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The diamond drill., 1920-06-05
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QUESTIONABLE for Married Men

1. Do you want your wife to work any hard
er than necessary?
2. Would you buy for her something which
would make Mondays as pleasant as
any other day in the week?
3. Do you care TO save any money on your
family bill for clothing by reducing the
wear on the family washing?
4. Do you use bootjack Ia your home,
Why not?
x. Do you. sing Eta Ra Ra Boom De A" any
more? Why not?
III the above are antiquated and supplanted
by something newer. then answer the
following questions:-
6. Why do tolerate wash-board in your
home?
z. Do you know II is slow and wasteful?
s. DO you know that 1t is a torture to use
IT,? You would not tolerate oid-fash-
ioned machinery
(a)--on your farm
(b)--in your mill
(c)-in your Office
9. Why do you tolerate antiquated mach
nery in your home?
10. Did you ever hear OF the Syracuse
Washer Corporation? Do you know
that they are capitalized at five million
dollars? DO you suppose they grew TO
that size selling something which was
of no value?
II. Do you know that John Bauer q Son
sells their product the Easy" Vacuum
Electric Washer, in this county?
The diamond drill., 1920-06-05
Paid Deputies stIII working

The scene Of operations then chang
ed to the sheriff's office. II was COM
monty understood that a request
would be made for the dispensing
with the two paid deputies but the
matter didn't go that far.
The appointment OF speed cops was
the extent to which the movement
went. Sheriff Wilson wanted to know
IL the expense was TO be charged to
his office and when told that II was
he demurred to the procedure but
was overruled and the cops went on.
About the last piece OF business
done was the directing OF the county
road committee. on motion OF Super
visor Corbett, to confer with the
county road commission and learn
why A. l., Eurridge was not offered
his Job back when he returned from
the war. The committee was direct
cd 10 report at the next meeting.
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COUNTY DADS WANT ADVICE
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lment might be learned.
The discussion ragged mainly about
the Office of agriculturist. After that
proposition had been temporarily laid
upon the shelf Chairman Udd reques-
ted the committee to report upon SEN
timent they found in connection with
She county demonstrators Office
my, God, did we have that to look
after that also" inquired Supervisor
Benson.
"You certainly did" replied the
chairman
Mr. Benson was not prepared to
give any opinion on that subject and
It, too, was laid over until the next
meeting.
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IL. Do you know that John Bauer Son,
after examining every washer made,
decided upon the Easy" as the best
Washer? Are you willing to be shown
why II Is the best washer?
Is. Do you know II Is
(a)-Easy TO use?
tb)-Easy to keep clean?
(c)-Easy on the current?
(d)-Easy to pay for?
IA. DO you know that the Easy" will
(a)-Wash the clothes clean and
quickly?
(b)-That IL positively will not in
jure the most delicate fabrics?
(c)--That II has power driven
wringer that swings to all po-
stions?
(d)-That II is the all copper ma
chine that will not rust the
clothes or rot out?
(e)-That 1t has larger capacity
than similar washing mach
ines?
CD-That II has the famous Rob
bins e. Myers or General Elec-
tric m0t0r2
Is. Do you know that this Easy" Vacuum
Electric Washer be placed in
your home tomorrow, without obliga-
ton, and our men will do this weeks
washing for you TO prove how simple
IL is?
16. VIII you send for the Easy today?
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24

Of the rind, put it in glass jnr, sprinkle
il with very little sugar, and add tiny
bit Of waterjust enough to keep y
moist. This gives pure lemon flavor and
consequently ! make 4 good many more
lemon cakes than any other kind-but
they are appreciated
Minnie Last year | read in your
column a hint about dipping the ends Of
shoe-laces in glue TO stifien theini when
the metal tips come off. ] have done
this and found it useful bit Of advice,
but now ! have discovered still better
way: ! run piece of fine copper wire
down the center Of the tipless lace "a OF
an inch from the end then wind the wire
around and around the lace, till ! have
bound it with wire for $4 Of an inch up
where started from. ! finish off the work
by running the wire back and forth through
the lace several times, cutting IL off, and
p ressing the cutoff end with an iron"
Bride.-"-My husband and | could not
q ford to buy cedar-wood chest 10 store
our winter things in, so he made q cedar
chest in this way: he put a hinged lid on
a pine box and put putty along the corner
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24
QUE STIONS S AND AN S WERS.

@. Are foreign ambassadors allowed q
bring Intoxicating beverages into the
country? L. r. II.
A. Diplomatic representatives are al
lowed to bring wines and liquors into the
United States as an act of international
courtesty.
Q. Where is the competition in mine
rescue to be held this year? II. T.. ".
A. The national championship in mine
rescue and frst-aId work will be decided
in Denver on August 20 and 21. Meetings
of associations Of coal and metal miners
will be held in connection with the COM
petition and prizes will be awarded the
winning teams.
q. What is the price Of platinum? f. F..
A. Platinum brings about Sll5 an
ounce The price fuctuates.
@ Is there Valley Forge Historical
Society? T. L. +.
A. There is such a society with head
quarters at Valley Forge Pa.
@ Did Edgar Rice Burroughs, who
wrote the Tarzan Stories ever work for
Sears. Rocbuck a Company? J.. NJ. II.
A Mr.. Burroughs was born IN Chicago
in 1875, and was a department manager
OF Sears, Roebuck Il Company from 1906
to 1908.
@. viii horse hair develop into
snake i put IN water? l.. r.
A. THIS IS fallacy and probably is due
to the tact that there l. horse hair snake
or worm which IS extremely similar in
appearance to a horse hair.
Q. Please tell me the way the State Of
Illinois is pronounced? Do YOU sound the
IS or IS It silent? r. L. II.
A. Illinois is pronounced either with
the IS" sounded or silent.
O. Is Luxemburg still an independent
country, and who Is its ruler? f. 5. L.
A Luxembourg IS an independent grand
duchy bounded by France, Belgium and
Germany. The present ruler is the Grand
Duchess Charlotte.
@. How was Benjamin Franklin's kite
experiment conducted? L. Y.
A. In experimenting with electricity in
the atmosphere with his kite, Benjamin
Franklin used kite made Of silk, at the
top of which there was a free, sharp
pointed wire To the end of the twine
next 20 hand he tied a silk ribbon, and
where the silk and twine joined fastened
the KEY. The kite was raised during q
thunderstorm, and when the clouds came
over the kite the wire brought the electric
FIRE from them, and the kite with all the
twine became electrified. When the rain
wet the kite it conducted the electricity
freely so that it streamed out from the
key.
Q. Where are the largest springs in the
world? l.. U. G.
A. Probably the Fortaine de Vanchese
in Southern France is the largest one In
the world, and Malad Springs near the
Snake River Canyon, Idaho, the largest
in the United States.
O. How did "Inarmalade" get its name?
p. L. G.
A. The word comes from the Port..-
guese marmelada, meaning ounce jam
The modern conserve is not necessarily
made from ounces as the name suggests,
being often jam Of oranges, apricots,
areengage Plrrns or grapes
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24
DAILYECONOMY CALENDAR
Copyright. 1913. by the Mcclure Ncw4
paper ayndicatc. New York City.
DO YOU MAKE GOOD COFFEEP

IL il too much to say that there 10 no
excuse for the housewife who makes poor
coffee?
To be sure an occasional bad brew ia
excusable, but not to be able to mako
good coffee and not to give good coffee to
your family nine mornings out OF ten
really is smething for which you should
be ashamed of yourself. For one thing
YOU can make the worst sort of coffee out
of the most expensive materials and you
can make perfect coffee, lacking perhaps
a certain delicacy of aroma, from mex
pensive coffee. Ii you do buy the cheaper
sort of coffee go to a reliable store and be
sure of course that the coffee is not sold
cheap because it is burned or underdone
in the roasting.
More depends on the utensil in which
you make the coffee than in the materials
that is something that all housewives do
not understand. But this does not mean
that il all depends on the kind OF dish
you use, but on the condition in which that
dish is kept.
One housewife who unfailingly makes
good coffee, without using the expensive
sort, makes rule to cook coffee In a
different dish each morning. That is, she
has coffee pot, but uses any clean sauce
pan, providing that it has not been used
for three or four preceding mornings for
coffee. In this way the dish in which the
coffee is cooked never has that metallic
flavor that comes to coffee pots that are
used repeatedly without being properly
washed and Thoroughly aired.
IL is no mere whim of the imagination
that picnic coffee usually tastes delicious,
although it is made in ''any old" dish over
an uncertain camp fire. We. usually say
that it is because we are on picnic and
have whettcd appetites that it tastes so
delicious. But the fact is that it is cooked
in a dish that has none of the metallic
taste that clings around a much used
coffee pot.
Glass percolators have been much in
vogue of late and the reason why coffee
made in glass is usually good is because IT
is comparatively easy to keep the glass
clean and aired. However, II you permit
the metallic parts of the percolator or the
silk or cotton bag in which the coffee is
held mrsty the results from even glass
percolator will not be satisfactory.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24

deal of trouble with those lowly Vines.
They never keep in their place.
"1t better not come up here, said
big Oak standing not far away. "It will
soon learn that we do not notice lowly
growing Vines
"Of what use in the world can a Vine
be, ! should like to know. IL can never be
tall and strong like us or Of any use as
shade. No, | am quite sure the Vine is
quite unimportant and beneath our
notice"
The Vine stopped right where il was
and did not grow toward the wall again.
II was quite crushed by what IT had heard
and had no desire TO go where II was not
welcome.
So off it went in another direction and
grew on the back OF the barn, where IL
was quite out of the way mo one will
notice me here and | shall do no harm
| am sure, thought the Vine.
One morning the farmer walking about
happened TO see the Vine. 'Why, If this
isn't fine grape vine, he said. II must
build an arbor fer IL to grow upon. We
shall have plenty of grapes now.
One day soon after the Grape Vine
saw the farmer and his son dragging
toward the barn the Oak the Pine and
the Maple trees ,hat had looked down upon
| and scorned the lowlv Vine
The farmer and his men soon had
strong posts made from the trees, and
| when next year there was an arbor for
the Grape Vine il found itself above the
very trees that had scorned 1t the summer
before.
But the Grape Vine was not revenge
full. IL Just grew and bore big punches OF
grapes and the trees never knew that the
beautiful Vine, of which they were all now
so proud, was once the poor little Vine
they had treated so unkindly.
One can never tell in this great world
how things will turn out. so II Is best to
treat others in the manner we would wish
to be treated were We IN their places, for
the Golden Rule is a rule for rich and poor
alike.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
BY Laura A. kirkman-
HINTS EROM READERS.

Still the letters from readers containing
discoveries continue to come IN. IL Is
splendid 10 SEE how much altruism there
is in this old world in pite of constant
charges of commercialism and indifferent
selhshness When the housekeeper-th the
busiest of all women-will pause In her
full day TO drop postal or write letter
TO me in order that other women who
read the discovery which her letter or
card contains may be benefited well, who
dares 10 say the Golden Rule is not prac
ticed as much today as I was In the day
Of our ancestors?
Mrs. j. N-"Here is my recipe for
White Bread: Quick Method.-Dissolve
cake of yeas and , tablespoons OF sugar
in / quart of lukewarm water; do not
allow to stand more than 10 minutes.
Add tablespoons lard or butter melted
and u quarts sfted fl u. eat until
smooth; add l12 quarts more flour or
enough to make dough that can be
handled Add | tablespoon salt to last
-four. Knead until smooth and elastic,
Place in creased bowl, cover, set aside
in a warm place for two hours. Mould into
loaves Place in well-geased bread pans,
filling them half full. Cover and let rise
for / hour, or until double in bulk Bake
40 20 50 minutes. This is a splendid
recipe and if once tried you will never Use
any other.
Annie L-"My husband will not eat
grapefruit without sugar, but discovered
a way to sweeten them without this high
priced product: | put l tablespoon of
honey into each half grapefruit and stand
the fruit on ice while before serving. He
likes it sweetened in this way even more
than with sugar.
Sarah k.-"In summer we use great
deal of lemonade in our family, but
ever waste bit of lemon-peel Before
cutting the lemon In half TO squeeze it on
the glass lemon-squeezer, crate off most
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24
THE GIRL ON THE JOB.
By Jessie Roberts.
Copyright. 1920. by Wheeler Syndicate. Inc
HOME VOCATIONS.

In the old days women did their work
in their own homes, and they did pretty
much all the work that was required TO
make a home complete. Today women
have gone out into the world to earn their
living, and what they use IN their homes
they buy. But there is curious return to
some of the older types of work. Once
again women are spinning and weaving.
But now they do it for its commercial
value They make vocation OF some house
hold task of their grandmothers' and earn
a living by it.
Speciality shops and private customers
pay big gums for fine work OF this hand
sort. 1t Is good business venture for a
woman who really wants to make money
and who cannot go out into the world to
do SO, to learn the processes of weaXilGs
provide herself with the proper euuip&isnt
and then get to work. She should get into
touch with some selling center, and keep
herself informed of the best work that is
being done in her line. This she can do by
joining some crafts society. A course Of
six weeks with good teacher, working
every day, is advised. The loom itself will
cost from fifty to sixty dollars, but it is
useless TO invest In poor one. The working
woman is worthy of her tools and she should
see that her tools are frst-rate in quality.
Many women do their own dyeing,
getting excellent results. Many make their
own designs, or copy certain well-lIked
ones from old sources. The marketing is
part of the work. If you belong to a crafts
society you can usually sell through it..
Or you may hold private exhibitions in
your studio or house, or use the various
exchanges that have been established, or
get into touch with commercial dealers
who handle such things.
With patience, and by avoiding putting
too high a price on your work until you
are well established, you will build up
paving art.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTEBOOK
BY Lee Pape.

Last mite after suppir | went erround
on Broad street with the fellows and
iissened to some man waving his arms
and tawking about Socialism, and wen
/ got home pop was up In the setti ng
room smoaking and thinking with his
feet up, me saying, Pop, do you bleeve in
Socialism?
| do not, and never did and never will,
sed pop, every man on his own merits,
that's my motto, | don't bleeve in this
dividing up bizniss.
Wen wy not, pop, amt all men born
equal? / sed.
They may be born equal, ,but they
don't stay equal very long, and the most
unequal ones are always Socialists, sed
pop.
Well G, gosh, pop, sed, the man
Ground on Broad street sed it amt fair
for some men to have all the money with
out working and other men to do all the
werk and not get hardly eny.
Let me tell you surnthing, my ernest
young thinker, sed pop, if all the rich
men divided their money with all the poor
men today, how long do you think il
would take for the same men all to be
rich agen and the others all poor agen?
How long, pop, 2 weeks? ! sed, and
pop sed, Well that would be a trifie
suddin, say yeers, yes 5 yeers, in 8
yeers the intelligent men would have
most Of the money jest as they had at
ferst.
yeers, pop? ] sed.
Yes, 5 yeers, sed pop, 5yeers is a con
servatiye estimate.
Well gosh, 6, pop, ] sed, wy couldent
they divide up every 5 years then, and
keep on making it even?
Yee gods, sed pop, a good argewment
rolls off you like wattir off ducks back,
go to bed, its late.
Wieh | did.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24

cracks. Their he painted the inside
lavishly with cedar oil and let it sink into
the wood and dry. When it was perfectly
dry We covered the inside with eafnbric
and the outside with thick cartridge paper,
using brass-headed tacks on the exterior.
We have used this box during the two
wears Of our married life and have not
been troubled with moths. The cedar oil
still retains its strong odor and we expect
70 Use the chest many more season..
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-06-24
SANDMAN STORY.
BY Mrs. r. A. Walker.
Copyright 1919 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate. New York City.
THE GOLDEN RULE.

TIE NOIIOEIN NULT-
In field there once grew along the
ground Vine. and never thinking that
1t was doing wrong, it grew toward the
stone wall, where many big trees grew on
the other side.
But when the Vine reached the wall
1t was surprised to hear a big Maple
Tree say to Pine: Just look at that
bold Vine. ] do believe it means TO grow
up on the wall.
II suppose If it does il will expect
us to notice it. cannot understand
why such unimportant things will not
stay where they belong"
II quite agree with YOU" said the Pine
Tree. Our family has always had a great
The Red Cloud chief., 1920-12-30
PLANS OUTLINED FOR
PREPARING POULTRY
Best to Kill Fowl by Cutting
Throat With Knife.
pry.plcking Makes Better Appearing
Product for Misunderstanding May
BE Done by Placing careasses
In Iced Water.

Birds to he killed and marketed
should be kept without feed for at
least I2 hours before killing, say poui-
try specialists Of the United States
Department Of Agriculture. The best
method Of killing Is to suspend the
fowl by the legs and through the
mouth cut the jugular vein In the back
of the throat with sharp-pointed
knife. After prosecuting this vein
once or twice, cut into the roof Of the
mouth so as to pierce the brain with
the point Of the knife, slightly turning
the point after II has pierced the
brain.
Fowls to be used at home may he
killed more easily by choppins of
their heads. The fowls may be either
dry picked or scalded. Dry-picking
makes a better-appearing market fowl,
but scalding, which is easier, is often
preferred, IL the bird Is for home use.
Dry-picking should be done immedk
ateiy after the bird Ia killed. as the
feathers then come out more easily.
Re careful not to tear the skin. For
scaiding, use water heated Just below
the boiling point. immersing the fowl
two or three times, or until the feath-
ers pull Off easily. but do not leave It
in SO long that the skin scalds.
Cool the fowls after they are
picked. either by hanging them up In
cool place or soaking them In cold
or iced water. Fowls for market are
usually sold undrawn, but for home
or local use they may be drawn by re-
moving the crop through an opening
made in the skin of the neck, and cut
ting around the vent and then remOv-
ing the intestlnes and all other WIS.,
ceral material, making an additional
slit into the abdomen IL necessary.
Place the liver and gizzard back 10
the body cavity.
The Red Cloud chief., 1920-12-30
terestiru Altitude Test.

A lieutenant Of the French aviation
corps recently successfully subjected
himself to test TO determine whether
or not life could he sustained at 1900
meters, (39,38O feet, or about seven
and one-haIf miles) altitude, says Pop
uiar Mechanics Magazine. Entering a
large alright cylinder, the signal TO
start the exhaust pump was given. At
n pressure corresponding to an alti-
tude OF about 1880 feet 1.-TWO and
one-half miles). the experimentor was
compelled to resort to specially de-
signed mask and an oxygen tank. At
about 10000 feet Give and three-quar-
ter miles) observers noticed that he
seemed TO experience difficulty In NOV
Ing his limbs. This Is an experience
reported by all asprants to the alti.
tude record. To figure correspond
ing to the height Of about $4,000 feet
tsix and one-half miles) the subject
closed his eyes as though weary. Az
the barometer touched figure equal
to n height of 1880 feet, the trial was
stopped and air slowly admitted to the
cylinder that there might be no disas-
trous shock.
The Red Cloud chief., 1920-12-30

and the sheet metal fitted tight Mt the
edges.
If n long cavity Is to be filled with
cement or asphalt, II usually is advis-
uble to place one or more bolts
through II to hold the wood and filling
more firmly together. Long cavities.
as a rule, should be bOlted every Is
or "a inches.
The most widely used material for
filling cavities Is cement, usually In
the form of cement mortar or con-
crete. Under certain conditions as
phalt and sawdust and sand used In
combination with cement blocks or
with wood would be better than either
used separately. and they often are
more economical. Often large pieces
Of wood or smaller sectional pieces
can be fitted to the opening and the In
terstices filed with the plastic.
The Department Of Agriculture in
vites correspondence concerning meth
DDS in tree-repair work, and will be
prepared to advise for or against any
particular method SO far as experience
and the results Of experiments will
permit.
The Red Cloud chief., 1920-12-30
Important to all Women
Readers Of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands Of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or tho
result of kidney or bladder disease.
II the kidneys are not in healthy con.
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head.
ache and loss OF ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous. irrita.
bic and may be Respondent; II makes any
one 90.
But hundreds Of women claim that DR..
Kilmer's Swamp. Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for . sample bottle TO see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney
liver and bladder medicine, will do fol-
them. BY enclosing ten cents to DR.
Kilmer q Co., Binghsmton, N. Y. yot
may receive sample size bottle by Parce
Post. You can purchase medium ant
large size bottles at all drug stores.-Adv
The Red Cloud chief., 1920-12-30
Debts That Need No Payment.


English law does not recognize
gambling or betting debts. as a general
rule, although there have been eScep-
tl.,ns. More peculiar Is the fact that
n barrister cannot sue for his Zee.
Most other countries have the same
practice with regard to gambling debts
as ourselves. Venezuela is one Of the
very few states In which such debts
are collectable by law. In Holland
you cannot sue for bet made upon
cards, but you can for one on a horse
rnce or any similar outdoor sport. In
Sweden physician cannot sue for
his fee, while In Belgium a solicitor Is
In n similar position. by Chinese law,
not only the doctor, hut also the priest.
the fOrtune-teller and clairvoynnt are
without legal remedy. All these debts
are, however. looked upon as dents
OF honor" and payment Is rarely
evaded. The same sort Of idea with
regard to debts Of honor holds good
everywhere else, and, absurd as II
seems. a man who fails to pay gam
bling bet OF $50 Is In far worse POSI-
ton socially than another who goes
through the bankruptcy court.
Frances way OF treating bankruptcy
differs from ours. There bankrupt
is deprived of all rights Of citizenship.
which nre not restored to him until lie
has paid his debts in full.-Montreal
Family Herald.