EVERY MOTHER
HER DAUGHTER’S
MATCHMAKER.
LET YOUR CHILDREN OO THE/R
OWN COURTING. SAY HOST
PARENTS. WITH RESERVAT/ONS
WftEN FATHERS AND FI OTHERS
FEEL THEY OUGHT TO INTERFERE.
HICAGO —-Certainly not.
■ay the city mothers.
Kill they all agree that
their first thought ween
the tittle daughter mas
laid la their arms mas.
"I wonder what little
bey in this great world
will become her hus
band" Tes. every one
at them owns she has
hopsd from the first mo
ment at her child's existence that
somewhere a sweet tempered little
tefiew at good parentage and some ;
mean* was being reared to be a fit
nampaeios for the little daughter just
born to her
Mrs Charles H. Conover says nice
girls mill marry only nice men. "The
girls mho are brought np in the right
• ay need no interference in regard
to their matrimonial ventures." says
Mrs. Conover “There is no necessity
| >r par.nt* interesting ihenu-lres in
t b- Uaracter or financial Carding of
< imag men who sisipir call upon their
daughters. Such a proceeding aa in
testigaiiog on the part cf parents
mould be entirely too premature.
"A father need not assume that
-eery young man is interested to the
point at matrimony, and unless he
—es that matters are reaching a
n»i*. he should let *be young people
alone. When, however, he finds mat
rimony Impending, he should satisfy
himself that all is well and If char
a -ter ia found to he moral, personal
objections should not stand in the way
at his daughter s happiness The chll- i
dr-n should be the choosers, not the
parent* i heartily disapprove of
watchmaking ~
Careen Should Watch Associates.
Mrs Alice Bradford Wiles thinks
parent* should guide the associations
at their children. “Parents need not
t* matchmakers to order the pathway
at their sons and daughters." she
says The first duty of a parent is
to exercise ail possible care with re
gard to the associate* at their chil
dren from infancy They should put
desirable companions within reach 1
and hot.Id encourage eligible young
people a, this way their children
will make no undesirable acquaint
ance* If they have always had the
best they will always demand the -
beat
“Their children's happiness and well
teing should be (he principal thought
i
a# parents, and as marriage is the j
natural sequence to agreeable and In
timate acquaintances. It will come of
itself without any urging from the par
cats Never give a child the idea
that marriage enters into your calcu
lations It would be most unwise and
would scarcely have the desired ef
fect Let the sows seek their wires J
and the daughters their husbands
without your aid. You may be as
sored yoe hare dote your full duty
whew yoe here brought proper com
pantons into your home and encour
aged your children to know only the
moraMy and physically perfect."
Mrs. Waiter Ferrier declares a child
should be influenced by its parents to
marry only capable helpmeets. “A
man need not be wealthy to be the
proper one for daughter’s life com-1
panion.” she said. “Wealth is one of |
the really unnecessary attributes in a i
husband. Rather let him be a man
capable of making his way in the
world. A man of good judgment and |
moral standing, but he must be of
good disposition as well, for a man's !
nature more than his ability is worth i
considering. No one desires to see j
'he loved daughter of the household i
ncfjzrij rro torrPS copgrjiup
lvtvij ja&r aritos.var
given to a man, be he ever so capa
ble. If he has an unkindly nature,
rhe (treat trouble with our American
marriage question today is that nine
’tnths of the girls marry for wealth
and position Th^lr parents urge them
(o se«»k riches rather than love and It
usually fails.”
Let Children Do Own Courting.
Mrs. Henry Clay Carpenter, whose
daughter. Miss Reatrlce Carpenter,
was one of the season's debutantes,
has decided ideas on courtship and
marriage “Don't do your children's
courting," says Mrs. Carpenter. “Re
member you did you own. and my,
but didn't yon enjoy It? Then let your
children do the same. When you
argue that children should profit by
'he parents' example, you cast a re
flection on your child's father which
always is a bad policy whether he is
deserving of It or not.
■ Never let your children feel that
ou are anxious to have them marry.
This attitude on the part of parents
>tten causes a daughter needlessly to
Hasten her matrimonial plans. She
• an be made to feel that father h^is
!>een putting up for such a long time,
;hat he has paid cut such sums for her
education, and has fitted her for mar
riage at a suitable age. Then when
she arrives at that age. and does not
leave the home roof or show any in
clination to do so, parents should be
exceedingly careful not to give the
impres.fon that they wish her mar
riage.
"The moment a girl feels that her
par- nts desire her marriage, she be
comes reckless and may foolishly ac
' pt the first opportunity that pre
sents itself, notwithstanding she has
refused numerous and better offers
prior to the discovery that father and
mother think ‘it is time daughter had
a home of her own.' Marriage of sons
and daughters is something in ■yhich
parents have no rights or privileges.
Howrver, should daughter give her
heart to a young man of whom the
family knows little, it becomes the
duty of the father to make a thor
ough investigation. Then If he finds
him to be of immoral character, he
should confide his discovery to his
daughter.
Arranging Marriage Never a Duty.
“The girl who has been reared In
an atmosphere of love, obedience and
respect for her parents will prove
herself the dutiful daughter and will
give up the undesirable young man.
She will listen to her parents In re
gard to her marriage as she has list
ened to them during all her life in re
gard to her minor affairs. While it is
the duty of parents to prevent the
marriage of their children in such ex
treme cases. It is never their duty or
privilege to arrange marriages for
them. The mother who has her
daughter’s confidence will never need
to find a husband for her. That kind
of a girl is sought for by the right
kind of man and need not 'look for a
husband.’ ”
Mrs. Frank R. McMullin of High
land Park expressed the opinion that
where the question of money enters
in, all the sanctity of matrimony is
lost. “Parents who desire moneyed
matches for their children should
force themselves to do nothing more
than hope," she said. ‘They should
never barter their sons and daughters.
This idea of selling your child into a
family of wealth in order to gain for
her position in society and riches to
keep up a splendid establishment with
no thought or care for her affections
Is all wrong. If parents find their
daughters ready to sell themselves to
the titled foreigner simply for the po
sition they will acquire, it Is the duty
of the parents to stop the affair at
once. On no account should a girl
marry for anything but love.
“Parents cannot live their children's
lives. A mother would be willing to
offer herself a sacrifice for either son
or daughter, but this is impossible.
Each must live for himself alone, and
children should be taught early in life
that character counts for more than
wealth or position. If wealthy par
ents find their 9on in love with a
working girl there should be no ob
jection raised because of social in
equality. Today we are living in an
age when every one works in one way
or another. No one who really amounts
to anything is idle. If we do not take
up manual labor we are working with
our brains or using our talents to the
best possible advantage along some
other line.
"It is perfectly proper for parents
to offer suggestions along matrimo
nial lines, but they should go no fur
ther. A suggestion should be suffi
cient for the properly reared son or
daughter who realizes that the one de
sire of the parents' hearts is to see
their child happy, so if the moral char
acter of the young person chosen as
the life partner is unimpeachable, all
interference on the part of parents is
wrong.”
Wrong Ideas of Present Generation.
Mrs. Thomas B. Hoops said: “There
is one great trouble with matrimony
today. The young people want to be
gin where their parents leave off.
When we were young we were willing
to live on a small income at first and
gradually rise to a more exalted es
tate, but it is not so with the girls of
today. They must have the best of
everything in the beginning. Parents
are too extravagant with their girls—
they allow them too much spending
money and they are permitted to
dress too luxuriantly. A man natural
ly thinks he cannot ask the girl he
loves to become his wife unless he
Las enough wealth to give her every
luxury to which she has been accus
tomed.
“Fortunately, American girls are
sensible and are more independent
than the girls of any other race, so
when they find themselves in love
with an obscure young man of small
means they rarely hesitate to accept
him when he does get up the courage
to propose. If it were not for Ameri
can money, there would be no foreign
marriages and we could keep our
American girls in America, where
they belong.
“The money is made here in Amer
ica and yet parents allow their daugh
ters to marry these titled foreigners
and carry away their riches to the
foreign shores. There Is no love or
courtship in this sort of thing. It
does not enter into the question at all.
It simply is a bargain, and in such
cases parents should most certainly
interfere and not allow their daugh
ters to be bought and sold as they
are. The wealthy marriage is not al
ways the happy one. and parents
should be absolutely sure, before giv
ing their consent to a daughter’s mar
riage, that she truly Is in love with
her suitor, and equally sure that it is
the girl and not the dollars he is
after.
American Men Best Husbands.
“The American man makes the best
husband in the world. Nowhere in
the universe are there as true men
as our American boys, reared by good
American mothers and sensible Amer
ican fathers. Then we should see to
it that American girls marry Amer
ican men if we value their happiness.’’
METHODIST WORK FOR POOR
Church Divided New York City Into
Seven Wains ter Locking After
the Unfortunate.
New York Methodists started their
first organized charity a little more
than n hundred years ego. its record
i> preserved in s manuscript volume
brows with age. now preserved in the
library of the Methodist Historical so
cXy. of that city.
On Saturday evening. November 12.
IdM. a group met in a schoolroom at
Anthony (no* Worth) and Hudson
streets to form a charitable organiza
tion. The name adopted as given in
the interior cover of the book was the
Assistance Society for Relieving and
Advising Sick and Poor Persons in the
City of New York. Thirty-four were
gmsrnT and were recognized as the
original members of the society.
Into districts knosn as walks the
,orlr» city was divided. At first, says
the Christian City, there were four,
than Sen. noon six and finally seven.
A« the outset the first walk included
the whole of lower New York, as fol
lows: Beginning at the East River on ■
the lower side of Peck slip, up the
lower side of Peck slip, of Ferry
street. of Georges street, across the
park, to and along the lower side of
Murray street to the North River, and
all below these boundaries.
The third walk apparently covered
the northeastern part of the city, its
visitor being given in part the sec
tion “up the east side of Bowery
Lane"'; the fourth walk included
"Greenwich” on the west.
With 1809 the distribution of food,
clothing and fuel began. The first
beneficiary mentioned was one Cath
erine Graham of 81 Church street, it
being ordered that she "receive one
dollar." At the next meeting two
were recommended respectively to the
almshouse and the poorhouse.
In October, 1813, the stringency of
the times—it was during the war with
England—led the society to discuss
“the propriety of resorting to the
manufacture of soup and bread.” Later
it ordered the purchase of some 800
soup tickets from the "Humane So
ciety," at $3 per hundred.
But the largest benevolence seems
to have been In the distribution of
wood. In October, 1812, SO loads were
bought, at an average of 16 shillings
per load. The next April John Mur
ray. Jr., donates 13 loads and prom
ises 8200 for purchasing more. In
June, 1814, the purchase of a hundred
loads is reported. In March, 1816, 150
loads are ordered. In October. 1S21,
97 loads have been bought, at the cost
of 11 shillings per load, plus the
cartage.
For convenience this wood seems at
times to have been stored in such cen
ters as vthe meeting-house yard in
Second street” and “the yard of the
Duane Street Meeting-house, free of
expense." A certain number of loads
was allotted each walk for distribu
tion.
On March 4, 1812, it was reported
that 1,087 had been aided since Janu
ary 29; the next month 934 had been
helped. In December. 1812, 3,49* “suf
fering individuals” were reported as
aided the previous year. On January
6, 1814, 364 individuals, comprising 92
families, had been helped within a
month.
PEDIGREED STOCK BREEDING
PLEASANT AND PROFITABLE
Of All Pursuits That City Business or Professional Mao
With Country Home Can Indulge in*
Live Stock Heads List.
——_
<By Captain Waddell.) these horses are shown are imports
There are pleasant profits to be tions from England and Scotland in
made by the man who is seeking a the first three cases and France and
country home and rural pursuits by Belgium in the two latter,
way of relaxation from business, than As far as polo ponies are concerned
the ordinary man of this kind has any it is only necessary to say that nine
idea of. tenths of the polo ponies that com
A country home with land attached peted for the American cup at Hurl- !
to it would be a dull place if there jngham two years ago were English
were not something besides the fresh bred and English purchased, which
air, scenery, babbling brooks, song robbed that splendid achievement of
birds and flowers to admire and t oc- much of its glory.
cupy one's mind in a way that com- All these animals as well as hunt
bines rest with pleasure. ers. hackneys and Shetland and Welsh
Of all pursuits that the city business ponies, which are all in great demand
or professional man with a coun- could be bred in this country as sue
Prize-Winning English Sire.
try home and farm can indulge in.
nothing is so pleasant and remunera
tive as that of pedigreed stock breed
ing. This may comprise horses of
the various breeds, cattle, sheep and
swine, either of which when taken
hold of practically and sensibly will
bring much pleasure and a good deal
of profit to the man who indulges in
it. In the first place, there is a ready
market for good pedigreed . stock of
every kind, and apart from the pleas
ure of breeding them and seeing them
flourish and grow into maturity there
is the delightfunl fascination of exhib
iting them at the various horse and
live stock shows, competing with
friends and neighbors and beating
them with animals one has bred him
self.
In the case of horses almost all the
great stables of this country that
have been and still are winning the
majority of the blue ribbons through
out the country have imported all
these horses from Great Britain, w Mch
robs him of much of the pleasure of
winning with home-bred animals, this
is particularly the case with heavy
harness horses, but the same holds
good in regard to Shires. Clydesdales,
Suffoiks, Percherons and Belgians.
All the great winners at the great
shows throughout this country where
cessfully as they are In the countries
in which their breeds originated, and
it remains for the man of wealth with
a country home and farm to show
Americans how easily this can be
done, and so make it as pleasant and
profitable as it is in Great Britain.
Lamb Is Helpless.
Considerable attention should be
given to ewes and young lambs. A j
new-born lamb is just about the most
helpless thing on the farm, and fre
quently needs a little help to get 1
started in life, but when fairly under .
way no young stock will give the own
er more satisfaction; and it will pay
to have patience and do all one can
to assist them at first
__
Rubber From Corn.
Scientists have succeeded in making
a substitute for rubber from corn. At
the Omaha corn show last fall a big
chunk of refined rubber made entirely
from corn by a seedless process was
exhibited.
Good for Scours.
A half cupful of wheat flour and a
raw egg in the milk, if given to a
calf with scours, is said to be verj
beneficial.
GOOD USE FOR DISK HARROW
r
— ■- .
The illustration given herewith
shows the various uses to which the
disk may be put in preparing the soil
for a crop:
Fig. No. 1 representes hard, cracked
open soil that has not been tilled,
showing how clod formation takes
place and the depth at which mois
ture can escape from the ground.
Fig. No. 2 represents ground plowed,
showing air space between the turned
over slice and the ground beneath.
This air space prevents a firm and
compact seed bed from being made
and stops capillary attraction with the
subsoil.
Fig. No. 3 is plowed ground disked.
Note that the air spaces still exist
This is what happens when corn stalk
; ground is plowed without first being
disked. Corn stalk roots and other
trash prevent the ground from becom
ing compact and firm.
Fig. No. 4 is ground disked before
it is plowed. The mulch of dirt breaks
up capillary attraction so that mois
ture cannot escape from the top of the '
ground. This permits what moistgre :
there is in the ground to come close
to the surface.
Fig. No. 5 is the disked surface
shown in Fig. 4 plowed. Disking the
ground before it is plowed leaves a
mulch of fine dirt which fills up the
air spaces left between the furrowed
slice and the ground beneath, thus
making the foundation for a firm and
compact seed bed.
Fig. No. 6 illustrates disking before
and after plowing. When the ground
is treated in this manner the seed
bed becomes compact and firm in a '
much shorter time and forms a means
of capillary attraction. This treatment i
puts the ground in such condition that !
whether the season be wet, dry or
normal, the farmer is not taking any
chances.
LICE INFECTED |
FARM ANIMALS
Insects More Troublesome Daring
Sprint When Live S toe It
Kept Inside Until Warm
Weather Arrives.
_
I
(By R O. WEATHERSTONK.)
Lice seem to be more troublesome
during the spring when the farm ani
mals are kept inside until warm
weather comes than at any other time
during the year and as soon as an
animal Is discovered to be lousy, the
lice should be destroyed at once. We
have found a strong decoction of to
bacco an excellent wash tor the pur
pose of destroying lice, but during
recent years we have been using a
mixture of crude oil and crude car
bolic acid mixed 50 parts crude oil to
one part crude carbolic acid, and find
that this does the work in a very
thorough and effective manner. On
the cattle we apply It with a hand
sprayer, but for the hogs we prefer
to use a brush, or to saturate a few
gunny -Sacks or old blankets and wind !
them around a post in the hog vards
and allow the hogs to make their own
toilets by rubbing against these posts.
They will soon learn how to apply
the mixture where it is most needed
and will keep themselves free from
these pests if their beds and bouses
are kept clean and disinfected.
Heat, Energy and Fat.
Protein starch, fat. sugar and fiber
are the nutrients that make up foods.
Protein is the only one from which
muscle and tissue can be made. The
others serve to produce heat, energy
and fat. Starch and sugar are about
equal in food value. The fiber in the
plant cut green has the same food
value as starch. Fhts serve the same
purpose in the animal body as starch,
but are more concentrated, having two
and one-fourth times as much nutri
ent la a given weight
Honey In Switzerland.
Though a small nation. Switzerland
makes 100.000,000 pounds of honey a
year, so well la Its flora adapted to
bee culture.
WlMAiW
“ASSISTANT” RULER TO RETIRE
Forty years In one position is nol
a bad. record, but this is what haj
been accomplished by Lord Knollys
the king’s private secretary, whose re
tirement is now imminent. He orig
inally intended to give up his arduous
duties at the death of the late king,
and it was well understood that lie
merely stayed on in order to "train
in” Sir Arthur Bigge, upon whose
shoulders the responsibilities of the
royal secretaryship will now fall.
Such a post requires not only hard
work, but a keen knowledge of tha
world, combined with tact, judgmen ,
decision and memory. It has been
said of Lord Knollys that no one could
hope to undertake his task with a
tithe of the success which now at
taches to It.
The royal correspondence alone
would frighten the average man.
About 500 letters a day are addressed
to the king, and the majority of these
are attended to by Lord Knollys, assisted by the under secretaries.
No correspondence Is more varied than that received by the king. There
are letters from his relatives, a dally letter from the prime minister when
parliament is sitting, letters from cranks, faddists, inventors; begging let
ters and a never-ending stream from madmen. As a rule the only letters
that the king answers himself are those from his relatives and personal
friends; and therefore the bulk of the replies falls on his secretary.
Apart from his secretarial duties Lord Knollys was an intimate personal
friend of the late king, and perhaps no one appreciated the dead monarch's
real generosity and kindness of heart as did his private secretary. Certainly
no one outside royalty enjoyed such unceremonious intercourse with him.
Sometimes King Edward, when free from official engagements, would dine
quietly with I>ord Knollys at his private residence. These entertainments
were of the most informal character and were scarcely known to the gen
eral public, and not even chronicled in the press.
Lord Knollys combines in his personality every attribute which should
belong to an important official and to a cultured English gentleman, and on
no occasion during his long public career has his discretion been at fault or
the soundness of his counsel at all called in question.
“TRUST BUSTER”IN SENATE
\V. S. Kenyon, known as a “trust
buster" when he was assistant to the
attorney general of the United States,
was elected United States senator to
fill the vacancy caused by the death
of the late J. P. Dolliver.
Mr. Kenyon will be one of the
youngest members of the senate. He
was born in Elyria, O., June 10, 1869.
His father was a Congregational min
ister. He was educated at Grinnell,
and later was graduated from the
law department of the University of
Iowa.
His public career started almost
immediately with his election, soon
after graduation, as public prosecutor
of Webster county, a position he held
for two terms. He was elected cir
cuit judge when he was barely 30 ^
years old, but left the bench after one '
year, declaring that It was too quiet §
and sedate. He became the general £
counsel, for the Illinois Central rail
road, and though his official duties required his presence in Chicago he kept
his established residence in Fort Dodge, where he practiced law with Sena
tor Dolliver.
Asked whether he may net attempt the revision of the present Sherman
anti trust law when he enters the senate Mr. Kenyon admitted that such a
step may appear necessary. He should not say, however, that he has con
sidered any definite lines for such action.
Kenyon was the original “trust-buster” under the Taft administration.
He has had much the same position under this administration that was oc
cupied by Wade Ellis when Roosevelt was president. He was appointed as
sistant to Attorney General Wickersham in March, 1910.
At the time of his appointment Mr. Kenyon was general counsel for the
Illinois Central railroad. Although he had lived three years in Chicago, he
had kept his voting residence at Fort Dodge, Iowa.
HEADS MOTHERS* CONGRESS
Airs, rreuenc scnotr, now compiet
ing her ninth year of leadership as
president of the National Congress of
Mothers, is a philanthropist who gives
freely, not only of her means but
herself to the cause of child welfare.
Having compiled the laws of every
state in the union concerning depend
ent and delinquent children, and hav
ing led the severak movements to es
tablish courts for children in Pennsyl
vania, Alabama, Idaho and Connecti
cut, she is a recognized authority the
world over. She received the unique
honor of an invitation to address sthe
Canadian parliament on this subject,
and is the only woman who has ever
been thus honored. The amount ol
her daily work is tremendous, and
she could not have persevered through
these years of service were it not fot
her superb physique and a certain
sustaining spiritual force. Mrs. Scoffs
versatility is as astonishing as her ac
cumulation of facts. Neither pessim
ist ,or optimist, she looks upon exist
. . . «__x _ t_tl_
mg con a ill on s wun unDiasea eyes, ana ner » —* —
preventive and corrective policies. As an impressive public speaker Mrs
Schoff is unexcelled, having an exhaustive knowledge of her subject and
the power to clothe her thought in clear, forcible and felicitous phrasing. She
also has a delightful voice which is easily understood in the largest assembly
Among the elements which make up Mrs. Schott's intrinsic greatness are her
earnestness, her sincerity and her deep-rooted conviction that the most
important work in the world is the conservation of childhood. Though mas
terful and a bora leader, she is wholly effeminate, independent and full ol
initiative, yet conservative to a degree in all matters of social usage. She is
uncompromising where principle is at stake, yet tolerant and yielding in non
essentials. Thus it is that she wins the devotion of her co-workers.
HETTY GREEN TO OWN BANK
Mrs. Hetty Green, with the assist- r
ance of her son. Colonel E. H. R.
Green, has decided to have her for
tune managed through a $10,000,000
private bank with branches in other
states, and will retire from all active
participation in her financial affairs.
Her realty and financial interests are
now in the bands of the son she sent
into Texas as a youth and educated
along the lines o( sound, business
common sense.
Colonel Green pictures his mother
as grossly misrepresented In the past.
Although she conducts her business
on careful and conservative lines, he
says she has made it an invariable *
rule to re-invest her profits in the ter- g
ritory from which they were drawn f
for the upbuilding of that territory. ?
“Her argument has been.” he ex- j
plained, 'that every community is en- 3
titled to the benefits of Its own pros- '
perity. _
“Since my mother began her bust
ness Career sue uas ucaa&cu uiuiw iu»u v fvi -vmv. - ---
bulk of her loans have been made at considerably lower rates, lou may
aet It down that the ratio of Income diminishes as the size of the estate grows.
Because of this attitude and widely known liberality to her customers in pan
ic times my mother has been able to skim the cream of the borrowers."
