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The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13

ing had been addressed, and the mes
sage Of milk and health had been car
ried to practically every resident in
the city through newspaper notices,
window exhibits and posters.
The necessity for milk campaign
was brought about by two conditions;
an average dSiry milk consumption
which public health experts consider
too low. though it was higher than
the average, and surplus of milk
produced by dairy herds in the sur
rounding territory. While the aver.
age dairy consumption which was two
thirds of pint per capita, ranks well
with other cities, it was believed that
the use of greater quantities of milk,
especially by the growing children,
would be great aid in further reduce
ing the undernourishment found
among the school children, and that in
this work. Madison, in the heart of the
dairy industry, should take the lead.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13

A survey conducted in Is schools be
fore the campaign was held showed
that of the 2,511 children, 1921 or II.
per cent were drinking milk, and tina
the avenge amount of consumed pc
child was about rs cups. 1t was alst
shown that 1880 of them, or AZ pei
cent, were drinking tea or coffee, with
an average daily consumption of IL
cups. When it.came to eating butter
however, it was found that 91.6 per
cent of the 2,511 children were getting
this vital food.
Compared with results obtained in
other cities, these figures show that the
school children of Madison are above
the average in milk consumption. But
there is reason for this. During the
past five years a milk-feeding system
was installed in the Madison schools,
which has been proving the value of
adequate milk consumption, Judging
from reports of the School principals.
At the beginning of the year the
children are weighed and measured,
and those who are underweight are put
into nutrition classes. Here they are
taught the value of proper foods and
cleanliness, and ventilation in rooms,
and other health habits, Milk is CIV
en- to members of these classes every
morning, and to others who desire it.
Ten cents a week pays for glass of
milk every day This has been made
possible through the cooperation of
the Datft}ts and teachers, and through
its hundreds 81 undernourished chill.
dren are being Brought back. to nor
NAL weight and meHtSt alertness.
The interest shown by city organ
izations, mems and womGfE$ clubs,
merchants, manufacturers, and others,
was feature of the campaign. From
the beginning of milk week, which
was started by proclamation from
the mayor, until the last address had
been made, splendid cooperation had
been obtained. Press notices appear
ed daily in the newspapers, advertise
ing space was contributed by ner-
chants, window displays were placed
in a number Of store windows, and an
opportunity was given the speakers to
tell the story Of milk and health at all
meetings.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13
MORE MILK AND
BETTER HEALTH

Though the consumption of milk in
Madison, Wis.,-the heart of highly
developed dairy district--was more
than that of the average city, it was
found desirable to conduct milk
campaign there. This campaign was
held under the supervision of milk
specialists of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture cooperating
with the Wisconsin College Of Agrj.
culture and local civic welfare asso-
Citations. To inform every man. wo-
man and child in Madison of the food
value Of milk was the goal set by the
local committee. That this goal was
attained, or nearly SO. was conceded
when it was found that at the end of
the weeks campaign more than $500
school children had been reached di-
rectly, nearly every important meet
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13

fields or along the roads without put
ting out the match absolutely or
stamping the smoke" into the mine
raj soil.
Never build an open fire for any
purpose near the woods or fields when
the woods are dry.
Never leave any fire until it is out.
Drench it with water or cover it COM
pletely with mineral soil.
Never pass even the smallest fire
unnoticed. Put it out yourself or sec
fire warden, the owner or some re-
sponsible resident starts for it before
you leave.
Fire travels with the wind always.
Stop it's front first and put out the
tides and rear later. Sand or soil will
smother it, beating will kill it, but wa
ter is always best. Flirt water or soil
along the line, do not dump it in one
place. Beat toward the fire to avoid
spreading it.
Always work slowly and deliberate
| ly in fighting fire so that every motion
counts and your energy is not wasted.
The forest fire loss for the last five
years reaches a staggering total Of
$S5, 900, 900, the American Forestry
Association adds, and measures to
help stop fires are incorporated in the
Smell Forest Policy Bill now before
Congress-.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13
HERE YOU ARE, BOYS, FOR
FOREST PROTECTION WEEK

With Forest Protection Week pro-
claimed by President Harding for May
%, the American Forestry Associa-
ton Of Washington issues a state
ment for use in the public schools that
week. The statement is also aimed at
tourists and campers and points out
what to do in case of fire in the woods.
The Forest Guides and the Boy Scouts
are also urged to spread this message
which follows:
Meyer throw lighted matches Of
smoking materials in the woods Or
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13
WHAT DOES THE FARMER MAKE

WHAT DOES THE FARMER MAKE
What is the farmers income is a
question that the Department of Ag-
riculture has been trying to answer.
In order to find out it made a study of
one hundred and eighty-fve farms in
Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin. The
farms were fairly representatives.
profitable than some of the great
wheat farms of the West and some of
the intensively titled market gardens
of the East, but more profitable than
the rocky farms of New England or
the patches of the small cultivator in
other parts of the country.
The investigators did not find that
any of the everyday farmers were
getting rich any faster than they
should. They did find that some were
making what might fairly be called
large profits, but that more were max
ing only bare living. The money in
come of the Indiana farmers, who
were the most prosperous, was on the
average of $1S56; that of the Ohio
farmers was only S610 To those fig
ures must, of course, be added the
value of the food and other supplies
raised on the farm, an item that var
led in the estimates from $500 to $500.
THE difference between the situation
before the war and the situation of
the last two or three years is shown
in the case of the Indiana farmers,
whose income, including food raised
on the farm, amounted on the average
to $1763 before the war and to $3074
in 1918.
Of course the farmer is both CAPT
talist and laborer. Part of his in
come should be charged off to interest
on his investment, and a part has to
go back into the business in new tools,
stock, machinery and fertilizer The
Investigators think that the return on
capital ranges from three to seven per
cent, and that the labor income has
varied on the different farms from as
low as $113 to as high as $102S. To
that should be added the food raised,
which leads to the conclusion that
some farmers in the selected counties
have in past years got as little as So
week for their labor and others as
much as 1872.
1t is necessary to add that in gen.
eral the farmers have profted by an
increase in the value of their land, but
that the diminished purchasing power
of money has made the increase in
their income during the war years
more apparent than real.
The figures are, we believe, the
most exact that have ever been gath
cred. They throw good deal of light
on the vexed question what the farm
err really makes; question that most
farmers themselves find hard to ans
wer. Taken in connection with the
long hours the farmer keeps and the
really hard work he has to do, they
explain why he is 30 attracted by the
wages Of the city %orkmen, which ale
often much higher than his and much
saore easily earned. But money goes
much farther in the country than in
the city, for there are by no means SO
many ways, necessary and unneces-
sary, of spending it; and the farmers
life has wholesomeness and am in
dependence that to many men are
worth more than the money it brings
ink.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13
WoULDN1' your

If l should sit up late at night
Beneath the candies CLEAN,
If should work with all my might
Adding out scheme,
A plan to make my business grow,
A thought so crisp and new
/ wanted all the town to know,
I'd print it-wouldn't you.
And if | wanted folks to read
My pamphlet, card or book,
If | expected them to heed
And give second look,
! wouldn't let the matter rest
With Something that will do"
In other words I'd want the BEST
IN PRINTING-seuldn't you7
Stolen,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-05-13
POOR, FRAIL LITTLE GIRL

She could swing 6-pound dumb bell,
She could fence and she could box;
She could row upon the river,
She could Chamber 'mong the rocks;
She could golf from morn till evening,
And play tennis all day longs;
But she couldn't help her mother
Cause she wasn't very strong.
Buffalo Express.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03
Editorials For
Women Folks

Hazel, the little manicure lady,
was getting confidential. Harry was
In town. Harry was the boy she
had known back in Texas. He used
to come to see her when she had a
porch swing, with honeysuckle vines
twining the corner Of the veranda
and a lovely sweep of green lawn to
look out over and a lot Of the little
girl in her heart. And Harry was
going to take her out for dinner
hat night.
Just then a rather dashing mas
culine person passed. The smile
which he gave Hazel in response to
the Turing dropping Of her eye lash
"a a cares.
Hazel leaned across the table.
HES a generous thing" she was
saying, "tips-!" and by the indraw-
ing of her breath one gathered that
his tips were gingantic.
"You get more things here-silk
stockings, why I'll never wear mine
all Quit" she went on.
"And ] accept everything, but l
never quite make a date" o.
And somehow you felt a bit re-
| gretful, because Hazel's lips were so
softly curving and her smile SO
spontaneous that she wore sue a
hard philosophy with a grotesque
old-young effect that hurt
You felt sure that somewhere I'M
der the mascara, the rouge, and the
crystalline. scintillant exterior there
must be a little girl heart.
Ere long she gave your nails their
last pat and as you were sliding into
your jacket you noticed that Hazel
| had turned to the white washbowl
and was dipping something up and
| down in it. In a minute she took
il out and pressed 1t flat and smooth
against the mirror. 1t was a man's
| new handkerchief in which a wom-
ans fingers had painstakingly drawn
! four threads near the border and re-
filled the places with two brown and
! two old blue threads.
1t was a neat piece of work and
pretty !
"Why don't you let me take It
home. honey, and press it out with
my electric iron?" the hairdresser
was saying to Hazel who vas maxi
ing valiant efforts to take out all of
dried.
But T just finished 1t this after
noon and 1 wanted Harry to have
1t to use when we go out to dinner
tonight" she said and continued
pressing.
After all, there was the little girl
heart.
You'll find that there is always a
little girl hear and that artificial
exteriors are buffers.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03
CONF EsSIoNS Or A
HUSBAND!
Edith Makes "a Strange Offer of
Friendship
The Mans Side OF Married Life

Edith Makes "a Strange Offer Of
Friendship
How on earth did you do it?" 1
gasped. Only a minute before my
wife and her husband had taken the
train back to the city because the
a had apparently broken down
hopelessly.
Cant you guess?' she inquired,
provokingly. "Or must l explain it
in words of one syllable?
l was stumped and 1 suppose my
looks confessed it. Edith burst into
a laugh.
Shall we beat them back t. the
city. or aren't you in a hurry to re-
turn ,"
Did you do that on purpose?" I
demanded. Were you just pretend
ing that the engine wouldn't run?"
What If l was? What If / did it
so George could have some reuse
for taking the train back and not
making his poor cough worse by rid
ing any more in this open carp"
Z! confess l don't know what
to make of you." / stammered.
/ vas 100 per cent surprised, and
I am afraid 1 cut a rather sorry
figure, as a man always does when
he learns a woman has been think
si6 thlSS tAiito as ls1Biaiy oo hSs
Come, now, is there anything so
wrong in what l did,"
81 suppose not. but"
But you are shocked. Own up
to it. And for my part, I admit l
am spoiled. My father began it and
George has continued it. I've al
ways done what 1 pleased."-
Il can believe that"
And, after all, what harm Is
there in what I did? Dot wanted to
get home and so did George. l gave
them a good excuse AS for myself,
I wanted 10 talk to you. No-don't
as 1 was about to say something
Il merely find you mildly amusing"
Thank you"
Seriously, though, why can't we
be good friends? Why is the world
always so suspicious? If you had a
sister 1 could see her as oftensas L
pleased and no one would say a
word"
We'll. you know some people
have old-fashioned ideas"
yes, but why should we let them
control us? We know there is no
wrong in it. Isn't that enough? I
was telling you the precise truth
when I said I~had been spoiled and
Ildo always iido lily way puI Ia
spite Of that 1 haven't really been
happy. I haven't felt that people
understood me George doesn't,
though he is a dear, dependable fell
low.
NOW If I find someone who I'M
derstands me, why can't he and / be
good friends? Is the fact that he is
a man and / am a woman a bar to
friendship? Say that you don't
think it is, or I'll believe you don't
understand me, either" she pleaded.
The car vas slowly bowling along
a road that wound through a stretch
of woods. The indefinable odor of
spring was in the air.
"Of course, we can be friends" I
assured her.
(To be continued)
Copyright 1921 by Newspaper En-
terprise).
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03
THE LOVE
By MARION RUBINCAM

Naturally not" She left it an
open question as to whether there
was nothing to learn, or whether 1t
would not be learned from his
mother. I've found out that you
have a position in an oil company
here, that you've never been dis
charged, that you've been a good
You look much better than 1 ex-
pected. You're attractive and you
have a quick tongue and a good
temper, that, I've found for myself
since I've see you"
I'm glad you like me a little"
Win said. But this was premature
1t gave her an opening.
II don't, to be quite frank" she
said. you've married my niece.
and / had my niece's future planned
in an entirely different way. l can
see how she would be attracted to
your type. You'll probably make
her a good husband, as the saying
goes. But what will you offer her?
Your mother says you have
money, in her trust. So you'll be
able to live very well. She says in
the best house in the village. She
says between your salary and the
income due you from your estate,
you'll be rich. We needn't mention
sums. they are a detail. But here
and rich in the city are two differ
ent things.
Even if you are rich by our stan
dards, what can you do with it here ?
What can you offer my niece? What
is the finest house in a town like
this? What are its people, it's op-
portunities?
DO you know what you've done?
You've married a girl. heiress to a
very large estate"
I'VE have already agreed that she
lives on my money, not hers" VIII
cut in. He was getting angry now
and 1 "a afraid of a quarrel. ]
went behind him and slipped my
hand into his.
THAT sounds well. You may be
able to do tin Wellsville. You
could not in New York, or any place
that counts. And the money is only
part of it. You've gone off with the
prettiest girl in New York-you
have, I'm her aunt, and 1 know,
With her beauty and my money ]
could have made anything of her.
She could have married anyone she
chose
Il chose Win" I cried.
Yes, you chose VIM she echoed
"And for a time it will be very fine.
But you'll starve, mentally and spir-
isually, in a place like this. You
weren't born or bred to live in such
a place. You may think SO now.
You're young and romantic, and
you've been i'll and you don't mind
the quiet. But I've had the-pleas-
ure of meeting some of your friends
here-your Ella and Margery and
some whose names I've forgotten.
know you too wehto think you'll
! be satisfied with them!"
"She won't have to be-" Win cried
suddenly. I'm going to bring her
to the CITY,"
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03

boil over. Be sure there are no
breaks in the under crust. A cherry
pie is a treacherous thing and will
boil over and stick to the bottom OF
the pan If it has half a chance
Steamed Eggs
Beat the white Of an egg with Y
teaspoon salt till stiff. Put this in
a buttered custard cup. Drop the
unbroken yolk into the white.
Sprinkle with salt and pepper and
steam 6 minutes. Or put the cup in
a pan Of hot water, and put in
a hot oven. This is an individual
service.
Spinach Pancakes
Three eggs, 1 pound spinach,
olive or vegetable oil, grated
cheese, 2 tablespoons butter, salt
and pepper.
Wash and cook spinach. Drain
and chop very fine. Beat eggs well.
Add spinach and season with salt
and pepper. Put oil in frying pan, a
small one. the size of a pancake,
is best. Put a thin layer of the
spinach mixture in the pan. Fry
first on one side and then on the
other. Repeat until all Is fried Pile
up the cakes and cut in fourths. Fry
lightly in hot butter, sprinkle with
grated cheese and serve at once.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03
How To Keep
Yourself We'll
Send name and address for per-
sOnal reply to Information Edi-
tor, q. S. Public Health Service,
Washington, d. G.

Eczema can be cured. but treat
ment must often be prolonged, and
in some cases the patient must
change his occupation. In eczema of
the hands the condition is often due
to irritation encountered by the
person in the course of his work.
Eczema is not a blood disease, as the
term is ordinarily understood. 1t is
suggested that you ask your FAM
lily physician to refer you to a quail
fed physician skin specialist.
Odorous Feet
Every evening when L am about
to go to bed. I wash my feet. In the
morning I put on clean socks. yet
during the day an odor comes from
them. My feet perspire very much.
The odor is due to the decay OF
he macerated skin as a result OF
bacterial action. Strict attention to
cleanliness and frequent changing
of the socks r. not sufficient, for
the bacteria often find Judgment in
parts, unless the footwear is also
disinfected.
Battle the feet regularly, busting
them after drying with a powder
containing some salicylic acid. or
other effective disinfectant. The
shoes should be disinfected by pour
Ing about a teaspoonful of formal
dehyde on a little cotton and plac-
Ing in each shoe I'VE night.
1t may be of service to soak the
feet in salt water after having
cleansed them with warm soap and
| water.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03
GREEN FOR SPORTS

NEW YORK. June 3-For the
sports girl who would not be a whit
behind the mode comes the whisper
that green is the color for the links
and court.
Knitted alpaca, (and what old
time visions does that recall!) in
brilliant green with straight che
mise frock and long knitted cape
Is the smartest thing in feminine
sport toggery.
Not q few of these garments are
banded with china red silk from hip
to border. The neck line is invari-
ably collarless and the sleeves are
of the short mandarin variety.
These. as well as the narrow green
girdle which kuots loosely at the
waist, are edged with china red.
The capes have a delightful neck
treatment-a long scarf, attached
and deeply fringed.
For suits, which desire a sporting
air, nickel buttons are the latest
conceit. They + found at the
strapped pocket and belt and occa-
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-06-03
HOROSCOPE

stars inclin but do not compel"
Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)

Copyright, 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Saturn dominates this day with
kindly power, according to astrol-
ogy, and Mars is in mildly benefc
aspect. Mercury is adverse.
This planetary government should
bring about better conditions for
farmers and should benefit all who
draw their sustenance directly from
the earth.
There is a promising sign for
mines and mine-owners. New dis
coveries of oil and rare minerals
are foretold by the seers.
A movement opposing war is like
ly to gain Roadway at this time,
but it will be severely arranged
by the press.
Engineers and all who do con-
structive work should profit by this
sway of the stars. There will be
much building but there will be evil
influences at work, preventing the
best results unless watchfulness is
persistent.
Changes in domestic customs. so
long prophesied will be apparent at
this time to all who look beneath
the surface of things.
Reactionary tendencies stabiliz-
ing to society are prophesied and
women will regain much of their
love for domesticity.
Education will be greatly dis
cussed at this time when a univer-
sity president or a famous scientist
will be honored.
Danger of infections appears to
be greater than usual under this di-
rection of the stars and attention
to sanitary precautions should be
unremittent.
The stars that encourage the
young to self-expression are potent
at this time and much ~precocious
knowledge, good and evil. will be
apparent.
A falling off Of the birthrate will
mark the next few months, which
will be rather difficult for those who
are rearing children.
Strikes in shipping and dockyards
will mark all the summer months
and August will be a particularly
disturbed month.
Persons whose birthdate 1t is
may expect a steady and successful
year. Removals will not be fortu-
nate.
Children born on this day will be
steady and reliable. These subjects
of Gemini are likely to be gifted,
but usually they are not money
makers.