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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11

VI NilCdu uiO lyC ~CuuCoudy.
Mrs Lena Hughes is spending a
few DAYS with Mr. and Mrs Arthur
Comeau
Please let Ye editor know if any
important local news has escaped
us this week
1t is reported that Miss Emma
Sternhagen is to be here this eve
ming on her return from Montana,
coming via LaPlant.
The Mobridge News of last week
reports that "Mr and Mrs E.. A.
Ashley are the happy parents of a
fine little lass. born to them Mon
day. Both the child and mother
are doing nicely"
Will Shepardson's auto has pro
crossed to the stage where it is
now being used as a s'jitney bus"
to meet the arrivals and departures
of the White Swan for Cheyenne
Agency Iust morning, evening
and moons.
Messrs Ellis, Geo. Sternhagen,
Henry Jennerman and Will Oliver
departed again for Appomattox-
twp to haul the sand and rock for
a number of concrete bridges that
are to be built as soon as the rush
of harvest is over.
Bob Worries and family return
ed to LaPlant Saturday. 1t is
understood that they are again to
be residents of Forest City by
the end of another week and will
reoccupy their former residence,
having never sod it.
John Sternhagen has been una
BILE to work for the past week, as
a result of injuries on his hand and
foot received while working with
the bridge crew. His son George
also had a narrow escape from be-
ing buried by a cave-in.
By an oversight last week The
Press neglected to mention that
Henry Jennerman had gone up
north with the bridge builders.
Their job was shortened, however,
Friday by some of the men going
home to take care of their crops.
Supt. Crandall and Mr. Stoltz of
the Pierre Indian school accompa-
MED by DR.. Hollister were in the
City Tuesday on their way to the
Agency. Mr. Sloltz came up for
the purpose of making a tour of
the Reservation to get students for
his school.
Robt Whitlock writes to friends
here that he is enjoying camp life
5 miles from Grand Rapids, Mimi.
and also that he has passed the
examination for the position of
captain in the U. S. life-saving SER
vice. He will be stationed with a
crew of ten men.
Messrs Powell, johnson, DR..
Stalberg and Everett Lambert
we're over the first of the week
and with a number from this side
of the river INDUCED in a game of
base ball at the upper townsite.
They announce that another game
will take place at the Agency next
Sunday.
MIR and Mrs Tom Barnes we're
over from Gettysburg Monday
accompanied by Mr. Bates, when
the two gentlemen made q trip
from here to Okobojo returning
via Gettysburg to leave Mr. b.
Tuesday Tom came over again and
made another trip out on the Res
ervation.
J. Arthur Lake the popular mill
man Of Gettysburg with his family
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11
AGENCY RIFLES

Miss Cora Jay returned TO La
Plant Saturday.
Miss Marie Congdon is visiting
Miss Cora Jay at LaPiant.
The tennis court has been
fixed up and everyone is playing
tennis again.
MIR Crandall, snp't of the Pierre
Indian school, made a flying visit
to the Agency on Tuesday.
Mrs Frank Means has returned
from White Sulphur Spr'gs, Mont,
and points in South Dakota.
Principal Harry Powell left for
a trip around the reservation on
Monday regarding school matters.
Mrs G. Comery, temporary dis
ciplinarian, left last week for
points in South Dakota, to be gone
several weeks.
The Misses Grace and Minnie
Gear of Forest City were the
guests Of Miss Gladys Antrim
Tuesday evening.
Emil Bergstrom and -Axel John
son from Minneapolis arrived
Tuesday evening to do carpenter
work at the Agency.
Andrew Grant took a trip to
Pierre Tuesday to investigate mat
tiers connected with the installation
of a gas plant at this place.
Wilbur Riegert who spent sew
eral weeks at the Agency as the
guest of his sister Mrs Clark, left
for Tower, Mimi, Thursday last.
DR.. Hollister Of Pierre came up
Tuesday to get Frank Means to
pitch a game of ball at the old set
tiers picnic at Fort Pierre, Aug.
II and 18th, but could not find
him.
A base ball game is scheduled
for next Sunday between Forest
City and the farmers of the sur
rounding country, to be played
here at the Agency. Admission
free. Come, all We farmers, and
ssroot."
Miss Angeline White Wings left
for Lawrence-Kan Monday where
she will spend her vacation, being
a graduate of Haskell Institute To-
Gated there. She has been serving
as mess cook at the Agency board
ing school the past few months.
The Indian Fair is scheduled to
be held on Monday, Tuesday and
Wed Sep. 6-8. a meeting has
been called for Aug. 10th, at Ea-
gle Butte. to arrange matters.
Mr. L. o. johnson, of the Supt's
Office, will preside at the meeting.
Rev. R. G. Campbell Of Yankton
was a visitor here oyer night, COM
ing from LaPlant Monday. He is
a student at Yankton College and
is spending his vacation travelling
as a missionary of the African M.
E. Church. He informed us that
he boosts occasionally for emf
grants and thought he could do
something for this locality. He
also stated that he was corresponds
ing with the Rev. Booker I. Wash
ington of Tuskegee, Tenn, a we'll
known lecturer and college presi-
dent, for the purpose Of getting
him to come to South Dakota and
would make an appointment for
him at Gettysburg ii her citizens
desired to hear him.
Mrs Pence has been on the sick
list for q week or more. DR.. Hur-
ley was called to see her q few
days since and she is now reported
to be getting better.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11

Mrs Pence has been o n the sick
list for q week or more. DR.. Hur-
ley was called to see her q few
days since and she is now reported
to be getting better.
The Washington times., 1915-04-05

Eestlve juices can be observed through
lhe aruhcial window in the dogs stom-
acnS TO flow whenever the fragrance, the
slsht or taste of meat or other, ,victuals
was made to reach the animals.
ms helped prove that the memory or
thousht of the creature suffced to pro-
ouce defnite chemical effects. Very
lately Two other psychologists have been
aple 10 pursue these researches further
on manklnd. Dra. Hertz and Sterling
mad a patient with an oesophaels SO
Scared and twisted that an operation
had to be done to save the victim from
starvation. Some lye had been acct
IDENTIFY swallowed, with this construction
as a result
Experiments That Agree.
They opened the victims stomach and
its outside wall in order to form an
aperture through which food could he
passed to nourish him. This furnished
them with a new chance for study
Drs Hertz and Sterling find that all
previous experiments are futile go far
as any psychic gastric" juice is con-
cerned in man. Even when the patient
was given food which he liked to chew
before 1t was put through the opening
INTO his stomach, no stomach juices be.
gan to flow until the foods were in ac-
tual contact with the gastric walls
Prof. Pawlovs experiments on dog.
are, however, more Important. because
they We're done on healthy animals and
repeated many times. Moreover these
researches agree with human experi-
ence that fright, worry and the other
einouonal factors which occur at meal
tlihe, either dry UP or promote the feast
or reason and the flow of soul.
The Washington times., 1915-04-05
THE TIMES DAILY MAGAZINE PAGE
Emotions at Meal Time
May Either Promote or
Delay Digestive Process
BY DIR. LEONARD KEENE HIRsHBERc.
the Newspaper Feature ervice. Inc,

~ HE heavy burden of a doubtful
mind is only exceeded in it's eff
yfects by the superburden of a
hesitating physique. Thought,
reason. and emotion are not chimerical,
Intangible things. but realities-formed
by matter-actual, physical things. That
you and have something, which Ian
guage Is pleased to call a mind, is Ger
tain. This must go undisputed. Fre-
quently l have marshailed the facts to
show how the body and the physical
world affect the misd more than mind
does matter. Often IL is all q question
of definitions.
There is much to be learned from the
classic experiment of DR.. Beaumont on
Alexis st. Martin. A bullet wound
opened the flesh and the stomach, and
afterward healed in such a way as to
allow observations of the stomach Juices
and their action. Prof. Pawlov, Of Pc
trograd, then repeated those observa-
tons many times in a brilliant series of
experiments upon dogs. The expert
ments on these few dogs were success
ful, and have resulted in saving hun
dreds of human lives.
Thought" and Digestion.
Better that twenty beloved dogs should
suffer a few days than that one bsby
or a thousand human beings should suf-
fer lifetime. 1t is these facts which
make reasonable unsentimental people
with feeling just as deep and sympa-
thetic. have so little patience with anti
vivisectionists.
Prof. Pawlov discovered that the di.
The Washington times., 1915-04-05
By WINIFRED BLACK.
Cartwright 1915. by Newspaper Feature

TITLE Ellen Hogan stayed at
home from the municipal dance
In Chicago last week
So did Sadly Demetri, and so,
strange to say, did Bertha Schmidt.
Maria Pontenelli didn't go to the
dance, and olga Romanoff stayed at
home. too.
And the great hall was lit and the
f1oors were polished and the band play
ed. and the policeman walked up and
down in front of the door. and the So
ciety chaperones sat inside and chaper-
oned very discreetly-nobody to speak
of.
It was all terrihcal!y puzzling. Such
a lovely dance, such beautiful music,
such fine evening, such perfectly
good chaperones, such excellent rules
about what dances wosld be allowed
and Just how not to hold your partner.
How ungratefuI the lower classes are,
TO be sure!
Why, the very night of that municipal
ball to which not one of them would
20, Mike Casey had a dance in the hall
up over his place. and every pretty sir
in the neighborhood was there. The
floor at Mike Casey's ballroom is not
even passable, the air is more than bad
there wasn't a chaperone in sight, no
body told anybody what was proper
and what was improper. and those mis-
guided young people came at 7:S0. just
as soon as the girls could get througl
supper and into their doll clothes.
end danced until o'clock in the morn
The Washington times., 1915-04-05
Economic Myopia GiOeS
American Homes q Loss
Of q Million Each Year
Rag Market Furnishes Outlet for Much HousekeeperS
Burn While Thrifty Europe Reaps the Benefit-And
H.. Even the Empty Glass Bottle May Be Sold;
By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK

everything on the dumbwaiter al
lowing the janitor to Gull out the
rags from other waste, II he feels
like II, and ''bottles"-who would
cine bottle costing only nickel?
Or colored glass bottle which
seems only In the way? Yet we pay
the nickel or the dime over again In
each new purchase Of drugs or
chemicals. even though the clerk
does not tell us that the 5 or 10 cents
are included in the total of our bill.
Economic Myopia.
We are all suffering from econom-
ic myopia. We are. so short-sighted
that we fail to see any value in an
article which Is no longer of value
to us. Because we are tired or fin
ished with It seems adequate reason
why 1t should do no good to any
have the worthy habit of sending
old magazines to hospitals or char
ities. Others sensibly call IN the
Salvation Army to distribute our
cast-off clothing and lares and pen
ates. But how many others of us
could save the scrub cloths, under
wear, Innings. petticoats. wrapping
them together and giving them to
old clothes men who are the rag
middlemen of the industry!
Thrift. we have 1t not. Not will
ing to save for ourselves, we also
refuse to save for others; and It
seems as II we. by kind OF boom
erang of fate, are being forced to
pay for our own extravagances. Is
not America big enough, and do we
not buy clothes enough with which
to keep our own rag market sup
piled? Will we wantonly continue
to burn that which another less for
tunatc could use? Do not despise
the old-clothes man. He Is more i'm
portant than you think.
The Washington times., 1915-04-05

own. too. and knows exactly how to
use it in Just exactly such emergencies.
Do you know what she'd tell YOU II
you dared to talk to her about chap
erone and her need for one at NUM-
cipal dance, or anywhere else?
She d tell YOU that she never needed
guardian in her life as long as she
met the men of her own class.
Forget the Chaperone.
Ask the walters at any Of the smart
cafes who 1t is that needs the chaper-
oning. the working girls they meet 60
ing to and from work in the streets, or
the smart girls who slip into the cafes
and meet elderly men who know all
about chaperone3, and just how to cir
CumVent them.
Girls who work for a living haven't
much time Tor mischief. They're too
busy holding their jobs.
Do you want your municipal dances
to be a success, gentlemen of the Chi
cago Board of Supervisors, a real sue
cess, with the heart of the people really
In them?
Get a good priest who loves his par
| ishioncrs, a nice, Sood-natured aunt, and
broad-minded uncle or so from the
| families in the district where you want
| to hold the dances, to take an interest
| in them. Don't have the policeman so
much in evidence Don't make any rules
about the proper and the improper
| dance-the decent girls will see to that
| themselves-and send the chaperones
! home in a nice, comfy limousine. with
a hot footstool to keep their tootsies
warm on the way.
Did you ever take a good. big, husky
i red geranium and put 1t in the hothouse
| beside an orchid and see what would
| happen to It?
never did. I'd like to, some time.
| I'm afraid the geranium would die,
| though, and that would be a pity, for,
whisper. Like the gersnium best
The Washington times., 1915-04-05

AN It be true that there Is
scarcity In the rag market?
In the first place, many a
housekeeper does not know
that such q market exists. out
when she writes on her hnen-lawn'
when she steps on many a carpet
or when she Is sheltered by one OF our
new roofing materials. she is really
seeing her own old rags In ne"
form. For modern science like Cin-
derella's fairy godmother, can trans
mute a ragged dress into paper,
carpet, roofing material, and many
ether articles of use in the home.
one of the most important dealers
in roofing materials said recently
that it was impossible to buy rags
In America; that we are actually i'm
porting from Europe millions OF
pounds Of rags which their more
thrifty inhabitants save. but which
Americans are too careless or IN
different to save. Rags are very
much needed in the manufacture of
cheap carpet, but such Is the scar
city OF rags that newspapers are be
ing substituted, with the resulting
loss to the value OF the carpet anu
hence the housekeeper herself.
Where There Is Waste.
We have not heard from efficiency
experts that Americans waste
million dollars a year by falling
to save and give to the right
persons the rags. bottles. and old
iron, but we feel sure that figures
mounting into the thousands are ac-
tually wasted by the American
wife's lack of thrift. ANY
rags, any old iron?" We are too
proud to answer. Instead we lump
The Washington times., 1915-04-05
April.

April is a lady;
April Is a queen;
Woven mist and sunshine
Wrap her in their sheen.
Rosy CLEANS Of beauty
Through the meshes seen!
From her clingig garments
Breathes a perfume sweet
Violets spread a carpet
For her dainty feet.
Winged breezes circle
Her on errands sweet.
She. with budding scepter
Plucked from bush or tree
Leads the wild bird chorus
Sets the captive free;
Laughs to see it leaping
Forth to meet the sea-
All the world yields homage
Bending low. to CLEAN
or her golden largess
Scattered on the green.
April Is a lady,
April is a queen! :; po.
Pauline Frances Camp, in Bost
Transcript.
The Washington times., 1915-04-05

Massage into the scalp twice a day
resorcin, 5 grains balsam pcr,, Z
Grams cocoa butter. drains sulphur
Grams; transparent vaseline, 1 ounce
foods, fresh fruits, cereals, keen the
bowels active, be in the fresh air and
sunlight most Of the day, join a gym
nasium, dance. row, swim, walk, run,
dnu,' dnu orink three quarts Of distilled water
oally ana two quarts Of fresh milk and
cream. Sleep ten to twelve hours and
nave your room well ventilated.
sufferer-Q: What is the cause of a
soreness and pain In the small of my
ders tired feeling and stiffness Of the
joints, especially on arising, FREQUENT
headaches and swollen finger Joints
Mhich j pam me at times; a weak heart,
anu anu haoltuai constipation? I cannot
sleep more than six hours. What shall
I do? o- snaii
A. Go to a hospital and have a thor
ough physical examination and a cor
rect diagnosis made.
;nHoo. n; G;Go. am a great sufferer from
insomnia, and the slightest SOUND
aWakens me. What can l take or do 70
make me sleep? Vi uo 10
a. Do not cat anything heavv for van.
evening meal, have no excitement IoEa
Sefore ( Hor path att, and drink cup of hot milk
II you cannot sleep. and have vour ronr,
wen ventilated. Get lots of fresh air
day. ouFins the
Pr. Dr. Htrshbero ,ciH anstoer question,
tor readers Of The Times on meS;on1
hy9tentc and sanitation subjecfs thai o,.s
o. general interest. He ,okI not unler-
t1ke TO prescribe or offer advics for i,,-
a. atV'anal cases Where the subject IS not
interest Ip{f1ra III
Stoered personally, if a slammed nrd or or
dressed envelope is enclosed. Adress a1l
! this office. cure
The Washington times., 1915-04-05
Answers to Health Questions

Sufferer-Q. % am troubled with
! burning feet. What shall do? % l
have fiuttering in the pit of my stom-
ach. noticeable more when retiring.
A. az Soak the feet in a solution of
formalin and water, one-half teaspoon
tul Of formalin to one pint of water; dry
them and dust with zinc oxide. (2j Eat
more green vegetables, spinach, carrots,
clear soups. fish. poultry, game, fresh
meats, stewed prunes, figs, pears,
oatneal. oranges, apples, dates,
shredded wheat, cereals, brown bread,
Gorn bread, and drink three quarts of
olstiled water daily. Take seven grains
oxide 1f magnesia before meals and
six charcoal tablets after Sleep ten
hours. Get lots of exercise and have
your room well ventilated at night.
! Constant Reader-Q. Is there a cure
! for knock knees?
sage. exercise. and manipulation will
cure this: II much over twenty, an
operation Is necessary.
| Mrs. c: CO. % My boy thirteen
years old complains a great deal of a
sick stomach. He had his tonsils and
adenoids removed about one year ago.
but 1t did not seem to help him. He
gets very large circles under the eyes
during the sick spell and headache
Il
the cause of my having dizzy spells
| when l put my head to the pillow? /
have tired feeling ali the time.
A; a. The boy may need another
slight operation; give him more boiled
spinach. carrots. cabbage, oranges on
| rising, stewed prunes. currants, stewed
hgs, baked sour apples. dried fruits.
grapes. plain puddings, Ice cream, clear
soups. celery. oatmeal. shredded wheat.
cereals; have him eat bowlful of bran
made into mush each morning with
sugar and cream: brown bread, corn
bread. FISH, fresh meats, and drink
three quarts of distilled water daily
two glassfuls one-half hour before each
meal He should be in bed each night
at 8 o'clock. (0 You need three hours
sleep during the day and more at night
Drink three quarts of distilled water
and a pure carbonated water daily
olive oil. and eat fats, unseasoned
greases, green vegetables without much
cereals. and take a Bulgaria tablet
with your meals. Avoid tea, coffee
seasoned foods. solid food. constipation
and inactivity. Take from to i
grains Of either OK bile, OK gall. or bile
salts after meals, and several hours
active exercise daily
Inquirer What will cure 9
young man OF shiny skin in a shor
time? 2 What will remove dandrur
from a sensitive scalp? 8. What ex
ercises and diet would you recommend
to put color in my cheeks?
| A. Il Avoid sweets, pastries
candles, oils. fats, highly cooked foods
and sour things. Keep the intcstines
water or soap on your face, but use 6
greaseless peroxide cream and ice-colt
water At night massage the face witt
glycerine and peroxide. equal parts. 2
The Washington times., 1915-04-05
Were We Different?

Were We DlHerentI
And they went home Just before day
light laughing. and not in the least
ashamed of themselves, and most Of the
girls mothers pushed the button ana
let them in at the lower door of the
flat. and never thought OF asking them
whether they had been properly chaper-
oned or not.
What a perverse lot they are-the
young people-and how hard 1t is for
them to learn to be bossed!
We were all different. weren't we, we
Americans. when we were young our
middle-aged people got the craze?
We never slipped out into the moon
light and danced on the porch. just to
get away from the chaperones. did we?
We never resented the idea that we
didn't know enough to take care of
ourselves and didn't want to learn, did
We?
/ do hope I'll get chance to be one
of those chaperones-just once.
wouldn't need anything to make me
laugh again for a year.
Me chaperoning little Minnie Zebrin-
sky, who's taken care of herself since
she was seven years old, and knows
more about the world and the ways OF
| it than anv woman of my kind will ever
know II she gets to be a hundred!
Me telling Nora O'Rourke not to lei
| Tim Flarrity hold her too tight when
| they do the two-step!
Why. Tim Flarrity would knock any
man down who would hint that Nors
| would let him do such a thing And
Nora has a good, heavy hand Of hsi
The Washington times., 1915-04-05

solo. The parcel post sale will take
place soon, and members are requested
to send in their packages.
At the meeting Of the Twentieth Cen
tury Club last Thursday the club voted
to withdraw from the District Fedora
ton Of Women's Clubs.
The last meeting Of the art section
will be held next Thursday at o'clock
with Mrs. Dayton Ward, 1863 Columbia
road. Sorella and Zuolage, the subject
ior L. veerhoff !ee Ha Will Dc 'reA'eo 0' Mrs. o'
The travel section meets Wednesday
at 1890 with Mrs. f. T. williams, 1901
Eighteenth street. China will be the
subject.
At the recent meeting of the Ladies'
Cooperative Improvement Society. of
Silver Spring. final plans were made
for a bazaar to be given at the armory
on Wednesday. from 1 to 1850 D. m.
An address will be made by Senator
Blair Lee Supper will be served from
to o'clock. followed by dancing. A
fancy table, a country store, and fish
pond will be among the attractions,
and there will be a cake-baking con-
test. The proceeds will be devoted to
the fund for improving the sidewalks.
iHe Ailtnony League met. ON InurS-
day evening at 2007 Columbia road
Mrs. Anna E. Hendley presided and
| after short business session intro
duced Miss Mullen, superintendent of
| the Florence Crittenton Home of this
city. Miss Mullen told of the work Of
| the home among young and ignorant
girls and how they developed character
| under the influences. OF kindness. Many
| of these girls become strong, helpful
| women, supporting not only themselves.
| but dependent members Of their fami-
| lies. An Anthony League wheel for
assisting the Superintendent was organ
ICED with the following members: Mrs.
| Charles Fits. chairman; Mrs. E. G.
Perry, Mrs: Evangeline Dunlop, Miss
Simpson. Mrs. l.. M. McCarty, Miss
| Perkins, DR.. Perkins, Miss Young and
| others.
Mrs. Ellis Logan, president OF the
| District Federation of Womens Clubs
| gave a short address on the value OF
form of social work. She stated that
the Big Sisterhood movement was as
important as the Big Brotherhood move
| ment now SO popular.
Mrs. Nanette B. Paul, president OF
the Paul Institute and vice president OF
the league, in whose home the league
has held all its meetings this winter
WAS called upon to describe the new
institution over which she will preside
The school is intended to educate girls
and women for intelligent, trained ser
| vice to humanity.
The class in parliamentary Law meets
every Saturday evening at Mrs. Fauls
home. The Spanish. Esperanto and
French classes meet in apartment 375
the Portner on Tuesday evenings. Mrs
Hendley will continue her talks on tho
life of Susan B. Anthony on Tuesday
at $3.50 In the same apartment.
The Anthony League will have charge
OF the meeting of the District Fedora
ton of Womens Glass at the Public
Library next Saturday morning
Madame MountfOrd will give an ad
dress.