The Drumright Derrick (Drumright, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 34, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 30, 1915 Page: 2 of 12
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BELIEVES IN CHICKENS
GETTING A START
By
NATHANIEL C. FOWLER, Jr.
Representative Charles R. Davis
of Minnesota is a level headed fellow
with few superstitious notions; but he
believes nearly everything he hears
on the subject of rearing chickens. !
There is absolutely no doubt in Use
mind of Davis that, with a trifling In
vestment, a man could clean up not !
less than {10.000 annually, out of the
chicken business, with practically no
work to do except count money.
Davis explains it plausibly enough.
You buy a dozen or so hens and build
a few coops and roosts at trivial cost. |
Every morning you go out with a lit- i
tie Back containing some prepared !
chicken food. 6ucli as one can buy *t
any canary bird store, and call in
shrill tones: "Chick - chick-chick
chick!" like that, at the same time
scattering the Battle Creek-looking
food.
After the hens have eaten hearti-
ly, and dispersed, their proprietor |
may go on back into his study and ,
resume his task of adding up his profits, or reading automobile catalogues, j
knowing full well that the hens will promptly set about their ordained task
of laying many strictly fresh eggs. Even if each hen laid only two eggs in :
three days—and Davis says that is an absurdly low estimate—and each egg 1
hatches another hen, which will grow up to lay its two in three, it doesn't 1
take a master of higher mathematics to see that in a little while one would |
have a great many chickens running around the place.
For a few dollars a month, as the congressman points out, one can hire
somebody to gather up the eggs, and ship them to market, along with spring
fries, when tho little poultry farm gets overstocked, and in a short while at
the prevailing prices of foodstuffs, one would have so much money that it
would become a burden.
LATEST FRENCH GOWNS
newest ideas of the makers
of fashions.
iCopyrixht. 1915. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
GUMPTION.
EDUCATION FOR A SPECIFIC PUR
POSE. !
1 Gumption consists of common sense
The passing generation will recall rational reasoning, attention to details tfce founder was an Englishman.
Innovations Set Forth by Worth Have
Been Accepted as Setting Forth
Styles of Season—For After-
noon and Evening.
An attractive feature in some of the
very new gowns is the introduction of
trains that hang from the waist.
Worth is responsible for this innova-
tion. That house has always liked the
ceremonial in clothes, going in strong-
ly for the dignified English effects, as
FERDINAND THE STATESMAN
]
The career of Ferdinand, czar of
the Bulgarians, has been a Pandora's
box of surprises from the August day
twenty-eight years ago when he se-
cretly left his home in Coburg. sailed
down the Danube with a few faithful
companions and entered Sofia with-
out asking permission of any of the
European powers for liberty to ac-
cept the offer of the people of this
Turkish province to become their
ruler. But the greatest surprise has
been his ability to hoodwink the
statesmen of Great Britain. Russia,
France and Italy for over a year with
the Idea that any arrangement could
be devised through which he could be
persuaded to Join them in carrying
out their plans of this war.
A perfumed dandy, his long, slen-
der fingers carefully manicured and
loaded with rings, credited with spend-
ing $5no upon a dressing gown, a con-
noisseur in the dainty garments of
ladies and an authority on precious
stones, Czar Ferdinand has nevertheless long ago demonstrated to the gov-
ernments of Europe his genius in statesmanship as well as In military affairs.
He has ever had an extraordinary alertness in seizing advantage at the
right moment. Many years ago Bismarck Baid of hltn that he was not a great
diplomat, but that he possessed diplomatic finesse. Since those days Fer-
dinand has achieved victories where even a Bismarck might have failed and
he can well be called the Bismarck of the Balkans.
NEW G. A. R. COMMANDER
Capt. Elias H. Moufort of Cincin-
nati, the newly elected commander in
chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, enlisted as a private in Com-
pany A. Sixth Ohio volunteer infantry.
In 1861. Four months later, after re-
ceiving tho rank of second lieutenant,
ho was transferred to Company F.
Seventy-fifth Ohio volunteer Infantry.
In May. 1S62, he was elected to the
rank of first lieutenant, and In Janu-
ary, 186:!. to the rank of captain. By
reason of Injuries received at Gettys-
burg. which necessitated his removal
to his home on a cot, he was mustered
Oct one year later.
Among the battles participated In
by Commander Monfort were Phllippi,
Laurel Hill, Carrick's Ford. Monterey,
Shaws Ridge, McDowell, Franklin,
Strasburg. Cross Keys. Cedar Moun-
tain, Pri I'raans Ford. Waterloo Bridge,
Sulphur Springs. Second Bull Run,
Chantllly, Chancellorsvllle, Fred-
ricksburg and Gettysburg. Since the
war he has been engaged in business In Cincinnati, where he served as post-
master for 15 years, .which position he resigned January 10, 1915.
the days of the old red schoolhouse—
which, by the way. was seldom paint-
ed red—when academic education was
primarily confined to two distinct in-
stitutions the common school, which
did not then begin with a kindergar-
ten, but plunged the pupil immediately
into the 3 Rs of learning; and the
college, which confined itself to the
classics.
In those days only a very small
percentage of boys eutered college,
and there was no higher institution of
learning open to girls than the semi-
nary. with a curriculum similar to
that of our present high school.
The young man who desired to en
ter a technical trade or to perfect
himself for any vocation, had to learn
this business, trade, or profession, "at
the last." so to speak. Even the
would-be lawyer read law in a law
office, and the dentist entered a den-
tist's office as an apprentice.
Today educational conditions have
changed, and there are innumerable
technical schools as well as those
teaching some one concrete profes-
sion.
The young man. then, may learn
his trade either in the old way, by
entering it, or by attending some In-
stitution specializing in the vocation
which he is to follow.
Which is the better way?
Both, I say.
If one is to take up a technical
trade requiring a scientific or other
Special Knowledge, he would better
spend a few years in some institution
which teaches one this vocation, or
those allied to it. and then finish his
education In the workshop or the
office of a concern devoted to it.
It is obvious that the factory or the
office cannot as easily impart the fun
damental principles of a vocation as
•an a well-equipped institution.
While at work the apprentice is
obliged to do many things which are
not directly contributing to his edu-
cation. He obtains experience, it is
true, but be is not allowed to have
that broadness of view which would
come to him in school.
The atmosphere of a schoolroom Is
conducive to efficiency. One has noth
ing else to think about; and, there
fore, can devote his entire time to
obtaining a better knowledge of the
work he is to do for a living.
In recommending the technical
schools, I am aware that many of
them are altogether too theoretical or
academic, and that they are. perhtps,
too broad Instead of specific; but, for
all that, the well-equipped technical
school places before its pupils the
great fundamental principles, which.
If rightly understood and applied, are
of untold benefit.
Certain lines, however, cannot be
taught in school; but a fundamental
knowledge of the majority of tech
nleal trades can be imparted in the
schoolroom and laboratory.
Practically all of our best technical
schools, including institutes of tech
nology, are managed by experts, who.
fortunately, are composite men, not
only understanding science, but hav-
ing the ability to impart its prin-
ciples.
A graduate of one of these insti-
tutes, while he may begin close to
the bottom of the ladder, and while
he may work for a year or more
alongside of the young man who has
not been favored with his opportunt
and persistent observation, that one J The uncle who runs the house is op-
may see more clearly and act more in-1 posed to many of tl.e modern features
telligently. of clothes; the exploiting of new ideas
Gumption, like common sense, be- ! through manikins at public places
comes a habit. To some extent it may j was never allowed, and well-known
be inherited, but the brand of gump- members of the half world were not
tion that is good for anything, that | allowed in the house. When one
may be applied to the affairs of life, knows Paris and knows how much
is largely acquired and comes to one courage It required, and monetary loss
because he makes an effort to get it. it involved, to insist upon these elimi-
Ask the successful business man nations, then one can get a bird's-eye
what appears to be the matter with view of the dignity of the house of
many of his employees, and he will Worth. It may not have paid, com-
say that the inefficient ones lack gump- i mercially or artistically, but 't exists
tion. are uninterested. Inattentive, un- | \0w that the firm has closed its
ambitious, and. as a rule, fault-finding. ! historic London house, the Parts cre-
Thev do not make an effort to use ations may become more eminently
what nature has given them. They
waste their time and their talents.
They are indtlent; they perform the
duties prescribed, but avoid responsi-
bility; they do not love their work and
they do what they have to do as auto-
matically as machines. Few of them
think intently, and most of them are
not amenable to reason. They are
always looking at the clock, seldom
realizing that automatic action in itself
does not stand for promotion, or for
more than ordinary accomplishment.
Because they do not make strenuous
effort, because they do not do their
best, their ability, even though it may
■>e great, is below par in every market.
They begin as clerks, and remain
clerks, seldom rising above subordi
French, but, so far, there is no evi
dence of it. Only America matters
now with the makers of clothee,
and Worth believes, rightly, that there
■a a large number of Americans who
do not like the modern tendency to-
ward girlishness and frivolity in
clothes, especially for those whose
youth has gone.
The evening gowns which he ad-
vances for this winter have their cas-
caded trains lined at the sides with
satin in a pale color. Someone who
wanted a simple gown from which
was eliminated the gewgaws that spot
the surface of most of the Watteau
frocks, asked Worth if he could make
it. His answer was a pinkish red
velvet without a touch of any other
TIPPERARY HAT
nate positions, allowing others of no color or trimming on it. The deep dec-
olletage was cut in the English man-
greater ability to supersede them.
It is obvious that ability is not dis-
tributed equitably—or at any rate does
not appear to be—and some men are
undoubtedly able to do things which
others cannot accomplish; but it is
nevertheless an indisputable fact that
those who try and try hard, even
though they may possess only ordi-
nary capacity, outpoint those of
greater ability who plod along dissat-
isfied with everything save themselves.
The man with gumption thinks while
he works. Every effort he mdkes
teaches him to do the same thing bet-
ter next time. He is faithful, but
more than that—he is energetic and
looks upon his capacity, whether it be
great or small, as a commercial asset,
to be used as any other commodity.
Every man is a salesman of himself.
Unless he considers his ability a mar-
ketable commodity, as he would a sack
of flour or a keg of nails, to be sold
at an advantage, he is not likely to rise
above a mediocre state, but probably
will remain at the bottom, or Aear to
it, a plodder, not a pacer.
Get gumption.
You can have gumption if you will;
perhaps not as much of it as can be
obtained by greater ability, but enough
of it to lift you beyond the ordinary
and place you in the rising class.
You are master of yourself, even
though you have a master. It is for
you. net the man for whom you work. | ner and he|d QTer each shoulder by a
to say whether you will stay down ; band of red velvet rlbbon end|ng
or go up. | a bow tbat gtood almost to the ears.
It was necessary that the French
NO SYMPATHY FOR NEUROTIC designers choose chiffor or silk for the
1 best of their afternoon frocks, be-
cause they did not have recourse to
a variety of fabrics so long as the
i Germans hold the Industrial towns
j of northern France.
Don't use the word "rheumatism," ! True, Rodler, the fabric maker, put
for it means nothing. The same may UP new mills and went on with his
be said of "neuros'.s." According to work as though the Germans were in
The Tipperary Hat Is a Stovepipe Af-
fair. Trimmed With Green Sham-
rocks and Was fade Especially for
Miss Harrison by Paquin of Paris
This is the First Time It Has Been
Seen in America. In England, Miss
Harrison, Whose Father Is a Colonel
in the Royal Engineers, Reversed
the Laws of Romanticism by Act
ing as a Romeo to the Suffering Sol-
diers in the Hospitals and Serenad-
ing Them.
their own country, not his, but France
had on hand, and found easy to get.
a mass of chiffon, so the fashion was-
| created for frocks of that fabric, and
the top coat emphasized au adjunct
to them.
These chiffon frocks are in entranc-
ing colors. There is nothing flamboy-
ant. Green that has gray In it, pale
purples, yellow, called orangeade,
crow blue, taupe-a-plenty. Moleskin
is revived to trim the taupe-colored
frocks, and sealskin is here to touch
off the gowns of deep brown and pale
gray blue.
There are few frocks of heavy ma
terials. They would be unbearable un
der heavy top coats in this climate,
io the woman who wants one good
'rock that will serve many purposes
can be suited easily this season.
(Copyright, by the McClure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
Evening Frock of Silver Lace, With
Full Plaited Tunic of Pink Satin.
Medical Man Has Placed Them in
Class That Might Be Called
Hypocrites.
Dr. Louis Casamajor, chief of the Van-
fierbilt Clinic and Instructor in neu- ._
rologv at Columbia university, in an FOR POLISHING THE RAZOR
ties, will eventually, all things being address at Bloomingdale hospital New
equal, advance more rapldlv than will Vork. "rheumatism" is a term which Useful Little Article That Will Be
one who entered the trade as an ap ha8 been *Pread, In popular and In Found of Value In Almost Every
prentice without good technical school deed In medical use. In such a tbln Household.
DICTATES OF FASHION
W7ool embroidery and odd fur trim-
mings are features.
Many coats are high waisted either
In back or front.
Broad-striped coatees are worn for
sports over white dresses.
Vests and pocket flaps give a sug-
gestion of Louis XVI fashions.
Jersey scarfs in wide stripes are
used about the neck and us girdles
with white morning frocks.
Sleeves on some of the new eve-
ning frocks are no more than little
ruffles, sometimes of tulle edged with
hearts and sometimes held out with a
flexible wire at the lower edge.
FAVORS MONARCHY IN CHINA
It seems a bit strange that a citi-
zen of this great republic should de-
clare himself !n favor of the restora-
tion of a monarchical form of govern-
ment In a country which only lately
has become a republic, but that Is
what Dr. Frank L Goodnow. presi-
dent of Johns Hopkins university, vir-
tually has done in the case of China.
For some time Dr. Goodnow has been
adviser to President Yuan Shih kai
and recently he submitted to that
exalted Individual a memorandum
concerning the best form of govern-
ment for the Chinese.
Though not an unqualified ad-
vocacy of the proposal to restore the
monarchy in China, the memorandum
Is a historical and analytical review
of the progress of the republican
movement throughout the world and
an exposition of some of the reason*
why he believes that such a form of
government is leas suited to the pres-
ent-day China than a monarchy Doc-
tor Goodnow finds that governments in general have succeeded or failed Io
accordance with the effectiveness of measures adopted to provide for orderly
(accession of the supreme authority-. «cd he believes that because of the low
tetelligence of the Chinese a republican fonu of gove-nmcnt Ctrt will lead to
'the worst possible form of government, samel* that of the military die-
lator r
layer to cover such a large number j
of conditions that It has ceased long It is a common habit with many
wholly give the experience of The er lo have a ,iia*nostlc significance. j men to polish a razor with a towel af-
and conveys now no more real mean- I ter tliev have finished shaving with
ing than doee the original word pain'i it. and the consequence is the towel
for which It is substituted. The same often suffers from a number of small
may be said of •neuritis.' merely an- 1 cuts. Our sketch shows a useful lit-'
! other way of saying pain—an explana- j tie article to be used for this pur-
DEATH LAID TO BAD HABITS tion which explains nothing, and when pose In the place of the towel, that
combined with the foregoing in 'rbeu- ; can be made In spare moments from
training.
While this school training dors not
workshop. It will teach one first, the
fundamental principles, and. secondly,
how more easily to apply them
Shortness of Life in the Human Rsce
Is Ascribed to Its Complete Lack
of Wisdom.
Dietitians commenting on modern
recklessness in eating, quote the re-
mark of Seneca the Roman philoso-
pher, "Man does not die. be kills him
self." Originally made to live l.uno
years, man has fallen to an average of
only onethird of a century.
it has taken S.000 years, the authori-
ties tell us. to develop a race tbat
will live, by hook or by crook, as long
as thirty-three years, which Is given as
the present-day average. The blame
Is placed upon our disregard of plain
honesty In living.
Me scorn everything natural and
surrender to artificial gratifications
and Indulgence lhat tend to ruin the
natural health of the body Our dia
cretion cannot be trusted to do the
common sense obvious thing
It Is pointed out th animals live
longer on natural food than on man s
■nixture. A sick horse turned oul to
asture will ge' well, and If fed oa
-an oats anf otter food presented
v man he dies.
matlc neurosis' we have a term of suf
flclent Inaccuracy to satisfy the most
fastidious neurotic."
Doctor Casamajor went on to assert 1
a critical study of a neurotic per
son s talk "quickly reveals the fact >
that It Is a wealth of detalla with no .
point ... for If he should get the !
point be would cease to be a neurotic, i
Possibly he might be something ;
worse." Doctor Casamajor calls neu- j
rcsis an asset. "Every neurotic bas
something to gain by being a neu-
rotic, and he ceases to be so wben
this element of gain disappear*.
. . . At best it gives the Individual almost any small remnants of mate-
an excuse for leading a more or less rial, and that can take it* place upon
easy life, surrounded by the sympa- ! the dressing table.
thy which civilized people feel I. du. „ „ m,de of ,||k< ,nd „ th#
1 'e * edges with narrow ribbon and lli.fl
I with soft wash leather. It is cut out
| In the shape shown in diagram C.
and measures sii inches in length
I and three Inches in width when spread
out quite flat. It folds together in tbe
center In the manner shown In dia
B, and diagram A sbows tbe
A Friend Indeed.
"Did 1 understand you to say tbat
Professor Gaspit is a scientistT"
"I don't know whether you would
call him * scientist or a philanthro-
pist At any rate, he has discovered i Erara
t fare preparation that ts guaranteed
to make a woman look ten year*
younger."
way in which It can be used to wipe
the razor
For appearance sake, some simp!*
little design such as suggested In the
sketch can be worked upon the exte-
rior. and should it be desired to hang
it up It is an easy matter io
sew on a small loop of ribbon at one
corner. A similar case to hold tissue
paper about the same size should also
be at hand so that the razor can be
wiped before being polished.
USE FOR THE OLD WAISTS
Skillfully Handled They Make the
Very Best Kind of Slipover Cor-
set Covers.
Make use of your embroidered
waists that are out of style by, mak-
ing them int- slipover corset covers
Cut but the sleeves and open ui
arm seams, sew up the back or /..
finish with small tucks or strips^
lace. Cut out the neck larg.5 enough
to Blip over the he_ad Cut in shspB
from shoulder to umlrtTm, finish
with lace, pat tape on baclf
Some of the newest neckwear is
made of black and white silk. It is
very effect ice. There are some in
wide stripes, high stock with Baring
points under the ears, and waistcoats
that button straight up to the throat
Often these points an<t the big collar
are lined with plain black or plain
white for contrast, and the buttons
match the lining Then there are
white guimpes and vests and collar*
trimmed with piping and embroidery
of black.
covers
unier
r/fiSL
rins
Variety of Sleeves.
New models show great variety of
sleeve design Some are ful. abot*
the elbow and very narrow on the (ore-
arm: other* Bare widely at th« wnaL
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