.
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
Peters Adventures in Mdtrimonv>
BY LEONA DALRYMPLE.

Ut ii was no time to say just this,
x l knew instinCtivcly, with my
wife crying in my arms, that
must choose my words with the
utmost care.
"Ncvertheless, dear" l said. strohinG
her hair, you can't help caring for
Hugh, l suppose. No mattcf how we
censure we can't say where our emo
tions will carry US"
Il don't love him." cried Mary. cling
ing to me, Peter, | don't, | don't. l.
I'd ever SO much rather have you care
than have you relieved and ready to ny
to joan"
lin not" said. not quite sure
whether 1t was time for this admission
or not.
Mary caught my arm
What do You mean?" she Whispered.
"Oh, Mary. dear" / said. let's so
home tonight. I'm tired out. Let's so
home and see if away from this restless
glitter he both aren't better content
Yes" said Mary. Let's go homo,
after ALI I'm tired, too, Peter. II
don't see how it all happened anyway,
and now Hugh seems further away
I'm glad of that"
>Oh." said Mary, catching her breath
with great sigh of relief, IL believe
you are"
Mary clung to me. pouring out her
hedrt IN an impulSlNc nOod OF cioquen e
that burned and tore at my heart
strings. We were both very close to-
gether that night. and drifting further
and further thank God from the two
| whose lives had touched ours SO strange
ly. And felt very humble. as a man
must ever be when he glimpscs forces
he has deliberately misunderstood.
| Mary" cried do you after all
really love me the best IN spite of the
| fact that you aren't comfortable with
me-that I've been preachy and un'
| pleasant"
Yes" said Mary, in a low voice, -
! do. Every minute IL seem to realize
| It more"
I telegraphed that we would be homo
that day.
| Dads answering telegram came.
| What about the nerves.
I wired in reply: Absolutely cured,
| and Mary and I laughed a little owe
| II. I think each one of US was reading
| a different Interpretation into the words
/ than the one intended
| So after an episode in our lives Uhlcl
We were likely never to forget, Mar!
and | reached home.
''Oh. Mary" / said, how nice it Il
| to see people we know"
And sure enough there they all wcr
l-Mary's mother and father. and Da'
and mother, radiating welcome as tn
The Washington times., 1915-03-30

- - ABIT is the adaptation of living
IL endeayors to use. 1t is the elas-
ticity of vital stuff as exempli-
fled in Mahomets going to the
mountain, when the mountain did not
bulge for the prophet. Since sticks and
stones and dead mems bones will not
bend by themselves, you must bend
them TO your wilI-or walk around them.
Sensation bows before the will the
will knuckles to judgment and intellect,
and all are auxiliary to a higher force.
Habit alone bows to sensation, but IL
also approximates to itself ell Things
above sensation.
Habit is perfect practice. Repeated
trials may be full of failure, but ulti-
mately they are successful habits. Mon
nature, but they are also first nature
because instincts are efficiently inherit
ed, ready-made habits.
Ease leads to habits, triumph to ease;
So lives he by rule who lives himself
to please"
Neither in the investigation of human
habits nor in that of animal and plant
habits has there ever before been any
experimental attempts to test tho effect
of previous habits upon new ones. Prof.
John B. Watson of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity and his students have made the
beginning of such researches.
Habit and Tricks.
Prof. Yerkes of Harvard found that
the previously formed habits OF the
dancing mouse interfercd seriously with
it's power to learn new habits. The pop
ular platitudes. You cannot teach an
old dog new tricks" and "a new broom
sweeps clean, but the old one knows
where the dirt lies" are thus confirmed
by modern science.
in a labyrinth or crystal maze, famil
lar to those who go to Concy Island
and similar resorts, the mouse not pre-
viously trained does not make its first
correct trip until about the twentieth
trial.
Those previously trained, however,
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
| THE TIMES DAILY MAGAZINE PAG]
Habits Are Perfection Of
Practice and Do A7udy "
D.. With Wasted Efforts
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERG.


quickly find the correct byways and
exits every time after six or seven at.
tempts. This proves that men will
learn how to run a new invention more
quickly If they. have hitherto worked on
an analogous one.
Experiments with trained and un-
trained pigeons, in "A given maze, along
with pigeons which had been previously
trained in another task, show that the
unframed animals learned as quickly as
those trained in two other tasks More
overy the errors arc greater for those
with habits previously formed than fof
those without such habits.
Disadvantages of Habits.
Another truth thus established is that
trained animals avoid useless excess
and wasted efforts, while unframed
ones do not. In other words the more
that Is learned the less cxertion with
which new things are learned. II is evil
dent also that habits once acquired in
terfere with the formation of new hab-
its. For instance, squirrels trained to
open one sort of a cage are at a disad-
vantage as compared with unframed
animals when coaXed to try and learn
to open new box
Possibly these experiments may clear
up the experience met with not long ago
when a group of the worlds greatest
Biblical scholars fore-gathered to edit
a new translation Of the Bible. Ono
newspaper editor who admitted that he
had never made careful study Of the
Bible. was the only non-authoritative
member of the scholarly group. II
turned out that his work surpassed in
efficiency, wisdom, knowledge, and skill
that of all the others.
DR.. Hrshberg toiH dnst1er questions
for readers OF The Times on medical.
hygienio and sanitation subjects that are
Of general interest. He 1Dilt not under
take to prescribe or offer dd1ice for in-
dipidttdL cases. Where the subject is not
Of general interest letters tuiH be an
Snercd personally, II a stamped and dd-
dressed envelope is enclosed. Adrcss oil
inqutrioS to DR.. L. X. Hirshberg, care
this office.
The Washington times., 1915-03-30

When the peacock banners of the
ManChu dynasty bent in abdication
to the tri-color of New China and the
republic, many more changes than the
mere dethroning of an emperor and
the establishment in his dynastically
established place of a President, fol-
lowed in the train of revolution.
Standing for one of the momentous
changes in the customs of the China
which had endured for thousands of
years, are Miss MO. Han and Miss Von-
ling Lee-that is the way they inscrib-
ed 1t on the register of the Powhatan
Hotel, and not in the ideographs of
their ancestor, but in 1egible English
who are in this city over the Easter
holidays.
For Miss Han and Miss Vonling are
among the first women to ever be sent
abroad at the expense OF their gov
ernment to be educated with the OBJ
iect of some day playing an important
part in the awakening of the Celestial
Empire.
And because the average Americans ;
idea OF the Chinese woman portrays her
TO his imagination as a demure little
house flower, immured behind the gold
The Washington times., 1915-03-30

amples of the best of Chinese woman
hood.
They are among the first women to
be sent to America by the central gov
ernment of China, although some of
the provinces had sent women pupils
to the United states before they ar
rived. six months ago.
They are now merely undergoing a
preparatory course before they enter
college. What they will specialize upon
is hard to tell at this time, although
it is quite likely they will either be-
come women physicians or educators,
for one of China's greatest needs at
this time is for women trained in
these professions"
1t Is understood that Miss Han and
Miss Volning received their designations
from the central government only after
severe competitive examination, in
which they stood not only at the head
of the other women. but also outsttripped
the men. and as the result of careful
selective tests.
The Washington times., 1915-03-30

Light colors make rooms appear
larger.
2sRooms opening into each other
should not be papered with tones I'm
violent contrast, but that similar or
harmonious tones are best.
.. Long narrow Railways and
rooms with northern and eastern
exposure are preferably treated with
warm. light tones.
4. Light backgrounds with unde-
cided pattern make the best surface
on which to show off pictures,
hangings and other furnishings.
Effect of Plate Rail.
Low ceilings will appear still low
er If the wall space is broken by a
frieze plate rail, moulding, or
other horizontal line which divides
the Space. so that it is best, par
ticularly in our small, rented homes,
or flats. to avoid papers or cover
ings with break in the pattern
near the ceiling or halfway down.
Horizontal stripes also make cell
ings appear higher ~ and are thus
particularly suited to the small, low
ceiled room. Papers with high gloss
finishes. while attractive in bed
niiied for living, dining room or
library. Everybody knows, but does
not always follow the point that
warm, bright colors and tones ace
needed in cool rooms, with north
or eastern exposure. while those re-
ceiving southern and western sun
can have their walls, treated with
the less heating colors and shades,
particularly grays, blues and neutral
unts.
Many fabric coverings for walls
are on the market. In permanent
homes they are most desirable be-
cause they do not mar, tear or show
usage. The small rented bedroom
should be tinted or painted, for hy-
gienic reasons. but in all rooms
whether fabric or paper covered,
choice should be guided by prlnci-
pies OF light and art.
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
Study of Wall Coverings
Should Precede Usual
= Spring House Cleaning
Some Fundamental Principles To Be Applied To Give
Ones Home the Best Appearance With Wall
Paper and Interior Decorations.
BY MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK

II WILL be only few weeks be-
fore all of us are thinking and
] talking to the wall paper man,
the decorator or the painter, for
there is hardly a house or an apart
ment which will not need to have at
least one room "done over
The day will come, since it has
already begun to dawn, when in
struction in color values and house
decoration will be a part of the
course of study in every school.
Then and then only will all OF us
be able to choose tasteful furnish
ings, restful walls and harmonious
color schemes. Even IL only a few
artists be born all of us can be
taught the principles of art and how
to express ut in the home.
Let us begin with a study of walls
and wall coverings because they in
deed are the true framework of the
room. They form the background
for all pictures. ornaments. curtains
and hangings. Therefore they must
be chosen first if we are to have
rooms that are restful and which
also express best their relation to
the windows and lighting.
u Fundamental Principles.
= We can be thankful that the days
shave almost gone when decorators
offer us papers with climbing onions
and interlockSl rhubarb roots. Gone
indeed are most of the medallion
wall papers with their huge twelve
inch repeating unit. We have today
a selection from a wide class of
more neutral papers in shades, such
nc. Duttv huff sand and gray in
which the variety is given not by
the color, but by the texture. tiny
stripe, dot. or fleck in the grain Of
the paper itself.
While these neutral papers are
not suitable or necessary in every
room, it should be borne in mind
that:
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and then another war, until the
people themselves sec the futility
of fighting against the first rule of
all nature-fusiOn.
But can people with minds capable
of looking with compassion upon the
hopes of others evolve in countries
where such a many sidedness Is
considered trcason?" | asked.
Miss Sutton smiled wearily and
shook her head.
In each country even now. with
such Il heavy handicap there is
nucleus of people who are thinking
and hoping in the free spirit. Each
year this number grows, but it viii
kakc perhaps another upheaval to
|free them, and then still another
decade to produce leaders who will
make universal peace n common
sense possibility. and who will edu-
cate the individual toward 1t. in
stead of toward war.
"As a man thinketh. so is. he"
The Washington times., 1915-03-30
FEW M0MENTSI NO INDIGESTION ORS|CK,
DYSPEPT|C STOMACH -PAPE'S D|APEPS|N

you will wonder what became OF the
indigestion and distress Millions OF
men and women today know that 1t is
needless to have a bad stomach. A
little Diapepsin occasionally keeps the
stomach regulated and they cat their
favorite foods without fear
IL Your stomach doesn't take care OF
your liberal limit without rebellion; II
your food is a damage instead of
help. remember the quickest, surest.
most harmless relief is Pape's Diapep-
sin, which costs only nifty cents for a
large case at drug stores. It's truly
wonderful-it digests food and sets
things straight, so gently aud easily
that it is astonishing, Please don't go
on and on with a weak, disoTdered
stomach; it's 80 unnecessary .-AdvL
The Washington times., 1915-03-30

this day and age are not half SO
often addressed to the person as TO
that for which he hopes and stands.
THE suffragist who cannot see
and understand absolutely that for
which the anti-suffragist stands. IS
narrow, and does not stand for the
highest womanhood. The women VINO
do big things arc the women who are
able to harmonize, and to cXpcnd
their efforts along lines which will
include the betterment of the many
instead of the few.
1T is the same way with nations.
Instead Of fighting against all anal
gamation, against all fusion. they
should welcome it, and not until they
are willing TO try to understand
the plans and work of one another
will there ba peace.
The moment the heart OF in
dividual Europe beats in harmony
Will the war automatically cease.
Until then We will have one war
The Washington times., 1915-03-30

shape rather quickly unless of the
best workmanship. You cannot be
sure of this unless You are willing
to pay for q shoe of reputable make.
Avoid extremes of style and colors
so light that they need constant
cleansing. If you buy n cheap pair
OF shoes now, you will find them
looking shoddy and shapeless at the
end OF a couple of months. And. re-
member, that it will be five months
before We are likely to have the
slightest hint of fall.
HaCkabout skirts of wool oophr in
plain cOlors may he had for S29S in n
Seventh street clothing shop. What's
the use of working yourself 10 a
fragile over drcssmaking when YOU
can buy such an attractive ami praC-
tical skirt at such small price?