Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-02-03
Spend and Spare Not"
Seems to Be U. S. Slogan

Mann in his garden always has re-
newed his strength and health.
Broken Health Talk.
While the papers were printing
pieces about Jim Mann's broken
health and laying plans for the sue
cession in the house, his old Chicago
neighbors knew that you would be
fooled because Jim Mann was at
work in his garden. He plowed that
garden and planted peas and beans,
radishes and lettuce, set out straw
berry plants, trimmed up the rasp-
berry and currant bushes and gave
personal attention to the fruit trees
He didn't call in any help for it was
a labor of love with him and his
neighbors knew that it was his recre-
alton and would make him strong
and healthy again. He gave away
lots of early garden truck, but in
the late summer and early fall there
was smoke from the chimney of his
little canning house and Jim Mann
had changed his dress to white until
he looked like a chief cook in a big
hotel. He was cooking and canning
fruit and corn and vegetables, max
ing jams and jellies and preserves
and | wouldn't be surprised if he
didn't use more sugar than the food
administration parceled out to the
rest of us, for he made some mighty
fine preserves of a kind that was not
on the market. | called on him one
day and found him experimenting
with cherry tomato preserves and
combination of pears and toma-
toes and some of the women folks
who dropped in sampled these things
and said they were the finest pre-
serves they had ever tasted.
Getting Stronger and Healthier.
Well, Jim Mann was happy and
getting stronger and healthier every
day as he gathered his sweet corn,
peas, tomatoes, berries and fruit,
worked in his little canning factory
and did all the work of preserving
and jelling and canning, for it ap-
peared to be no more trouble for
him to handle solder and seal up
his cans than it was to prepare the
stuff TO go in them. We wondered
if Jim Mann intended to put his
canned vegetables, preserves and
jellies on the market, and the wo-
men folks were ready to take the
whole stock off his hands. But Jim
Mann gave them all samples of his
cooking and canning and packed
away lot more and shipped it down
to Washington as though he ex-
pected to live all winter on canned
goods. But since came down to
Washington and heard the wives of
other leaders in congress talking
about Jim Mann's delicious cherry
tomato preserves, canned tomatoes
and sweet corn, jelhes and jams as
though they had found something
brand new in these lines. l began to
suspect that Mann had been giving
as we'll as receiving on the old
neighborly plan when we exchanged
spareribs and new sausage, and the
first fruits of the seasan without any
though of an obligation.
How About Competitors.
| wouldn't be surprised if some of
Jim Mann's preserves and canned
goods had found their way into the |
homes of some of the men who think
they are his competitors for the
speakership, for I've heard their
wives praising Jim Mann's cooking
and preserving and I'll bet a beef
steak that the women are for Jim |
Mann whatever their husbands
think about the election of speaker
So don't settle this little contest
over the speakership until you find |
out how many of Jim Mann's cans
of preserves have been distributed |
among the wives of members, for
there are more toothsome things
than beefsteaks and when they are
the product of Jim Mann's own in
dustry, experience and skill in rails
ing and handling garden sass, they
count lot more than any gift from |
the store or the commercial factory,
I'll bet on Jim Mann and his gar
den to win.