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Show It EMIOlIiL fl j COUNTY FAIR BENISMS I I if 1. A county that promotes and I j maintains a county fair Is better than ; 1 ono that don't, j' 2. A county that supports tlio best j ' county fair Is generally the best J county In tlio state. i '.I. Tho best county lu tlio state ! j jl will have the biggest, broadest cltt- I (j zens In tho state. 111 Vj -i. Tho bigger tho citizens of a coun- i!j t ty tho bigger tho county. i . 5. Tho slio of a citizen Is deter- 61 3 J m' icd larKoly by tho lens of tho rj ; am&ses through which ho sees. Ill j 6. County fairs aro seen through j lj two kinds of glasses, viz.: Individual , P J "goggles" nnd county prldo "specs." H L; 7. Looking ht a county fair through l t Individual goggles, a man sees noth- tj - Ing In county fairs. It Is too much In J1 trouble nnd expeuso to exhibit. Every il j whero It Is tho same old thing over l gj , ngaln, tlio exhibits aro poor tho races M & In punk, tho management rotten and It A H county fairs aro a falluro anyway. lj jl S. Individual goggles worn at a j!j K county fair will make n man so small fl . that tho hlggost thing lie sees la the 'Ifty cents ho loft at tho entrance Mj J. 9 3. Looking at a county fair through , ,1 D county prldo specs, ovorywhero ov- Jl g 0 erythlng Is first class. Tho cows aro IS I winners, the horses tlio prldo of tho , ( B fltnte, tho races tho best over, the ! I J nitinngmciit gcnulnn patriots and i ' U I jj county fairs aro Just tho proper i fl I thing. jil I 10. County prldo specs worn at a J I county fair will make- a man swell lj u up until ho feels so big and broad ill M that ho can not help shouting tbltt to ho .lives In tho best county nf the sta,to. S'f 1 I 11. In Individual matters Indlvldu- i j al goggles aro alright and won't make ' $M I n mnn small, but county affairs aro j H & blggor and must bo viewed throuh a Ml J bigger Ions. M j , 13. No.Nt Monday, Tuesday and ffH Wednesday aro county fair days. ; djj I Then is tho tlmo for all good citizens I to hocomo big oltlzous by discarding ' S 9 for a short time tho old goggles nnd wk put on now specs and thereby make wfkl I tlm Cacbo County Fair tho big sue jjVJj CCBS ll should bo. C. Z. II. Jit !!! ,'L' WOMEN AT WORK IN . THE FIELDS jjj I Ono of tho features of tho nows W I from Kuropo Is tho way In which tlio, R 1 ttomon of tho warring countries have f,J turned out In tho Holds to cultivate ! Mj nnd harvest tho crops, whllo tho raun i nro lighting. Tho Bight of women doV ; jl ing farm woik lu this country was I lj , pneo considered Incongruous and IW j ivrlmltlvo. In Kuropo It lias always K j boon comtnou. Tho majority of th jut i a' lens who do sorvnnts' work In litis lj S country no doubt used to lioa nnd H I Tnko nnd mow In tlio old country. .M fl Of recent yoars, as foreign I'.l.cr it 1 licis como to the United States, It Is, U f not so unusual to boo women doing SH 4 id 'nr,n wor'c ,n mny jjlstrlcts, as ou PPPpHHHfltoHMBpjH go along h country road, you observo a baby carriage drawn up by tho side of tho way, In sight of tho joibrr, who Is laboriously helping her lus-band lus-band found the family fortunes Also many women of American descent des-cent h.'ivo been learning during the past few years that thoro Is in opening open-ing for them In many department of farm worts. Markot and fruit gardening garden-ing nro ouch chances. The hlh price of niciit It.i3 created .in enormously enor-mously Incronuod demand for farm legatnbleB and kindred products. Mnny n ssbocl teacher who has left tho farm to work for ?100 a year In somo high cost of living town, would have done better to start a llt-tlo llt-tlo enteiprlso of raising vegetables or fruits or In her own back yard. With tho labor of n man nvnllabl for lifting heavy weights, there "is! nothing In farm work thtit Is not" easily within the capacities of women. wom-en. It Is probably true that tho average av-erage fa mor depends very much for his business success on his wife's Judgment. If women go inio farming more, they will be turning from callings that are overcrowded, Into ono in which tho whole world Is crying for tho product. It always pays to work In a field where the demands exceed? tho supply. Tho agricultural schools aro reporting this fall that many women wo-men .'ire taking their courses of study. Perhaps the sight of the millions o! Europe's women, who nro (Inlahlng this year's harvest, may lusplr's others oth-ers In this country to choos) this opening. I ! ! THE PROGRESS OF THE CANCING CRAZE When the dancing fever first raged It was supposed tho attack would bo brief. Yet tho summer hotels were one long sceno of terpslchorean revelry. rev-elry. Konneily many places merely had Saturday night hops. This year they usually danced every evening, many groups practised In the parlor mornings, the steps they would display dis-play to tho tistonlshcd wall Mowers that evening. , All the teachers havo to do, when tfado falls off n bit is to invent a now set of dances. Tho good money tho crowd previously spent ,'n learning learn-ing tho tango and tho twlnklo and tho aviation is now gone, theso figures having already becomo antique. Young men who could not earn ?2 a day at tiny productive- occupation will set up aa teachers of dancing nr.d mako ten and twenty times that Jig-ure. Jig-ure. They do well to salt down their cash. The sun docs not shine at this temperature very long. Peoplo used to quit dancing when they got married, principally becauso now and fresher sets of girls pushed the older women off tho floor, by capturing nil tho danco invitations. Now that a lot of original now dances danc-es have como in, husbands and wives get used to each othors stops and can danco bettor togothcr It tho Old Man does not slink out In tho coirl-dor coirl-dor to enjoy his cigar. Dancing has Its many evils, but at Its best It is a diversion characterlz ed by poetry and romance, nnd it brightens the faco and Improves tho digestion. The writer was going to conclude by remarking "All hands round," when ho reflected what nn anachronism tho old prompters' calls aro In theso days of tho'maxlxo and tho ouo step. ! ! v ATTENDANCE AT PRIMARIES In splto of nil tho efforts that h.'ivo been mado to liberalize tho prlniurirs and to encourago tho voters to take part In them, tho reports from a numi her of states this (all nro that theso meetings aro not well attonded. Of course tho war has, In a way swept politics oi!t of tho spot light, nut government must go on in this country, coun-try, war or no war. As usual, n high prlco will bo paid for mlsgov-crnment. mlsgov-crnment. Tho attitude of peoplo who refuse to attend and voto at prlmniio3 Is not a llttlo Incomprehensible-. They nro usually good citizens In oilier respects. re-spects. They reverence tho flag of tho country, nnd they aro loyal to the stato and homo town. Hut when it comes to tho oner jus task of spending a halt hour .it tho voting booth, to do their part toward making tholr state and country powerful pow-erful nnd ofllclont, they aro not there. A great many of theso peoplo aro very keen critics of present methods of government. They rako tho bosses boss-es with withering sarcasm. Ono man talking with the writer recently said that primaries wcro cut and dried affairs af-fairs anyway. It was no uso to xo. Even If thoro was a contest, ho wanted want-ed to show his contempt for the wholo system by staying away. runny, wasn't It? In order to spite tho bosses, ho did Just what tho bosses boss-es want I As long ns ho nnd men like him stay away, the bosses will retain control. . If a man's tlmo is so valuable, If his public spirit is so feeble, If his mind Is so sluggish, that the fateful and stealthy struggles of politics have no interest to him, nnd ho feels thnt he can not sparo the few moments mo-ments necessary to attend both primary pri-mary and election, let him attend tho primary rather than tho other. It Is thcro that tho real fato of good government gov-ernment or bad, government is decided, de-cided, rather than at election. I ! 2 UNIFORMITY IN MEN'S DRESS One of the humorous phases of the clothes question Is tho uniformity of men's styles. This varies In inverso proportion to age. Your llttlo man lu tho grammar school is most subject sub-ject to this rigidity. If all the other boys aro wearing caps, It Is a terrible terri-ble trial to him to appear In a hat. You may prove to him that your selection is tho latest Now York stylo. But if tho boys in his homo set aro not wearing it, it becomes obnoxious ob-noxious and hated. His feeling Is Judicious In a way. It tho hat varies va-ries but a triflo from tho accepted form In his particular circle, It is suro to find its way to tho mud pud-dlo pud-dlo and that speedily. When you get up to tho ago of thej college boy, tho sanio spirit is nearly as powerful. All the boys will bo found wearing the samo thing under the samo circumstances. If one Is wearing a derby bat on tho oponlng day, all of them aro doing so. At negllgco hours all aro roaming about In most nondescript knocknbouts. Men still havo certain rigid epochs of dress. Tho straw hat is supposed, to bo very largely called In on September Sep-tember 1C. Within a fow days, they mysteriously disappear as if by universal uni-versal ngrcement. On tho stock eXj changes, nn offender against this codo Is assisted to conform to tho universal univer-sal practice In other circles, tho wearing of a straw hat a few days too lato, mako one the subject ot derisive deris-ive remarks. As men grow older, thoy havo more Individuality In dress, and this Individuality Indi-viduality is growing. Tho soft lint, for Instance, has a far wider, voguo than It had a fow years ago. Any man can Improve- his appear-anco appear-anco by a well fitted suit built on personality and physlquo. Somo years ago, thin men wero mado ridiculous ridi-culous .by conforming to tho rago for tight clothes. Now a slender mnu can present a rather rugged appear-nnco appear-nnco by a woyy fitted suit built on full lines. .. .?- j. -- - When wo rccolvo war prices for what wo sell, wo also havo to pay war prices for what wo buy. Destruction Destruc-tion of life and property ha3 never ndded a cent to tho wealth of tho world nnd nover will. I ! V History will not oxcuse us because, after, making war Inevitable wo ran around nt tho last mlnuto begging everybody not to make n disturbance. An English Opinion from Gcorgo Uornnrd Shaw. Homo was not built In a day. Neither Nei-ther can tho nations ot tho world expect ex-pect to boo overlastlng peace at once. ' ! ! ! Don't be disappointed If the first Insertion of your want nd docs not accomplish wonders. I ! ! Don't sit down and mourn with a "I'll novor got It hack" expression on jour faco. I ! ! .Most peoplo are honest, nnd fow want rewards, so the cost to advor-tiso advor-tiso Is very small, |