ABOUT CHRISTMAS HURRY
4“
I worked busily away in his work-
shop, way up North, “that there is
a grent deal of fun about Christmas
time hurry.
“Of course 1 plan for Christmas
~-almost, I might say frown one Christ-
mas to another,
“l think, as soon as Christmas is
aver, of some nice gifts and some
pleasunt surprises for the following
year,
“But no matter how much | plan
ahead and do ahead there Is always
f great deal that 1 must do In a
hurry.
“1 eall
1 love it!
“There are last-minute letters be-
Ing received, there are all sorts of
things whichs come up which 1 want
to do and which I feel | surely must
do, and which, too, 1 enjoy doing.
“There is something so splendid
qabout hurrying for Christmas, it
seems to refresh me and make me
feel younger and younger rather
than older and older,
“Christmas hurry is like beautiful,
clear, cool alr which makes people
THINK,” sald Santa Claus, as he
ft Christmas hurry. And
“Ncw | Must Finish This Train of
Cars.”
feel go strong and well and able to
tackle anything at all
“People will say around Christmas
time:
“Oh, dear, but we must hurry. We
have so much to do.
“But their voices don’t sound tired
and they don’t feel tired. They love
the hurrying because it is Christmas
hurrying.
“Everything, really, when it comes
yizht down te it, that is connected
svith Christmas, Is nice!”
joy of the North, Santa's dog.
Durked as though he agreed, too.
“let ule see” continued Santa
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How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
Claus, “there are all these addresses
for chimney homes.”
And Santa looked at pages afd
pages of addresses or houses which
he would be visiting on Christinas
eve,
“Then there are the fire-escupe nd
dresses, You see, when they built
those big apartinent houses In cities,
as 1 think I've told you, Boy of the
North, people didn't have fireplaces
“Yet I knew that 1 must think of
some way of getting to see the chil
dren,
“1 discovered the fire escapes
which they were putting on thege
buildings and I suld to myself:
“*The lire escapes for Santa then
if there are no chimneys,” So that is
bow I get to the stockings of the city
children,
“The time Is getting short now,
of the North, and the reindeer
becoming impatient to be ofl.
they love it!
“Rushing,
Joy
ure
How
scampering,
the towns and cities and
try places and visiting every
boy and girl everywhere.
“The reindeer Know what it Is they
are doing. Ah, yes, you can be sure
they know,
“And why wouldn't they know? The
dears (] didn't mean to make g Joke,
toy of the North), have been doling
this for a pretty long time.
“They get so excited by the time
Christmas comes, that there is never
any trouble In getting around every:
where,
“Oh, no! Not my reindeer. Why,
we're scarcely away from one house
before we're at another, and that is
the truth, ~
“There! That doll Is
Hasn't she pretty blue eyes?
bow they open and close!
“Now, 1 must finish this train of
cars. The tracks are all ready and
1 have some fine lamp posts and a sta
tion to go with this set. I'll make
some boy very happy.
“Yes, I must hurry. If 1 don't hurry
I won't get through in time,
“But | will get through in tline be
cause I'll hurry!
“There! 1 must attach the cars
to each other. Then that will be fin
ished. | have so many things almost
done—just the last touches to be giv.
en to them and then they will be all
in readiness.
“There's that doli's house | midst
furnish,
“Ah, ves, «+ must hurry.
“Bit how 1 love to hurry!
“And low everyone loves to
ry at Christmas time!
“Horry, hurry.
“Scurry, scurry.
“Joyous Christmas time.”
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Why We Do
What We Do
by M. K. THOMSON, Ph. D.
“DARK AS EREBUS”
HIS phrase, signifying the blackest
darkness, which Is frequently met
with in literature and sometimes In
gpeech of a high sounding and classi
cal flavor, takes its origin in the pages
of the old Greek mythology.
Erebus was a term used by the an-
clent Greeks and Romans to denote
the darkness of the lower world, and
gn the lower world Itself. To Erebus
went the souls of the departed, and
at its entrance waited Cerebrus, the
three headed dog with snakes for hale
who turned bn those who entered but
devoured all who attempted to return.
Personifying everything as they did.
the ancients called Erebus a son of
Chaos and father of Aether (alr) and
Hemera (day)
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GABBY GERTIE
REPUTATION FOR
BEING BAD
10 MAN wants to be called a sissy,
a milksop, a goody-goody. These
are terms of scorn and ridicule be
cause they stand for cowardice, weak:
ness and the lack of manly qualities
Thus in order to avoid being pm
in the class with milksops a good man
will seek a reputation for being bad.
It is generally regarded as a greater
compliment to be called a regular
devil than to be classed as a sissy.
There are styles In heroes as In
dress and religion. Years ago the
goody-good man was stylish, hence
the numerous hypocrites who feigned
a purity of character that did not be-
long to them. Now that the prevailing
style Is a person with zip and snap
the tendency is to become a hypocrite
of the opposite type In claiming a
reputation for badness, that one does
not possess,
A good man wants a reputation for
being bad also because of a childish
wish to appear grown up, to attract
attention by his daring and strength
even as young boys who try hard to
be “manly.” The boy who can chew
the biggest cud of tobacco and spit
the blackest and farthest gets the
leadership of his gang. Somehow, men
never outgrow this attitude of im-
pressing their fellows with their
strength and daring and toughness of
brain and brawn,
Polonius In advising his son, La
ertes, who is about to leave for Paris
to complete his education, cautions
him against the evils of a great city.
But he Is afruld the boy will take him
too seriously and turn out a gowmdy-
goody, so he ends by teiling him not
to be too tame, either.
The modern version of this view is
expressed in a certain college fra-
ternity song that praises its members
by describing them as scholars and
gentlemen, “not too fast and not too
slow.”
Badness in moderation seems to he
admired more than goodness In the
extreme, hence the desire on the part
of a good man for a reputation for
being bad.
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voice culture,
For Meditation
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT
COOOTOO0 COOUOON0
IS THE WORLD FRIENDLY?
PICTURE 18 something more than
the harmonious blending of colors
upon a piece of canvas; and
than the hwarmony of sounds.
means of a pleture an artist
his through music,
gedy, and all the
rush for expression.
the picture or the music
message (0 you personally
agpon yourself. If
you have eyes to
see you will see, If
you have ears to
hear you will hear,
An art gallery is
no place for eyes
blind to the sense
of beauty, and deaf
ears receive no re
ward for an eve
ning spent listen
ing to a symphony.
That which we both
hear and see is but
a reflection of our
As
mirror reflects the
image before it, so
the heauty of a
the reflection of our
own personal appreciation of beau
ty. The same fact holds true with
reference to the pleasure we receive
in our contacts with nature. To some
persons a day In the woods means a
music
By
reveals
Nessnge ; pathos,
love other emo
Whether
COuNeys a
depends
inner selves,
LL. A. Barrett.
pleture is hut
ment ; to another it may mean noth.
Mountains, rivers, the ocean and
bring a message to as just In
proportion to our capacity to appre
cinte them. In his Peter Bell, Words
worth writes:
Did nature lead him as before;
A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
What we see In persons
largely a reflection of our own char
acter,
honesty,
covers selfishness,
see purity In others,
is attracted to goodness. The
we are accustomed to see In
and selfishness readily
own eyes,
plishment,
ship” and “The Friendly
David Grayson (Ray Stannard
ker) made many Interesting discov.
friendly people.”
sought, He discovered in others a
reflection of his own soul. To him
this was a friendly world, because he
himself gave it friendship.
Qive to the world the best you have
And the best will come back to you
(B®. 1929, Western Newspaper Union.)
Losses From Hog
Cholera Lowest
Raising Animals Under Me-
Lean County System
Is Emphasized.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
log cholera seems to be slightly less
prevalent this year than last, and last
year losses from the disease were the
lowest since the United States Depart.
ment of agriculture has been keeping
records, Dr. U. G. Houck, associate
chief of the bureau of animal Industry
announced In a summary of informa.
tion assembled from thirty-one states,
In four of these states, however—
Indiana, Michigan, Nebrask. and Ohlo
- hog cholera Is more prevalent than
Inst year, Approximutely the same
utnount of cholera us last sear was
reported for Colorado, Kentucky North
Carolina, Texas, [linols, Mississippi,
Tennessee, and Wisconsin,
Less Cholera Reported.
In Alabama, California, Georgia,
Marvinnd, Oklahoma, South
Virginia, Washington, West
Arknnsus, lowa, Florida,
Louisiana, Missourl,
Kunsas,
kota,
Virginia,
Idaho,
(‘nroling,
With the exception of three states the
decreases are slight, but Okinhoma ree
ports a reduction of 50 per cent, Lou.
cent
“The
eral.”
hog cholera situation, in gen.
guld Doctor Houck, “seems to
somewhat better than last
our information
considerable increuse
be
According to
been
has this
immuonizatio. against cholera In
fifteen of the thirty-one states
hog
munization than sear.”
Doctor Houck referred to a report
from Idaho stating thet most
hog cholera of recent months occurred
furs where there had been pur
chases at public grounds of animmun-
fzed nnimals,. A middle western vel.
erinarian explained occasional! “breaks”
of the serum osusily when
fittle attention Is given to the
condition of the herd Immediately
prior to immunization” the conse
quence of administering virus when
the animals were not In fit physical
condition to reeeive it. In such cases
losses ure likely to be severe,
Harm Done by Vendors
Doctor Houck also quoted an ob
server of the swine industry in Ne
ne saving that “vendors of
swine remedies have become increas
during the iast few
Nebruska, In many cases
they have cages] owners of sick herds
to delay in securing competent veter
inst
oh
occurred
“Hon
hraskn
ingly prevalent
years in
puelsgtunee antl! toe Inte to save
In other enses the reme
dies fed to prevent sickness have ac
tually caused sickness” This ohaserv-
er iso emphasizes the desirability of
ralsing bogs under the lelean Coun
ty system of sanitatipn as sponsored
by the United States Department of
Agriculture, comments on the desira
bility of feeding alanced rations and
emphasizes the advisability of imme
dintely employing a competent velepn
inarian when disease appears in a
herd.
inary
thelr hogs
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Tractors Are Gaining
on Many Truck Farms
in regions around large centers of
population where truck gardening pre
valls and in other places where small
road crops are grown, the garden trae
tor is gaining a strong Tootheld
Poultry. fruit or truck farms use
this mechanienl power very advantage
ously in seeding. cultivating and har
vesting, as well as in other draw.bay
and belt power tasks
The garden tractor fills a demand
which resulis from the impractionhility
of maintaining horses in thickly set
tied truck or froit-producing areas. In
sich areas nnd ls expensive and the
high.
These garden tractors are sgnall and
compact and can be operated advan
tugeously in gardens, orchards or oth
er close quarters since they may be
turned sharply and since the tools that
operate are close to the source of pow.
er. genernlly between the driver and
the engine. $
Legume Crops Are Not
Satisfactory for Silage
Legume crops do not male good
fertilizer as a rule. They are so high
in nitrogen and low in sugars and
starches that they do not keep well
in a silo At the University of Mis
sourl some years ago Professor Eckels
was able to gpake very good silage out
of Alfuifa hay that he allowed fo wilt
before putting in the silo. Most ex.
periments, however, have not been 80
successful. It is necessary to gave
some sugar and starch fermentation to
develop a good keeping quality.
Most Efficient Method
of Preserving a Post
The most efficient farm method of
preserving fence posts Is by what is
enlled the hot and cold bath process.
The trentment consists of heating the
post in the preservative iL an open
tank containing cold creosote for sev.
eral hours more. The process varies
greatly with the kind of wood treated
and details can be secured from the
state extension forester, college
agriculture, University of Idaho, Mos:
ow
Know Plant Habits,
Gardeners Advised
Traits Must Be Known for
Best Results in Crops.
The home gardener must be well
acquainted with the characteristics of
the plants he grows If he Is to secure
the best results for his efforts, ad-
vises the vegetable department of the
college of agriculture at New Bruns
wick. The tralt of our common vege-
table plants which cannot be over.
looked In any way is their sensitive.
ness to climatie conditions, Some
vegetables require hot weather for
their best development and are killed
by a very light frost. Others do not
develop properly during bot weather
but will endure freezes. Each must
be planted at a season of the year
which will enable it to make its best
development.
Of the cool season crops some reach
edible maturity quickly, and are al
most always grown without transplant.
ing. In this group we find peas; the
short-season root crops like radish,
fis spinach, mustard and kale; and
Mie salad crops like leaf lettuce, gar.
den cress and corn salad These
shouid be planted as soon as the dan-
ger of killing frosts is over.
Other cool: season crops have a
longer growing season than these, and
must be started In a green house, hot-
bed or cold frame sometime before
they could be sown outdoors if they
are to mature before hot weather,
Cabbage, eauliflower and bead lettuce
are in this clusg The time to trans
plant these crops from the green
house to the field Is as soon as the
danger of killing frosts is past. Sue
cessive planting of some can be made
up to the first of May, but after this
date it Is better to plant some of the
Warn season crops.
Fix Garden Tools Now,
Save Time Next Spring
3¥ properly taking care of the gar-
ready in spring can be suved, says the
Rust has
slow bot effective
doing
ed sguinst most carefully.
All metal work, and wood, too, can
be rubbed with an ollsoaked rag. The
oll used should be clean but not too
light, for it must give a perfect cov.
ering through the winter. All bear.
ings, too, can be kept shiny, such as
the share of the garden plow or the
hoe blade. coat the surface liberally
with hard oll. This work is a dirty Job
and should be done in old clothes,
Should you find a toul badly rusted,
fn brick bat will be found an excellent
thing to remove the rust, A fine grade
paper will cut through
This can be finished with
emery cloth, although a buffing wheel
turned at high speed with some emery
powder on It will be the best to put on
a highiy polished surface that will
“scour” when firsi used.
also
Alfalfa Will Furnish
High-Grade Roughage
Among wil the stancvard feed crops,
alfalfa generally ranks at or gear the
top in dollar value per acre. A good
crop of alfalfa hay jlelds from two
te seven times as much digestible pro-
teln per acre as any of the farm crops
commonly grown for live stock feed.
An alfalfa field on the farm will do
more than furnigh s>very class of live
stock with the highest grade of rough.
age possible at a reasonable cost.
With alfalfa hay avaliable, other high
yielding legumes can be used as pas
ture, or they can be plowed under as
soll builders.
Alfalfa seeded In tle fall requires
a good seedbed, well pulverized and
firm, The soil pulverizer Is recog.
nized as. a good tool for crushing clods
and for Arming the soll before seeding.
Agricultural Squibs
Sheep are particular and will refuse
leftovers.
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Plenty of direct sunlight is an Im
pertant factor in producing good gains
in Tall pigs.
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Make repairs on your farm machin.
ery now so that you won't have to
waste valuable time ater on.
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A seed [rower can build up his busi
ness and perhaps make splendid prof.
its in the production of pure seed with:
out exhibiting.
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It does not pay to scatter straw of
any kind on the field It can hest be
used by making bedding for live stock
and put back with manure.
ee &
The only way to handle green clo
ver is to ensile It. Otherwise if It Is
made Into hay it must be alrecured
enough to Insure housing it without
much heating.
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The nse of the fanning mill for seed
onts ordinarily pays well The remov.
al of chaff, light, shrunken grains,
weed seeds. and dirt insures a more
uniform . rate of seeding. better ger
mination, and a herve yield.
ee
If your home garden is composed of
& heavy. Stiff soll that has a tendency
manure or Any other vege
Coal ashes also are
For every stomach
and intestinal fil
This good old-fash.
loned herb, home
remedy for cousti-
pation, stoma ‘es
and other derafige-
ments of the sys
tem so prevalent these days is in even
greater favor as a family medicine
than In your grandmother's day.
Cuts, Burns, Bruises
Try Hanford’s
Balsam of Myrrh
All deniers are authorized to refund your money
for the first bottle il not suited.
Softening Toward Him
Representative James M, Beck sald
at an dinner:
“If they had
longer I'd have
kept me out much
felt ag bad as Brown
“Brownlow was running for mayor,
fat the end of a stormy
hiz ear said:
“You're winning them over, Brown
They ined to
i
Yes, you're getting
{Ign manager
seemed more ne
nore
gnarled Brownlow. "Look
and they
iz but bombast me with rot.
“Popular!”
at my cont
Why »
vert,
ten eggs.
“Yes, the manager,
Brownlow, bow
but,” sald
remember,
ow
it used to be bricks?
You
From Bunyan
A murck-rake
loge tine 1
iecting
is a rake used In eo!
Literally a
such a
term Is used
who makes a prac
of searching for, collecting and
eorrupt practices among
public is believed to refer
fo “the man with the muck-rake™ in
Bunyan's Pligrim's Progress
muck er dung.
muck-raker Is
rake, Figuratively
fc mean
tice
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one who nses
the
a person
ree
He
officials. i
Mothers . . Watch
Children’s COLDS
OMMON head colds often "serche™
in throat and chest where they may
become dangerous. Don’t take @
chance — at the first sniffie rub en
Children's Mustercle once every hour
Jor five hours.
Children's Musterole is just good eld
Musterole, you have known so leag, ia
milder form, .
Working like the trained masseur, this
famous blend of oil of mustard, camphor,
menthol and ather ingredients brings
relief naturally. Jr penetraves and suma-
lates blood circulation, helps to draw out
infection and pain.
Keep full strength Musterole on hand,
for adults and the milder — Children’s
om
Framee Has Air Police
Alr police patrol has been estab
lished over France te eonirol the
movement of the large momber of
planes that pass over the rountry
daily, Pilots violating International alr
regulations are subject to heavy fines
Police airplanes warn erring pilots by
Cring smoke bombs, and all aircraft
being signaled In this manner are re
guired to follow the police ship to the
ground and land alongside It.
Ne:ded a Mental Stroke
“Is Bill absent-minded?”
“He certainly is. It nearly cost him
his life one time.”
*How was that?
“He fell overboard and forgot be
knew how to swim.”
Considerate
Horatlo—Ah, sweetest Miranda, }
would lay the world at your feet. bat
for one thing,
Miranda—And what 1s that?
Horatio—Some other people are us
ing it, dear.
Effective Remedy
Colly—Can you suggest something
that will remove superfluous hair}
Drggist——Yes; try matrimony.
Never try to make a fool of a man
~Jjet nature fake its course.
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from Youth to Age