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Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
A solaler,s Last eood-pye.

Hark, notheri it is the village bell, can no longer with you stay. My country calls. "To armsl To armsse The foes advances fierce array. The vizion daFis7. feel it now, For my aouatry can only sigh, Mother, dear, draw near to me, Dear mother, I've come home to die.
 CHORUS. Call. brother, sister, to my side, And take a soldiers last goodbye. Mother, dear, draw near to me, Dear mother, I've come home to die.
 Sent in by Capatola.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
SOCIAL CORNER POETRY.
 4 Man to Lead.

A Man 70 Leao. There isn't a lad but wants to grow Manly and true at heart. And every lad would like to know The secret we impart. He doesn' t6esire to slack or shirk- Oh. haven't you heard him plead? He'll follow man at play or work, If only the man will lead. Where are the men to lead today, Sparing an hour or two. Teaching the lad the game to play, Just as a man should do? Village and slums are calling-conle, Here are the boys, indeed, Who can tell what they might become If only the men will lead? Motor and golf and winter sport Fill up the time lot, But wouldn't you like to feel you't
 taught
 Even boy knot? Country and home depend on you, Character most we need; How can 8 lad know what to do If there isn't a man to lead? Where are the men to lend hand2 Echo It far and wide. Men who will rise in every land, Bridging the Great Divide" Nation and flag and tongue unite Joining each class and creed, Here are the boys who would do right But where are the men to lead7 Sent in by Cretia.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
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HINTS ABOUT A osooHErED Hl

Dear Friends: Sister Slow asks for directions for crecheted hats. I've made a few with tam O shanter crowd and wire rim or brim. I wonder if that's the kind you mean, Slog2 Have you ever made a tam? After your tam is finished instead of stopping when your band is done that fits the head continue on. and increase as you work and you'll find you have wide brim. When you get to the desired width work over a wire ring (sS or 4O-inch, according, to one's fancy). You can buy them in Got thelf's. I'll see you most likely at the June meeting and we can dope it out.
 I think it's nice to speak of the help one gets in reading the Corner page. I never make a pie, but what I make an extra crust for some future day, thanks to one of the sisters for I never should have thought of it if I hadn't seen it on the Corner page.
 thank the different ones that have helped solve my ant problem,
 Sincerely,
 flf'a
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
Dry Mills, Maine,
rHE JuNE 7TH nrRETING.

Dear Sisters: Please get the June meeting right. It is to be our regular dinner. not a basket picnic lunch. That promised beans, salads and other arti- cles of food please do not forget to have them at the Buckingham Memorial June for I. J. B. and ner helpers to serve.
 EAII4A LILY.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27

|a tired, Forn-ous feeling and pain ful periods. Ihsed
 to get up with .
 pain in my head Iand pains in ny lower parts and
 back. Often Twas
 not able to do my work. l read m your little book about Lydia E |Pinkham's Veg |atohIo Cc-nro~-1
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
Last Youth.

Lo1t Iuutus Not for the joy and happiness Youth feels, but never can express; Not for the long, sweet days that He Before t. with unclouded sky; Within whose happy hours are hid Romance and love its flowers amid; Not for smooth cheek and lustrcus hair And grace that makes all youth so fair Which life has stolen without ruth. No. not for these mourn my youth. It Is because I may not know Again hopes glad. exultant glow; Because romance no more awaits Auspicious hours to pass my gates, Nor are there islands in life's sea Keeping their mysteries for me, All eharted Is my future way, Exact and ordered Is my day; For me but one adventure waits To lure my feet to pass my gates. And I shall follow where it saith. And find the great adventure. death!
 -Ninette M. Lowater.
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
WOMAN COULD
 NOT WORK
Made Strong and Well by Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
 etable Compound
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Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27

"My hends, fs-s snd hips h<hS1 and burned se that 1 sers,rhni &u3
Norwich bulletin., 1922-05-27
WHY WORRY OVER WHAT WE
 CANNOT HELP.

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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31

making bills with only a reasonable amount
of grumbling.
"Why does my wife want me to tell her
that l lover herr" he demands. Don't l
prove my love by spending my life tolllng TO
keep her in ease and comfort? Why does
she want me to brina her home flowers!
Isn't heefsteak just as much token OF aHec-
ton as bunch of violets?a What does she
want me to lug home boxes of candy Tor!
Hasn't she got charge account at the con-
fectioner's where she can buy chocolate by
the ton if she Graves it so much?
why does she expect me to clutter up my
mind with all sorts of anniversaries? 1t is
all can do to remember the date my notes
become due in the bank, and as for my pick
ing out presents for her, how do / know
what she wants, and what is the use of vast
ing good money in getting some foolishness
she won't like?
Women certainly are the limit, and no
man can be expected to remember all of their
whims and peculiarities."
And yet the remembering marks the line
between the good husband and the bad hus-
band. For with women it is the little things
that count. No woman is grateful to a man
in these days for providing her with home.
She can earn living for herself, and gener-
ally with less work than she does as a wife
and mother who makes her family comfort
able.
h The thing that pays her for standing hours
over gas range, and Wrangllng with butcher
and baker, and spending cold nights walking
the collie, and ceaseless cleaning, and mend
ing, and darning, is for her husband to give
some visible sign that he sees what she does
and that he never ceases to be appreciative
of it. When husband takes his wife's work
hardened hand in his, and kisses it, she is re-
paid for all her toll, but if he never even
notices that she doesn't sit with white hands
folded in her lap all the time, then her work
becomes slavery that she hates and loathes.
The average husband seems also to labor
under the delusion that his wife is a mind
reader, that although he never says a single
word OF affection to her after they are mar
ried, or indicates in any manner that he ad-
mires her or approves of her, yet she will
know, without being told that he is still de-
voted to her. Unfortunately, few women are
gifted with psychic powers. Most of them
hail from Missouri, and have to be shown.
SO when their husbands drop the love making
and the little attentions that they showered
on them in the days of courtship, the ladies
naturally draw the conclusion that thew are
no longer loved.
OF course, this isn't true. Their husbands
have merely forgotten to be lovers That's
all, but it turns matrimoney into cinders
ashes, and dust for the poor wives
therefore, urge all husbands to try to re-
member to be good husbands. It will pay
them the biggest dividends on the smallest in
vestment they ever made.
Copyright, 1922, by the Wheeler Syndicate
Inc).
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31

TIME real trouble with matrimony is that
! most husbands and wives are absent
| - minded about it.
They forget to be good husband and wives.
Not one man in a million takes girl away
| from a good home and her loving family
with the deliberate purpose of neglect1ng
her, and making her life drab and dull. On
the contrary. his intentions are honorable,
and when he swears at the altar to love and
cherish her, he means every word OF it, and
he fully expects to do all in his power to make
her the happiest woman in the world
| But when the honeymoon ends he gets alb
sorbed in business. He has thousand cares
and anxieties pressing on him. He is often
| overworked, and nerve-Wracked, and his time
is so taken up with multitude of other du-
| ties and interests that he forgets all about
being a good husband.
At the bottom of his heart he knows that
women are foolish creatures about the men
| they love. He knows how even so small
| thing little compliment, telling her that
| she looks good to him, or that her new dress
| is becoming, will make his wife's face light
up with rapture, and put song on her lips.
He knows that she is as grateful for little
appreciation of what she does for him as
starved dog is for bone thrown to it by
careless hand.
He knows that she Is almost Historically
joyful over a box Of candy, or bunch Of
flowers. He knows the fetish women make
of anniversaries, and that they are ready to
overlook any other ShOrt-cOmlng In nus
band if he will only remember their birth
days, and the anniversaries of the time they
first met and their wedding day.
He knows that woman's heart starves to
death without love and sentiment just as
surely as her body would starve to death
without food.
Yet the man does not take the trouble to
say the word of praise to his WIFE He never
notices what she has on, or what she does,
! unless it is to knock it. He acts as if the
marriage ceremony extracted every sweet
tooth in her mouth. She has to remind him
every year that Christmas comes on the 25th
day of December, and when it does roll
around he thrusts some money into her
hand, and tells her to get something that will
| be surprise gift for her from him; that he
doesn't know what she wants.
He is just about as romantic and tender
and lover-like, as the washing machine or
the kitchen range, and he wonders why his
wife is SO peevish and dissatisfied.
| And he never dreams that he is making
| his wife miserable simply because he has for
| gotten to be good husband to her.
In fact, every man who isn't leading the
| double life, and who does not beat his wife,
| is perfectly convinced that he is a model
husband, and that his wife ought to spend
most of her time on her knees thanking God
| for him. He simply can't understand wom-
ans not being satisfied with man who pro-
vides her with a roof over a head and three
| square meals day, and who pays her dress
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31
Eeb7od;nq> P1at;tudes

WY HEN one considers he plenitGde o!
M false platitudes in life IL sometimes
is to wonder that anybody ever
manages to succeed at all. Certainly few
succeed by adhering to the maxims Of the
successful.
early to bed and early to RISE says a
! popular song, may make you healthy-but
| it won't make you wise!"
! An efficiency expert lecturing a roomful
of junior clerks said:
"As l entered this room, I saw the secret
of success ON the door. What was it,"
Of course he expected some platitudinous
youth to call out brightly:
"Push!"
But one wise lad looked at the inside of
the door and said
pull"
The young man, lectured by his success
full elders, invariably is told to work
hard" But hard work, not we'll directed.
never got anybody anywhere. Hercules
could work himself to death making fire
pokers of wax and die poor and probably in
the state sanitarium.
The practice of watching the clock" is
universally condemned-but the man whose
time is worth something frequently wears a
wrist watch so he can see often and with no
loss of time what time it is.
Hard and unremitting toll is useful to the
toiler, only when he is getting somewhere
by it. This means he must use his brain
humble maker or shOelaceS may TOLL away
all his life at making shoelaces and die poor
and unknown, but if he suddenly starts
making a shoelace with metal tip that
won't come loose and slip off, he will be
playing golf in Florida in the winter and
spending the summer at Lake Placid before
many years are out.
The copybook maxims about saving pen
MES may be all very well for inksmeared
youth, but nobody ever got rich by merely
saving pennies. And the platitudes that
really were pretty good a gen grafton ago
have been shuffled off the boards by the
rush of this age of specialization
Let the young man learn that this is the
age of specialization and that he must use
his brains to find out what he can do best.
and get started doing it, as soon as ever he
can.
Zone adage that still holds good is the one
about the square peg not fitting round
hole. Misdirected plugging-hard work
badly aimed-will not get anybody any
where
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

To the elderly spinsters amazement the
young man in the sitting room suddenly
threw himself upon his knees as she en-
tered r
"Miss Oldcake," said, he, "will you be
my wife?"
Eyes, Mr.. Mutt" replied she, gasping, for
breath. "But, really, I thought all along
that you had serious designs on my younger
sister,
81 have" was the rejoinder, as the youth
rose to his feet I'm only practising now!"
Mike called for pint of beer and tossed
a bright new half crown on bar counter
The barman looked suspiciously at the
coin, weighed it in his hand, then tested 1t
several times on the counter.
Look here old sport" said The barman.
where did you get this thing from? It's
not good one"
what do you mean?" returned Mike.
"Be sure it is a good one. Why, I only
made the blithering thing this morning."
For several minutes the young man did
not speak. His heart was too FULL 1t was
enough for him to know that this glorious
creature loved him; that she had promised
to be his wife.
With a new and delightful sense Of own
ership he Toasted his eyes upon her beauty
and realized tina. henceforth it would be his
privilege to provide for her welfare and
happiness.
His good fortune seemed incredible.
Finally he whispered tenderly, How did
it happen. darling, that such bright, shin
ing angel as yourself fell in love with dull,
stupid fellow like me?"
sently. II must have screw loose some
where"
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31
A;rb1anes and Insects

~ NE Of the most successful expert
ii ments Of rerent years in destroying in
selts was one in which an airplane
was use dto spray dust on fruit orchard.
Lieutenant MacReady, the Army aviator
who established last year an auaz1ng altl-
tude record, piloted the machine The ONO
Department of Agriculture furnished the IN
sect poison which was arsenate OF lead in
powerful form. An orchard owner near Day
ton supplied the trees and insects.
Although the airplane was in the air only
fifty-one seconds, in that tW1nk!lngo OF an
eye it spilled on the orchard such an enor-
nous cloud of dust that scientific observers
stationed among the trees were driven out,
and the insects were completely erad1cated
in the given area.
Whether it would be feasible to combat
the~boll weevil with airplanes and large tanks
of dust or spray is apparently quite doubt
full for many reasons. In the first place, the
expense would be prohibitive. In the second
place, the boil weevil is an insect of such
peculia rhabits that to reach him with
spray is difficult undertaking. The near
est approach is calcium arsenate put on with
small machines which deposit dust on the
leaves of cotton plants, where the rain or
dew dissolves it into a poison, and where
the weevil drinks it when he ventures out
to Stake his thirst.
But though our greatest and most valuable
Southern crop may never be benefited by the
airplane method OF combating lnSectS, II
seems safe to predict that other crops pro-
duced under different conditions, such as
fruit orchards, for example, are likely to be
saved from devastation.
Some interesting speculation on the final
outcome of the war between insects and hui
mans is given by DR.. L. C. Howard, pres1-
dent of the American Association for the Ad-
vancement of Science, in an article published
in a New York scientific journal. He says:
course Of the ages been modified and per-
fected in their structure and i'll their biology
until their many appendages have become
perfect tools adapted in the most complete
way to the needs of the species; until their
power of existing and of multiplying enor-
mously under the most extraordinary va
| rety of food, has become so perfected ana
their instincts have become so developed that
the eliminating type, the insects, has be-
| come the most powerful rival of the culmlnat-
| ing vertebrate type. man.
''Now, this is not recognized to the full by
people in geenral-it is not realized by the
biologists themselves. We appreciate the
| fact that agriculture suffers enormously,
| since insects need our farm products ana
compel us to share with them. We are just
beginning to appreciate that directly and IN
| directly insects cause tremendous loss Oh
human life through the diseases that tney
carry But apart from these two generallAa-
| tions we do not realige that .lnsects aye
working against us in a host OF ways some
times obviously. more often in unseen ways,
and that an enormous fight is on our hahuS'
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31
Theatrical Trendmgs

y Ohm PETER TOOHEY. writing to the
stage section of The New York Times
j Is afflicted with dismal forebodlngs.
Mr.. Toohey sees impending no. FEWER IMAM
ono hundred and forty-seven plays contain
ir one or more of the following deafness
lines:
'How many lumps?
There must be some MISTAKE! -
'I was never more serious IN my lie:
He also has provisions OF plays IN which
the modern mother of a very young man Is
a white-haired and benevolent old lady VINO
CHIT to be his grandmother.
Others sharing this respondent OUTLOOK
are r. B. K. and G. S. A. The former expects
thirty-one plays in which matrimonial prop
lens are solved by the announcement OF the
impending arrival of offspring; seventeen
musical comedies in which the hero indicates
hunger by making repeated circles Win MS
right hand over the part of his anatomy IN
which he believes his stomach to be locat-
ed ,,
&C. S. Al fears the worst in dozen
musical comedies, in which the wlcked-look-
ing soubrette chokes anu blushes preCClly
and is scandalized by the word hell.
All Of this brings to mir d the sage saying
that every play and every movie depends on
some one in it being fool and chat when
he or she stops being fool the play stops.
hasty men al recapitul.. Ion the last
seventeen or eighteen years induces the re-
| Election that there is a good deal or WISDOM
| in that estimate.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31

cities, from which thew served rice in all its
many attractive forms to all who would eat.
In this way they established a market for
their product. 1t has been suggested that the
sweet potato men might do much for their
cause If they would follow this precedent and
open booths for the serving of candied sweet
potatoes and sweet potato pie, cooked by
southern chefs. They could soon convince tbe
most skept1cal that the southern sweet pota-
to deserves place on the table, and a place
OF It's own. 1t need not GUST the northern
sweet potato.
The Fragile Spud
Next to the creation Of market the
most serious problem facing the sweet pota-
to grower is that of distribution. In fact the
distribution of the sweet potato has long
been recognized by government experts as
one OF the most difficult problems of farm
marketing. The sweet potato is the most deli
cate and temperamental of vegetables. 1t
does not endure well either cold or rough
treatment.
When sweet potatoes are gathered they
are cured before being sent to market. This
is done by placing them for about 10 days
IN room with temperature Of about 80
degrees, which is afterward reduced to about
30 degrees. That is the ideal keeping temper
AZURE for sweet potato. If subjected to a
temperature of about 80, it is often ruined
1t Will not stand freezing at all, and even a.
severe chill ,impairs it's Keeping qualities.
Likewise, bruise or Jar is apt to be an in
jury from which sweet potato never recov-
ers Even turning a sweet potato over has
been known to result in it's spelling, when
potatoes that were not turned over kept in
perfect condition. Scientists have never been
able to learn what makes the sweet potato
such fragile vegetable
To reach market in good condition and
keep through the winter; a sweet potato
must be clean and free from disease. It must
be cured properly and must be shipped to a
point near that of consumption before cold
weather sets in. After November, sweet pota-
toes can be shipped only for short distances
in lined baskets and insulated cars
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-31
THE FUTURE OF STATES
BY DR.. Frank Crane

One is often tempted to inquire what will
be the final outcome of nationaIisms.
When the Irish insisted that the consent
of the governed as the basis for freedom
implied the independence of Ireland, Lloy6
George replied that such a proposition
while it was the foundation of the British
constitution, could not be carried to such
an extreme, as it would bring the world
back to barbarism.
The same issue occurred, in a measure
in our Civil war, when the south insisted
upon it's inalienable right to separate from
the union. This right the north success
fully resisted.
We cannot carry our ideas on this ques-
ton to any severely logical conclusion. For
while we all believe in independence, we
would not tolerate that Rhode Island or
Illinois should declare it's independence
from the United States
The close of the great war marked the
birth Of number of new states and the
breaking up of the old empires of Ger
many and Austria to some extent.
How far will this sort of thing go?
The probability is that the desire for
independence will be automatically checked
by the advantages of cooperation. While
the public opinion Of the world is against
the formation or any more great empires
by military force, and is in favor of the
right of the small homogeneous groups OF
people to govern themselves, at the same
time, the advantages of belonging to large
nation are considerable.
A curious incident took place in the
Philippine islands, when the Chief Tulaw
told the Wood-Forbes mission that the peo-
pie of the island of Jolo wanted to belong
to the United States great demonstra
ton occurred on this occasion and hundreds
of native boats, gaily decorated with Amer
lean flags, met the mission steamer The
only banner in the parade, escorting the
mission to the meeting, was inscribed 1--WE
wish to become American territory. No in
dependence. We want an American gov
ernor for this province"
Hugh Price Huges, in memorable ad
dress, pointed out that the Fiji islands were
not conquered by Great Britain, but vol
UNFAIRLY sought admission Into the empire
because of the protection and advantages
it would give them.
There is no doubt that Canada, Aus
tralia and New Zealand kept in the
British empire, not by force OF arms, bu
because they desire to be members of the
great British family.
Perhaps, in time, If we can get rid Of
ornaments and militarism, this natural law
of the manifest advantages Of cooperation
will bring about the true and permanent
League Of Nations, and that world state
which every thinker realizes is so desirable
Copyright, 1922, by Frank Crane)