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The Natchitoches enterprise. (Natchitoches, La.) 1888-1965, 1917-11-08
PERSONAL
AND
OTHERWISE

Mmas, NJ. II. Carver and A. E
Bath spent Tuesday in Alexandra
Serge dresses at $12 so to So
at Semmelman's,
Mr.. james B. Tucker returned
Monday from a pleasant visit t,
Shreveport
Big line of Paul JoEes Middle'
S. & fl. Ka fife.
Private Bernard Neken came VI
from Camp Beauregarde to spenc
Il few days at home.
Dead or alive you must have {
OF alive See Hedges.
MIR. Randall or New York
spent Monday in Natchitoches and
was an interesting caller at the Of
flee.
New shipment of SIS and SIS
mems suits at Semmel mans
Miss Addie Tauzin of Natchi-
toehes is visiting Miss Mercedes
Richards for a few days during
the State Fair.
Showing the largest stock of
dress goods in the City. 5. & II,
Kaffie.
Mr. V. L, Roy was q visitor to
BaDon Ro uge during the week,
where he attended a meeting of the
State Educators.
Land when bought right is 9
good buy. See Hedges.
Miss gladys Breazeale has re-
turned from weeks visit to her
sister Katherine who is teaching
at Dobson-
After spending the past few
months in Kansas City with her
sister, Mrs. Edna Katie reached
home Thursday night,
All Wool Serge Skirts, neat new
models, $4.95 at Semmelman's.
Mrs. Lily Ducournau left on
Wednesday for New York where
she will spend the winter with her
daughter. M RS. Paul Bechet.
Food and clothing are higher
than eyer before, but bui lding lots
ara still the same price Better
see Hedges.
Miss Mary Tarver who has been
filling position as telegraph OPP
orator in Arkansas has been trans
ferred to Natchltoches where she
isiassisting Miss Self in the local
Office. -
Housekeepers If you are In
hurry for any staple or fancy gro
Gerry, fruits or all kinds Or any
THUG needed for breakfast, dinuer
or supper phone 1913 and you will
have your order delivered at once.
Mrs. Kalie DesmuKes of Alex
andria spent several days in town
last week, when she came to sign
the papers that transferred
Big line of Sport Goats ard
Sweaters, 5. & II. Katie
Misses Gratia and Vallery Deb
lielyx, Lee Sompayrac escorted by
Master Blanchard Porter went up
Shreveport thursday night to at
tend the Fair returning on Sun
day.
For rent 80 acre farm near
Clear Lake apply Marshall Sem
melman, Natchltoches, La.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Bertrand
of Cloutierville motored up to
town for the day Sunday when
they we're the guests OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Sam Caspari.
New shipment of ladies suits al
Semmelman's.
Miss Judith Carver left on Mon
day for Lake Charles to accept a
position 10 one Of the schools IL
that city, where her sister Miss
Miriam is already filling a posi-
ton.
! Daniel Green & Sons. Felt
Slippers. Ali Shades. ), & II.
Katie.
/ Mr.. Will Phillips spent Sunday
at home with his parents en- route
from the State Fair back 10 his
studies at l.. ). u.
Did yon ever Sit down and fig. /
ure out nov much you've paid ont
in rentl Think it over, then see
Hedges,
Mr. Frank Raggio, son Warren
ana little grandson OF d. Ridder
cane vi, Monday ~higat TO spent
lew days at the old nome and en-
Joy some hunting.
Gray boots atS4i95 at Semmel-
pans $.
Evening star., 1917-05-06
The High Pay.

esE FRANCE" said War Correspondent
Will Irwin. ''is a more economical
country than America. and now that
France. with a flourish of trumpets.
grants the high pay to her fighting
troops-namely. 10 cents a day-the
thing isn't ludcrous, as it would be
with us. These troops fought marvel
ously in the past for cent a day.
NO. the high pay isn't like the cor
poration of which it was said:
"I see that billion dollar corpora
tion is going to do something at last
for its veteran employees
THAT so?'
"'Yes. Every man that has been with
them over thirty years is to be entitled
to wear gold stripe on his sleeve"
Evening star., 1917-05-06
Watered Stock.

TIT II. MENCKEN. the Baltimore war
11o correspondent, said on his return
trip from Berlin:
''The German cattle are fed on straw
alone. Hence the milk is very poor.
Poor as it is. it's adulterated at that.
las man with a milk card entered
Berlin dairy one day, he heard the
boss say:
"'Fritz. never milk the cows while
they are eating
The man with the card laughed
scornfully.
Fritz said he. Judging by the milk
you sell here. I think you'd do better
never to milk the cows while they're
drinking"
Evening star., 1917-05-06

summer season the peas. beans and other
green vegetables bought here come from
truck farmers whose farms are near
enough to permit them to haul their prod
ucts here.
But it is safe to say that not more
than 10 per cent Of the non-perishable
Washington next winter will be grown
within radius of fifty miles from Wash
ington-'
Facts like these about Washington's
lfcity within the past two months. Wash
ington business men have become intense
ly concerned about them. for two rea-
sons. These reasons are:
Fear that rising prices of foodstuffs will
be felt especially in Washington during
the coming year. where, with the sal
aries paid by the government already in
adequate to meet the gradual advance in
the cost Of living, there is no rise OF
wages to correspond to higher prices, as
in industrial cities.
Fear that the use of transportation
means may be employed SO generally in
that sufficient food supplies, eth
er in winter summer, may
hard to get in to Washington at any
price. This concern was enhanced when
Mr.. Nesbit. John Dolph. chairman of the
central garden committee, and others in
terested in the garden movement made
tours of outlying sections. interviewed
truckers and farmers and learned that
many oI tnese commercial gardeners hao
gradually been reducing the amount of
land under cultivation.
X X
Even at best the home and vacant lot
gardening movement, for year or two,
will result principally in better, fresh
err. more and cheaper vegetables for the
persons growing them, and will not
have a material effect on the general
market supply, these men believe.
Hence they feel that every effort must
be made to encourage the cultivation
of all the land available around the
city.
To do this they hope, first, to give all
the aid they can to the truck gardeners,
the most serviceable in augmenting the
Evening star., 1917-05-06
Putting His Foot Down.

MARS. WILL IRWIN said, at Wash
AVG ington Square tea:
1.-The more immodest fashions would
disappear if men would resolutely op-
pose them.
II know a woman whose dressmaker
sent home the Other day skirt that
was. really, too short altogether. The
woman put it on. 1t was becoming
enough. dear knows. but it made her
feel ashamed. She entered the library.
and her husband looked up from his
work with a dark froWn.
81 wonder. she said, with an en-
barrassed laugh, if these ultra short
skirts will ever go out?'
They'll never go out with me- he
answered in decided tones"
Evening star., 1917-05-06

ly now is arranging for demonstrations
in commercial truck growing, bean
growing, corn growing and in the cui-
tivation of other foodstuffs which go
to make up the city's food supplies.
Then. toward fall. he will give demon
strations in canning these products Tor
winter use. Thus the gardens not only
will help out in the summer. but Will
become winter gardens" as well. Th1s
is a factor in vegetable growing now
being stressed by the Department of
waste of products. simply because the
market is glutted at the time they
ripen and growers have allowed them
to waste in the fields because they did not
realize the profit of preserving them for
the lean winter months.
This extension of the demonstration
idea to commercial gardening is impor-
tant In Philadelphia 500 families were
able to produce 100000 worth OF Vege-
tables. reckoned at prevailing market
prices, last summer, which SOUNDS as IL
it might make a considerable dent IN ,he
vegetable shortage, until one realizes tnae M
Philadelphia uses more than S3,oou,ooV
worth of vegetables annually.
No accurate figures are available about
washingtons annual consumption. The
only estimates curiously enough. obtain
able here, even by the commission ap-
pointed by the Commissioners to inquire
into the subject. had to be deduced from
the city's waste, as shown in its gar
bage. For many years Washington gar
bage had about the richest content of that
of any city in the country. meaning that
Washington housewives were prodlsai
and wasteful. Some of the richest OF TINS
garbage came from the poorer sections.
This condition has been remedied in re-
cent years. and the garbage has shown a
declining degree of richness in fatty con-
tent. corresponding to an increasing THRIFT
on the part of the city.s households.
Charles F. Nesbit superintendent of IN
surance, appointed to represent the COM
missioners in the home garden movement.
also was one Of the members of the food
commission In respect to Washington
vegetable supply. he estimates:
1T is probable that less than 10 per
cent of the potatoes we use are grown
on nearby farms. and less than per cent
of the year-round supply of beans Of all
sorts.
During a month or six weeks of the
Evening star., 1917-05-06
Flowers That Bloom i'm Spring

violet grow around Washington. The
bird-foot. unlike any other member of
the violet family, has divided leaves. 1t
grows abundantly in this neighbor-
hood and Is well worth seeking.
One might pursue the subject of wild
flowers indefinitely. The month of May
brings forth more flowers than one can
call attention to in a brief space, yet
the mention of dogwood cannot be
withheld. This shrub, or tree, for 1t is
called both. provides in early May one
of the most delightful pageants of
beauty in the entire spring galaxy.
Photographs of spring flowers are a
feature of The Stars planagravure sec
tion of today.
Evening star., 1917-05-06

in the department. He made a survey
of the opportunities and reported that
he would be able to do something in
Washington. for geographical reasons,
that has never been done in the states
that is. get into personal touch once
each week with every man, woman, boy
or girl throughout the District who is
interested in the production of food. To
do this he conceived the demonstration
garden idea.
*
Because of the territory these agents
must cover in the states. illustrated
lectures and departmental bulletins
are depended upon largely for results.
Through this means wonders have been
accomplished. That is why Mr.: Conol-
ly believes that even more can be done
in the District of Columbia by means
of the demonstration garden plan.
This plan already has interested
other cities Communications have been
received from Boston. Mass. and from
Newark. \. j.. asking about it. The
plan involves a series of these demon
stration gardens, thirtyfour in all.
scattered. all over the city. For three
weeks Mr.. Conolly went about the city,
seeking those communities where the
garden idea was taking hold. Wher-
ever he found ten or twelve gardens in
cultivation. or in contemplation, he Sc
lected one of them to be used as dem
onstration garden plot. Each of these
gardens will be visited by Mr.. Conolly
once each week. and there he will
plant, hoe. dig and demonstrate just
what ought to be done to the garden,
while the gardeners in that vicinity
meet with him on the plot to get the
benefit of his practical advice.
After the gardens were chosen the
city was divided into five sections. ac-
Cording to the location of the demon
stration plots and the street car facili-
ties for reaching them. Mr.. Conolly
will observe garden hours" once a
gardens in each of these sections. The
actual problems that confront the dem
onstration garden will be much like
those which trouble other amateur gar
deners thereaboutS.
But all this is only the first step in
the demonstration idea as it is to be
worked out in Washington. Mr.. Conol-
Evening star., 1917-05-06

WLEASURE may go hand in hand
~ with knowledge, and this is espe-
cially true of jaunt afoot in
the woods during the early days OF
spring. A little understanding of wild
flowers, their names and form of
growth. does not transform the pleas
ure-seeker into a specimen collector
with his appreciation of natures beau
ty secondary to his craving for botani-
cal knowledge. but will add to the en-
thusiasm which the average beauty
loving soul feels when he comes face
to face with the flowers.
Even a bowling acquaintance with the
flowers will bring reward in added
pleasure to every out-of-door trip. The
environs of Washington are full OF
varieties of wild flowers which one
may meet and learn to know if the de-
sire is persistent enough. The cana!
region is. of course, an alIbl for all
flower lovers. In it's shaded and wood
ed sections, it's watery banks and its
sunny borders are to be round many
varieties of floral life. Rock Creek
Park also provides a variety of Species
though there the flowers may only be
admired and not plucked. Indeed. many
of the country and suburban sections
within short distance of the city
proper provide number of dells where
the flowers "bloom in the spring.
To give the names of all the wild
flowers is impossible. or to say which
are the prettiest is an assumption that
one may not easily make to the salts
faction of every one else. Yet a few
species stand out for their singular
beauty. and they are found most
plentifully during this month. one may
safely suggest a few of them as an
objective for a nature jaunt in May.
No flower of the month can vie with
the spotless beauty of the bloodroot.
But ii is very short-lived Hover. Its
snowy petals fall from it's golden center
before one has a chance to fully admire
their perfection. Care should be taken
in picking them, if they must be picked,
as the red liquid which oozes from the
stem makes lasting STAIN This blood
like Juice was priced by the Indians for
use as a decoration for face and toma
hawk.
The roadside and meadows are thick
ly carpeted with bluets now, and even
the lawns are their abiding places.
Their true sky-blue color is one of the
rarest shades in nature.
The jack-in-the- e-pulpit is well known
by all who love the woods in early
spring. and never to have seen one of
these stately flowers SO popular in
verse and story is to have missed
much. The so-called pulpit itself is
light green. veined with a deeper 49,:
or sometimes with purple. An old
legend claims that this flower was re-
ceived at the crucif1xion:
Beneath the cross II grew
And in the vaselike hollow Of the leaf.
Catching from that dread shower of agony
A few mysterious drops. transmitted thus
Unto the groves and hills their healing stains
A heritage for storm vernal shower
Never to blow away.
Perhaps the best loved of all the
spring wild flowers Is the violet It
seems that no other spring flower is so
suggestive of the dawning spring. A
large number of different species of
Evening star., 1917-05-06
BOOKS RECEIVED.

RETROGRESSION, And Other Poems.
BY William Watson. New York:
John Lane Company.
VERMONT; Its Resources and oppor-
tunitics. BY Walter. H. Crockett
Published by virtue of the provisions
OF No. II of the acts of 1915 of the
general assembly of the state of
Vermont.
MEMORIES OF EIGHTY YEARS. By
Mary c. Brooke. New York: The
knickerbocker Press.
CARLYLE AND THE WAR. BY Mar
shall Kelly. Chicago: open Court
Publishing Company.
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY. BY Ed
gar Lee Masters. Illustrated by
oliver Herford. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
JOURNALISM VERSUS ART. BY Max
Eastman. editor of The Masses"
New York: Alfred A. knopf
ENGLISH INFLUENCE on THE UNIT
ED STATES. BY w. Cunningham,
d. D., F. b. A., etc New York: q.
p. Putnam's Sons.
ARCHER AND THE "PROPHET.- BY
Edna A. Brown. author OF -Four
Gordons, etc. illustrated by John
Goss. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shep-
ard Company.
SETTING THE GOLDEN EGG, Being
the Prayer of Woman for the
Union and Growth of Science and
Art In This Day Of Human Upheaval.
By Leila NJ Tinsley. New York:
The Tinsley Company
UNIVERSAL MILITARY EDUCATION
AND SERVICE; The Swiss system
for the United States. BY Lucien
Howe. fellow of the Royal Society
of Medicine, etc. New York: G. p.
PutnamS Sons.
TOWARDS AN ENDURING PEACE, A
Programs. 18f4-19I6. Compiled by
Randolph S. Bourne. With an in
PRODUCTION by Franklin II. Giddings
New York: American Association for
International Cancellation.
BELGIUM'S CASE, A judicial ENQUIRY.
BY CHI. de Visscher, professor of law
in the University of Ghent. Trans
lated from the French by 4. f.
Jourdain, principal of St Hugh's
College. oxford; With preface by
J. Van Den HeuveL minister of
state, Belgian minister to the holy
see. New York: George H. Doran
Company.
THE ATTITUDE OF GREAT BRITAIN
IN THE PRESENT WAR. BY James
Bryce (Viscount Bryce), author of
The Holy Roman Empire" etc
London: Macmillan & Co.. Limited.
FAMOUS SCULPTURE. BY Charles L.
Barstow. author of Famous Pic
tures," etc. New York: The Century
Company.
THE MASS Every Day I'm the Year.
The Roman Missal. Translated and
arranged by Edward A Pace, ID. d.
and John j. Wynne. 8. J. New York:
The Home Press.
Evening star., 1917-05-06

and also appreciated the advantage of
having the nations capital sort of
national example of what might be ac-
complished in. back yard and vacant
lot gardening. So it did an uuprece-
dented thing-it assigned. a man to give
his entire time to the work of pro-
noting the movement in Washington
States had their county agricultural
agents. Half their salaries were paid
by the government, half by the coun-
ties. But the federal government
thought it worth while to assign one
of its experts, paying his entire salary,
to build up city garden system in the
city, where public officials. from the
President down through cabinet officers
to lesser departmental executives were
seeking to promote the grow your own
vegetables" idea.
of his duties as assistant horticulturist
Evening star., 1917-05-06

nearby food production. Second, they
hope to promote club and community
enterprises in cultivating outlying
tracts of larger size than vacant lots
within the city. Third, they hope to
develop a number of colony garden
projects. like that undertaken by Boy
Scouts of Washington on the 300-acre
tract set aside for them by Uncle Sam
in East Potomac Park, under the joint
supervision of scout officials and men
deputized by Col. w. w. Harts, in
charge of public buildings and grounds.
Ihere are many more angles to the
gardening movement than food produc-
ton. Mr.. Conolly believes. though he
thinks that must be the fundam entail
idea back of the project to insure its
success.
Il want to demonstrate in the Dis
Evening star., 1917-05-06
ON Takes Up Demonstration Idea in Gardens

solely by government agent. valuable as
Mr.. Conolly's services have been
The pioneer work of the Peoples Gar
den Association has been mentioned. That
has been supplemented by the substantial
results accomplished in school gardens
and home gardens through the schools.
under the direction OF Miss Susan b. Sipe.
The Normal School social center. meet
ing at the school where Miss Sipe is
teacher. did much to create an interest In
the movement this spring. under the lead
ership Of Mrs. Lyman +. kebler.
Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter. now vice chair
man OF the central garden committee and
one of its organizers. worked hard per
sonally. and through the Girl Scouts in
which she is an officer. TO launch the city
wide movement this spring
Mrs. Rafter co-operated with Miss
Anne Beers, supervising principal IN
Southwest Washington. where the gar
den movement had been taken up, in
calling an organization meeting at the
jefferson School. where preliminary
organization of central committee
was formed. This organization was
perfected and officers chosen at a meet
ing held a little later in the District
building. upon invitation of the Com
missioners
Meanwhile one of the most active
factors in the work had been the newly
formed Capital Garden clul. meeting
at the homes of Mrs Henry Cleveland
Perkins and Mrs. Samuel Spencer. Mrs.
Charles W. Wetmore vas crosen presi-
ra ised more than $1,000, which was
pledged to the central garden COM
mittee for the payment of a secretary.
buying seeds and fertilizer and for
other incidental expenses Most OF this
money has not yet been expended. since
every effort has been made to get vol
unteer service. which was freely Of
tered.
The garden effort in Washington took
on an added national aspect when
White House employees gained pernis-
sion to cultivate the historic tract OF
ground at the northeast corner OF
pennsylvania avenue and Madison
place. Secretary Tumuity was inter-
ested IN this project and President wiz
son had been invited to be present when
the ground was first plowed Owing
to the proposed erection of a public
building there this tract had to be
abandoned. but the White House em-
ployes will have their garden on an
other plot.
Evening star., 1917-05-06

trict that gardening is just as inter-
esting as fishing. that it furnishes just
as good exercise as playing golf or
tennis. that it will promote health not
only from the bodily vigor which comes
from exercising in the open. but also
from the greater consumption OF more
varieties of fresh vegetables" said Mr.
Conolly.
It wish to demonstrate whether there
is any truth in the oft-repeated state
ment that vegetables raised in city
garden cost as much as II the vegeta-
bles had been bought in the open
market.
Many persons this year will learn
what fresh vegetables. in exactly the
right stage of maturity. really taste
like. and when this taste is once ac-
quired the family vegetable garden will
be considered just as necessary as a
garage is for the automobile owner.
More vegetables in the diet mean less
meat. less other staple articles. and there
fore more of those staples may be used
for the armies of the United States and
our allies in Europe.
We also wish to demonstrate that the
larger areas Of land which are numer-
duce something betetr to eat and more
pleasing to look at than For Sale and
For Rent signs.
Much of this land can be made to pro-
duce corn, beans and potatoes. even IL 1t
cannot be cultivated more intensively in
some other vegetable crops We can dem
instrate. I believe, that much of this va
cant land Is not so hopeless as it looks.
Mismnaagement and lack Of labor have
produced the For Sale and For Rent
signs The patriotic spirit which is bring
ing so many persons into the gardening
work will soon change the broom sedge
from around these signboards to flourish
ing crops of corn. beans. potatoes. to-
matoes beets. turnips and other vegeta-
bles.
Five to ten dollars to the acre. spent
for seed fertilizer and preparation of the
soil will produce corn and peas. if nothing
more. and every landowner should do this
much in the present crisis. even if only
ten bushels of food to the acre is pro-
duced."
But the story of Washington's garden
movement is far from being one fostered
Evening star., 1917-05-06

-- 1ASHINGTON has struck a new
NAX note in the community gar
W\V den movement. 1t is the city
" which has put the demon
Rtration idea in the back yard garden
campaign.
For years the National Capital has
been known to students of civic eco
Aomics as one of the cities most de-
pendent upon far-away sources for its
food supplies. Within the last decade
some cities-notably Philadelphia and
CleyeIand-have made marked strides
toward producing more of their own
foodstufs. partly in back yards and on
vacant lots, but even to a greater ex-
tent on truck farms in their environs-
For some years the Peoples Garden
Association and officials of the pubic
schools have sought to encourage nome
gardens But il was uphill work ana
comparatiyeIy few persons engaged in
gardening.
About two months ago The Star print
ed an interview with Carl Nrooman. as
sistsnt secretary of agriculture, telling
OF the big spring drive the depart
mont MANNED in the matter of home
gardening The next day scores of let
ters were received commencing the
idea. and, almost overnight, half
dozen organizations and civic bodies
took UP the movement and it spread
like wildire.
By the time President Wilson haa
issued his proclamation to the AMER
can people. April Is, in which ne salu,
"Let me suggest. also. that every 2hu
helms and helps greatly. to solve the
nrah1.,,, of the feeding of the nation,
The home garden campaign in Washins
ton had become a Distrlc.IWsus @ a'" naw
ideas in the home garden movement.
and that is where the demonstrators
Garden idea comes in. x,r
The Department of Agricuilure ea,'f
recognized the extent of the movement