SPACES
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By FANNIE HURST
(® 1931, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service.)
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HE grayish little town of Della
lay scattered off both sides of a
railroad track. If you glimpsed
it at all, you caught sight of it
from the window of your coach be-
cause not more than two or three
trains a day stopped at the small
thatched station of Delia, with {ts
small waiting room of pot-bellied
stove, tin water cooler and composite
ticket-baggage-and-telegraph agent,
Two thousand souls resided In
Delia. One the south side of the
tracks, which was probably the least
desirable from the realty value point
of view, Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Moore
conducted a grocery store. It was an
old-fashioned green grocer's establish-
ment with a porch roof, reaching like
an awning over the wooden sidewalk,
supported by wooden props for pillars.
There were three inverted barrels
standing outside the Moore grocery
store for loiterers; probably the only
three such barrels in the state.
Mr. and Mrs. Moore lived in a two-
story frame house one block removed
from this place of business. It was a
typical frame house: six box-like
rooms, no modern Improvements, &
truck garden in the side yardsa picket
fence closing it in from the wooden
sidewalk, a pump with a tin dipper
dangling, a woodshed which contained
a dilapidated flivver, used chiefly for
grocery deliveries, a dog house, a sum-
mer kitchen and some beautiful old
plane and maple trees.
Mrs, Moore, who divided her days
in the grocery store with her husband,
did not have a great deal of time for
housekeeping; but just the same her
spring crocuses and summer roses and
late dahlias could vie with the best in
Delia. So could the primness of the
Interior of her little frame house.
Spick, span, rigid, filled with the cold
smell of matting, horse-halr covered
furniture and unaired front parlor.
But the Moores had a dream. It
had begun back In the days when
young Isaiah Moore, evenings off from
his father's grocery store, had wooed
the pretty Abby Ross In the stiff front
parlor of her father's house in Delia.
Even back there, Isaiah was full of the
dream of the “wide-open spaces.” Ev-
ery pre-nuptial plan of theirs, even
that which had to do with the imme
diate reality of Moore's grocery store
and taking up residence in the little
frame house in which they were to
live for a subsequent thirty years, was
tinged with that sunny vision of the
remote “wide-open spaces.”
Of course, the usual happened. Qulck
tides of life caught up Abby and
Isalah and carried them along to a
destiny not planned by themselves. A
year after their marriage, the father
of Isalah dled, leaving him the some-
what doubtful legacy of the debt-en-
cumbered grocery store. The next
year, Abby's twins were born, to die
five years later In a local epidemic.
It is probable that, more than any-
thing that had ever happened to them,
this unseemly catastrophe frustrat-
ed the ambition of Abby and Isalah.
or at least Inhibited it for the period
of the next five or ten years.
The Moores found themselves
clutched by circumstance, restrained
by routine, saddened by calamity, And
80 during the years that this erst-
while vision of the “wide-open spaces”
lay fallow, thirty springtimes swung
around Into the little garden surround-
ing the frame house. Thirty winters,
many of them bitter and cold, with
thick layers of snow on the slat roofs
and the runty cornfields of Della:
thirty autumns that minted into gold
and russet the fine old oak trees and
plane trees and maple trees that lined
the leisurely streets of Della: thirty
summers that warmed Abby's roses In-
to life and kept the three barrels In
front of Moore's grocery store crowd-
ed with loiterers,
Intense seasons, all of them. filled
with too much rain or too much snow
or too much heat or too much wind.
The hard, chapped face of Isaiah
Moore, when he came out of the gro-
ery store to survey a snow scape, or
to watch the blasting heat dance
across the cornflelds of the outlying
country, automatically, even after
thirty years, turned to the west,
There was something almost fanatical
in his craving for the milder, sun-
kissed “open spaces.” He yearned for
the relaxation of kindlier climates, for
the gandeur of mountains and the bril-
Nant and cozy security of the far.
famed bungalows of the western coast,
80 did Abby. When sleet beat
against the little wooden box of the
house they called home, when fey
winds roared in through the windows
or spring rains tapped dainty fingers
along the sills, Abby was given to
taking out the great box of travel
folders, rea! estate prospectuses and
maps that Isalah kept tucked on a
closet shelf, to pore over them,
There was one picture of a bun.
glow colony on a sunny coast. A row
of adorable-looking Spanish houses,
drenched In sunlight, backed In moun-
tain tops and surrounded by gardens
that took your breath away,
As they grew older, and a little
more tired, this old dream of the
Moores begun to resuscitate itself,
They sat together on wintry evenings
and planned thelr sunny, flowery fu-
topcoat, wound his ears In a large
woolam muffler and talked of perpetual
summers. The townspeople, the
friends, the loiterers and the cronies
began to shake sad heads over these
two obsessed old people.
“Get out or shut up,” they sald,
among themselves concerning them.
To thelr own surprise, as much as
anyone else's, the Moores did the for-
mer. The opportunity presented itself
to sell out the grocery store to the
first chain store venture that had come
to Delia. All In a fortnight it hap-
pened, the opportunity, the sale, the
departure,
Two bewildered and happy old peo-
ple, with cash In their pockets, stepped
off a train Into the riotous brilliance
of a southern clime,
“They've been foo active all thelr
lives. They'll get tired of loafing,”
had been the prediction of thelr
cronies,
The Moores knew better. The dream
within thelr grasp was too incredibly
good to be true. For the first months
of setting up their household goods In
one of the pale-pink Spanish bunga-
lows, surrounded by color and backed
by mountain, the unreality of their
happiness had been the only flaw In
the ointment. It was impossible to
wake up and quite believe yourself
lying out in this cradle of botanleal
beauty. The old pair pottered about
two-thirds of the day in their brilliant
garden, walked about the wide streets
of their little community, or sat gazing
upon the rhinoceros-like hide of the
towering mountain so easily within
their view. The sun beat ceaselessly :
winds were warm and drowsy: rain
was so rare that you reckoned with (t
not at all
At the end of the first year a con-
sciousness of this for the first time
took concrete form in the mind of
Abby, To her amazement she found
herself hankering for the sweetness of
the springlike tapping of rain on the
window sills, or the solemn gray re-
spite of a steady downpour that used
to wash the landscape In mist. Abby
found herself yearning for a day cold
enongh to wind a good old woolen
scarf about her neck and scurry along
the road to keep the blood warm and
going. And, to her surprise, when she
explained this fact to Isaiah, he ad
mitted to a longing that was older
than Abby's for some of the sterner
stuff of those sterner days back home.
The Moores were sunshine-glutted :
satiated with brightness; their eyes
ached with the torrents of cerulean
light that poured over thelr days
There came the time when they con-
templated the brilllant fury of each
noonday with a certain antagonism to
the relentless consistency of the sun.
The geometry of the new wide streets,
the pink imitation Spanish bungalows,
the narrow shade of the eucalyptus
trees and the treeless flank of moun-
tain began to pall on eyes accustomed
to a fluctuating climate and geography
of their own state,
A new dream began to form In the
Moores. After all, they were too young
to withdraw from life In this tedious
fashion. The idea of going back into
the grocery business was pretty firm
in Isalah’s old mind.
The site they finally chose as the
scene of the new enterprise was »
town called Delia,
Austrian Invented Postcard?
One of the facts of life not often
wondered about is the penny postcard,
says a dispatch from Vienna. People
imagine the postcard as something
more or less traditional-—as tradition
al, say, as a letter. But such Is not
the case. The postcard was Invented
only ip the middle of the Nineteenth
century, and It took many years before
governments permitted its use with
cheap postage. The inventor, Eman-
uel Hermann, was an official of the
Vienna post office; he died in 1902. He
turned the Austrian civil service up
side down by his demand for permis
sion to send printed or written com
munications without envelope. His
postcard was introdficed and spread
immediately all over the world. —De-
troit News,
Castle of Sleeping Beauty
The ancestral castle of the counts
of Eitz Is one of the finest In Ger
many, resting high on a precipitous
rock, with cloud-plercing tower and
rimmed with dark green woods. This
is the castle made famous by “Sleep-
ing Beauty,” if legend Is to be be
lieved. It dates back to the Twelfth
century and Its gray walls have seen
many a battle waged. It might also
be said to be three castles in one,
grouped about an Inner court, and
each of the three has its own entry.
It 1s full of the paraphernalia of
dream-hannted rooms, heavy, fron.
bound chests, carved doors, old pew-
ter, massive refectory tables which
surely have trembled beneath thelr
loads of venison, wine and the thun-
derous merriment of feasters.
Women Oust Male Innkeepers
Women are replacing the old type
of Inmkeeper on the main roads of
England. In the last year many new
hotels have been erected to he run
by members of the fair sex, and many
of the old ones have changed hands to
have female Bonlfaces, Even whare
the men are tenants the hotels are be
ing conducted by women. The new
managers have made great changes In
the places which they run, They have
Introduced “the feminine touch” even
into the bars In an way that would
cause the host of the old coaching
his grave, Comfort for those staying
overnight Is much greater. Bath.
rooms have been Introduced on a
lavish scale Into small hostelries.
Way of Growing
Beets for Stock
Feeding Value of Tops and
Pulp Is Especially
Pertinent.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )—~WNU Bervice.
Methods found successful in grow-
Ing sugar beets in the humid states
are outlined In a new publication of
the United States Department of Ag-
riculture, Farmers’ Bulletin 1037-F,
Sugar-Beet Culture in the Humid Area
of the United States. Where drought
has reduced forage supplies seriously
as was the case last summer in much
of the area to which this bulletin ap-
plies, the facts brought out as to feed-
ing value of beet tops and beet pulp
are especlally pertinent. The bulletin
says that five to eight tons of forage
may be obtained from an ordinary
beet crop.
Designated Area.
The area designated as humid In-
cludes Michigan, Ohlo, Indiana, Illi-
nols, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and
part of Nebraska. About 30 per cent
of the nation’s sugar-beet acreage is in
this region. About 60 per cent of the
beet acreage Is in the Mountain states
area and the other 10 per cent in the
Pacific coast area,
“An adequate supply of moisture
during the growing season, soll of a
proper type, and a long, moderately
cool growing season are essential to
success with sugar beets,” the bulletin
says. “The adaptability of the sugar
beet has permitted its culture on a
wide range of solls, but the best ylelds
are generally made on the heavier
types.”
Intensive Measures Necessary.
In the culture of sugar beets inten-
sive measures are necessary, the bul-
letin says. Careful preparation of the
soil, proper planting practices, liberal
use of manure and fertilizers, and fre-
quent cultivation are necessary for
success with this crop.
The bulletin discusses diseases and
Insect enemies of sugar beets, and
gives the best methods of control, as
determined by experiments of the De-
partment of Agriculture and state ex-
periment stations. Farmers’ Bulletin
1637-F may be obtained free from the
Office of Information, United States
Department of Agriculture, Washing-
ton, D. C.
Sanitation Is Woefully
Weak in Some Stables
Sanitation In the mangers and drink-
ing cups is woefully weak in some sta-
bles, One farmer was heard to complain
recently that his cows were not doing
well, that they didn't drink as much
water as they should and always left
a certain amount of meal {in the bot-
tim of the mangers and drinking cups
will locate the source of such trouble
almost every time. The smell of either
should Indicate what is wrong. The
drinking cups become fouled with
chaff and spoiled silage and when left
for even a day the water is filthy.
Naturally cows will not drink such wa-
ter freely. Anywhere from a quarter
to. an inch of hard accumulated filth,
orignally feed, can sometimes be
scraped out of the manger, left over
from many feedings and seldom
clsaned out. It, too, has a stench
which makes the animal quit eating
long before it has had enough. Drink-
ing bowls and mangers should be kept
clean.
Turning Hatching Eggs
Made Quite Easy Task
Many poultry raisers who have only
small flocks need to save eggs for sev-
eral days to get enongh to set. As
they must be turned every day before
they are put in the machine, it be-
comes quite a task. I have simplified
this by packing the eggs In the egg
cases when they are gathered, says
a writer In an exchange, Then the
lid 1s put on and the crate Is turned.
thus saving the work of handling each
egg separately. Even though there are
not enough eggs to fill the crate, the
fillers may be put In and the crate
turned just the same.
Another advantage in this way of
caring for the eggs is that it lessens
the chance of the eggs being broken,
especially If there are children about,
Feed Consumed by Cows
of Average Production
A cow will consume about 35
pounds of silage a day and 15 pounds
of hay. If her annual yield is 210
pounds of butterfat and her milk
averages 3.5 per cent of fat her milk
yield will average 6000 pounds for
800 days a year, leaving her 65 days
for a dry period. This means that
her average production would be only
20 pounds of milk a day.
Such & cow will not need a heavy
grain ration. If she Is fed two pounds
of grain a day of a mixture composed
of 400 pounds each of ground barley
and oats and 100 pounds of linseed
meal she should do very well
Sweet Clover Seed
When left alone sweet clover will
form its seed crop in July and die out
In August; but If the sweet clover be
pastured so as to gradually keep the
tips of the branches clipped off, the
seed crop may be delayed consider
ably, and may not be formed until
August, and ite ability to ripen the
seed may be postponed even into Sep-
tember and a little later. There is
another strain of sweet clover which
forms seed the first season and dies
before winter,
Discover New Plan
to Disselve Snow
Trick Is Quite Simple When
It Is Known.
(Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture. )=WNU Bervice.
When “winter, lingering, chills the
lap of May,” foresters of the United
States Department of Agriculture
sometimes call Into play a trick of the
trade that puts an end to the unsea-
sonable loitering. In some years [it
happens that sites chosen for refor-
estatlon by planting are ready for
seedlings from the forest nursery
while the nursery is still buried in
snow. By the time the snow in the
nursery has melted and the trees are
ready for transplanting the soil in the
planting sites may be too dry. The
problem in such a case is to melt the
Snow and advance the working season
in the nursery.
The trick is simple—when you know
it. It consists In broadcasting fine
black soll on the snow over the com-
partments of the nursery from which
planting stock is to be removed first.
This soil, because it 18 black, absorbs
considerable heat which would other-
wise be reflected from the white snow.
This hastens the melting of the snow
and enables the workers to get out
the planting stock earlier—as much as
two weeks earlier in some Instances,
This practical and simple applica-
tion of one of the elementary princi.
ples of physical science, as adopted by
the forest service, may also find other
work to do, officials of the department
suggest. For example, a similar broad-
casting might advance the time when
It Is possible to work the home gar-
den.
Chopped Alfalfa Useful
Supplemental Hog Feed
Pork produc: 1 by feeding chopped
alfalfa hay as a supplement reached
a good marketable weight fully 17
days before the other pigs and was
fxvoduced at a saving of 41 cents for
each 100 pounds according to a recent
report by the South Dakota experi-
ment station. Twenty-five pounds of
chopped alfalfa hay was used In a
mixture with 50 pounds of tankage
and 25 pounds of linseed ollmeal as
a supplement to yellow corn. There
was a saving of 18 pounds of feed for
each 100 pounds of galn due to the
alfalfa,
Since chopping or grinding alfalfa
is resorted to where hay is artificially
cured for feeding to dairy cattle, many
feel that it shéuld be even more worth
while to adopt this practice for all
classes of stock where natural curing
makes It impossible to secure so high
grade a product.
Feed Baby Chicks Soon
After They Are Hatched
Experiments at .Purdue university
this last year have indicated that baby
chicks may be fed early after they
come the Incubator, even Im-
mediately after removal withont
effects, according to Roy E. Roberts,
in charge of the test.
The growth of the chicks which
were fed early was similar to that of
chicks fed at the regular 48 to 7T2-
hour age. The mortality was no great.
er in the early-fed chicks.
Nothing was gained in feeding the
chicks before they were 48 hours old,
Professor Roberts states, which en-
ables the owner to hold them in the
incubator two days and cuts the brood-
ing period that much. Although strong
chicks live long periods without feed
it Is wise to feed at least by the 48
hour limit.
from
Clean grains for spring sowings in
the fanning mill and then reclean it.
wv . »
If you like greens plant & row of
mustard to follow the spinach crop.
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Even when the droppings and clean-
ings are hauled away It Is necessary
to use forethought and not dump or
scatter them on ground where young
or growing chickens will be ranged
next summer,
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The weight of the weed seeds and
other foreign material that can read-
liy be separated from wheat, flaxseed
and rye is referred to as dockage.
Elimination of weeds can prevent
dockage losses,
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Motor trucks are being used more
and more to transport fruits and vege-
tables from the place of production to
market. Products have been carried
600 miles this way, but the average
for long trips is 100 miles,
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Give the goslings their liberty as
soon as possible, but shelter should
always be easily accessible In case of
cold winds or rain when the goslings
are small. Likewise shade should be
provided in the heat of summer,
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You can’t very often find Savoy eab-
bages in the market because they are
not long keepers. Plant seed and raise
some at home. They are the highest
quality table cabbages. Their dark
green crinkled leaves identify them.
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A new strain of alfalfa known as
Hardistan has recently been developed
In Dawson county, Nebraska. This
strain gave yields nearly the same as
Grimm alfalfe and maintained stands
superior to either Grimm or common
alfalfa,
HIS UNHONORED DUST
A welcome caller, after many kind
receptions, plucked up his courage
and asked his hostess why a beautiful
urn In the living room was always
covered over,
“Oh, It contains my
ashes,” was the response,
“So sorry,” replied the guest, “but
I had no Idea you were a widow.”
“I'm not. My husband Is just too
stingy to buy ash trays.”—Argonaut.
PLACE FOR BRIDGE
husband's
“They say auction bridge is respon-
sible for a lot of nervous breakdowns.”
“I know it. It won't be long before
we'll have to go to an asylum for a
really good game.”
Costly Interrogative
The man who sald that: “Talk is
cheap,”
We very much incline
To think ne'er sald with ardor deep,
“Darling, will you be mine?™
Little Encouragement
“You look very {iL"
“I can't sleep. 1 have a bill due to
morrow."
“Why didn't you tell me that be
fore?”
“Can you lend
“No, but 1 can
draught.”
Helping Moike
Visitor—Me brother Moike's In jail
and 1 don't know what to do. I
thought maybe you'd give me some
advice,
Lawyer (sarcastically) — Do
want me to give it to you gratis?
Visitor—No; I want you to give it
to me brother,
me the money?”
give you a sleeping
you
The Fresh Thing!
Sue—Look at that chap over
there. He's trying to flirt with you!
I'd iike to give him a good punch
in the jaw!
Mae—S80 would I!
band!
silly
That's my hus-
Needed It
Mrs. Symthe-Joyce—What a beauti-
ful piano! But why have you tacked
that plece of sandpaper to it?
Mrs. Neweriche—That's to keep my
husband from striking matches on it.
MAID A PARAGON
“Are you satisfied with your new
mald
“Very. She's too old to get married
and too fat to wear my things, So I
think we'll be able to keep her.”
How, Indeed?
“Daddy, 1 know why words have roots,”
Sald smiling little Flo.
*'Cause if they hadn't any roots
How could the language grow?™
Circumstantial Evidence
Mrs. Pryer—Do you think Mrs. Slack
is a woman who has seen much life
in her time?
Mrs. Guyer — Goodness, gracious,
yes! Why, there isn't an Insecticide
on the market but what she Is fa-
millar with, my dear.
Correct
Henderson—-Your wife says that dia-
mond she wears is simply priceless.
Browne—80 the pawnbrokers told
me when I tried to borrow on it
The Tyrant
Hamliton — Women are certainly
queer, eh?
Shumway--Yeh, my wife used to say
she worshiped the ground I walked on,
and now I get bawled out If I track
i a Uttle of it.
Is He Hungry?
Insurance Agent—Your side shows
are all of wood. You ought to take
out fire Insurance,
Showman—Why? I have a fire-cat-
er on the premises,
WITH
COLDS
Bluggish intestinal systems lower ree
sistance to colds. Cleanse them with
Feen-a-mint, the modern chewing gum
laxative. Gentle, safe, non-habit.
forming. More effective because you
chew it,
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No Taste
But the Min
A home
remedy of
tested and
tried in-
gredients,
safe, de-
pendable.
30¢ at all druggists
For aching teeth use Plke’s Toothache Drops
CHILDREN WITH WORMS
NEED HELP QUICKLY
Don’t delay a minute if your
child has worms. They will
destroy his health. If he grits
his teeth, picks his nostrils—
beware! These are worm
symptoms. Disordered stom-
ach is another.
Immediately give him Frey's Ver
mifuge. It “has Wh the safe, vege-
table worm medicine for 75 years.
Don't wait! Buy Frey's Vermifuge
at your druggist's today.
Frey’s Vermifuge
Expels Worms
BOIL WORTH $25
Grandmother always said this. Most of
us willing to pey $25 to get rid of boil.
Get 50c box CARBOT. from your
druggist today. Stops pain immediately.
Heals worst boil often overnight. Good
for sores, stings, bites, etc. Get Carboil
today. No use to suffer. Spurlock-Neal
Co., Nashville, Tenn.
Wire Ban on Welsh Words
Refusal to send a cablegram read-
Ing “Hir Oes Hapus Glasiwyn Cor-
wen,” lispatched from Corwen,
ia, has been the cause
d with the British
The refusal was
by the London cable office with the
notation, “Welsh not accepted. Send
it In for transmission in English or
French,” The Welsh are protesting
that Welsh should be accepted if a
foreign language or code is per-
missible,
INDIGESTION—HAD
T0 SIT UP IN BED
Bristol, Va.—
“I believe I had
indigestion as
badly as anyone
could have it
After taking Dr.
Pierce's Golden
Medical Discov-
ery 1 have been
relieved and am
not often both-
ered with it. |
keep the ‘Discovery’ on hand and
take a little occasionally. Before
using it I could not sleep well—the
latter part of the night I would have
to sit up in bed. I have used three
or four bottles of the
and have received such benefit that
I recommend it to _ friends."—], R.
Davis, R. F, D, 1, Box 33. Dealers.
Send 10¢ to Dr. Ploree's Clink, Buffalo,
NK. Y, for a trial pechage.
Women Run Village
The English village of Benfleet, In
Essex, is operated almost entirely by
women. It has a woman taxicab
driver, a woman news agent, barber
and men's outfitter, and women pre-
side over many of the other stores
The single exception to this array of
feminine talent and industry is the
Job of a blacksmith, which Is still
held by a man.
of a compl
postmaster general.
English Honor Newton
The commonest of all placenames
in England is Newton, which occurs
no fewer than 72 times in various
parts of the country.