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The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Portrait Kept Up to Date.

A New York artist has an annual income of $500, correspondent of the Pittsburg Dispatch writes. Once A year he puts a new gown on a figure in family portrait just to keep the painting in style. His patron is a widow of wealth About ten years ago she sent for the artist and command ed him to put an up-te-date gown on the portrait of her mother q cannot bear to look at that oldfashioned gown" she explained as she pointed to the skirt or the canvas. Ma al. ways thought a lot about style and I have been thinking how she would have felt to be seen in clothes so ridiculous. l want you to paint a ne,v dress on ma I have been studying the latest fashions and know inst what l want" The artist said if would be vandal's work to touch tba portrait. If you do not carry out my wishes,' said the widow, q can find someone who will" In week ma q n peared as an up-to-date Iadv who patronized the best modistes And every season, or when there is any noticeable change in style. the nor. trait is made to look up to date.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
GIRLS WITH TASTY TEMPERS.

The charms of youth at once are seen
 and past;
 And nature says: They are too sweet to
 last"
 So blooms the rose. and so the blushing
 maid.
 Be gay, not cross. Too soon the flowers
 of spring will fade.
 It is always the most seemingly per feet peach that is found to have a speck on it. It is always the ideal maiden who possesses just one little fault that keeps her out of the earth angel class and puts her in the ranks of human girlhood
 Those who live under the roof with a girl are the first to discover her failings In all the catalogue of faults none is so hard for those about her to contend with as nasty temper. Each and every member of the family is obliged to be constantly on his or her guard lest by some thoughtlessly spo- ken word or act eler temper may be aroused and family quarrel ensue.
 To imagine a child is born with a hasty temper is a mistake. The spirit is fostered in the child in infancy. am sorry to say philosophers and doc tors at large firmly assert the mother has much to do with cultivating a baby's bad temper or succeeding by patience in roofing it out
 It is said that the child soon discov- CTS that 1t can have anything it wants by screaming hard enough for it. re- fusing to be quelled until it conquers Exasperated mothers, with nerves all atingle, do anything, give them what they want, to hush the distressing cries. Through childhood. girlhood and into womanhood they carry the wand which has proved so successful | for them.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
TIME FOR PROPER MATCHING
Character of Range Must Be consid- ered-confined Fowls Do Not
 Develop Very Rapidly.

Growing chicks that have, during the summer. been provided with an abundance of range, shade and green food will grow much more rapidly and more evenly than those crowded into small bare yards The character of the range must. therefore, be con- sidered in deciding on the time for proper matching.
 If the chicks are matched too early they are apt to go into a fall mott af- ter laying a few eggs in the summer, and are not likely to resume laying again until well into the winter, or after one or more of the most profita- ble laying months have passed. On the other hand, they should be matched early enough to allow suffi- cient time for normal maturity be- fore the coming of cold weather in the fall.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

.oana,ntances. friends and sweet. hearts are not so amenaole aS ' ,., family and refuse to give the girl "l'H a bastv temper her own way hele fore she gets many jolt and neal ache as she goes through life.
 If she must earn her own iN'hs hasty temper is the most seilou' drawback she could be cursed "''.,. E,nn1over or fellow workers Will hot submit to her will She soon u'seo' CTS that her lack of judgment ID ho' holding her peace and her tongue A''s cost her a good position.
 After few such experiences sno practices that which she should ha, . been made to do in ehildhood-eoro,S, her angry emotions by strong VIII power
 The most pftifui thing that can nap pen q young woman is to carry nas'y temper into her married life All ol the happiness of her after life depehoS upon the disposition of the man sue has annexed. If he is of a peacel ut nature. abhoring contention, he ~iH most likely continue to give her her own way just as her home folks h"'4 '. done and live in continual turino" ever after. These are the husbanus who are apt to vote marriage failure
 Sweethearts quarrels usually mean .bo+ on., o. tho other pOssesses a has ty temper. It should be overcome III the trying school of eourtship. A nasty temper is the cause of more misery in this world than most people are aware of. This is just a word or warning to those who need it.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

breast meat, because they have naturs ally long breasts with great width be- tween the thighs.
 These qualities can be improved by carefully selecting breeding stock. us- ing only hens that are of heavy weight. with great length of body, con siderable width between the thighs and long breast bones. The males used should be cockerels of the same type. but with a little more length of leg.
 Both males and females should be close feathered. with scant hook. leg and toe feathering Brahmas of this type were great favorites few years ago for market poultry. They were partly lost sight of for some time. but are again being bred to some extent in the poultry districts of New England.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

mankind have never witnessed. and never will witness, case of hydro phobia. which is disease so rare that a good many persons have doubts whether 1t really exists To many world without dogs would lose a con siderable amount of it's charm. The dog is the one animal which has been completely domesticated. the one ami nal that looks up to man with love and veneration in it's eyes. Is there in all literature any passage more pathetic than Homer's description of Ulysses return to his native heAth,
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

forth in search of ] kindred heart. The same desire animates ali species en- dowed with life-to answer to the trumpet call of spring.
 Few men like to change their mode of living in the cold of winter They are costly housed and comfortable and are not averse to letting it go at that. In the springtime. mixed with the joy of living, certain twinge of loneli- ness creeps in. He longs to be in the open, to have someone near who en- joys the sunshine as much as he does.
 Aye, and when the balmy evenings come, heralding tte delights of sum- mer, the human nature In him cries out necessarily for someone's dear lit tie hands to hold. someone to make love to, not lightly with no further thought than the enjoyment of gol- den hour, but with the earnest inten- tion of wooing in the spring and we'd ding while the g orious summer IS still here. That is why so many matches are made in summer.
 NOu6u, tOO, dlt lIONSd Dy opi III . influences in affairs of the heart. The girl who has steadfastly refused to look upon man in the light of a lover while the world was white and cold in its mantle of snow and ice more often than not changes her mind without apparent rhyme or reason as the warm, sweet Gays draw on apace. Women are more romantic than men; they love to be .old the old, sweet story under the ligat of the May moon. If he has not quite arrived at the pro- posing time. for enc reason or an other, by that mystical month. any oth- CT month of the dear old summertime will do, but the earlier the better. A happy man is he who has taken time by the forelock, mas passed through the courtship stat3 successfully and is awaiting a glorious spring day to have the wedding solemnized.
 Why not make your vacation we'd ding trip? Many man has settled the question in that happy manner ard ever afterward has cause to bless the hour that the thought occurred to hifn. Women delight in spring be trothals, weddings and bridal trips. Why shouldn't they when it Is the most delightful season of the entire year? They, too, take their little les sons from the b'lthesome robins of spring.
 Unfortunate Is the man who sees the balmy months approaching with no sweetheart to aid him to greet 1t. Wise is he who repairs the lack of fore sight by remedying the unfortunate situation at the earliest day possible. No energetic man who realizes the re- sponsibility placed upon him by al lowing him entrance to this world and the privilege of lying here should shirk his duty of going forth to find the mate the Lord has created for him.
 His father Adam and mother Eve mated in the springtime, supposedly. At least, I have always beheld them in all the pictures I have seen. wan dering through the early blossoms holding hands. Therefore what more natural than that their descendants should likewise choose the early spring to woo and mate?
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

indoors all day long and work making limitations or hoWers the child has never seen?
 Some Starttinq Cases
 And yet have seen children begin to learn to make artificial flowers when they were only two years old do not say that children of that age are compelled or coaxed by their mothers to work but 1t is this way
 The baby sits in chair by the table watching mother and the other children work The baby stretches out it's hands. grabbing petal or a leaf To satisfy his desire the mother gives the baby a few petals, showing him how to pull them apart. At three or four the child is already efficient worker, able to earn about ten cents day.
 Here some of the facts:
 mother and two daughters, living and work ing in tenement. so dark that an oil lamp must be kept burning all day in order that they may see to work, make forget-menot wreaths. They receive seven cents for one dozen wreaths. and can earn s420 every 15 days.
 frai delicate mother of. five children sits at a table in their two-room flat from morning until late at night putting artificial berries stems She earns from ten to fifteen cents a day.
 In four-room flat, where three children have died os tuberculosis and two others were suffering from it. mother and eleven-year-old girl made artificial roses at 15 cents gross.
 In one home Saturday morning four chi dren ten, nine six and four years old, were found sitting by a table the window making cherries They had been there since six o'clock in the morning, ana WorkeQ edcn uay until elShl o'clock at night.
 No child above four or five is considered too young to work The hours for all whether ehi dren or adults, determined not by law, not by physical welfare but by the amount of work the factory gives out to be done. If there is an extra amount of work the whole family work from half past five in the morning until ten or eleven at night and sometimes even until one or two o'clock in the morning stopping only long enough to eat their scanty meal of spaghetti. dry bread and cof fec on which they seem to subsist.
 Breaking the Labor Law.
 In the 165 families studied by the investigator for the Consumers league 60l children were found More than IS per cent of these fourteen years and over and were contributing something to the family income; about 36 per cent were five years and under, too young to work, though in few cases children of this age found helping with the flowers. Out of the remaining 46 per cent between the ages of six and fourteen who might be found helping IA per cent were busily at work at the time of the investigators call At least II per cent then of the children who able to do this work were violating the child labor law of New York state
 How many more could be included in this list 1t was impossible to ascertain. Many families were visited during the morning, when the children were at school and it only through the word of the mother that were able to determine whether or not the children helped with the flow, CTS after school hours. For the most part only cases of children who actually found at work were listed Therefore. the estimate is a very servative one
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

and roasted peanuts You could see him at this stand in the early morning before people went to work and late at night after they returned nome from the theater. He there in all kinds or weather and he had been the same spot for To years During this period his wife and later HIS children helped to swell his bank account by mak- ing artificial flowers. When the war began there the bank where Tonys father kept his savings The bank was closed, and then the poor man reason gave way. He was taken to an insane asylum. and Tony, not being able to keep up his fathers business, took to selling flowers as his trade.
 And Tony is not the only man" at the early age of thirteen
 Owners of flower factories find it more profitable to have work done in the tenements by women ana children The flower factories give out parts of fowers-petas, leaves, and stems-to be made up into whole flowers and wreaths by the workers ID their homes Usually the oldest child in the fam fly calls for these parts which she carries home in huge pasteboard box When the flowers are done she brings them back to the factory and the boss pays her for the work.
 The petals which usually come from the factory in punches, must be separated and then pasted to- gether with the leaves and stems Sometimes there are many nine pieces which must be joined before the flowers are ready to be returned to the factory Buds are made by tying pieces of silk over a round ball of cotton. The work, though slow and tedious, is not hard and can be done with very little skill and practice. Whole families were found busily working around a table in the kltchen or living room pasting and twisting and punching the gayly colored flowers which sometimes give the only bright note to an otherwise desperately dingy home
 Worst Paid Work.
 The price paid for the work is perhaps the low est in any trade, Prices vary from two cents gross for pasting leaves stems to s140 a gross for making flower wreaths One girl of fifteen, who had trouble with her spine, found at work putting berries the ends of stems and receiving for the work only cent gross She told the in- vestigator that she made usually ten cents day. But when my little sister helps me-" she added. 'I make fifteen cents day.
 It is these conditions that the Consumers league is striving to abolish. And the activities of the Consumers league not limited to the flower in- dustry. The members of the league are working which women and young children employed, and have been doing great work in educating the people the dangers of woman and child labor under unsantary conditions.
 By pointing out the dangers to the consumer through goods made in dark and airless. homes. where scarlet fever and other contagious diseases found to exist, the leaders of the league have already accomplished many good results. But there is much work to be done. Few realize how closely connected lives with the lives of the workers along certain industrial lines. It is not only the health of the workers that is often at stake but the conditions are menace to the consumers we'll and the danger to society is great
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

the answer would be-cranks, though these beings would be called by some more euphonious name.
 Speaking for ourselves, however, we should prefer one good dog to all the cranks in Christendom. But the doc tor says that dogs are dangerous be- cause they go mad and bite people. Well, all the cranks bite people, too, end the madness of the cranks Is more dangerous than the madness of dogs, since there is vastly more crank madness in the world than dog-mad- ness. The overwhelming majority of
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
POULTRY EAC11S,
POPULAR BREEDS FOR MEAT
er,bmas. cochins and Langshans Are Named as Being Among Best All
 Around Heavyweights.

The hest all-around heavyweight fowl Cor inc nreduetion of large broilers and medium and heavy roasters and capons ,s inc Brahma. The Cochins and Lang ahsps are also excellent meat breeds. The Light Brahma has been the most nonular. but the Dark Brahma at it's host is fully as good. Both can be bred with the greatest amount Of
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
HAS GOOD WORD FOR DOGS
One Man, at Least, Prefers Their Companonship to That of the
 Pestiferous Crank.

Dr. Haven Emerson. New York's commissioner of health. told an audi ence which he was addressing the oth- CT day that he would like to banish all dogs from the city. Dogs are not necessary to cultured existence"
 We'll, what is necessary to a cul.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
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Egg-case Filler.

separating the layers are slit so that under the center of each egg compart- ment there is series of radiating tongues, long enough to yield under ordinary shock, but stiff enough to re- main in substantially the same plane. In the right-hand figure we show three different ways of making the slits.- Independent Farmer.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

after his ten years of strenuous fight ing around the walls of Troy, only to find that nobody recognizes him ex- cept his old dog. which greets him with joy? Before considering the ban ishment of dogs would it not be ad- yisable to consider the punishment of cranks ?-Rocheste Herald.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
PRACTICAL EGG-CASE FILLER
Much Loss Caused by Brcakaee Where Too Much Space Is Allowed
 Defect Is Overcome.

It Is said that the breakage is from 3 to per cent when eggs are packed in the ordinary filters, because too much space is allowed for each egg ant the partitions are insufficientlyA elastic In this scheme the flat sheets U
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

with less resist ance to the little god of love it is in { h e tender springtime. Man is a thinking be- ing whether he will or no, and no matter which way he turns he sees the suggestion ev- anywhere t h a t springtime is mat ing time.
 If he hasn't a sweetheart, what's the reason? He sees bird and bee shake the drowsi- ness of winter
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Keep Complete Records.

Keep a record of your flock the year round It is the only way to find how much money they are earning. Charge yourself a reasonable price for all the eggs you use
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Don't Mix.

Poultry of different ages and breeds. Eggs of different sizes, ages and colers.
 The market pays from two to eight cents more for eggs of uniform size, color and quality.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

An English inventors safety suit for aviators is covered with parachute like pockets and the entire garment can be inflated to help break the force ct a wearer's fall.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Merely a Runner

Maude-l hear that young sapleieb was thrown on his own resources
 Clara-Probably 1t was someth,,o like that. He told me that he fell of r truck.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Matinn of G.asa

A mating of geese can be continued Tor seven or eight years without a change.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Hens Pay for Neets

Hens like clean. comfortable dark nests. The hens reward us well if provided with them.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Good Shinninn ParnaI.

oTIPpIhg Parcels. II you are shipping hens to town 4. VIII pay you to get good shipping p4r cells. They are cheap.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
When PuIIets Law

AS d usual thing chickens do not lay untll they are ten or twelve months old.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
Poor Place fnr Pnn..;.

Do hoI let the hens roost in the COW barn. implement house. or other out buildings.
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25
La1lrd6@qaaEbbey,s g IIVlM)N g 
SPRING MARRIAGES.
n the spring a young mans fancy Lightly turns to thought of love.

If there is one tune more than an- other when men are inclined to yield
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

oh q Solu AIBdi ilhC lill6
 The women and men laughed; they thought 1t was clever. But there was one man who did not laugh. All night the vision of those pale. emaciated chil- dren sitting around the stove haunted him, and for a long time he was tor tured by the heartache eff. feet of the grim joke. He is now one of the chief workers of the movement to abolish child labor.
 It is not pleasant, these facts relating to the work of children. Some of them almost challenge credibil- ity. For how could any mother allow her tiny baby. three or four years old, who is even too young for the kindergarten, to sit
The Monticellonian., 1916-05-25

Most artificial flowers are made b, children in disease-infested tenemen houses under very bad working condi tons. Efforts made to stop the ev
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-10
CORONER FINED BY JUDGE A. H. ALSTON FOR BEING ABSENT Attachment Issued for Cor Oner Spain On Failure
 to Answer Summons
 In Walton Case

Because Coroner c. l.. Spain did not answer when his name was called Thurs day afternoon to take the witness chair in the case of the state against Louis Walton he was fined S1O by Judge A. H. Aston in the third division of the crimi- nal court At the instance of the solici- tor an attachment was issued for the coroner, and upon his appearance in the court room was fined for failure to an- swer the summons of the court.
 When fined by Judge Alston, MT. Spain said that he did not have the money to pay the fine, but he supposed he might borrow it, as he had borrowed money to run the countys business for more than three years.
 MT. Spain said he left the court room, first with the intention of getting the money to pay the fine, but changed his mind and decided to let them lock him up, send his clerk home, and close the door of his office until the fine should be served. When he returned to Judge Alston's court to surrender he was in- formed that the fine had been remitted.
 "The reason l was not there," said MT. Spain, twas because I was trying to attend all three divisions of the crim- inal court. and happened to be in the witness chair in another division
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-10
PRESBYTERIANS TO
 ERECT BUILDINGS
 AT ORPHANS HOME

David P Anderson, Charles R. Plosser and Russell c. Booth were in Talladega yesterday attending meeting of the ex- ecutive committee of the Orphans Home of the synod of Alabama. The com mittee has been working for the past year raising funds for the erection of two new buildings, one manual train- ing building for boys to cost s5OO0 and the other a cottage sufficient to accom- modate 20 more girls the cottage to cost $5O0O also.
 By the generous gift of $500 from a friend of the home, who met with the committee Thursday, but desires her name withheld from publication, the to- tai amount now on hand is $7OOO.
 The boys building will be started at once, and an active campaign will be made among the Presbyterians of Ala bama for the balance of the money needed for the other building
The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-10
DECLINES
 T0bE CANDIDATE

New York, March 9.--Colonel Roose- welt, who is now at Trinidad British West Indies, in a statement given out today through the Evening Mail, emphat- ically declines to be a candidate in the primaries of Massachusetts or of any other state.
 I will not enter into any fight for the nomination" the colonel says, ''and I will not permit any factional fight to be made in my behalf. Indeed. will go fur ther and say that it would be a mistake to nominate me unless the country has in It's mind something of the heroic. unless 1t feels not only like devoting itself to ideals. bat to the concrete measures to realize those ideals in action
 'We are at time now when we are separated by long intervals of histories of the nations, when action determines the life of our populOus generations that are to follow. From 1776 to 17s9 was such time, in the days of Washington and from 1859 to 1865 in the days of Lin coin.
 Tt is for us of today to grapple with the tremendous national and interna tionaI problems of our own hour in the spirit and with the ability shown by those who upheld the hands of Washington and Lincoln"