Hooker Advance (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, October 8, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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/WO GOULD Am MM GLORIA
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K'LKAHN from the a^mtlst*
of the ceTiatijt bureau and
other* who have made a
study of that interesting but
erratic bird, h« stork, that
Ira favorite habitat la In the
o7t n«st of the poor rather than In the
pilaea* of the rich, and that In no
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Before they were born I took erery care of
my own health and lived ai much a* pos-
sible in the open air. Before Edith waa
born I spent months on our yacht cruising
around, as It was summer. In fact, she waa
born at soa. Then I have nursed my babte*
myself, except twice when illness rendered
It impossible for me to do so. I do not be
Ueve in sterilized milk nor patent baby-
fooda A baby la like a little puppy. If you
want It to grow fine and strong and fat, you
must ?lve It the right start, and nothing haa
yet been discovered that takes the place of
the food that nature intended for a child.
"In raising my children my plan has been
to bring (hem up to be simple and
hardy. Not one of ooy children
Q£ORGr <J. COULD) JR.
other place In the world Is It more sel-
dom seen than along Fifth avenue,
The home of Mr. George J. Gould,
however. Is an exception to thla rulo.
Sloven times the domestic bird has vl*.
tied and bl«« ed that abode, each time
leaving a hnby so strong and luaty, ho]
tig and beautiful, that It fully justified
the fond parents' declaration that It
wes the finest child ever born. Bet-
ter still, the Gould children have
grown up to be almost perfect speci-
mens of physical health, and they are
•e Intelligent and so natural and unaf-
fected In character that it seems
worth while to tell how this result
tan been accomplished, and how a
vise father and mother liuvo enabled
their children to lead the simple life
ko the midst of millions and a luxury
that makes that of the fabled Sybar-
ites look like a mukoihift with which
«** could get along If one had to.
When you want to dive to the heart of a mys-
«ery the French shrug thulr shoulder* and spread
•wt their hands, and nay: "Cherchcz la femtne."
U you desire to find the key to any family situa-
tion utid know why the children of the household
sjre what fhey are—virile or weakly, sturdy llt-
Vto men and women or ilabby jellyfish, potential
«IU*emi of worth or mere cutnbereru of the
(round you must act as If the old French adage
read: "CUorchoz la mere."
It Is the mother that count* where children are
concerned, and so I sought out Mrs, George J.
njould. and asked her for her recipe for bringing
«j> a family. I found her In their magnificent
suite of apartments ut. the l'ln/.a hotel, surround-
«j( like Cornelia, by hor Jewels. There was her
daughter Marjorle, a lovely, slim slip of u girl,
<jie of the debutantes nnd belles of the season,
come In to tell of the delights of the ball of the
night before There was ICUith, a sturdy little
miss of seven, hanging upon her mother's shoul-
der. There was George, a shy lad of 12, poking
Ms head in boiwucn the portieres from time to
time. The other children worn absent, and a mo-
tor war being sent to hor school for Vivian, and
another to Columbia university for Kingdon nnd
toy, for the doy was bitter cold and snowy, Haby
(Doris, who it) only two and a half years old, was
spending the winter at Georgian Court with hor
grandmother, and trinkets woro being got ready
to send to tier I hero.
The room Itself was a very temple of niothor-
>,uoi!. tor Mi- empire lone had been ruthlessly sac-
vifleed before family affection and love of things
homelike, and everywhere on walls and mantles
ttblu* there were photographs of tho chll-
>itv«n ---Jay In tennis flannels when he won the
championship of (be world, Kingdon with hlH ilrat
wUHtsche, marvelouoiy like a young edition of
ifco (raiser, Marjorlo In hor debutante gown, and
t>*by pictures Innumerable.
In the midst of all this evidence of a mother's
(wooding love sat Mrs. Gould, a radiant llguro In
trailing pain-blue silk, as young looking almost as
•ner own daughter, and I thought that If I wore au
irtist I should llko to paint her rs a triumphant
modern Madonna, a woman to whom motherhood
tm brought nothing but joy, and whose children
•rs her crown of happiness. She has had all that
women crave, has this woman who Is a darling
tt the gods. First she had success nnd fauie,
wtdoh she won by her own genius; then she was
gtvon love and marriage and enormous wealth
«ipd high social position. Who has beauty that Is
villi undlmmed, but the host that life has given
hor In her children, and It is good to hoar her
M/ Ito
'My acquaintances have sometimes pitied m<\"
ibt wuld with a smile, "because I have had so
many babies, hut 1 have not one child too many.
I tuivu never had s child that I did not want, or
that has not. found a warm wolcomo watting for
U,. I think that is one reason why my children
tiny* all been so strong and liavo had such ho-
rone disposition
I have felt tUo responsibilities of motherhood,
too. slid have tried lo r.lvt uiy children as good a
ln< i us pontiblw by rlvltig I hem sound bodies.
mi v/wri could
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Own Cotton Gins.
Frederick.—Barrett's foar gins 1°
Tillman couni.? have been purchase'.'
by " Williams and Miller of Elk City.
These gins are located at Manitou.
Grandfield, Frederick and seven miles
west of town. This firm also owns
eins at Elk City. Cordell, Sayre,
Texhoma. Cheyenne, Oklahoma and
Shamrock, Tei.
Robb Case Continued.
Guthrie—All the cases pending on
federal Indictments against former
Mayor J. C. Robb of Kingfisher
growing out of the failure of the Cap-
ital National Bank here five years
ago, have been continued by Federal
Judge John H. Cotteral for the pres-
ent term. Robb was vice president
when the bank failed. He now lives
In Wichita.
Burned to Death.
Guthrie.—Mrs Nora Hodges, aged
; 17, wife of Houston H. Hodees, living
seven miles northwest of Frederick,
was burned to death while attempting
to start a fire in the kitchen range
; with kerosene. The oil tank explod-
ed, scattering the burning fluid all
over her. Her husband received In-
juries In attempting to save her.
Indians to Petition.
Oklahoma City.—Representative
citizens of Indian blood In the Chick-
asaw and Choctaw nations will meet
In convention at Medlcne Springs,
Coal county, to petition congress to
provide for the sale of 500.000 acres
1 of segregated coal and asphalt lands
In those nations. This will be the
first gathering of Indian citizens ex-
clusively In Oklahoma In recent years.
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diversion for our children to en-
courage them in athletic sports.
We have a polo-ground, and a
rldlng-ring, and tennis and
squash-courts, and the children
have their ponies and ride and
drive a great deal. The boys
were particularly Interested in
polo, and Kingdon, my oldest
son, at 15 was considered one of
the best polo-players in the
country. Jay was also a fine
Found Old Papers.
Guthrie.—A large roll of newspa-
pers of date September 11, 1908, was
picked up on the south side of the
South Canadian river, following the
recent flood, by Roy Black, a farmer
boy. An examination reveals the find
as a portion of the mail that was lost
last year when a Rock Island mall car
went through a bridge over the Cana-
dian, in Western Oklahoma.
THE MISSES EDITH AND GLORIA
ever had on a atltch of flannel, not even a
flannel petticoat. They have warm wraps
when they go out of doors, but in the house
they wear littlo socks and low-necked and
short sleeved cotton or woolen clothes.
They live also on the simplest and plainest
food—cerealg and eggs, tender steaks and
good roast meat, with plenty of vegetables
and fruit, and the simplest sort of dessert
when they have any at all. No pies and
pastry, and no nibbling at^ candy all day for
thorn. 1 also put great stress on absolute
regularity In eating, and no matter who
else waits, the children have their meals
exactly on the Btroke of the clock.
"Wo are a very domestic family, and tho
children have their breakfast and lunch,
which Is really their dinner, with Mr. Gould
and myself, but until they are if, years old
they have their supper at a little after six
o'clock, and only have something very light
to eat. They never come to dinner, unless
upon their birthdays it is permitted as a
great treat. Why, Marjorlo never came to
dinner regularly until last year, and she is
still so attached to the nursery tea that
when we are down at Georgian Court she
often eata with the children by preference,
"Of course I have so many other dutleH that It
la not possible for me to be always with my ba-
bies, and ro I kept a trained nurse for each one
until he or she was two and a half yearH old, and
past tho teething time; but there Is never a night,
even to tills day, that I do not go into each room
the last thing before going to bod, and tuck the
covers down with my own handu, good and tight
around each child. And I have nursed every one
of my children with my own hands when they
were sick. I had trained nurses, of course, but
I sat up with the sick child, too. When Marjorle
had that fearful spell of scarlet fever In France
the summer before last, and when it seemed ut-
terly impossible for her to recover, her father
and I never lert her day or night for weeks. The
doctors said that It waa the most malignant case
they over saw, and that nothing but her marvel-
ous strength pulled her through. They said that
If she had been a French girl she certainly would
have died.
"I believe that the chief thing about raising
children up to bo well and strong is to bring thorn
up In the country whore they can have plenty of
lreah air and room for exercise, and freedom. It
waa for tho benelit of our children that we went
down to Lakewood and built Georgian Court. The
socoud lloor of the house is devised especially for
(he children, and the sunniest room In it Is for
the baby and the next sunniest for the ex-baby;
and we's always hud great times and ceremonies
when tho reigning monarch had to give way for
a new king or queen of the nursery and have his
or her little belongings packed up and moved on.
"Everything has been sacrificed lor the good of
the children. For ten years we lived at Georgian
Court only in the winter, and took the babies
every summer up to the quietest and dullest little
place In tho world In the Catskllls, ten miles from
anywhere.
"At Georgian Court we provided every sort of
A Cook Club Organized.
Guthrie.—A "Cook Club" was organ-
I ized at the state house and a telegram
I sent to the explorer at New York ex-
| pressing confidence in his ability to
I "make good." The telegram was sign-
I ed by Paul Nesbit, president of the
' club; George W. Bellamy, lieutenant
| governor; Porter Spaulding, secretary;
| G. C. Stark, Joe C. Haskell and P. T.
Mpore.
Death Sentence Suspended.
Oklahoma City.—Justice Henry M.
Furman of the state criminal court of
appeals at Guthrie, granted a suspen-
I sion of the death sentence of Daniel
Scrlbner of Ada, who was to have
I been banged September 24th, until
j court can pass upon an appeal that
lias been perfected. Scri'bner was
| convicted of the murder of Marshal
Putnam, of Allen, Okla.
Dislocated Neck.
Tonkawa.—Little Reba Murray, the
five-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Murray, who live nine miles
southeast of Tonkawa, lost her life as
the result of a moBt peculiar accident.
Her mother sent her to get a quilt
and while climbing to get it, her feet
became entangled in the bedding and
she fell against the Iron bedstead, dis-
locating her neck and dying instantly.
flfii GOULD AND THE MSiEi EDITH AND GLORIA
player, but after Kingdon wont to Columbia tbe
game was somewhat broken up; so as there was
a fine professional tennisplayer at Lakewood be
took up court tennis Instead. It is a game that re-
quires unusual strength and quickness of motion,
but ho soon became so expert at it that when ha
was 17 he won the American championship, and
when ho was 18 he carried off the English cham-
pionship, which is, of course, the championship of
the world.
"Neither Mr. Gould nor myself is an advocate of
boarding-schools. We believe taat the very best
associations that children can have durlrg the
formative years of their lives are home associa-
tions, and that no guardianship is equal to the
loving watchfulness of a father and mother. There-
fore we have kept our children right in the home
nest, and have had them educated by tutors and
governesses.
"In educating the children we have tried t' de-
velop each one along the line of his or hei own
natural bent. For instance, Marjorle adores read-
ing, particular poetry and romance. She is a good
musician and, as I said, speaks four languages; but
Bhe does not care for what you might call the
drudgery of study, and I have not afflicted her with
it. Rut Vivian has a profound mind. She loves to
study and to delve Into deep subjects,
"I am very proud of my two big boys. They are
clever, and they are strong, manly boys, and beat
of all, in a mother's eyes, they are good bcea.
Neither of thoin has ever caused me a mome.t's
uneasiness or a single heart-pang. Kingdon is 21
and Jay is 20, and neither of them smokes or has
ever tasted liquor. Not that I am a prohibitionist
at all, or have ever tried especially to keep such
things away lrom them, but they just have no de-
sire tor stimulants. And that, 1 take it, is about
the lest Indication of their health nnd strength, at
wt il as a vindication of my method of raising chil-
dren, for alter all, it's the lieaithy body that givoa
a healihv mind and nealthy Impulses, isn't It?"
Stole Steers.
Apache.—Somo person or persons
sntered Nye Johnson's pasture north
of town, and drove off fourteen head
of two-year-old steers and two year-
lings during the past week. Johnson
has been searching diligently, but has
received no clue of either the stolen
cattle or the person who took them.
Rabbits Ruin Orchards.
Oklahoma City.—"We will have to
exterminate theSe pests or leave the
country," Is the plea of W. T. Dicker-
son of Beaver county, in asking the
county commissioners to place a
bounty of 5 cents on rabbit scalps and
?1 on coyotes. Mr. Dickerson states
that many fruit trees have been ruin-
ed by rabbits. They prey on truck
patches, eating cabbage, turnlpw and
potatoes and in hundreds of other in-
stances work great damage to the
farmers. Mr. Dickerson will take the
matter up with the commissioners of
his county in the hope of making it
worth the time of farmers to exterm-
inate the rabbits, both jacks and cot-
tontails.
Consolidated School Opens.
Kildare.—School has opened with an
enrollment of 124 pupils in the first
consolidated school district in Kay
county and perhaps the first in the
state. Wagons that were ordered by
the district for transporting children
to and from the rchool house did not
arrive iu time for the opening of the
ierm and farm wagons were put into
service. Curry Bell was superintend-
ent of the school. High school work
has boon added to the curriculum.
COTTON MARKET.
New York.
New York. Sept. 27.—The cotton
market opened steady at a decline of
6tfjl3 points, or considerably better
than due on the easy close Liverpool,
for bear pressure seemed to be hefd
in check by reports of another tropi-
cal storm south of Jamaica and bull-
ish cotton trade advices. There were
persistent reports that big interests
were working for a reaction, however,
and after a rally ta within 2 or 3 points
of Friday's finals, the market turned
easier under realizing and during the
middle of the morning ruled about 7
to 9 points lower. Futures closed
firm. Bids: September, 13.43c; Octo-
ber, 13.45c; November, 13.45c; De-
cember, 13.47c; January, 13.46c.
St. Louis.
St. Louis, Sept. 27.—Cotton, Quiet;
middling, 12%c; sales, none; receipts,
none; shipments, none; stock, 9,289.
Galveston.
Galveston. Sept. 27.—Cotton, sheady,
12%c.
Huston Declines Offer.
Pawnee.—Judge A. H. Huston of
the Logan county district court, de-
clined to accept the appointment to
"be United States district attorney of
the Western district of Oklahoma to
succeed John Embry, resigned.
Killed By Falling Steel.
Weatherford.—While unloading a
car of steel trusses to be used in the
erection of a state normal Bchool
building, James M. Campbell, senior
member of the contracting firm of
Campbell and Daugherty, of Sulphur,
was crushed to death.
Campbell expected a heavy piece
to turn as it was being removed from
the car and was standing in readiness
to take hold of It when the piece fell
upon him, hurling his body against
the side of the car and killing him In-
stantly.
Library to Woodward.
Guthrie.—William E. Bolton, one of
the pioneer newspaper man of the city
of Woodward, and for fifteen years
secretary of the State Cattlemen's as-
sociation, has donated his private li-
brary to the public library of the
city of Woodward, where Mr. Bolton
has lived since coming to Oklahoma.
The library which he donated has
been collected by him during the past
forty years and is considered oue of
great value. He has been critically ill
for the past several weeks and the
physicians announce that he cannot
recover.
Cherokeea Accept Flag.
The big American flag that the
elements battered in Washington the
day of the inauguration of President
Taft, which was presented by the
president to the Cherokee nation, was
accepted by that nation August 16, ac-
cording to Congressman C. E Crea-
fer of Muskogee. The Kee-too-wah
society of fullblood Cherokeea, who
were In meeting at Tucker Springs ou
that date, resolved not to accept the
flag, because of their fear that poli-
tics was involved.
"The flag was never tendered to
the Kee-too-wah Boclety," says Con-
gressman Keager, "or any other fac-
tion of the Cherokees. It was pre-
sented to the Cherokee fullbloods
without reference to politics, relisious
or social affilations. It was accepted
on August 16, 1909, in the same spirit
in tfhich it was given, and I am ad-
vised that the Cherokees are very
proud of their present."
May Visit Fort Sill.
Fort Sill.—It Is expected that during
his tour of western posts, General J.
Franklin Bell, of the United States
army, will visit Fort Sill. He Ib on a
tour of general inspection and may
come here on the completion of the
inspection of Fort Sam Houston and
some other southwestern posts. Gen-
eral Bell has taken considerable Inter-
est In Fort Sill and is behind the move
to make a brigade post here.
Leas Cotton But More Money.
Guthrie.—"In spite of the short
crop, Pottawatomie county farmers
will make more money from their
cotton crop this year than they did
last, sa d Charles P. Barrett, secre
tary of the state board of agriculture,
who has Just returned from a trip
through that county. "There will be
about a 60 per cent crop and cotton
is seiling for 12*4, cents, against 8
cents last year, while cotton seed,
for which they were glad to get $14
a ton last year, is now seiling at from
$21 to $23."
Muskogee Is to Buy Land.
M uskogee.—Agency 'Hill, a tract of
'°rty acres belonging to the govern-
ment, Is to be purchased by the city
of Muskogee at the government's price.
$4,500, and the tract will be convert-
ed into a city park. On this land is
the old agency building where the
business of the Five Civilized Tribes
was transacted prior to the removal
of the office to Muskogee. The title
rests In the Creek nation, tout the land
fan be transferred only by the appro-
val of the secretary of the interior.
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