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The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Should BetrOthalS
" T. Be Advertised?
Bv LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

to step forward and make trouble for
him, battling at one fell sWoop his ex-
celent resolve to turn over a new
leaf, to settle down and marry. So
there you are. When it comes to it,
a man who has the desire to marry
after finding the right girl will not need
the law to force him to carry out his
love vows. AS for the tickle fellow,
whose admiration 1lickers out, isn't it
best for the girl to be rid Of him with
out the world knowing all about it? 1t
would be the height Of fOolishness for
the maiden to resort to the law and
bind herself for all time to such a hui
man bubble. 1t seems that such law
would be productive of as much harm
as good. Delinquent lovers should not
be spurrcd on. Lost interest in mans
heart is seldom or never regained.
Where there's no interest, how can
there be love? BetrOthals are sacred
and should concern only the two whose
happiness is at stake. 1t Is said that
youth is ever confiding. We can al
most forgive it's disinclination to fol-
low the counsel Of age. It rejects sus-
picion. Young men entering betrothals
generally mean what they say.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Ten Per Cent of the Men
To Be Sent to the Front
Will Be Soldiers of Mercy

Readers perhaps are not aware tnat
Of the first million soldiers we send
to France 100000, or one-tenth, will be
soldiers of mercy, attached to the nos
pital and sanitary wing of the army.
Conscription does not close the doors
of war service to boys of eighteen,
nineteen and twenty years of age.
Boys Of that higher courage which IS
able to 80 under fire without the moral
support Of gun can find opportunity
TO endure danger for the sake OF the
country in this service, best ap-
proached through the Red Cross,
writes Robert F. Wilson, in st. Nlcho-
las.
Eligible volunteers within and out
side of the CONSUMPTION age are accept
ed by the army for the sanitary service.
In many cities and towns the Red
Cross is conducting special training for
such yolunteers-in the ambulance
training companies and in the sanitary
training detachments. Volunteers from
the latter detachments face the
most dangerous service, for they are
the litter men, who pick up the wound
ed on the field of battle and bear them
70 the first-aid stations and evacuation
hospitals, where they are taken by the
ambulance for transportation to base
hospitals. -~---.. --. ~--.-.--
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Keep Cheerful and Mind
Your Own Business" Is the
Message of John Burroughs

John Burroughs, famous American
naturalist and writer, and leading dis
ciple Of the simple life, is eighty years
old. He has lived with nature since
boyhood, and knows the BIRDS the
squirrels and the butterflies, the woods,
the fields and the mountain streams.
He was the friend Of Lincoln, of EN-
erson, of Holmes, of Whittier and Of
Walt Whitman. His recollections of
these great friends are sufficient COM
panions for John Burroughs in his
woodland cabin. II am very happy in
my work. and hope to write book
each year for many more years." he
says. He Is at his best, despite his
age, and leads an active life in the
open. His message to the world is:
keep cheerful and mind your own
business"
Mr. Burroughs taught school in his
youth, became bank examiner, and
had a promising career before him in
financial affairs, when he discarded
ambition for wealth to lead the simple
life. His first book was his "Notes on
Walt Whitman" published in 1867.
During the past half-century he has
written constantly, and has contrib
uted much to the nature library. He
married Ursula North in 1857, and in
the winter time he now makes his
home with his daughter and grand
children at West Park, N. Y.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Observation-Disclosures
An Ounce of
Prevention
By DR.. SAMUEL G. DIXON
Commissioner of Health OF Pennsy'
Vania.
3.I.:F:s


Before the causes of disease were
known or the practical application Oh
natures ways of producing immunity
to disease, we had to suffer an attack
of sickness and then trust to drugs
and nursing for cure.
This was a difficult task and the
death rate was sometimes enormous,
both in times of peace as we'll as OF
war.
Then the day of prevention came.
Gradually the laws of nfture unfolded
until today we know methods OF pre-
venting diseases and antidoting the
poisons generated by germs in the
body.
1t was even as late IS the Spanish
American war that we lost more SOL
diers from preventable diseases than
we did from bullets. This was dis
graceful thing, as salAtarians could
have prevented the high death rate.
From what we can learn through the
newspapers and other sources, france
today is short of disinfectants in her
trenches. We do not see any great
public excitement over this condition,
or any concerted action Of our good
citizens to give their mites to pur-
chase and transport disinfectants for
the French trenches so as to prevent
disease.
Therapeutics or drug treatment
seems to continue to have hold on
the lay mind, and possibly, to some
extent. on the medical mind.
Both the people at home in every
day life and the soldiers in our army
are much to blame for the sickness
that exists The medical professions
advice is not taken when these per-
sons are we'll, but the moment they
get good and sick they call: "Oh, doc
tor, do relieve me from this awful
pain" or ''Oh, doctor, save my life"
Perhaps this call comes too late. A
few words of prevention from the doc
tor to the patient, and those few words
obeyed, mi ght have prevented the SICK
ness and saved suffering and sorrow.
Do not let us lose sight, individually
or collectively, of preventing diseases
both at home and in our military
camps, let them be where they may.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

group Of stockholders, and he has to
please them individually and collective
ly. He must turn out winner or
stand for continual panning from
stockholders and fans. He must go
out and scout for his own players, for
the minors do not hire ivory hunters to
assist the manager. He must do at
least 60 per cent of the thinking for
his ball club on the field, and if the
club loses hard game through bone
head work the manager gets the blame,
whether he is at fault or not.
Just as soon as minor league man
ager gets a good club together along
comes some big league club ana he
sees his winning combination broken
up through sales or the draft. He
must go out and dig up players to fill
the shoes of those who are taken aWSy,
and if he fails to find talent as good as
he has lost they say he is slipping.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

For this reason, the poultrymanl should
carry on the work in the hennouse
quietly and evenly.
TO destroy mites and keep the flock
free of their depredations, insecticide
sprays and a sanitary building are
necessary.
Ducks of most of the meat breeds,
properly fed and managed, frequently
weigh from five to six pounds at ten
weeks of age.
If it is worth keeping poultry at all'
it is worth making a good job OF It,
and nothing except a good job Will
make a profit.
After the grass gets tough chicks
ca1 catch more bugs and worms and
will grow better on loose soil. The
cornfield furnishes ideal conditions
Be careful that the chicks, poults,
ducklings and goslings do not have
any food and cannot get anything to
eat on the range which is moldy or
musty. for such stuff causes canker
and digestive troubles.
The Leghorns today are much bet
ter breed than they were years ago.
The tendency has been to breed larger
birds and still retain all their charac-
teristics as producers of large num-
Der of eggs. With larger bodies also
has come the production of larger
eggs, which is an added merit to the
breed,
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09


AYERS he didn't and the, maid he did.
It would be benefit to the timid bach
elor who, like moth, hovers about
the fascinating widow, trying to make
up his mind whether it is wisest and
best to WOO and wed or take unto him.
self that old timely advice: "BeWpre
Of widows" The enterprising widow
in such case would have to await his
decision, no matter how impatient she
might be to grasp time and the man
by the forelock.
OF course, advertising a betrothal
has it's advantages. Then, again,
there's another side of the question
which bears weight against it. If a
modest girl has become betrOthed to
a tickle lover and he deserted her, how
distressed she would feel to explain
how it came about to her gloating five
hundred friends. Again, many such
girls may actually become betrOthed
half dozen times before they decide
they have come across the right man.
There are any amount Of kin people
who would 'have the laugh on them"
for catching so many beaux, yet not
getting one Of them to the altar.
There are timid men as well as
timid women. Many man would not
propose marriage if he was under the
necessity Of having his intention to
wed made public. He may not care to
have his associates find this out. If
he has old loves in the back
ground, what an opportunity for them
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
NeA.< hl44~t1Q
The Monitor Comes Back.

British monitors are playing an Inn
portant part in the Italian advance to-
ward Triest. The monitors have again
proved themselves in this war. They
appear to be the /Only type of craft
that can carry big guns into shallow
water and lombard coast Notifications
successfully. Submarines cannot fol-
low them into these shadows, and they
have so little freeboard that they pre-
sent a difficult mark for the enemy to
hit.
Monitors took up the set work at the
Dardanelles after the battleships had
been lost or had been driven by subma-
rines to seek protected ports. Mon1-,
tors shell the Belgian coast when at
tacks are made on the German bases
there. Now they are shelling the Aus
trian coast ahead of the Italians. And
so far there has been no report of a
single monitor lost.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
When Might Made Right.

A clergyman while passing through
one of the by-streets of Edinburgh
came upon a rough-lOoking and gigan-
tic coal man, who was "persuading'
his horse to move along more expedi-
tiously. The horse had taken a stub
born fit, and the coal man was very
excited, and COUGHING his sentiments
In language which was simply appall-
ing, says London Tit-Bits.
The clergyman was little man, but
rash, for he rebuk ed the coal man in
manner that left absolutely nothing to
be desired.
e, II cannot understand" he said, in
winding up his expostulation, "what
you mean by using such narrowing ex-
pressions."
This rebuke was lost upon the coal
man.
"My wee man," he replied, at the
same time patting the clergyman on
the shoulder with very dirty hand,
neither could understand it-when
I was your size"
Needless to say, there was no re-
joinder, and the clergyman passed on.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Mosquito Can Be Destroyed
Only By Eliminating Its
Hiding Places, Says Expert

That the people Of every commu-
nifty should unite against common
enemy-the "mosquito-is the opinion
of George A. Dean, Professor of en-
tomology in the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college.
BY doing away with breeding
places, such as tin cans, broken crock
cry, and various receptacles that hold
water, by the drainage Of bodies Of
water likely to contain immature
mosquitoes, by application of oil to
bodies Of water that cannot be
drained, or the Introduction of fish in
pools that cannot either be drained
or oiled, millions Of mosquitoes may
be destroyed, according to Professor
Dean.
Water is necessary for the life of
laid on the surface of the water by
the adult mosquito, hatch in from "a
hours to several days, depending on
the temperature. The larvae issue
from the lower end of the egg and
wriggle about in the water.
The larvae of the house mosquito
rest with the tip of the abdomen at
the surface of the water and the head
hanging downward. The larvae of the
malaria fever mosquito lie parallel
with the surface of the water to OBJ
tain air. In from one week to ten
days they change to another form
the pupae-which have two respira-
tory tubes on the thorax. These pu-
pae float in the water and transform
to the adult in from five to six days.
The adult winters in the dormant con-
dition. 49,.
The germ causing malaria fever has
been carefully and repeatedly traced
through its life history and it has with
certainty been found to pass part
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
The Mark of Honor.

He marches down the street
With a proud and martial eye,
And the people turn about
To watch him pass them by;
And his head is held erect,
In his spirits high command,
For a badge upon his arm,
He wears the khaki band.
He steps out free and firm
With swinging to his tread,
And an eagerness to serve. =.
From the courage in him bred
BY the men who went before,
Who it's freedom won the land:
Now he's treading in their steps
For he wears the khaki band.
He's the soldier of the flag,
Ready for it's sake to go p.
, Where the call Of duty sounds.
Fit to meet and fight the foe:
We are proud, as forth he comes
From the homes all DER the land.
With high courage in his heart,
On his arm the khaki band.
Baltimore American
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
POULTRY POINTERS

Remember, milk is meat when it
comes to feeding chicks or hens.
The best eggs for Matching come
from Aocks that have free range.
Watch for head lice on the ducks.
If found rub top of head with small
piece of lard free from salt.
1t is a good plan to force egg pro-
duction. but nature may be material
ly aided by good feed selection.
The production of ducks especially
should be emphasized at this time, be-
cause of the rapidity with which they
grow.
:, laying hen is nervous; if she is
frightened or even startled much, there
Ia apt to be q miscarriage of eggs.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Germ of Red Cross Idea.

The germ of the Red Cross idea
seems to date back into the sixteenth
century, when a gay young Neapolitan
soldier saw the error of his ways, be-
came a priest, and devoting himself to
relieving the plague-stricken, organized
the "Fathers of the Good Death"
whose members were pledged to the
same service and who wore on their
breasts red cross in memory of the
sufferines of Christ. This was Canil-
lus de Lellis, who fell victim to the
disease he combated, and who, canon
lied by Benedict XIV, in 1746, became
St. Camillus in the Catholic calendar
of saints. =.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Milk Is a Cheap Tissue
Builder, Say Food Experts.

A quart of milk is equal in food val
ue to eight eggs, a pound Of steak, or
half a pound of cheese. This is the
statement of the committee on utiliza-
ton and economy, Kansas council of
defense.
Milk, it is pointed out, is cheap
tissue builder, because the protein that
it contains is of a kind particularly
valuable for building tissue.
Ordinarily milk is the cheapest and
most valuable source Of lime and phOs-
phorous. Milk is deficient in iron, but
the iron that it contains is particularly
we'll utilized by the body.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

pectanC l y V Z 1 .
may soon face
that Of having
t cir betrOthal
re gis t er ed. A
statesman, anx-
iOus to win fame,
has actually set
forth the idea
which he hopes to
establish as a
law. 1t would
checkmate t h e
DackSllulnS Deut,
who has begun to
weary OF MS
sweetheart; nip
off those bug-a-
boo breach of
prom i Sc cases,
1uhpra the Swain
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Facts and Figures.

Brazil has $277, ,S06,65O worth
of paper money in circulation.
Netherlands in 1916 imported
$4,000 sacks Of flour Of 80
pounds each.
Amsterdam last year sent $S,-
G34,974 worth of tobacco to the
United States.
Amsterdam yards have ship
construction contracts aggregat-
ing $1GOOO,OQO.
Bank of the Netherlands
holds S235,974,0OO in gold, five
times the amount held before
the war.
United States corporations in
the last fiscal year paid $17O,-
O37,O4O in income taxes. Indi-
viduals paid $160,52S,5SS.
Ireland in 1916 sent out 1866
emigrants, of whom 1,7SG were
males.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Wise and Otherwise.

A good memory test is to re-
member the poor.
He is a wise farmer who nev-
er harrows the feelings of his
wife.
Marrying ones ideal husband
or wife is to take a mean ad-
vantage.
A grass widow is woman
who succeeded in getting I'M
married.
You may have noticed that
the road to success is shy of
rapid transit facilities.
Foresight consists in knowing
where to borrow an umbrella
when it begins to rain. -
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

life miserable for Mike, who is a hard
loser and finally he was blamed for
everything that went wrong.
But Mikes case is only one incl
dent. Dozens of minor league man.
ayers have experienced the same trou-
bIes that befeII Don1in, and dozens of
future managers in the minors will
experience them.
The minor league manager has a
hundred and one burdens on his Shout
ders. He generally has to deal with q
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
M H "a "a pa "a pa IA pa "a "a pa E
EPIGRHYMES: y =

~, wDEALS never get you
-. nothin'," so my neighbors r
say; ideals won't grow -
Ha you a crop ner stack your :
"a summers hay!" They laugh =
"a at me because I got F.
Ia sneakin' sort o. plan to
"a make the farm-work fun Z
", fer even Bill, my hired
~ man; they say I'm foolish e
- cause I got garden fer r
Ea the wife, and cause I u
"a think that flowers mean as =
pa much as cash, in life. But =
taA I gets lots O. consolation
sa readin' Titcomb's words; y
pa his thoughts ARE sometimes b
"a sorta like THE sOarin' o b
IA the birds that pluck this z
IA WORLDS spring freshness e
~, from the farms of me an e
s-, you an seem to fly up n
Thar where them ideal things n
"a come true. We all are slaves j.
"a to MASTERS-to ambitions -
"a low or high; George Washing =
"a ton-he had 'em; an I like
"a to feel that I can take them p
ea same ideals with my musket, H
r., into War-perhaps, some day, e
49, all men will see that Place r.
"a where them birds soar! .
pa Robert Russell.
Ea Ideals are worlds masters"
Pa
e1 Ts va "a "a "a "a "a "a "a "a "a e
downright, 1917, by Intl Press Bureau.)
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
MINOR LEAGUE PILOT HAS
NO EASY JOB, SAYS DONLIN
Must Be Able to Play Every Role From
That Of President to Third As
sistant Groundkeeper.

A managerial berth in the minor
leagues is no sinecure. Take Mike
Donlin's word for it.
Mike contends that in order to be a
first-class minor league pilot one must
have the patience Of Job, the hypnotic
powers Of Herb Flint and the mental
and physical ability to play every role
from president of the club to third as
sistant groundkeeper.
AS Donlin has tried his hand at man.
aging q minor league club, he ought to
know something about it. He was ap-
pointed manager of the Memphis club
Of the Southern association last winter,
and he announced at the time that he
had high hopes Of making good. But
last winter Mike didn't know anything
about the managerial game in the
bushes.
He served as manager of Memphis
until about May Is, when he was hand
ed his release. He says that his trou-
bles began when the club lost some
thing like fifteen games by one run.
Then the umpires commenced to make
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
A Proposal.

Sydney-Td like you to go to church
with me some time this month.
Maxine-Certainly I'd be delight
ed.
Sydney-Good! But can you have
yOur rousseau made in time?
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Inst for Fun.

"The Gadder girls have decided to
take up settlement work"
'That's good. It's encouraging to
see society buds with a serious turn
of thought"
"Um, yes. But they seem to think
it's going to be q lark"
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

Ask me no more-thy fate and mine are
sealed.
strove against the stream, and all IN
vain.
Let the great river take me to the man =!
No more dear love, for at touch
yield;
Ask me no more.
We have all heard of censorlng
beaux, but here's another trlal tllat eA-
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
SOME SMILES
In a Crowded House.

First Man-Cap
we stay here all
night?
S con d M a n
(helpfully) - We
won't take up
m u ch h room. I
walk in my sleep.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

Of it's existence in man and part in
the body Of the mosquito. BY the
bite of the mosquito, the malarial fe-
yer organism is transmitted to man.
No practical methods have been de-
vised to destroy adult mosquitoes
all successful methods so far have
been to check their number by either
doing away with hiding places or by
destroying the young mosquitoes.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

"'f1st5;;sa \; ,
49, Quick Witted.
Wife (awakened by noise)-Who is
there? ."
Burglar (sweetly)-It's-hic-jus'
me, dear.
Wife-Oh, what relief!
Tact.
Mrs. Blink-They say large feet are
in favor now.
Mr.. Link-Then I'm sorry for you,
Mrs. Blink, for you'll be hopelessly
out Of style.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
An Innovation.

An Innovation.
"And you saw Romeo and Juliet
last night?"
"Yes."
How was the balcony sceneT'
Grand! Romeo made love to the'
girl IN 8 hammock"
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

United States
in established Wash
families which pat
profits
Of the Ed
ter minister Washington for before
estab community store
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09

to gain flesh every
day; the grocery
business m u S t
agree with you.
What did you
weigh last?"
"Well, Henry, I
really don't know,
but it strikes me
it was a pound Of
butter"
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Iced Chocolate.

Make a sirup of six tablespoonfuls
Of grated chocolate and two CYPRUS
Of water, simmer until dissolved, then
add four cupfuls Of sugar and COOK
seven minutes. Strain and add two
teaspoonfuls Of vanilla extract, pinch
of cinnamon if the vanilla is not liked.
Put into a bottle and set in the ice
chest. Use two tablespoonfuls in
half cupful Of ice cold milk, topped
with three tablespoonfuls Of whipped
cream on each glass.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Chicken Pie.

A very good pie may be made tro"
on old fowl. Cook it first as for frlcas-
see, lay the pieces with pieces OF PORK
in q buttered pudding dish, add shce
of onion for flavor, season with SAT-
and pepper, add cupful of milk ana
cover with a good crust. Just before
serving add a cupful of cream Wnlch
will make any chicken pie delicious
Boil the bone of fowl, add two or
three tablespoonfuls of gelatine to the
broth with a cupful of finely minced
chicken we'll seasoned and mold. Th1s
NAV be served with salad dressing on
lettuce.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Corn Meal Mullins.

Beat two eggs until light, ada three-
fourths of a cupful of sugar-or lionos
MAY be used-a fourth of a cupaui on
softened shortening, one cuptul OIL soul
milk q half teaspoonful Of Soda TWO
cupfuls of flour and cupful Oh conn IL
meal with a teaspoonful of baking
nowder and half teaspoonful OF salt
sif+od with the flour. Bake in hot but
tered muffin pans 25 minutes.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
peach Ice Cream.

Take quart of thin cream ado
cunful Of sugar, teaspoonful of lemon
iuice q fourth of teaspoonful Of SALT
and two cupfuls Of very ripe peaches
nut through sieve. Mix and freeze.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
Mothers Cook Book.

The 1ova1 heart is never alone
There ~ m are ever comrades real, ,o +ho,r
7vho wv viii o. make the cause you love their
own, stool
AND staho ny MARY sangster.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
seasonabIe Dishes.

Bananas are fruit that should De
rine or well cooked before ser'lns.
pa11od bananas may be given to the
little neople. Peel q half dozen oa-
nanos and place them in baking dlsn
with sugar, water, lemon juice anu r;,a "
1ittle butter. Basic them often "'l1le
baking and serve the sauce Will 'ie
fruit.
The Tomahawk., 1917-08-09
The Wrong Idea.

"John, you seem