Jus ’ a Dream
Hy F. H . II.
Ian’ night in the cradle of Morpheus
l slumbered Alt' ruddled a dream
Of ineffable days of my childhood. " j
When my thoughts were untarnished an’
clean.
Me seemed I saw the ol’ homestead
An’ the fields where I used to roam.
Where the larks jus’ at eve went a-wooin’
With a love song of tenderest tone.
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My mother appeared, an’ my father—
Jus' as natural they were as cud be.
A-settin’ there lovin’ jus’ us young folks
would do. beneath a catalpa tree.
There came into view the ol’ schoolhouse
On the hillside way over yonder V
With its purple-nosed, freckled preceptor,
Who with rod and rule taught me to ponder.
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Once more I saw the ol’ mud-hole
Where we kids used to swim an’ do stunts,
Where father played Davy Jones Locker
With the kittens that proved to be runts.
The granary, barns an’ sheds an’ sech
All stood in the same ol’ places
Awaitin’ the hands of good fellowship
An’ the smile of familiar faces.
The rattle, the hogs an’ the horses
All wore there to a dot an' an eye,
An’ the fowls wfere as envious as ever
Of the cock-eyed peacock struttin’ by.
The pump an’ vacation day sawbuck
Importuned thet they’d not be forgot.
Though I owed ’em not one single favor.
Save to ardently hope thet they’d rot.
An’ then the cinema was shifted
To the garden of vegetabills.
Where the he-goat, the fragrantest buddy,
Was wont to fill up to his gills.
The worms an’ the weeds an’ the beetles
Thet my brother an’ I used to know
Filed by me in haughtiest fashion
’Sted a pledgin’ not to pester us so.
To the orchard my dream ship then flitted.
Oh! The memories it lovingly brings
Of apple sauce, dumplin's and lickin’s
An’ of shameful best-not-to-say things.
My bird friends, the greedy ol’ pirates.
Were a-burstin’ with song as of old,
As if they were pleadin’ forgiveness
For the world in its scramble for gold.
An’ then as the dawn was nigh breakin’
My dream guide got ready to leave,
So he hustled me back to my senses
With a horse laugh or two up his sleeve.
"An’ listen,” said he, ‘‘an’ remember
Thet most fools of wise men are made,
An’ he who in youth fails to harvest
In ol’ age may not sit in the shade.”
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Less Dope--More Milk
Hy F. L. hHRX 4X.
W y HFN we arrive in this world, whether
we be a yellow baby from the Orient,
▼ v or a black one from darkest Africa, or
a IHtle pink cherub from America, the
first thing we get is milk. Later on when Father
Time gets in his work and the Grim Reaper
gets ready to call us back, almost invariably
the last thing we partake of in endeavoring to
prolong our stay here is milk. Between these
two periods, when we get sick and have an idea
the end is near, milk hi some form or other is
prescribed.
In the intervening periods of time—times
when we are healthy and normal due to the
strength and resistance that milk has given us
—we are prone to become dope addicts in some
sense of the word. At these times we like to
experiment and search and try and plan other
ways of remaining healthy. Various kinds of
dope methods are resorted to.
The Adolescent Youth acquires the longing
or habits for pop, ginger ale, randy, gum,
sweets, smoking and quite often the drinking
of stimulants. Milk in generally forgotten by
the youth.
Many of these habits are carried on to peo
ple of middle life. In addition to these habits
formed in the primer class, we graduate into
others. Our inside machinery becomes some
what out of repair. We note a grinding here
and there. Instead of resorting back to milk
that made the machinery for us in the first
place, we start experimenting with medicines,
possibly becoming a slave to certain medicines.
We learn to be great coffee drinkers because
we have learned that reffee is a stimulant. We
never inquire into whether a stimulant is good
for us or not.
At this time the middle aged woman begins
to plaster her face with mud and enters into
other schemes that keep our beauty parlors
crowded. Her wiser sister, that hasn’t forgotten
the value of milk, keeps her girlish beauty
through this original method and nothing else.
3he realizes that for satisfactory results her
beautiful romplexion and snappy eyes must
eome from within. She knows that it is the
engine or dynamo that must be kept in order
and realizes that a coat of paint or mud on
the outside will not answer the purpose. The
tired business man resorts to baths, health re
sorts, medicines, osteopathic treatments. The
laboring man goes to excess in drinking coffee
and other stimulants; also eating large quanti
ties of meat.
Now, why do we forget our good friend milk
and become so closely attached to other expen
sive experiments, fooling ourselves that they
will give us health, beauty and happiness?
In the adolescent age boys and girls are in
the outlawish stage. They rebel at anything that
they did, or were compelled to do, when they
were children or infants. They are just enter
ing the threshold of maturity; consequently
they couldn’t "stoop to drinking milk.’’ "Milk
wasn’t ever intended for young men and young
women. God just made milk for babies.”
This thought is carried on into the middle life
when we tell ourselves, "I just know I should
drink milk. I know it would be good for me;
but I just can’t stand the taste of it.” We also
unconsciously think that milk, being such an
innocent and harmless looking product, can’t
possibly do us much good. As we grow older
and our conditions become worse, we just nat
urally know there isn’t enough “kick” in milk
to do our esse sny good.
No one, not even the most learned milk ex
pert claims that milk is a "cure-all.” However,
any one that has given the matter any particu
lar study whatever knows that there isn't any
thing that comes as near to being a perfect food,
a perfect medicine and a perfect beautifier. It
contain* all of the essentials necessary to life;
it will act as a prophylactic for many ills; it
will build disease-resisting powers in anyone; it
will drive out harmful elements in our system
that are striving to tear down our system; it
will actually subdue certain diseases; it will pre
serve our teeth; and in doing all of these things
it will keep our internal organization in such
repair that It will Veep up a glow on the out
side that we call beauty.
Drink one quart of milk each day for M
day*; note the results.
Babyhood FOOD Schooldays
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Beat for Family Um
The beat package for family use i« the return
able half can, containing about nix pounds net
weight. The guaranteed correct weight is
plainly stamped on every can.
When these cans are kept tightly closed the
contents will keep fresh, fine and palatable for
an indefinitely long period of time. When ex
posed, however, cracker* readily absorb the
moisture and thus lose their freshness and crisp
tenderness. They may alao absorb odors and
thus become unpalatable.
The best way to keep cracker* U in a tightly
cloned container of tin or other metal. Cracker*
should never be put in a bread box or cake box
with other foods, but should always be kept in
a separate container. If the crackers should be
come softened by exposure to moisture, the
freshness may he restored by a slight toasting
in a medium oven. Just leave the oven door
open and be careful not to "corch then).
The pictures of the healthy and happy children
herewith show clearly the splendid results that
naturally follow the daily feeding of the best
graham crackera. Growing children need more
than the three meals per day that are ample for
adults. The beat food to give them to satisfy
the natural between-meals craving ia graham
crackers with milk, butter, jam, jelly, soft cheese
or similar foods. Graham crackers are also
splendid for serving with ice cream and other
froxen dessert. ■
It is very strange that most folks living on the
farm, in our country town# and in the smaller
cities fondly imagine that the reports about
poorly nourished and underweight children refer
only to those living in the large cities. These
good folks can hardly believe that children living
ia the better general conditions prevailing in the
■mailer placet and having plenty to eat (in quan
*ity> can be the innocent victims of conditions
that prevent their proper gTowth.
It teem* difficult to bring home the fact that
merely eating a large enough quantity of food
doe* not necessarily give the growing child alt
the food elements that ita body demands. Proper
feeding is not a question of quantity, but of the
■election of the right foods, which means a well
balanced combination of cereal foods, dairy prod
ucts, fruits, vegetables, etc.
Here is a press report from an Iowa town
which shows very plainly what the conditions are
in the smaller places:
School Childrea Ara Mostly Underweight
Ismoni, la.. March 8.—(Special.)—The pub
lic schools have been using a card system in their
health campaign this winter. The examination
this year showed a startling percentage of mal
nutrition children. In the entire school 68.2 per
cent were underweight. The greatest percentage
was in the first grade, where only 22.7 per cent
were normal. In the fourth grade the highest
percentage was found, or 78 per cent normal,
leaving 27 per cent defective.
If at morning recess time and afternoon recesa
time these children were to be given a half dosen
or more of the best graham crackers and a glass
of milk—in 60 days' time you would not know
they were the same children, because they
would be heavier, with better color in their
faces and full of pep and energy.
The "neglected age" of childhood ia in the first
few years at school. Then is when the children
need the nourishment that about 76 per ceut of
• hem are not now getting. This doea not refer
only to children of poor families, but includes
many well-to-do families also.