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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Reece, who have
had NJ. Stannards house rented for
the last few months, left Wednesday
for Weed whcrc they will visit with
Mrs. Rcece's brother, Everett Can
trail. and wife for a time.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-22

P. w. Paulson writes from Beaver
ton. Ore, that he has exchanged some
of his property in Portland for acre
age and home in the Tulatin valley.
and that his new address will,be box
92h, r. R. 4, Beaverton, Ore.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-22
Card Party.

The Ladies of the Maccabees will
hold card party at |. o. D. F. hall
on Wednesday March 2S. Light re-
freshments will be served. Twenty
five cents admission. S7-2t
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-22

@. W. Courtney was business visi-
TOR from Grants Pass Monday.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1917-03-22
w. G. 7. L.

The w. c. T. U. will hold regular
meeting at 2:30 p. m. Wednesday in
the library rest room.
Do you think coffee injurious and
Postum high priced? Come to the
Civic Club Tuesday. We will show
you something.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

The next time I marry I am going to marry a man who doesn't growl about money. Whats that? Where will I find him? We'll, the species is not quite extinct as yet; take old Tattle tale. for instance; although he's the worst old roue in town and one of the biggest old buns on the face of the earth, I will say this for him: he Is good to his family; he doesn't spend all he has on himself and his darned old clubs and on golf and lot of other fool things and then come home in the evening with a grouch on him the size of the Woolworth building In New York and rake his poor wife over the coals because the grocery bill isn't what 1t was this time last year.
 Why don't I do my own market ing and then I'd save a lot? MT. Cau- dle, how can you say such things to me when you know perfectly well that I go to market three times a week and coax and jew the market man until I'm blue in the face. l pick over all the vegetables and skimp on this and on that and try to buy meats that can be utilized afterward for hash and and dear knows what else, and then this is all the thanks I get from you; fussing, fussing, fusslng from morning until night. Why, MT Caudle. look at your own appetite to
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begin with; you can eat half dozen biscuit for breakfast any morning;
 you swallow the butter in great hunks and I never saw any other man who used four Jumps of sugar in his coffee. Suppose you try cutting down your appetite and see what influence 1t will have on our bills?'
 'Of course I don't expert the children to eat less," MT. Caudle. They are grow ing children and they are healthy and hearty and sound and they must have food; but you can control your appetite if you only would. MT. Caudle, I hope your next wife will be a better manager than I am; I have never been able to please you in anything; when food prices were low and times were good you growled like a bear about household ex- penses and now that the war has in- creased the price of living and everything has doubled, nay, even trebled itself, you still growl-only more-so what am I to do? Oh, dear, I think I'll join the Red goes over to the other side and let you manage here at home. believe we'd both be happier by far.
 MT. Caudle, they say that a woman can serve her country now in war times in the kitchen as well as a man can in the trenches, and I want to say right here that l feel like I'm doing my part
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toward patriotism when I've cut down rations and food supplies and kitchen commodities as I have the past two months; and although you kick and rave and act like wild man from Borneo, I'm still going on in my quiet little way and never saying word about what I'm doing; if you'd only compare your gro- cery bills with those of our neghbors I m sure you'd have to confess, as much as you'd hate to, that I am good man. ager, and still set a respectable table and didn't let any of my family go-hun- gry.
 The trouble with you, MT. Caudle, Is just this: You've been spoiled and petted and humored to death. I've taken my own money to help defray the household expenses from time to time and denied myself what other women wouldn't think of denying themselves, and now that the little property that I own is vacant l have no money to help with, you've set up a hue and cry the like of which has never been heard.
 Don't you call me dear soul any other single time, MT. Caudle! Mo- do not believe you when you address me in such terms; why should I? I'm not the kind of person who can stand abuse one minute, and the next minute soft soap; I couldn't lie here in bed and go to sleep this night if I wasn't sure I'd done my
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duty in every way a good wife can; bear no malice toward you, MT. Caudle for what you've said; I suppose 1t is just your nature, but don't try to jolly me- sir. I think you might occasionally say a kind word to me when I try so hard to reduce expenses and live cheaply and still maintain a nice, tempting table for my husband and my children, but for gracious sake don't give me any hot air. When I'm dead and gone, MT. Caudle, and your dear mother-in-law comes in to keep house for you and the children be- fore you get married again I hope then you'll appreciate what an economical wife I've been to you during war times or no war times, for what she'll do to your pocketbook will be a plenty. What's that? You don't want me to talk like that? Certainly you don't, because it's the truth and the truth hurts. But there Mr.
 Caudle; I won't utter another syllable of how I feel again as long as breath is in my body. l always did despise a nagging woman, and there's one thing that you can say for yourself and that is you've never had a wife who talked back to you when you growl and fuss; you can truth fully say that I've borne my troubles and disappointments like Christian martyr, and if your second wife talks you to death you can sometimes think of me and say: There was a woman who knew how
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practiced the feeder can rest assured that the chicks will get sufficient sup ply of this very essential material.
 One of the most practical and satis- factory feeding devices for young chicks IS flat half-inch board six to eight inches wide and from 12 to IS inches long, With half-nch square rail tackled around the edges The feed Is sprinkled on these wooden plates and the rail keeps the chicks from scattering 1t about the floor Again, it Is difficult to deter mine just how much the chicks will con- sume and when given on plates it can be removed after they have had it before them for sufficient length of time. The egg mixture should be given five times daily for the first three days and all lowed to remain for about 15 minutes at each feeding. When the plates are re- moved a little of the mixture can be sprinkled on the floor of the brooder for the chicks to pick at Only very little should be left since steady development depends largely on having the chicks hungry for every meal.
 The chicks should be taught to drink as soon as they are transferred to the brooder. If skim milk or buttermilk is available either sweet or sour, it should be given in the place of water from the very start. The early feeding of milk starts the youngsters to growing quickly and is one of the best preventives known for White Diarrhea" and kindred diges- tive disorders. By dipping the bills of a few chicks in the milk they will soon learn to drink and the others will then quickly catch on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
How You May Change
 Your Face Completely

Any woman not satisfied with her complexion can easily remove it and have a new one. The thin veil of stiff ling half-dead cuticle is an encumbrance and should be removed to give the fresh, vigorous. young skin underneath a chance to show itself and to breathe. There's a simple, old-fashioned remedy which will always do the work. Get an ounce of pure mercolized wax from your druggist and apply 1t at night like cold cream, washing it off in the morning. The wax will gently absorb all the lifeless skin and leave a healthy and beautiful complexion. as fresh as child's. Naturally it takes with it all such facial blemishes as freckles. moth patches, sallowness, liver spots, pim- ples. It is pleasant to use and economi- cal. The face so treated soon looks years younger.
 To keep the skin free from wrinkles and furrows there's nothing quite so good as the old reliable saxolite lotion. It Is only necessary to dissolve an ounce of powdered saxolite in a half pint of witch hazel and bathe the face in this as required The result Is instantaneous and wonderful. and there Is no harmful effect whatever.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
Wrestling With Russian

From H. w. HorwilIs London Letter
 to the Nation.
 It did not need the revolution to create in England an enthusiasm for Russia that one might almost describe as "craze.' The cult of things Rus sian has taken some strange forms as when quite early in the war, an Influential organ of evangelical Non- conformity published an editorial in praise of the religion of the moujik For the last two years and half Stephen Graham has had the oppor- tunity of his life His books, and oth- CTS of kindred brands, have been eag- erly read. No concert programme IS regarded as complete nowadays unless it includes a few items of Russian music. Borodin, Glazounov and Nous sorgsky have jumped into a sudden popularity at the Queens hall Even Birmingham has started a local Anglo Russian society and has held Rus sian week" devoted to performances or Russian music and plays. lectures on Russian art, literature, and social lire, and an exhibition of articles of Rus sian handicraft.
 The most startling sign of this new affection for the former bogey is the zeal with which so many people are duui csSiiS eHeiuSclVeS tO tHc Stuoy o- the Russian language. Ordinarily the Englishman does not shine as lin- guist. and the fact that. in these stren- uous days he should be seriously talk ing up so difficult task as the learn ing of Russian Is striking evidence of the intensity of his enthusiasm, Madame Clare Butt. 1t is reported has learned the language to the extent of being able to sing Russian songs tn the original. Another distinguished student Is Sir Donald McAlister. the principal of Glasgow university and president of the general medical coun-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

and observe the players on the side- walks, conversing on the corners, com ing out of the office buildings. The men are jaunty. they swing sticks. they look just shade too fashion able The women wear their pret- tfest frocks and always silk stockings, But sometimes you catch a worried look on their faces, look even of ap- prehension. Alone. and a mask seems to drop. Not all of them go to the Knickerbocke for luncheon-far from it. There are little cubbyhole lunch rooms where you will find these cane swinging and silk k-stockinged bearers of the banner of romance. They are vain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

ss s5: . 's s: -;: :; E; ;s:; ny: Nj, when potatoes and flour could be bought at nominal figures and meat and bread were cheap, but now that a single little old one-eyed potato and q little scrap of loaf of bread cost more than diamond bar pin, we can t live on the place with you for your growing and snorting and sniffing about bills and the high cost of liv- ing
 Whats that? You wouldn't grumble if you could only make enough money to pay for the things we eat? Ger tainly. that's the point exactly; if you'd stay off of the golf links long enough to attend to your business and not ride around all over the face of the earth in your automobile, you might have time to transact little business now and then. MT. Caudle. the fact that we have a large and expensive family Is not my fault any more than it Is yours; I'd steal before I'd see my It. tie innocent children go hungry and before I'd hang around clubs and play golf and motor with lot of old buns and neglect my business when money Is so scarce and food products so high, Id-rd-well, I'd die; that's all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
Stage Struck-Read This

In the American Magazine Walter Prichard Eaton says:
 "Did you ever hunt for a job-any job It isn't form of indoor or out door sport that you would naturally choose. is it? It doesn't add greatly to your self-esteem. your self-confi- dence the development of your pow CTS, to come home tired and discour- aged night after night. And player folk are peculiarly sensitive to such influences, or they would not be play CTS. It is bad enough to rust in idle ness. but 1t is worse to feel that you are not wanted, or that you are for gotten. or that you have to be judged by ignorant men, even by office boys, your chance even to earn a living de- pending on the tastes of those you often despise.
 Yet the actor or tho actress must show none of this feeling He or she must keep up smiling front, must look prosperous and we'll dressed, youthful and charming, for the shabby actor has no chance at all Walk along Broadway in July when the casts are being selected for the following season
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
WHITE ORPINGTONS

In the early days of fancy poultry breeding in America large sums of money were sent to England annually for the best it produced in Cochins, Brahmas, Dorkings and Indian Games, which were then the popular fowls. These fowls were gradually removed from their popu- larity by the American breeds which were gaining favor because of their dual purpose qualities of being good layers and good table fowls.
 Thus the golden stream was diverted, and English breeders experienced rather lean years until the late William Cook originated his Orpingtons These fowls possessed the merits of great layers and good table fowl. and compared favorably with our Wyandottes and Plymouth Rocks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

stale bread soaked in milk, or hard boiled eggs and dry bread crumbs or oatmeal mixed together, fills the bodily requirements of the chicks very satis- factorily at this age. If the egg mix ture is used the eggs should be boiled
 hard and then run through food cutter,
 shells included. One part of the ground egg is then mixed with two parts of bread crumbs or oatmeal by rubbing the ingredients together thoroughly with the hands. To this mixture add lib- eral quantity of fine, sharp chick grit so that it will be taken into the system along with the food. Some successful
 feeders make a practice of spreading the grit on the floor of the brooder instead
 of putting it into the food Either method will answer, but if both are
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

ing and for the last feed at night. In a day or two the remaining three feeds of egg mixture can be gradually replaced with a mash composed of 10 pounds bran, , pounds cornmeal, pounds middlings. and 26 pounds sifted beef scraps. The main point in changing the food of young chicks is to do it gradually so that they can easily accustom themselves to the new foods. By the beginning of the sec ond week the change in the rations should be worked out so that the chicks get three feeds of scratch food and two of the mash. The former can be given the first thing in the morning, again at noon and for the last feed at night and the latter at 10 a. m. and 4 D. m. This sched- ule is followed until the chicks are three weeks old.
 Greens in the Chicks Diet
 Of course, green food must not be omit ted from the feeding schedule for three weeks or until the chicks are put on range or grass-covered yards. The proper kind of succulence is just as important as the ground grains other parts of the ra- ton. While it is true that they are large ly water and contain very little actual food, we must not lose sight of the fact that they assist very materially in the digestion of the more concentrated foods and are therefore very important ac- cessory. For the first 10 days a few tender lettuce leaves, SWISS cnard or Slrn- liar greens will be found very satisfac- tory. Later. fresh lawn clippings. cut clover or sprouted oats can be given daily until the youngsters are allowed the lib- erty of yards or ranges which provide this part of their ration.
 The sanitary measures which have to do with the general health and thrifti- ness of the chicks apply more generally to the brooder and it's environment, and not so much to the actual feeding Oper- ations. However, it Is a safe plan to make sure that all the receptacles used for feeding are absolutely clean. This is especially true of the vessels used for
 milk which should be scalded daily. Sour
 milk is a splendid food for young chicks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

cil, who is essaying this unusual task in his sixty third year.
 The copyright in textbooks and dic- tionaries of the Russian language must nowadays be a valuable property You see them prominently displayed on the open shelves of public libraries and constantly advertised in the newspa- pers A search through the advertising columns has failed to disclose any Russian Made Easy''-perhaps that would imposed too great a strain on the confidence of the most sanguine beginner-but there Is an approach to it in "Learn Russian in simple and interesting way by aid of the pictorial Russian course. complete course of Russian in 30 lessons, with pictures Illustrating everyday life"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
Fruit Acids as Mouth Cleansers

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 Unless the teeth are very badly dam aged or eroded, the acids of fruit such as that contained in grapes, oranges, lemons or apples will be found to be a satisfactory mouth wash. The aG- vice of a dentist Should be sought, however, to determine the condition Of the teeth and to decide whether an al- kaline or acid wash is preferable for the individual case. But there is no question as to the efficacy of the food acids in removing quickly and entirely the mucous films that are the first stages of dental decay.
 An apple eaten in the evening will cleanse the teeth mechanically and chemically. and If followed by vigor- ous brushing will protect them from bacteria during the night
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They immediately sprang into popu- larity in America, and again the stream of American money flowed to England for the best of each variety.
 Of these the slngle-comb White Or pington attained the greatest popularity. than tho American varieties.
 White Orpingtons are excellent gen. eral purpose fowls-great layers and good producers in winter, when egg prices are high. The chicks are rapid growers, of fine flesh. making delicious table fowls, and when full grown, weight from b1s to S1a pounds for females and 71z to s1l pounds for males, often more. They make excellent capons, are docile and easily ! confined
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

them off in hurry and without the least pain. I can wear tight shoes, corns."
 "Gets-It" makes the use of toe-irri- tating salves. bundling bandages. tape. plasters and other things not only derful discovery, "Gets-It.' for any soft or hard corn or callus It is the new, simple, easy. quick way, and 1t never fails You'll never have to cut g corn again with knives or scissors. and run chances of blood poison. Try Gets It" tonight.
 "Gets-It" is sold everywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence & Co.,, Chicago, ILL
 Sold in Birmingham and recommend ed as the worlds best corn remedy py O., @ stores) 307 First Avenue ana Pratt Station. Pratt City. Ala.-Adv.
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to hold her tongue in the midst of the most trying circumstances, and I am proud that I can point to her as an example of discretion and silence. Whats that, MT. Caudle? Are you snoring? You haven't heard a word of what I've said the past half hour? You brute And 1t was such line of conversation, too! Oh, Mr. Caudle, MT. Caudle how can you sleep when such questions as the war and war time prices are at stake and the whole country is trying to do some thing to better condtions?' AS Don Marques says in his funny column in the New York Sun, if you can't be any other kind of patriot, hoe the garden and be a notatriot.' :"
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. but if not handled carefully it quickly decomposes and becomes unfit for food. The mash and scratch feed are likewise very apt to contain musty and moldy grain or partly decomposed beef scraps which if not detected in time will often play havoc with the flock.
 From Three Weeks to Maturity
 Beginning with the fourth week the feeding schedule is gradually changed un- til the birds are on the regular rations which are used until they go into the laying houses in the fall. This change consists, first in reducing the number or feeds daily to three instead of five; and second, in changing the ration slightly so as to meet the requirements of the growing chicks.
 After the number of daily feeds has been reduced to three. morning, noon and night, the finely cracked scratch food should be replaced by mixture or equal parts of whole wheat and ordinary cracked corn. The only changes necessary in the mash are to use the beef scraps without sifting and add from a half to three quarters of pound of salt to every hundred pounds of mash. The mash Is given at noon and the wheat and corn mixture morning and night. Grit and crushed oyster shell. charcoal and bone meal should be maintained In hoppers
 to which the chicks have access at all times after the birds are three or four weeks old.
 When the chicks are weaned and put on free range, the feeding should be sim plified as much as possible so as to elimi- nate unnecessary labor. The dry mash and all accessories, such as shells, char coal and so on, should be kept in hop pers where the chicks can help them selves. The only part of the ration fed by hand is the whole grains. scattered morning and night in the weeds and grass about the range. Milk can be replaced | by an abundant supply of pure, fresh water. From now on the feeding prob- lem resolves itself into a mechanical prop ositlon of keeping the chicks supplied
 with clean, wholesome feed so that their growth and development are steady and l sure.
 l If you wish to make a conservative es- innate of next seasons layers you must consider the element of mortality be- l tween the incubator and the laying house Accidents claim a great deal of the losses among chicks many of which are with 1 In the operators control This IS the | subject of next weeks article.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
Substituting Cheaper Foods

After the third day the egg mixture can be gradually replaced by more permanent rations which are less expensive to feed.
 In making this change give feed of commercial chick scratch in place of the egg mixture the first thing in the morn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10

Li'l Honey, marriage is sorter lak dis heah "arts an crafts" stuff you heahs so much erbout desc days: hit teks "art" ter git CT husban' an hit teks "craft" ter keep him! Yassum!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-10
''Come on Over, See
 My Corn Fall Off,
"l Put 2 Drops of 'Gets-It' on Last
 Night-Now Watch"

"See-all you have to do is to use your two fingers and lift the corn right off That's the way 'Gets-It al- ways works You Just put on about 2 drops. Then the corn not only shrivels. but loosens from the toe. without af- fecting the surrounding flesh in the least. Why, it's almost pleasure to have corns and see how 'Gets-It gets