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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

small fruits, once they become known,
stand pre-eminet in the worlds markets!
Is there any rival for Vermont maple
sugar, Vermont horses, Vermont fine-wool
sheep and Vermont poultrys
Is there any state which, area for area.
offers any greater inducement for water
power development and subsequent manu-
featuring?
Is there any state whose scenic beauties
are greater?
On the sose basis of agriculture, the
Reformer properly observes:
No other state in the Union offers
such productive land at such reasonable
prices as the state of Vermont Vermont
stands high in average production pei
acre of wheat, corn, potatoes, tobacco
oats, barley and hay. 1t produces more
than twice as much wheat per acre as
the great wheat growing states, much
more corn per acre than Illinois or Iowa
So there is more than mere sentiment
in true Vermonter's belief in Vermont
While the sentiment is laudable and tn,
patriotism laudable, it is a fact that {
good living can be earned in Vermont
and that Vermont is pre-eminently a gooC
place to live in
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
DADIYSEVlVDN
.A.RY TALL Ell
~ MHNN RAHANRQrNE
PRIDE OF rows.

"Oh, I'm so proud" whispered little |
brown Teddy Bear.
You're no more proud than I am"
said little white lamb. please
pinch me-so-and then / will say
'BaaBaa-Baa.' All, that will make
some one happy"
The toys were I'm Santa Claus toy
shop and they were getting very much
excited. There were still some to
be finished-in fact there were many
to be finished, but none Of them were
worried, for they knew perfectly well
that Santa Claus never left any toys
unfinished
That was the wonderful part Of
Santa Claus. He could be rushed and
hurried and he could be so busy that
you wondered how ii was possible for
him to do so much and you. might
think, If you didn't know, that some
OF those many, many things wouldn't
be done. But the toys knew, for the
tools which Santa used to make them
with whispered to them many secrets.
HE may be busy" the tools always
told the new toys, "but he'll finish you
and you'll go to the children on Christ
mas day"
"We're sure Lell finish us" the toys
now said, "for not only have the tools
told us so, but we can see from his
dear, jolly smiling face that everything
is going to be done. He wouldn't be
| so smiling If he We're worried over
| things not being finished: he is SIM
ply very. very busy and that is why
he is working So"
For no matter how hard Santa Claus
may work beforehand, there are al
ways so many things which have to be
left until the end. Children then de-
eide what they hope they will get for
Christmas, and write Santa letters.
The letters have to be read and
/ each child, every child has TO have his
or her own little list made out. Oh,
yes, as you can think. there are ever
and ever so many things which Santa
Claus simply has to do the last min
ute-or rather the last few weeks be-
fore Christmas.
How proud I will be-" whispered
the Teddy Bear once more, eff j am
put on a tree. They say that Santa
hangs toys on Christmas trees. But
then | would be just as proud il ]
were put in stocking. How ] would
love to peep my head out from the top
of stocking and see the children as
they come downstairs early Christmas
morning In fact I would be proud
J no matter where Santa Claus put me,
t or how he gave me. It's great big
: and wonderful pride TO be toy made
/, by Santa Claus which is given to a
q child on Christmas day."
Yes said the lamb. at is. and it's
also especially nice to be an animal
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1919.
THE RIGHT PURPOSE.

Gov. Coolidge of Massachusetts, spoke
a very wholesome truth in his inaug
ural message when he said:--'' Let
there be a p2rpose in all your legisla
ton to recognize the right of man to
be well born, well nurtured, we'll edu-
Gated, well employed, and well paid
This is no gospel of ease and selfish
ness, or class distinction, but a gospel
of effort and service, of universal APP
plication.
The rights of man cannot be better
summarized. Many men are not well
born because their parents are incom-
petents or enfeetled by vice. To give
such persons the privilege of being
well born requires legislation restrict
ing mental or physical wrecks from
cohabitation. Vermont has many
such cases and until they have been
properly restrained altogether too many
children will be denied the right to be
we'll born. Persons not well born are
handicapped in all the other rights OF
life.
Bills regulating marriage and co
habitation of incompetents have beer
introduced and seriously considered by
former legislatures, but they have not
been enacted into law. If the incom
ing legislature could solve this ques
ton it would be doing a great servic,
to the state as well as the unfortun
ates who have been deprived of thu
right of being well born.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Have a Purpose.

Have a purpose in living. Aim to
be somebody and to do something. and
TO know just what it is you mean to
be and do. Some people pity those
who fall short of their ideals-the In
ventor who fails. the statesman who
is so far in advance of his constituents
that he receives eensure instead of
praise. But these are not the ones
who need your sympathy. Save your
pity for those who are drifting through
life without a goal. who are living
without a purpose.-Girl's Companion
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

Its nice, too, TO be the toys in the
city shops" said the train of cars. "Of
course, most, in fact l believe all. the
toys in the shops are made by Santa
Claus. He makes them during the
summer months when he isn't so rush
ed, and then there are lot of US he
has to take around with hlm-oh packs
and packs of us he has to take,
so many packs | could never tell"
{ ITS a pride to be. q toy at Christ
mas time" said another game "wheth-
er we are put in a shop first or wheth-
er we drive right along, with Santa
Claus. OF course he stops and gets
many Of his own toys In the shops"
: Indeed" said the lamb. Then
why does he put them there? II he
has to use them i should think II
would cause him extra work"
Extra work, extra work." laughed
the tools ''Gracious, Santa Claus loves
extra work better. than anything In the
world at Christmas time. And be.
sides, there is secret about having
SO many toys in the shops"
whats the. secretf' they all asked
$50 that children can see them and
can know what they want most fol
Christmas"
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Little Benny's
Note Book
By LEE PAPE

! Ny cuzzin Artie was GROUND Tor sup
pir last mite. being one peece of chocklit
cake for everybody, and wen me, and Ar
tie got reddy for dizzert our peeces was
the ony peeces left, one of them being
a CRATE big peece and the other one Jest
being regular size peece. the plate be-
ing ware me and Artie Good both reetch
it without enybody handing it to us, me
thinking, Ill leeve Artie take his peece
ferst and he will half to leeve the big
one out of politeniss
And ! looked at Artie and heer wat
was Artie doing but looking at me. and
ma sed, Well, aren't you boys reddy for
your cake?
Yes mann, sed me and Artie.
Well help yourselves, wy this unusual
formality? sed ma--meening wat was we
waiting for, and / sed, Ill leeve Artie take
his ferst, compinny awt to always be ferst
| amt compinny, your own cuzzin aint
compinny. you can take yours ferst if you
wunt, sed Artie.
No, you take yours fe.st. you're more
compinny than wat am, enyhow. | sed
and pop sed, Pardon the interferents of q
| meer outsider, but has the relative sizt
| of the peeces enything to do with thi:
exeroociating politeniss?
| No sir, Ill shut my eyes and fake {
peece Jest to prove it. | sed And
quick shut my eyes and took peece o
cake, not feeling as big as wat thawt i
would, and wen / opened my eyes wa
was it but the regular little peece, ant
[ sed, o, G, pop, no fare, you termed th'
plate Ground
| How do you know? sed pop.
! Because you did. / sed Not telling hin
how | knew. And I ate the regular sig
tpeeee and Artie ate the big peeee, bu
| made mine last as long as his -enyway
] out Of revendge.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Vermont Opportunities.
(Rutland Herald.l

The Herald feels no embarrassment in
following the lead of the Brattleboro Re
former, which does not agree with a
rather pert paragraph from the Burning
ton News, based mostly on an imperfect
knowledge of the state, to the effect that
"if Vermont is to keep her young people
within her own borders, she must OF ne
cessity become state of greater oppor-
tunities"
The Reformer says:
We do not consider this an entirely cor
rect statement. We should say a better
understanding of Vermont's opportunities
is necessary Nermont's opportunities
necessarily are small compared with those
of the larger states and cities of this
country but they are not small considered
by themselves. Vermonters at home have
done many big things. Our state boasts
of the largest scale factory in the world,
the largest calf skin business of the world,
the largest output of marble and granite
= of the world and the largest organ manu-
! factory of the world. That is a pretty
good showing of world leadership for a
| little state of less than $50, 900 inhabitants
Actually, the mere accumulation OF
money-and money has been accumulated
in Vermont goes for much less than
what the state promises its boys and
i girls in real living. Money does not bus
everything, and the privilege of living II
state like Vermont is worth something
The writer recently interviewed mar
of mature years who had recently sole
a most desirable and profitable piece o
farming property in the West and wa
preparing to pass the remainder of hi
days on an upland farm, pretty well vi
the side of Vermont mountain, off tn,
railroad and rough enough in places t.
give one an excellent idea of pioneering
He made success of Western farming
made money and had merely returned T.
Vermont and the East in order to tax
advantage of the better educational ad
vantages and to enjoy and teach his chi
dren to appreciate that peculiar type o
character which is typifed by the Vel
mont Yankee.
/ Like the Irishman, the jew, the cocl
ney and the negro, the Yankee has bee
burlesqued in drama and literature s
that people in the South and West, pal
ticularly, know very little of the rea
New England type This is rather strange
too, because of all the pioneers and trai
makers of the West, the Yankee stand
first of all and, of the Yankees, we grea
ly and intensely prefer the Vermonter.
So much enters into this type in til
way of birth, environment, tradition an
early hardship that we need not go int
it by way of minute detail but shoul
merely enquire whether the opportunitis
| in Vermont are sufficient to keep oil
boys and girls at home
Outside of the natural exodus of vel
turesome and pioneering spirits who q
not find the home acres and uplands vic
enough for them, is it not a fact thu
the returns from successful Vernon
dairy farm, dollar for dollar of inves
E ment, are greater than in almost an
| other line of business?
II Is it not true that Vermont apples az
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
TRUTH rRIuMpas.
BrattlebOro Citizens Testify fsr tia
Public Benefit.

ubtA~ xSS1<hk.
A truthful statement of Brattleboro
citizen. given in his own words, should
convince the most skeptical about the
merits of Deans Kidney. Pills If ron
suffer from ,backaehe. nervousness, sleep.
lessness, urinary disorders. or any form,
of kidney ills, use tested kidney nedi-
zine.
A Brattleboro citizen tells Of Doah ,
Kidney, Pills 2
Could you demand mere consiaeiag
proof of merritt s ..
/ W. T. Wentworth, IS Pine ST., satss
Ee.When I was motor,nau en the local
street cars. the jolting affected MP Nd.
neys The kidney secrefions were OF
color at times and wers otherwise I'M
natural. l had TO Iass the, idnsy ~
leretions too often and they contained
sediment i felt all tired oat AID ny
back also bothered me with dun hsiAs
over my kidneys. Dosn's kidney Pills
have always given satisfactory fs4lts
from these attacks" f {
Price 6oe, at all dealers. Lon Z
simply ask for a kidney pemsdy-k1t
poan's Kidney PiIls-the same That
lar. Wentworth had. Fpster. Muhnrn
Co., Mfgrs., Buffalo, n. ADV.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
A Model Boy.

Little Edgar had been posing for some
students at an art school. When evening
came, and the portrait was not yet fin
ished, the instructor cautioned him not to
change his clothing lest he ruin the color
scheme of the picture. Two weeks of IN
disturbed painting passed and the portrait
was at last nearing its perfected state,
when the instructor received from the
little models mother the following letter:
Please, sir, can't you hurry up that
there picture you're making? Edgar's IN
derwear needs changing Cartoons Maya
zine
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Subscriptions Must Be
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The War Industries Board, in its efforts
to conserve the paper supply, has ruled that
newspapers must stop all subscriptions
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This means that subscribers must keep
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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
TO THE SUBSCRIBERS.

1t is the aim of the management to secure
efficient service in the delivery of the paper
each night, and it solicits the cooperation of
subscribers to that end. Prompt reports should
be given of each failure to receive the paper
on the morning following the omission. in
person, by telephone or postal card. thus en-
abling the cause of the error to be promptly
and accurately discovered and the proper rem
edy Immediately applied. 1t is only by this
method that the publisher can secure the de.
sired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Positive Genius.

Two Jews were in a railway accident
and got pretty badly smashed up. Each
of them sued the railroad One of them
got $4,000 damages and tho other got
s25.0o0 The one who got $4,000 met his
friend one day and with considerable ex-
element said:
Look here, key; how does it happen
dot you got five tousand more dan me2''
His friend shrugged his shoulders sig
nihcantly.
MY tear frient." he said, lit vos easy
During the excitement, ] had der pres
ence of mind to kick my wife in der face y
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

"Berlin tangoed her way out of the
old year, fox trotted into 1919 and
scared away Bolshevism with confet-
IT," says Berlin despatch. Such re-
ports do not sound like starving
country or penitent country.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

that is make-believe animal. We
can be Rugged and loved and we can
have such good time
Its fine to be any sort of a toy,
made by Santa Claus" said game
in one corner of Santa Claus shop.
III certainly is wonderful to be
Christmas toy anyway" said a rock
Ing horse In another corner.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

Reports from different parts of the
country show falling off in the num-
Der of divorce cases since the war. This
would seem to prove the truth of both
the old sayings: "Absence makes the
heart grow fonder," and "it takes two
to make a quarrel
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Perseverance,.

1t is easy to believe in the persever-
ance of the saints when one reflects
that they are not saints who do not
persevere. 1t is. a great comfort, too
to remember that God often sees per
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

A "run on silk stockings" is said
to have marked holiday shopping at
the large retail stores, says the New
York World. A run on silk stockings
would cause most women to class them
as seconds.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
TO ADVERTISERS.

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Space rates on application.
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first insertion with 50 per cent discount for
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copy.
Reading Notices-Ten cent. per line FIRST
insertion with so per cent discount for each
subsequent insertion without change of copy.
Position 10 per cent extra.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

The small boy had his innings in a
German parish recently when the vii
lage council made the following an
nouncement: 'tBecause of the revolu-
ton there will he holiday Sunday
in the Sunday school and on Monday
in the day school,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

A report from Amsterdam says that
William Hohenzollern is suffering from
a high fever. From past experiences
we diagnose this as flu.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

Last week in the news the ex-czar
was thought to be alive. This week it
appears that he is dead beyond a shad-
ow of a doubt according to Russian
official r. I. P.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

dresser in this country who could
really grace an occasion like the re-
cent Buckingham palace function, OBJ
serves the Springfield Reporter.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

severance where men do not. He
knows the hidden wound, the ot-sr-
strained nerves, the waning strength,
the countless obstacles and burdenA hat
can be explained to no human friend.
and how they hinder the outward
manifestations of progress. He know
the struggle to hold fast thfoust AL
and marks many victory where NAN
sees only defeat.-AForwatd-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

When the war began the Krupp gun
works were the largest of the kind in
the world, employing $4,000 persons
with the result that they will contri-
butte largely toward decorating parks
and public squares in the allied coun-
tries and the United States.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

A new world airplane altitude rec
ord of 10000 feet has been established
by two American aviators. Both of
them are now in the hospital with
frozen hands and feet It is to be
hoped that the passenger planes on our
future aerial routes will fly a few
thousand feet lower.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

With the coming of aerial transpor-
tation celebrities will no longer "pass
through Brattleboro, but will "pass
over and possihly-drop in.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06
Member of The Associated Press,

The Associated Press is exclusively en-
titled to the use for publication of ali news
oesPa.nes t tbeaeo 70 ano az. ho' oIne,w,se
published herein.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

A gold-laced colonel on the staff of
governor of Vermont is the only
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-01-06

I"Is Alice good singer =
yes; she knows when to stop.s--Bos-
ton Transcript I
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-05

year In medical school. Irate father
dlsowned him; Jack took iaborers
Job. Now their littlo son was two and
one-half But Lucille was Rirl with
foresight. AS soon as they wero able
they took this littlo cottage.
Tho kitchen WAS a pretty Kitchen.
Over the weli-scrubbsd floor was 4
rag rug OF old blue and white. Blue
and white check Bingham. light blue.
tain to franc each window. Window
boxes. painted white, held spicy rcd
seraniume. There was low white
rocker with its blue check gtnSham
back rest. There was a round, white
painted mission style table In that
kitchen, for the family ate there.
screen made of old-blue denim shut
on the stove and tho other kitchen
implements when tho family dined;
baby. for in that home he was par
ticularly important, as we shall know
later. His little room was ali white
Tho little easements were OF soft white
cheesccloth. and as a border on these
Lucille had appliqued small yellow
ducklinGs carefully cut from crctonne
His dresser was made from three soap
boxes nailed together. cnamclcd and
curtaincd In soft yellow.
e sui nlantsIssSa live onesmsota
zines and comfortable chairs were de-
pended upon for iivablencss and
iikableness rather than high-priccd
furniture.
And baby-he poses In the pictures
now and Daddy has started back to
college to finish that other year.
who says young folks can't get on?
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-05
DELICIOUS COFFEE
Expert Advises Tint Delicious Drink
Can Best nc Made with
Heated Grounds.

To make the most delicious coffee
the ground coffee should be heated be-
fore putting into the pot and the latter
should he carefully scalded.
If a coffee bag is used IL should I've
washed with cold water and dried in
the open air every time it is used. 1t
should also he scaldcd before using.
Only freshly boiled water should be
used for coffee. The eggs used should
ne carefully washed before breaking.
The milk for coffee should be heated
before adding and the cups should also
be heated.
To make boiled coffee mix one cup
Of freshly ground coffee with one half
cup cold water and one crushed cEC
shell. The white of the egg may he
used II desired Add five cups Of
freshly boiled water. Bring quickly to
boiling point and let boil three min
utes. Remove from fire. pour out one
cup Of coffee and return TO pot. Re
peat two or three times to settle, add
one half cup cold water and place on
back OF stove for five 10 twenty min
utcs.
To make altered coffee first scald a
filter coffee pot. Put one cup pulver-
ized coffee in tho upper part and pour
i've cups Of freshly boiled water over
II very slowly. While making tho
coffee should be kept hot. but not al
lowed 20 boil.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-10-05
MAKE MAN TABLETS
A Powerful Iron Tonic

Active business men and progressive
women need something to sustain
them in the arduous work OF everyday
life.
People who are doing something
worth while all the time will find that
the use OF Make Man Tablets will give
them additional force. vim and energy
the kind that simply overhows with
rich red blood. produced by the spe-
cial form OF iron used in their manu-
facture. creating new blood cells.
strengthening the nerves, rebuilding
the Weakened tissues and instiliins
tenn.
Make up your mind to give Make
man Tablets thorough test weigh
yourself when you start taking them.
and after you have used the first box.
go on the scales again and see how
much you have ga ined
hundreds Of nervous. run down men
and women who were ailinC all the
tlme, have not only increased their
weight, but obtained greater strength
ana endurance simply by taking iron
in the proper FORM 800
MAKE. Man Tablets arc sold at the
Grant Drug Co.'s Stores and ali lead
ing druggists. Price. so cents. Ash
land supply House, Sole Distributors
S2S w. Madison ST., Chicago. IIi.@Ady