Show home paragraphs TAKK TAICE COURAGE wan aten you read about the trouble in the mine and in the mill when you read about the lockout and the strike when dishonor and dishonesty your morning paper fill 1 ID a way no decent citizen can like then there comes a strong temptation to have doubts about the nation and to far some dark disaster in the fogs foga but take heart my honest hones t tellow fellow dont you show a streak of yellow for this country Is not going to the dogs would you read of rotten politics in city and in state when you read of juggling justice on the bench when the price of 0 food makes leaner every day the poor mans plate when the social muck Is making quite a stench then a man can airey fairly airly wonder 1 if there crime or blunder been bee n a monkey arenc wrench h dropped in among the cogs but a state of abject terror is a most colossal error for this country is not going to the dogs for this good old ship america has weathered many she has sailed through many a thicker fog before and her crew have learned the habit of not knowing how to tall fail howsoever eer the stormy seas around may roar she la Is stanch and stout slid and roomy and though seas and skies be gloomy let us leave all coward croaking to the frogs bogs let us tace face in manly fashion all the panic and the passion for this country is not going to the dogs daniel A mccarthy in the journal of 0 education fashion notes Sou tache braid stitched in intricate designs in one of the trimming matits of street frocks and some afternoon gowns of chiffon show heavy braiding as their sole trimming this gives somewhat the same contract between a heavy trimming and a sheer fabric that her banding on chitton chifton and crepe bring 4 cords and tassels cassels are favored for girdles sometimes the cord is in reality a told 0 of silk and the tassels cassels are weighed balls of the same material aprons and hip yokes okes are simulated with embroidery on many of the new skirts to prepare an and serve see melons many cooks serve watermelon or muskmelon garnished with its own leaves needless to say these should be clean and glossy since however the most essential thing about the service of these melons is that they be could a bed of cracked lee ice is the best foundation for them on warm days another method Is 13 to cut off oe both ends of the melon and to stand it upright in a mogu or on 0 a service dish it is then passed with a large silver spoon which is used to scoop out the red pulp 0 the custom 0 of f cutting water watermelon into wedge shaped pie like pieces Is not so prevalent now as it once w was as one approved method of serving i ng a ripe watermelon is to prepare a bed of chopped tee ice and to put the watermelon whole but divested of all its green and white skin on this icy bed the effect of the red ault fruit against the ice Is very good watermelon pulp can also be scooped out with a cone shaped cutter and piled on a bed of ice sprinkle lightly with lemon and sugar and serve in this way there are always persons who riot not content with the negative tact fact that their dav favorite 0 rite kinds of food do them no harm and them sufficiently to be worth while are on the lookout for medicinal qualities besides let these careful persons believe as do the peasants of turkey and thos ot of russia that the juice of ripe watermelons water melons Is an antidote ante dote tor for intestinal troubles and dropsy what claim the cantaloupe has to medicinal value it is ii difficult to say but its own delightful flavor is excuse enough for its popularity the editor apart from a perfectly laudable desire to make a decent living for him himself and family has only the good of the community at heart the weekly newspaper promotes the interest of the town in which it Is published to such an extent that it becomes impossible to place an estimate upon its worth there Is no enterprise that does so much tor for the corporation or the individual citizen as tho the newspaper it stands opposed to the town knocker the town fanatic and to the town drone it is ever ready to combat the schemes of 0 visionaries vision aries and as ready to ald aid the conservative plans ot of wise and levelheaded citizens the editor and his paper stand as aa a bulwark of defense against the attack of evil designing schemes affecting the good of the individual or town other enterprises are encouraged by a bonus not BO be tho the newspaper remember that TIIE THE DRESS when eve donned a leaf and strolled out with her deary the breezes blew keenly sereney the while old saturn looked down with a smile that was cheery and jupiter shouted to juno some style when eve donned her apron and baked for her lovey the names flames danced in madness of 0 gladness all day while adam looked on with a smile at his dovey and said many times to himself the way for thousands of years since the dawn of creation have feminine creatures put man in a whirl but the dress that brings forth admiration that anchors the arrow its only the girl exchange 4 when a girl with a face like a cream putt puff marries a youth who never earned a dime outside a shooting gallery the editor has to paint the bride as a radiant vision of blushing beauty and the groom as one of our rising young business men or else disappoint an expectant circle of delinquent lin quent subscribers it if the editor falls to spread a two column obituary over I 1 i a prominent citizen who never paid a grocery bill hutsi outside ol 01 the justice court he is liable to be waited upon by some two fisted relatives of the deceased with an injured air and a punch in either hand people always speak well ot of a boy who minds his own business and who seems to be disposed to be somebody in time this is a queer world many people are watching us and help often comes when and from whom we least expect confidence is the safe in which men often deposit rich treasures and as you prove worthy so will your reward of success be there is a reward in success which none but those who strive can enjoy deserve success and it will come e flies treed breed and batch in horse manure and other filth they walk in filth and then walk in human food and rest their feet upon it they carry disease germs they are not merely six an inconvenient pest but are an enemy to human health and life it Is not a tad fad to swat the fly but a decision ot of science that it 1 ii the question of whether in man will kill the fly or the fly will poison his bis child or himself in this day of fly screen it is inexcusable that flies or mosquitoes ever get into the house and onto human flesh and touch human foca food 6 there is a sowing time and a time to reap the wise man said bring a child up in the way he should go and when he Is old he will riot not depart from it so go it is with the boys of today who are allowed to run the streets till nine or ten at night this does not mean our town alone as aa most all towns are similarly afflicted for an all affliction is surely proves to bo be to many families in the after life of 0 the boys parents bee after your boys and the company they keep it will be worth more than gold to you and them in the years to some we maintain that farming ar aug is and d should be one of the most t dig dignified ed profess professions lons in the tha world and that tho farmer Is the hope of 0 this nation vie believe that the farmer is 13 of mor morel importance than the farm and should b first improved that the skillful lined hand and cultured mind aro are his greatest assets that the boys and girls are his most valuable crop we would kindle among our readers an all ambition for more intelligent farming and would make not only better farms but better homes 4 4 the first word a child utters Is apt to be mother and the old man la in his dying dream calls mother mother it matters not whether she was brought up in the surroundings of a city and in affluent home and was diessel appropriately with reference to tho the demands of modern life or whether she wore the old time cap and great round spectacles and apron of 0 her own make and knit your socks with her own needles seated by the broad fireplace with great black logs ablaze on oil a winter night it matters not how maty macy wrinkles crossed and ed d her he lace face or how much her shoulders el doped with the tha burdens of a long life it you painted a madonna hers would be the face macei what a gentle hand band she had when we were sick and what a voice to soothe pain and was there any one who could so fill up a room with peace and purity and light and what a sad day that was waa when we came home and she could greet us not tor for her lips were forever still lade A man who has made a happy home for his wife and children no matter what he has not done in the way of achieving wealth and honor it if ho he lias has done that he be is a grand success if lie he hai haft not dot done that and it is his own fault though he be bo be t the h e highest in the land ho he la Is a most pitiable failure wo we wonder how many men in a mad pursuit of gold which characterizes the age realize that there is no fortune which can be left to their families as great as the memory of a happy home no heart la is insensible n sible to words of praise or the klaudi kindly y smile of approbation and none are utterly above being affected by censure or blame children are particularly sensitive in this respect nothing can discourage a child more than a spirit of incessant faultfinding fault finding and perhaps nothing can exert a more painful influence upon both parent and child it if your little one through the day has been pleasant and obedient and you say to him my aly son soil you have been good today and it makes me very happy and it if with more than a usually affectionate embrace you say good night my dear child a throb of suppressed feelings fills his breast and lie resolves on always earning such approval |