Show 1 1 1 1 1 1 t 11 II 1 1 11 JI 1 11 1 n 1 1 11 1 1 1 1 1 home paragraphs I 1 V V i i LA b bof HER WORK WAS ENDED catherine alsopp a washerwoman ot of sheffield england hanged herself with it a clothesline in her bedroom the coroners jury ren rendered dereI A verdict of suicide during temporary insanity even though the following verse written by the woman just belore she hanged herself was read tor for the benefit of the jury here lies a poor woman who always was tired she lived in a house where help was not hired T her ler last words on earth were dear friends i I 1 am going where washing atut done nor sleeping sweeping nor sewing but everything there is exact to my wishes for where they dont eat theres no washing of dishes IIII 1111 be where loud anthems will always be ringing but having no voice ill be clear of the singing dont mourn tor for me now dont mourn mourn for me never im going to do nothing tor for ever and ever na OF TIM THE PAST can anything be more pleasant in the busy humdrum hum drum ot of after years than to permit your mind to wander lack back to the days of s school life the sweet memories and incidents that that I 1 come up the smiling faces and pleasant I 1 countenances the old schoolhouse door that has bag so often admitted you swinging back and forth on its great hinges the very walls speaking forth of happy hours while at dour our side stands the noble teacher who has watched your every move and is as much interested in your success as you are yourself As these pleasant recollections come lack back to one the eye is almost moistened as he realize those days day are go gone fo for everaud so many who took part in those happy hours as well As we sit and contemplate that never naver again in this life will those days return that the participants who so joyously together in the school room and play ground pledged loyalty and faith to the old school aud and whose memories are the most hobt pleasant in our life are scattered tar far and wide and some departed forever to their eternal home when this Is realized sad indeed as the heart and the swit fuess with which the years pass by makes one understand that we are journeying toward the setting sun THE TOWN YOU LIVE IN think well of it stand up tor for it speak in its favor patronize its merchants encourage its industries cheer every live enterprise hurrah for or the enthusiastic see sea all that is beautiful in ia it chant praises to the good it possesses sing of its wonders find it has some praise it and laud it it if you wish thrift to come welcome improvements eions asin a sin love it stick to it the town you live liva in m el there are many good and valuable lessons to be taught in tho the public schools but chief among these is the lesson of obedience well disciplined cip lined school children make law abiding and patriotic citizens the enforcement ot of sensible and reasonable discipline in our schools means better citizenship the teacher who does not guard well this important point Poin thas has missed his or her calling ra Z show us a family where good music is cultivated where the parents and children are accustomed to mingle their voices together in sons song and we will show you one where peace love and harmony prevail and where here the angry voices have no abiding place ta t a we ought to consider home and all the members of the household as entitled to the first consideration in ia all things what are those we meet in society to us that we should take uch such pains to be agreeable to them and nd neglect those who have the strongest claim upon us it all comes come about about because we have got into at a wrong ong way 0 of thinking we have put the home into the background when it should occupy the for or most place in our thoughts we should strive to make ourselves such pleasant members of the household band that our absence Is like ilka the loss ot of the sunshine from a summon day we can do it and we will do it it if we enter e nto into the right spirit the spirit ot of home pa our country needs grand and good men and to become a grand and good man on emust bo be a grand and good boy it Is ig a wrong idea that every boy must sow his wild oats when you sow a crop of 0 wild oats you must take time to harvest a crop and the crop Is never anything but chart chaff wild oats ned never be sown the time spent la in sowing cowing wild gild oats Is worse than lost tor for the time could be spent in sowing a crop that would yield a golden harvest be careful about the kind of 0 seed you sow tor for whatever a man howeth that shall he also reap if a relative comes to sec bee you tell him what a nice place it la is do not lay stress on what a city this would have been if so and so happened or it if so and so been elected or it if so and so could be done with the industries and various lines 0 of business conducted within the city id A community ot of taste and beauty must necessarily be composed of 0 refined and cultured people and true culture leads to higher morality there are about our village many things that coll commend mend it there are things that are capable of improvement me n t public sentiment will do mu much ch toward beautifying our dwelling our streets and alleys neatness taste and beauty will help us all our moral life would be higher and our social life purer who bg be a farmer there Is just one trouble only the farmers know how to farm there are arc who would like to quit the towns and cities and emigrate to the country and possess themselves of broad fertile fields and proceed to make two blades of this that or the other oilier of grass grow where one or none grew before but this proposition presents that it takes from two to twenty years to learn how to farm some folks never learn and within such a period bankruptcy might occur several times over but if K all of us cannot be farmers all can admire the horny banded sons of toil and rejoice with him in ia his present great prosperity ile he is the bulwark of the nation and the salt of the earth pa 1141 broad bread bullets are going to win the war we are told and the whole country is waking to the importance of 0 planting every possible acre ot of fertile land the secretary of agriculture has urged publishers of 0 agricultural cultural papers to emphasize the need of redoubled efforts to get a big acreage of food crops in the governor of iowa has called for the enlistment of boys from thirteen to eighteen ears of age to work either in town ton gardens or upon the farms president wilson says that these boys will be soldiers of the commissary mis sary there are fine possibilities in ia this idea the boys may be brought 19 feel that they are serving their country as truly as their older brothers who enlist in the army or navy arid and the girls should have a medal to keep as lifelong evidence ol of their service in the last great war let us hope of the worlds history 11 look up cheer up and gaze at the bright side of things this Is a big world with any amount of good in it it if we ve cirild get gat out in the warm un shino of human kindness ind and thaw out a little wo we would feel better and enjoy the good ot 0 this life much more te ka you will not pass through this horld orld but once any good thing that you iian can show to any follow fellow being do it now do not deter defer or neglect it for you will not pass this way again pa a the boy who takes his hat oft off when he enters the house la is the one on who usually has his hair combed and his face cleanard cle anand the girl who says please and thank you la is always prettier than the one who forgets these little things you luat just look around and sea bee it if this is not true pa what others havo have done can be performed today by our young men they are in a great measure the architects of their own fortunes upon themselves alone rests the responsibility they have it in their own power to either make or unmake 0 and every young man should earnestly earne earnestly and seriously ask aab himself which w kai 1 ft fc re th the emot mothers bers p of this town who are responsible fo for the girls who gd gad the Bt streets should SOP and think what they are doing these girls are no DO langei loneer children I 1 the they Y are at the impressionable age where will you have their impression i come from from the riff ot of the street or from home it is tor for the smothers mothers of this town to settle the question ta in ia figuring thrift garden profits about ten per cent should be charged oft off in anticipation of the depredations ot of friend neighbors tour four tooted footed pets and his big feather covered hosts pa what will be conditions in our clues cities next winter and what will be ba the effect upon all industry it if food supplies are scarcer and dearer than they are now it must be impressed upon everybody that no wage advances or regulation of prices can add ono one bushel of wheat or a pound ot of potatoes beans gr 91 onions to the supply after the growing season is oyer over |