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There is nothing more friendly than an open fire.—David Grayson. FIGHT COLDS by helping nature build up your cold-fighting resistance F you suffer one cold right after another, here’ssensational news! Mrs. Elizabeth Vickery writes: “I used to catch colds very eastly. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery helped to strengthen me just splendidly. Tate better, had more stamina, and wastroubled very litile with colds.”’ This great medicine, formulated by a practicing physician, helps combat colds this way: (i) It stimulates the appetite. (2) It promotes flow of gastric juices. Thus you eat more; your digestion improves; your body gets his am gentleman greater nourishment which helps nature build up your cold-fighting resistance. So successful has Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery been that over 30,000,000 bot- experiments in the use of fertilizers; he pioneered in the use of farm machinery. Made Farming Pay. The Father of his Country was a shrewd and canny farmer. He made agriculture pay. He became the richest man in the United States by reason of his success with the soil. At his death Washington, by his will, disposed of more than 49,000 acres of farm land, including his beloved Mount Vernon as well as far-flung domains in Ohio and elsewhere, which were rented or farmed by his deputies. His landed estate was valued at $530,000, while he had additional buildings, equipment, live stock and other investments worth $220,000. His slaves were not included in this inventory, for he freed them all in his will. Washington’s serious farming career began in'1759, at the age of 27. He had inherited Mount Vernon, married the charming Martha Custis and received a handsome dowry in lands and chattels. For the 16 years he was to devote himself to the land. Farmer Washington had plenty to contend with, however. The land he inherited was worn out by a century of tobacco growing. Concentration on this single crop year after year, with no rotation and no attempt at fertilization, had seriously impoverished . the land. Unlike the farmer of today who can get advice from his county agent, state agricultural college or experiment station on whether his soil is deficient in nitrogen, phosphoric acid or potash and needs commercial fertilizer, Washington had to depend on talks with his neighbors and his reading of farm papers and books on agriculture published in England, whose editors were un- familiar with problems in Virginia. He corresponded frequently with Arthur Young, British agri- cultural scientist and editor of the ‘“‘Annals of Agriculture.’’ He colMedical Discovery from your druggist today, lected an extensive library of or write Dr. Pierce, Dept.N -100, Buffalo, N. Y. for g mple. Don’t suffer unnecesagricultural books including sarily from colds, ‘Horseshoe Husbandry,” ‘A Practical Treatment of HusbandWNU—W 8—40 ry,” ‘‘The Farmer’s Complete Guide,” and ‘‘The Gentleman Your Secret Farmer.”’ If you wish another to keep your When Washington gleaned a secret, first keep“it yourself.—Sennew idea from his reading, he eca. quickly tried to apply it. For instance, he laid out experimental plots on different soils of his own land similar to the plots so familiar today to any farm student. tles have already been used. Proof of its remarkable benefits. Get Dr. Pierce’s Golden He Help Them Cleanse the Blood of Harmful Body Waste Your kidneys are constantly filtering waste matter from the blood stream. But kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do not act as Nature intended—fail to remove impurities that, if retained, may poison the system and upset the whole dy machinery.. Symptoms may be nagging backache, persistent headache, attacks of dizziness, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness under the eyes—a feeling of nervous anxiety and loss of pep and strength. Other signs of kidney or bladder disorder are sometimes burning, scanty or too frequent urination. There should be no doubt that prompt ; | 4 treatment is wiser than neglect. Use Doan’s Pills. Doan’s have been winning new friends for more than forty years. They have a nation-wide reputation. Are recommended by grateful people the country over. Ask your neighbor! “a s carried on experiments with fertilizer in a fashion reminiscent of what soil scientists do today. He had ten small boxes made. These he filled with soil taken from the same part of the field so that it would be uniform in composition. One box served as a check plot. Into the other nine he placed different fertilizers: such aS cow manure, horse manure, sheep dung, mud Part with Every American is familiar with “Light Horse Harry’? Lee’s characterization of Washington as “First in War, First in Peace, and First inthe Hearts of His Countrymen.’”’ Few Americans, perhaps, are aware that Washington laid just claim to another distinction. He was “First in Farming.” Washington was America’s first scientific agriculturist. He preached the gospel of soil improvement in season and out; he made original discoveries in erop rotation, seed selection and live stock breeding; he carried on im- from the creek, marl from a gully, black mold, and mud from the bottom of the Potomac river. He divided each box into three sections, planting wheat, oats and barley. He used exactly the same number of seeds of. each grain in each box, and planted the rows exactly the same. ee SS A General Quiz The Questions 1. What American statesman was the grandson of a-king?: 2. Is the cantaloupe the same as a muskmellon? 3. What causes an oases in a Tom and Jerry desert? AKE some egg whites, egg yolks, 4. When was the first depression powdered sugar, brandy, rum and whiskey, mix it all up, and you | in the United States? 5. At what period of life: does have a Tom and Jerry. Take the the brain grow fastest? name of America’s greatest bar6. Who wrote the famous ‘‘Untender, Jerry Thomas, mix that up, finished Symphony’’—Bach, Schuand you again have Tom and Jerry. Yes, it was Jerry Thomas, head bert or Beethoven? 7. What is the capacity of the bartender of the old Metropolitan human stomach? hotel at Broadway and Prince street goose-quill pleased Oe we Sw BY FELIX B. STREYCKMANS and ELMO SCOTT WATSON pen into an inkpot and began writing a letter. Now and then he would glance up thoughtfully, his eyes sweeping over broad acres fringing the Potomac. He was middleaged, of commanding physique, with a stern, yet kindly face. The letter, dated December 12, 1788, said: ‘The more I am acquainted with agricultural affairs, the I @ et WATSON wrt ~ ow Zisk Me Ansther “The Name Is Familiar— (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) portant shoulder portions, cut in one with the sleeves, make it flattering to the figure. It has a slight blouse at the waistline, which makes it feel comfortable and look engagingly nonchalant. You'll enjoy adding this to your midwinter wardrobe right now—in bright wool or flat crepe if you’re staying on the job, in pastel silk or cotton if you’re flitting South. Barbara Bell Pattern No. 1889-B ‘is designed for sizes 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20. Corresponding bust measurements 30, 32, 34, 36 and 38. Size 14 (32) requires, with short sleeves, 3% yards of 39-inch material; with long sleeves, 4 yards. Send your order to The Sewing Circle Pattern Dept., 149 New Montgomery Ave., San Francisco, Calif. Pattern 15 cents (in coins). ; SCOTT them, in so much that I can nowhere find so great satisfaction as in those innocent and useful pursuits. Indulging these feelings I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth than all the vainglory that can be acquired from ravaging it.” Thus in the fullness of his years and honors did George { Washington write to his English friend, Arthur Young. i _ Wwe better Te 50) KX PSISCLR HC Q SKA C0 presen SOS UTAH Me. x >. OR See e Ke Xe 8 PAROS otf . ORR eae * RAE ESSRRP eoe ICI 2 G 2 SOO RS Si5 SKE MOAB, < POCKET frocks are very smart, especially sports and resort types like this (1889-B), which gives pointed importance to the pockets that Paris is newly sponsoring as both decorative and useful, This charming design is really everything you want in a new dress for sports and daytime. It’s young and casual. It buttons down the front so that it’s easy to put on. The wide, inset belt and the TIMES-INDEPENDENT, his WASHINGTON AT MOUNT Mud from the bottom of the Potomac proved good fertilizer. So he built a special scow and hoisted mud. The cost of obtaining it, however, was too great for the results he got. Washington gave increasing attention to wheat growing as an alternate to tobacco. He tried various experiments such as steeping his seed in brine and alum to prevent smut. He tried aiso to protect his grain from the Hessian fly. In 1763 he entered into an agree‘ment with John Carlyle and Robert Adams of Alexandria to sell them his wheat crop for the next seven years. The price was to be three shillings and nine pence per bushel—or about 91 cents. Considering the difference in purchasing power then and now, Washington was getting the equivalent of at least $1.80 for his grain. In 1769 he delivered 6,241%4 bushels of wheat. Thereafter he ground most of his wheat and sold the flour. He owned three mills,) one in western Pennsylvania, a second on Four Mile Run near Alexandria, and a third on the Mount Vernon estate. The flour graded superfine, fine and middlings. We have Washington’s own word for it that his flour was as good as any produced in America—and the Father of his Country was no boaster. In a charmingly written monograph on ‘‘George Washington, Citizen and Farmer,’ Dr. J. Christian Bay, librarian of the John Crerar library of Chicago, recounts some stories of Washington as a farmer and human being. Describing some of the voluminous notes Washington jotted down in his diaries concerning his agricultural experiments, Mr. Bay says: ‘“‘Washington’s attention was attracted to the old problem of large and small seeds, and he invented a _ barrel-seeder’ to VERNON, In spread his seed evenly and effectively. He compared continuously the crops from large and small seeds, and suggested that large potatoes yield better than small ones because, as a rule, produces equal. He Counted Seeds. ‘It is curious, also, to think of the Father of his Country sitting in his study carefully counting the number of seeds to the pound. Yet he found that a pound of red clover contains 71,000 seeds; a pound of timothy, 278,000 seeds; while meadow grass gave 844,000 to the pound; likewise a pound of barley numbered 8,925 grains.”’ The Revolution halted, for a time, Washington’s farm career. For six out of eight long years, as commander-in-chief of the Continental army, he did not even for barn. One invention of which Washington was proud was a 16-sided barn which he built on one of his farms in 1793. He estimated that 140,000 bricks would be required for the structure. These were 1787 each, allowing for the cost of seed, tillage and other expenses. He was constantly on the alert for better methods of threshing grain than the age-old practice of treading and flailing. He read in an English farm journal about a threshing machine invented by a man named Winlaw. In 1790 he had observed the operation of Baron Poelnitz’s mill near New York city, based on the Winlaw model. This mill was operated by two men and threshed about two bushels of wheat per hour. son, 1800, in the William L. Clements’. library, Ann Arbor, Mich. sixteen-sided plan ever convinced of the desirability of pastures and of live stock for conserving the soil. He was more wide-awake to the need of better made and fired on the estate. tools. The run-down condition of his The barn was especially notable soil, however,. was a cause of in- for a _ threshing: floor 30 feet creasing concern. Unfortunately square. An ingenious method of for him fertilizers, as we know separating the grain and straw them today, were not in existwas provided by interstices of one ence. . and one-half inches between the As a soil conservation measure, floor boards. Thus when the Washington began to experiment grain was trodden by horses or beat out with flails, the kernels with clover and other grasses. He was prompted to do this at the fell through to the floor below. urging of Noah Webster, newsThis floor was to furnish an paper’ reporter, editor, and fa- illustration of what Washington mous as the compiler of a diccalled ‘‘the almost impossibility tionary. Webster had expounded of putting the overseers of this his theory that some plants have country out of the track they have the power to reach into the air been accustomed to walk in. and extract nitrogen fertilizer “T have one of the most conwhich their roots fix in the soil. venient barns in this or perhaps ‘“Nature,’’ said Webster, ‘‘has any other country, where thirty provided an inexhaustible store of hands may, with great ease, be manure which is equally accesemployed in threshing,’’ he wrote sible to the rich and poor and a friend. ‘‘Half of the wheat of which may be collected and apthe farm was actually stowed in plied to land with very little labor this barn in the straw, by my orand expense. This store is in the der, for threshing. Notwithstandatmosphere, and the process by ing, when I came home about the which the fertilizing substance middle of September, I found a may be obtained is vegetation.”’ treading yard not thirty feet from Washington tried every kind of the barn door, the wheat again brought out of the barn’ and legume known to Virginia farmers, and imported many kinds of horses treading it out in an open seeds from England. In this way exposure, liable to the vicissitudes he introduced timothy to his counof the weather.” trymen. He early discovered that What. Washington said to the clover and peas had a soil en- overseer on this occasion has not riching power. In an English been recorded for posterity. But journal he read about a new it is a safe bet that the man relegume—alfalfa—which had been membered it for the rest of his brought from Switzerland. He days. found that alfalfa, too, could enThe Father of his Country is rich the soil, but it never proved often pictured as a man without profitable for him. a sense of humor. Yet in the Even while serving as Presimidst of sober agricultural experdent from 1789 to 1797, Washingiments, he gave the following adton found some time to keep an eye on his farming operations. He had extensive experiments conducted in grain and live stock breeding. He imported new strains of wheat from South Africa and Siberia, neither of which proved as~ good as his Virginia grain. . Rotation of Crops. Washington drew up elaborate plans for rotation of crops on his different farms. Not content with one plan, he often drew up several alternatives. He calculated the probable financial return from MOUNT VERNON —From a rare aquatint, engraved by Francis Jukes after Alexander Robert- of Washington’s 1797, two years’ before The seed house at Mount Vernon. vice on how to keep warm all winter by the aid of a single piece of wood. The story is told by Mr. Bay: ‘Select .a.suitable piece of wood, rush upstairs as fast as you can, open a window, throw out his death, Washington built a plans. thresher, himself, on evolved by William Booker, who the wood. Rush downstairs into the yard and seize the wood again. Rush upstairs once more, came throw to Mount Vernon and di- rected the construction. In April, 1798, Washington wrote Booker: ‘The machine by no means answered your expectations or mine.”’ At -first it threshed about 50 bushels a day, then fell to fewer than 25, and finally broke down completely, although it had used up two belts costing between $40 and $50. ‘Washington was_ essentially America’s first conservationist,”’ an official of the Middle West Soil Improvement committee pointed out recently. “The Father of his Country realized that man owes a duty to the future as well as the present welfare of his soil,’’ he said. ‘“‘Washington’s primitive attempts to put back into the soil the fertility that had been depleted by constant croppings are testimony of this characteristic.”’ As a public man, Washington set foot on his beloved fields. was eager to improve the lot of Peace in 1783 at last brought agriculture. In his last message him release. He had left Mount to congress he recommended the Vernon a simple country gentleestablishment of a “‘Board of Agman. He returned as one of the riculture to collect and diffuse inmost famous men in the world. formation, and by premiums and Happy to be home, he threw him- small pecuniary aids to encourage self once more into his old occuand assist a spirit of discovery pation. During his army camand improvement.”’ paigns, his keen observations of But nearly a century passed beagriculture as practiced in New fore anything so important was York, New Jersey and other’ done by the federal government northern colonies, had broadened to promote the development of his outlook. He was more than agriculture. out the wood a _ second time. Rush downstairs and get it and continue in this manner until you process He are warm. Repeat this as often as necessary.”’ concluded this piece of ad- in New York city who the drink that immortalizes his name. Because his & parents wanted him to become a minister and be- concocted The Answers 1. Charles Bonaparte, who was in Theodore Roosevelt’s cabinet. 2. The cantaloupe is one variety — of muskmelon. 3. Springs rising from subterranean streams generally cause cause he was the |_| author of a book ff fi ‘“‘Age will not produce a systematic change without public attention and encouragement; but a few years more of sterility will drive the inhabitants of the Atlantic states westwardly for support; whereas if they were taught how to improve the old instead of going in pursuit of new and productive soil, they would make those acres which now scarcely yield them anything, turn out beneficial to themselves—and to the community generally—by the influx of wealth resulting the;efrom.”’ a oases. “Bartender'‘s Guide’’—he was called Professor Thomas. was not such a fesenede Ge for a bartender of the 1860s who could write a book—imagine a bartender of that era who could just write! Jerry Thomas was born in New Haven, Conn., in 1825. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Daniel Thom- as, sent him to college so he could be a preacher. But, at the age of 20, he quit school and left parental influence to carry on an experiment .to determine whether or not college men could imbibe alcoholic liquors in unlimited quantities. His conclusions were in the negative but he stayed close to the subject he loved by becoming principal bartender in a New Haven saloon. 4, The first so-called depressio in the United States occurred m 1785. and lasted until 1789. 5. During the first five years of life. oy) 6. Schubert. 7. Normally from four to five pints. eats | WORK FAST. BUT | LIKE | SLO-W- BURNING CAMELS. YVTHEYRE MILDER AND COOLER_< In later years he became head bartender at the famous El Dorado in San Francisco where he invented the Blue Blazer, then he went to St. Louis where he invented the Tom and Jerry. He tended bar all over the United States, Central America and parts of Europe, startling the Europeans especially with his $4,000 worth of silver bar utensils and his BETTER FOR STEADY SMOKING unlimited repertoire of mixed drinks. s = s : Butterick Patterns ITERALLY hundreds of millions used been of Butterick patterns have been all over the world. They have a boon to hundreds of thou- sands of mothers in making clothes at home for their families. Now whom do they have to thank—Miss Butterick? Mrs. Butterick? No, nei- ther, The inventor of this low-cost aid was a man, Ebenezer Butterick. After some ex¥ periments he cut his first salable patterns June 16, 1863. The first patterns were { folded by members of his family. In September he had to take extra rooms in a ‘, building nearby -and five girls were hired to do E. Butterick the folding — but Ebenezer still managed to keep his beard out of the way and kept on with the cutting. : BILL CORUM—/famed sportswriter and columnist. dressmaking The business moved to New York and continued to grow to the point where single cutting machines cut out thousands of patterns of each size at a single stroke. The word “Butterick” in electric lights on the top of the 15-story Butterick building, completed in 1904, was then the largest electric sign in the world. But the building was not finished until a year after Ebenezer Butterick died. & ® & Sandwich OHN MONTAGU, fourth earl of Sandwich, English politician, ‘gambler and sportsman, born in 1718, was English ambassador to Madrid and lord commissioner of the admiralty—but his only contribution to posterity was the invention of the sandwich. His private life was a very im- vice with the words: ‘‘Probatum Est.”’ But it is as a prophetic contrib’ moral one and he was so intent upon utor to the knowledge of soil consports and gamservation that he will be best rebling that he dismembered in his career as a liked to take time farmer. — off from them “Tt must be obvious to every long enough to be man who considers the agriculserved .a meal. f ture of this country,’’ Washington He ordered one of § wrote in 1796, ‘‘and compares the his servants to § produce of our lands with those slice meat, and of ether countries, no ways suput it between } perior to them in natural fertility, two pieces of | how miserably defective we are in bread, follow him § the management of them; and with several of § that if we do not fall on a better them and hand § mode of treating them, how one to him when 8 ruinous it will prove to the landed he was hungry. John, Earl of interest. e That’s how. the Sandwich sandwich came into being and where it got its name. And it practically makes the earl of Sandwich the father of the American picnic. He was a very contemptible person, hated more by the English people than any other nobleman of the Eighteenth century. Among other things, he was guilty of murdering his mistress—an even greater crime than inventing the thing that has made picnics possible — but not much greater. (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) OMMON _A SENSE and years of smoking experience have told Bill Corum what scientists have confirmed in their research laboratories—that the slower a cigarette burns, the cooler and milder the smoking. Some cigarettes burn fast, some slower, some just in between. Laboratory tests show Camels are definitely slower-burning (details below). Turn to Camels and get the extras in smoking pleasure—extra mildness, extra coolness, extra flavor, and extra smoking. Or, as Bill Corum puts it: “More pleasure per puff and mote puffs per pack!” In recent laboratory tests, CAMELS burned 25% slower than the average of the 15 other of the largest-selling brands tested = slower than any of them. That means, om the average, a. smoking plus equal to FOR EXTRA MILDNESS, EXTRA COOLNESS, EXTRA FLAVOR. SLOWBURNING COSTLIER TOBACCOS ne |