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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

Goes not earn enough to more than
keep himself decently, but for all that,
If she consent, they rush for a mas
riage license and are speedily made
one.
The youthful bride, fully as foolish
as the youth she has welded, has not
even asked where the bread and butter
are to come from, and they face the
world, most pitiable example of a
reckless marriage How they manage
TO exist for ever so short while upon
his earnings can better be imagined
than described It's a case of living
from hand to mouth. Meanwhile they
grow poorer and poorer. The girl has
been brought up Sinking work, find
ing her chief amusement in flirting and
attending movies That she is expect
ed to work after marriage-cook, wash,
iron, sew and scrub-appalls her. If
little one comes into their home
she is more upset than ever. She
knows nothing whatever of how it
should be cared for. She could not
cut out garment for it or herself and
put it together if her life depended
on it.
Both wake up to the conclusion that
welded life is not the rosy dream they
thought it was going to be. With hard
ships, romance and admiration take
flight. If in the close bond which
holds them love develops, they can and
will face the future bravely Baby
gives an added stimulus to their ambi-
ton. If fascination has worn itself out
they cling together only for the sake
of the child who has tied the heart
strings of both together in an I'M
breakable knot.
Years alone can bring wisdom. If
the wife is brought to the realization
that she, after all, is the homemaker,
total wreck can be avoided by her
turning over new leaf, studying
economy and practicing it.
Every girl who aspires to the re-
sponsibility of becoming a wife should
be trained from girlhood up to be fit
ted for it. She should know the great
value of doing her own marketing,
buying nutritious foods wisely, and the
all-important science of cooking and
utilizing the left-overs. She should
know how to make her own clothes.
She who has bent over them, patient
ly putting in every stitch, will be apt
to take care of them.
Many young married couple that
have entered the welded state with
scarcely thimbleful of sense in Ell
Their brain have developed into a
thrifty pair, exemplifying the old saw
that "A poor beginning often turns out
the best in the long run"
Youths and maidens in their early
days will tread the path they are en-
cOuraged to enter. Young men should
be warned Of the gravity of taking a
wife before they are able to support
one comfortably. Young girls should
not be allowed to wed until they are
competent to take full charge of a
home of their own. But what's the
use of advising? Young men and wom-
en- lose their heads completely when
they fall in love. So there YOU are.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
Potato Affected with Common seab.


on the other hand, is carried by infect
ed seed. No potatoes showing a deep
brown discoloration at the stem end
should be planted.
sulphur tends to prevent common
scab Il is not a substitute for cor
rosive sublimate or formaldehyde, but
is a good arier for cut seed. Applied
TO scab-infected soils at the rate Of
500 pounds per acre it reduces the
scab. but such heavy applications can
not be generally recommended as
profitable Preliminary experimental
trials are advised.
How to Disinfsct Seed.
The formaldehyde treatment con-
sists of soaking the potatoes. before
cutting. for two hours in a solution
made by adding one pint of formal
dehyde to 80 gallons OF water. The
solution can be used repeatedly. The
gas treatment is no longer recon-
mended.
Corrosive suhlimate is used at the
rate OF IL 900 for one and one-half to
two hours. Dissolve two ounces Of the
salt in hot water and dilute to is gal
Ions. This is s. deadly poison. Use
with great care. 1t must also be kept
In wood. porcelain. or glass vessels.
as it attacks metal. 1t is more effec-
tive than formaldehyde. particularly
against rhiEoctonia and powdery scab.
Do not use the same solution more
than three times, SIS the strength
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
GATHERED FACTS

Toads live about fifteen years on the
average.
The number of women employed In
Germany increased from January 1 to
July /, 1915. by 100000.
Outside of America, the alligator is
found only in China. Only one species
is found in the Celestial empire.
The thick stem of the cactus is a
provision OF nature to reduce the loss
of water by evaporation to mini
mum
An aged Salt Lake City gambler, IA
nous since the early days, who COM
mitted suicide recently. was husband
to one Of the leading Salvation Army
workers in the chief Mormon center
and had been supported by her for
some years.
Live white fish and carp are shipped
from the Great Lakes in an express
tank car. This tank car is equipped
with covered metal tanks. Thus TO-.
900 pounds Of live fish can be accom-
modated in one car. Air is forced into
the water to keep it fresh. and the fish
reach their distant market in good con-
dition-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
TREATING sCoURS IN HORSES
Ninth Part Wheat 5ran-HaVe
Teeth Attended To.

For scours in horses, feed mixture
of whole oats and one-ninth part of
wheat bran by weight, allowing one and
a fifth pounds of this for each hundred
pounds of body weight as a days ra-
ton. In the same way feed one pound
of hay per hundred pounds Of body
weight Increase hay and decrease
the grain mixture when the horse is
idle. Let him run out in the yard
daily, when not at work and when
the weather is fine. Muzzle him be-
tween meals if he eats his bedding.
Allow free access to rock salt. Give
the drinking water before meals I'M
less he has access to pure water at
all times. Have his teeth attended
to by a veterinarian. and if he bolts
his feed mix some hard peas with it
or put it in very large box, or have
some cobblestones in the feed box.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
If EVERYONE KNOWS you.

To thine own self be true
And it must follow as the night the day
Thou canSt rot be false to anyone.
To be well and favorably known in
a community is the greatest passport
to favor a young man can possess.
The average person thinks it is the
easiest thing in the world for young
man of good looks and good manners
to select a sweetheart and WOO and
win her. Nothing is further from the
truth. The falling in love part is
easy enough-it is a custom that goes
on exactly the same in all ages and all
time-but to become the lover of the
girl who has caught his fancy is
often a most difficult feat to accom-
plish.
The day of the foolish virgin is we'll
nigh past Girls of today have hearts
just as tender, but they do not wear
them on their sleeves. They have
brains and weigh a man carefully in
the scale of judgment before they ad-
NIT him to their friendship, such as
exchanging bows or a pleasant word
or two if they are brought into con-
tact. If young man asks permission
to call, that is quite different matter.
If he bears a good name, is we'll
spoken of by his employer and asso-
ciates, he may be accorded the privi-
lege of spending an evening now and
then with the young lady he admires.
If, on the other hand, he bears a
reputation Observation-Disclosures as as
sociating with undesirable young men
and girls far advanced on the down
war paths seen drinking, betting,
hobnobbing with corner loafers, is
heard to make insulting remarks
about women, the average father
would sooner see scorpion enter his
door than have such a social leper
call on his innocent daughter.
1t is not true that this is mans
world that he can go ever so far
along the road of folly and turn over
new leaf when the occasion suits
him, wed a pure, fair maiden and live
happily ever after A man thoroughly
bad cannot treat the best women in
the world with deep and sincere re-
spect from the first to last during
courtship. No matter how carefully he
may be on his guard neither to do nor
say aught that might cause her dis
may, there is more than apt to be
some word carelessly spoken which
will give a thoughtful girl an insight
into his true character If everyone
speaks i'll of a man, it should be de-
manded Of him that he clear up such
imputations ere aspiring to the friend
ship, let alone the love, of a girl
worthy of a noble mate in marriage.
Let man give himself bad name
and it will cling to him tenaciously,
refusing to be shaken off or purged
away 1t is the most difficult thing
in the world to make, youths believe
this or cause them to value an excel
lent reputation. When a girl weds
an acknowledged scapegrace, whom
everyone knows to have all the faults
in the calendar, with the avowed pur-
pose of reforming him, she has given
herself a gigantic, l may say impos-
sible, task to accomplish. Where one
woman succeeds, million fail. There
is no process by which bad egg can
be made good again.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
PAINT is MOST PROFITABLE
Sun and Wind Are Always at Work
and Slowly Grind Away at All
Buildings on Farm.

Protect your barn, home or fence
with coat of paint and give it a
newness that is worth while. Sun,
wind and weather are always at work
and slowly they grind away at our
buildings. Rust is also another enc
my that loses no chance to do his
work of destroying.
Paint will protect your property and
machinery from the elements and rust.
By using little paint you can save
money and add beauty to the sur
roundings For the time and money
spent, paint seems to bring exception
ally good returns. Paint now, and
paint anything that needs it. Paint
any time you have a chance.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

diminishes with each lot of potatoes
soaked.
To treat large quantities, set sew
eral barrels on a slightly elevated plat
form. Fit a plug in hole in the bot
tom of each barrel, fill with potatoes,
cover with solution, let stand two
hours, draw of solution, and pour into
another barrel. Increase the number
of barrels in proportion to the guam
THY to be treated Another method
is to use large wooden vat or trough,
into which the potatoes in sacks are
lowered by rope and pulley and later
hauled out. drained, and dried on slat-
ted racks.
Seed potatoes may be treated sew
eral weeks before planting, provided
they are not reinfected by storing in
old containers or storage bins.
Sprouted potatoes are injured by
treatment, but will throw out new
sprouts. In general, however. pota-
toes will not be injured by following
the above directions Many growers
believe termination is improved by
treatment.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

Potato Affected With Russell Scab,
Showing Russeting and Cracking AS
ISOLATED With Rhizoctonia of West
ern Potato.
against deep pits Of common scab.
Formaldehyde is less effective than
corrosive sublimate against the black
sclerOtia or resting bodies of rhizoc-
tonia, or russell scab, and against pow
derry scab. Neither chemical, as or
dinarily used, will destroy silver scurf.
Either one will kill surface infections
of blackleg but neither fusarium wilt
nor late blight infection in potato tu-
bers can be reached by any seed treat
ment, nor can any of the nonparasitic
diseases Of potatoes, such as mosaic
leaf roll and curly dwarf, be prevent
ed. See Farmers Bulletin 544 for
description of these troubles.
Clearly, therefore, the most impor-
tant precaution against these diseases
is to select clean, disease-free seed
potatoes from healthy, vigorous plants,
as determined by field inspection dur
AAAE AAiC 5AOhi ms oCcloO1l anu db letl FCSI
Seed treatment should then be applied
as an additional precaution.
Soil Conditions and Potato Diseases.
Soil conditions have an important re-
latiOn to potato tuber diseases, and
many of these are widely spread
throughout the country, perhaps ma
tive to some soils. Common scab is
favored by a neutral or slightly al
kaline soil, and seldom gives trouble in
acid soils. 1t is therefore increased
by lining and by fresh stable manure,
wood ashes, and alkaline fertilizers,
such as nitrate Of soda and ground
bone. while acid phosphate and sui
plate of ammonia tend to diminish
scab.
Rhizoctonia occurs to some extent
in nearly all soils, but appears to at
tack potatoes most when the condi-
lions are unfavorable to the best de-
velopment of the potato plant. Bring
the land to an ideal state of filth to
minimize loss from rhizoctonia.
POwdery scab is worst on cold, wet,
or poorly drained soils. Blackleg.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

The young man who stoutly main
tains that ii is quite ridiculous for
his father to insist upon going to the
same dance that he does and trip the
light fantastic toe as merrily as he
does has something to learn about old
heads and young hearts.
How is youth to realize that the
average daddy feels quite as young at
heart as his son does? 1t may not
look very dignified for the white
haired man to hop about a glazed
floor like a bewildered fly upon a win
dow pane, but he knows why he is
doing it. Not so much that he hopes
TO cut a good figure with young WON
en- as that it is nightly important to
his health not only to keep his avoir-
dupois down, but to keep the rheu-
matte twinges out of his joints and
lumbago from his back.
A man is never so old that his
heart will not beat the faster when
the band starts up a good old IA
miliar waltz. The present seems to
slip from him and in imagination he
is one of the boys again, valiantly
suing for the favor of the prettiest
girl at the ball. Daddy is as nimble
OF foot now as he was then. he as
sures himself. He was the idol of
all the lassies when he used to tread
the measures Of the stately minuet
or if he was in a gayer mood. cavort
through the merry Highland fling, or
the money musk.
The newfsngled dances bother him
little but he does not intend that
they shall down him. The pleasantest
recollsctions of his life are connected
with the joys Of the dance. II was at
a ball he first beheld the girl he was
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
MINERAL FEEDS NO BENEFIT
Negative Results Obtained In Tests
Conducted at the Iowa Expert
ment Station.

Pigs fed at the Iowa station W.T.
given free-will choice OF Il different
minerals while being fed on corn and
its products, but results were mega
tive, as the minerals did not appar-
emily help the stock in any way.
Among minerals available were rock
salt. charcoal. limestone. bone ash.
cinders. slack coal, wood ashes, glaC-
ber's salts. epson salts, calcium cit
rate and baking soda.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

Most important Precaution in
Control of Potato SCab.
Distinction Treatment Is an Added
Foresight-Neither VIII Be Eff
fective If Soil Is Already
Full of Disease.

(Frorn the United States Department of
Agriculture.)
The treatment of seed potatoes with
formaIdehyde or with corrosive sub
Innate has been recommended for
many years as preventive of scab
and other diseases carried on the tu-
bers.
Such treatment is, on the whole,
profitable, but has several limitations
which should be clearly recognized
to prevent disappointment, according
to the specialists of the department.
The object of disinfecting seed pota-
toes is to destroy the germs of scab
and other surface parasites which
might otherwise be planted with the
seed and infect the new crop. Only
surface infections are reached by this
method 1t is only partially effective
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
PLAN FOR CUTTING SPINACH
Convenient Way Is to Use Sharp
Hoe to Slice OFF Large Plants
of Edible Size.

AS convenient a way as any for
cutting spinach is to use sharp hoe
to slice off the large plants as soon
as they reach the edible size, thus
leaving the smaller ones for week
or two to grow larger. By so doing
the season can be somewhat extend
ed without risk of having the plants
develop seed stalks, which they will
start to do at the first hint of warm
weather.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
The Discharge.

Under the blazing sun of an Oriental
July day the workmen were building
the now famous tower of Cable.
Leapold Boroo, the eminent master
builder, hurrying thither and yon mop
ping his forehead with a large planta-
ton leaf came on two workmen seated
on a pile of masonry matching
shekels.
What's this?" yelled Boroo. Don't
you know we're three days behind in
the work as it is? You're fired, both
of youl Here. take your pay and go!"
And he gave them each a weeks
wages and kicked them of the ma
sonry and the premises. Then he
hunted up Maxim Cork, the foreman,
to give him a piece of his mind.
But" said Cork, these mer were
only looking for job"
Mr.. Boroo's further remarks have
been judiciously deleted By the con-
scr, who has thus demonstrated that
a censor occasionally has some sense
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
PROGRESS OF TOY Buzz
Industry Moving Slowly 70 I 4
Account Of increased Wv -
rious Kinds Of M''''''

Toy making is progress, J
in Japan, despite the sit', y
This is due to the gres y. y :.
cost of raw materials. ~ -
mostly used are yarlou, -. 3
ored paper tinfol' - -
cloths. dyes, cardboard d. = Z
celIuloid. Prices Of l'I . Z
have risen in some ea'', NJ
with prospects oil sO'D'
future.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

those people who
were never in
tended to be mat
ed rushing into
the holy bonds of
matrimony only to
live miserably I'M
happy ever after.
A youth meets a
pretty miss in her
early teens. ad-
mires her and, i'm
a g n j n g t h Q
strange futtering
at his heart to lie
love, which he has
heard so much
a b o u t, proposes
marriage a f t e r
scarce half a doz-
en- meetings. He
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
astudylnan under pifhcuIties.

Il suppose" yentured the interested
friend Of the family, that John is
still burning the midnight oil at col.
lege?" Yes, indeed" responded the
fond but puzzled mother, but the col.
lege must furnish a very inferior quail.
ity of oil John writes me that some
midnights the light is so poor he can
hardly read his hand"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

And all the Elves went sung
and flying off to gather the uia
for the Balloons.
They painted them With
magic paint brushes and mad.
look very fresh and gay. SMl
were all ready, and Woodbiae va
in the air in his green Balloon D
see what it was like to fly ID n
way.
"In every one, you know, thGA
little swing, and ready to use al
ments notice was a parasd I
thought the parasols would Do Z
didly If Mr.. Sun looked at tAsI
hard-for, of course, 1t was n''i
would be most interested % g
nying party.
And they also thought they /
do Just as well in case the ~
the Clouds became curl0a
brought out all the rain drops
at them.
"They all began to fly soon ~
they did enjoy it. Over The hI
valleys they went, and Woe
came to nice NOISY groai'
streams or by cool spring
would stop and have delicious
of water in the cups they DAG
along with them, made Of nia
After they had been flI
hours and hours and hour
became very sleepy so they N
in their little swings and Fen'
sound asleep. The night e0''
the night wind carried lhsl
still farther on their trip, ana
rise they were ready to steer n~
Balloons. II
For breakfast they VISITED
Dragon. who lived in CO"
sort of purple moss for hans4
his doors and windows y
after they began to make 'ns.s
homeward, but very, very "
they stopped and saw thelf y I.
the way and were adnlfs'
beautiful Balloons. Ana
was a proud Elf because "
gested the whole trip
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
Fine Distinction

A congressional committee went to
northwestern state to assist in
opening an exposition. There was a
parade in the morning in which all
the visiting statesmen rode in auto
mobiles The local committee brought
the cars around to the leading hotel.
The scheme was to have two senators
or representatives and two local men
IN each car. After the vice president
and bis party had been sent away a
local notable who was acting as NAV
iordomo came into the lobby OF the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
DOES 1T PAY?

To buy cheap seeds because
good seeds are scarce and high
in price?
OF course it does not.
Records which have been kept
of the time and labor expended
and the yield secured tell the
story.
It's the same all along the
line. Cheap seeds never paid
and never will.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
n,,liEsd Climbing

Margie, aged fve' w, -, )
floor Of an apartmsnl 10 -, b
day after climbing the s, ~, )
Mamma, Is heaven hi'''
house, ..,ssr
yes, dear" was TIE - ,,.,' =
"Wnl we go there
she asked. I'D D
Yes; II We are
mother 70
well. then. mam'nS - -
Tets be real gooay J, a Z
the angels will let u
ground fool
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

u|EAIR IjEii'EyI!
b NARY GRAHAM S S.'
Elves TRIP IN s.I'

Children a nI sDe SO ANXIOUS al 1T.
he began it before I he y, a' Vi
trouble to sit down, D'a a.,
The Balloons were =,
you can think Ot-thsr - e. s,''l /
ones green ones. orsn,. Sea 8
ones OF pink, purple, red ~
blue and dark blue, br IN ss',.s
and silver. But Of cOp p,ssp : n
are wondering why l am ,a ~
OF the various colOrs Of ~
and nothing about the B. lrS Y
selves. 'al0aas !,
You see it was this v,v, i.
had been thinking Of tsE f,, l''s
they wanted to take Quite ,t,aS ID
So a little Elf named Woas y {
gested that all go of for an :. ! /
But they couldn't think h 4 y \. 3
of going, as their airsbios W. !. "
rived and they were in lon n.y. ~,
hurry to be off TO wait
ships. W q 1
And again little woodbD. :.
Why not go in Balloons,
circuses that little Boys and ~
to l have heard-and olso Az ~. ~
over the villages-great Bsr, ~
a person in each Balloon vari' ~
on a sort Of wooden swin,-.',
their heads they had CAV D,,'.,
many colors.'
That's a fine scheme 4.
shouted. Let's have Balloo,, |,
will we get them?
We can make them o,,,.
said Woodbine. Tn sure N \
cuses the Balloons are made ~,
just come walking in Of thai, ~.
will and accord. We will s,a
a Balloon-and every Elf will M
all for himself-but be sp,. ;.
make a fine parasol to match MI
loon. The Balloons | have san \
been dull and most unipters,i,, |
not like the parasols. But vsp
bright colored ones-evey N \
make a Balloon OF his isyoBn j
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
inconsistent.

THE average woman seems to think
it is beneath her dignity to carry a
spool OF thread home from the store
when she goes shopping"
Very true, but she makes up for
it by Juggling a great heavy dog in
her arms wherever she goes"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
LOOKING Ahead.

Judge-This is the fifth time you
have been brought before me for In
toxication, O'Brieni
O'Brien-Yis, yer honor, thot's
roight. If OF kape on ON be able TO
come be mesilf!
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
ACCEPTED DESIGN OF KEY MONUMENT

The Francis Scott Key monument
commission has accepted the de-
sign here shown submitted by C.. E.
Niehaus. well-known sculptor of
New Rochelle, N. Y, for the monu-
ment that is to be erected in Balti-
more to the author Of 'The Star
Spangled Banner" Thirty-four sculp-
tors submitted designs for the work.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13

For Matching. select only such eggs
as are of normal size and of normal
shape. Very large or very small eggs
or those of freakish shapes or with
freakish shells should always be re-
tected,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
Teacher Was ~ ",

Little George-p .ti. :, -
me- the other dag t to-, + aa =
strike anyone sla a., : tA. -
Papa-That's we, .,,Esr.f
,s both wrong and ,S IN -
Little George ~. ~
tell that to ny tss y
sbe knows about j
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
Her Reason.

Mrs. Dyer-If your husband mis-
treats you, why don't you get d.
vorce?
Mrs. Ryer-I don't believe he could
pay the alimony to which have been
accustomed.-Judgs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-06-13
The Idea!

What is your husbands name, ma
damn" asked the directory canvasser
John Smith"
plain John Smith, eh?'
mo, indeed John Is the handsom'
est man in Bingtown."