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The Commoner.
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work department, gives patterns and
directions for many useful as well as
ornamental things which may readily
be worked out by even a novice.
Knitting appeals strongly to popular
favor from the fact that it may be
taken " up or laid down at will, to
suit one's convenience or time, or
where work requiring a strong light or
good eyes must be laid aside, and
thus All in- many gaps which would
otherwise be very tiresome. Invalids
or blind persons find a pleasant pas
time in this work, and one may go
on reading or talking, if the pattern
ia not too 'elaborate, while flashing the
needles. It is claimed that knitting
has become so much a habit with
many German ladies that they not un
frequently take their work with them,
even to places of amusement.
The needles come in various sizes,
ranging, in steel, from twelve to twenty-four;
the finest are used for knitting
laces of fine thread. For woolen, or
heavy cottons, rubber, bone, ivory, or
wooden needles are used. For lace, or
knitting where the pattern is not very
wide, a fine needle may be broken in
two and a tiny ball of wax, or a bead
may be attached to the broken end,
making the work more easily handled.
Knitting requires very little move
ment of the hands where properly
done, and the exaggerated movement
of the arms which renders it a tire
some occupation should be avoided.
Books giving full instructions in this
branch of needle work are, in fin any
places, to be had for the asking, white
in others, better books sell for ten
to twenty-five cents.
Cause of Redness of the Nose
. Redness of the nose may arise from
various causes, one of the chief of
which is stomach trouble, or indiges
tion caused by bolting the -food with
out proper mastication, and sufferers
from red noses must be careful of
ther diet, avoiding heating foods and
hot drinks. All foods should be taken
slowly and well masticated- before
swallowing.
Sometimes the redness is due, to
dryness of the nasal duct, or delicacy
of the capillary organs. The inflama-tion-may
then be treated as follows:
Prepare a wash containing 154 grains
of powdered borax, one teaspoonful
of eau de cologne and five ounces of
soft water. First dissolve the borax
in the water, and then add-the eau de
cologne. When the nose burns, damp
it with this lotion and let it dry on; if
when dry it still burns, repeat the
treatment. Another mixture for the
same trouble may be made as fol
lows: Dissolve 30 grains of borax
in one ounce of rose water and orange
water in equal parts; wet the nose
with this solution about three times
a day, letting it dry on.
Sometimes the redness arises from
a kind of congestion, and in this case,
it should be washed in warm water on
going to bed.
A cold in the head, or chronic nasal
catarrh, will often cause a red and
inflamed condition of the nose. A
little cold cream should then be ap
plied to the sore parts. The follow
ing is an easily prepared and safs
cold cream: Half pound of the vory
best lard put in a basin, and boil
ing water poured over it; when cold,
diain the water off. Repeat this pro
cess three times; then after freeing
the lard of the water, beat it to a
cream with a fork and scent it with
t essence of bergamot. The nostrils
' should never be touched with the fing
ers. To wash them, dissolve in these
proportions one pint of warm water
to one teaspoonful each of fine table
salt and powdered borax, pour a lit
tle in the palm of the hand and snufl!
up -into the nose repeatedly. This is
an excellent and simple remedy for
catarrhal trouble of the throat and
nose. Selected.
petite is usually very capricious, and
the most temptingly prepared foods
seem tasteless and unsatisfactory. Na
ture has anticipated this condition of
things, and has given us an abundance
of vegetables, while the market is
well supplied with tho fruits from the
southern gardens. Nothing clears the
complexion so nicely as a diet of
fruits and vegetables, and tho old
fashioned "greens" so dear to tho
country-bred person is invaluable as
a "regulator." If you are sitting stead
ily, the juice of a lemon in your drink
ing water is a good medicine, if it
agrees with you. Fresh apples and
oranges are better than pie or cake,
and rhubarb sauce is also a valuable
medicine in a pleasant form, while tho
strawberry, just now becoming so plen
tiful and reasonable in price, is one
of our very best "prescriptions." For
tho constipation which is very apt to
menace your health just now, take a
dose of Rochelle salts three or four
times a week. Drink plenty of pure
water, and have as little as possible
to do with drugs.
Individual Belongings
Every child and every adult should
havo their own, individual toilet be
longings. One 's own comb and hair
brush is just as neccstjary as ono's
own toothbrush. Every one should
havo his or her own towel, as well
as an individual handkerchief, and
but one person should use it. Im
press upon each one tho fact that the
property of tho others is to bo re
spected, and that each should keep
his or her belongings in its own place.
Separate wash basins, too, should be
provided, no matter how choap tho
material, so it can bo used only by
its owner. Many diseases of tho eyo,
skin, throat and nose Is carried from
ono to another by tho promiscuous
use of the "family" toilet articles.
Once let a child learn to use its own,
knowing the reason for the isolation,
and it will soon become attached to
tho idea. It would seem useless to
tell one child not to use another's
handkerchief or tooth brush, but it is
just as bad to use other toilet appurtenances.
HOODWINKING THE FARMER
i Spring .Dieting . .
: These early spring days one's -apt claims set' forth in order" to make' the J
"Tho Implement Age," published at
Philadelphia, recently printed the fol
lowing: No doubt our readers have already
seen some specimens of the large ad
vertisements just recently inserted in
the farm papers by the Harvester
Trust. It will be recalled that "The
Implement Age" announced December
29th that the harvester trust was con
tracting heavily for large space in
western farm papers for the purpose
of advertising its machinery in detail
with the farmer. A representative of
tho trust was quoted in the same par
agraph as saying that it was desired
to havo the farmer become familiar
with its machinery, so that at a later
date when it desired to sell direct to
the consumer all of the advertising
would not have to be done.
It is evident from the first install
ment of this stupendous advertising
campaign that' the harvester trust
means to allay the prejudices of the
farmer If it is at all possible, and at
the same time to make him thorough
ly familiar with their machines, just
as intimated above, by going into the
most elaborate and plausible explana
tions. The initial number of the series Is
entitled "Harvester Talks to Farm
ers tNo. 1," and a sub-head reads, "A
series of personal talks to the grain
and grass-growing farmers of America."
This appeal to the consumer is
worded in a friendly, Informal man
ner, well calculated to throw the farmer
off his guard and to win his confi
dence. They make a great show of
fairness by frankly stating that they
"have purchased the space from the
publisher of the paper for the purpose
of letting in a little light on the har
vesting machine question."
Then they take up the subject of
the survival of the fittest in the man
ufacture of harvesting machinery,
showing that their lines of harvesting
machinery have stood the test of time,
and very cleverly outline the alleged
reasons for the combine of the five
original companies (no mention is
made of the Osborne). In the pro
cess of explanation they endeavor to
create the impression in' tho mind of
the farmer that the combine only
amounts to a plan of "co-operation"
adopted by the five companies in order
to secure the immense, facilities,
mines, steel millB, forests, lumber
mills, coal and coke mines, paint
plants, etc., which it is .absolutely
nAPPKRnrv to own according to' the
"best machines." Tho climax of this
argument is reached in tho following
paragraph :
"Such harvesting machines as are
produced today in the various plants
of the International Harvester Com
pany, could not, by any possibility, be
produced under any other condition
excepting at an Immense advance In
cost to the farmer."
The trust promises that it will tell,
in later articles in theso series, more
about its immense lumber camps in
Arkansas and Wisconsin; about Its
coal mines in Kentucky its iron mines
in Wisconsin and Minnesota; its steel
mills in Illinois the economies made
in manufacturing and in distribution,
etc.
In closing the talk diplomatic ref
erence is briefly made to the local
agency or dealer.
In passing it maybe noted that the
advertisement in question is the first
that has come to our attention in
which hay bailers are listed in the line
of trust goods. Weber wagons are
also listed, but not the Columbus wa
gon. In the face of such advertising does
the intelligent dealer doubt for a mo
ment that the harvester trust means to
get so close to tfie farmer that the
dealer wil be eliminated entirely, ex
cept perhaps as a hired man or repos
itory? The dealer can look through the
farm paper for himself and see that
this is the inauguration of advertising
to the consumer on a gigantic scale
with an unmistakable purpose.
As would naturally be expected, this
appeal of the trust to the farmer is
full of misrepresentation, half truths
and falsehoods. The management that
deceived the trade and lied to the
trade for more than a year in an under-handed,
shameless manner In or
der to maintain dummy-competition in
the shape of the Osborne Company,
the management that would be guilty
of General Letter Ncfr93-C and num
berless other breaches of faith, has
forever lost the confidence and respect
of those who are at all familiar with
Its methods. When frankness and fair
ness is encountered in dealing with
such a management it is. a matter of
surprise. The harvester trust has
demonstrated over and over again that
It will resort to any means to accom
plish Its remorseless purposes.
Let us take up some features of the
advertisement. It reads: "This is an
advertisement, but every word In it is
true and we prove it. It means more
to your pocketbook than it does to
ours."
"True?" ,Truth from the harvester
trust? It was born In a mire of false
hood and Its path ' is ' strewn with
wrecks, treachery and shamoloHsnesa,
Wo nro not making racro assertions
our rondcrs havo hnd tho undeniable
record of facta placed boforo thorn In
substantiation of tho foregoing sen
tence. It Is common knowledge in tho
trade, supported by dcflnito specified
facts.
"It moans moro to your pockotbook
than it does to ours." In our opinion
t means about tho samo amount to
both pockotbooks, tho difference being
that one is to bo emptied Into tho
other. I he farmer may suspect this
In the near future, If the trust has its
way, when plaualblo explanations will
bo forthcoming in excuse for higher
prices. b
Tho section devoted to alleged rea
sons for tho formation of tho trust Is
designed to croato a most erroneous
impression In the mind of Mm rnm
who knows Httlo of tho real situation.
Co-operation Is tho magic word
brought into play to take the curse off
the trust idea. Wo all remember in
the old days when tho Dcorlng Har
vester Co., in order to avoid the proj
udlccs of tho farmer against Immonso
corporations, organized as a partner
ship and constantly advertised them
selves as- "a co-partnership, not a cor
poration." That was their slogan in
tho days when tho prejudices of tho
farmers against corporations were not
nearly so keen as they aro now on
the subject of trusts. Therefore tho
harvester trust now boldly comes be
fore tho farmer nnd seeks adroitly to
create the Impression that It Is merely
a benevolent co-operative Institution.
In this connection the advertisement
offers Illustrations of the cooperative
principle which it alleges governs its
organization, saying It Is tho same as
the plan whereby several farmers club
logether to Import a good stallion or
to own a good boar, as if tho caso
were at all analogous. If it were pos
sible for a few farmers (or financiers)
to club together and get the only stal
lion on earth, having put tho other
stallions out of business by ono moth-,
od or another, so as to have the rest"
uj mo worm ai tnejr mercy, the Illus
tration might hold, but as it Is i,t Is
utterly out of tho question. Not oven
the cleverness of the trust is able to
get any kind of an illustration out of
such a case and it only results In ab
surdity. When they go on to the climax of
their appeal and state that "such har
vesting machines as are produced to
day in tho various plants of the Inter
national Harvester Co. could not, by
any possibility, be produced under any
other condition- excepting at an im
mense advance in cost to the farmer,"
they .cap their whole argument with
another falsehood. Of course strong
claims are expected in an advertise
ment, but this particular advertise
ment starts with tho statement that
"every word in it is true," and then
carefully and deliberately leads up to
a statement that any Intelligent mem
ber of the trade knows is absolutely
untrue. Other harvesting machines
are as good as the trust's, and aro
selling today at a lower price, and
more than that, the various machines
made by the trust could be as well
made, and were as well made and were
sold as cheap and cheaper to the farm
er by the individual companies that
were gathered into- the $120,000,000
trust in J. P. Morgan & Co.'s offices
by Wall street methods.
And this trust has the audacity to
attempt to masquerade as a co-operative
institution in the eyes of the farm
er, to teirhim it is going to speak tho
truth and "let in a little light on the
harvesting machine question."
It oughtn't to take the dealer long
to figure out what such a campaign of
a'dvertising to the consumer means to
him.
RUB ON
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