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Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
AN OLD-FASHIONED PARTY

One of the best ways offset the evil influences
of modern dancing, if it has such influences, is to
spend now and then evening devoted to the other
kind.
Members of flourishing business mems club
tried this. They invited their wives, families and
friends to "old-fashioned party at which odstyle
clothing to be worn and no dance more modern
than the two-step permitted. 1t was explained that
not necessary to go back to Colonial times for old
fashions the regaia of the eighties and nneties would
be sufficiently antique The result of the fun
lest assembages of bustes big sleeves trains striped
trousers awkward coats and wild neckties ever wit
messed inHhe community. Two-steps, round watzes
and square made up the program
1t was just the kind of party that such party
should be. The young people found that the older
dances were not stiff and impossible they had be-
ieved The elder folk watching the young discovered
that is mostly youth which makes the dances of to-
day seem much veer than the dances of yesterday
and not the steps themselves.
Best of all, fathers and mothers and their young
people danced size by side So long as this is done of
ten enough, there will be serious problem in any
community.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
Looking Backward
What the Press Files Tell Of
Imperial Valley for This Date
in Past Years
TWENTY-ONE YEARS AGO
Eehrnarv 23 1902

A. B. Butler, head buyer for
Swift and company, says: "The
hog is the meatiest animal that
grows. He has less waste and more
good cuts about him than any
other, and I think he shrinks less
from life to death than beef does
after it has been dressed.' Mr.. But
Ter is here loking over the coun-
try.
County superintendent Baldwin
recommends the establishment of
four new school districts in I'm
perial county for the accommodation
of the many settlers who have come
within the last few months to re-
side on the lands.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO
February 90, 1908
Perfect weather for growing
Mercury along at seventy-five de-
grees during the days and does not
drop low enough at night to stunt
the plants now growing.
Nearly 80 passengers came in
on last night IS train and that is but
little more than the average. There
are probably at all times 1000
strangers in the valley studying its
resources, and these men and wo-
men probably spend 100000 a
month in the various towns.
TEN YEARS AGO
February %, 1918
Roy l.. Rumsey is back from a
trip about Ell Centro's back coun-
try.
About 5000 people witnessed the
automobile events at the fair.
ground yesterday. There were many
thrills with Teddy Tetzleff plainly
the favorite.
Clarence w. Barton Holtville
business man is in Ell Centre today.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
WILSON SCHOOL

The girls part Of the valley track
meet last Friday was participated
in by girls from Brawley, Ell Cen
tro, Imperial, Holtville, Calipatria
and Westmoreland. The high score
was taken by Brawley who captured
u points. Holtville came second
with 90, I'll Centre and Calipatria
tied for third place. FL Centre was
Handicapped by the loss of the sA
pupils at the end Of the first semes-
ter ---
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23

him laughs that what he needs,
Nurse Jane?'
eyes, he needs to be made to
laugh,'' said Miss Fuzzy Wuzzy.
"And 1 think, if the truth were
known, Uncle Wiggily, that is what
most of us need in this world-to
be made to laugh more
Perhaps So" agreed the bunny.
Then he made Nurse Jane laugh by
twinkling his pink nose backward.
a small matter YOU might say, and
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
BOTHERSOME MILLIONS

What to do with millions of dollars? Many a per-
who hasn't them imagines that he could use few
millions with great skill and success. Yet he might
find it much more difficult were the responsibility
suddenly thrust upon him.
The S130,000,000 left by Andrew Carnegie for
helping along causes deemed worthy said to be
causing the trustees of the Carnegie corporation to
sweat BLOOD in discovering the right ways to use that
huge sum.
writer financial and business topics says
many an abnormally rich has told him that the
problem of proper disposal of his wealth causes him
worry than did its accumulation. 1t is sugges-
ted possible that the increasing responsibility
tailed by great wealth will somewhat remove the CLAM
which up to has attached to rolling up
of millions.
1t all presents problem that most of US do not
have to worry Yet if did, increasing taxation
both income and nheritance-and growing public
consciousness of the responsibility entaed by wealth
might soon help to solve it.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
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LANTANA

Mr. and Mrs. GA. Busby and
sons Marvin and Roy, Westsidc were
in this section Monday on business.
frankie Trammel has been on the
sick list for the last few days
, Mr.. Davis, OF the Imperial Hard !.
ware company. was IA business WISH
tor in this section Monday.
Clifford OMAR and Marshall
Seeley Tuesday ~
Salisbury, were among those in
sa ---------------------
Afpicture of. the returned Rhine
soldiers and theitichildrenf Indicates
they were in the infantry.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
MODERN JOVES

Steinmetz the electrical wizard who makes
thunder and lightning in his laboratory, may not be
the only modern scientific Jove. He has rival in
Cornell scientist The latter so far has produced
nothing but rain, but from that it seems short step
to thunder.
The Cornell man believed that cloud might be
condensed into rain by sprnklng It with electrically
charged sand When tested by aviators, the theory
was substantiated The cloud chosen for the expert
ment simply melted away in the form of raindrops.
Suppose that were tried by whole airplane
squadron, operating large flock of eligible clouds.
Lightning, as electrical experts have explained is
sudden discharge static electricity from cloud to
earth, or from cloud to another and the static
charge is caused by the rapid condensation of the fine
water particles of which clouds made in the for
nation of raindrops.
The production of lot of rain, all at once, ought
to result in man-made lightning and thunder that
would be not imitation, but the real thing. When
will the army air corps put a show like that?
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
CONTEST IN ESSAYS
ViYiaE Pollard. Ia Class

Our school has received announce
ment of an essay. contest. The sub.
jects Of the essays are "Why the
sale of Beer and, Wine should be
lcgalized and 1.-THE advantage of
a smoker against q Smoker. -
Subject matter, grammar, excel
lence and the general appearance Of
the paper will he considered. The
local prize is a silver medal, the
county prize a gold medal, state
$1,000, aud national $500. Some
OF the children of Wilson school
l,n,,a 20 D.,.n.. .,....aeii
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23

The Imperial Valley delivered city subscribers
at IS cents week. per month"; 5000 per year by
carrier BY mail TO any address in Imperial and adjoining
b counties $500 per year; six months $3.50.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23
Orchestra and Chorus
John Wells, 8-A Grade

The school orchestra has been re-
organized since the mid-yea ga
class graduated. With about ten
new members and - old ones, Miss
Pearson, the leader, hopes to make
the orchestra a great success.
The chorus, also shaye been prac.
ticing for, several, weeks. They ex.
peet' to make their first appearance
at Parent Teachers Association
meeting before long.
Imperial Valley press., 1923-02-23

Turks have made marriage com
pulsory. Another Turkish atrocity.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06
DOROTHY DIX DISCUSSES LIFE
TALKS ON HEART AND HOME

/ salvation, the one thing that keeps
! him happy, and well, and out of mis-
chief, and therefore they are not in
| favor OF any laborless days for their
| husbands. Moreover, the ideal hus-
| band is a man that goes to work at
eight or nine. and doesn't come back
| until five, when everything is set
| for him.
DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Miss DIX want to ask you
three questions:
(a) Do you think that a person
who has been disappointed in love
can make a true husband or wife?
In other words, if girl has been in
love with a man who has Tilted her
for another girl. can she make true
wife for another man?
tb) Why are so many married
women more flirtatious than girls?
(c) Why do so many women who
come from the country to cities go
mad about gayety and pleasure?
A. S. H.
Answer:
OF course there may be an occa-
sional morbid minded woman who will
go through life cherishing A death
less affection for a faithless lover,
but such women are as rare as white
blackbirds. Generally, the knowledge
that a man has sed to care for her
kills the. woman's love for him on
the spot, and fills her with hatred
for him. Because a woman has loved
once is no reason for her not loving
again. Indeed, very few people, men
or women, ever marry their first
loves. They have dozen lesser loves,
passing fancies, before they come to
the grand passion.
If ! were man | should not care
who womans first love had been so
that / was her last love. Having
known a traitors false vows she is
all the more apt to appreciate a good
mans love.
When a married woman is flirta-
tious, it is from one of three causes:
Sometimes it is because her husband
has quit making love to her, and she
is heart hungry for sentiment. She
wants some man to admire her, and
tell her that she is beautiful and
fascinating. And when Her dumb,
oyster-like husband won't do it, she
listens to any man who will hand her
soft talk.
Often a married woman is more
LII tdlIOuS lIdn d girl because she
has more temptation. Men who don't
want to marry have to walk warily
around girls, but they can flirt all
they like with a married woman. AL
so married women have money to
spend on Tame Cats, which girls
have not. Many a man CRAFTS half his,
food and all his amusements off flat
tered married women.
The third reason that some mar
ried women flirt is because they
married too early. They didn't have
any play time, any beau time. any
girl time when they were girls and
so they are taking it when they are
wives.
(c) The reason why the country
woman goes mad about pleasure
when she comes to the city is be-
cause it is a novelty to her. She has
led dull. monotonous life, so the
bright lights go to her head, and
she can not get enough of cabarets.
and theaters, and jazzing. She
doesn't know the ropes and so she
is often indiscreet. She doesn't know
the price women have to pay for
their follies. and so she tumbles into
the primrose path far oftener than
the wise city girl,
DOROTHY DIX.
Dear Dorothy Dix-Wil1 you please
give us your definition of love?
THREE GIRLS.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06

Nothing" would tickle me more than
to disappoint him. He thinks he's
very clever He thinks I don't know
that he has been watching us ever
since we built that new home. 1t
is time for him to learn better"
Meanwhile Redtail the Hawk was
chuckling to himself. Looking down
from way up in the blue, blue SKY
he had seen Happy Jack come out
of his summer home in the big
beech tree and scramble up near
the top. Now he was sitting taking
a sun bath right in plain sight, and
appearing MOTTO be noticing any.
thing. Redtail swung little lower.
Still Happy Jack appeared as if he
hadn't the slightest idea that an
enemy was anywhere about. Red
tail decided that he was near
enough to swoop. His eyes grew sud
denly intent and fierce. He shot
down with his great laws stretched
to seize Happy Jack.
Now, Happy Jack had all the time
been watching. He had seen Redtail
circling lower and lower and lower,
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06
OUR HOUSEHOLD
CONDUCTED BY LIZZIE n THOMAS

As the country stores nearly always
keep iodine, and it is in such com
mon use, there is generally bottle
on the place; so I would advise you
to look in your turkeys, or chickens,
mouth and if the cheesy substance
has formed set a sharp knife, Or
anything that will scrape it off, then
paint the place with iodine. Do this
every day till the stuff ceases to APP
pear. 1t is well to Give a dose of
carbolzed vaseline, or the coal Oil
for there may be more lower down.
One lady wrote of the trouble with
the eyes of the flock, said there Is
a growth. I warned you of that not
ltng ago, it first shows by the nose
running. If they are very bad you
may as we'll bid them fond adieu
as breeders, for they get so stunted
they seldom get normal size. [ paid
a whole lot for a cockerel; he took
cold on the train and when he
reached me the cheesy stuff was in
his mouth. worked with him faith
fully; he got well but did not make
a bird fit for any breeding pen.
Don't set eggs now for your next
years flock. There is an idea
abroad that fall pullets will lay in
the spring, but spring pullets will not
lay the following fall. Chickens
hatched during October and Novem-
Der will be as nice as any if, and 1t
is a Zig if, they can have the adj
vantages the spring flock has, but
you know it will be getting colder
and colder, they will not become the
large bodied mems that the early
matches will make. l shall set eggs
in December. The little chicks must
be cared for, but as they get older
the weather will be getting better,
and when they should be on the
ground there is a probability of the
season allowing them to be comfort
able. Remember that if you are
succeeding with permanganate OF
potash, | think it splendid don't
switch off to any of the remedies
have given you lately. But as [ have
often said, what helps one does not
always cure another flock. I try all
sorts of remedies, if I think there
is a probability Of it helping some
one. If you have the stock dip and
not the creolin, use it. The main
thing is cleanliness, and to soften
the skin and break up the sores.
Keep up the salts and the sulphur.
This is when Indigestion is apt to
become epidemic and help the flock
to dwindle into runts. If you have
not yet bought that pure bred male.
or the trio of pure breds, now is the
time for they are going to get
scarce later on. Make up your mind
to have just one kind, and let it be
the sort you have been most sue
cessful with. Don't change every
year or so. Truly there is more in
the way you handle them than you
may imagine.
If you want to sell eggs, and not
raise any to sell as broilers or
roasters, get LeghOrns or Minorcas,
but remember they are not extra
winter layers. The fowl for farmers,
or small town lots either, is the
Rock, Red, or Wyandotte. They
grow fast, lay we'll and don't fly.
Anconas are also good for eggs, but
hey fly like birds and are small.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06
A BEDTIME STORY
BY THORNTON W. BURGESS

When disappointed just keep cool;
You'll find it quite a worth while
rule.
Happy Jack Squirrel.
Mrs. Happy Jack peeped out of
their summer home to watch Happy
Jack. She looked a wee bit anxious.
Truth to tell. she was anxious. She
felt that Happy Jack was doing a
foolish thing.
There never is any use in taking
risks one doesn't have to-" said Mrs.
Happy Jack to herself IF people
didn't do foolish things of this kind
it would save a lot of trouble and
worry for others. Happy Jack might
have stayed in here with me just as
well as not Instead of that he is
going out to tempt Redtail to try
and catch him. l guess he is smart
enough to keep out of Redtail's way,
but just the same L think it a fool
ish thing to do"
Meanwhile Happy Jack had seat
ed himself on a branch above his
home, and in plain sight of Redtail
the Hawk, who was circling high
over head. He pretended not to be
paying attention to anything. He
pretended that he was just sitting
there for sun bath. But all the
time he kept an eye on Redtail far
above him in the blue, blue, sky.
II hope that old sinner will try to
catch me-" said he to himself.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06

Chicken Remedies and Suggestions
Whitewa sh.-This is not likely to
rub off. Stake half bushel of lime
with boiling water, and keep it COW
cred ]during the shaking process
When slaked, strain and add peck
of salt that has been dissolved in
warm water; boil three pounds of
rice to n thin paste, or if it is more
convenient use lump starch to make
the paste, dissolve a pound of glue
in hot water, add a pint of crude car
bolic acid. Mix all ingredients we'll
and let it stand several days, covered
Of course. Warm the whitewash
before using and apply with a stiff
brush, as the brush can rub it in the
rough places better than to spray
it on.
Every house should be thoroughly
disinfected before another flock is
put in it. If you can not whitewash
it then you can at least get a gallon
of stock dip and make strong solu-
ton with two gallons of waiter and
gallon of coal oil. l have had less
trouble with mites since [ have been
using CarbOlimeum, and it is not
much more expensive than stock dip.
There is no doubt that a fowl tnat is
infested with lice or mites is more
easily a prey to any disease. These
not days and cool nights are bad on
the poultry as well as on people.
heard a hen wheeling. 1t took some
time for me to locate her, but L did
and L gave her tea5poonful OF coal
oil mixed with Vaseline. Then l
rubbed the outside of her neck with
mentholatum, rubbed her head we'll
and put in a box I call the hos
pital. In three hours | gave her an
other treatment exactly like the first
and before l sought my downy
couch" 1 again visited my patient
and repeated all but giving her the
kerosene. Next day she was much
better, though the night before
could hear her wheeling like every
breath would be her last. She is
now well, and l am hearing Of sew
eral who lost hens that way.
A woman came to see me yester
day and asked me what to do to
keep off sore-head, said her neigh
hOrs have it. And from the letters
that l am getting it must all over the
country.
l told her that as there is no signs
of it now [ would get all that had
been running with her neighbors'
and battle their heads in warm water
that had a tablespoonful of creolin
in it. The creolin can be bought at
any drug store and is a powerful dis
infectant. Then she can grease every
head with sulphur mixed with as
much Vaseline as it will absorb.
After the chickens are filled with
the fever and the sores it is we'll to
use the remedies that | have. already
given you. Last year 1 washed every.
head in any of my poultry yards.
with stock Dip but it is awful on
onels hands Mine looked like they
had been dipped in starch. and were
a sight to behold. Creolin costs 80
cents and bottle should be in every
home.
I never heard of so many cases o.
roup among turkeys AS l have this
year. AS a general thing turkeys
begin to roost on a fence or in
trees so soon they do not crowd and
are not so susceptible to this disease
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06

cleaned, so women will go on doing
their usual fourteen-hour shift.
But do you notice that in this de-
mand for shorter working hours for
. men, you never hear the wives
voices swelling the chorus? There's
a reason for it, | am the wife of a
working man. and as long as my
husband worked a full day we got
along finely. He was occupied all day
and when he came home at night he
was tired and hungry and glad to
sit down and eat a good dinner and
spend most of his evenings at home.
Now he doesn't work more than
three-quarters of a day, and he has
a lot of time he doesn't know what
to do with. He either passes it sit
ting around the house nagging me
about the way l do my work, or else
he puts it in at the poolroom, or
shooting craps. Both of which drive
me crazy. Believe me, Miss Dix, if
the time ever comes that men don't
have to work but four hours a day,
it will break UP every home in the
land.
No woman has got the patience to
endure having a man underfoot all
the time, and it will take all the
money he earns to pay for his amuse
ment. There will be nothing left to
feed the family on.
INDUSTRIOUS WIFE.
Answer:
Here's an interesting sidelight on
I a much discussed subject. 1t does not
seem to have occurred to those who
wish to abolish labor that the idle
may become a pest to other people.
Also that leisure is a very expensive
affair, for if you are not earning
money, you must be spending it. Any
one Of us can testify that our vaca
tions cost us ten times over our usual
daily living expenses.
Certainly it isn't going to make
for domestic harmony for a husband
to have a lot of extra time to sit
around the house and watch his wife
work, for if there is anything on
earth that gets on a woman's nerves
it is the ceaseless little suggestions
that men make under such circum-
stances about how the dinner should
be cooked, and the children spanked,
and how more efficiently man can
manage, anyway, than q woman. Re-
lations are always a little stained in
those families in which the man
comes home to lunch, and it is not
mere. coincidence that divorce is
much more common among the rich,
where the men do not have to work,
than it is among the poor where the
man is busy and occupied all day.
Women know that work is a man .
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1923-10-06
FARM EDUCATION
BY DR.. ANDREW M. SOULE

At the time of killing, the ami
mails should not be urduly excited.
The work should proceed with as lit.
tie noise and worrying and driving
the animals as possible. Badly eX-
cited animals do not bleed out thor
oughly, consequently, their flesh
does not keep well. Rough handling
prodding and Eating the animals
should be avoided if possible since
these practices will be likely to pro-
duee unsightly, bruised places on the
carcass which will have to be trim
med out and thrown away.
Hogs are best secured for butcher
ing by placing a chain or rope about
their hind legs and hosting them
with block and tackle $50 that they
will hang with their backs against =
building, post or tree, and at a con-
venient distance above the ground
for sticking. They are also easily
handled by being thrown on their
backs on the ground and held in this
position by straddling the hog just
back of its shoulders and firmly
grasping the front feet.
Unless the hog is too large or too
vicious to be so handled, it should
be killed by sticking and bleeding
without knocking or shooting. Too
hard a blow on the head Or shoot
ing kills the hog before it has COM
pletely bled out. The meat from an
incompletely bled animal neither
looks as we'll nor keeps as we'll as
that from an animal which has been
completely bled OUT This, too, is a
reason for hanging the hog up before
sticking, since in that position it
bleeds more completely than when
lying on the ground.
For sticking, rather narrow,
sharp pointed knife about six inches
, long is desirable. Grasp the lower
jaw of the hog firmly with the left
hand and with the right place the
point of the knife three or four
inches in front of the breast bone
and on the middle line of the neck
Hold the knife at an angle of about
forty-five degrees with the point di
rected toward the tail of the hog and
thrust in to cut the large blood YES
sells at the point where they, leave
the chest. Do not thrust the point
of the blade into the chest cavity
or the animal will bleed internally or
the lungs or heart he injured. Do
not make the thrust to either side Of
the middle line of the neck as that
IL likely to result in shoulder stick
ing" and the spelling of considera bis
of the shoulder meat.
This can be done in large bar