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The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-14
EASY TO Save

BY the same token that the best way
to have anything is do it yourself, the
best way to get ahead in the world
10 save regularly and invest wisely.
Your children may be buying Thrift
Stamps but the nickels and dimes and
quarters they are able to save won't
buy a new automobile or home or
cultivstor. The money to do that will
not be saved unless you save 1t.
It's easy enough to save II you do
it the W. S. s. way. Quarters planted
in Thrift Stamps grow into War Saw
ings Stamps and thS interest makes
them grow like rain does a summer
flower. Save for that happy opportu-
n:ty. If you're not in a War Savings
Society-get in one. Be with the
crowd.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-14
BANKS ORDERING
HAND GRENADES
Over 17o,ooo Children In Fifth District
VIII Be Routing Enemy, Waste,
During Summer Months

Richmond, Va-According to the
latest available figures over five hum
dred banks in the Fifth Federal Re-
serve District have ordered supplies
Of hand grenade penny-savings banks
that are to be used by the children for
summer savings. The total number
of hand grenades that have been or
dered exceeds 175,000.
The plan of the hand grenade bank
originated in the Treasury Depart
ment, and the banks are being dis
tributed in this district by the War
Loan Organization here. Every school
child under the age Of seventeen years
may, by apply .cg 1T the local bank, re-
ceive one of these hand grenade
penny-banks as a loan for the vaca-
ton period If, during the summer,
enough money is saved to purchase
one or more War Savings Stamps the
bank becomes the property Of the
child.
The banks are made out of real hand
grenades that were to have been used
against the Huns. With percussion
cap and high explosive removed, and
slots cut to receive and take out coins,
they are now doing service against
the enemy, waste, as banks for saw
ings.
School officials all over the district
are enthusiastic about the plan, as
they feel that it will not, only keep
alive but strengthen the thrift ideals
that already have been implanted IN
the minds of the children.
]. H. Binford, assistant superinten.
dent of public schools here, has en-
dorsed the scheme, In a recent letter
expressing the hope that all the banks
In the district would cooperate by get
ting supplies Of the hand grenades. as
the school children are enthusiastic
about securing them.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-14
OBJECT IS TO MAKE
PEOPLE PROSPEROUS
Government Much Interested In Series
Of War Savings Societies That
Are Rapidly Being Organised.

Government officials at Washing
ton are watching with no little inter
est the growth Of series Of societies
springing up all over the United
States. They have already attained a
membership that reaches we'll UP into
the millions.
Treasury department officials are
particularly interested in this move
msnt, and 1t is fostered by that de-
partment As soon as society 70
formed the names of the president
secretary and each individual mem
Der are placed in the treasury depart
ment archives.
These societies are War Savings
Societies, and the motive OF each So
ciety is Thrift. The government, IN
tavoring these organizations, has not
only in view the replenishing OF the
United States treasury through the
sale of Thrift and War Savings
Stamps, but the big idea is to cause
oacn lnQlFluudl HeHiuoi W ie"iH
value to himself of being thrifty.
The government is not seeking to
divert capital from legitimate COM
mercial enterprises. 1t does not want
to tie up vast sums. 1t is the person
who has never saved Systematically
that it is the most anxious to reach.
This person can put aside the small
amounts that he has been accustomed
10 spend. and this. drawing four per
sent compound interest will in an in
.redibly short time grow into large
enough sum to make the first pay
nent on a home. or to provide a sum
with which one may make perma-
aent investment.
The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1919-08-14

Nothing is fnal!" said Napoleon
.fter the battle of Jena. In days Of
prosperity insure against emergencies.
Buy financial safety with War Saw
ngs Stamps.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

new citizens to understand the essen
tials of American life and to desire
to initiate them.
The need for that kind of simple
happiness in American family life is
as great as ever, and it is more
widely maintained than we realize by
heroic women who carry the hard
burden Of country life just because
they realize its value to their chill
dren. Those homes win provide the
best citizens of the future, and that
is the type of home Of which many Of
our young men dream. Our young
women can help make that dream
come true if they will be willing to
give their best efforts to suburban
life, where they are needed and
where they can mean much to a COM
munlty. rather than crowding iaco
cities, where few realize their pres
ence or are benefited by their COM
ing.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Why Not "Canteen"
For the Home?

firmly believe that one of the
best results of hard physical work
done by our women in wartime is
the new point of view showing that
we have hitherto taken home respon-
sibilities too easily and that we have
not realized the economic importance
and influence Of our family sur
roundings. In fact, we have never
worked as hard physically as we
should over home problems.
"In those good old winter evenings
prohibition was unknown, and not
only cider but spiced rum was very
freely discussed. Speaking of cider
and rum, recall that when our con-
sistent Puritan uncle (who then had
the finest orchard in all Connecticut)
became strong temperance advo-
cate he destroyed his cider mill and
cut down his splendid apple trees,
lest he should be the means of MAX
ing his neighbor to offend" So
speaks Edward Everett Hale, de-
scribing an old-fashioned New Eng
land evening at home!
There have been many reasons
given for preferring city apartment
life to that in small country house,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Putting the Reverse
English on Petruchio

But the real crouch is different
and deserves no such consideration.
cone of the best tips I ever
had," said a clever woman blessed
with temperamental husband,
"was from Shakespeare. George
had been reading to me the Tam
ing of the Shrew,' and reading it
with much enjoyment. I began to
notice, as hadn't before, Petru-
chio's method.
Said 1 to myself, I'll try it..
Petruchio's idea was to show her
what it was like-that she hadn't
the only temper in the family
"Next time George came down in
the morning with the storm signals
out, instead Of seeing to it that he
had hot coffee instantly and other
near at hand panaceas beat him
to it," (She laughed at the remi-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

with the after work crouch or even
the early morning crouch that
afflicts some men than the home
grown woman to whom love is her
whole existence and her husbands
Homecoming the one event in the
day. The business woman knows
perfectly we'll what it is to come
home tired and cross and to want
nothing SO much as to be let alone,
even by ones nearest and dearest.
It's wise wife who gives her hus-
band tea and sees to it that if he
wants a quarter or half hour
peace and letting alone" he has
it. Perhaps when our transit facili-
ties are improved a wife won't need
to do this. But at the end of a
days work a half hour of subway,
of the jostling, squeezing, forcible
proximity Of hundreds of humans
packed as tightly together as a
crowd at a Coney Island pier for
the last boat, is enough to make a
man with the serenity of the Angel
Gabriel feel unfit for human inter-
course. 1t takes him, as if would
take the Angel Gabriel, a few
minutes to feel that his soul is his
own again.
AS with her infant, woman at
tempts no training Of the man of
her choice because Of temper"
until she is sure that any possible
physical cause has been removed.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Today

but few of those reasons hold good
where children are concerned. Il
cannot be said that modern con-
veniences have filled the child's need
Of sun, fresh air, quiet companion
ship, outdoor play and constructive
work, all of which provide the coun-
try child with memories that last.
If an American mother, because
she finds living easier in the city, de-
prlves her children of all these
things, is she not lying down on her
job? And what does she do with
her spare time that compensates?
The value of an ideal American
home as a place of training consists
in its adherence to our traditions.
among which are simple living, rest
full Sundays, family comradeship.
hospitality, moral cleanliness. re-
spect for uprightness and hard work,
and friendliness to foreigners.
1t is just those qualities that help
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

Two of the most helpful writer's
if a woman would understand
dealing with husbands, and to un-
derstand dealing with men is to
understand dealing with husbands
are Shakespeare and Balzac.
Both of these writers are pro-
foundly masters of knowledge of
human nature. which every one
knows, and both are strong femi-
nists. Both have an ALMOST startling
belief in the vast extent to which
the moulding Of a mans life and
even character lies in the hands Of
the woman to whom he has given
his love. Even St Paul concurs
in this un- Blackstonian theory and
would have the bishops celibate for
the reason that if man be mar
rled his desire is to please his
Wife"
According to Shakespeare, wom-
an is almost invariably the stronger,
both morally and spirituality; she
supplies the incentive and she sup
plies the push According to
Balzac, it was a grave mistake that
women were ever taught to look up
to men as the stronger stronger,
perhaps, in the active world), but
that direction came naturally from
wonderland should come from
them! In short, when a man makes
success of his life, as when he
makes a failure, it's case of
"cherchez la femme" And if he
hasn't his angles ironed out and
his good points emphasized there's
something wrong with his wifes
training.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Concerning Husbands-Their Care .

is worse-badly trained, and has
much to unlearn. He may have been
spoiled by adoring mother or sisters,
which is, perhaps, the hardest type
OF man to marry.
Many marital disagreement is
due precisely to this deplorable lack
OF training on the part Of the man.
Seventy per cent of the welded diff
ferences are about money, and usu-
ally it is the woman who is chided
for lack of businesslike manage
ment, of budgeting, and the like, yet
l hold that one reason for the sue
cess of the budget idea when applied
to domestic finance lies exactly here
that the husband then can see, as
he hasn't seen before, how much the
upkeep of a house and family
amounts to. Theoretically, he knows
that a household has expenses, but
actually the SIS he gives his wife
looms large in his eyes; the S. he
puts IN his pocket melts in a day or
two at most, and quite naturally.
This simple lack of knowledge ac-
counts for the "Where's the five
cents | gave you last week." atti-
tude of some husbands toward the
wife's legitimate expense. Many
man will scold about bills for house
hold upkcep and scold also if given
the simpler fare which would quite
naturally reduce them.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

romance fees, that the fire of young
love is replaced by the comforta BILE
hot brick Of friendship at which
one can warm ones toes during the
long journey of life, nor that Ed
win is any the less "Heaven's mas
terpiece" that his Angelina took
him for--not at all! 1t is the per-
spective that has altered: the sense
of ownership has entered in. Very
much as if one had admired for long
a bit of property that seemed alto
gether lovely, and then acquired it.
1t would be as desirable as before,
possibly more fondly beloved, yet
the sense of ownership would make
one look at it with different eyes,
and here and there one would see
chances for it's improvement. It's a
rare wife who doesn't attempt some
thing of the sort on her husband.
He may be Heavens masterpiece"
but she will desire to keep the dust
off that masterpiece-even to touch
it up little so that it will be her
own as we'll as Heavens.
Women are continually lectured
SO continually that | wonder at
their patience-on the Importance
of being we'll prepared for the Duties
of Wife and Mother, but where is
the mems club that could haul
in an audience if the lecture were
to be on the Duties of Hus-
band and Father? The average
man is wholly unframed for his job.
Being a father is quite as much a
profession as being a mother, and
being husband as much of job
as being a wife. The average man
is not only unframed, he sometimes
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

display in his business. Possibly he
has been trusting to the chance that
his wife has been taught the early
Victorian attitude of soothing her
mate when in such a temper with
pleasant smiles, attractive appear
ance and delectable cookery. AS
panacea all these are we'll enough,
but they accomplish nothing in the
way of training. Exactly as a child
learns speedily enough that if he
howls for something he gets it, SO
this erown-up child learns promptly
that the way to get the entire family
at his beck and call is to display
crouch.
OF course, the wife's first thought
is Of physical causes. The fiancee
may think when her Algernon
frowns and looks gloomy that his
love has grown cold or that he loves
another. Not so the wife. Just as
an experienced mother or grand
mother, on hearing baby's wall,
makes rapid mental survey of pos
slble causes-pin? clothes >uncom-
Portable? time for his bottle?-so
the wife makes her rapid mental
survey. Broken his pipe? Out of
tobacco? Something gone wrong at
the Office? Or, if in the morning,
"What did he have for dinner?" be-
fore she concludes that it's a plain
crouch. That his heart is another's
doesn't enter into the calculation.
Dearest" she may say, if he
comes home ill-natured, 81 know
exactly what you had for luncheon"
"What, them" growls dearest.
''Ice cold milk and pie"
He looks at her sullenly a minute,
then grins uncomfortably. you're
too darned clever, Angelina. How
did you know that?"
ut rarely fails to produce just
that result" says Angelina, who, if
she is wise, will see to it that her
Edwin has something as innocuous
as tea and thin bread and butter,
and is let alone for a while.
l believe business women are far
more tolerant and sympathetic
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

kitchen other than to admire it's
spotlessness, and directs her house
hold from an office, by the same
term that you do the women living
IN smsIl apartments and doing all
their own work? Can you classify
the woman in rural districts who
attends to the family vegetable gar
den, takes a hand at the hoe, puts
up quantities of preserves, and does
all her own housework besides?
"Moreover, the questions the CEN
sus taker would have to ask for
such classification would probably
be more personal than the woman
would want to answer. For In
stance, how many women would
stand for having him get out book
and pencil and politely inquire
whether they did their washing and
ironing? If the census taker asked
the questions necessary to classify
AAN es~~ '''No, ~ o my SUCSS IfldC most
women would refuse to give him
clear and complete information.
"A census enumerator would
have to be person Of tact to put
some Of the questions over to the
housewives. The war has added to
the completely Of the situation by
taking larger numbers Of women
into the working world. Many
women who are housckeepcrs are
also artists, office workers or fac
tory workers.
"Thcrc is another angle to the
problem Docs the housewife know
how to gauge the value of her
work? Most work in the home has
never been organized. Until house
work has become more like pro-
fcssion it will be impossible to place
it correctly in the economic scale
and fix it's real value to the state"
Lily l.. Rowe.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

giving up and continuing her stroke
oar policy and walking to save car
fares, will proceed to a clearer
demonstration. She will budget the
household cash herself and make
definite cuts-preferably in the
menu, exactly where Edwin will
notice them. With men as with
children, swift and speedy demon
stration is worth yards of talk.
"Where in thunder is the cream?"
says Edwin, looking at his coffee.
II left word to have it stopped it
will cut down the milk bill. / sup
pose one can get used to coffee with
out it. l don't like it much without,
do you?" says Angelina, serenely.
'It's beastly," growls Edwin. An
gellna mods acquiescence.
"But we've always had cream"
Edwin protests. "Why this pinching
economy"
eyes; but two years ago the milk
bill was not as much with cream as
it is now without it. suppose we've
got to fit our expenses to our in
come"
"But surely give you enough
"Not if you still want cream with
your coffee, Dearest" says Angelina,
sweetly. "Three years ago it was
ample, but the SO per cent increase
in living expense and allowance at
the old figure won't come together.
Don't you find it so with your per-
sonal expense and the ofice?"
Edwin ponders. "How much in
crease do you think you'll need?"
Not only are the household wheels
oiled for Angelina, but Edwin has
learned something, his education has
progressed.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

to it thai the trimmings are deliv-
cred with the meat, for this practice
is not only fair, but economical as
well. With both meat and trim
nings delivered, the total weight
should not be less than the amount,
charged.
In these days Of high prices house
keepers Should keep close watch on
retail purchases, for just now there
Is an incentive for unscrupulous
dealers-who' fortunately, are in the
ninOrity-to give short weights and
measures to increase the small mar
gin OF profit Local weights and
measures officers cannot watch those
dealers all the time, and thev must
rely on the cooperation of purchas.
ers to report short weights. II fact
the bureau believes that every house
holder should aid the weights and
measures officers in her home city,
town or county, by calling to their
attention Irregular business transac.
tions where improper weights are
involved.
You promote your own interests
ana those Of all honest dealers bv
keeping tab on your purchases. The
careless purchaser pits a premium
va "'S''"''eSlS. L. K. p.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

removed from the home many of it's
activities. To a degree both facts
are true. 1t is an advance in civil
ization that domestic workers now
are IN the same economic class as
those who serve elsewhere, and
housekeepers must meet the new con-
ditions by paying more and by doing
more manual work themselves. We
shall be better served in the end and
Judy O'Grady and the Colonel's lady
will share labor and respect as never
before. We shall just follow Lloyd
Georges suggestion to "do old things
in a new way"
AS to the removal from the home
of nearly all Of it's old activities, |
have my doubts. l am perfectly
willing to adopt modern methods
where they are an improvement; but
| want to be sure they are bet
ter before I give up old ways. Per-
sonally, | still prefer to have my
household linen dried in the sun and
breeze and bleached on grass rather
than having it dried in a cellar and
bleached with lye, as in city laun-
dries, not to mention preference for
the isolation of each family's wash.
City bakers often produce wares that
are stale, flat and improbable, and
one cannot always be sure of the
sanitary condition Of their workers
or shops.
Those who are easily led think
that they must go with the tide
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Demonstrations Better
Than Lectures

The best cure for this apparently
ancient wrong of women is that of
the auld wife in the nursery legend
namely, to let George do the pur-
chasing for month, all of it, and
see how he comes out. The thing
may be proposed most tactfully-
that the wife may learn of him-any
preferred method, so he does it. This
will probably result in budget.
Many wife's brow has furrowed in
trying to make the cash of a 1915
schedule cover 1919 expenses, while
her Edwin has been serenely un-
aware that strain was necessary and
hasn't cut out a single smoke. Yet a
simple lack Of training in household
finance more often causes this than
desire on Edwin's part to shift ID
Angelina's shoulders all the he%yy
part of economy.
If Edwin does not take the dose
suggested, then Angelina, instead of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

talent stored away, unused, in
apartment layers in New York
City would give flavor and distinc-
ton to many square miles of sub
urban life.
City tenement houses and apart
ments are usually so limited in space
that free folk feel stihed and
cramped and restless, and get out
from their walls as much as possible.
Having nowhere to go but to the
street or to places of amusement,
such people never really rest, but
crave artificial excitement, which is
bound to have unfortunate reactions.
1t sometimes seems that the desire
to live in the city comes from an
Athenian fear Of missing some spec
tacle if away from the centre of ac-
tivity, and, witnessing one pageant
after another, there is provided a
gluttony of sights impossible to di-
gest.
Have you ever heard a person
mourn his inability to live in the city
because Of the interesting churches,
museums, lectures, ETC., which he
might attend? And, after he does
live in town, have you checked up
on him to see Of how many in
structive opportunities he takes ad-
vantage?
1t has always seemed to me that
only a genius or a man of great
wealth could create a livable home
for children in a city-the genius,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15
Genius for Community Life
Lost In Apartment Layers

Of course, there are certain peo-
pie whose circumstances are con-
dltioned by matters beyond their con-
troll. Such people may have to live
in cities and bring up their children
there as we'll as possible, in quarters
where choice has little to do with
selection; but there are others,
young people just founding a fam
lily, who make a great mistake in
thinking that apartment life in a
great city, because Of it's ease, will
prove the proper environment for
the development of their family. If
they live in the big city just because
of what they may extract from it,
without considering what use they.
in turn, can be in the progress of
that city, their house is founded on
sand. Any social or artistic talents
possessed by such young people will
atrophy without a field in which
to exercise them. Yet those same
gifts, offered for the advance
ment of small community, would
be extremely useful and conspic-
uously appreciated. The mass Of
New-York tribune., 1919-06-15

niscence.) "I began to scold before
he had a chance. y waited NV
breakfast for you and now my
coffee's cold! Whatever kept you
so long?' l said angrily.
"'But, Martha he protested.
you can have hot coffee in few
minutes, and'-
"'My whole day is spoiled
asserted.
Z" But that's nonsense, Martha.
Such a little thingv
In short, he got so busy assuag-
ing my wrath he forgot his own.
Also, it sent him off thinking:
Whatever has got into Martha to
make such fuss over such a little
thing?'-a good subject for con-
temptation.
II make fun of him too, some
times" she confided. "You see, in
his own home before he married
every one stood around and re-
spected his sacred RACES. I don't,
and he hates to be laughed at.
Sometimes little George will say
jubilantly, 'Oh, daddy has some
thing to be cross aboutr 1t does
make him rather wild, but he's quit
being proud of that sort of thing
and chokes it off as quickly as he car.
now, just as any other reasonable
being does.