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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-09-08
-CASSYILLE

Il There was picnic supper on reser-
Yoir bluff Wednesday in honor of Mrs.
Henry Preston and son of Newkirk,
Okla, and Mrs. Arch Winner and son
OF Beetown who were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Wood last week.
Ray Groenier of Lancaster was in
town last week.
MIR. and Mrs. Otto Loggergrin and
son Harold left Saturday for Stockton,
where they visited Mr. and Mrs. VIM.
Shugrew nee Mabel Taylor, over Sun
day.
Art Austin of Lancaster was cal
Ter in town last week
Mrs. Sam Groom and baby left last
week for Chicago then on to the home
of her parents in Pennsylvania.
There was o'clock dinner at Riv-
erside park Monday in honor of Miss
Hazel Grimm who becomes the bride
of DR.. Elgie Houghton this week Cow
ers were laid for so guests who enjoy
ed very pleasant evening.
VIM. Garner of Charleston, S. c.,
spent couple of days last week with
relatives.
o. H. Failing, Mrs. H. Preston, son
Harry, and Miss Edna Garner moter-
ed to BeetOwn Sunday, the Prestons
remaining for visit.
Miss Persia Flickner leaves this
week for Dickinson, N. D., where she
will teach.
Matt Habermann and Joe Biggan
are driving new Paige cars.
Miss Agnes Klinkhammer is learn
ing to run their car recently purchas-
ed of F. C. Bennett
Russell Bossert and Donald Schner-
ing attended the 'Platteville fair.
Miss Eta Mullen was i'll last week
and under the Doctors care.
Miss Eva Graybill came from Mil
Vile, Ia, Wednesday and will shortly
leave for a visit in st. Paul.
Miss Adele Habermann will teach
the coming term of school at Oster-
dock. 'N'' -.
Mrs. Fred Wood was recent vic
tim of tonsilitis. s';
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-09-08
west African sunerstition.

In West Africa it is not unusual TO
see native erouched over a stream
talking to the Spirit of the Water, !"
and in that country, too, the traveller
is unwise who looks behind him at any
sudden sound. for he will probably be-
hold native with the Fangaree
charm, and will. see him beat with a
bamboo hammer upon q tiny drum
held above a live aaiInal AS the trav-
.eler looks around the charm is struck,
and it is tile belief of the natives that,
whatever part of the animal is injured,
the human victim will suffer in the
same. Fegion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1920-09-08
Antinnitv OF The LEWIS

Armenian and Georgian historians
of southern Russia record that the
Jew had settled among them in remote
antiquity. They have evidence to
prove that the children of Israel had
lived round the Black and Caspian
seas prior to the destruction Of the
first temple-5s7 b. Grading in
Ioules and horses with Acco, Tyre, ST.
ion and other Phoenician cities.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-05

Buffers who formerly got $50 or $50
a month and masters slightly worn
clothes. now often get $3.50 a month
all proft-and can afford to buy bet
ter clothes than the man who employs
them. Mattresses and nurses and
chambermaids who received from IS to
IS weekly and had their uniform fur
nished free, now get approximately
$40 month, as well as the usual
uniform issue" And il must be re-
membered that maids work dresses
and uniforms now cost much more
than they used to cost.
It is no wonder, then, that people
who employed four or. five or six serv-
ants six years ago now try to get along
with two or three; and that the fam
lily that had two now has one-or
none.
Entertaining without Servants.
And that people can get along with
out servants if they have to is well
illustrated by the stories OF wonderful
entertaining brought back by delegates
to the recent convention OF the general
Federation OF Women's Clubs at Des
Moines. Iowa. The city in which the
convention was held was virtually
destitute of domestic help. The club
women of the city very naturally
wanted TO entertain the visiting dele
gates; wanted to entertain them well,
even lavishly. What to do?
Horace Greeley once said the way to
resume specie payments vas to re-
sumo, and, taking leaf from his book,
the women Of the convention city de-
cided that the way TO entertain was to
entertain, servants or no servants. So
they entertained. The visitors were
informed their hostesses had no serv-
ants and that all the entertaining
could not be done in the drawing
room. some Of it had TO be in the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-05

is an old saying that goes by the name
of the Golden Rule" Consciously OIL
uncOnsciously, she applies this rule
many times in her attitude toward hcl
friends; in her conduct toward hel
servant she sometimes doesn't seem tc
know that it exists.
1t is this kind of mistress. said an
employment agent, that makes serv-
ants distrustful of all employers. Hav-
ing been imposed on in the past, they
are taking pains, now that they hold
the whip hand, to see that they get
their revenge. This man, speaking for
the servant, declared that frequently
women will call up several employ
ment agencies, ask them to send out a
maid and then take the first that ar
rives. This habit, he said, was unfair
because it wasted the time of all the
women except the one hired; and to
put a climax to the maids disgust the
prospective employer. having request
ed them to call. will not pay their car
fare to and from her residence.
Fishing With Golden Bait.
Not only has the shortage of do
mestic help affected the small family
and the institutions. but it has cut in
to the STATS of big town and country
houses. It is impossible to run such
places without servants, and in former
years it was comparatively easy to get
a houseful of servants at very short
notice Now it is a case of fishing for
good ones, with the hook temptingly
baited with gold. Cooks who formerly
got $50 to $50 a month in good houses
are now paid $50 to 500, and If the
establishment is large enough and
wealthy enough to boast q chef. it
probably pays him at least $3.50 a
month, and often more. A club will
pay its chef $3.50, and if he is a very
good chef it is likely that he can name
his own price.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-05

ed. In that two months she had man!
offers of good positions-more thai
100, in fact. A few years ago sh'
would have bewailed her fate because
no one would employ her.
There are several kinds of employ
ment agencies-those which supply
help for sanitariums and institutions oil
a similar nature, those which chiefly
furnish, or try to furnish, general
homework girls for small families
and the high-class agencies which
specialize in domestic help, from chefs
to chambermaids, for families who can
afford a staff Of servants.
1t is in these last-named places that
one sees silk-clad ankles peeping from
beneath the skirts of plain, sober
frocks-and that leads to the thought
that while the girls dress plainly to
impress the prospective employer,
they give visible evidence of how they
spend at least a part of their high
wages.
The sanitarium, situated in the
country and having a farm of its own.
or the state hospital or other similar
institution, is one of the greatest
users of domestic help. The largest
employ several hundred men and
women, not only as cooks, maids for
homework, mattresses, etc, but as
attendants for patients, farm hands
and industrial attendants" These
last are in charge of squads Of pa
tients who are made to work on the
farm, both for physical exercise and
TO keep their minds occupied.
Institutions in a Bad Way.
The labor situation, in so far as the
big institutions are concerned, is in
very bad way, the employment agents
say. It is not merely question of
wages. Many servants will not work
in an institution. for in such places
there is frequently an iron-bound dis
cipline that is CALLING. Also the work
is harder. And for this reason many
servants, cooks and kitchen help now
refuse to work in hotels.
1t is the family that wants a girl for
general homework that has the great
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-05

~\HE cry for help-for ordinary
domestic help once plentiful
at starvation wages is one of
4he loudest that makes itself heard
above the general clamor in our land
to-day. Men complain that they can't
their worries are as nothing to those
lof their wives, who can't get cooks for
fheir kitchens.
That the servant holds the whip
hand today is well illustrated by the
tale of the wealthy citizen who recent
ny closed up his country home and re-
ndrned to town for the Summer. His
lcity friends though him mad, but they
changed their minds when they heard
shis story.
After reciting In narrowing detail
Hhe family's experiences with
cook who couldn't cook, chauffeur
who, it seemed, had only driven farm
horses at his last place. and a waitress
who formerly worked in a beanery, he
wound up:
1.-THE gardner was the last straw.
Now, was willing-am still willing
to pay man IS day to cut the grass,
but I'm - If I'll pay SIS a day for
the privilege of watching a man sit
under a tree and smoke pipe!"
4 Temperamental Maid.
And there is the story of the young
man who recently bought small
house on the main line, spent several
thousand dollars for improvements
and at last moved in with his wife and
infant son and young person of color
engaged as nurse maid. 1t was a joy
GUS day. A giant maple tree shades
the little cottage and from its porch
one overlooks the golf course of the
country club. The young man and his
wife looked forward to many happy
hours on that porch and under that
big tree.
But one evening the nurse maid
suddenly announced that she was go
ing into the city for the evening. The
family had other plans and she was
.aold that she couldn't go; that she
should have given more notice of her
artentions. Her reply was ia shS -"
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est difficulty getting one, however. The
day of the hired girl" who, like little
Orphant Annie, cooked and sewed and
washed and ironed and told stories to
the kids-and washed and dressed 'em,
tOo-passed away long ago. The gen
eral homework girl is a scarce article,
and when she is obtained she wants
big wages, easy hours and light work.
Because of that old bugaboo. the
H. c. L., many families who formerly
employed at least two servants-cOok
and upstairs girl-now try to get
along with the services of one. That.
of course, means more work and long
er hours for the one servant-and very
likely no advance in wages. From the
standpoint of the mistress, the girl
should be glad of a good home, good
food and nice room. But as the
servant sees it, she is entitled to good
pay for good work and if she can't get
the wages she wants she will quit and
try elsewhere.
Cause of QuarreIs.
It is this difference of opinion that
leads to so many quarrels between
mistress and maid. Frequently the
servant can't see-and don't want to
be shOwn-that she is better off in these
days of high food costs and high rentals
to have a position at small wages,
where she is well fed and has a pleasant
room than is her sister in a factory.
Her wages are all profit. All she has
to buy is her clothes and the rest she
can save or spend for amusement. And
when she is employed in a large house
her working clothes. or uniforms are
supplied her
On the other hand. the mistress, too,
often fails 10 recognize that the serv-
ant she employs is a human being. She
may go TO church on Sundays and hear
from the lips Of the preacher-or she
may know Just by hearsay-that there
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-09-05

expensive piece of china at the head of
her mistress, kick the cat. hurl a
chair through a window and make
horrible faces at the baby. Then she
got her clothes and quit.
Not only did she retire then and
there from domestic service with that
particular family, but she took her
mother with her-and her mother, a
good cook, was one OF the few serv-
ants the young wife's parents had
been able to get this Summer. AS a
result, she and her husband and baby
are living for the time with her pa
rents-and the little cottage by the
roadside is deserted and forlorn.
In the employment agencies one
comes face to face with the stern fact
that the servant today dictates to her
employer the hours of work, wages and
other terms. The most pertinent ques-
ton asked is: And what are you
willing to pay?" A woman who at
tempts to engage a maid for even the
lightest kind of work at IS or 50
week is likely to be properly snubbed;
indeed, she is lucky if these aristocrats
of the cook stove, the mop and the
busting cloth don't tell her in very
plain words that she "aint no lady for
to ask another lady to work for them
kind O. wages"
Seen at the Agencies.
In the employment agencies, too,
one gets a good closeup" of the peo-
pie. in domestic service. Here are al
most all types of working people; the
trim, neatly-dressed young woman
who wishes a position as maid in a big
house, from the sloppy. dowdy woman
of middle age, who never held job in
the old days when help was plentiful
and now. when it is scarce, gets her
revenge by demanding high wages and
little work before she would even Con
slider" the place.
Time Works Changes.
One employment agent told the writ
er that he had had one woman come
to his office every day for two months
before she finally agreed to accept"
position. And then she went to work
- ~------~ - ------>A~ was axhanSt-
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going this comparison paid
1914 those paid today
ants board and lodging "Ound by the employer Thus the
hits the MASTER not the the MISTRESS the maid
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
THE VIPER NOT YET SCOTCHED.

More than 10000 alien enemies the communist party of New
York alone openly organized for overthrow of the
by force and violence under the direction of Bohevt lead
Russia Clayton Lus chairman the egisa
of New York investigating sedious activities
declared yesterday In addition these there the communist
labor other revolutionary organizations working actively
accomplish the ends well other bodies which with
their principles and their activities without participating
openly in them, the senator said
Statements the effect that the backbone of the radical
uonary broken and that have reached the begin
of the decline of organized rapid evouonaym throughout
the country absurd, said Senator Lusk.
Too long the onguferng people of this free nation have
pushed aside warnings concerning the enemy within Our gates and
only begun dawn upon that have and deadly
peril deal with All loyal citizens will applaud the work of the De-
Justice raids American they seemed
people FIRST and the strides making cleaning the
pools of political poison
But apparently the first raids proved only the beginning with
be tackled Since the apparent and
kind of has been made Let hope that will
provide necessary funds and machinery for making cleanup
job.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
THE REDS" AND THEIR SENA.
TORIAL PARTNERS

The South doesn't afford good soil
for the seeds of Anarchism and Boil
shevism, and this part of the coun-
try has been comparatively free from
the devilish operations of the REDS"
But little of their propaganda has
been circulated in the South, and we
don't often see one of their docu-
ments. but the Philadelphia Record
is authority for the statement that
in document signed by two Off
Gals high in the Bolshevik councils
in Russia and giving the platform
on which campaign of propagandism
should be carried on in this country
this plank, among others, is found:
1t is desirable to spread hos
tility toward Wilson as two-fac-
ed criminal as we'll as toward his
League of Nations.
The Record declares that from the
course of events in the United States
Senate during the past six months one
might suppose that these Russian agi-
tators had BEGUN their camnaipn of
hate and detraction in thet body.
Certainly the LODGES, Johnsons,
Rorahs. etc, have done hardy less
than Lenine and Trotzky to bring de-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
MAY GROW ALL OUR FIGS

not improbable that this country soon produce all the
ns needs lhs statement made by the
Plant Industry at Washington his SMYRNA
hg culture California Much of the this enterprise has
oen que to the tact that the department has been able maintain
caPhg orchard at LOOMS from which caprhgs been db-
ute tree to Before this distribution arranged for manv
small growers Smyrna figs became discouraged and duo
mp t orchards The relationship between these two varieties
that the Smyrna hg is eed by which lives on the capri
h When Smyrna hgs and capnhg planted together the capri
hs do not bear enough fruits cap the crop properly until
a years after the trees begin bear For young
Few years was to supply this need that the at LOOMS
was leased by the department Many varieties of capr;6oe
have been brought light them vv important in
ere1 SMYRNA fig culture Many thousands of Seeding figs have
oeen distributed TO cooPeraors IN the hggrowng of Cao
nia Altoona and Texas and promising new varieties have b
originated by proper selection of male pollen
In the fall of 1917 the fig was established in some IJ
seeding caprihg trees in Brunswick Ca and since then nub
OF caphg trees have been similarly The result Is that
has been possible to capfy and bring bearing manv e
Smyrna fig the Southeastern States Some Of
bear high grade of fruit promising for use as fresh f
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
THE AIM OF EDUCATION.

The following extract from address by Dr. M M Parks
president of c. NJ c. Medgevie offers material 70
thought:
What Is The Aim of Educaon2 The Student says Books
The Scholar knowledge The Preacher says Character
The Minister Service. The Philosopher Truth. The
Artist Beauty The Epicuean Happiness The Stole
Selcontro The Christian says elfdenih The Demo
crat Sefgovernmen The Statesman says Cooperation
The Ruler Loyalty. The Patriot says Patriotism The
Judge Justice The Aged Man says Wisdom The Youth
Achievement The Soldier Courage The Editor says
Success The Manufacturer Efficiency. The Banker
Wealth The Dreamer says Vision The Child says Play The
Maiden says Love. The Man Work. The Friend says
friendship The Pedagogue Personality The Physician
says Health The Biologist Growth The Psychologist says
Embodiment The Socoogist says Adjustments
But the true Educator all of these and more
be the aim OF Education To realize many these
ucaon the Educator feels that the school greater
operation greater efficiency Our schools doing wonderful
work but not half as wonderful they should do.
The aim of Education broader than mere scholarship
me SCHOOLS endeavong to promote scholarship, doing
good but scholarship alone only of
Education Education is broader than the
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
NEGLECTED. COLDS
ARE DANGEROUS!
Or. Kings New Discovery
soon breaks b cold and
checks cough

THT1Ls fever neezes-and
I then a hard cold develops.
Take a little DR.. Kings New
Discovery when the snifHes start
It will soon check the cold, the
eough-provoklng throat-tickle. Used
everywhere by people who know
why 1t has been On the market for
half century. Relieves cold, cough,
grippe, Group. No disagreeable
after-effeets. All I druggists-60c.
and S1.2O a bOttls Give 1t trial.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
WORTH PASSING ALONG

moralization into the world by their
plot to defeat the peace treaty. In
effect, if not Intentionally, these OBJ
structive Senators are more respon-
sible than any other agency for the
existing unrest in the country and
the spread of anarchistic doctrines. In
their hatred of Wilson and the
League of Nations they are working
hand in hand with the Bolsheviki.
Reactionary and Red are partners in
their common hostility to the cham
pion of human liberty and democra-
cy in this crisis of the world.-Al
bany Herald.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
AKEY TO SWEET POTATO VARIETIES.

The United States Department of Agriculture working
key by of WHICH varieties of potatoes be identified
has always been great deal of confusion regarding
and this key will make possible positively identity
all varieties is based the color and shape of the
themselves That the key works aested blythe fact that
by varieties described the time Columbus discovered Amer
ca have been identified
The development of varieties of potatoes For stock feed
starch and making under and the preliminary
results secured indicate that the possibilities of the potato have
hardly been touched what be
expected from this work but the results thus far secured
promising This work is being done Arlington Farm Va and
a the Pee Dee Experiment Station, Florence S. &.
nveigaonal work curing has also brought
results 1t shown that with proper handling
conditions be carried through the winter
and late April with than per of loss from de-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07

The following extract from address by Dr. M M Parks
sdent of O. N C. at Miedgevlle offers material for
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07

afternoon. except Saturday; every Sunday
weekly (every Thursday
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-01-07
1920 WILL BE THE CENTENNIAL

Of
The discovery of quinine.
The death of Daniel Boone.
The invention of percussion caps.
The invention of friction matches.
The admission Of Maine to the
Union.
The invention of the daguerrotype.
The Spanish revolution under
Riego.
The accession of George Nv. of
England.
The celebrated trial of Queen Caro-
line.
The passage of the Missouri Com.
promise bill
The election Of James Monroe to
the presidency.
The first appearance in America of
Edmund Kean.
The introduction of India-rubber
shoes in America.
The first manufacture of carpen-
ters' steel squares.
The beginning of steam naviga-
ton on Lake Michigan.
ne dedication OF the first Protest
ant church in Detroit.
The organization of the General
Synod of the Lutheran church.
The first appearance Of anthracite
coal as an article of commerce.
The establishment of the Roman
Catholic diocese of Charleston, S. C.
The organization of the first Con.
gressional. committee on agriculture.
The completion of the great Ma
tional road from Cumberland, Md,
to Wheeling.
The Fourth United States census,
which showed total population of
1888, 1922.
The establishment of the first
steamship line between New York and
New Orleans,-Thomasville Times
Enterprise.
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ATRIcK, Editor; LovELACE EVE, Business Manager.