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| sweet or sour, ana the cuf0S may De
made into cheese. But that Is not all
this milk can do. It IS an excellent
Beverage purely vegetable drink
/ which forms bodybuilding ncurish-
mcnt for invalids and children. A pound
Of peanuts. he says, contains a little
more bodybuilding nutriment than q
! pound Of sirloin steak and nearly twice
, as much heat and energy.
| The sweet potato has also been meta
morphosed into a multitude OF things by
| the Tuskegee wizard. But the most
striking thing about DR.. Carver'S asSo-
citation with the sweet "tater" Is that he
says it isn't potato at all No sir, 1t is
| more ethereal than that. 1t Is q morn
ing glory, Il you please. But never In
the history of this world did 1t occur to
any human being to classify the sweet
! potato as a morning glory till DR.. Carver
, communed with a bushel CT them one
eventful morning in his laboratory and
discovered that the family had been i'm
properly introduced to society all down
| the ages.
! But, before we consider the various
metamcrphoSes through which that de-
liciouS vegetable has passed under the
dusky scientists hands, let us see who
the man is, whence he came and how he
got his start. 1t would be hard to find
| a man whose entrance into the world,
whose boyhood and youth were more
unpromising and discouraging than
were George Washington Carver's.
Was Born in Slavery.
To begin with, he was born a slave In
Missouri. AS II that were not handicap
enough, when he was scarcely more
| than a baby he and his mother were
stolen from their masters farm by a
band Of raiders in the last year of the
/ Civil War. Moses Carver. the master,
dispatched men on horseback who we're
well supplied with cash 10 try to induce
the kidnapers to return his slaves.
P, A colcred baby desperately Ill with
| whooping cough possessed little value
for men who hid stolen Moses Car
ver's slaves so when they were offered
fine race horse in exchange for the
sick child they jumped at the chance to
dispose Of the little dark liability and
gladly gave him up. But the sick child'S
mother was never seen or heard OF
again and nobody knows unto this day
what was her fate.
Not until George was 10 years old
did he have a chance to go to school,
such as 1t was, and that was 10 miles
away from the place he called home.
Up to that time his dearest possession
had been an old blue-backed Speller,
over which he pored every chance he
got, learning every word in it from
cover to cover. In this little school the
eager pupil remained until he felt he
had extracted from the teacher all the
knowledge he possessed and then the
boy left.
He decided to 60 to school in Kansas.
and began to walk to his destination.
After he had trudged along about a
day a mule team overlook him and
gave him a lift for Fort Scott, Kans.
Here he began his education In earnest.
He was alone in the world. and there
was nobody TO whom he could look for
assistance of any kind. Every cent
spent for food, lodging clothes, books
and tuition he was obliged to earn him.
self For nine years he supported him.
self by engaging in domestic service and
doing any kind Of work he could get. no
matter how mental and hard, saving
only as much time for his studies as
he could manage to find. Leaving Fort
Scott he went to Minneapolis, Kans.,
and graduated from the high school
there. Here his appetite for knowledge
was whetted more than it had ever
been before, and he decided definitely
to go to college.
Lived on 10 Cents a Week.
That was much easier said than done.
But he would not let little thing like
lack of funds swerve him from his
at Simpson College, Iowa, and bought
his books. he had only 10 cents left.
Half Of this sum was invested in corn
meal and half in suet, upon which he
feasted for a whole week.
The boys had a have clean clothes.
and they soon discovered that the col
ored student could do them up perfect
". so they cheerfully turned their
laundry work over to him. For George
Having graduated from Simpson Col
lege he entered Iowa State University,
where he received both his bachelors
and his masters degrees. To such an
extent had his ability been recognized
during his course at the university that,
as soon as he graduated, he was placed
in charge of a greenhouse OF the bac-
THEOLOGICAL laboratory and OF the de-
partment of systematic botany.
Then Booker T. Washington appeared
on the scene, discovered this genius and
spirited him away to his own institution
in Alabama. where DR.. Carver has re-
manned ever since. Even When the
great Thomas Edison offered the
i Tuskegee teacher the princely sum OF
/ 100000 to work for five years IN
his laboratory at Orange, N. ], Dr.
Carver declined this allurlng 1nVltalon
This is the. way DR.. Carver explains
the reason he decided to reject Mr..
Edison's offer: You see, Mr.. Wash
ington put me here nearly 80 years ago
and said Let down your bucket Where
YOU are I did as I was told and my
| bucket has always come up br1mful anei
| running over. Mr.. Washington IS not
with us in person any more and coslo
not be iaithlesS to his trust; now
could ~"
Makes Many Products.
Reference has already been made to
the -four which the TuSkegee wizard
has manufactured from the sweet po-
tato which is first cousin to the
| morning glory. But flour from the
sweet potato is only drop In the
bucket, so to speak. One may smack
his lips ove- a dish Of delicious puo-
ding made from the tapioca INTO wnic en-
4 the sweet potato has been converted by
this master chemist. The crystah1Zed
ginger and the breakfast food which
come from the sweet potato are highly
recommended by those who have sam
pied them.
II does not require a great stretch Of
the imagination for those OF us who
4 like sweet potatoes to believe that
/ things good to eat can be made out OF
them. But when DR.. Carver shows
YOU a piece OF rubber and tells you that
it was produced from a delicious yam,
it really strains your credulity and puts
vour faith in his veracity to an awful
test. Up to date, 100 products have
been created from the sweet potato and
still there is more to follow.
Then, too there are wonderful dyes
and paints which Prof. Carver has
made out of common Alabama clay. The
Egyptians must have used the dyes
found in clay, he says, and those who
know declare they are the same bright,
soft colors found in King Tuts tomb.
As YOU look at the blues, reds and yell
lows in Prof. Carver's laboratory, 1t Is
very easy to believe that he has re-
discovered that art lost for so many
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