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The state herald., 1921-03-18

Perhaps the most important ven
ture of the farming business is the
choice of the farm itself. The soil
the lay OF the land. and the climate
will. in large measure. determine
the amount of profit which farm
will return. Oftentimes n man will
use exceedingly keen judgment in the
choice of farm. but will permanent
ly handicap his operations with 4
poorly located set OF buildings. On
one farm II was found that mar
walked Just about two miles In at
tending TO his chores; on another
farm IN the same commralty his
neighbor managed to do chores fol
the same amount of stock and wall
less than 700 feet. One had con
venient arrangement OF yards and
buildings. the other had not II II
not as one were bIying tractor
which could be sold or exchanged fol
another II II did not give success
Once n man has improved farm
stead, II Is likely that he will remain
on that farm for n period OF thirty
five or forty years. and II must bt
used by him and perhaps by his son
30 that. all In all. poor arrange
ment will cost many miles Of use
less walking and many late hours In
doing chores.
There Is no hard and set rule re-
gardIng the arrangement OF farm
buildings. There are. however. q few
general rules which can always be
followed. II is now generally con
cedcd that the hilltop location for
the farmstcad is always TO be desir
cd. We might say that II Ia possible
to heat buildings artificIally. but not
to cool them. Hence. we should take
advantage OF all the natural comfort
In summer. as well as In winter
BY means OF windbrcaks II In pos
siblc to make the hilltop location
well protected In winter; on the other
hand II viii be reached by the sum.
mer brcexes and viii receive consid.
crably more sunshine than the valley
location.
Above all things see that the yards
have sufficient slope toward the south
aud east 30 that the stock will not
stand knee deep In mud during q
part OF the ysar. A southeast slope
is the best. q south slope next; hut
a level sight, while poorly drained,
Is TO be preferred TO u north, north.
cast or north west slope.
There is often Il tendency TO locnte
the house In the center OF grove of
trpos 10 that the view 10 the road Ia
entirely cut on. IN driving through
southeastern Nebraska last summer,
noticed several farmsteads In which
tho farm building were grouped be.
tween tn ho . and the road. Ger.
tainly this 10 bad practice. In enter.
Ing one Of tbnse farmstcads you were
The state herald., 1921-03-18
A Surprise

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Borland and
family were surprised Monday even
ing by a number of their friends. A
midnight lunch was served. consist
ing of cake. pie, pickles and sand
wiches.
The evening was enjoyed with
games and music.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Boyce and family; Mr.. and Mrs.
Kerchner and family: Mr. and Mrs.
N. L Johnston and family; Mr. and
Mrs, Berger and family; Mr. and Mrs.
Albert Miller and family; Mr.. and
Mrs. A. c. Cauble and family; MIR.
and Mrs. Roy Owens and family:
Mr.. and Mrs. John McDorman: Mr..
and Mrs. Frank Pugh; Mr.. and Mrs.
Albert Patrick: Mr.. and Mrs. r. G.
Cauble; Mr.. and Mrs. Charles wor.
ley; Mrs. Carrie Robinson and sons;
Milt Worley: Mrs. A. G. Neuen.
schwande; Mr.. and Mrs. George
schneller; MIR. and Mrs. e. G. Mar
tin: Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Lutte: Mr..
and Mrs. W. r. Pugh: Mr.. and Mrs.
Biil Childers: Mrs. ]. N. Tomlin;
Henry Lutte: Irwin Kuhnke: Emma
Skupa; Ester Kuhnke; Ernest Peter.
son; Clarence Kuhnke. and Frank
Skupa.
The state herald., 1921-03-18
Loyal Workers Entertained

The Loyal Workers OF the NJ. E
Sunday school were entertained by
their teacher. Mrs. II. NJ. Harms. nj
her home on Wednesday after school
Now officers were elected. This
class consists OF young misses OF high
school nge. and they are bright
energetic class. Miss Ellen Lantx
was chosen president. Nellie Gchring
, or. SECRETARY and Leona Ingaisbe
treasurer.
After ail business WINS attended TO-
Mrs. Harms surprised her girls by
serving them dainty lunch consist
ing Of sandwiches, chocolate and
fruit jello with whipped cream and
angel food cake.
The state herald., 1921-03-18
City Election April S

Hand bills are being circulated this
week giving notice OF cnucuses 10 be
held for tho purpose OF nominating
candidates for both the Taxpayers
and Citizens tickets. and the official
notice OF the election has been pub.
ilshed for tho election. April 9.
The state herald., 1921-03-18
Surprise Party for eammslI Family

The neighbors and friends of Mr..
and Mrs. George Gammelft to the mum.
ber Of twenty gathered at their home
one evening last week to bid them
goodbye. 1t was In the nature Of a
surprise. as the family were not ex'
pecting anyone. A pleasant time was
enjoyed and the ladies remembered
TO bring refreshments, which were
served before the guests bid Mr.. and
Mrs. Gammell goodbye and God speed
IN their new home.
The state herald., 1921-03-18
slumber Party for HoIyoke Girls

Miss Gladye Lucke gave a slumber
party to number OF her school
friends from Holyoke. The girls went
to Haxtun on the afternoon train Fri
day afternoon.
Those enjoying the hospitality Of
the Lucke home were: The Misses
Saylor; Marjory Mowry; Mary Peter:
Wilma hammers: Fern Mason. chap.
eroned by Miss Sarah Davies.
The state herald., 1921-03-18
MA'-
SOCIAL
CIRCLES
Happy Surprise Party

Friends, to the number Of twenty
five. gathered at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bruce Vain on Friday night to
spend the evening.
It was In the nature Of surprise
on .irs. Waln. The evening was
spent in dancing and general good
time was enjoyed by the company.
Light refreshments were served and
NIL left at late hour for their re-
,spective homes.
The state herald., 1921-03-18
sorosls Entertained by Mrs. oIrls

Mrs. o. NJ. Gillis wns hostess 10 tho
Sorosis club on Tuesday afternoon.
Twelve ladies' wep present and a
very pleasant afternoon wns spent
a social program being given. Mrs
Bcrt Stevenson was guest Of thu
society.
Dainty refreshments were served
consisting OF sandwiches, pickles,
coffee. fruit salad and angel food casa,
The state herald., 1921-03-18
FRAIRiE FIRE

There was prairie flrc southeast
OF town on "Wednesday afternoon.
and The william Stout home narrow.
Iy escaped being destroyed. Prompt
action Of ncighbors prevented tho
buildings from burning.
The state herald., 1921-03-18

Miss Goldie Hall, who has been
visiting friends and relatives. left
for her home at Durango on Thurs
day.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Truth About LinCOln's Deathbed

TIME discussion of doubtful point in
the last hours of Abraham Lincoln
has occupied columns recently in the
newspapers of New York, Washington, BAL
timore and Boston. 1t concerns the actual
room in the lodging house where the mar
tyred President was carried from Fords
Theatre in Washington Immediately follow
ing the shooting. Although the scene had
been minutely depicted by historians. whose
only purpose was to hold to the simplest
1act, doubt was thrown this particular
one when DIR. Charles A. Leale, the young
physician called in to the dying bed by
dramatic circumstance, met in the poorhouse
on Welfare Island an aged pauper named
Thomas Proctor
In revisualzing the scene of the Emanci-
pator's death Proctor and DIR. Leale, both
past so, remembered that the bed on which
ne breathed his last was that in Proctors
rented room of the house.
Proctor's statement acquired great weight
from the fact that his portrait appeared
among those shown to have been present at
the deathbed in picture drawn by staff
artist of Lesiie's Weeklv That Proctor
was present at this historical moment seems
to be authenticated fully.
But that the room and bed were his not
withstanding his statement to this effect is
declared by the Boston Herald to be erro-
neous. This newspaper presents the testi-
mony OF a letter written at the time by Will
lam Tilton Clark of Boston to his sister Ida.
Clark, who died forty years ago. occupied
a room on the main floor of the house oppo-
site Fords Theatre 1t was into this room
and on the bed there that the dying Presi-
dent was carried and laid.
Mrs. Maud Wright OLeary of Wellesley
Hills, Mass, is one of the witnesses for the
truth of the Clark version. William Tilton
Clark of Boston was her mothers brother
The letter which he wrote to his sister was
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
High Praise Who
the Department Italian History
for Primary School System Because Of Lack Essential knowledge

meaningful. What do the "freshies" read?
Do they choose the lighter, sillier, more
ephemeral stuff of the publishers presses?
By no means.
The record shows that the old authors
still attract-Dickens Thackeray. Scott and
Hardy. George Eliot, Victor Hugo Du
Maurier and Mark Twain. In modern litera-
ture the taste is sane and the authors cited
as having a great following among the col
lege girls are Wells, Edith Wharton, Barrie,
Blasco Ibanez, Booth Harrington, Rose
Macauley and Hugh Walpole. This record
could be expanded by Implications from other
colleges for women. 1t is a straw that
counts.
Vassar girls bicycle from class room to
class room, to the tennis courts, athletic
field. On the green in front of the beautiful
Norman library there are commonly to be
seen half a hundred stacked wheels there
are as many near the chapel entrance at
the hour of afternoon service an organ and
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

country, Arriving here three years ago, he
lectured on political and literary subjects in
several of our colleges and universities. He
returned this year to be at the head of
the department of italian history and lit
erature at Vassar. His opinion of the men,
tai attainments and behavior of American
college girls is basedNon experience of them
and, being disinterested it should be val
liable. At once it may be said that DR..
Roselli's opinion is distinctly favorable.
II am man. unmarried, not yet very old
and prepared by experience of life-if l may
say so much without appearing fatuous-for
some degree of folly in young persons.
Every teacher has experienced what 1 refer
TO, and some Of them to an embarrassing
degree. But l have felt no embarrassment
at Vassar where the young women attend
lectures and classes and treat the men at
the head of these with utter impersonality
This is my final Judgment, and while it may
surprise some of my European colleagues
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

choral affair, and near the steps of Rookie
feller Hall, which is the centre of Vassar
social activity. This point is emphasized
because silk stockings, low cut waists and
rouged lips do not accord with the bicycle.
Truly, If observation may be trusted to
afford correct impressions, then this incu-
bator Of future wives, mothers, teachers and
social leaders is still producing gifted, cul-
tivated Christian women that were in Mat
thew Vassar's wonderful vision when he
wrote in his diary: ut is in vain to edu-
cate womans power of thought and then
limit the operation-educaton and liberty
walk hand in hand"
male American will surely imbibe this
confidence, but he is apt to be prejudced
in favor of his young countrywomen. A
cultivated foreigner, familiar with the course
of education in his own country, might be a
safer judge.
Such an individual is DIR. Bruno Roselli,
first Italian exchange professor to visit this
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

addressed to Miss Ida f. Clark, warrei
street, Boston. Mass. 1t follows:
WASHINGTON, d. c.,
Wednesday, April 10, 1865
DEAR SISTER IDA:
To-day the funeral Of Mr.. Lincoln takes
place. The streets are being crowded at
this early hour 60 A. NJ and the process
sion will not move for three hours We
are moved back into the old building (cor
15h ST.. 1t having been repaired Ladies
are thronging in here now. l have moved
my desk close to my window to secure its
use for myself and friends.
The past few days have been of intense
excitement. Arrests are rumerousy made
of any party heard to utter secesh senti-
ments. The time has come when people
cannot say what they please.
Since the death of our President hun
dreds daily call at the house to gain ad-
mission to my room.
was engaged nearly all of Sunday
with one of Frank Leslies special artists,
aiding him in making a correct drawing
of the last moments of Mr.. Lincoln AS
! knew the position of every one present
he succeeded i'm executing fine sketch
which will appear in their paper the last
OF this week. He intends, from this same
drawing, to have some fine large steel en-
cravings executed He also took a sketch
of nearly every article in my room, which
will appear in their paper.
He wished to mention the names of all
pictures in the room, particularly the pho
tographs of yourself, Clara and Mamie,
but told him he must not do that, as
they were members of my family and |
did not wish them to be made public He
also urged me to give him my picture, or
at least to allow him to take my sketch,
but 1 could not see that either.
Everybody has a great desire to obtain
some memento from my room, SO that
whoever comes in has to be closely
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

l am a man, unmarried, and pre-
pared by the experiences of life for
some degree of folly in young per-
sons.
1t is necessary here in America &c
make quite new study of the psy-
chology of women.
My personal interest in these
American students is almost infinitely
wider in a scholastic sense.
The American girl is frank, out
spoken and rarely hides what she
really thinks.
Set me down as saying most sin
cerely about the students of Vassar
that they are marvellous material.
Neither the young women who are
educating themselves simply for the
JOY of it nor those who anticipate fit
ting into vocation ever evince the
slightest doubt about their studies.
/ believe their instinct is more to
be trusted than my Old World in
grained doubt.
The American girl is marvellous.
How happy ! am to be here to direct
some of her thoughts!
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
By WILLIS STEEL.

r SN'T it about time that some one should
rise up and tell the real facts about
our American girls? Not that they
need any defence in the opinion of their
sweethearts, fathers or even brothers, al
though the latter are inclined to be critical
ty the firesde. The girls themselves have
maintained dignified silence, permitting
the sour faces to use up breath decrying
the independence of the modern generation,
the way they Dress how they dance, their
indulgence now and then in a cigarette,
their bobbed hair, and, to crown all, their
lack OF respect. much less of veneration, for
an elder generation.
In the complete assurance that such
crimes are episodical merely and are COM
mitted only in sporadic instances, the young
women have shown wisdom by laughing at
all the diatribes and leaving their fair fame
to be cleared by time. The girls haven't
been crushed by the critical avalanche, and
even If they were they would rise again.
visit to the different women's colleges
is all that is necessary to convince one that
our girls Of this generation have not and
will not, lower the standard of womanhood
Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Wellesley,
Mount Holyoke, are filled this year as they
have always been since their foundation
with young women healthy in body and in
brain. serious in their outlook on life, in
spired by high ideals, but gay and repre-
sentative of their own era and not that of
Charlotte Bronte or Jane Austen. Manners
change of course, and it is because they do
that the critics have been listened to- At
the core alps well that ends well with the
world Of young womanhood
Difference of the Generations
Really Is Only Skin Deep
variety of little things show that the
outer dissimilarity between the present and
past generations is only skin deep. If the
young women who either beginning or
approaching the end of a college course
were really so hopelessly frivolous as some
dim seeing persons say then the books these
girls read would be testimony.
From Radcliffe come statistics that are
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

watched for fear they will steal some
thing.
1 have lock of his hair which I have
rad neatly framed, also a piece of linen
with portion of his brain, the pillow and
case upon which he lay when he died and
nearly all his wearing apparel, but the
latter intend to send to Robt. Lincoln as
soon as the funeral is over, as I consider
him the one most justly entitled to them.
The same mattress is ON my bed and
the same coverlid covers me nightly that
covered him while dying
Enclosed you will find a piece of lace
that Mrs. Lincoln wore on her head dur
ing the evening and was dropped by her
while entering my room to see her dying
husband. 1t is worth keeping for its his
torical value.
The cap worked by Clara and the cush-
ion by you, you little dreamed would be
so historically connected with such an
event.
tThe letter closes with family matters
and the writer signs)
Your affc. brother WILLIE
There is postscript which reads:
please not give away any of this lace
out of our own family"
The Boston TrdueIer of April %. 1866.
printed letter from correspondent mt
Washington which confirms the statement
made by Clark that the President died I'm his
bed
The following facts have been indsputa-
bly, established. says the Boston Herald:
Abraham Lincoln died In a lodging house
opposite FOrd's Theatre, in a small room
on the first floor occupied before and after
that night by William T. Clark Of Boston.
Thomas Proctor's room was In another
part Of the house.
Proctor was In the room when Lincoln
died, and he Is included In the sketch by
"Leslle's" artist.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23
Women in Italy do study alongside
of men, but it is as if a sacred sword
lay between them.

Women in Italy do study alongside
of men, but it is as if sacred sword
lay between them.
Education for Italo-American girls
at Vassar will be long step toward
the absorption of Anglo-Saxon ideals.
l have felt no embarrassment at
Vassar, where the young women at
tend the classes and treat the men at
the head of them with utter imper-
sonality.
One must admire their freedom
from cant, their simple recognition
of the facts of life and their inde-
pendent judgment Of these facts.
Abroad my work in lecture room
and lycee represented my labors as
teacher in total. Here a more
delightful relation exists. Il am
appealed to as l cross the campus by
students who desire an explanation
of points in a lecture.
The Italian girl has been taught by
precept, example and tradition to
camouhage herself. The American
girl knows nothing about such con-
fusions.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23

they have only to put the matter to a per-
sonal test to accept it.
For 1t must be considered that the rela-
tions of teacher and pupil differ widely in
this country from those prevailing in Italy
or anywhere on the European continent
They are here so much freer and uncon-
ventional that narrow European mind
could not understand them, and would In
consequence be liable to pitiable mistakes.
1T is necessary here in America to make
a quite new study of the psychology of
woman. An open, sensitive mind is, how
ever, not long in understanding these young
women, and soon he comes to admire their
freedom from can't their simple recognition
of the facts of life and their Independent
judgment of these facts. / am, in truth. a
sincere admirer of the American girl
Simplifying ones self by getting rid Of
notions that are more or less ingrained in
us, European professor like myself soon
learns to understand and appreciate the
serious, unconventional student we meet
here as rule.
The New York herald., 1921-10-23


while plying whip with the other, go
round and round him like carrousel
The monotony is occasionally broken by
the insistence of lurking foal that the
mare in the lead must furnish it refresh
ment The son, lest he forget three years
spent on the Somme and some months at
Salonica, is minus a finger. Madame, wife
of the younger man, emerges from the
room at the front of the house, with
its ancient rafters and heavy worm
eaten doors, where she has been preparing
"gouter." At once she takes the centre of
the stage. She is full of the esprit of the
south, which with her dark Castillian eyes
render unnecessary her information that
her father was born in Spain
One brother, she said, had been killed in
the war; while two others had returned
but to go away again. They found that
they could make money faster in the cities
than in the old home 'It is hard for my
mother, but enfin, one cannot blame them.
'C'est la guerre'; they still suffer and are
restless"
So many, many of the women in these
villages have never been out of them. The
very few that have ventured abroad have
usually gone just over the border to SPAIN
Where all the men of a family have been
killed the women are carrying on the farm
alone, as that is their only means of sub
sistence
The peasants hereabouts will assure you
of how conscientiously and consistently
they work. Some exclaim I'VE are just
as industrious as the Germans, and we
don't want the eight hour law!" They are
also fully aware of the fact that Frances
riches lie in her agricultural communities,
and may eventually navigate their bark
accordingly. But they don't know. or are
unwilling to acknowledge that while the
inhabitants of the industrial centres are
heavily taxed those of the farming dis
tricts are scarcely taxed at ALL
For news of the outside world as of
neighboring towns these quaint people de-
pend upon a paper posted conspicuously
each day in village street. One visualizes
with what agony of mind those huddling
women must have spelled out the news of
battles, and those fallen a few short years
ago.
To-day all is peace in these valleys where
the shepherds return at night from watch.
ing their locks on the everlasting hill
sides and the women weave into their in
evitable knitting their dreams of castles in
Spain. Or do they yearn beyond the Jagged
mountain tops into the sunsets glow
where lies Andorra?
Although only twenty kilometers away.
over mountain trail, few. if any, from
this side have ever ventured in. Notwith-
standing, IL must be well worth visit to
that little independent republic, with its
1000 inhabitants.
In sos A. ID. the Andoreans went to the
aid of the French when they laid siege to
Urgell, and as a reward were granted by
Louis lie Debonnare a strip of territory in
the Pyrenees lying between France and
Spain.
Here, cut off from all the strife and chaos
OF the outside world these people have
existed for centuries sufficient unto them.
selves and menace to none. May some
one some day have the initiative to study
them and tell us more about them. Per.
haPs they. too. are of Cro-Magnon descent.