The Cumby Rustler. (Cumby, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1915 Page: 3 of 8
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THE CUMBY RUSTLER
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Fashions in dress are an
index of intelligence from
the standpoint of the com-
mercial interests. The wise
designers realize that vari-
ety is the spice of clothes
as well as of existence. It
is also, in this case, the spice of profits. The designers, without having
ever read Carlyle’s “Sartor Besartus,” have nevertheless their own philoso-
phy of clothes, and were you to catch them in an amiable mood they would
.talk somewhat in the following fashion:
“If there were no styles people could always wear the same material,
until the goods wore out. That would mean less work for dressmakers
and tailors in general. Prices could not then be boosted because of popu-
lar demand for any reigning mode. Besides, people want something new
all the time and would make it themselves were we not to do it for them.”
So that fashions, considered in this light, show economic intelligence
on the part of the originators.
From the point of view of those who merely ape what is in style,
regardless of how it becomes their particular person, fashions do not show
intelligence. And it must be confessed that this category contains by
far the largest number. They say that clothes make the man. That may
well be, but how often do clothes unmake the woman! If long lines come
into style the first one to make a dash after the vogue will be your woman
with an 18-inch waist and a figure that looks like a letter T with the top
left off. As if her own self were not long line enough! Or let us imagine
the opposite case, the coming into fashion of round lines. Enter the
corpulent woman, and with a nonchalance that is at times pitiable she
becomes stylish by adding to her natural obesity the optical illusion of
1ines that seem to add pounds to her weight.
* But the women are by no means alone as regards the fashion mania.
Of late years there has been a decided tendency to introduce a variety in
men’s clothes almost as great as in- women’s. Every season brings its new
coats, new hats, new ties; now the coat is loose, now tight. And when the
designers exhaust their prolific store, back turn the fashions to those of
years ago, and what we would laugh at in a picture book of 1870 we wear
proudly to dinner. And consider the days of knee breeches and silk stock-
ings for men, with George Washington as a good example. Go further
back still and some of you will make the startling discovery that before
modern business developed men were quite as vain with their clothes as
are women. And while we are in a scientific mood, it might be well to
pcfint out that with the entrance of more and more women into the busi-
ness and professional world voices of revolt against parrot fashion are
being heard on all sides.
It is not hard to imagine a time when clothes will be raised to the
dignity of a fine art. For it is nothing less than art when a competent
dressmaker originates and fashions a gown for a particular individual.
There may be savages or
peasants who have ideally
perfect teeth, but they have
never yet been discovered,
and the myth of their per-
fection has never survived
the establishment of a den-
ial clinic among them. To take the situation as we actually find it, the
whitest, evenest, most beautiful and enduring sets of teeth to be seen any-
where in the world today are right here in these United States, among
people who have had toothbrushes and good dental care from their ch.il-
hood years.
The poorest, blackest, most broken and earliest decaying teeth are
to be found in fishing villages and sand barrens and mountain valleys and
remote, poverty-stricken country districts.
Modem city teeth may require some scrubbing and filling, but they
look better and chew better and harbor fewer ‘Tugs” and last longer than
any others yet invented or discovered and examined in thousands during
life by competent experts. 1
Some negroes and Indians, for instance, have wonderful teeth, but
the majority of them suffer fearfully from toothache, caries, gum
abscess and all the faults of civilized teeth.
Brush without ceasing, thoroughly, gums as well as teeth, after every
meal and at bedtime, and you can pretty certainly bank upon it that your
teeth will stay by you until sixty, sixty-five or seventy. You will probably
lose a few, even with the best of care, for some teeth are bom soft and
pitted, and need filling almost as soon as they cut the gum; but you’ll
have plenty left to anchor to, and your dental arches will be “disfigured
but still in the ring” until you yourself “throw up the sponge.”
Vacations taken in the
summer are the most profit-
able. The summer is the
best time for recreation. It
allows more access to the
open air and to outdoor ac-
tivities. However, a par-
ticular season or an exact place are not the important items in one’s vaca-
tion. The essential element is a change.
The more complete the change, environmental and occupational, the
better. Best and moderation should be the rule. Many people do not
know how to take a vacation, but return more nearly nerve-wrecked than
when they set out. They overtravel, overwork, overdo. Best and relaxa-
tion, a “breathing spell” for an overtaxed mind and body to catch up with
themselves, should be the aim.
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Essential Element in
Vacation Is Change
By Dr. L J. Murphy, St, Paul, Minn.
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City People Have
Most Perfect Teeth
By Dr. Woods Hutchinson, New Yolk
C|j Indication of Economic
Intelligence at Least
By Isaac Goldberg, Boston, Maas,
^vHICAGO.—Little Joe, although scarcely six years of age, and still unable
^ to talk without a lisp, was for many weeks a familiar figure in the vicinity
of Madison and Dearborn streets, where he sold papers. Not bigger than a
minute, with tattered clothes, dirty
hands and begrimed face, he was
an object to excite pity and sympathy
in the hardest heart.
One day little Joe got into a quar-
rel with one of his larger and stronger
companions, who knocked him down,
grabbed all his money and ran away.
The little fellow sat on the sidewalk
fend cried as if his heart was break-
ing. A nicely dressed woman hap-
pened by and seeing the little fellow
in distress asked him what was the
'cause of his trouble. Little Joe, with sobs choking his voice, told her of his
misfortune. The woman opened her purse and deposited in his hand a half
dollar, which caused him to dry his tears and smile happily.
Finally a happy thought came to him, and hastening to the other side
of the street he again burst into tears. It was not many minutes before a
man stopped and began questioning him. Little Joe repeated the same
story, with the result that the man presented him with a quarter.
Each afternoon thereafter he was to be found on one corner of the down-
town district and then on another, working his little fake on the sympathetic
and unsuspecting public. But little Joe one day made a grave mistake,
which brought to an end his “get-rich-quick” dodge. He told his story to a
woman who gave him a dime. Drying his tears he hastened to another cor-
ner and began to cry. The same woman happened by and again inquired
why he was crying. Little Joe, having forgotten her face, told her hia well-
learned story.
The boy was taken to the juvenile court by the woman, who explained
to the judge the sort of business in which the lad was engaged. The judge
reprimanded the boy and on his promise to try no more get-rich-quick
schemes little Joe was sent home.
Prisoners in Tombs Found Eating Their Shirts
MEW YORK.—When a man sits about his cell at the Tombs eating a shirt
iu or making a fairly formidable effort to gargle a standing collar even a
keeper can tell that there is something frightfully silly going on. That is
why the laundry at the Tombs is be-
ing done up on the inside of the in-
stitution and why some formerly con-
tented prisoners have become less so.
After a half dozen keepers had re-
ported seeing perfectly sensible ap-
pearing prisoners eating a half por-
tion of shirt front or a snack of a
plaid cuff, Warden John J. Hanley de-
cided that something more interest-
ing that starch must have been used
in the washing of the wearing apparel.
As a result he kept watch on laundry
brought by relatives of those who had taken to devouring their laundry, and
discovered that a solution of heroin was being slipped in to the prisoners by
means of the clean wash brought to them. The drug was used in the manner
of starch in washing and ironing the shirts and collars.
As is customary in cases of the kind, the “underground telegraph” at the
Tombs had been busy since the first of the prisoners discovered this means
of obtaining drugs, and as a result the practice had extended along whole
tiers and no end of washed clothing had been arriving.
This is the newest development in the effort made by friends of prison-
ers to satisfy a craving for various drugs. The last method discovered before
this innovation was made following a series of calls by a man with a glass
eye.
This man called every day for a week and was duly searched. He went
to see a prisoner and it was noted that every day after he had left a half
dozen prisoners on the tier which his friend graced were in splendid spirits.
One day the guards asked him to remove the artificial eye. He had
heroin enough for half a dozen men in it.
Auto Poker Newest Fad of Minneapolis Sports
BMNNEAPOLIS.—Exit ennui of the sporting gentry. Those who have grown
Ml a trifle blase yanking the lever of the slot machine or clinking the dice
on the cigar store counter, or shooting the ivory marbles over the green baize
table, are appeasing their gambling
impulses by playing "auto poker.”
The new game is played on a street
corner, and, in addition to the oppor-
tunity it gives a participant to garner
a “pot,” it enables him to breathe
the fresh air and get close to nature.
A party of “young bloods”—
though there isn’t necessarily any age
limit to the pastime—gathers together
and, as automobiles heave into the
ofling, each wooer of chance picks out
a machine on which he “lays” his
lucre. As the machines pass, the license numbers are noted. The results
are judged according to the ratings of “poker,” a parlor game invented by
Mr. Hoyle for tired business men.
The player wlio “draws” license numbers forming two pair, three of a
kind, a straight, full house or fours of a kind, can get Just the same thrills
as if he had them dealt to him from a deck. He is spared the fatigue of
having to riffle the cards and deal.
As an automobilist drove his machine past Twelfth street and Nicollet
avenue he noted a group of young men on the corner. As he neared them
they appeared excited, scanned his license tag closely and then paid sums of
money to one in their midst. It wasn't, until he reached his garage that the
automobilist caught the significance of the excitement. He surmised they
had been playing “auto poker” and one of them had drawn a prize hand—his
number was 77768, a “full house.”
“There'll be a riot if 1111 passes that corner,” he declared.
Upon your return, in order to retain some of the benefits derived from
the vacation, endeavor to avoid that almost universal American condi-
tion—high tension. It is possible and feasible to carry some of the calm
and poise of the vacation season into your everyday work.
The continuous high pressure and speed that the average American
works under are unnatural and unnecessary.
Go easy and you will last longer and come out ahead in the end. Just
calm yourself.
It is normal that men dt
sire success and abhor fail
ure. Yet so warped art
many men’s ideas of suc-
cess that it is difficult for
them to understand that
there are successful failures
in life and failureful successes. It is not possible that success, as the
world counts success, should come to everybody.
.There are men who never had a chance. But true success, the only
kind worth striving for, may be the lot of any man who is willing to pay
the price.
The principal requirements are good health, high ideals, plenty of
{grit, inextinguishable enthusiasm and unimpeachable character.
Boys of Oakland Bar Swearing From Playground
AAKLAND.—“Swearing doesn’t go here. Any hoy caught cussing will be
Vr fired.” This is the first rule promulgated by the “Little Citizens’ com-
mittee” of the Bella Vista playground in Oakland. And it goes. Some weeks
ago Miss Pearl Banks, play director
of the grounds, decided to put the
management of the children in the
hands of a committee of boys. She
chose ton youngsters from different
neighborhoods near the playground,
formed them into a “Little Citizens’
committee” and asked them to draw
up rules and regulations.
The boys were allowed to make
the rules as they saw fit. The regula-
tions were formally adopted by the
committee and then ratified, in their
original form, by the board of playground directors. Other rules of the com
mittee are as follows:
“No cigarettes. They're no good. Any boy found smoking will be
shown the gate.
“You’ve got to keep paper and trash off the grounds. If you cat here,
do-it decent and take the refuse away with you. If you don’t, look out for
trouble.
“Small children must be given a chance all the time. If any boy takes
anything away from a little kid, he’ll get his.
“Say ‘Thanks.’ It don’t hurt you, and being polite ain’t a crime.”
The penalty for violation of the rules ranges from a fine of one cent t
expulsion from the playgrounds for a month.
Success Found in
Apparent Failure
By Rev. Dr. Floyd I. Beckwith, Chicago
Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters °f Especial Moment to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Beauty sometimes is not even skin
deep.
Some men are contented with mere-
ly looking wise.
Old, but correct advice, “Make hay
while the sun seines.”
Some girls are disappointed in love
and some in matrimony.
It is possible to be patriotic without
wanting a war to prove it.
Any time a man wants but little here
below he will let you know.
Good intentions won’t balance the
defaulting bank cashier’s books.
One can think a good thought Just
as quickly as a mean one.
When a man boasts about being self- ,
made the job isn’t finished.
All the world loves a lover—but he
sometimes boros.it terribly!
Every advantage offered by nature
should be utilized to the utmost.
The well-fenced farm and the well-
sensed farmer usually go together.
Success is much like a house, in
that it deteriorates rapidly if it isn’t,
kept up.
Tax dodging, notwithstanding it re-
quires s4M.ll aad daring, will never be
classed as a sport.
And, neighbor, don’t get so busy as
to forget the boy and girl crop. It’s
mighty promising!
What’s become of the old-fashioned
mother who qever made less than
three pies at a time?
Vision is within us. Men had two
eyes, just as today, but only Columbus
saw land beyond the Atlantic.
Co-operation means selfishness dis-
carded—and there never was less use
for the latter than there is today.
Pull your face into a sneer and no-
tice what an unlovely world this is;
smile, and observe how cheerful life
may be.
Don’t “taka” advice—seek for It,
search it out, prove it, select it with
care and good judgment, and having
made it your own, act!
Nature is filled with beautiful
things, but we never saw much beauty
in the bare feet of the lad who had
been wallowing about in the mud.
IN FAVOR OF CO-OPERATION
Movement Among Farmers Is Grow-
ing Rapidly In Every State—Idea
Becoming More Popular.
The co-operative movement among
farmers is growing rapidly in every
state. Almost every farm paper is
printing a great deal of material along
this line. Here, for example, is an
editorial from a recent issue of the
Wisconsin Agriculturist, which tells
how the movement is advancing:
“According to a report of the sur-
vey which ha's recently been made
by the office of markets of the United
States department of agriculture at
Washington, we learn that more than
a billion dollars’ worth of agricul-
tural products are sold by co-opera-
tive and farmers’ marketing associa-
tions in the United States every year.
The extent of co-operative marketing
In the United States shown by this
investigation will prove a surprise to
many persons who have been under
the Impression that co-operative sell-
ing in this country is in an unde-
veloped stage.
“The department has listed more
than 8,500 market associations; 2,700
co-operative and farmers’ elevators;
2,500 co-operative and farmers’ cream-
eries and more than 1,000 co-operative
fruit and produce associations in this
country.
"The idea of co-operative marketing
is becoming more popular in the
United States and better results are
being obtained than have prevailed
in the old-fashioned system of indi-
vidual handling. Through the handling
of agricultural products through co-
operative associations farmers have
been encouraged to improve their
crops and to standardize in the pack-
ing of products. The discovery of the
best daily market also has been one
of the principal advantages of the sys-
tem, resulting in advantages both to
the consumer and the producer.
“To co-operate is highly advisable;
no farmer can hope to realize as good
results from his own individual ef-
forts as he can by combining with his
neighbors in finding the best prices
for the products of his farm.”
“Meat Ring” Success.
Meat rings are proving a good thing
in some parts of Minnesota. A meat
ring is made up of a group of farm-
ers for the purpose of supplying the
families of members with fresh meat
at a minimum expense. Such a group
turns over to some member a beef
animal for slaughter and preparation.
The hide usually pays the cost of the
work. The carrass is then divided up
among the members of the ring at
cost. Where it has been tried the plan
has worked well and to the satisfac-
tion of the group
Wouldn’t Be Missed.
Sometimes a man gets so egotistical
as to think the world cannot get along
without him, but he would be sur-
prised if he only knew how little even
the community where he lives would
tui&s him.
WANTS OF SOUTHERN FARMER
Watching Little Things Is Surest Way
to Avoid Hard Times, Drought and
injurious Boil Weevil.
The average southern farmer wants)
to do things on a big scale. He wants;
to make money first of all instead of;
making a living first of all. He wants
to see his money come in big lumps.
He spurns the idea of a few cents or
a few dollars each day. He thinks,
that it is hardly worth his notice. He;
has been accustomed to hauling onef
bale or many bales of cotton to towai
in the fall of the year and getting a
big roll of money.
The southern farmer must learn
first of all to make everything for
man and bea^t on the farm that can
be provided for in uis section of the
country, writes J. W.-Beeson of Me-
ridian, Miss., in Progressive Farmer.
Then he mus* not despise ti.~ small,
things. A few cents each week for
eggs and a few cents more for sur-:
plus butter, a few fowls for sale
occasionally, a cow or steer for
sale and a colt or two or three to sell,
a few lambs or a few kids for sale
each year ought to be in his plans.
He should have a few pure-bred pigs
for sale as breeders besides what hei
can raise for meat.
He will have to learn to make a
garden the year round instead of;
planting in the spring only, and let-
ting the weeds take it the balance of;
the year. There are at least 14 kinds
of vegetables that can be grown in
the winter in the Gulf states. He
should plant a garden every month of
the year. Heretofore, the southern
farmer has let go to waste the vege-
tables he did not need. He will have
to learn how to “gather up the frag-
ments, that nothing be lost.” Instead
of letting snap beans get hard, and
tomatoes rot and squashes and okra
get hard, he should get in the habit of
canning what he cannot consume on.
his own table so that he will have a
variety of fresh vegetables for his
family all the winter, and then when
it is properly sealed and labeled he
can sell the surplus to a good advan-
tage in the winter. He should see
that the blackberries on his farm are
gathered and canned for winter use
and for market. Strawberries, rasp-
berries, dewberries, peaches, * pears
and apples should never be allowed,
to go to waste, but should be canned
for winter use and for market.
The farmer should raise Irish potar
toes to last all the year and have a
surplus to sell. He can raise two
crops on the same ground. He should
raise large quantities of sweet pota-
toes and build a dry house to dry;
them out and keep them for his own
use and for sale at a high price in the
spring. We could sell 20 carloads
now at $1 to $1.50 per bushels. The
southern farmer must supply the
North and all Europe with sweet po-
tatoes.
He should raise plenty of sirup
cooked by steam, using a saccharom-
eter so as to make it of uniform densi-
ty. He should seal it with solder. in-
tin cans like tomatoes, label it, and It
will keep for an indefinite length of
time. He can find a good market for It
in the North and in Europens well as
in the South. The skimmings from
cooking sirup should be fed to pigs,
cows or horses or put into the silo.
The southern farmer must learn to
take care of the waste and by-prod-
ucts. We are too wasteful. Things
grow so easily here, we do not value
them as we should. "Come easy, go
easy” can be applied to our southern’
people as a rule. We have such long
growing season with good rainfall,
and it is so easy to grow a crop, that)
we do not see the importance of saT-1
ing every particle of it. If we rotate;
our crops we will vuild up our soil,
and when we raise many things on the;
farm if one thing misses, the other
will hit, and we will not be troubled
so much with hard times, drought, boll
weevil and low prices.
COTTON FARMERS ARE ALERT-
Resolution of Protest Against British
Attitude Toward American .Trade
—War Is a Disgrace-
Leaders of the Farmers’ National
union, which claims 3,000,000 mem->
bers, have made public a resolution of
protest against the British attitude to-
ward American trade, of which a copy
has been sent to President Wilson.
The protest characterizes the war as
a “disgrace to civilization and a shame
to humanity,” and calls upon the presi-
dent to place an embargo, under the
provisions of the law of 1819, upon the
export of arms and ammunition In re-
taliation for the British attitude to-
ward American trade.
In support of this it makes the state-
ment that during the Spanish war both
England and Germany placed embar-
goes on arms shipments.
Southern cotton growers founded
the Farmers’ union. Southern cotton
growers are not jingoes. Southern
cotton growers lost $480,000,000 in
1914. Southern cotton growers are
face to face with the same old crisis
in 1915. Now, why should the south-
ern cotton grower be the goat all of
the time?—Fort Worth Record.
Room for Much Thought.
There is room for much thought in
this fact, that well-to-do people—bank-
ers, prominent men of affairs, etc.—
spend less money on living, pleasure,
clothes, etc., than men getting $600
to $1,200 a year in wages. Many or
most of the latter spend all they get
as fast as it comes. Bankers and
men connected with banks are usually
careful spenders—this fact Is the
principal reason why they are able
to be bankers.
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