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MRS GOULD A AD M’S 2 GLORIA _ E LEARN from the scientists ■T-Tj of the census bureau and YV others who have made a _ study of that interesting but f: <: rratic bird, the stork, that 9 9 9 ts favorite habitat is in the of the poor rather than in the palaces of the rich, and that in no s^'iSk OFORGF <J. GOULD, JR. Before they were bom I took every care of my own health and lived as much as pos sible in the open air. Before Edith was born I spent months on our yacht cruising around, as it was summer, in fact, she was born at sea. Then I have nursed my babies myself, except twice when illness rendered it impossible for me to do so. I do not be lieve in sterilized milk nor patent baby loods. A baby is like a little puppy. If you want it to grow fine and strong and fat, you must give it the right start, and nothing has yet been discovered that takes the place of = the food that nature intended for a child. “In raising my children my plan has been to bring them up to he simple and hardy. Not one of my children has ms yjy/AU GOULD I X//YGDO/Y COUJ-D other place in the world is it more sel dom seen than along Fifth avenue. The home of Mr. George J. Gould, however, is an exception to this rule. Seven times the domestic bird has vis-, ited and blessed that abode, each time leaving a baby so strong and lusty, so big and beautiful, that it fully justified the fond parents’ declaration that it was the finest child ever born. Bet ter still, the Gould children have grown up to be almost perfect speci mens of physical health, and they are so intelligent and so natural and unaf fected in character that it seems worth while to tell how this result has been accomplished, and how a wise father and mother have enabled their children to lead the simple life in the midst of millions and a luxury that makes that of the fabled Sybar ites look like a makeshift with which 7 mss ' tfA.ROORJE GOULD THE HISSES EDITH A MD GLORIA one could get along if one had to.' When you want to dive to the heart of a mys tery the French shrug their shoulders and spread out their hands, and say: "Cherchez la femme." If you desire to find the key to any family situa tion and know why the children of the household are what they are—virile or weakly, sturdy lit tle men and women or flabby jellyfish, potential citizens of worth or mere cumberers of the ground—you must act as if the old French adage read: "Cherchez la mere.” It is the mother that counts where children are concerned, and so I sought out Mrs. George J. Gould, and asked her for her recipe for bringing up a family. J fouud her in their magnificent suite of apartments at the Plaza hotel, surround ed, like Cornelia, by her jewels. There was her • daughter Marjorie, a lovely, slim slip of a girl, one of the debutantes and belles of the season, come in to tell of the delights of the ball of the night before. There was Edith, a sturdy little miss of seven, hanging upon her mother’s shoul der. There was George, a shy lad of 12, poking his head in between the portieres from time to time. Tbe other children were absent, and a mo tor was being sent, to her sc_jol for Vivian, and another to Columbia university for Kingdon and Juy, for the day was bitter cold and snowy. Baby Gloria, whit is only two and a half years old, was spending the winter at Georgian Court with her grandmother, and trinkets were being got ready to send to her there. Tbe room-itself was a very temple of mother hood, for ifs empire tone had heen ruthlessly sac rificed before family affection and love of things homelike, and everywhere on walls and mantles and tables there were photographs of the chil dren—.lay in tennis flannels when he won the championship of the world, Kingdon with his first mustache, marvelously like a young edition of the kaiser. Marjorie in her debutante gown, and baby pictures innumerable. In the midst of all this evidence of a mother's brooding love sat Mrs. Gould, a radiant figure in trailing pale-blue silk, as young looking almost as her own daughter, and I thought that if I were an artist 1 should like to paint her as a triumphant modern Madonna, a woman to whom motherhood has brought nothing but joy, and whose children are her crown of happiness. She has had all that women crave, has this woman who is a darling of the gods. First she had success and fame, which she won by her own genius; then she was given love and marriage and enormous wealth and high social position. She has beauty that is still undimmed, but the best that life has given her is her children, and it is good to hear her say so. “My acquaintances have sometimes pitied me,” she said with a smile, “because I have had so many babies, but I have not one child too many. I have never had a child that I did not want, or that has not found a warm welcome waiting for it. 1 think that is one reason why ray children have all been so strong and have had such se rene dispositions. '1 have felt the responsibilities of motherhood, too, and have tried to give my children as good a start as possible by giving them sound bodies. ever had on a stitch of fannel, not even a ! flannel petticoat. They have warm wraps 1 when they go out of doors, but in the house ; they wear little socks and low-necked and short-sleeved cotton or woolen clothes. j They live also on the simplest and plainest food—cereals and eggs, tender steaks and good roast meat, with plenty of vegetables and fruit, and the simplest sort of dessert when they have any at all. No pies and pastry, and no nibbling a: candy all day for 1 them. I also put great stress on absolute regularity in eating, and no matter who else waits, the children have their meals exactly on the stroke of the clock. "We are a very domestic family, and the children have their breakfast and lunch, which is really their dinner, with Mr. Gould and myself, but until they are 16 years old they have their supper at a little after six o’clock, and only have something very light to eat. They never come to dinner, unless upon their birthdays it is permitted as a great treat. Why, Marjorie never came to dinner regularly until last year, and she is still so attached to the nursery tea that when we are down at Georgian Court she , often eats with the children by preference. “Ol' course T, have so raany other duties that it is not possible lor me to be always with my ba . hies, and so 1 kept a trained nurse for each one until lie or she was two and a half years old, and past the tec-thing-time; but there is never a night, even to this day, that I do not go into each room the last thing before going to bed, and tuck the covers down with niv own hands, good and tight around each child. And I have nursed every one of my children with my own hands when they were sick. I had trained nurses, of course, but 1 sat up with the sick child, too. When Marjorie had that fearful spell o:: scarlet fever in France the summer before last, and when it seemed ut terly impossible for her to recover, her lather and I never left her day or night for weeks. The doctors said that it was the most malignant case they ever saw, and that nothing but her marvel ous strength pulled her through. They said that if she had been a French girl she certainly would have died. “I believe that the chief thing about raising children, up to be well and strong is to bring them up in the country where they can have plenty of fresh air and room for cjxercise, and freedom. It was for the benefit of cur children that we, went down to Lakewood and built Georgian Court. The second floor of the house is devised especially for the children, and the sunniest room in it is for the baby and the next sunniest for the ex-baby; and we’s always had great times and ceremonies when the reigning monarch had to give way for a new king or queen of the nursery and have his or her little belongings packed up and moved on. “Everything has been sacrificed for the good of the children. For ten years we lived at Georgian Court only in the winter, and took the babies every summer up to the quietest and dullest little place in the world in the Catskills, ten miles from anywhere. “At Georgian Court we provided every sort of diversion for our children to en courage them in athletic sports. We have a polo-ground, and a riding-ring, and tennis and squash-courts, and the children have their ponies and ride and drive a great deal. The boys were particularly interested in polo, and Kingdon, my oldest son, at 15 was considered one of the best polo-players in the country. Jay was also a fine HfiS GOULD AND THE HISSES EDITH AND GLORIA player, but after Kingdon went to Columbia the game was somewhat broken up; so as there was a fine professional tennis-player at Lakewood he took up court tennis instead. It is a game that re quires unusual strength and quickness of motion, but he soon became so expert at it that when ho was 17 he won the American championship, and when he was 18 he carried off the English cham pionship, which is, of course, the championship of the world. “Neither Mr. Gould nor myself is an advocate of boarding-schools. We believe that the very best associations that children can have during the formative years of their lives are home associa tions, and that no guardianship is equal to the loving watchfulness of a father and mother. There fore we have kept our children right in the home nest, and have had them educated by tutors and governesses. “In educating the children we have tried to de velop each one along the line of his or her okn natural bent. For instance, Marjorie adores read ing, particular poetry and romance. She is a good musician and, as I said, speaks four languages; but she does not care for what you might call the drudgery of study, and I have not afflicted her with it. But Vivian has a profound mind. She loves to study and to delve into deep subjects. "I am very proud of my two big boys. They are clever, and they are strong, manly boys, and best of all, in a mother’s eyes, they are good boys. Neither of them has ever caused me a moment’s uneasiness or a single heart-pang. Kingdon is 21 and Jay is 20, and neither of them smokes or has ever tasted liquor. Not that I am a prohibitionist at ail, or have ever tried especially to keep such things awa.y from them, hut they just have no de sire for stimulants. And that, I take it, is about the best indication of their health and strength, as well as a vindication of my method of raising chil dren, for alter all, it’s the healthy body that gives a. healthy mind and healthy impulses, isn’t it?’’ COUNTY OF A THOUSAND KEYS - « Monroe County, Florida, Is All islands and Everglades, and Very In teresting. Monroe county is the most unique county in the state, if not in the United States. The larger portion of the county is made up of a group of islands, or, as they are called, keys, both on the east and west coasts. The only pait cf Monroe county on the mainland is the Cape Sable country, the enreme southwest of the United Stages on the mainland. The larger portion of this land is what is known as the Everglades, and but a limited number of acres are now under cultivation. In the vicinity of Cape Sable there are large bodies of rich alluvial land and a considerable quantity has been under cultivation for several years past. All kinds of tropical and semi-trop ical fruit trees grow luxuriantly on the keys and bear full crops of fruit each year. Every key is surrounded with water and the great portion of them have clean white sand beaches with bluffs varying in height above high water mark. — Jacksonville Times Union. Sugar a Valuable Tonic. A medical journal gives particulars of experimental cases in which sugar was employed as a tonic and invigora tor. One patient, subiect to the most violent headaches from hunger or lacl of food, discovered that the pressuri in the head was considerably relieve* when a few lumps of sugar dipped ii water were eaten very slowly. Fui ther experiments are being made witl a view to demonstrating the value o lump sugar as a luncheon where otha food is not to be had. It would be * simple and easy matter (the write points out) to carry half a doze) pieces of sugar in one’s pocket, to b* indulged In with no other accompani ment but a glass of water. Forest Conditions ik> hounl^i OK/DD/WG, OR LOG WAGOLi CBBBAGC BWLMETTO A PRELIMINARY investiga tion of the forest conditions of Florida was made during the past winter by the Unit ed States Forest Service in ;o-operation with the state. The re port is now completed and has been submitted to the governor for his con sideration. It i6 hoped that the leg islature may be able to incorporate at least some of the recommendations into law in the near future. Florida occupies a prominent posi tion among the timber and turpentine producing states of the country. It has, at present, a greater per cent, of Its land in forest than any other state. Some of the finest stands of longleaf pine in the south are contained with in its borders. The development of the forest industries during the past few years has been phenomenal. While the agricultural development in certain parts of the state will make permanent use of immense areas of cut-over land, the bulk of lands now being cut over will not be needed for agricultural purposes for many years to come. In the meantime the tim ber producing possibilities of such lands are being destroyed by repeated fires, turpentining, and reckless lum bering. The opportunity to organize and adopt plans of forest manage ment should not be delayed until the forest lands have all been cut over. Many states have temporarily de veloped at the expense of their for est interests and have realized too late the disastrous effects of wasting their forest resources. The report of the Forest Service Examiner in Florida lays particular stress on the importance of a strong forest policy for the state. There should be a commission of forestry to have general supervision of the forestry interests of the state and to appoint a state forester. It should be the duty of the state forester, un der the direction of the commission, to advise private owners in reference to forest management, to bring to pub lic attention the damage done by for est fires, to formulate and put into execution a firewarden system to pro tect the forests from fires, to encour age more conservative systems of lumbering and turpentining, to inves tigate tax and grazing problems, and in general promote a healthy interest in forest preservation in the state. The forest fire problem in Florida, as in other southern states, was found to be a most serious hindrance to the perpetuation of the forests. The practice of burning over the ground annually destroys all possibility of a young growth of pine to take the place of the mature timber when it is cut. Moreover, fires injure the standing timber, especially where the trees have been boxed, and destroy the vegetable covering of the soil. It has been demonstrated that repeated fires decrease the value of the forest for grazing purposes. In order to check the annual fire evil, the report proposes a forest fire law for Florida which shall make it unlawful and punishable by fine or imprisonment, or both, for any indi vidual or corporation to start fires on land not their own. The proposed law also makes every owner liable for damages resulting trom the spread of fire from his own land to that of an other. There are many other impor tant features in the proposed law,, such as the appointment of firewar dens. the use of spark arresters on locomotives and engines, and posting of fire notices. The report furthermore recom mends the establishment of state for ests from tax lands and by purchase, as has alredy been done by many states in the country. The forests of Florida have lasted longer than in many states, perhaps because the state has been more gen erously endowed with valuable growth. The need of forest preserva tion has not been so apparent in the past, but those who understand the ! present conditions in Florida and in other states should be aii re to the ne | cessity of taking some action to cut j wisely what forests remain, and pro vide for regeneration on lands that have | already been denuded. The report explains the present situation in de | tail and points the way for a wiser consideration in the future. The south, with 27 per cent, of the total area of the United States, con | tains about 42 per cent, of the total forest area of the country. The for est area by states is as follows; Ala bama, 20,000,000 acres; Arkansas, 21, 200,000; Florida. 20,000.000; Georgia 22,300,000; Kentucky, 10,000,000; Lou isiana, 16,500,000; Maryland, 2,200, 000; Mississippi, 17,500,000; North Carolina, 19,600,000; South Carolina 12,000,000; Tennessee, 15,000,000; Texas, 30,000,000; Virginia, 14,000, 000, and West Virginia, 9,100,000. The south, it will be seen, has sti’ much of the virgin forest of tic country. This forest must be usee of course, in order to meet the steadilj expanding wmnts of the section. II must be used in such a manner, how ever, that the very most may be made from its annual cut, while at the same time this cut is being replaced by new growth. In this way its t::m ber will remain a source of perpetual wealth. The importance of forest conserva tion to southern interests is clearly understood by the people of the south The future of the south is more near ly bound up in the plan of forest pres ervation, with its accompanying pro tection to watersheds, power-streams and wood-working industries, than is anything now before the people oi that part of the country. Not only is the portection of the watersheds which will some day furnish the pow er to run all manufacturing establish ments in the entire south, an imoor tant matter to the south, but the in dustries depending upon the forest products will also be benefited by the protection thrown about the remain ing timbered area. Poor Woman. “I am so sorry for Mrs. Flite,” says the lady with the display of coral rings. “She is so unhappy since shf came home from her summer trip You know she left her husband at home all summer. “Ah!” significantly breathes the lady with the two-do!lar barette. “And did he carouse around and do things he shouldn’t? These men!” “That’s why she's unhappy,” ex plains the other lady. “He behaved himself and she was so in hopes she might have a chance to get a divorce this fall.”—Life. Extravagance. "It tabes a maid to be extrava gant.” said the woman of slender means. "My girl just exhibited to me with much pride something she had bought to send a girl friend for her birthday. It was a sublimated card, with a dove life size, made of paper that fluffed out ivhen you pulled a string, all gay colors and cut out ef fects something like til old-fashioned valentines. She paid 50 cents for the thing and it probably will get smashed in the mails. Just think of the hand kerchiefs, gloves, stockings, hat pins, collars and all manner of pretty use ful things you can get for 50 cents. But the other girl probably will be delighted, so why should 1 worry?’’ Traveled with Heavy Loads. Up in Maine and New Brunswick the guides carry tremendous loads. But the “piece’’ of the old fur trade, whether of furs or supplies, was about 90 pounds in weight. The man who could not pack three "pieces" on his tumpline over the average portage ranked low around the campfire. A Chippewa has been known to carry a barrel of pork two miles, with fre quent rests, of course; and one smil ingly bet a 160-pound man that he could carry him five miles over a log ging trail and not set him down once Some of these men would pack 200 pounds, and it is said sometimes 300 but they were unusually powerful men and working under keen rivalry Recipes for Melancholy. Never give way to melancholy; re sist it steadily, for the habit will en croach. I once gave a lady two and twenty recipes against melancholy; one was a bright fire, another to re member all the pleasant things said to and of her; another to keep n bos of sugar plums on the chimneypiece and a kettle simmering on the hob. 1 thought this mere trilling at the mo ment, but have, in after life, discov ered how true it is that these little pleasures often banish melancholy better than higher or more exalted ob jects; that no means ought to bf thought too trilling which can oppose it either in ourselves or others.—Syd ney S !th. lOTmeSmakp jWoMANj ‘‘Where are von going, my pretty maid?" "I’m not going anywhere, sir,” she said. "To-morrow I'm asked to a bridge anc tea. And Saturday to the links. But none of these pleasures may be for me,” Continued the sighing minx. "On Sunday my friends in a touring car Would scurry both here and there— I’d love to go whizzing both near and far But haven't a thing to wear. “I’m asked as a guest at a country place, I’m asked to the matinee, I’m asked to go out to an airship race But here at home I stay. A friend of mine phoned just an hour ago And asked me If I would care To join him at lunch, but 1 told him ‘No,’—• I haven’t a thing to wear. “It’s awful to think of the slaves we are To ribbons and furbelows. To think that the fashions may make or mar One’s pleasures, but goodness knows I'd hurl my defiance at all vain style And all of its edicts dare And face all my critics with scornful smile— But haven't a thing to wear. "Why, I cannot go to the church at all— My dresses are out of date. I’m asked to go soon to a lovely ball And weep at my sorry fate. I cannot go down to the deep blue sea And bathe in its ripples fair. What is there left for a girl like me? I haven't a thing to wear!” "Lecture on dress reform, my pretty maid.” “I haven’t a thing to wear,’ she said. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Mrs. Tessie Truelove of Paw Paw, Mich., threw the scissors at a chicken one day recently and struck her hus band in the strawberry patch. Per haps this means the strawberry mark. A Milford (0.) paper tells us that Henry Sigmore was held up by two footpads who hit him with a sandbag in the neighborhood of the pump sta tion. We suppose Henry is using an artificial pumping system during his convalescence. Mrs. Elijah Scottleby of Duluth ad vertises for a capable woman who has no objections to scrubbing the floors with a Chinaman. Mrs. Scottleby runs a small hotel, but that seems to be no reason for making a mop of the oriental, Mr. William Hinkle of Peatsboro, Tenn., was putting a shirt over his head last Sunday, prior to going to church, a pet dog belonging to the family rushed in and bit him eight times between the chiffonier and the front hall. While Asabel Purlight of Danforth, Kan., was breaking a mule the animal grew' fractious and kicked him through a window. Mr. Purlight will doubtless have the window protected by steel gratings hereafter, and keep away from it at that. When a mule begins reaching through windows to kick people it is high time that the brute was hoppled. 'Mir No Pears. “Aren't you ashamed of yourself?” asks the insistent reformer. Here you are day in and day out in a state of intoxication? You.know what such dissipation leads to. Already you show the symptoms of a man who is on the verge of delirium tremens. And I understand that some weak girl is foolish enough to have accepted your proposal of marriage. I shudder for her, and for you!” “Nev’ min’, ol' fel’,” replies the hope less case. “Zhe lady I'm go’ to marry ish shnake charmer in shide show." Just So. N A bald-headed man can talk as much about hereditary early baldness &« a gray-haired woman about her grand mother turning gray at 18. Our Language. Just a thought; there may be nothing in It. But the word doesn’t seem to work right— Now, a man may sit down for a minute. But he always sits up for all night. '^IrJLA