Washington Sentries Have Many Amusing Encounters
ASHINGTON.—Contrary to general belief,
ington's military establishments, bridges
automatons. They can and do saunter, talk,
human beings. But not on duty. But
if you can chum up with the chap in
khaki at an opportune time, you may 7 3
all about 7 AW
the sentries guarding Washe
and public buildings are not
laugh and otherwise act like
be told some funny things
strange prowlers seen on the midnight =
trick, sinister-seeming contrivances V/ oy
discovered under culver’s, officers ’ fs
whose identity Is mistaken and other (LS
things. dr
A few nights since a half-frozen i x \
sentry before the side gate of a big ( J = v
military establishment here beheld a le, Si R—
solitary and stooping figure creeping
along and eying the portal dubiously. This kept up several minutes, and
finally the guard thought it time to interfere. He approached the suspect.
around here?” he asked after the sad-eyed person
swaying slightly.
but the ol’
“Wlrat do you want
had halted, as directed,
“Wanna go on in house,
the “suspect.”
“That's Uncle Sam's house,
had a “stew” and not a spy.
“’Sh my house,” insisted the one with the “merry mucilage.” *“C'n tell
{t by front gate.”
It took ten minutes to persuade him that he was wrong,
There is a famous bridge near Washington where several months ago a
man leaped down to his death. It is closely guarded, for it carries a big water
main. Not long after the tragic occurrence, a night wanderer on the bridge
came near losing his liberty when a guard saw him stop and commence search-
ing carefully on the sidewalk.
“Whaddye want, a good place to jump from or to put a bum?”
man in uniform.
“I want my fountain pen I dropped; got a match?’ was the answer.
The pen was found soon, but remembering tales of explosive pens dis-
covered in abandoned German trenches, the guard nearly wrecked the
spiller before satisfied it was not full of T. N. T.
New Rules for Stenographers in One War Office
doesn’t believe in instructions savoring
my friend,” replied the sentry, seeing he
NE office of the war department ¢
of red tape. So regulations have been evolved for stenographers.
increased efficiency is expected to result. Here are the rules to be followed:
1—Conserve air by eliminating
some of the unnecessary conversation,
2—Conserve shoe leather by re-
maining at your desk;
RULES For ~~
ITENOGRAPHERS
KEEP YOUR FEET
OFF STA DFR > a floorwalker.
PON? Fons K 3—If you're hungry, go out and
YOUR ast Every get something to eat; don't hang
0 MINUTES
around chewing the rag.
Dor T TAKE §:- o : 4—We have wheatless and meat-
=, xb - AT Ah Nz less days; let's have
Keep your feet on the floor, not on
your desk.
5—Don’t acquire the saving habit to such an
with your pockets full of paper clips every night. Just because you write
shorthand, don’t think you have got to be light-fingered.
6—If you feel that you must whistle during office hours, please whistle
something German, so that the rest of the office will have an excuse for drop-
ping a typewriter on your head.
T—Any person or persons having as a part of their lunch
cheese will kindly adjourn to the roof until the ordeal is over.
strong reason for this.
8—If you feel that you must take home a typewriter now and then, please
leave the desk. We can get new typewriters, but desks are hard to get.
9—Just because they are using a lot of ammunition in Europe, don’t think
that you have to powder your nose every ten minutes.
10—Make the world safe for democracy; stop throwing milk bottles out
of the windows.
11—As Abraham Lincoln said In his famous Gettysburg speech:
“Eight Hours a day for the man who works,
Seven hours a day for the government clerks.’
12—Save a loaf a week. Just because you have a crust, don’t say you
can loaf around this office, even if you are well bred. Don’t come in here
with a bun on, either,
feetless
There is a
’
Her Darling Boy Was Only a “Mexican Fish Hound”
yelping these words, a woman
street, made for the latter
She had a companion with
€¢ H, THERE'S my darling boy!” Fairly
standing on Tenth street, just north of F
thoroughfare as fast as her feet would carry her.
her, and this woman, too, set a hot
pace in the direction of the afternoon
promenade.
When a woman suddenly yells out
on a crowded thoroughfare, “Oh,
there’s my darling boy,” you sort 0
get interested in the darling one.
When the two women got to F
street they stepped across the side-
walk to the curb. There was an au
tomobile standing there, with a young
man and a dog on the front seat.
The woman in search of her dare
ling boy threw her arms around the meck of the dog and said: “Oh,
darling thing! You're the prettiest dog in town.” The wecman had a good
eye for dogs.
“What kind of a dog is he?” asked the woman.
The chauffeur winked at the dog and replied calmly:
“Mexican fish hound.”
Cook Becomes an Ardent Hooverizer
N ALL the land no housewife follows more closely the rulings of the Unlted
States food administration than does Mrs. Herbert C. Hoover, wife of the
The Hoover cook, who has a wide reputation in most
exclusive circles of Washington, was
one of the first converts to the conser-
OH, YOU
DARLING
Dafters
Mrs. Hoover’s
administrator.
food
1 'SPoSE I'LL
re vation of food, and one of the most
Pi ive T0 DC ardent. A prominent Washington
J AS MISTER woman remarked soon after the
HOOVER Hoover household was established in
the national capital:
“You needn't tell me the Hoovers
save food. I know the cook, and she
couldn't be induced to economize.”
Nevertheless, after a time of sor-
row and of stress of wounded profes-
sional pride the cook became under
the direction and persuasion of Mrs. Hoover, as enthusiastic over producing
delicious meals with the least possible outlay of wheat, meat, sugar and fats
as the strictest “Hooverite” could wish.
Almost every day is meatless day with the Hoovers, poultry,
occasionally gaine replacing the beef or other meats that may be shipped
across the sea. The servants, of course, have to have meat oftener, but for
the family perhaps once a week, generally less frequently, there is a roast for
dinner and what is left over is carefully utilized in some form for luncheon the
next day. Sometimes a chop is provided at that meal for the ten-year-old
son, who Is recovering from a recent illness. Meat is never bought for soups,
which are made from vegetables or the parts of poultry not served—the wing
tips, feet, neck and gizzard.
Not only are Tuesdays and Saturdays porkless days, but the ot her five
days of the week as well, despite the confessed fondness of the food admin-
istrator for his breakfast bacon. Pork, either as ham, bacon, sausage, lard
or in other forms, never enters the big red brick house on Massachusetts ave-
nue, where the Heovers are domiciled. For cooking various vegetable oils
or other suistitutas are used for lard and butter.
SAYS —
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sea food or
ink- |
Greatly | A
| ly and seriously when it is deficient
remember you | i
| CCUTE
are supposed to be a stenographer, not | 8r¢ secured.
whole country
| than 1,500 quarts, and this difference 1s
woman ish waitin’,”” forlornly replied
queried the |
MOUNT JOY STAR AND NEWS, MOUNT JOY, PA.
| RASPBERRY PLANT REQUIRES MOISTURE
TO RIPEN CROP DURING SUMMER SEASON
WOODEN SUPPORT TO HOLD CANES UPRIGHT.
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
From the time raspberry plants are
set, they need an ample supply of mois-
ture and they are affected more quick-
than most other fruit plants. In the
sections where the highest average
yields of red raspberries are obtained,
often 6,000 quarts of frult per acre
The average for the
however, is not more
| due almost wholly to a difference in
extent that you go home |!
the moisture supply. In the sections
| referred to as giving the highest yields,
| ep S shes niform and
days. | & deep soll furnishes a u e
ample supply of moisture at all times.
To secure the best results, therefore,
the grower should, by tillage and by
supplying humus, maintain a uniform
| and ample moisture content in his soil,
| not only during the growing and ripen-
| tng of the fruit but also while the
limburger |
canes are developing. Some growers
make it a regular practice each year
to mulch thelr fields to a depth of sev-
eral inches with straw, leaves or green
hay. When this practice is followed,
the cost is great, but the moisture sup-
ply is retained well.
In semiarid and arid regions where
{rrigation is practiced, the fruiting sea-
son is longer than in most humid or
nonirrigated sections. The use of Irri-
gation in the Eastern states also has
extended the picking season and made
the plants thriftier. Larger yields of
fruit of the Ranere raspberry in the
| summer and fall have followed the ir-
| to occur,
made it
st.
rigation of that variety and
profitable in some sections of the E
In the humid sections of the KE:
ern states, irrigation should be used
chiefly or entirely during the growth
and ripening of the frult and will pay
only when an ample moisture supply
cannot be maintained by tillage. As
the raspberry ripens its crop during
the summer when droughts are likely
some growers have found ir-
rigation profitable.
Intercropping.
In order to reduce the cost of inten-
sive cultivation of a raspberry planta-
tion during the first year after setting,
| other crops that need cultivation dur-
| TOWS,
you |
| potato,
ing the spring and early summer
months may be grown between the
Among the crops best suited to
this use are the tomato, cabbage, cauli-
flower, bean, pea, summer squash and
Grain chops should not be
| used, as they are not cultivated and
will take moisture and plant food
needed by the raspberry plants. The
second season no other crop should be
grown, as the raspberry roots should
occupy all the ground.
Tillage.
Tillage in raspberry fields should be
thorough and regular in order to con-
serve moisture. Except in rainy
weather, cultivator or harrow should
be used at least once each week up to
picking time. Some growers consider
it profitable to use it as often as twice
each week, and this is sometimes nec-
essary during periods of extended
drought. The cultivation should stir
the soll to a depth of two to three
inches only, as part of the raspberry
roots are shallow. Many growers short-
en the cultivator or harrow teeth which
run next to the plants, so as to disturb
the young feeding roots near the sur-
face as little as possible.
Later tillage is for the purpose of
keeping down weeds and grasses. The
| fields should be free of weeds during
the winter season, as many kinds start
quickly in the spring and are difficult
to destroy after the soil is in condition
to work. Autumn tillage, however,
tends to develop new growth, which is
tender and somewhat more subject to
svinter injury than the older growth.
Autumn tillage, therefore, should be
avoided as much as possible where
there is danger from severe winters.
Maintenance of Fertility.
The use of fertilizers in raspberry
plantations is governed by the same
principles that apply to their use with
othe fruits.
As soils vary in the quan- | t
{
tity and availability of the plant food
they contain, the fertilizer problem is a
local one which each grower must
solve for himself. By using varying
amounts of the different elements of
plant food on different plats and keep-
ing a record of the yields, each grower
can determine readily what kinds and
quantities of fertilizer to apply.
Good management, however, will in-
sure a large amount of humus in the
soil at all times. It is especially de-
sirable that the humus supply be ample
when the plantation is first set out.
It is much easier and cheaper to fur-
nish the humus by means of cover
crops and stable manure before the
plantation is set than afterward when
the plants are growing. Moreover, by
such extra care before setting it is pos-
sible to secure a fair crop of fruit the
second season. Because it costs so
much to care for a plantation for a
vear it will pay well to have the soil
in a high state of fertility before the
plants are set, so that the plantation
may be brought Into bearing a year
sooner than would be possible other-
wise,
Use of Fertilizers.
In many sections no fertilizers are
used on bearing plantations. In the
older raspberry sections, however,
some commercial fertilizer and stable
manure are used, and it is considered
profitable to use them. Stable manure,
however, usually has given the best re-
sults and experiments have shown that,
where obtainable, it furnishes the best
means of enriching the soils on which
the experiments have been tried. Stable
it. | manure not only furnishes some plant
st-
food but supplies large quantities of
humus. If an annual application of
about ten tons per acre is made, the
humus supply should be maintained,
and with proper treatment in other
ways the field should be kept at a high
state of productiveness. Some soils
and some sections will need a larger
quantity and some less than ten tons
per acre. A heavier application, how-
ever, should not be made unless it has |
been found by
sirable, as it is possible to stimulate
the growth of canes and leaves to such
an extent as to reduce productiveness.
Cover crops may be used to maintain
the humus supply. Oats seeded at the
rate of three bushels per acre in late
summer should give a dense stand of
material to turn under before winter,
or they may be left to serve as a cov-
ering during the winter and plowed un-
der in the spring. Cowpeas, veteh,
the various clovers, and other crops
also may be used in the raspberry
plantation. Care must be
growing the vetch and clovers, as they
live through the winter and it may
prove costly to eradicate them.
ever, if they are drilled in between the
rows
come too rank in the spring, little
ble should be experjencad,
actual trial to be de- |
taken in |
How- |
and turned under before they be- |
trou- |
CRIBBING Is HARD TO CURE |
One Man Succeeded 4 Fastening an |
Old Bicycle Tire Along Top
of the Manger.
Cribbing is a vice with some horses
that is hard to cure. One man says
he succeeded by running a piece of
iron pipe through
and fastening this along the top of
the manger. The horse didn't like the
taste of the rubber and soon forgot |
the bad habit.
HELP MAKE EGG EGGS AND MEAT
Certain Amount of Table Scraps and
Kitchen Waste Which Has Feed-
ing Value for Fowls.
Let the table scraps help make eggs
and meat. In every household no mat-
ter how economical the housewife,
there tain amount of table
SCraps Hitchen waste which has
iue, but which, if not fed,
finds its way into the garbage pall
is a
and
an old bicycle tire |
| the maximum amount of food for the
| family
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HOME
TOWN
CONTROL OF TREES IN CITY
Los Angeles Newspaper Advocates
Commission Which Should Wield
Absolute Power. |
What we need, and need badly |
right now, is a tree commission have
ing absolute control of all street
planting. The trees shouid be taken |
away from the owners of abutting
property. He should neither be held
responsible for them nor allowed to |
touch them, any further than any
other resident of the city. Why has
the city taken over street, curb and |
sidewalk, and allowed a narrow strip
of private property to intervene? Why
does the city partially control it? Is
a divided interest and responsibility
conducive to the best results? A
study of our street planting will quick-
ly bring an answer. Not one in a
hundred is competent to choose the
richt tree for a street. The same per-
centage will care for them properly,
and about the same number will agree
on the same tree. No resident of Los
Angeles need be told of the outcome
of such laxity of control, or, rather
such absence of control. The need for
a change is great, and the problem
cries to high heaven for relief. When
will it be solved, and solved aright?
How long are we to continue under
present conditions? All know a
change must come—why delay? Our
charter framers may help us out by
providing for a tree commission in |
full control, with a corps of trained |
experts, to give us a city in the near
future of which our residents for all
time may be proud as the really city
beautiful.—Los Angeles Times.
PUTTING YARD TO BEST USE
Bulletin of Department of Agriculture
Gives Some Valuable Information
to Those Interested.
The best methods to follow and the
best crops to grow in order to make
a small area like a back yard produce
are discussed in a publication
of the United States department of
agriculture, Farmers’ Bulletin 818,
“The Small Vegetable Garden.” In
addition to furnishing information in
regard to the fundamental principles
of gardening, this bulletin describes in
detail the culture of all of the common
garden plants, and also furnishes a ta-
ble showing in a concise form the
quantity of seed needed for each kind
of vegetable, the proper way and times
to plant, and the material required to
produce the crop.
To make a small produce 2
large amount of food, the bulletin |
points out that not only every foot of |
|
area
available space must be utilized, but
that late or succession crops must be
planted as soon as the earlier plants
have been removed. To carry on gar-
dening in this intensive way requires
careful planning in advance, and it is
recommended that a detailed diagram
of the garden be drawn up and the va-
that it is planned to put
each portion to, throughout the grow-
ing season, be clearly indicated. On
this plan the success or failure of the
various enterprises should be noted
and the plan itself kept as a guide for
the following year. {
rious uses
Encouragement Counts.
In every town there are a few of
taste and purpose who will take the
helm. To thoroughly arouse public in- |
terest is a long and arduous task. |
Make a beginning. Results will at-
tract attention and gain support. It
was Gladstone who said: “One ex-
ample is worth a thousand argu- |
ments.” Organize, interest the local {
press, interest this department, your
efforts and progress will cheerfully
be given place and encouragement in
these columns. Every year of the
past decade Mr. Reed written
thanks for substantial aid given
“Reed and Riverside” in city beautifi-
cation. In a very recent letter, in re-
viewing the progress of street plant-
ing in Riverside, he writes: “I re-
member very distinctly the very effi-
cient ald I received through the ‘City |
Jeautiful’ department of the Times.”
Let us hear of your w ;, no matter
how humble or how small the com-
munity—aid and encouragement will
be extended to all alike.—Los Angeles
Times.
has
Landscape Gardening.
Landscape gardening has
ceived the attention that it
We have not studied the kinds of rose |!
that thrive best here, nor have we ex- |
ercised care in preparin
not re- |
deserves
g the soil for |
thrifty growth and blooming. Most
people have merely dug holes in the |
ground and planted rose bushes with- |
|
out adding the elements on which ros-
es thrive. Then we wonder in the
blooming season why they do not pro-
duce fine flowers.
Novel Street Construction.
In one of the larger Michigan cities i
they are trying a novel type of street |
construction. Pavements 18 feet wide
are being laid, confined between head-
ers of concrete built as a part of the
concrete foundation along the
of the street. A strip along each side
of the pavement and the curb is built
of earth and gravel, as are the shoul-
ders of the paved country highway.
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To drive a tank,
| nerves for hardships—an interest in his
| work
| feel when you have tak
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kidneys 1 circulatory system, is to
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