/WJ (TtfZ/Zi? >?yVO THE tIISZES EDITH AMD GLORIA
LEARN from the scientists
of the census bureau and
others who have made a
______ tudy of that Interesting but
Si rratic bird, the stork, that
\ 999 :s favorite habitat is in the
of tho poor rather than in the
paiacv-:- of the rich, and that in no
.i
•other p!ace in the world Is it more sel
doni seen than along Fifth avenue.
The home of Mr. George J. Gould,
iowever, is an exception to this rule. '
Seven times the domestic bird has vis-|—
Ited and blessed that abode, each time] 9
leaving a baby so strong and lusty, so»
big and beautiful, that it fully justified
the fond parents' declaration that it V
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
BO 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
one could get along if one had to.
When you want to dive to the heart of a mys
te~y the French shrug their shoulders and spread
out their hands, and say: "Cherehez la femme."
If you desire to find the 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, jjotential
citizens of worth or mere cumberers of the
ground—you must act as if the old French adage
read: "Cherehez 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. I found 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,
como 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 iu between the portieres from time to
time. The other children were absent, and a mo
tor was being sent to her school for Vivian, and
another to Columbia university tor Kingdon and
Jay, lor the day was bitter cold and snowy. Baby
Gloria, who in 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.
The room itself was a very temple of mother
hood, for its empire tone had been 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—Jay in tennis flannels when he won the
championship of the world, Kingdon with his fiist
mustache, marveiously 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 I : hould like to paint her as a triumphant
modern .Madonna, a woman to whom motherhood
has hi • -ir nothing but joy, and whose children
are her r.vowti of happiness. She has had all that
women cvavt*, has this woman who is a darling
of the god First she had success and fame,
which slie won by her own genius; then she was
given love 'and marriage and enormous wealth
and high sociul position. She has beauty that is
still undimined, but the best that life has given
her is her children, and it is good to hear her
say to.
"My acquaintances have sometimes pitied me,"
nhe said with a smile, "because I have had so
many babies, but 1 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 i.-; one mason why my children
have all been so strong and have had such se
rene dispositions.
"I have felt the responsibilities of motherhood,
too, and have tried to give my\children as good a
start as possible by giving sound bodies.
COPYRICHT BY IffTBH/lATtoHAL HAOUVIt„ COrttMY
Before they were born 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
foods. 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 c
the food that nature intended for a child.
"In raising my children my plan has been
to bring them up to be simple and
hardy. Not one of my children has ~
ever had on a stitch ot flannel, not even a
flannel petticoat. They have warm wraps
when they go out of doors, but in the house
they wear little socks and low-necked and
short-sleeved cotton or woolen clothes.
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 at candy all day for
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. Could
and myself, but until they are 16 years old
they have their supper at a lfctie after sis
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 pt Georgian Court she
often eats with the children by preference.
"Of course J have so many other duties that it
is not possible for mo to be always with my ba
bies, and so I kept a trained nurse for each one
until lie or she was two and a half years old, and
past the teething-time; but there is never a night,
even to this day, that I do not go into each room
the last tiling before going to bed, and tuck the
covers down with my 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
I sat up with the sick child, too. When Marjorie
had that fearful spoil of scarlet fever in France
the summer before last, and when it seemed ut
terly impossible for her to recover, her father
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 ha.' 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 exercise, and freedom. It
was for the benefit of our 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 lip and moved on.
"Everything has been sacrificed lor 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
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1909.
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 rid© 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 tho
country. Jay was also a lino
player, but after Klngdon went to Columbia the
game was somewhat broken up; so as thera was
a fine professional tennis-player at Lakewood ho
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 ha
was 17 he won the American championship, and
when he was 18 ho 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 110 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 own
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
clover, 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 mo 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
tilings away from them, hut tliey just havo no do
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 after all, it's the healthy body that gives
a healthy mind and healthy impulses, isn't it?"
I Pennsylvania
Happenings
Reports received at the state de
partment of health from the Gratz fair
Sndieated that the tuberculosis exhibit
attracted wide attention.
The parole rules for the peniten
tiaries, drafted in accordance with the
act of 1909, have been published. Gov.
Stuart approved them.
Chief James N. Moore of the new
legislative reference bureau, who now
has a single room at the library, will
ask for larger quarters next year.
State Librarian Montgomery and
Chief Moore of the legislative refer
ence bureau will go to Albany to look
into reference methods in the Empire
state
Before the next eeting of the state
board of pardons there are 23 cases to
be acted upon, including eight murder
cases. The Marcavic case, from North-
Cumberland, Is on the list.
Tho Pennsylvania railroad has
placed orders for 200,360 tons of steel
rails for its 1910 requirements. The
price is said to be S2B a ton and the
total of the order is $5,600,000.
Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
Martin, who has given much attention
to the upbuilding of county and other
fairs, has returned from a swing
around the circle to a number of fairs
through the state.
The desks in the house chamber at
capitol, which became warped and
cracked after the recent session, are
in the hands of repairmen. They are
being drawn together or pieced. Over
150 had to be repaired.
Deputy Forest Commissioner Wil
liams has gone to Gettysburg to close
up a deal for the acquisition of a
small tract of woodland, recently pur
chased by the department.
The councils of New Castle have
passed resolutions asking for the re
turn of the state police to that city.
The state police department has not
received a request for the troopers.
The forestry department has re
ceived notice of small forest fires in
the upper part of the state. There is
also a small fire at Mt. Alto. None of
the fires cover any considerable terri
tory.
Chief Moorse of the legislative refer
ance bureau is receiving numerous let
ters from various parts of the state re
garding the scope of his bureau. Some
letters from the bureaus of other
states are also being received.
Scores of people daily go to the
offices of the game commission after
copies of the game and fish laws, a
digest of which has just been pub
lished in pamphlet form. The supply
has been exhausted several times.
Fish Commissioner Mfeehaii an
nounced that he had received reports
from wardens to the effect that shad
had been found in eel baskets in the
Susquehanna river between Duncan
non and ltoyalton. The shad were
adult and the fact that they had been
up the river to spawn is taken to in
dicate that they will be plentiful in
the river next year in spite of the big
dams down the stream.
The handsome bronze figure of an
American soldier which surmounts the
granite monument erected at Fort Ma
hone in Virginia by the state in honor
of the soldiers of Hartranft's division
who were killed in battles in front of
Petersburg, has been greatly defaced,
it was disfigured by some person or
persons firing large bird shot into the
face, bust and shoulders of the soldied
in bronze. There are a hundred dents
in the figure. This monument was un
veiled 011 May 19, 1909, in the presence
of Gov. Stuart and 4,000 persons, in
cluding several hundred Pennsylvania
veterans. The address was made by
President Taft.
The Gates Coal & Coke Co. of
Pittsburg comes into possession of 234
bula for $250,000. The sale includes
in the Kloiulyke coke field in the vicin
ity of Masontown. The coal was deed
ed to tho coke company by Titus Libo
acres of the Waynesburg vein of coal
25 acres of the Freeport vein, and by
the terms of the agreement the coke
company has the privilege of using
free of cost 40 acres of the surface
land upon which to build a coking
plant and other structures necessary
for the mining and coking of coal.
Practically all the timber 011 the sur
face is conveyed to the company. It is
reported the coal will be developed
at once by the construction of a large
coking plant.
Deputy Banking Commissioner Mor
rision is in Pittsburg where he is look
ing after the state's end of the closed j
trust companies by direction of Com
missioner Smith. Deputy Attorney
General Cunningham is also 011 the
ground.
State Treasurer Sheatz has issued a
call on TO of the bank and trust com
panies having state funds to pay from
10 to 20 per cent of their state de
posits on demand. The amount called
is about 3300,000, being needed to paj' 1
school appropriations. |
HER QUESTION.
"Well, Miranda, they've found the
north pole at last'"
"Sakes alive, Hiram! You don't
say! Where did they find it?"
HUMOR BURNED AND ITCHED.
Eczema on Hand, Arms, Legs and
Face —It Was Something Terrible.
Complete Cure by Cuticura.
"About fifteen or eighteen years
ago eczema developed on top of my
hand. It burned and Itched so much
that I was compelled to show It to a
doctor. He pronounced it ringworm.
After trying his different remedies the
disease increased and went up my
arms and to my legs and finally on my
face. The burning was something
terrible. I went to another doctor who
had the reputation of being the best
In town. He told me It was eczema.
His medicine checked tho advance of
the disease, but no further. I finally
concluded to try the Cuticura Reme
dies and found relief In the first trial.
I continued until I was completely
cured from the disease, and I have
not been troubled since. C. Burkhart,
236 W. Market St., Chambersburg, Pa.,
Sept. 19, 1908."
Potter Drug & Cbem. Corp., Sole Propt., Bolton.
When England Had Lotteries.
It was not until 1826 that the gov
ernment lotteries were abandoned in
Britain. For the thirty years preced
ing an average annual profit of over
51,725,000 was accrued, one contract
or alone spending $150,000 in adver
tisements in a single year. The money
thus raised was usually for a particu
lar purpose, such as the improvement
of London, the purchase of Tompkins'
picture gallery, or the repair of vari
ous harbors.
From the seventeenth century to
the reign of George IV. the crown re
peatedly drew considerable revenues
from such sources.
Mars the Next Field.
There are many who will part from
the north pole with regret. All their
lives it has seemed the one unconquer
able salient of nature's fortress, the
very synonym of the Impossible goal
of human endeavor. With the pole
itself succumbing, the world is no
longer the same, and everything seems
within the realm of mortal achieve
ment. We must now think of talk
ing with Mars with more respect
The professor's mirrors may prove
any day a relity.
A New Dress for 10 Cents,
the cost of a package of Dyola Dyes.
You don't have to know whether it is
cotton, wool, silk or mixed goods.
Dyola gives the same fast brilliant
colors on all goods. Comes in 16 col
ors. At your dealer's or if not in
stock we will send you any color for
10 cents with direction book and color
card. Dyola Burlington, Vt.
A Suggestion.
Ponce De Leon was seeking the
fountain of youth.
"I wonder," muttered his Impecu
nious rival, "did he ever try to pass a
drug store with his best girl?"
Digging into his jeans he was com
pelled to pay for four sodas.
Hamlins Wizard Oil is over fifty year*
old and, like an old friend, it can be de
pended upon just as surely as the family
doctor who may be miles away.
As the rose breatheth sweetness
from its own nature, so the heart of
a benevolent man produceth good
works. —Dodsley.
No man can pray right while he
lives wrong.
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