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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

tarpaulin, was recounted in detail at
the breakfast table.
Hotels Forced to Build POrcheS.
There was only one drawback. If
you formed the habit of sleeping out
doors you had to keep it up. If you
stopped and then went back to it, you
took cold This made it incOnvenient
for people to travel, and the hotels, in
alarm, took to erecting sleeping porch
es. An artist, arriving in a hotel at
Seattle, insisted upon erecting his own
tent on the roof of the building, eX-
planning that he could not sleep in
doors. The hotel was inclined to re-
fuse him, suspecting that it might be
some advertising scheme, but finally
gave in convinced of his earnestness.
Came the Living Room Porch.
When people had explored to the
depths of the aesthetic sensations of
sleeping outdoors, it occurred to them
to go a step further and live outdoors.
Our remote ancestors, whom it became
everybody's desire to initiate, live out
of doors or in we'll ventilated caves.
Whereupon the architects became busy
once more, and in came the living
room porch If one were fortunate
enough to possess a front veranda. it
was Immediately screened, curtained
and furnished Wires were connect
ed to the electric lighting system and
fixtures attached to the ceiling of the
porch.
With rugs of jute, or some other
coarse fabric, willow furniture and low
hanging couch hammOcks comfortably
stocked with pillows, the living room
porch made an attractive addition to
any home. It was an ideal dining
room in summer; in winter it could be
converted into a veritable garden by
window boxes and hanging vines. Trel-
Uses were tackled to the walls and ivy
trained through them. Hanging fern
baskets added an effective touch. ORR
entail lanterns Of complicated metal de-
sign showed up we'll against the green
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
IF YOU'D Be STYLISH
TABOO SLEEPING PORCH
Newest Bungalows Repudiate It
So Don't Be Behind Times.
Eastern Architects Say There Is No
Demand, and, swell, 1t Simp-
Iy Isn't Being Done"
(Frederic J. Haskin.)

Has your home a sleeping porch ?
If so, you are in danger OF being
classed as behind the times. The ar
chitectural death knell of the sleeping
porch has been sounded. The newest
bungalows are being built without it,
and when the bungalow repudiates it,
it's fate is sealed.
A business man in an eastern city,
anxious to secure an option on a sum-
mer home before the seasons rush set
in, haunted the real estate offices ex-
amining various plans. One particu-
lar home in a nearby suburb was ex-
actly what he wanted. 1t contained
Just the right number of rooms and a
tennis court on the front lawn, and a
model garage. But" complained the
business man, cit has no sleeping
porch"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

! Horace Fletcher, the apostle of mod
crate eating, whose name the popular
imagination associates with deliberate
mastication of food, informed an in
\ terviewer in New York City that eX-
cept in extreme instances the people
of Belgium have benefited from the
abstinence enforced upon them by rea-
son of the war. Mr. Fletcher has spent
sixteen months in Belgium, working
with the Commission for Relief, and
therefore has had the best possible
opportunity for informing himself
thoroughly on the subject of which
he speaks. To New York World re-
porter he supplied these interesting
conclusions:
General health conditions are eX-
cellent in Belgium, but this is also
true, though perhaps not to the same
eXten, of the civilian population of
all the countries at war. But in Bel
GUM we have the most remarkable
example in history of the application
of scientific principles and hygienic
laws to the food problem of an entire
people. The results have been marv-
elous. Undertakers are literally with
out work. No one in Belgium today
is dying of what one might call the
diseases of intemperance and of civ
ilization. They have been driven out
as completely as malaria has been
driven from the Isthums of Panama
The only cases of fatal sickness are
the cases of tuberculosis, cancer and
that sort of thing, and specific diseases
contracted before the war. There is
almost no influenza, no appendicitis,
no intoXication. This is what enforced
temperance and short ration have
done, aided also by the serenity of the
people, a serenity due to the fact that
they have one big worry participated
in by all which takes the place of the
million minor worries cultivated in
dividually in times of peace and pros
perity. This resulted in decreasing
the death rate beyond belief. At the
same time the birth rate is high. 1t
is true that it dropped in May, just
as it dropped suddenly in every coun-
try in Europe, nine months after the
outbreak of the war, but now, taking
all conditions into consideration, the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
Have Fresh Air Where You
Live and Where You Work

(By Irving Fisher Professor University
Open all windows you the in which
fresh air in all the time The best temperature
is between So and 20 degrees Fahrenheit.
Open the and at the bottom The good
all comes in one window goes out the other Ii
blowing place board front of the win
dow to send the up window board should always be
used in winter
People who are fresh air almost have colds
Try keep your house the air out DOORS
Do not and smoke stay in the house
Let sunshine you Sunshine and fresh air kill
germs and thereby help to keep out sickness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
TO THE MEMORY OF
GRANDNA'S DOCTORING
Natures PharmacOepia Con-
suited For All Ills.
Diagnosis Was Not TrelIiSed In Latin
Verbiage- "GastrOdynia" Was
Plain "BeIIyache."

In these days when we send our
bodies to the hospitals to be 'gone
over" by human machinists as we do
cur watches to the jeweler and our
automobiles to the garage, when pain
in the right side sends us skurrying
to the doctor and a slight headache
to the drug store, Grandmother, nj. d.,
looms high on the horizon of memory.
Grandmother didn't know the differ
ence between the vermifOrm appendix
and an angIewOrm. Such terms as
pathology and therapeutics and prog
nosis were all the same to her asChOc-
taw or any other Indian language. She
referred to gastrOdynia as 'bellyache,"
and may have called a simultaneous
whitIow a ''beeling." When you came
out of that argument with the neigh
Dor boy with a profuse expitaxis
grandmother exclaimed, flaws mer-
cy, see the boys nose bleed" and put
a rag wrung out of cold water to the
back of your neck instead of a cold
compress. She may not have been long
on Latin or wise in anatomy or keen
on physiological function, but she al
WAYS knew something to do.
Tt was she who built that mighty
onion poultice and spread its odorifer-
Gus but grateful warmth across your
chest that time you had such a cold
and wheezed so when you breathed.
She said you might have lung fever
She's never heard any one say "pneu-
znonia." But it did the business, that
and that onion syrup she cooked up
on the thTee-legged stove with the
elevated oven She wouldn't have
known a bacillus if she met il in the
road and was not on speaking terms
with any of the bacteria family; but
she put turpentine into that cut you
got on the rusty tin just the same,
and bound it up with Balm of Gilead"
or "Gregory's Ointment" and the thing
got well despite the fact that you ran
everywhere barefoot and ducked wash
ing your feet at night because, as you
told your mother, grandmother said
to leave the rag on it three days with
out disturbing it. She didn't know
about fermentation, but she knew all
about sour stomach and had a remedy
at hand. She wasn't strong on mater
ia medica, but her bOneset tea was a
sovereign medicine, and she could
cure "canker sore mouth" and have
the baby wriggling and cooling in a
jiffy.
The fact is that Grandmother, NJ. D.,
while she never heard a lecture and
might have tainted in a dissecting
room, was mighty good practitioner
of sorts. Somehow she knew just
what to do to bring aid and comfort
to sick room. She might have never
held a degree, her title of Grandmoth
er NJ. d., suited for all purposes.
Death did not brighten her, for she
smOOthed the path of many down to
the dark river and drew the bereaved
little flock about her to weep on her
ample bosom when all was over.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
"THE PSLAM OF LIFE.o
Not by Longfellow.)

Lives of poor men oft remind us
honest toll don't stand a chance; the
more we work we leave behind us big
ger patches on our pants. On our
pants once new and glossy now are
patches of different hue; all because
subscribers linger and won't pay up
what is due. Then let all be up and
doing; send in your mite be it e'er so
small, or when the blasts of March
shall smite us we shall have no pants
at all.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

of the vines. A bowl of goldfish and
a canary were almost indispensable.
Breakfast On Living" Porch.
The custom Of dining on the porch
began in summer and continued far
into the winter months. People were
delighted with the novelty of it, and
refused to pay any attention to the
currents Of cold air admitted through
the glass panels and circulating on
the backs of their necks. 1t became
the vogue to invite ones friends for
breakfast on the living room porch. In
New England, where the winters are
not mild, this form of entertainment
had it's drawbacks The hostess would
excuse herself to run upstairs and get
a pair Of gloves, and someone would
suggest that she drink her coffee first
or it would freeze. Such Interruptions
were frequent.
Out Door Thrill Finally Wears.
1t is romantic to eat breakfast ON
the porch with the eggs freezing, but
it gets monOtonous after a while. 1t.
is thrilling to sleep out doors in 4.
thing like diving suit while trees
crack in the frost, but the thrill wears
off and the frost remains, especially
if you forget the hot water bottle. That.
is why the living porch and the sleep
ing porch are going out" The faith
full few who really like that sort of
thing will stick to it, and so will those
who benefit by the regime. But the
great majority, who took it up because
it was the fashion, are going back to
bed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

When a married man boasts that
he has no secrets from his wife his
bachelor friends fail to put him next.
to a lot of good things
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

Adversely lifts up many man
whom prosperity has knocked down.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15

A man who has made good doesn't
have to blow his own horn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1916-03-15
Useless to Complain.

The tolerant agents regarded him
with tolerant amusement. 1t was as
if he had complained of the absence OF
a windmill They explained that the
sleeping porch was an architectural
which had gone out of date and there
was no longer any demand for them.
To the business mans timid assertions
that he liked sleeping porches, they
had but one reply, "it simply isn't be-
ing DONE"
The sleeping porch, in a sense, is
the ideal way to sleep. But the con-
slant living to an ideal may grow
montonous, and one by one people
have gone back to their solid brass
beds with a sigh of relief
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
After Four Years of Discouraging
Conditions, Mrs. Bullock Gave
Up in Despair. Husband
Came to Rescue. 4

Catron. ky.-ln an interesting letter
from this place, Mrs. Bette Bullock
writes as follows: 81 suffered for four
years, with womanly troubles, and during
his time, | could only sit up for little
"hile, and could not walk anywhere at
ii. AT times, l would hare severe pains
Il M left side.
The doctor was called In, and his treat
rent relieved me for a while, but I wbs
.oon confined tc my bed again. After
hat. nothing seemed 10 do me any good.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
HUSBAND RESCUED
DE.SSPE AIRING WIFE

had gotten so weak could not stand
and ! gave up in despair.
AT last, my husband got me bottle a
Cardui, the woman's tonic, and | COM
menced taking it. From the very Esa
dose, ! could tell it was helping me. I
can now walk two miles without its
firing me, and am doing all my work"
If fyou are all run down from womaniy
troubles, don't give up in despair. Try
cardui, the woman's tonic. II has helped
more than a million women, n IN %
years Of continuous success, and should
surely help you, too. Your druggist he's
sold Cardui for years. He knows wtss
Il will do. Ask him. He win recon-
mend il. Begin taking Cardm today.
Write to: Chsusnoos. MsdIciss ca. L.x,.ue
ADVISORY Dept. Chattanooga. Tenn, kor Sp1o20
lnsrucftons on your case and ef,paSe kosk, "Houe
Irsa'nsnt fec Wsmen." sent In pisla vrsppss. I-S1
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19

widely to diversif cation "a produc-
ton, IL will, we believe, be more
generally realized that the recent
meetings in New Orleans of the
Southern Agriculture Association and
the Southern Industrial Council
should constitute an epoch-making
event in that section OF the republic.
These meetings nave brought to-
gether in conference. 1t Is understood,
Continued on page 81
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
THE ACHES OF HOUSE CLEANING

The pain and soreness caused by
bruises. over-exertion ssnd strainins
during house cleAping fine are sooth-
ed away by sloa1's tiniment. No
need 70 suffer this\asony Just ap-
ply Sloan's Liniment to the sore
spots. rub only a lIftfs, In a short
time the pain leaves, Ssu rest com
fortably and enjoy a refreshing sleep.
One gratful user Writes: "Sloan's
Liniment is worthfits weight In gold. "
Keep a bottle on Jhand. use 1t against
all Soreness, Neuralgia and Bruises.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
WEEKLY BULLETIN
OF MARKETING
Continued from page g.

'''Sh Sc'" potatoes. $500 Tor the
lot. +. o. b. Lexington.
Old Time Yam Potato plants. $3.50
per 1000 f. o. b. Lykesland. will
exchange for something of equal
value to me"
Nice lot OF Georgia Buck sweet
potatoes. $1.00 per bushel.
One registered Tamworth boar. 90
months old. weight $50. registration
papers with him, $500.
Registered Berkshire SOW, 8 wears
old, Longfellow Lady ] 1887. Has
no faults.
Three well bred Berkshire boars
and one SOW, months old. each
$500.
Twelve we'll bred. but not regis
tered Berkshire pigs, $500 each.
For shipment July 1st.
One registered Berkshire SOW AMI
six of her ten pigs, $4,000. Will ex-
change for White Leghorn or Rock
hens at $1.00 each or sheep at $500
each.
One brood SOW, $500. seven
half Berkshire pigs, weeks old.
each $3.50. Will exchange for White
Leghorn or Rock hens at 81. 90 each
or sheep at $500 each.
Two pure bred Berkshire gifts.
each $500. Seven half Berkshire
gifts. each $500. Will exchange for
White Leghorn or Rock hens at s1.O0
each or sheep at $500 each.
Seven nice grade Berkshire pigs.
$3.50 each, $1,000 for the lot.
Registered Duroc SOW and eight
pigs entitled to registration. $500
! +. o. b. Blackstock.
One Jersey-Guernsey COW. fresh
middle of this month, 10000 i'm
, cludiug calf.
One 31-S2 Jersey bull calf. one
year old, for best offer.
One registered Jersey COW. six
years old, fresh soon. 10000. Two
Jersey bull calves, entitled to regis
! tration, each $4,000. One jersey
bull calf, not registered, s12.50.
Two Jersey heifers. $500 each.
One Iarch pony Will exchange
for lIolstein bull. Pony three years
old. broke 10 ride and drive.
One Shepherd pup. $500.
White African Guinea eggs and
Ahcona eggs to exchange for Bra
hma. Black Orpington, Black Minor
ca and Bantam eggs
Pure White Indian Runner ducks
VIII exchange for White Leghorn
chickens
Barred Rock cockerel. VIII ey-
change for Barred Rock eggs. One
bantam cock. year old. 500.
Frying chickens and broiIers. Maxi
offer.
One Peacock. full plumage. $500
one Incubator and Brooder. both
$5.75.
ohe pair Belgian hares. Sl.OO per
pair. Three black Belgian hares "a
cents each. Four Gray Belgian hares
80 cents each.
one practically new White Hickorv
wagon Will exchange for voune
milch COW. fresh.
Pork at all times II . cents nor
pound
one Kitselman Fench Weaving
Machine, $500.
Six Fl. p. Gasoline Engine and
wood Saw. Will exchange.
Flne lot of Red CarneauX. Brown
CarneauX and White Homer pigeons
or VIII exchange for peas. or JERSEY
OF Guernsey heifer calf.
Printing press with compIete ont
NJ OF type and supplies. $500.
FINE for T ners to print letter
headS AMI 9. elopes."
sr'e""'d Jersey and Ayresbire
Tour y""-s old, three gallon COW
fresh, $50 J.
Nice Guernsey heifer nj
months o, vice $4,000.
Ono fcnr c,pe A., . r..
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
Best Plan With RadIshss.

Asdishes should be grown quickly
and pulled at the proper time. They
soon become hard and woody. The
best plan with radishes is to SOW a
short row every week until IL is too
late IA season % SOW them.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
DEVELOPING THE
SOUTH'S RESOURCES
(Cn7is,ian Science Monitor)

When 1t is considered that the
soufn Of the United States has taken
longer and surer steps In the last
two years than even before toward
insuring to itself industrial indepen-
dence. by overthrowing the domina-
ton of the single crop and taking
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
No. 666

Ihio 10 . pfescrietonE prepared especially
tof MALARIA crNcbllLS q FEVCH.
Five OF SIX doses win break any case, and
II taken then ss . tonethe Fever will not
return. II acts on heNver better than
Calomsi aud does nof srips or sickea. 2so
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1916-05-19
Drives out mstArlal lRuIlds Up system

The Old s,anan,i gensTli strengthening tonic.
GROVES TtsrPLE9Sshin TONIC, drives out
Mstari' aniie'es the bls,Ids NO the sys
'em' ~"'e 'oIie. bduisS I'd children. SOC.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08
Penalties For Meat Eatina.

4 most remarkable regulation affect.
Ing the food supply was enc which at
tanned its fun yicor during Shake
spcares youth and which in view OF
his early familiarity with the slauch-
ter honse-there are seventeen refer
ences 10 the butchers trade in the his
torical plays-must have been brought
particularly to his notice. This was
the law, first enacted in 1919 and ex-
tended in 1868. enforcing abstinence
from flesh for political and economic
reasons. not only IN Lent ana ON En-
Der days, Vigiis and Fridays, but also
o. Saturdays and oven on Wcdnes-
days. Tho object aimed a, in this leg
islation was The Strengthening Of the
British navy throa b iLc encourage
ment Of the fisheries. the North sea
fisheries being regarded us a gold mine
which The Dutch were exploiting In
1868 four women who had a meal of
meat in London tavern during eut
were set in the stocks al night. ana
the woman who supplied them was set
in the pillory.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08
RAW FuRS
WAN TED

buy unlimited quantities in large
or small It's of New England and
New York State Furs.
/ guar aztec to pay you New York
prices on extremely liberal assert.
ment.
Telegraph or write me whenever you
have your turs for sale. will call on
you for 5000 90 lots and over. Smaller
lots ship or bring direct to
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08

\ common plant Which grows in a
score Of shapes aud sizes s. the milk
weed. It IS called riiswced from the
milky Juice contained ia the stems.
Some bear white blossoms, others pur-
pie. whiio the stems an2 leaves have a
variety Of sizes and shapes After the
blossoms disappear the plants bear
seed pods which are the "h2uears' for
The air scouts
Each seed has a set of wings Of airy
lint IS the pods ripcn ana break
open the wind lifts the !ight seeds and
scattcrs them broadcast
Nature came very uear making Il
substitute Tor cotton when she pro-
Guced milswecd III fact, the Plant is
known sometimes as wild cotton"
Eut The lint in the seed pods has not
the twist OF cotton fiber and therefore
cannot be used for spinning Never
thclegs it provides q Satisfactory down
cor amlHng pillows a use to which fire.
ucntly IL is applied Iosfou Journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08

their representatives in the legisla
ture
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08

The Reformer is already enlisted to
help Horace +. Graham. when he be.
comes governor, to reduce the number
of commissions which the state sup
ports, but there are two established in
the past few years which are doing a
valuable work which should be con
tinued. The state industrial accident
board is one of the most useful organ
izations ever known in state history
1t saves many thousands OF dollars
which would be frittered away or
would be grabbed by the lawyers UNI
der the old system, The department
of weights and measures is also al
most indispensable. The aggregate
amount which it saves to consumers is
certainly tenfold more than the com
mission costs Vermont is fortunate
in being one CT the states which made
an early start in insisting that weights
and measures were correct. interests
which would be touched by such a
measure, it is openly charged, have
prevented New Hampshire from Sc
curing this much-nee1ed reform,
which is simply compelling a policy OF
honesty in business transactions in
volving the necessities of life.-Brat-
tleboro Reformer
The Reformer does well to sound
a warning in regard to these import
ant matters. Governor Elect Graham
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08
NOTICE
Bennington county Savings Bank.

The annual meeting of the corpora
tors OF the Bennington County say
ings bank will be held at the office of
said bank in its bank building in Ben
nington, VT, on the first Wednesday,
Srd day OF January, a. D., 1917 at
o'clock p. m~ for the purpose Of elect
ing board of trustees for the year
ensuing and the transaction of any
other business found necessary when
met especially to I'll vacancies in the
number OF corporators and to alter
and revise the by laws.
Charles II. Dewey Secretary
Dated at Bennington, Vt, Nov. so,
1916.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-12-08

according to report is planning an eff
fort to get rid Of useless and encum-
bering commissions which is entirely
proper There is however a danger
that interested parties may try to
take advantage Of the sentiment
aroused and by indirect means do
away with some Of the best depart
ments Of the state government The
Banner has reason to believe that a
plan is under way 10 cripple
the weights and measures depart
ment The plan is backed by
a group of men who have been
hit in the pocketbook by being
compelled to furnish full weight
goods. They do not dare come out in
the open and tell their real reason but
seek to work under subterIuge.
They will probably try to have the de-
partment abolished on the ground Of
expense and failing that will seek to
have it made a minor branch Of some
other department in the hope that its
usefulness way be smothered. The
weights and measures department
of the state Of Vermont saves the peo-
pie of the state more than a hundred
thousand dollars annually and it
should be upheld by the people and