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FOR NA TURE
Every Girl Should Know by Name, the Birds and Trees
in Her Neighborhood—Let the Girl in ike Country
Send Boxes of Wild Flowers to City School Rooms
How the Schoolgirl of Yesterday Spent “Exchanged
Afternoons”—The Sfudy of Stars Will Please the
Maid With the Scientific Mind.
BY MARGARET
Nature study is supposed to be a
quite different thing from the study
of books. In a way it may be true
that the two kinds of study are not
very much alike, but in another -way
they cannot be separated. Nature is
around us wherever we turn; above
us stretches the sky; we breathe the
air; we have, whether we live in town
or in the country, the sights and
sounds of nature near us all the time.
If we have only a little back yard
with a spall plot of grass and a pot
or two of flowers, if our only ac-
quaintance with birds is derived from
a canary or a parrot in a' cage, we still
may study nature, although not with
the same degree of interest that will
be ours when we make excursions to
green fields.
I take it for granted that the. girls
who are studying nature are doing so
to some purpose. Every one of us
ought to know by sight and touch the
trees in the locality nearest our homes.
We should know them by their pecu-
liarities of bark and branch and bud
and leaf. We should know the flow-
ers that grow in our countryside, rec-
ognizing them by their peculiarities
of root, stem and flower, of color and
perfume.
We should likewise know the birds.
Nothing is more absorbing than the
study of birds. They are fascinating
little creatures. Their habits, man-
ners and customs are not so very op-
posite our own when we really pene-
trate their secrets. In a single rather
small neighborhood in New Jersey a
bird lover last summer counted no
less than 52 varieties of birds. Their
migrations, their nests, their patience
in finding food for their young, the
mother’s and father’s care in show-
ing the young birds how to fly, all
these are interesting parts of nature
study. But it is not so much of this
that I am thinking1 as I write to you,
as of Ihe way in which we may help
one another in these days. Girls who
live in the country ought to have a
mission to their city cousins, and
when spring and summer bring their
pleasant days boxes of wild flowers
and garden flowers, too, should be
sent weekly to the schoolrooms where
the pupils have no easy way of get-
ting specimens for themselves.
Schools in different parts of the coun-
try should exchange flowers, shells
and other interesting properties of the
nature study class, and it would not
be at all a bad idea if there were a
regular system of correspondence be-
tween Jean of the little village and
Betty of the big city, all about the work
each was doing in her study of nature.
Another helpful thing that I recom-
mend is the marking of passages in
the poetry a n5 prose that you read with
an especial look to their bearing on na-
ture. You will find that the poets care
a great deal about the winds and the
waves, the sky and the earth, and that
real poetry is full of beautiful allusions
to the phenomena of the world we live
in. Tennyson, whom you will study
in your classes in English literature, has
so much intimate knowledge of nature
that his poetry is almost a guide book
to the flowers of his native land. Long-
fellow, Whittier and Emerson have a
great deal to say about nature. When
you read the great masters of fiction
you will find that they have whole pages
devoted to descriptions of scenery and
that some of them paint nature in words
as if with the brush of an artist.
A good plan is to have a commonplace
book and whenever you find something
that you like write it down for future
reference.
When I was a girl we studied botany
out under the trees. , There was a par-
ticularly charming bit of woodland near
our school, and our nature study was
always carried on out of doors. Our
teacher had a seat on a gray rock, cov-
ered with a blanket shawl. Maybe you
never heard of a blanket shawl, but if
you had gone with Miss Jane and had
been privileged to carry her Scotch
plaid over your arm you would have
E. SANGSTER.
known what a delightful and convenient
wrap it was.
The girls grouped themselves around
on the grass near a brookside and as
the lesson went on the brook sang and
sparkled and the sound of its lullaby
and the gleam of its waters made mu-
sic and sunshine in our souls. We
learned a great deal about botany in
those enchanted afternoons, and we
learned, too, a love of nature that is
not gained by those who study her
only in dried specimens between white-
washed walls.
You may be interested to know that
we always carried a luncheon on the
expeditions, and it was not the least
interesting part of the occasion. Girls
who fell below a certain percentage in
their studies were not permitted to take
up botany in their work. The oppor-
tunity of studying nature was thus made
very honorable and precious, and we
held it as something worth striving for.
*****
The study of astronomy captivates
those who have a scientific turn of
mind. To learn the names of the con-
stellations and to recognize some of
the planets when they appear above the
horizon is not beyond any ordinary
mind, but the study of astronomy is, on
the whole, too abstruse to be attractive
to very young girls. Definitions and
formulas you may learn, but to grasp
the principles of astronomy you require
maturity and insight; for these you
must wait. But you need not wait to
learn by heart Addison’s exquisite lyric
that begins:
The spacious firmament on high,
And all the blue, etheral sky,
And spangled heavens a shining frame,
Their great original proclaim.
I knew a wee tot once, a dimpled crea-
ture with serious eyes, who did not want
to take lessons in music. Lifting her
little hand she pointed upward and said:
“I would rather study astronomy.” Al-
though the child did not know it,
astronomy and music and mathematics
are all somehow akin to one another,
and she who is proficient in any one of
them may hope to become proficient in
them all.
One April day as I watched the birds,
our little brothers of the air, busy with
their housekeeping, I wrote a bit of
verse that you may like in any month of
the year, since, though it has an April
measure, you may read it in May or
June, and like it just as well.
The Building of the Nest.
They’ll come again to the apple tree—
Robin and all the rest—
When the orchard branches are fair to see.
In the snow of the blossom drest;
And the prettiest thing in the world will be
The building of the nest.
Weaving it well, so round and trim,
Hollowing it with care,
Nothing too far away for him,
Nothing for her too fair,
Hanging it safe on the topmost limb,
Their castle in the air.
Ah! mother-bird, you’ll have weary days,
When the eggs are under your breast,
And shadow may darken the dancing rays
When the wee ones leave the nest;
But they’ll find 'their wings in a glad amaze,
And God will see to the rest.
So come to the trees with all your train
When the apple blossoms grow;
Through the April shimmer of sun and rain,
Go flying to and fro;
And sing to our hearts as we watch again
Your fairy buildings grow.
(Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
Biblical Giants.
The famous giant of early times was
Og, king of Bashan. Samson must
have been of more than ordinary size,
as well as extraordinary strength, but
the most famous of all biblieal giants
was Goliath, whom David slew. How
tall he was no account states, but he
must have been most awe-inspiring to
judge from the reluctance of any of the
warriors to meet him in single combat
until David offered to meet the re-
doubtable champion.
A Name for Them.
The great difficulty about having
laws with iron teeth is that there are
already too many lawyer dentists who
make a specialty of pulling such teeUj.
FARMER ANT) PLANTER
THINKS HE HAS THE REMEDY.
A South Carolinan Has a Cure for
the “Cotton Evil.”
For many years cotton farmers
have been producing money-making
cotton crops, but in placing the cotton
upon the market all others in the cot-
ton business have become rich, while
the southern cotton producers, as a
rule, have remained poor.
There is but one cause for this, and
here it is: Most any common clod-
hopper can produce a good crop of
cotton, but it takes a different kind
of work to pl-ace this cotton on the
market so as to retain the profits in
the hands of the producers, where it
justly belongs.
Most any common cotton farmer
can, single-handed, independently and
alone produce a profitable crop of cot-
ton, but it takes the combined efforts
of many thousand cotton producers to
keep the old crowd of cotton specula-
' tors from reaping- all the profits.
These speculators have applied a
code of business rules and methods
or system in handling your cotton
crops that producers have failed to
do for themselves, These men have
supplied the cotton warehouses and
the business organizations for the pur-
pose of distributing your cotton among
manufacturers, and have, as might be
expected, reaped . their profits in
money while the producers of cotton
have stood aloof from concert of ac-
tion and took their profits out in grum-
bling and cursing the speculators.
The Remedy.
There is but one remedy for this
evil, and that is the cotton producers
must supply the facilities for han-
dling their own crops, until the cot-
ton is placed into the hands of con-
sumers at a reasonable profit to the
producers—or the cotton farmer will
remain in his present hazardous posi-
tion.
Cotton farmers, you might organize
and put your cotton in bulk, and then
place your best men in charge of your
business or the speculator will con-
tinue to do this thing for you! You
cotton growers must build your own
warehouses to protect your business,
or the same old crowd will continue
to do this for you, and continue to
levy a tariff on this job to suit their
idea about this work and not to suit
your idea!
Some farmers claim that they ap-
prove of the warehouse plans, but they
can’t raise the money for the stock.
Well, now, I deny this. In many cases
this is not true. We know good and
well that if some would try they could
get up this stock just as well as they
get up other things that are not so
important.
Finally, we wish to say to-all ye
calamity howlers and fault-finders
that you can not build warehouses
with your tongues; it takes the cash!
And another thing, too, that if you
will not try to help yourselves when
the way is open for you to do it, do
for the sake of common good of the
country, and respect for yourselves,
stop abusing others for not helping
you, when you will not try to help
yourselves. Put up the stuff or hush
up and go way back and sit down
and behave yourselves like good mod-
ern slaves should do.—J. C. Stribling,
Anderson County, S. C.
THE BOLL WEEVIL.
Mississippi River No Barrier, and It
Will Sweep the Country East.
The migratory movement of the boll
weevil, which is sweeping this pest
across the cotton lands of Louisiana
towards Mississippi, will continue un-
til cold weather runs the pest into its
winter quarters. Next year it will
continue its progress toward the east.
The Mississippi river, which some
planters of Mississippi, Alabama and
Georgia have hoped would stand as a
barrier against the weevil, will not
stop the flight of the pest. On the
contrary, it may slightly accelerate its
progress. Investigation has shown
that the weevil has at times flown
over bodies of water as much as 15
miles in width, and the Mississippi
river is, at one point where the wee-
vils will cross, over a mile in width.
Into the state of Mississippi this
year at the close of the season, live
years to cross fhe state of Mississippi,
and another five to cover the cotton
fields of Alabama and get into the
state of Georgia, is the calculation
that the entomologists make on the
progress of the weevil after it gets
across the Mississippi river this fall.
Its getting into Georgia within ten
years is of course based upon the be-
lief the weevil will travel eastward
through Mississippi a*d Alabama as
rapidly as it has through Louisiana,
The weevil has now infested the
territory that normally produces about
one-third the cotton crop of the coun-
try.
Habits of the Pest.
The Louisiana crop pest commis-
sion has discovered much in its ex-
perimental work. What has recently
been brought to light shows the wee-
vill to be a remarkable insect. The
adult weevils do not move at night.
Unlike many insects they do not fiy
after dark, and are not attracted by a
light. Lights have been placed in the
middle of a boll weevil field and not
a single weevil would ever come to
them. They do their feeding and de-
positing of eggs in the daytime.
When the squares begin to form on
the cotton the female weevil begins to
deposit eggs. An average of one egg
is placed in a square. A puncture is
made in the square, the egg inserted,
and afterward, sealed up by the female
with a small amount of secretion.
The eggs of the weevils are white
and approximately one-thirteenth of
an inch in length by one-fifth of an
inch in diameter. During - the month
of June, about four days is required
for the egg to hatch, and during July
and August, two and a half or three
days, the time depending upon the
temperature.
Intense Farming as Offset.
In the meantime the Louisiana crop
pest commission has solved the suc-
cessful growing of a cotton crop in
the boll weevil section. If the rem-
edy for the weevil has not been found
BACKACHE IS K1DNEYACHE.
Get at the Cause—Cure the KIdneye.
Don’t neglect backache. It warns
you of trouble in the kidneys. Avert
the danger by cur-
ing the kidneys with
^ ^ Doan’s Kidney Pills*
J- A. Haywood, a
well known resident
of Lufkin, Tex.,
says: “I wrenched
fcjpjk my back working in
a sawmill, was laid
up six weeks, and
BsSSliiSsI from that time had
pain in my back
whenever I stooped or lifted. The
urine was badly disordered and for a
long time I had attacks of gravel.
After I began using Doan’s Kidney
Pills the gravel passed out, and my
back got well. I haven’t had back-
ache or bladder trouble since.”
Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
when the weevil reaches Mississippi
and Alabama, the planters will at
least have the benefit of the long se-
ries of experiment made by the crop
pest commission of Louisiana and by
the United States government, which
have shown how to. grow cotton with
the v/eevil to contend with.
The advent of the pest is not now
looked upon as a plague. It has been
robbed of its terrors by what is known
as the “cultural method.” The cul-
tural method simply means the selec-
tion of an early-ripening cotton to be-
gin with; the use of the right kind
of fertilizer, thorough preparation of
the soil and intensive cultivation of
the soil, which will hasten the ma-
turity of the crop.
That, in spite of the weevil, cotton
can be raised by this method, has
been advocated by the commission in
western Louisiana the past two years,
where the weevils are the thickest.
There, where farmers have adopted
the cultural method, in spite of the
insect were raised last year crops of
cotton above the average ever made
before the weevil came.
This intense cultivation must be
followed up by the destruction of the
cotton stalks in the early fall. The
weevil goes into its hibernation with
the first cold weather, and if it retires
for the winter well fed it stands a
much better chance of surviving until
the following spring.
THE CREAM SEPARATOR.
It Pays to Use It, as It Is the Key to
Progress In Southern
Dairying.
The separator is the key to progress
of dairying, and dairying is the thing
that the south should develop. With a
climate that can not be excelled, an
abundance of good grasses, pure
water ,and the biggest and best mar-
kets in the world, must soon become
a potent influence in the dairying
markets of the world. She needs the
cream separator,- and needs it badly.
If the cost of a separator seems
high for a farm implement, please
consider for a moment that it is an
all-the-year-round machine, Sundays
included, and not like nearly all the
agricultural machines, intended for
use only a few days in the year. For
example, if your binder is worth $125
for ten days’ work in the year, the in-
terest on its cost is 75 cents per day of
^vvork. If the separator costs §125 for
365 days of the year, this interest on
its cost is two cents per day of work,
less than three per cent, of the cost
of the binder. Remember in counting
the cost that the separator must have
a constitution like a man who never
gets sick, for it will not do to have a
machine stop for a single day.
Another important step in favor of
the separator is the churnability. With
the old system much of the butter is
always lost in the buttermilk,* and oc-
casionally the cream will not churn
at all. There is a weblike fiber or
viscous matter- derived from numer-
ous conditions which gradually devel-
ops in all milk when i£ comes from
the cow, increasing as the milk ages.
This helps materially to retard cream-
ing by the settling process, and
causes a great part of the trouble in
the failure of the butter to gather in
the churn.
In the case of the separator, the
milk is separated very soon after com-
ing from the cow, before the fiber has
had time to 'develop, and what little
there may be of it is thrown out of
the cream and left within the sepa-
rator bowl. The consequence is, the
separator cream readily . churns into
butter. The saving in time required
is fully one-half, while the grain and
texture of the butter will easily av-
erage from 10 to 20 per cent, better
quality.
—In relative rank among the states
in population, agriculture and manu-
factures, North Carolina made a great-
er gain in the census decade of 1890-
1900 than any other old state in the
Union, and greater than any state or
territory, new or old, excepting only
the newly-settled areas of Montana
and Oklahoma, while Virginia and
South Carolina were also included in
the seventeen other states making a
net gain in rank.
Life is never a burden to the wom-
an who carries her age well.
*s ^ie r°ad to wealth,
PUTNAM FADELESS DYE is th*
road to economy.
Beginning of Great Industry.
The first woolen cloth made in Eng-
land was manufactured about 1330,
though it was not dyed and dressed
by the English until 1667.
California’s New Idea.
A California ostrich farmer is about
to open a branch office in London,
where he will have a collection of os-
triches, and incredulous customers
will be treated to feathers cut direct
from the backs of the ostriches, man-
ufactured under the customers’ eyes,
and sold to them across the counter
“at a price they never heard of.”
Immense Steel Plates.
The shell and boilers of the new
Cunarder being built at Wallsend,
England, are said by Consul Metcalf
to be constructed of the largest steel
plates in the world. They are silicon
steel, weighing ten tons each. The
boilers alone will weigh over 1,000
tons. Massive ingots and slabs
weighing 12 and 14 tons, are continu-
ally passing through the rolling mills
there for this work.
Strange Story—But True.
F. L. Vandegrift has a new story.
It is illustrative of the marvelous fe-
cundity of the English sparrow.
“I was pending Sunday with th«
Dumont Smiths, at Kinsley,” said
Van, in recounting his experience.
“We had been up late the night be-
fore and I was a trifle drowsy. I sat
out on the front porch listening to the
church bells and gazing off into the
illimitable^ space that lies between
a shortgrass town and the horizon
beyond.
“Presently I dropped my hat into
a bed of Virginia creeper and dozed
off to sleep. I could not have slept
more than an hour, for the children
were passing the house on the way
from Sunday school when I awoke.
I rubbed my eyes and glanced over
at my hat. In it sat an English spar-
row brooding a setting of eggs. While
I slept the sparows had built a nest
in my hat, the mother bird had laid
a full complement of eggs and had be-
gun the work of hatching them.”—
Kansas City Journal.
GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP.
No Medicine so Beneficial to Brain
and Nerves.
Lying awake nights makes it hard
to keep awake and do things in day
time. To take “tonics and stimu-
lants” under such circumstances is
[ like setting the house on fire to sea
if you can put it out.
The right kind of food promotes re-
freshing sleep at night and a wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way aj
eating, to Grape-Nuts, and says:
“For about three years I had been
a great sufferer from indigestion.
After trying several kinds of medi-
cine, the doctor would ask me to drop
off potatoes, then meat, and so on,
but in a few days that craving, gnaw-
ing feeling would stai’t up, and I
would vomit everything I ate and
drank.
“When I started on Grape-Nuts,
vomiting stopped, and the bloating
feeling which was so distressing dis-
appeared entirely.
“My mother was very much both-
ered with diarrhea before commenc-
ing the Grape-Nuts, because her stom-
ach was so weak she could not digest
her food. Since using Grape-Nuts she
is well, and says she don’t think she
could live without it.
“It is a great brain restorer and
nerve builder, for I can sleep as sound
and undisturbed after a supper of
Grape-Nuts as in the old days when
I could not realize what they meant
by a “bad stomach.” There is no
medicine so beneficial to nerves and
brain as a good night’s sleep, such as
you can enjoy after eating Grape-
Nuts.”
Name given by Postum Co., Battle
Creek, Mich.
“There’s a reason.”
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