Demorrai Win
10, 1917.
Bellefonte, Pa., August
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IT IS BETTER.
It is better to lose with a conscience clean
Than win by a trick unfair;
It’s better to fall and to know you've been,
Whatever the prize was, square,
Than to claim the joy of a far-off goal
And the cheer of the standers-by,
And to know deep down in your inmost
soul
A cheat you must live and die.
*
Who win by trick may take the prize,
"And at first he may think it sweet,
But many a day in the future lies
When he'll wish he had met defeat.
For the one who lost will be glad at heart
And walk with his head up high,
While his conqueror knows he must play
the part
Of a cheat and living lie.
The prize seems fair when the fight is on,
But save it is truly won
You will hate the thing when the crowd is
gone,
For it stands for a false deed done.
And it’s better you never should reach
your goal
Than ever success to buy
At the price of knowing down in your soul
That your glory is all a lie.
—Edgar A. Guest.
NOBLESSE.
Margaret Lee encountered in her
late middle age the rather singular
strait of being entirely alone in the
world. She was unmarried, and as
far as relatives were concerned, she
had none, except those connected with
her by ties not of blood but by mar-
riage.
Margaret had not married when her
flesh had been comparative; later,
when it had become superlative, she
had no opportunities to marry. Life
would have been hard enough for
Margaret under any circumstances,
but it was especially hard, living as she
did with her father’s stepdaughter and
that daughter’s husband.
Margaret’s stepmother had been a
child in spite of her two marriages,
and a very silly, although pretty,
child. The daughter, Camille, was
like her, although not so pretty, and
the man whom Camille had married
was what Margaret had been taught
to regard as “common.” His business
pursuits were irregular and partook of
mystery. He always smoked cigar-
ettes and chewed gum. He wore loud
shirts, and a diamond scarf-pin which
had upon him the appearance of stol-
en goods. The gem had belonged to
Margaret’s own mother, but when Ca-
mille expressed a desire to present it
to Jack Desmond, Margaret bad yield-
ed with no outward hesitation, but
afterward she wept miserably over its
loss when alone in her room. The spir-
it had gene out of Margaret, the little
which she had possessed. She had al-
ways been a gentle, sensitive creature,
and was almost helpless before the
wishes of others.
After all, it had been a long time
since Margares had been able to force
the ring even upon her little finger,
but she had derived a small pleasure
from the reflection tha: she owned it
in its faded velvet box, hidden under
laces in her top bureau drawer. She
did not like to see it blazing forth
from the tie of this very ordinary
young man who had married Camille.
Margaret had a gentle, high-bred con-
tempt for Jack Desmond, but at the
same time a vague fear of him. Jack
had a measure of unscrupulous busi-
ness shrewdness, which spared noth-
ing and nobody, and that in spite of
the fact that he had not succeeded.
Margaret owned the old Lee place,
which had been magnificent, but of
late years the expenditures had been
reduced, and it had deteriorated. The
conservatories had been closed. There
was only one horse in the stable. Jack
had bought it. He was a worn-out
trotter with legs carefully bandaged.
Jack drove him at reckless speed, not
considering those slender, braceleted
legs. Jack had a racing-gig, and
when in it, with striped coat, cap on
one side, cigarette in mouth, lines held
taut, skimming along the roads in
clouds of dust, he thought himself the
man and true sportsman, which he
was not. Some of the old Lee silver
had paid for that waning trotter.
Camille adored Jack, and cared for
no associations, no society, for which
he was not suited. Before the trotter
was bought, she told Margaret that
the kind of dinners which she was
able to give in Fairhill were awfully
slow. “If we could afford to have
some men out from the city, some
nice fellers that Jack knows, it would
be worth while,” said she, “but we
have grown so hard up we can’t do a
thing to make it worth while. Those
men haven’t got any use for a back-
number old place like this. We can’t
take them round in autos, nor give
them a chance at cards, for Jack
couldn’t pay if he lost, and Jack is aw-
ful honorable. We can’t have the
right kind of folks here for any fun.
I don’t propose to ask the rector and
his wife, and old Mr. Harvey, or peo-
ple like the Leaches.”
“The Leaches are a very good old
family,” said Margaret feebly.
“I don’t care for good old families
when they are so slow,” retorted Ca-
mille. “The fellers we could have
here if we were rich enough, come
from fine families, but they are up-to-
date. It’s no use hanging onto old sil-
ver dishes we never use, and that'I
don’t intend to spoil my hands shin-
ing. Poor Jack don’t have much fun,
anyway. If he wants that trotter—
he says it’s going dirt cheap—I think
it’s mean he can’t have it, instead of
your hanging onto a lot of out-of-
- style old silver; so there.”
Two generations ago there had been
French blood in Camille’s family. She
put on her clothes beautifully; she had
a dark, rather fine-featured, alert lit-
tle face, which gave a wrong impres-
sion, for she was essentially vulgar.
Sometimes poor Margaret Lee wished
that Camille had been. definitely vic-
ious, if only she might be possessed of
more of the characteristics of breed-
ing. Camille so irritated Margaret in
those somewhat abstruse traits called
sensibilities that she felt as if she
were living with a sort of spiritual
nutmeggrater. Seldom did Camille
speak that she did not jar Margaret,
although unconsciously. Camille
meant to be kind to the stout woman,
whom she pitied as far as she was ca-
pable of pitying without understand-
ing. She realized that it must be hor-
rible to be no longer young, and sc
stout that one was fairly monstrous,
but how horrible she could not with
her mentality conceive. Jack also
meant to be kind. He was not of the
brutal—that is, intentionally brutal—
type, but he had a shrewd eye to the
betterment of himself, and no realiza-
tion of the torture he inflicted upon
those who opposed that betterment.
For a long time matters had been
worse than usual financially in the
Lee house. The sisters had been left
in charge of the sadly dwindled es-
tate, and had depended upon the judg-
ment, or lack of judgment, of Jack.
He approved of taking your chances
and striking for larger income. The
few good old grandfather securities
had been sold, and wild ones from the
very jungle of commerce had been
substituted. Jack, like most of his
type, while shrewd, was as credulous
as a child. He lied himself, and ex-
pected all men to tell him the truth.
Camille at his bidding mortgaged the
old place, and Margaret dared not op-
pose. Taxes were not paid; interest
was not paid; credit was exhausted.
Then the house was put up at public
auction and brought little more than
sufficient to pay the creditors. Jack
took the balance and staked it in a few
games of chance, and of course lost.
The weary trotter stumbled one day
and had to be shot. Jaek became des-
perate. He frightened Camille. He
was suddenly morose. He bade Ca-
mille pack, and Margaret also, and
they obeyed. Camille stowed away
her crumpled finery in the bulging old
trunks, and Margaret folded daintily
her few remnants of past treasures.
She had an old silk gown or two,
which resisted with their rich honesty
the inroads of time, and a few pieces
of old lace, which Camille understood
no better than she understcod their
owner.
Then Margaret and the Desmonds
went to the city, and lived in a horri-
ble, tawdry little flat in a tawdry lo-
cality. Jack roared with bitter mirth
when he saw poor Margaret forced to
enter her tiny room sidewise; Camille
laughed also, although she chided
Jack gently. “Mean of you to make
fun o” poor Margaret, Jackey dear,”
she said.
For a few weeks Margaret’s life in
that flat was horrible; then it became
still worse. Margaret nearly filled
with her weary, ridiculous bulk her
little room, and she remained there
most of her time, although it was sun-
ny and noisy, its one window giving
on a courtyard strung with clothes-
lines and teeming with boisterous life.
Camille and Jack went trolley-riding,
and made shift to entertain a little,
merry but questionable people, who
gave them passes to vaudeville, and
entertained in their turn until the
small hours. Unquestionably these
people suggested to Jack Desmond the
scheme which spelled tragedy to Mar-
garet.
She always remembered ome little
dark man with keen eyes who had
seen her disappearing through her
door of a Sunday night when all these
eay, bedraggled birds were at liberty
and the fun ran high. “Great Seott!”
the man had said, and Margaret had
heard him demand of Jack that she be
recalled. She obeyed, and the man
was introduced, also the other mem-
bers of the party. Margaret Lee
stood in the midst of this throng and
heard their repressed titters of mirth
at her appearance. Everybody there
was in good humor with the exception
of Jack, who was still nursing his bad
luck, and the little dark man, whom
Jack owed. The eyes of Jack and the
iittle dark man made Margaret cold
with a terror of something, she knew
not what. Before that terror the
shame and mortification of her exhi-
bition to that merry company was of
no import.
She stood among them, silent, im-
mense, clad in her dark purple silk
gown spread over a great hoop-skirt.
A real lace collar lay softly over her
enormous, billowing shoulders; real
lace ruffles lay over her great, shape-
less hands. Her face, the delicacy of
whose features was veiled with flesh,
flushed and paled. Not even flesh
could subdue the sad brilliancy of her
dark-blue eyes, fixed inward upon her
own sad state, unregardful of the
company. She made an indefinite
murn.ur of response to the salutations
given her and then retreated. She
heard the roar of laughter after she
had squeezed through the door of her
room. Then she heard eager conver-
sation, of which she did not catch the
real import, but which terrified her
with chance expressions. She was
quite sure that she was the subject of
that cager discussion. She was quite
sure tha: it boded her no good.
In a few days she knew the worst;
and the worst was beyond her utmost
imaginings. This was before the days
of moving-picture shows; it was the
day of humiliating spectacles of de-
formities, when inventions of amuse-
ments for the people had not pro-
gressed. It was the day of exhibitions
of sad freaks of nature, calculated to
provoke tears rather than laughter in
the healthy-minded, and poor Marga-
ret Lee was a chosen victim. Camille
informed her in a few words of her
fate. Camille was very sorry for her,
although not in the least understand-
ing why she was sorry. She realized
dimly that Margaret would be dis-
tressed, but she was unable from her
narrow point of view to comprehend
fully the whole tragedy.
“Jack has gone broke,” stated Ca-
mille. “He owes Bill Stark a pile, and
he can’t pay a cent of it; and Jack’s
sense of honor about a poker debt is
about the biggest thing in his charac-
ter. Jack has got to pay. And Bill
has a little circus, going to travel all
summer, and he’s offered big money
for you. Jack can pay Bill what he
owes him, and we'll have enough to
live on, and have lots of fun going
around. You hadn’t ought to make a
fuss about it.”
Margaret, pale as death, stared at
the girl, pertly slim, and common and
pretty, who stared back laughingly,
although still with the glimmer of un-
comprehending pity in her black eyes.
“What does—he—want me—for?”
gasped Margaret.
“For a show, because you are so
Win the War by Giving Your Own Daily Service.
Save the Wheat.—One wheatless meal a day. Use corn, oatmeal, rye or
barley bread and non-wheat breakfast foods. Order bread twenty-four hours ,
in advance so your baker will not bake beyond his needs. Cut the loaf on the
table and only as required. Use stale bread for cooking, toast, etc. Eat less
cake and pastry.
Our wheat harvest is far below normal. If each person
weekly saves one pound of wheat flour, that means 150,000,000
more bushels of wheat for the Allies to mix in their bread. This
will help them to save DEMOCRACY.
Save the Meat.—Beef, mutton or pork not more than once daily. Use
freely vegetables and fish. At the meat meal serve smaller portions, and
stews instead of steaks. Make made-dishes of all left-overs. Do this and
there will be meat enough for every one at a reasonable price. 2
We are today killing the dairy cows and female calves as
the result of high price. Therefore, eat less and eat no young
meat. If we save an ounce
of meat each day per person,
we will have additional supply equal to 2,200,000 cattle.
Save the Milk.—The children must have milk. Use every drop. Use but-
termilk and sour milk for cooking and making cottage cheese. Use less cream.
Save the Fats.—We are the world’s greatest fat wasters.
Butter is essential for the growth and health of children. Use butter on the ta- |
ble as usual but not in cooking. Other fats are as good. Reduce use of fried !
Fat is food.
foods. Save daily one-third ounce animal fats. Soap contains fats. Do not
waste it. Make your own washing soap at home out of the saved fats.
Use one-third less per day of animal fat and 375,000 tons
will be saved yearly.
Save the Sugar.—Sugar is scarcer. We use to-day three times as much
per person as our Allies. So there may be enough for all at reasonbale price,
use less candy and sweet drinks. Do not stint sugar in putting up fruit and
jams. They will save butter.
If everyone in America saves one ounce of sugar daily, it
means 1,100,000 tons for the year.
Save the Fuel.—Coal comes from a distance and our railways are over-
burdened hauling war material. Help relieve them by burning fewer fires.
Use wood when you can get it.
Use the Perishable Foods.—Fruits and vegetables we have in abundance. |
As a nation we eat too little green stuffs. Double their use and improve !
your health. Store potatoes and other roots properly and they will keep. Be-
gin now to can or dry all surplus garden products.
Use Local Supplies.—Patronize your local producer.
money. Buy perishable food from the neighborhood nearest you and thus
save the transportation.
Distance means
GENERAL RULES
Buy less, serve smaller portions.
Preach the “Gospel of the Clean plate.”
Don’t eat a fourth meal.
Don’t limit the plain food of growing children.
Watch out for the wastes in the Community.
Full garbage pails in America mean empty pails in America and Europe.
Tf the more fortunate of our people will avoid waste and eat no more
than they need, the high cost of living problem of the less fortu-
nate will be solved.
HERBERT HOOVER.
United States Food Administrator.
big,” replied Camille. “You will
make us all rich Margaret. Ain’t it
nice?”
Then Camille screamed, the shrill,
racuous scream of the women of her
type, for Margaret had fallen back in
a dead faint, her immense bulk inert
in her chair. Jack came running in
alarm. Margaret had suddenly gain-
ed value in his shrewd eyes. He was
as pale as she.
Finally Margaret raiesd her head,
opened her miserable eyes, and re-
gained her consciousness of herself
and what lay before her. There was
no course open but submission. She
knew that from the first. All three
faced destitution; she was the one fi-
nancial asset, she and her poor flesh.
She had to face it, and with what dig-
nity she could muster.
Magaret had great piety. She kept
constantly before her mental vision
the fact in which she believed, that
the world which she found so hard,
and which put her to unspeakable tor-
ture, was not all. A week elapsed be-
fore the wretched little show of
which she was to be a member went
on the road, and night after night she
prayed. She besieged her God for
strength. She never prayed for res-
pite. Her realization of the situation
and her lofty resolution prevented
that. The awful, ridiculous combat
was before her; there was no evasion;
she prayed only for the strength
which leads to victory.
(To be concluded next week.)
Dig Up and Grin.
We'll all dig up with cheerful grin,
to help our noble legions win, and we
should have the coin on hand, if we
would aid our native land. There is
more virtue in our pence than in five
miles of eloquence. True patriots will
strongly try to save the country’s food
supply, and that will count for vastly
more than any speaker's frenzied
roar. In luxury we long have dwelt;
no stern privation have we felt; but
no man knows wnat loads we’ll bear,
so for the worst let us prepare.—Walt
Mason.
The Difference.
“Grandma” asked six-year-old Paul,
“What makes Helen such a pretty lit-
tle girl?”
«She is pretty,” grandma replied,
“pecause she is such a good litle girl.”
“But grandma,” Paul protested,
“you are awful good.”—Christian
Register.
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Swallowing Glory.
Marjorie startled the family the
other morning by exclaiming at the
breakfast table “I'm full of glory.”
“What on earth do you mean,
child 2” asked her mother.
“Why,” explained Marjorie, “a sun-
beam just got on my spoon and I
swallowed it.”
Obeying the Law.
“See here, waiter, the ice in this
lemonade is all melted.”
“Yessah; we ain’t allowed to serve
only sof’ drinks, sah.”
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A self-irrigating flower pot has
recently been invented, the irrigation
being provided by a wick extending
from its saucer to the soil which it
contains.
Speculation as to After War Parti- |
tions.’
Discussing a possible remaking of the |
political map of Europe after the war,
Arnold Tonybee, an Englishman,
whose views are quoted in the New |
up each territorial |
problem in turn and suggests a divi- |
sion which he believes is not Utopian |
Republic, takes
and must necessarily disappoint mi-
norities in each case, but is the most
desirable and practicable under the
circumstances.
To award Alsace-Lorraine to
France or Germany on the basis of
prior possession would necessitate the
going back to ancient history. He
suggests a plebescite. Lorraine would
be divided by a line along watershed
between the Seille and Saar suitable
for a military and political fron-
tier. Southwest of this line the popu-
lation is mostly French-speaking and
friendly to that country. Northwest
of it the population feels a solidarity
with Germany. Alsatians are Ger-
man-speaking except a few communes
high up in the Vosges, but their sym-
pathies are with France. A satisfac-
tory settlement in this case is hard to
reach, but the problem might be solv-
ed by giving the French part of Lor-
raine to France, the German section
to Germany and Alsace to France.
The Trentino is inhabited mostly by
Italians and there is no reason why
Italy should not have it. The section
immediately north however, is largely
inhabited by Slovenes. In the north-
ern part of this territory the popula-
tion has been well treated by Austria
and the towns have a German charac-
ter. Triest, on the other hand, is 75
per cent. Italian. But this port is of
immense importance to the Austrian
hinterland, whereas Italy has no ex-
treme need for such a port. Italy has
little legitimate claim to Croatia and
Dalmatia, and other South Slav
States. Mr. Toynbee suggests the
uniting of these peoples—Slovenes,
Croats, Bosnians and Serbs and Dal-
matians as part of the South Slav un-
ion, each State to be independent po-
litically. Triest he would make a free
port. To allay Ttaly’s fear of Aus-
trian naval bases, Pola would be dis-
mantled and other military bases
would fall within the Southern Slav
States.
Poland offers a difficult problem.
The sympathies of the inhabitants are
divided depending upon contiguity to
belligerents and other factors. Poland
should, he thinks, have its independ-
ence under the suzerainty of the vic-
tor. In this case, he believes, the
greater part of the population would
prefer to ally themselves to Russia.
Posen would be taken from Germany
to form part of the Polish State, but
the fortifications of Posen City would
be dismantled as a concession to Ger-
many. Summing up the losses of the
Central Powers under the proposed
scheme shows that Germany would
lose the French part of Lorraine and
perhaps Alsace in France, and Posen
to Poland; Austria-Hungary would
lose the Trentino to Italy, Galicia to
Poland, Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia
and Dalmatia to independent govern-
ments, and possibly Transylvania to
Rumania, with a small square of ter-
ritory to Siberia; Turkey would lose
Constantinople to an international-
ized government and Armenia to Rus-
sia.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
|
DAILY THOUGHT
| He needs must fight
To make true peace his own;
{ He needs must combat might with might
Or might would rule alone.
—Alfred Tennyson.
Important amounts of perishable
foods are made dangerous or inedible
in households because they are expos-
' ed unnecessarily to heat, germs, dust,
dirt or to flies an other insects.
Much milk spoils quickly because it
| is kept uncovered in warm kitchens.
| Close observance of the doctrine,
“Keep perishable food, especially
milk, cool, clean, and covered continu-
ously,” may make a striking differ-
ance in the food bills of many fami-
ies.
In other cases, one or two vegeta-
‘ bles, beets or carrots, for instance,
not needed immediately are thrown
out or allowed to spoil instead of be-
ing used in soups or combination dish-
es. Fruits which could be stewed and
kept are allowed to spoil. Vegetables
and fruits in quantities often are
FARM NOTES.
HOW MILK BECOMES DISEASED.
According to the United States De
partment of Agriculture, bacteria find
their way into the milk from a num-
ber of sources. Some may come from
i the udder itself, where they grow in
{the milk cisterns and ducts.
The
greater number, however, come from
the dust of the air, the dirt from the
udder and flanks, from the milker and
from unclean utensils. Disease-pro-
ducing bacteria may get into the milk
from cows having such diseases as
tuberculosis from people who han-
dle the milk, who may themselves
have contagious diseases, or who have
been taking care of patients afflicted
with such diseases as typhoid fever,
diphtheria and septic sore throat.
The consumer is somelimes respon-
sible for the contamination of the
milk. Milk bottles should not be tak-
en into a sick room, because infectious
diseases can be spread by carrying in-
fected bottles back to the dairy farm.
If bottles are left where there are con-
tagious diseases, they should not be
collected by the milkman until they
stored in hot, damp and poorly ven- | have been properly disinfected by the
. tilated bins and under
which hasten wilting,
and decay.
matoes and other vegetables produc-
ed in home gardens are allowed to
spoil on the vines or rot on the
ground. A morning’s work would
' can and preserve such surplusage for
| use when fruits and vegetables are
| scarce and high in price.
‘Much food is ruined by being stor-
ed where flies or other insects, or rats
and mice can get at it. Much cereal
: food is ruined because it is not pro-
tected against weevils or other in-
| sects.
. It is interesting to notice how per-
| sonal a thing fashion really is and
i how the woman who can see herself
| as others see her always succeeds in
: looking her best, whereas the woman
| who blindly follows the mode of the
! moment falls into countless snares
and rarely looks as well as she might.
It is a point for each of us to note,
as it affects the outlay of a limited
purse considerably. A tall, graceful
| creature came into the car the other
day in a black dress, soft and cling-
| ing, with some white about the bodice,
and -a big black hat swathed in tulle;
| beside her sat.a small slim woman in
"a long light gray coat and a hat of
gray, uncurled ostrich feathers, over
| which a veil of invisible mesh acted
as a controller to any desire of the
plumes to riot in a wind.
Both looked their best, but if the
little lady had put on a plain black
| dress and a hat, with no coat, she
would certainly have looked wrong;
she had neither height nor circumfer-
ence, nor youth enough to dispense
with the dignity which a coat seems to
give,
To keep the new sailor or any other
| straw hat having a flat crown and
| brim fresh and unfaded, brush it oc-
casionally with ammonia water
{a dry cloth and press with a moder-
| ately hot iron.
The ammonia restores the color and
the moisture and pressing will give it
its original stiffening. Faded wings
or flowers may be touched up with
water color paints with good results.
Do You Know—That
| becomes overheated it
| again retain heat so well?
That a piece of waxed paper placed
over the meat or fowl in the oven will
prevent its burning ?
That fresh mint can be kept grow-
ing in a glass of water?
That you can clean white painted
woodwork with hot water and bran?
That the United States is now the
champion cocoa drinking country, im-
porting more than 213,000,000 pounds
a year?
iron
never
if your
will
To whiten the skin take a teaspoon-
ful of the tincture of benzoin to an
ounce of rosewater which forms a
well-known lotion and is excellent for
whitening the skin.
Smocks for garden wear are being
taken up with enthusiasm by the
younger matrons—and the older ones
whose proportions are not hopelessly
incompatible with flowing lines. They
are especially effective in rose, dull
blue and gray, and are being seen on
the tennis courts quite as frequently
as the time honored middy blouse.
For those who do fancy work there
are many patterns offered for smock-
ing, some intricate and some simple.
This trimming is especially suitable
for baby dresses and dainty blouses,
and is not a very difficult matter to
learn.
Concerning Blankets.—It takes
some care and thought tao buy blan-
kets, that is, if one is particular about
getting good value received for his
money. A pretty design is not the
main nor the first point to be consid-
ered. It is a bad plan to buy cheap
ones; good blankets wear so much
longer and better and are far more
satisfactory in all ways. First of all,
when one goes shopping for blankets,
it is wise to remember that they are
most comfortable when they are not
only warm but light. The best blan-
kets have surface resembling a rather
thick bed of wool, and they are soft
and silky to the touch. The prettiest
ones are usually bound in silk, in a
color to match the design woven in.
Pink and blue and yellow are the col-
ors most often seen in decorative de-
signs on blankets. Sometimes the de-
sign is woven all over—sometimes
only in the border. The more elabo-
rate are frequently bound with satin
and are chosen carefully to fit the col-
or scheme of the roem in which they
are to be used.
It is a good plan to have the better
grade of blankets dry cleaned. If
they are to be washed, however, great
care should be taken that they do not
shrink. They should be washed with
tepid water and a good wool soap, on
a bright, sunny day, and dried out of
doors.
Blankets should be bought to fit the
beds on which they are to be used—
of course, large enough to be turned
in at the foot and sides, but not so
large that they will touch the floor.
Most blankets come double, that is, all
in ene piece, but it is usually much
more convenient to handle them if one
cuts them into two separate blankets.
| (about a teaspoonful to a cup of wa-!
ter) and, while still damp, lay over it
conditions i Board of Health.
A fermentation | phoid fever or other serious diseases
Fruits, surplus beans, to- | which may be carried in the milk, it is
| they are of great importance.
In the case of ty-
better for the consumer to put out a
covered dish for the milk, or have it
delivered to some member of the
household. Until official permission
has been granted no milk bottles
should be removed from a home in
which there is or has recently been, a
case of communicable disease. The
consumer should not use milk bottles
for holding vinegar, kerosene or liq-
uids other than milk.
WHY CLEAN MILK IS IMPORTANT.
The consumer is interested in clean
milk primarily because no one cares
to use a food which is not produced
and handled under sanitary conditions.
There is a more direct interest, how-
ever, because of the danger of con-
tracting disease which may be com-
municated by this means. Serious ep-
idemics of typhoid fever, septic sore
throat and other diseases have been
disseminated through the milk sup-
ply. The weight of scientific evidence
at the present time leads to the con-
clusion that tuberculosis may be
transmitted from animals to human
beings, particularly children, who con-
sume raw milk containing tubercle
bacilli.
Cleanliness is not an absolute safe-
guard against disease, but it is the
greatest factor in preventing contam-
ination. From the health standpoint
there is great danger not only from
the specific disease-producing bacte-
ria previously mentioned, but from
milk that contains large numbers of
miscellaneous bacteria, which may
cause serious digestive troubles, espe-
cially in infants and invalids, whose
diet consists chiefly of milk. There is
also the minor consideration of the loss
to the consumer from milk souring or
otherwise spoiling before it can be
used. The cleaner the milk, the long-
er it will keep sweet and good.
Clean milk not only benefits the
consumer but the milk producer who
will consider this subject from an un-
biased standpoint will find many ways
in which he himself is benefitted by
producing clean milk. There are a
number of items in this connection
which, when considered alone, may
seem unimportant, yet collectively
More-
over, they are not only of immediate
value, but have a cumulative value
reaching far into the future. Tuber-
culin testing, for example, is not only
a safeguard to the purity of the milk
supply for the consumer, but is a
means of assisting the producer to
protect his herd against future rav-
ages of tuberculosis.
SOUR MILK A LOSS TO PRODUCER.
Most producers of market milk have
experienced the chagrin of having a
shipment of milk refused or returned
because it reached the market sour,
tainted or otherwise in poor condition.
Although such milk may be used for
feeding pigs, it usually means a com-
plete loss to the producer, as it costs
too much to transport it back to the
farm, and because, depending on the
market as an outlet for his milk, he
has no means for utilizing small
amounts at uncertain intervals.
Another important consideration is
the unpleasant effect upon the pur-
chaser. Delivering sour or tainted
milk usually results in losing the con-
fidence of the dealer; or if it is deliv-
ered direct to the consumer, it means
the loss of good customers. A reputa-
tion for clean milk means fewer com-
plaints, a better class of patrons, and
a steady market for the product of the
dairy.
Safeguarding the purity of the milk
is a protection to health on the farm
in several ways. First, the health of
the farmer’s family, who use a por-
tion of the milk themselves; second,
the health of the calves, which live
largely on milk, Healthy cows to
breed from and pure milk to feed up-
on are two important factors in rear-
ing thrifty calves, and in the develop-
ment and maintenance of a healthy
and profitable herd. Aside from these
immediate and definite benefits, there
is another consideration, not immedi-
ately measurable but of vast influence,
namely, the moral influence, for no
one can learn to procuce good and
clean milk without learning good
methods of care and management of
the herd, and study of these things
leads to greater care and intelligence
in the economic features of the busi-
ness.
—Milk Must be Kept Clean and
Safe.—For the production of clean and
safe milk it is necessary to have clean,
healthy cows and keep them in clean,
light, well-ventilated stables. I is
also equally important to have a clean,
well-drained barnyard; clean utensils,
thoroughly sterilized; clean, healthy
milkers, who milk with dry hands;
immediate cooling of the milk to 50
degrees Fahrenheit, or lower, and the
storage of the milk at low tempera-
ture until delivered.
Too much care cannot be taken to
keep and deliver the milk in a sanita-
ry condition. Where it is possible to
have a separate house for handling the
milk it will help greatly in this work.
—The hog is a profitable market
through which to send your corn. You
made money feeding 50c corn to 5¢
hogs, and you can make more money
feeding $1.50 corn to 15¢ hogs.
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