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The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-25
CHAPTER XIV.

Fred Mitchell, crossing the campus
one morning, ten days later, saw Dora
standing near the entrance of her dor
mitory, where he would pass her un
less he altered his course; and as he
drew nearer her and the details Of her
face grew into distinctness, he was in
dignant with himself for feeling less
and less indignation toward her in pro-
portion to the closeness Of his ap-
proach. The pity that came over him
was mingled with an unruly admira-
ton, causing him to wonder what un-
patriotic stuff she could be made of.
She was marked, but not whipped; she
still held herself straight under all the
hammering and cutting which, to his
knowledge, she had been getting.
She stopped him, "for only mo-
ment," she said, adding with wan
proudness: "That is, If you're not one
Of those who feel that I shouldn't be
spoken TOT"
NO." said Fred, stifly. II may
share their point Of view, perhaps, but
I don't feel called upon to obtrude 1t
on you in that manner"
Il see," she said, nodding. 1--WE
wanted to speak with you about Ram
sey."
"All right"
She bit her lip, then asked, abrupt
Iy: "What made him do it,"
enlist as a private with the regu.
larsT
mo. What made him enlist at ALI"
"Only because he's that Sort" Fred
returned briskly. HE may be mex
plicable to people who believe that his
going out to fight for his country is
the same thing as going out to COM
NIT mur-"
She lifted her hand. Couldn't
you"
Il beg your pardon" Fred said at
once. I'm sorry, but I don't know just
how to explain him to you"
"Why?"
He laughed, alphabetically. swell.
you see, as I understand 1t, you don't
think it's possible for person to have
something within him that makes him
care SO much about his country that
he"
"Wait !" she cried. Don't you think
I'm willing to suffer little rather
than to see my country in the wrong7
Don't you think I'm doing itT'
swell, I don't want to be rude; but,
Of course, 1t seems to me that you're
suffering because you think you know
more about what's right and wrong
than anybody else does"
"Oh, no. But L"
1--WE wouldn't get anywhere, prob.
ably, by arguing It," Fred said. "You
asked me-"
II asked you to tell me why he en-
listed"
"The trouble is, don't think I can
tell that to anybody who needs an an
swer. He just went, Of course. There
isn't any question about 1t. I always
thought he'd be the first to 60"
"Oh, nor she said.
Eyes, I always thought So"
II think you were mistaken" she
said, decidedly. 1T was special rea
son--to make him act so cruelty"
Cruelty" Fred cried.
1T WASH"
"Cruel to whomY'
"Oh, to his mother-to his family
To have him 60 off that way, withou
word"
"Oh. no; he'd been home" Fred cor
rected her. HE went home the Satur
day before he enlisted, and settled !
with them. They're all broken up, o
course; but when they saw he'd mad
up his mind, they quit opposing him
and think they're proud Of him abou
It, maybe, in spite Of feeling anxious
You zee, his father was an artillery
man In the war With Spain. and hi
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-25

She Lifted a Wet Face. mo, No! He
Went in Bitterness Because Told
Him To, In My Own Bitterness!"
to, in my own bitterness! I've killed
him! Long ago, when he wasn't much
more than a child, I heard he'd said
that some day he'd show me, and now
he's done itv'
Fred whistled low and long when she
had disappeared. "Girls" he muir
INJURED to himself. "Some girls, any
how-they will be girls! You can't
tell 'em what's what, and you can't
change 'em. eitherw
Then, as more urgent matters again
occupied his attention, he went on at
an ardent and lively gait to attend his
class In map-making.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-05-25

tell you where we are, because that
darned censor will read this letter; but
/ guess he will let this much by. Who
do you think I ran across in village
yesterday? Two boys from the old
school days, and we certainly did
shake hands few times! It was that
old foolish Dutch Krusemeyer and Al
bert Paxton, both Of them lieutenants.
I heard Fred Mitchell is still training
in the States and about crazy because
they won't send him over yet.
III you have any idea how glad I
was to get your letter, you wouldn't
lose any time answering this one. Any
how, I'm going to write to you again
every few days If get the chance, be-
cause maybe you'll answer more than
one Of 'em.
"But see here, cut out that sent you
to be killed stuff. You've got the
wrong idea altogether. We've got the
big Job of our lives, we know that, but
we're going to do it. There'll be mis-
takes and bad times, but we won't fall
down. Now, you'll excuse me for say
ing 1t this way. Dora. but don't know
just how to express myself except
saying Of course we know everybody
isn't going to get back home--but lis
ten, we didn't come over here to get
killed particularly, we came over to
give these Dutchmen hi!
perhaps you can excuse language II
write 1t with blank like that, but
before we get back we're going to do
what we came for. They may not all
Of them be q bad q some Of them
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19
FIRST TO COMPRESS FEET
Favorite of Chinese Emperor, Many
Centuries Ago, Said to Have
Originated the Custom.

J. p. Donovan, authority on Chinese
customs, in an article called Romance
in Chinese Literature" published IN
the Forum, writes:
1.-THE ideal of beauty and the mark
of. gentiIity for a woman used TO be
small feet, the compression of which
was not imposed by law but was
craze of fashion, as slender waists
were at one time in England. Several
accounts are given as to the origin of
the custom Of foot-binding, but proba-
bly, the following is the correct one:
"It is said that Yao Niang, the beau
tiful concubine of Emperor Ii Yu (975
A. d., was light and graceful in all
her movements, being able to dance
with ease and elegance. She gave SO
much pleasure to her lord and master
that he caused to be made golden lily.
flowers with movable petals for Yao
Niang to walk on from her apartments
to the palace. To crafty the emperor
still further, she compressed her feet,
In order that they might look like
lily bud unopened, until they were
three inches long"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19
ION EASY STREET"
Women "Farmerettes" Make
Money in Western Canada.
Many Are Taking Advantage of the
Opportunity offered by the Fer
tile Land and Fine Climate.

In many parts of Western Canada
are to be found women owning and
running farms for themselves, and
what is more, making them pay. May
Hazlett, an English girl, who lived on
a farm in the TouchWood hills, in Sas-
katcheWan, for the past four years,
looking after her stock and cultlVatlng
her land, is one Of these. The farm
was originally her brothers homestead
at which time Miss Hazlett was
stenographer. Her brother was killed
while fighting with the Canadian forces
at Vimy Ridge. Neighbors advised
Miss Hazlett to sell the farm, but she
decided that she was tired OF the
eternal pounding" and became farm
erette.
Mrs. Mary J. Blackburn, a pioneer
woman farmer of Alberta, has just
added $50 acres to her farm near
Hardisty. Coming from Eastern can
ada, Mrs. Blackburn homesteaded
quarter section in 1902. She had two
Holstein heifers, bull, and SIT In
cash. She lived in a tent the first
summer and in a sod shack in the
winter. Her first crop put her, as
she tells the story, ION Easy street
In ten years she had a herd OF 6O
pure-bred Holstein cattle and was OPP
Grating a prosperous dairy. A me
residence has supplanted the sod nut.
81 MIXED my COWS, raised my cattle,
cut hay and stacked it all by myself"
said Mrs. Blackburn. II started on
bare prairie with no money, and made
good I worked hard, but the expert
ence was wonderful"
1t has generally been conceded that
farming is a mans job. It has long
been considered that a woman's place
on the farm was in the house, with
few attendant duties, looking after the
chickens and the garden. But times
are changing.
Demonstrative of the present femi-
nine initiative, there are two young
ladies farming extensively and with
good profit too, in Western Canada.
Some years ago family located a 16O-
acre farm in the Oak Lake district,
Manitoba. Later the father died, leav-
ing his two daughters and aged wife a
mortgaged quarter section. Instead OF
selling the effects and moving to town
to take employment, the girls decided
to work the place.
While the mother looked after the
household duties the daughters did the
farm work. They did the blowing, har-
rowing, seeding, haying, harvesting,
stocking, feeding and other farm oper-
ations. Except at threshing time, the
getting out of wood, the help of man
was never sought. Instead Of a 100
acre place, with seven horses and ten
cattle, which they started with, they
have a 1,120-acre farm, twenty-five
head of heavy horses and nearly a hun
drcd head of cattle, mostly pure-breds.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

THERE is nothing in the world
= so reconstructive as sound, re-
freshing sleep. During sleep the
system ribs itself of the fatigue
poisons that have accumulated
during the day. The food ele-
ments are taken up by the various
tissues that require rebuilding nu-
riInent.
1t is important that you get
plenty of health-bringing sleep.
Anything that interferes with your
sleep hampers and hinders you
mentally and physically.
A common cause of physical
weakness and mental depression is
the reaction following over-stimu-
lation by the drug, caffeine, and
Made by Postum Cereal |
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

Their farm buildings, equipment and
well-kept fields would be objects of
pride to the owners in any country.
Their accomplishment has not only
been profitable but pleasant, and they
have enjoyed every home advantage.
They are two entertaining and bright
girls, and have all the feminine charm
of womanhood. Their manlike occupa-
ton has not given them a masculine
character or appearance, as some of
the older generations might imagine.
Their gallant struggle for success sig
nifies the truth in the oft-repeated
maxim of Western Canada, "a little
assistance and the soil, with its natur-
al richness and Gods sunshine will
soon pay for the land itself"
If you wish to learn more of what
Western Canada can do, write for
copy of Canada West" which will be
mailed to you free by your nearest
Canadian government agent.-Adver-
tisement.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19
MAKE COLLECTION OF GERMS
Institutions in Europe and the United
States That Preserved Them
for Investigators.

The first "guide book" Of what may
be popularity called the germ ZOO
has just been issued by the British
Medical Research council. The body,
as previously announced, hit on the
happy idea of making a national col
lection of living germs of disease so
that any doctor or Investigator re-
curing some particular germ for his
work might be able to get it at once,
alive and active.
There are similar collections at the
Pastaur institute, Paris, at the Muse
um of Natural History, New York,
and at Vienna. The British collec-
ton is housed at the Lister institute,
and fresh additions of new strains"
and forms" are constantly being
added
The catalogue gives the name of
each germ, the name of its donor, and
the year of the gift
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

that one Of the outcomes of this In
Venllon will be the employment OF
smaller powers than have hitherto
been considered necessary for cover
ing certain distances.
1t is still little premature to talk
OF the day when everyone will pos
sess his individual wireless telephone,
particularly one of the portable yari-
ETY., which may be carried about and
| used at will; but I am not going to
suggest that it will never be possible
for large number of circuits to be
used within the same area.
This does not mean that there is not
already valuable field of practicable
usefulness for the wireless telephone.
The field is greater than is generally
realized today, and | regret to say
that its application to industrial needs
is taking place more rapidly in other
countries than in this one. In Hol-
land, for instance, the Amsterdam
stock exchange circulates by wireless
telephone at frequent intervals daily
the latest financial information, and
this is received simultaneously in
nearly 200 banks in Holland by means
of apparatus constructed by the Mar
conf company. ] am informed that
the arrangement has given great salts
faction and a considerable impetus to
business.
What Holland can do can be done
equally well in this and other coun-
tries, and the information radiated
need not be confined to financial mat
tiers. All that is needed is a fair OPP
portunity for demonstrating the pos
sibilities and for conducting similar
service.
A few weeks ago representatives of
| the Times newspaper talked by wire
less telephony between SouthWold in
Suffolk and Zandvoort in Holland. On
that occasion they conversed freely
for so minutes from the respective
wireless telephone stations, and I hope
that we may be permitted shortly to
show that our experiments between
Southwold and Zandvoort have q very
practicable application, and that by
linking up this wireless circuit with
the telephone wires at the English and
Dutch ends it may be possible for any
one in London possessing d telephone
apparatus to ring up the exchange in
London, ask for the wireless route
| to Amsterdam, and speak to a CORE
spending subscriber in Amsterdam. In
this case the telephone message from
London to Southwold would be relayed
automatically by wireless across the
North sea, reconverted to land wire
message between Zandvoort and AM
sterdam, and received in Amsterdam
exactly in the same way as a short
distance call over the ordinary cir
cult.
The Ang1o-Dutch wireless telephone
circuit operates on wave length
which permits of very sharp tuning,
and causes no disturbance to the wire
less circuits employed by the military,
naval and air services. It would, in
fact, be possible to multiply these
routes and have quite a number of
wireless circuits to the continent
working in collaboration with the land
| lines.
While the experiments at South
void are about to demonstrate the
immediate practicability of wireless
for trunk routes, whether they be
overland or overseas, a series of expert
ments in another part of this country
has demonstrated that it is now pos
sible to speak by wireless in one par
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19
Here's Good Advice: Relieve Your
Fatigue With Sleep. Avoid StinauLarats

other elements found in both coffee
and tea.
IF you have an idea that coffee
or tea drinking may be injurious to
your health, why not stop it for a
week or SO, and drink delicious,
fragrant Postum instead.
Postum is a rich, golden-brown,
pure cereal beverage. 1t contains
no harmful elements of any kind.
You can drink Postum as many
times a day as you or the chill
dren desire grateful, refreshing
beverage.
Your grocer sells both forms of Postum:
Instant Postum Tin tins) made instantly in the
cup by the addition of boiling water. Postum
Cereal lin packages of larger bulk, for those who
prefer to make the drink while the meal is being
prepared) made by boiling for fully 20 minutes.
Inc, Battle Greek, Mich.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

The acquisition is easy and spontane-
Gus. So far as the child is concerned,
it is also aimless, and is largely a mat
ter of imitation or absorption.
It rests with the parents to give it
purpose and direction. If the child
lives with a stammerer, the child, too,
will stammer. If the people around
him speak we'll and correctly, the
child will learn to use appropriate
forms and sequences through simple
imitation, and he will have nothing to
unlearn later when the school takes
up language habits.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

home in this endea.vor, writes Donald
A. Laird in the Yale Review.
Education is often confused with
the formal methods used in the class
room, but becoming educated and go
ing to school are by no means
Synonymous. Education is purely a
process of acquisition and enrich
ment, whatever else we may think of
it. And it is no reflection upon the
schools to say that this acquisition
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

and enrichment takes place to a great
extent outside their walls.
1t has been said that all thought
is a mirror. Perhaps this is some
thing of an exaggeration. But it is
an opposite truism when applied to
the thinking of the child in his pre-
school years.
Parents and adults especially are
mimicked, but pets and inanimate,
mechanical objects are by no means
excluded. In this formative period the
child probably learns more in a day
than he will learn later in month.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

IlcuIdr QlfecJlOn. InlS discovery Will
remove the objection that converse
tons can be overheard by those for
whom they are not intended.
The only commercial use for which
wireless telephony has so far been
sanctioned in this country is that of
establishing communication between
the Bar ightship in the Irish channel
and the Offices of the Mersey docks
and harbor board in Liverpool In
accommodation is conducted almost
every hour of the day with this APP
paratus by men who have had no spe-
cial training, and without any inter-
ference with the wireless service con-
Quoted at the mouth of the Mersey by
the Seaforth station belonging to the
British post office. 1t is absurd to
think that this is the only place
where a useful service can be per-
formed by wireless telephony.
I need hardly dwell on the growth
of wireless telephony in connection
with aerial communications. I be-
lieye I am right in stating that every
British machine regularly flying be-
tween London and the continent has
been fitted by the Marconi company
with the wireless telephone, and we
have numerous instances where these
instruments have contributed to the
safety of the services, and performed
other valuable functions.
We have also demonstrated to one
of the railways the possibilities of
wireless telephone communications as
an auxiliary to the ordinary telephone
lines, and it may be that now govern
ment control has been removed from
railway operations, some progress will
be made along the lines indicated by
US.
I have suggested that the day has
not arrived for the so-called pocket
wireless set. The sensitiveness of
wireless receivers has been so greatly
/ increased in recent years that it is
/ possible even now to possess portable
apparatus capable of receiving SIGNALS
| from high-powered stations many hun
dreds of miles distant, but this is quite
different matter from transmitting
signals. For wireless transmissions it
/ is still necessary to raise a wire a
considerable height above the trans
mitter. and if serious distances have
| to be covered it is also necessary to
/ have a source of electrical power
greater than can be at present con-
veniently carried by an individual.
How near we have approached the
ideal of a portable transmitter was
| demonstrated by the Marconi COM
pany a few months ago when the Lon
don fire brigade conducted wireless
telephone communications between
one of their tenders on Putney Eeath
and their headquarters at Southwark,
distance of some seven or eight
miles. In this case the aerial wire was
hung from the branches of a small
tree near the roadside, and the APP
paratus employed was stored in a
small space at the back of the vehicle
One thing is certain the science of
wireless telephony will not stand STILL
Like the ordinary telephone, it is pass
ing through a period when it lacks Off
cial encouragement, and is depend
ent for it's salvation entirely upon
those who are engaged in it's develop
ment.
In 20 years the mysterious all-per-
yading ether will be surging with hui
man speech conveyed by ether waves.
Whispered conversation with friends
! in lands as remote as Australia will
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19

into general use for commercial puf-
poses. The longest telephone cable
actually operating today is about lOO
miles in extent. AS a matter OF 1act
ordinary cable telephony has not yer
taken place between England and Hoi-
land, although these two countries
have such intimate commercial rela-
tions that there can be no question
about the demand.
The trouble in underwater cable
telephony lies in the very pronounced
distortion which takes place after the
electrical waves, which are the equiv
alent of the vocal sounds, have passed
a few miles through the cable. Even
In the twenty-odd miles between Eng
land and France it has been found
necessary to place on the ocean BED
special appliances for overcoming this
distortion. These appliances add con-
siderably to the expense and upkeep
of the circuit.
Now, it is a curious fact that, al
though an electrical oscillation pro-
1ected through an under-sea cable be-
comes rapidly distorted, an electrical
wave radiated across the ether by
modern wireless apparatus retains It's
original characteristics however great
the distance over which it may travel.
In wireless telephony we convert
the modulations of human speech into
equivalent modulations Of the cleo
trical waves. and radiate them through
the ether until they strike the aerial
wires of a receiving apparatus. There
they are reconverted into sound waves
such as can be recognized by the hu-
man ear. AS the ether is so elastic
as to allow these electrical waves to
maintain their original form, the ques-
ton of reception is little more than
that of magnifying the incoming sig
nails.
Wireless speech has already taken
place across the North Atlantic ocean,
but the apparatus employed was Of
an experimental, rather than COM
mercial character, and therefore de-
yeIopment is necessary before one can
record transatlantic conversation as
a commercial possibility.
over sea distances similar to that be-
tween London and New York will re-
ouire. at any rate with our present
day experience, considerable power at
the transmitting end. Until few
weeks ago I might have been tempted
TO estimate this power at the electrical
equivalent of over 1000 horsepower,
but the experiments which have been
engaged upon recently on my yacht,
the Electra, lead me to modify my
estimate. Hitherto, as everyone con-
nected with wireless is aware, we have
always found it necessary to keep
IN reserve on commercial wireless cir
cults a large amount of electrical en-
ergy for the purpose of breaking
through terrestrial electrical disturb
'6nces. The sources of these disturb
.ances are not always clear, but they
are such that at intervals during the
day, and notably in the summer
months. they set up in the wireless
receiving apparatus such din of
meaningless noises that it is difficult
to read the Systematically transmitted
signal
This new apparatus, which has been
developed by engineers of my COM
pany, makes it possible for us to sift
the mixed wireless and non-wireless
impulses so that we obtain on our au-
tomato recorders, or in the telephone
receivers only the signals sent out by
the distant wireless stations. l think
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1922-05-19
IN the Proper Education of the Child,
the School Merely Supple
ments the Home.

Even during the actual school life
of the child the development of the
qualities that make for superiority
and leadership is as much the respon-
sibility Of the parents as of the teach
ers. 1t is no exaggeration to say that
the school simply supplements the