GRANDMA RULED & 8 By FANNIE HURST (®. 1931, McClure Newspaper Syndicate) WNU Service. of her, dared, and those who dared were outside her family, that she should have been born a man, Probably she should. She was not one to employ any of the arts and artifices that were femi- nine. The molding of her was strong. The hook to her was virile. The tall sparse figure, bent slightly in these later years, had the stride to it of a gaunt man. One won dered in what years grandmother had ever been sufficiently appealing in a feminine way to have won herself a husband. He had dled eight years aft- er their marriage ; but those who knew said that he had died a happy hus- band. Gone by now graces which might the younger woman. ruled her children, sons-in-law, daugh ters-in-law, grandchildren and great grandchildren with a high, hard hand. She lived in a house with two of her married children and their fam flies. Within a half-mile of the gaunt red brick homestead where she had borne her family, there lived the remainder of her progeny. Clustered around the mother were, Dominated by her grip, was the family, Strange thing, almost In the attitude of this woman towed her children that of the proverbial digger.” Fortunately, they were a generous, easy lot with grand mother called their father's “spending streak.” She had lived through lean and terrifying years due to thelr fa- ther’s Improvident ways. There were times when the homestead had tot tered on the brink of foreclosure and plans for her children, due to untimely and madcap Investments, had been In Jeopardy. Grandm that kind of ably decided that It was to let her children as to spend It In their ous ways, And did seem that greed and out over the hooked old face of this sly old woman. Even from her young grandsons demanded the homage of so two dollar bill, the most successful member family, a striking, prince-like fellow who had made a fortune in a patent used laughingly to refer to her as the “plrate-parrot.” She like * a parrot, and, laughing! ceded that she acted | In his palmy was one to have good years and bad— it was nothing for him to shovel into the stern old woman's coffers thou ands of dollars, When was seventy, she gleamed like a light. house. Jewels lay along her bony chest and burned In halr, Three of her sons were associated in the patent medi Mar. tin, the second and Oswald. the fifth They were a gay brood. the of expensive wives and demanding children. If Grandmother was proud of them, she gave precious little evi dence of her pride. She was constant- ly taking them to task. disciplining the grandchildren, descending In tirade up on the extravagance of her danghters and daughters-in-law. in no uncertain terms the pretenses and magnificence of their aspira- tions. Grandmother was hard. Grandmoth- er should have been a man. Some times, In talking things over, the chil. dren agreed among themselves that In thelr faint and crumbling memories of what thelr father had been. he seemed to stand out as the gentle, kindly, maternal one of the two. Of course, Grandmother had superb, had tided them over bad places, but really, now—in her old age, she was becoming incorrigible, It somehow was not nice for her to have accepted that thousand-dollar bill Wallace had given her for Christ. mas. Wallace's pretty wife Isabel did not mince matters about it. Her own Christmas gift from her husband had been a chair, whieh she had finally ended up by placing in his den. That thousand-dollar bill would have meant things that were actually needed in the Wallace household. Isabel loved her home, loved to deck it In finery. She wns as entitled, in her opinion and, it must be admitted. In the minds of the other chlldren-—as Grandmother was, to deck herself out with it in a square diamond ring. Wallace himself was uncommunicable, but there were hard and bitter lives around his mouth, and the family knew, without his ever taking anyone into his con- fidence, that the thousand dollars, hard-earned, coaxed from a business upon which the demands were many, had been maneuvered out of him by his mother, And the old woman's contention was that, since the money would be wasted at best by a set of wastrels, she was as entitled to some of these things as these children of hers, that were the chips off the block of their improvi. dent father, Things reached a bad pass In the those who HEY said face nose were such of those have in Grandmother existed great hen, as there was “gold- what knew the of dangers prob as well to » promisen other improvidence and her yet there were times when it avarice came she weekly Her sor Wallace, of little ns a one or her medicine, He rked the far » a pir years—and y con- Ke ate, Wallace grandmother W rrr er “ her strong gray ine business owners . ’ genouncing social been family. The sons and daughters who shared the house with tlie cig woidan were restive and talked of creating thelr own homes. Sons and daughters who lived within communicable dis tance of the homestead were chary of calling and grandchildren had rigid: ly to be taught the duty of thelr week- ly bow of deference to the old patri- arch of a woman who sat in a tapestry chair and who resembled the pirate parrot, . jut even the indomitable influence of this old woman was unable to cast its shadow entirely on her family. The most dominant of her children, the most endowed with the gift of per- sonality and wit, was Wallace. At the end of the sixth year of his mar- riage, he was occupying one of the beautiful new houses of the town. His wife rode in Imported motor cars and the pair formed the nucleus of one of the notoriously chic and gay sets In the town, The catastrophe which the old wom an bad so doggedly foreseen as inevi table came, however, sooner than even terrified, horrified her large fam ine the sitting expected. A and blasted group of ily met room of front, In their dilemma, the hard, Grandmother, Wallace had committed the unspeak Incredible as it might seem, the were she evening old homestead plight and terrifying cold of the one the to con eyes able, of the prison house the imped shades r ominous reflectd able fi about to cast around this cuffs hovered over the wri He had defaulted lace. old preside Bitter chair Fury. off the 1 stricken fi before her th feat, but every Wastrels, rresponsi ad respon bles, cheats, been thelr undoing sibility, selfishness, gance. Her sc from her old her son, defeated sat his head the slot of ror of the was going ng his fae It was reached eéextrava- Hips. S¢¢ i touche gesture of first bad seen from - hesitant. emt someliow w that the boxes ar servants upon the old riches of her resonrces : square ond ring. The thousand dollar bil rom Wallace, sapphire and ' tian “A pl @ 1 * diamond earrings, pendants, bracelets expensive decors And alone, bank notes more jewels and tions of ¢ fre piles of them, that } Mott aed uttering 1 rng COnceiy very drawer able type m id the qi out ed The tabi strewn with Thousands lay In bulk chest, and sands there The had dreaded and foreseen ha Her children were In need she had hoarded for RLittine g 3 moment which Grandn them Nitti of the prison Always Silver Linings to the Darkest Clouds Father's sprained a good deal of pain uses it for lifting heavy objects such as wheelbarrows and spading forks The doctor says that the best thing for It 1s rest, so that all is sit In the house and read. destruction of the car In the fire was most unfortunate and en- tailed considerable loss. But, on the other hand, it settled the question of getting a new one, which is a Joy to look at. Little Johnny's breaking out with chicken pox Is a nuisance, as all such contagious diseases are. Howerer, it wrist gives him when he + that is, he can do he come for her visit and the risk of eatching it. Is to get her to put it off for another six months. The cook's sudden departure has left the family in a decidedly upset condition. But with no one to wateh over the children it will be virtually impossible to attend the subscription dinner in the Interest of respect for the flag. The rain which beat in through the open window damaged the wall paper beyond repair. It will be imperative now to paper in the spring instead of walting indefinitely, The death of Mra. Jones’ mother wis most distressing. And now that Mrs. Jones must go into mourning she will have to make some disposition among her friends of the lovely clothes she brought back from Paris, as they will be out of style before she gets back into colurs again. The moths have earn large holes in father's cutaways. Poor man, he will be unable to wear it to weddings and such functions hereafter and will have to be content with a plain sack suit that does not bind him so tightly around the waist. Now, If mother could only be caught In a drenching rain while wearing the brown slik which she bought at a bargain and has never liked, life would be com plete.~Baltimore Sun, run Would Eliminate Black Currants Cultivated Plants Threaten to Destroy White- Pine Forests. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture. )~—-WNU Service, lecause of the relatively small val ue of cultivated black currants in this country and the role of these plants In the spread of white-pine blister rust, a disease which threatens to destroy our white-pine forests, United States Department of Agriculture recom mends that farmers and nurserymen and the public gegerally discontinue currants In regions grow, growing these where white pines Carriers of Blister Rust, In Its fight to save the white-pine forests of the country, the department recognizes other varieties of currants and gooseberries as potential carriers of the blister rust disease, but the cultivated black currant, sometimes known as English black currant, is by far the most susceptible to the rust. This variety is responsible for spread of the disease long tances, department specinlists declare, Compared to black eur rants, other species of currants and the over dis cultivated gooseberries are relatively resistant te rust, the department says of a the disense may spread from the orig blister course season inal black currant center, to any type of This is can of the currant or gooseberry. ed by summer stage of the rust, How Disease Is Spread. Farmers' Bulletin 1308.F, Thelr Culture and te Pine Blister Rust.” issued by the tells and explains how successive cveles “Currants and Gooseherries Relation to Whi i de in form, how 0 grow these 1 ¥ h firtment spread the rust disease. In some ey t ections ot its and gooseherries are commercial and not industry any m the Crops, the department with this Necessary Interfere is forest 8, the wish to ue white-pine does irotect cult that state author Ro is the danger from currants, however, great vated black t is asking a ities, nurserymen, and f rin eliminate this Pacific, Rocky palact sinnt ney fl piant ¢ sippl in 130K. F from the Office States Depart on, LOC Prune Young Trees for More Profitable Yields Although but apple hering your 2 ng shears Is a trees with the pruni the training of tha that strong trees capable of poor practice, nent into perma trees so they will develop vigorous carrying crops is an essential part y table orchard declares FL. H specialist In horticulture at Ohlo State university. While the unpruned young tree will manage ment, leach, extension grow more rapidly, have the greatest for its age, and into bear. Ing earlier than heavily pruned trees, follow that train- ith the help of ould be overlooked size come he save, it does not ing the pruning Light the modified der type of tree and that splitting from weak crotches is highly desirable The leader type of tree, Beach points out, Is secured by allow- ing to through the lower part of the tree. (ther branches from the scaf. fold branches may be developed will grow from the central branches at heights and positions In this way it is fairly easy to prevent crowded heads and weak crotches, It is best, he states, to allow the lowest limb to grow on the southwest side of the tree so as to prevent svn. scald Injury. Relatively light pron. ing may also be given this side of the tree, trees w the shears sh pruning that aid len 8 in developing prev nis modified one central branch continue which Old Age Fast Removing Many Soils From Service Old age is fast removing many soils from use in Illinois as nature removes humans, according to E. A. Norton, University of Illinois, Nature and man are both contributors to the aging of solis, says Norton, and man is the greater offender as he has re moved the protective covering of sod and allowed the rains to gully the land, Removing crops continually from the land has depleted the fer. tility and moisture holding capacity. Good management of soils prevents their aging and as in man it preserves youth. Old age In soils is shown by gray soils, acidity, well-defined sur. face, subsurface and subsoil and scan- ty supply of plant foods. These soil characteristics compare with gray hair, lack of activity and conserva- tism in man, Nitrogen for Celery In Ohio the use of a nitrogen car. rier gave a marked Increase in the growth of celery. Four hundred pounds per acre of a readily avail nble nitrogen carrier used as a side dressing produced an Increase of over B,000 pounds of celery per acre, All plots in the experiment received a basic treatment of a half ton of a 28-16 fertilizer. In comparison to the marked increase from the additional nitrogen, doubling elther the potash or superphosphate Increased” the yields onfy about one-tenth, Mushroom Diseases and Their Control ‘Bubbles’ and ‘Plaster Mold’ Cause of Big Loss. {Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture. )--WNU Bervice. Two diseases of mushrooms, known as “bubbles” and “plaster mold,” are responsible for great losses to mush: room growers, say Vera K. Charles and C. H. Popenoe in Circular 27-C, “Some Mushroom Diseases and Thelr Carriers,” recently Issued in revised form by the United States Department of Agriculture, “Bubbles,” probably the of greatest to the Industry, deforms the plants from the beginning of growth, which at covers the plants with a cottony growth and later disappears, after which the mu and rot. The fungus its way Int the wood of mushroom bed and lives there from year to year killed by fumigation. For control, the infected manure must be removed the beds and house must be fu with sulphur or formaldehyde, care and sanitary measures must be exercised to prevent workmen or in sects from carrying the fungous spores ted bed or house, mold” disease importance first shrooms soften works the Uniess and to an uninfe« « "Plaster mushroom Goes not atta but directly, the disea the manure and prevents or delays de velopment of the spawn. ns white of the bed when I be seen the boards are raised 4 . 1's 3 en he fi spores t ireied sadils to wind or Inse hese are likely Plaster mold has spread the diseas been serious in recent years It re + fall i} ure of the crop other Insects common In mushroom houses distribute the disense spores. They can be con trolled with hydrocyanie ac As manure from the ire used fo from a pls Manure 1 yrethrum nicotine id Eas, ion mes should be moved to sani tance mushroom man come ination. Korean Lespedeza Best Sown in Early Spring : sown In 1 or early April 1 oats Im media 1 grain been inter, after the The 11 be grain crop is up on whent n April, freezes is of seeding BY We delayed after the past untii of severe danger Seedings however, the d while the freezing by should be made, before ground has drie ut ar alternately surface soll is i ing by day. night and thaw ng is later the wheat gre is put in. Korean lespedeza establishes For that gucceed and and well packed. is more likely to make a larger growth the fi on wheat rather than with oats sepd Is not difficult to and be distributed by sow attachment grass-clover drill, Destroy Scale Insects Very Early in Spring There to broods of the San Jose scale per year, It has been estimated that even with four broods, a single female's prog etiy would number 2216080400 In a season. To figure the progeny in view of a fifth brood would make the fig. ures incomprehensible. Thus It is seen that it is very important to de stroy the Insects before the breeding season as A plant only slightly at. tacked in the spring may be covered, as well as the fruit, hy fall. With millions of scales with thelr begks thrust into the plant, pumping § the sap and poisoning the tissues, a tree will succumb In from one to three years if the scales are not checked by spraying, natural condi tions or parasites are probably PPPPLBPPPPPOPPPLLLNPHLHLLY Agricultural Notes GPP LPPPPPePLPPOPLrtd Clover or alfalfa sown in the spring should make a cutting of hay by late summer, * = » The celery cabbages are attractive salad vegetables, They can be grown at home, . Seldom dpes the cost of an hour of horse labor fall below 12 cents or ex- ceed 30 cents, . 8 » The New Jersey State college finds that egg plants on highly acld soils are less likely to be damaged by wilt than on soils containing lime. . & » Experiments at the Pennsylvania State college reveal that nitrogenous fertilizers should be applied to sod or chards in the spring soon after the tips of the branch buds begin to show gray and before the blossom buds show pink. | | } i Soothes restless, wakef CHILD There are times when a baby is too fretful or feverish to be sung to sleep. There are some pains a mother cannot pat away. But there's no time when any baby can't have the quick comfort of Castoria! A few drops, and your little one is soon at ease—back to sleep almost before you can slip away. ian BLE id ET i just give them a more liberal dose. Castoria is so pleasant-tasting; all children love to take it. Look for Chas. H. 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