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About The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1918)
i,--. wfy WRSP o The Commoner y0L. 18, Xo. U 14 & " ? rpjero e. JDepartm eni f Thanksgiving Always. When bnrn nnd byro nre safe, Whon folks arc In tho fold "When far and near the burdened flolds understand. To him, tho old chair was-mere wood and paint just a piece of furniture, not a shrine. Wo do not say it aloud our great- lost longings are. not spoken but Have bowed 'neath harvest's gold, ! sometimes when life gets tangled, we When clusters rich havo dropped From many a blushing vine, And gonial orchards, wido and fair, Havo owned tho touch divino; Then, up from grateful hearts Lot Joyful praiso ariso To Him who gives tho wailing "earth The blessing of tho skies. Whon round tho mother's .knee Tho Uttlo children cling, Whon night and morn tho household eaves With morry voices ring, Whon not a sunny head Is missing from tho throng, Whon not a silver note is dropped From out the dnily song; Then up from thankful hearts Let fervent praiso arise To Him who fills tho happy homo With bloasings from the skies. Woman's Homo Companion. Mother's Clinir By (he window In tho sitting room stood tho old chair. It was "mother's observed. Buy cloth find ourselves going again to the old chair to have the knots untied. When grief comes, wo sob it out there. When joy comes, we run to tell it there. When we fail, when we win, our thoughts take us to the old chair. And at night, the little lisping pray ers come begging to be said, and we send them, along with oui grown up petitions, up to heaven, by way of that sacred shrine. People's Home Journal. Careful Washing Saves Clothing Shortage of cotton for wearing ma terial with its consequent high price has made the housewife take an un usual interest in the conservation of garments. Conservation in cotton cloth means saving a war material as well as the money and labor necessary to replace the garment. The original appearance of an article made of colored material may be kept if due precautions are chair" o'horwiso it would have been just a chair. With mother in it, how ever, it became the shrine to which flocked her devoted littlo worshipers. In the rocker, as we sat on mother's knee, or at her side for tho chair was.gonorously made the bumped head and the bruised heart "were healed. Frightened, wo found there a safe retreat, a refuge froni every harm. At night,' the bedtime story was told to the rhythm of its soothing swing. Joys, sorrows, all wore brought to its encircling arms. Mother's chair rocking, rocking, rock ing by tho window. The old chair had seen valiant service. Old fashioned, scarred and worn,, it still stood in the familiar place by tho window. Why is it not reflnished the scars smoothed out, tho worn"1 places covered? What! Cover tho marks which little hands havo made, the worn spot where mother's t'red head rested, the scars made by tiny, restless feet? Such a question canio from one who did not which has the color dyed in the piece or dyed before weaving rather than a printed pat torn. Set the color by soaking for at least an hour in salt water made in the proportion of two tablespoons of salt to a quart of water. Avoid high temperatures, because they make colored goods streaked. Boiling or ironing with too hot an iron is a cause of fading and streak ing. Do not use strong soaps, as they dull the color and often the alkali in them causes the color to run. Wash each garment separately and thus avoid any possibilities of dulling or changing shade by mixing colors. Dry in the shade to avoid fading action of direct sunlight. Making Over This is to be a year of made-overs., If a woman has nothing with which to clothe herself, she will buy new clothes with a clear conscience, but no woman should buy new clothes if there is anything in the house which she can make over, says a writer in Wallace's Farmer. It isn't a question of whether or not one can afford to buy new clothes; the question is whether new clothes are so urgently needed as to justify taking workmen from war work to make them. Fortunately, the fashions this year lend themselves to making over, j Apron fronts and two-material com binations make it possible to use up almost everything. Sponging and pressing and ripping and brushing and turning and facing are all im portant steps in making over. Dust silk fabrics with a piece of clean flannel, and woolen goods with a brush. Run thin places before they break through. If a dress can be made over, don't cut it down for one of the children. Children's clothes take less material; better buy a rem nant for them. ' More care should be taken of the clothes on hand. Frequent brushing, careful removing of stains, and care in hanging up will make them look well for a much longer time. Old hats can be renovated and re trimmed to last over. The woman who is an artist in making over is coming into her own this year. She could do not better war work than to offer her services to her neighbors in an advisory capacity. Why not exhibitions of home millinery and made-over dresses at the farmers' institutes this year? College classes take old clothes to be remodeled as a problem, and enjoy solving them. The wardrobes of most of us are problems this year here's hoping we will all solve them with satisfaction. contact with aluminum or zinc in a hot salt and soda solution ,? this method therefore, practical!?.? the silver in the tarnish is L? back to the object which is 5 cleaned. When silver polishes r used, on the other hand all S silver in combination wlh'thetm ish is removed. tarn' In the cleaning methods recom mended the necessary materials arT A graniteware cooking utensil deen enough to allow the silverware to 2 covered by the solution; a clean pier of aluminum or zinc, preferably the former, baking or washing soda and salt. The -solution, which consists of a teaspoon of soda and a teaspoon of salt for each quart of water Ij brought to a boil in a graniteware utensil. A strip of aliminum or clean zinc is dropped in. The tarnished silverware is immersed in the solu tion so that it touches the aluminum or zinc. The tarnish will disappear in a few seconds, depending, natural. ly, on the amount collected. When the silverware object is taken from the solution it merely ha's to be rinsed in .clean water and dried with a soft cloth. Aluminum is more satis factory than zinc for this process for the reason that it does not become coated with a layer of carbonates which interferes with the chemical reaction. Zinc, on the other hand, forms carbonates which must be cleaned off frequently with weak hydro-chloric acid. An old aluminum utensil which 13 well cleaned may be used, instead of the piece of aluminum or zinc in the graniteware utensil, but utensils used in cooking should not be employed in this process. The electrolytic method gives the cleaned silver a satiny fin ish after several cleanings. If a burnished surface is desired, the silver must from time to time be polished lightly with some abrasive polishing material such as powdered whiting. 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Washington authorities believe uie puouc ought to be told how silver can be most easily and .cheaply cleaned, and they are doing their best to circulate the information. The cleaning system which the de partment of agriculture recommends is known as the electrolytic method. Silverware, either solid or plated, is boiled in a soda and salt solution in contact with a clean piece of alumi num or zinc, preferably aluminum. The tarnish is removed instantly, and whereas spoons cleansed with the commercial paste polish lose nearly 0.01 of a grain of silver each, spoons undergoing the soda-salt process lose approximately l-25th as much. The tarnish which occurs on silver is caused by the action of sulphur The sulphur comes from contact with rubber, wool, foods like eggs, and the SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION to the Highest Bidder, of the Coal nnd Asphalt DepoHltn, Leased and Unleaded in the Ckoctavr and Chlckusaw Nations, Oklahoma, by the United States Government. Name,. ....... Miwwmmi, AC4m Tost Office.. MMMtM -State. Street and No,. V sulnhur whlrh to A ,' .. , ... . " ycocm. la tne air when illuminating gas and coal are burning. The electrolytic cleaning ical principle that silver sulphid is slightly soluble in a hot solution of rlli fSna' and on thG urther fact that silver sulphid is broken down chemically and the silver is redeposited on the silverwareThen the proper electrical conditions pr vail. The proper electrical conditions aro provided when silver comS in There will be offered at public auction to the highest bidder at McAIesten Oklahoma, on Decem ber 11. 12, 13 and 14. 1918, the coal and a pbfiU depo sits, leased and unlcased, underlying the Miriartoi 441,107 acres of tho segregated mineral laud in we Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, Oklahoma. W unloosed tracts aggregating 328.27G acre? w ill Bw1 ofTcred for sale and next 123 leased tracts conta did, 112,631 acres. Tho coal Is bltuminou and semi bituminous, maluly or low volatile bunker coal w steamship use. high trade domestic coal, 'ai" steam coal, high grade blacksmith coil and cosw. coal, seams averaging 4 ieet thick, ill an averx," dip of from 10 to 15 decrees outcropping at the fa. o and cx'cndlng to a vertical dpth below1 we surface estimated to be 2,500 feet at the deepest I of tho basin. Practically all of the tracts oflered we located near cities, towns and railroads man) win crossed by railroad, making them easllj accft ' and attractive for mining purposes. Tt e surface u already sold, only tho coal and asphalt ipinew will bo oflered for Bale. Incased land will be ww subject to any existing valid leases thereon. preterenco Tight given except to lessees of im tracts and tho Stato ot Oklahoma as to the coal &nu asphalt underlying Stato Penltcnttarj-, crcunos. Government retains supervision over all 'W5 "r" mining operations until full payment ofuhPur chase price Is made and deed Issued when fiurw vision terminates. No person an acquire more umj four nacts ot SCO acres each, except w here eubj i no son, firm or corporation hai such tracts un "S lug valid learcs. Bids must conform to tractja; vertlsed, No bids for fractional parts consuerr nor tor less ihan advertised minimum Pn'S may bo made In person, by mail or bj u??Z agents- 20 per cent oreach fierarate bid must w companied by bant draft or cert fed check par" to U. Buddrus, Cashier. Terras 20 P ?;..'" 5? at time ot sale balance four equal "t""'RS payablo In one, two, three and four years from i u of sale 5 per cent Interest per annum cnfieiw jiaynjcnts. Full payment purchase PrlcemL made at any time when deed will Issue. lH at IcAlester. Oklahoma: main ? I?ftSof Oklahoma. For descriptive lists, raK charge, address Mr. Oabe K. Partw. f "'Stu dent for tho Five Civilized Tribes. McAlr t.er, , ur boms. Tho UnltMSta:es Government senrttou advertising or exhibit cars to ad"""""'! the sale ot Indian lands. All such coneenusr P vato enterprises In no -wise connecteJ wiw Government. OATO SELLS, Commissioner of Indian AMir. 'S h IF 'n ' J jk tfc&Uiu -AitaM MNfli -- WtflliU
