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Show THE PARSON CHRONICLE. PAYSOX. UTAH iz DIETARY HABITS NEED FOSTERING EARLY IN CHILD (joaT Wiiabt, Kidcv fyvc-ui- t Nothing la quite so important to health as food. The welllieing of a child depends on it, and his fu Mire stamina will reflect nutritive d serepaneles ln babyhood. The mother who thinks that there s time enough ahead for corrective diet is laboring under a traditional delusion that up until two years of ige and sometimes longer, milk Is lie sum total of everything. M.lk Is the warp and the woof of what It takes to get through life, nid especially at Its beginning. But t needs supplementing, because Its chemistry Is low in a few needed es scntlals and the child, set lu his dut, res sts other foods. Doctors Prescribe Varied Foods. Doctors long ago recognized the value of adding other foods to tho 't , I K all-nli- .let N$tN l ,r tthn a4 Uj, onU'n E WAS BtTd tember 1, 1 At the nge of seventeen to Pttroai I forpt year older, he regulaily ordained preacher (at the mmiUVent salary of ?SO a year which nine times out of ten I got and for the next 70 only in part") years he rede tip and down the land carrying the was a leibnrf, Uj, 400 Oil ning r'ements. that time he prone hed more than 15,000 icacwand baptised more than 12,000 persons. And those are only the highlights in the career and ldahg ill of he was an Ey the time ho was a Uermofiutm i on Cep eshorter Ii War f SCOTT WATSON BOKX ISO yean ago ELMO By (, and on. mcetivuj Cornjo s STOR During es. backwoods Methodist and one of the most history of the American hirier. Because he spoke the language of the jeering folk, could hold his own as a man tumble of debate Mg men In the rough and encounter hut, more particularly, of physical the legends of him utilise of his eccentricities, tere almost numberless. They were as famll-iit the firesides of an older generation as the ib of the Cid were to the people of Spain In Not Mr. Travers or Davy ie olden times. inckett nor hardly even President Lincoln was finch subject of more anecdotes than this dmed Itinerant preacher." native of Amherst county, Virginia, Cart mgbt, when six years old, was taken by his rats to Kentucky. They settled first In county, near the present site of Lancaster, icn moved to a plate south of Itushvllie In bsan county, within a mile of the Kentueky-tooesseboundary line. Cartwright describes Us section as such a haunt for refugees from tstlce that It was called Rogues Harbor," 2ed with murderers, horse thieves, highway fbbers and counterfeiters. Certainly It was ligin soil for the labors of the future preacher d It gave him valuable experience for the role iMcb he was to play In the future In the fron-e- r country of the Mississippi Valley, la 1S01 young Cartwright was converted and dted with the Ebenezer Methodist Episcopal iarch. He displayed such talent and fervor peaking that the following year he received fom the Society of Ebenezer permission to his gifts as an exhorter so long as his ihortlng conformed to Its doctrines. In 1S03 became a regular traveling preacher or circuit & on the Ited River circuit. Within nine sirs he was a presiding elder In Kentucky and Illinois to which he removed In 1S23. He held at office for half a century, during which time membership of the church within his Jurls-ftlogrew from 72,000 to 1,750,000. n and Peter Cartwright, twher, circuit rider figures in the ck drain ds, sgnel GO pic-Tfsj- r TAH ere Modem sc . Hvk rter ia4 tl Mane A Jncstiofl, vi Boob nutonei Lin-iot- sod 4j Pres, a e beat ca must bt .pace tta: 1 contrao tba at-ii-o e n SCO ke crrr Om d fare i of his coachea of attending Mnois, he fastest Onr has left ns this the famous circuit rider. services In a little church contemporaries word picture E of says: attention was arrested by a strange ap on striding np the aisle. AH seemed whis ther neighbors, There he goes ! and rlvele'I upon a man of medium ckset wltl1 pnormous bone and muscle, although his iron gray hair and wrinkled 8 lke ntvarlce of years his step was t0 11.00 17.10 J ii Ptrf rU8 anti ,irm- - Ilis face was to the !,UI "father; he carried i.k lls laiuk an(d h's f8 !,g bronzed a white upper garment rsi Urure'cal: dressing gown without 'iddinr ' tr,lant breeze seemed to seize . ,,8 n lts sl'irt an( lifting It to a level vh hi. f,ri?PltS' discl"!p(1 to the gazing congre-vieTom t limans anciito point i ties os & of the cxHf ns, Jfoldffl iscorer4 tuff a 154! c until I'1' id llw.lt Si1 (r ad I f panta- - dl- - for he was a .,'lp divine WWth liny s Jurney to see. bui o leD Wn n kark'vods preaclier 40 rani:inK ,,le from Md He Am lie Cat i copppras-colore- d for the fountry m0"1 frm t,,e Alleghenies to p w as Inured to harihinPP every form ft13 1,8,1 !l)oked calmly at ten peril of '6 ,0"!,lha"k of tlie Indian, the t'sfofthe tl,e hS of the bear, the ee of tti. ,panth,'r' f swollen tor Ts, and ti frn8l!n' ttle rusk .nrfl' cllasm of the earthquake, had lain in ipnj the ? c,ip,,rn''e ond made his bed snn ,ll1 hnnlrie and on the of tho oozy nni ll!l1 wandered, hunger-D. amon. n1' Sll'itudos of the mountains. He beoD in , taMosnp,.PT'!y nm"nR rol,bers and In dan-i'- t ' 5 ''ll0 ha1 EWorn t0 take hIs lie had proa n1 ln the cabin of the slave the manu tilP Iuas,er. to the Indians the m"n ,n of the border. He had taken p,. ' l,nd had ridden ln the path biziia. hat he might had proclaim peace, on tin outskirts of civilization and the' flrt comers to the woods and to th o it Uissisvinn. - d Cit 3.00 1,1 OClA a4 rt orXJ OP1 Tli Bi?, 3a C b,;;;; haJ l)epn leveled ln the and "hpn the blind eoniiiptlJnl,S urp,l llim headlong into Elution I" a?iliL strength ?ue t!lPtn cause for hitter rehsiw, Vh ,hat now stood before ns des tllP rl:n "'"us presiding eider of Illi 'Hi r,'n" n K, I'oIct Cartwright." s f chut, militant was this same "'ted 1. 1 . '"tw light. Due stoiy told of ,of bis A!lnk !'" 'P f,!,t' - (vstfT i:.!' desc-j- i flmowuro (.Cuwwt tZu) him is he handled a hand of rowdies who had bousted that they would break up a revival meet Ing which he was holding In a little Illinois church. They gathered In the bail; of the church and began causing a disturbance while Cartwright was praying. lie continued pi ay ing but opened one eye to locate the troublemakers. Suddenly he sprang over the pulpit, strode down the aisle and seized the two ringleaders. Rearing them down to the floor he sat astride of them and began poundlDg their heads on the floor. if "Well, I . can't . . . heat boys, . . . religion . . . Into . . . you . . . I'll . . . beat . . . the . . . devil . . . out . . . of , , . ex you claimed the sturdy circuit rider, punctuating his remarks with the thumps of the rowdies heads upon the floor Because of such picturesque feats as this, It was only natural the legends should cluster around the name of Ieter Cartwright, some of them having a slight basis of fact and some ne such basis at all. Of the latter class was the yarn of Cartwrights encounter with Mike Fink, the renowned "King of the Mississippi Flatboat Men and the terror of that river and of the Ohio. It was Finks custom to challenge a new out enacquaintance to a knock-dowcounter to see If the newcomer was worthy of his friendship. According to the story, Cartwright was so challenged, promptly accepted and gave Fink a sound thrashing, thereby winning ... ... ... .. A iM! C'i dl 'VA CM Beth odi&t Clnmcfc 'Rixitu fly; and so sudden would lie the Jerking of tho head that their long loose hair would crack almost as loud ns a wagoner's whip. From this It may be Inferred that this expounder of the old time religion didnt approve of "ladies of fashion. This Impression Is strengthened by his statement that they would faint If they had to walk 100 yards ln the sun without a parasol; they were braced and stayed to such an extent that they could not step more than six or eight Inches at a time. Should they by any accident happen to lose their moorings and fall, they are imprisoned with so many unmentionables that they could uot get up again. Just as he disapproved of such vainglorious folk ln the larger settlements of the Middle West, so did he have his own methods of rebuking the supercilious attitude of Mg city dwellers toward country folk. On his fust visit to New Yoik he went to the fumed Astor House. A haughty clerk, regarding the roughly clad frontiersman as a "regular hayseed, assigned him to a room away up under the risif. In a little while a bell from that room summoned the servant who had shown the circuit rider to Ids qmuters. No sooner had the servant returned from his trip up several flights of stairs (for there were no elevators In tln-sdays) than he was called back. This was repeated several times until finally the servant reported to the clerk that the Asked to guest In that room must be crazy. explain, he replied: The first time he called me up there he wanted to know how we were getting along down here. The next time he was bothered by the bell on the city hall and wanted to know where the fire was. This last time he said he wanted an ax. An ax?" asked the clerk Incredulously. Yes, sir, an nx. Che. Circuit RidcnStatoo Wm,QrjL What ln creation does he want with an ax. I dont know, sir, hut he Insisted that he must Is his enduring friendship. Cartwright himself have one." authority for the statement that, although he So the clerk climbed up to the distant room his deal Alike about a had heard during great demanded an explanation of the unusual reand travels throughout the Mississippi valley, he had never met the flatboat man, so naturally no such quest. Why, you see, said Cartwright cheerfully, encounter ever took place. back ln my state when a man has a distance Another such story has to do with Andrew to go ln a strange country he blazes his way Jackson. It relates how Jackson attended a with an ax, so that be may know how to get meeting at which Cartwright was preaching. back. I want to leave my room, and I want to Old Hickory enter tho church one of blaze my way so that I can find It again. Seeing the elders whispered to the circuit rider: Broth Who are yon, anyway? asked the astonished er Cartwright, you must be careful how you clerk. preach tonight. General Jackson has just come My name Is Ieter Cartwright, replied the old In. Thereupon Cartwright replied In a loud man humldy and Immediately he was given a voice: "What do you suppose I care for General better room, for the fame of the great circuit Jackson? If he dont repent his sins, he will rider had penetrated even to the benighted InThis produced habitants of Manhattan. go to hell like any other man. great consternation ln the minds of the congreCartwright was not only one of the most noted gation, for they believed that the circuit riders tills country has ever known but Jackson would cane the preacher at the first op he was also a prominent figure In politics In the met portunity. Instead Jackson is said to have period before the Civil war. When the Methohim the next morning, greeted him cordially and dist church divided on the slavery question In said: Sir, you are a preacher after my own 1S44 (a schism which lasted for M) years) Cartheart. If I had a regiment of such men as you wright stood firmly upon his principles, declarId conquer the earth. ing God will show my deluded brethren the a such to story, good a error of their way and bring them back to the shame seems spoil It was not In It: to about has say but here is what Cartwright way of righteousness." However, he 1 favor of trying to solve the slavery problem by There Is no truth in that story. It Is true had a preaching place In the neighborhood of the force, for lie said: I believe the most successful of the slaves Hermitage (Jackson's home near Nashville, nay to ameliorate the condition came to our and Christianize them and finally so ure their General occasionally The Tenn.) owners kindy and not meetings, and I hnd been Invited to the Ilermi freedom is to trtat their with slavery. terms. on meddle were politically friendly We always tage. In IS 40 Cartwright was the Domocr ilc candiCartwright Is also said to have been the orig hut Inal of the story, told by Edward Eggleston In date for congress from an Illinois district a young lawyer named to election of the in the preacher lost he Circuit Rider," The book his iater he was who worked a turbulent audience up to a pitch Abraham Lincoln. Thirteen yiais of Linof fury by his fearless denunciation of their an ardeut supporter of the candidacy A. Dougwere making coln's famous debate opponent. Stephen ns they and Just then wickedness, nomination for President a rush toward him, he Mew out the candles on las, for the bechurch-a- nd and made linpasMoned speeches in Do glas the pulpit the only light In the the of members while the half. escaped unharmed were Rv 1803, when the Civil war was at Ps height crowd, milling around In the darkness, each other Cartwright's views on slavery had undergone a and belaboring clawing, scratching In that year a Methodist conference change. In their frenzy. a strenu was held at Spiingfiold, III., and it v as to be was frequently those in days Religion to ask fir success opened with a prayer meeting ous affair, as Cartwright himself has testified. a fa ace. The called and speedy for the Union army A new exerciie broke out among us, was chosen Peter Cartwright Untie overwhelming was which venerable the Jerks, he says, If slavery Lord, (), the of first minds prayer. the and offer to up in Its effects upon the bodies remove It, lie they would he the cause of till cruel war, or sinners, saints Whether people. sermon and cried A loud chorus of ameris foio w '. Then be taken nnder a warm song or which Cartwright cried out O, Lord, reimvi it seized with a convulsive Jerking ail over, more than and a louder clonus of "a'ie;C" than seen I have avoid. they could not re went up from the thn ng gathered obtain To before ever 500 persons Jerking at one time. Feme would there. dame. and rise would up lief, they h - i Cartwright livtd to si run, but could not get away. P near In home and d at He dii To see these proud young gentlemen and on September 25, 1S72, at the ug- silks, In jewelry their w young ladies, dressed take the j'rks won d leaving lx hind him a re. prunella from top to toe, it the of so r -t anna's flrir j equals m the often excite my risibilities. The V, eu.n Newspa, ti I caps ami combs you would see their flue bonnets, n ln babyhood, and-dra- ln order to oil set future tinhky appetites. Tlius tho Infant of six weeks gets li .s cod liver oil and orange juice or tomato Juco; a little later a spoonful or two of prepired voge-- i iMe Juice or even the strained veg etahle Itself. At a period that In the gist would have been c.msid ered murderous he gets his b.t of ceieal, pint of the yolk of an ogg a sinuk of baked potato and mashel stowed fruit. Whatever today's baby is given, should, of course, he absolutely nnder the doctor's direction. There Is a difference In babies. But (lie great trutti that many mothers do not know Is Unit children with touchy appetites at six or eight or ten years of age, are tiie results of fixed preference In ; . II ' I I. Blake makes a Fresh Start NO! NO! THATS NOT THE I WANT OA, WELL... let's QUIT! I DONT FEEL LIKE PLAYING t WHV, DADDS... - CIST EN- GREAT WORK GO BACK TO THE CLUB SOU CORTHIHlS THE HOUSC . . . Y0U' WORLD'S WORST CAPPV ! ! THAT'S NO WAN mde) TO TW THE HIM FEEL LIRE A 60V CHAMPION DO ANYTHING MT-WlT-.l I HE DlPJT ANYWAY I'VE GOT A TERRIBLE WRONG i HEADACHE ! ICnCn j HER To KEEP QUIET' 7. IM SORRY YOU FEEL RATS BADLY.. .BUT YOU EVER SILLY HAVE WONT FEEL ANY OF COFFEE KIDS ...AND BETTER UNTIL YOU BUT YOU KNOW YOU HARMING up COFFEE... BELIEVE A GROWN such crackpot ASTHE DOCTOR SAID THEORIES?; " COFFEE-NERVE- 'sr.0 H, ALL THE OOGTOR SAID SWTCHiNGTO P05TUM WOULO HELP! YOU MISHTTRY RIGHT CURSES ! WILLTRV S STYMIED again CANT STAY HERE IF HES, It; To PROVE I THAT DOCTORS DONT KNOW SWITCHING To. IT! WL. v?. gce, miss blakg, YES... SINCE HE YOUR FATHER SURE S.VITCHE 0 To PtDSTUM TO HAS CHANEiEP ACTEP LIKE A Different man HIM THAN MEMBER I always thought thia talk aboutcoffee being harmful applied only to children! "Oh, no. Daddy... many adults, too, find that the caffcin in coffee can upset nerves, cause indigestion, or prevent sound sleep! HE HAS FELT ANO RATHER CADDY FOR ANY OF THE CLUB If you .U J suspect tlmt coffee disagrees with you . . . try Fostum for 30 days. Postuni contains no caffein. Its s.mply whole wheat and bran, roasted and slightly sweetened. It's easy to make, and costs less than half a cent a cup. Its delicious, too . . . and may prove a real help. A product of General Foods. FREE! Let us send you your first weeks supply of Postum free! Simply mail the coupon. Central. Foojys, Hattie Creek, Mu h. fc'-rp'1 i Send me, without obligation, v- -- w m u .l c si week's supply of Postum Name SO DAVS LAT6R . I Cat Likei to Travel a cat which makes his headquarters In the restaurant of the station In Carlisle, England, likes to travel on trains. CLUB , ) (' Tommy, any-way- ! o-- ' ! So ' i I.' Caution Must Be Exercised. Another tiling that should he remembered Is that as milk must he the alpha and omega of his meal, therefore the amounts of other food given must not he so great that the willingness to take milk Is decreased. The doctor will give you lists and schedules for feeding. My suggestions bore are only for one purpose. That is to show why and how aversions to needed foods are started. Food habits, which mean flavor habits, have to he cultivated early. GIVE . T1 e d i 'i baby bond. oivO Li Woovh Cult ( of null;, curly : till ji cor ptvtelypnni ntjie ancf aucreaa This oHer ep rr July 1. 136 i |