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The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
For the Little One

Encourage the child to wait on itself
and you will be saved much work and
will be giving the child an education
which it will never be able to value I'M
til it has reached years of discretion.
There are so many little helps that can
be offered to make work attractive to
children. For instance, q successful
way to teach child to put its soiled
clothes out of sight is to make for its
own use a little laundry bag of some
cheerful color and on it embroider the
word Laundry" Hang it on peg
low enough for the child to reach and
you will not have to remind the child
more than two or three times of its
duty. If you cannot afford to have
nursery furniture for the child's room
you should at least let the child share
a bureau or dressing table with some
one, so that it can be taught quite
young to put hair ribbons, handker-
chiefs, etc., in certain place. Let 1t
understand that the space reserved Is
all its very own.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Panonas of Argentine.

Only a few miles from BuenOs Aires
one comes upon the pampas. This
sweep of level plain covers roughly
100000 square miles, making range
of territory nine times the size of Eng
land and double the extent of Mexico.
There are unbrOken ranges Of 2,OOO
miles of absolutely fiat land, across
which the traveller may pass for hun
dreds of miles and hardly see a town
worthy of the name. The owners of
the big farms live in Buenos Aires or
Europe, and the vast unoccupied PAM
pas still await needed immigration
from other lands to become produc-
tive. AS a rule the old families of
wealth live together in their large
palatial homes, keeping much to them
selves. They carry along the tradi-
lions of their clan, but are not es-
pecially interested in the reform OF
Argentine life or in the extensive open
ing up of new fields of service and
opportunity.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

be0 vt night, found his way TO the
kitchen, where his wife kept her ac-
count books with the butcher aad gro
Ger. Reckoning I'D and keeping tabs
on her exact expenditures, he discoy-
cred that she was getting from him a
couple OF dollars a week extra for the
upkeep of the table. Promptly he
brought her down to hardpan with ner
expenditures. He exulted in the fact
that prying into household secrets
saved him at least eight dollars a
month. A fellow workman at the same
bench gave his wife the same amount
as did his friend at first. He asked
no question as to what disposition she
made of it. 1t happened both men
were thrown out of work at the self
same time. The man who had cut
down his wife's pittance was dispos-
sessed. There was not one penny TO
meet the emergency. The man who
had trusted his wife with the handling
of his wages, making no attempt to
pry into the family secret as to how.
his money went, was amazed and over
ioyed to find that his frugal better
half had laid by a sufficient sum to tide
them over the two months he was
searching for work. Moral: A man
should not be stingy with a prudent,
good wife.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Walt Whitman's Home Sold Again.

Walt Whitman's birthplace at Hunt
ington, l.. l., the old gray home OF
the "Good Gray Poet" has been sold
again. The ancient farmhouse, where
the lad worked and plowed ana
dreamed the thoughts that were
to spring up later into Leaves OF
Grass" had been transferred to N. I'll.
Brewster of Flushing by FRANK
Rockers, who bought 1t at auction on
November IA, 1915.
Whether the hOmely, angular OLD
structure is to be allowed by it's new
owner to hold it's place on the
untington-Melville road could not
be learned. Mr.. Brewster said that
he had not decided what disposition
he would make of it.
For many years after whitman
death the lilacs that he had loved and
the "whitewashed spalings" of which
he wrote were cared for by those
who dwelt in the old home. Then
the house fell into other hands, and
the beauty which surrounded the
ungainly old structure was allowed
to wither.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Desert ALWAYS Alive.

The desert dead? Not sO-the cactus
flower bears the color Of the rose
the side-winder stirs beside the sandy
track: the rOad-runners, in pairs, scut-
tie ahead of my horse, seemingly tax
ing pride in winning a race against
him. The sky is sometimes black with
wild ducks who have left the shore of
some undrinkable lake. And color,
surely. is a part of life. Not twice
will the same hues assail the eye.
The greasewood and the sagebrush
will look different. and the color of
the skies at dawn and dusk never
seems the same two days together.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

In spite of the best care one takes
of oneself, any part of the human machine
is liable to become out of order. The
most important organs are the stomach,
heart and kidneys.
The kidneys are the scavengers and they
work day and night in separating the
poisons from, the blood. Their signals of
distress are easily recognized and in
clude such symptoms as backache, de-
pressions, drowsiness, irritability, head
aches, dizziness, rheumatic twinges,
dropsy; govt.
"The very best way to restore the
kidneys to their normal state Of health, I"
says DR.; Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y, lis to
drink plenty of pure water and obtain
from your favorite pharmacy small
amount of Anuric, which is dispensed by
almost every druggist" Anuric is mex
pensive and should be taken before meals.
You will find Anuric more potent than
lithia. dissolves uric acid as water does
sugar.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Corrected His LAWYERS.

James Engle, former judge of the
Randolph county circuit court, was
once called on to defend, at Winches-
ter, the owner of melon patch who
had shot an invader. The only posi-
BILE defense for the prisoner was self
defense. The trial had proceeded to
the point where the defendant was on
direct examination by Engle. "Now,
SAM" said Engle, you say you shot
in self-defense. Just tell the jury all
about it in your own way" mo, sir,
Jim,'' said the witness. ''You got that
wrong. / didn't say that. 1t was Just
like told you in your office before we
came down here. didn't shoot him in
self-defense; 1 shot him in the back as
he jumped the fence. indianapolis
News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
LATCH-KEY TEMPTATION.

Mother says her boy shouldn't want
latch-key. Father says, "Stuff and
nonsense. When boy reaches the age
of nineteen to be under petticoat gov
eminent makes sissy OF him."
"There's more than that to be consid-
ered," declares mother. 'The youth
who has latch-key is tempted to stay
out longer than he should. When he
knows the front door is securely lock-
ed at 80 at night, he realizes he
must be in the house by that time"
''You don't seem to understand that
he's going to join a young mans club.
They would have q laugh on fellow
who had to run home in the midst OF
discussion, because his mother thinks
he's been out long enough. Shows are
not even over at that time. Young
men loiter on the street and talk, drop
into a cafe for an oyster stew and take
their own time in getting home" re-
marked farther dryly. saba that's just
it. With latch-key, he'd take his own
time about getting horne. When he's
in at 10 80, I know his condition to be
all right. IF he was out with fast
set of young fellows, no knowing at
what hour he'd come stumbling in,
struggling hours to make the latch-key
| work"
"Well," says father, with twinkle
in his eye, "what about it when he
gets a grip "Well, what about it?"
echoes mother. "NO self-respecting
girl should want to keep beau after
ten. I'll set my foot down when that
time comes" ''Yet some mothers won.
der why their sons find any old excuse
to leave home and q mothers apron
strings muttered father. eff my
boy was nine and twenty, instead OF
nineteen, I'd still look after him. de-
clares mother, warmly. "He will al
ways find me up and waiting for him,
as long as I live, for that matter"
"Why not give the lad a months trial
with a latch-key?" coaXes father. Lets
show our boy we can trust him. If he
slips from grace, that's time enough
to withdraw the privilege.
"It gives a young man confidence in
himself to think his parents have faith
in him. They are not wont to abuse
that privilege. I'll tell you my own ex-
perience, dear wife. Like you, my
mother was reluctant to give me a
latch-key. She, at last, yielded to my
entreaties. 1 only had it a week when
an occurrence happened that made me
the hero of the household. 1 was de-
tanned out until the wee Sma' hours.
Opening the door softly, confronted
burglar who was about to leave. He
had all our silver packed up. I threw
him out of the place. My parents and
servant had been securely bound
and were helpless. Ever afterward,
they blessed the hour they decided to
allow me the freedom of q latch-key.
to come and go as fancy willed. En-
courage the trustworthy lad. / prom
Use you will not regret it"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Makes Bryan Tired.

At q recent Missouri ChautauQua q
man came to William ]. Bryan and
told him: II have always voted fer
you ev'ry time you've run, Mr.!
Brine, an I'll be glad to vote fer you
agin' as often as possible" Mr.. Bryan
thanked him, and fellow lyceum
worker said:
Don't you get awfully tired on
having men come up and declare
they've always voted for you and an
ways will?"
mo, indeed" said Mr.. Bryan. The
people that make me tired are the
ones that say they've never voted for
me and never will."-Ladies' Home
Journal. +,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Mieeed Their "Hon1e !"

"Wot's up with yer, Peter" inquired
Weary Willie. Eyer look as if yer
were goin' ter cry.
ST dunno" was Flooding Pete's re-
ply. II don't feel the joy O. Twin like
/ used ter. I've been thinkin' o. my
wasted life, an I've got a sorter I'M
easy, homesick feelin'."
"Homesick!' broke in Willie. "Why,
bless me. 1 believe that's wot both of
Ms sre sufferin' from. We amt neither
of Ms bin inside a Jail for close on
three months now, ave we?"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

There they dance and sing until the
wee sma' hours of the morning.
There never was a greater libel Or
one more calculated to damage inno-
cent regulations. AS matter of fact,
all who work hard during the day
should have something pleasant to
| look forward to to beguile their eve
ming hours. Give them happiness and
drive away dull care. The young girl
In her teens may be enthusiastic over
the dance. Give her her fling, and in
two years or so she has had enough OF
1t. She has made the alarming discov-
cry that she cannot devote too many
hours to pleasure, especially after the
midnight bells have chimed, and be
fresh and eager for work the next day.
She falls all too soon into the habit OF
remaining home at night. The rou-
tine of duty tells upon her, is heavy
drain upon her strength and enthu-
Siasm. She feels more like slipping
into an old wrapper and soft slippers
and sitting down to do needed repair
ing.
When she has reached this stage Of
the game she has lost the hope which
brightens the majority Of wOmen's
lives-the hope of love, husband and
home of their own. They settle down
to life of toll with no reward at the
end of the day. Other women try their
best to aid fate in lettering their con-
ditions. They realize that after the
days hard work they are tired in head,
limb and heart. But they know that
they will be still more tired ten years
later if they continue the same rou-
tine. Thus they consider it duty to
themselves to add enjoyment to each
twenty-four hours. Bravely they put
from them the realization that they
are tired, go forth to see what happi-
ness is around them and incidentally to
be seen.
One evening a girl of this type visits
a friend. Next evening she calls on a
neighbor. She passes an evening at
q lecture or going to the movies. She
sees lights, hears music and is brought
in contact with happy natures, making
new friends. It is sad enough for the
housewife with brood of little chill
dren not to be able to get out. Women
who can. owe it to themselves to give
some of their hours to pleasure and
recreation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Snuff Spoons.

All the world is familiar with snuff
boxes, but snuff spoons are pretty lit
tie refnements of which this genera
ton has hardly heard. Very probably
they came into use about two years
after Sir George Rockies expedition
to Vigo bay in 1902, when he captured
half q ton of tobacco and snuff from
the Spanish galleons, and snuff thus
became a common article in England.
One of the characters in a comedy
published at Oxford, by Thomas Bak-
er, says, But / carry sweet snuff for
the ladies' to which Aeabella replies ::
"a spoon too. That's very gallant, for
to see some people run their fat fin
gers into a box is as nauseous as eat
ing without a fork" In the forties
and fifties of the last century snuff
spoons were still in use on the Scot
fish border. They were of bone and
of a size to go into the snuff box.
People fed their nos0e, it was said,
as naturally as they carried soup to
their mouths.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
HOUSEHOLD SECRETS.

Many Il good man is spoiled in q
wife's handling of him. No matter how
close or miserly his disposition may
be, he can be persuaded or cajOled by
the tactful wife into doing the right
thing by the family. 1t is the path
he has started in at the very outset
of married life that he will travel in.
If his wife begins the first day OF
housekeeping by asking her liege lord
for a small amount of change, explain
ing that she wants three cents for a
candle, ten cents for pound of sugar,
two cents for cake of yeast, etc., he
is pretty likely to hand her out just
the amount she asks for to a penny.
Thereafter it is quite natural for him
TO expect to know what every cent is
used for.
II does not take the average bride
long TO find this out. 1t soon becomes
her one rock of unhappineSS. The wife
who starts married life by receiving
from her husband stipulated sum
which they agree is to run the nome,
has q peaceful life of it. Nine out OF
ten women welded to good and wor-
thy husbands whose incomes are small
are thrifty and saving, squeezing a
penny far tighter than a Stingy man
could. Trust such a wife to put by a
little from even the slenderest allow
ance made her. 1t is most unwlse Tor
a husband to pry into her household
economies. If she is able to save, he
should be glad of it, instead of figur-
ing ho,. he can cut down her weekly
stipend.
know of two husbands who can
point moral in this respect. One,
a Just but saving man, slipped out of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK 'CASCARETS'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
YOU sleep.
Get a 10-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi-
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in.
testines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con-
gestion and that dull, throbbing, sick
ening headache.A
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
AS TO THICKNESS OF BREAD
Dinner Table Etiquette in the Old
Days of Abundance Differs From
That of Today.

We have 1t on no less authority than
that of Hints on Etiquette and the
Usages of Society,"" written by Charles
William Day, and published in Boston
in 1914, that the. household bread
should never be cut less than an inch
and a half thick. Appended to this
important bit of advice is the graceful
hint that nothing Is more plebeian
THAI thin bread at dinner" Somebody
was talking the other day about the
good old times-sOmebOdy Is forever
talking about them-and here is his
tOrlcal proof of the abundance as rep
resented in slices an inch and half
thick, and wisdom as shown in the SIM
pie expedient of declaring anything
less than the prescribed thickness
'plebeian." OF course, remarks writ
er in the Indianapolis News, the word
plebeian settled the thing. If it were
plebeian to cut bread less than an
inch and half thick, you may be sure
that it was not done to any great eX-
tent. There may have been an emer-
gency now and then when company
came unexpectedly or when there were
too many in the family and too little
flour in the barrel, but certainly the
plain statement that it was ''plebeian,"
so p1ebeian in fact, that nothing was
more plabeian," made it a difficult
thing to serve thin slices in those days.
Even so you may consider that it
was a less difficult thing to serve thin
bread in those days than it would be
to serve thick bread these days. One
doubts if even that unpleasant epithet
"plebeian" could induce US to cut II
an inch and a half thick. We could
not If we would. One loaf seven and
half inches long would make five
slices. That would mean two lOaves
to a meal for family of any size, and
it is plain to be seen that that could
never be accomplished. But cutting
them thin, say three slices to the inch.
we can shave out twenty-five or twen-
ty-three slices to the seven and half
inch-loaf. Statistics are wonderfully
convincing, are they not? You may
suggest that they had real loaves OF
bread in those old days, and 1t is, to
be sure, easy to picture them as huge,
benevolent affairs. 1t is easy to i'm
agine one of those inch and half
slices nicely spread with sugar or strip
or jelly or any of the good things that
belonged to those days.
1t would, no doubt, take a more
forceful word than ''plebeian" to in
duce the powers that be to make such
loaves of bread these days. And that,
of course, is the difference between the
good old times and these. All that
people had to do then was to look In
a useful bit of book and cut their
bread accordingly, without counting
food values, or appetites or prices. we
NAV pretend that we think 1t plebeian
to cut bread an inch and a half thick,
but it is nothing more than pretense.
We know that we have to cut bread
according to the size of the loaf and
the size of the family and the size or
our purse, and we are lucky and thank
full to have any bread to cut In any
manner, plebeian or proper.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
YES! LIFT A CORN
OFF WITHOUT PAIN!
Cincinnati man tells how to dry
up corn or callus so It lifts
off with fingers.

You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because a few
drops of freezone applied directly on a
tender, aching corn or callus, stops
soreness at once and soon the corn or
hardened callus loosens so it can be
lifted off, root and all, without pain.
A small bottle Of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
lively take off every hard or soft corn
or callus. This should be tried, as it
is inexpensive and is said not to irri-
tate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get a small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house-adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

Let fate do her worst, there are relics of
joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she
cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow
and care,
And bring back the features which joy
used to wear.
Long long be my heart with such memo
ries filed
Like the vase in which roses have once
been distilled
You may break, you may shatter the vase,
if you will
If still
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Husbands Disposed Of.

They were seatmates in a traction
car headed for the port of Terre
Haute. The seats are rather narrow,
and of course there had to be apollo
gies based on sitting snugly.
Marrow Seats" he said.
"Pll say they are" she said.
That started them toward more in
innate conversation. And before the
car reached Gainesville she had con-
fessed that she was a widow-twice.
"Had two husbands?" he queried.
yep, two of 'em," she confessed.
"SOdded one of 'em, and the court took
the other one"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

NC put III PAAe,
just how the great
army of you n 6
girls who earn
{ h ir own living
pass their eve
nings. The world
holds S tran g G
ideas in regard to
this. One writer
recently put forth
the erroneous dec
laration that quite
as soon as the
girls in factory or
shop turn their
backs upon their
work they gather
together in groups
and make for the
a.ou4 dnnnnhn1l
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. took six bottles and today II
am healthy woman able to do my own
homework. / wish every suffering
woman would try Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound, and find out for
themselves how good it is" Mrs. CARL
A. KIEso, 500 North Ave-, Aurora, H.
The great number Of unsolicited tes-
timonials on file at the Pinkham Lab
oratory, many of which are from time
to time published by permission, are
hams Vegetable Compound, in the
treatment of female ills.
, Every ailing woman in the United
States is cordially invited to write to
the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co.
(confidentiaD, Lynn, Mass, for special
advice. 1t is free, will bring you health
and may save your life.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
A DELICIOUS DINNER

Break quarter package of Skin
ner's Macaroni into boiling water, boil
ten or twelve minutes, drain and
blanch. Take equal parts of cold
chicken, boiled Maearoni and tomato
sauce; put in layers in a shallow
dish and cover with buttered crumbs.
Bake until brown. Just try this once.
SINNERS Macaroni can be secured at
any good grocery store.-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
Educators Opinion.

believe that organized emotion can
never take the place of brains; that
Yale's first duty in preparing Amerlca4
citizens, whether for peace or war, Ia
to adhere to rigid standards of disci1
pine and scholarship and well-devel-
oped sense of proportionate values.
If our students have these things as
q basis, the more they prepare them
selves for the possible requirement OF
military service the better. Without
them the spirit of preparedness may
become a danger; with them 1t is a
safeguard and Observation-Disclosures
Hadley of Yale University.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

severe pains III NY
back and sides until
/ became so weak i
could hardly walk
from chair to chair,
and got so nervous
/ would jump at the
slightest noise. j
was entirely unfit
to do my house
work, I was giving
up hope of ever be-
ing we'll, when my
c;ctoy. aclrod me- tn
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01
PRAYER of the Righteous.

Louise was naughty all day, while
Margaret's conduct was most upright.
At bedtime the mother said to Mar
garet: "You were such a comfort to
me today when Louise was so trying"
Margaret at once dropped upon her
knees and prayed, "Oh, Lord, bless
Louise and make her as good as me
if you can."-Harper'S.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1917-03-01

ter, Salt-rheum, Eryspelas, Boils,. Car
buncles, Enlarged, Glands, and Swell
ings, and every kindred ailment, are
benefited and cured by it. -,
Cut this out and mail to US with the
name of the paper-we will mail you
free a medical treatise on above die
eases. Address DR.. Pierce's Invalids'
Hotel, Buffalo, n. Y.
DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels-
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to taks
as candy.