The Waynoka Tribune. (Waynoka, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 9, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1911 Page: 3 of 8
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Soap-Box Babies
By
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Illustrations by
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8YNOPSIS.
Min Bttlnft Lut, spinster futrdlu angel
nf IUvit Bluff. presides nvi-r m.11 Ini
tirnnipiii day nursery for the babies of
tlie neighborhood In the rear of her gr<>-
eerv. Her charges are known as "3,,up.
Box Babies." • The fact that she Is single
makes her an object of sympathy to the
mothers. One of her friends is Miss Cyn
111 In Page. daughter of Widow Page.
Cynthia visits Miss Selina and learns that
• he has taken another "Soup-Boxer” In
Alan Kent, a young artist who wishes to
establish a studio In her barn. Blossom.
Miss hue’s adopted baby, and one Cyn-
thia is very fond of. allows an evident
preference for Alan. When Cynthia
leaves, Alan hears that her mother Is In
danger of.losing the old homestead. A
near rukus. Alan admires Cynthia. Se-
lina tells how she came to locate In the
place and start the haaen for little ones,
cthe suapects that Cynthia is responsible
for Alan’s neglect or herself. Sale of the
mortgaged Page place considered. Alan’s
portrait of Cvnthla Is discovered. Evelyn
Branch. Cynthia's close friend, shows In-
terest In Alan Kent. Cynthia relieves Se-
lina for a day, cooks dinner for Mr. Kent
and makes a sorry mess of It. Alan de-
clared a favorite with all the Bluff folk.
Cynthia overhears his confessions of
love.
CHAPTER VII.—Continued.
But across the street the Dobbs res-
idence was undergoing more in the
way of a general toilet than that
which had been finished at the Kin-
ney house. The front door stood wide
open and the little hall and front room
presented a swept and garnished ap-
pearance. All the flower pots on the
window ledge had green paper covers
and flaunted many brilliant colors, for
flowers bloomed under the ministra-
tions of Mrs. Dobbs’ easy good nature.
As Miss Cynthia was opposite the
gate the lady of the house came
arot-.d from the side yard with a
bucket of foaming whitewash in her
hand and an old broom, whose brush
was swathed in rags.
“Now, Bennie, I’ve done caught you
fair! Come on and finish that last
panel of fence you done got tired on
last week. You've put the brush
away so as not to find It handy, but
these rags on a broomstick just
as good. Make him come. Miss Cyn-
thie.” And Mrs. Dobbs smiled a jo-
vial appoal to Miss Cynthia to use her
Influence with the reluctant Bennie.
“Why, boys like to whitewash, Mrs..
Dobbs,” answered Miss Cynthia en-
couragingly. “How nice everything
looks, everywhere.”
“Well, it ougliter, for Miss Seliny
Lue come around and waked us all up
long ’fore five o’clock. I’m afraid to set
down, fer I am so stiff that I mightn't
be able to git up again,” answered
Mrs. Dobbs, plaintively.
“Well, I know Bennie and Ethel
Maud are going to stay now and help
you get done so you can rest," said
Miss Cynthia with a significant glance
at the two deserters, who fell to on
the fence with a will.
“Be sure and notice them new lace
curtains Mis’ Jim Peters is a-puttlng
up in her front windows,” Mrs. Dobbs
called after her as she started down
the street. Miss Cynthia smiled and
nodded as she looked over with inter-
est at a slender figure poised on a
chair by the window In the little cot-
tage opposite the grocery. Mrs. Jim
Peters waved her hand In greeting
and Miss Cynthia caught a glimpse
of the precious littlo cradle through
the open door.
The front regions of the grocery
were deserted and presented their
usual utilitarian appearance, except
that huge bunches of fragrant sweet
fern were set around in different
homely receptacles and arranged with
a decidedly artistic effect.
Miss Cynthia's eyes roamed delight-
edly over the cool, dark interior, but
In a second were focused on a scene
n the back of the store.
On the floor, collar flaring, sleeves
rolled to his shoulders and girt by an
ample gingham apron, knelt Mr. Alan
with a large tub full of squirming ba-
bies before him, and with praisewor-
thy despatch he was polishing off the
head of Carrots of the flaming hair.
The brother of Carrots wiggled and
splashed and seemed intent on a deep-
sea dive.
“Here, young man, I can’t scrub
Carrots and keep you up too. Sit
tight a moment, can’t you, old slip-
pery?” The voice had a slightly anx-
ious note.
“Lands alive. Mr. Alan, you hadn’t
oughter soaped them both to onct!”
said Miss Selina Lue’s voice from the
lean-to. “Just hold ’em still until I
button Blossom’s neck and put Clem-
mie on the floor and I’ll come. A soapy
baby ain’t a thing to take risks with.
I can tell you."
“Could I help?” Miss Cynthia’s
voice was sweetly solicitous, but it
acted on the be-aproned scrubber in
the manner expected of a two-pound
bomb. He sat back on the floor so
eudienly that Carrots slipped dangsr-
! ously and the other Flarlty almost ac-
complished hilt plunge A man on bis
knees before a deep tub of water with
a soapy baby in each hand is at a dis-
advantage In the way of greetings to
a lady who hux walked right out of a
dream, and not u word rose to the
I trembled surface of Mr. Alan's tuind.
“Miss Cynthia, honey, grab one of
them children, quick!” Miss Melina
l.ue called. “Mr. Alan haln’t had the
experience to manage two, and if they
slip there will be a mighty ruckus
with both of them in the crying way.”
In a moment Miss C>nthla was on
her knees by the tub, had rescued the
brother of CarrotH and was holding
him firmly under Ills arms with both
hands. Not for worlds would she
have attempted to go on with the
rites of the bath: holding up was
fraught with anxiety enough for her
nerves. Across the dripping, bobbing
heads her eyes met the artist's, und
there ensued a few momenta of silent,
breathless mirth tlmt well-nigh Inca-
pacitated them both and threatened
disaster to the bathers.
“Oh, Miss Selina Lue, come get
him quick I am going to let him slip
iti a minute!” she gasped. "iA>ok
out, Carrots Is lurult’g over, Mr. Kent!
Do hold him right side up!”
“There now,” said Miss Selina Lue,
ns she swept both babies into the
curve of one arm and seized the wash-
rag out of Mr. Alan’s nerveless hand.
“I can polish ’em off in no time. Please
pick Blossom und Cl“nimle often the
floor and put ’em in the boxes. I
want ’em to stay clean fer the party.
Ain't they too sweet all dressed up?
And, Mr. Alan, I wish you would dry
Miss Cynthle’s hands on your apron
before they drip oc her dress. They's
a heap to do, for ft's about fb turn
twelve o’clock now, and I want things
to b« bAforehanded.”
There are some situations In life
that are marked by a charm that par-
takes decidedly of terror, and as Mr.
Kent received five slender, white, drip-
ping fingers in his own and proceeded
to envelop them In a fold of the ging-
ham garment pendent about his waist,
he was possessed by a wild desire to
bolt through the back door, but he
realized at the same moment that
nothing so beautiful had ever hap-
pened his way before. His composure
was sufficient, barely, to keep him to
Own.
the enchanting task and he solemnly
dried the dainty fingers one at a time
without so much as a glance at the
owner of them.
Now, although the heart of Miss
Cynthia was a tender organ and
though she fully realized the suffer-
ings of the victim of such embarrass-
ment, she smiled a very lovely, very
wickedly mirthful and comprehending
smile straight into his eyes and hand-
ed him the other hand. But if her lit-
tle laugh had been intended to terrify
further, it failed of its purpose, for
Mr. Kent rallied to himself gloriously,
folded number two in both his own
hands with unmistakable warmth and
smiled down into Miss Cynthia’s lift-
ed, blue-star eyes with a sweetness
that was—generous.
“Lands alive, Mr. Alan, I see Char-
ity a-golng into the barn and sure as
shooting she’ll eat up some of the
decorations! Ask her to jilease stay
in the meadow until the party’s over,
thoqgh of course she thinks she Is In-
vited, being so one of the family like,”
Miss Selina Lue called from the lean-
to where she was employed In the
robing of the Flarlty brothers. “Miss
Cynthie, honey, please shake up the
cushions and put Blossom and Clem-
mie In their boxes. They have done
dozed off on the floor here and I am In
a hurry to put up the twins, who’ll
drop off dead-like If I don’t get ’em
down in a few minutes.”
The boxing up of the babies occu-
pied the next few minutes and as at
last Miss Selina Lue looked down at
them safely and snugly asleep she
said to Miss Cynthia softly:
“Ain’t they sweet? They’s a heap
a-going to happen to ’em as they go 1
Tong, but ain’t It a good thing to
think how there’s a guiding hand, j
child, a guiding hand? I can’t bear
to give Pattie up, but I know Miss j
Tyne’ll let me have her most all of
every day. She Is one of the sorter
mothers that kinder fergits at times
that children need more worrying
over than puppies and kittens. She
carries her burdens light and rolls
’em off on any shoulder handy. Some
women think they have did sech a
big thing in horning children that It’s
only right for the rest of the world
to do the looking after them; but the
rest of the world ain’t always got the
mother heart she expects of them.
Sometimes the babies git a cold wel-
come lots of places.”
“If all the world were like you—”
began Miss Cynthia, but Miss Selina
Lue answered with a laugh:
“Why, chlckie-biddle, what would
| we do without the you» and the Mr.
1 Alans.* and the Mr. Dobbsee, ao par
! tlont with his futility 'cept fer the
cuss lug. and the sweet Miss Evelyna
ttiul even the oltl Mr i-eokses and -
But lauds ttHve. w« must be turoln’g
around, Instead of staudlng here con-
gratulating the laird on his work, ami
sit to our own. Don't everything look
nice? Everybody's been stirring since
daybreak. I believe In getting done
in plenty of time fer to my mind
company Is more comfortable when
the> don't Hrvd so much sign of fuss.”
“Everything Is lovely. Is there any-
thing 1 could do now? You seem
about reetlj is is tbe burn all dec-
orated?” and Miss (Vuthla cast long-
ing glances toward the wide door and
cool interior. Miss Selina Lue would
have been glad to send her on an er-
rand In that dtr< ction If she had
thought of It at all.
"Yes, Indeed," she answered, obliv-
ious of tile gentle Hint, "finished along
uhout ten o'clock. It s jest a green-
house of vines and truck from across
the river. Hut I want you to help me
decide where the folks must set und
some other things. I thought l would
let the children all go down to the
car to meet her in two lines and slug
one of them new hymns they learned
at the gospel tent as she comes tip
the hill. 1 ad vised her special to come
on the car. 'count of that rocky bill
they can't nothing on wheels git any
good outer climbing."
“What time do you expect her?”
“Four o'clock, sharp. 1 asked Mr.
Alan lo take the In-car and meet her
at the switch to 'scort her up. I
thought it would give her a nice feel-
ing. being as site is his old friend.”
Miss Cynthia’s color deepened a
trifle, I114 she said In a light, sus-
piciously light, tone: "And whom nre
you going to send for me. Miss Selina
Lue?"
“Well, now, that’s right; I oughter
send for you too, though you are sich
home folks. How would Mr. Si Brad-
ford do? You know he's a-running fer
sheriff and he’s a-golng to make her a
speech of welcome at the grocery
door. I don’t want her to think we're
trying to put on too much style, but I
felt like this entertainment was a
kinder send-off fer Mr. Alan and we
all don’t want to spare no paint in
showing how much we think of him.
Do you think she will understand how
we feel about it?”
“I am sure she will—appreciate your
feelings in the matter,” answered Miss
Cynthia with a twinkle in her eye.
"I thought Bhe would. And how do
you think it will do to ask Mis’ SI
Bradford to set next to her at the re-
freshments? You know Mis’ Si is
kinder proud on ’count of having a
blue teapot handed down from her
pa’s mother, though it’s cracked, and
a chair she used to set in, only one
leg’s gone. I know she’s sorter slow
and heavy-like, but she thinks a heap
of herself and I feel it’s kind ter let
everybody set their own price, so I
humors her; though I can't seem to
sense how a cracked teapot and a
tliree-legged chair prove anything on
your pa’s mother or you. I know Mr.
Si will admire to come fer you, and
I will send him fer you prompt.”
“Oh, no, I think as it is so early I
will just run down by myself and then
—perhaps Mr.—Mr.—Si will take me
home if It’s late.”
“Oh, yes, him or Mr. Alan! Well,
good-by till I see you. It is most time
fer us all to dress. Tell everybody
you see as you go Tong, please; I
don’t want nobody to miss nothing.”
And again, for the second time that
day. Miss Cynthia threw herself with
abandon into the processes of the
toilet and again the result was—de-
lightful.
“Why, honey-bunch, I am afraid the
folks will all want to eat you In-
stead of the refreshments—you look
so good—don’t she, Mr. Alan?” was
Miss Selina Lue’s greeting to her from
the grocery door. Mr. Kent stood be-
side her and was the personification
of fresh, cool, elegant, afternoon-tea
correctness. Miss Selina Lue judged
rightly that the expression dawning
in Miss Cynthia’s eyes was that of ad-
miration, for befbre she had received
an answer to her question to Mr. Kent
about the vision of loveliness at the
foot of the steps, she broke out afresh
with her delighted exclamations:
“Now, ain’t he jest too fine, Miss
Cynthie? Them white flannels is
plumb beautiful before they shrinks,
and after that they makes good rags
to rub with In cases of rheumatiz and
sich. I feel jest as proud of him!”
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
! COMFORTABLE BUILDING TO
ACCOMMODATE HUNDRED HENS
More Important FVatuijefi of Poultry House 11 lust rated Are
Movable Roosts, Automatic Ventliptor'i ami
* Drop Curtain Nests.
Key—
AA—Prop curtains.
l’.M—Silting hens
('(' Adjustable door.
DD—Adjustable ventilator.
The accompanying plans Illustrate
n comfortable and convenient poultry
bouse to accommodate about one hun-
dred fowls. The more Important fea-
tures are the movable roosts, which
lire more sanitary and more easily
cleaned than the old style roosts with
dropping boards, the automatic ven-
tilators. feeding and watering rack,
and more especially the drop curtain
nesting system, by which nest ca-
pacity is doubled when setting time
comes. The slides or curtains AA are
set hack in grooves at BB, the fret-
ting hen is thus shut off from the re-
mainder of the flock, but still has an
opportunity of feeding and exercising
us her nest opens out into the alley-
ill-: Movable ru«>ts,
K Dust hath
(i—(Srlt box.
1111 Feed and water.
Ill Bins.
way. A nest is still left for the laying
hens, as indicated on section plan.
The alley affords room for incubators
und brooders, where the feed bins are
conveniently located near the water
trouts, writes Benton’ Steele in the
Farmers’ Mall and Breeze. Scratch-
ing room is provided with dust bath
and grit or feed troi^th as indicated.
The house should face to the south
and have an abundance of light and
ventilation. All is arranged so that
no obstructions are in the way of (
speedy cleaning and complicated cor- 1
ners lor trash are dispensed with. All j
partitions should be of wire, the floor ;
of cement, and the walls lathed and |
plastered.
SETTING STRAWBERRY PLANTS
Many people fail to get strawberry
plants to grow after being set, says
the American Agriculturist. Probably
the chief reasons are shown at the
right and the left in this drawing. The
plant at the right is set too deeply,
that at the left too high or shallow.
The correct method is shown in the
center. The crown of the plant should
be level with the surface of the ground.
ECONOMY IN
FENCE POSTS
Careful Selection of Wood and
Preservative Treatment Saves
Time and Money — Aver*
ase Cost and Life.
Warming the Eggs.
There was once an old lady in
Scotland who kept a few hens. As
she lived close to the house In which
a church minister lived, he aBked her
to send him two new-laid eggs every
morning, and he would pay her for
them.
So the old lady sent her girl to the
minister’s house every morning with
two eggs, and the minister's servant
always thought the eggs were newly
laid because they felt quite warm, as
If they had just been taken from the
hen’s nest.
But one day the eggs were cold, so
the servant asked: “Are the eggs
fresh today, Janey? They do not
seem warm.”
The simple girl looked at the maid
and then said: “Ou, ay, they’re quits
fresh, only my mother could not get
the cat to sit on them this morning,
as It ran away.”
The Wall of True Art.
All who have seen the newly erect-
ed statue to Sir Henry Irving, by Mr.
Brock, R. A., have spoken of it In the
highest praise. The pose Is splendid
and the facial expression Is lifelike,
and yet from the tailor’s point of
view there are one or two points that
call for thought. Is there one law
for the artist and sculptor and another
for the tailor?—Tailor • '"utter.
(By JOHN G. SCHAEFER.)
It has been estimated by the U. S.
department of agriculture that the
farmers of the single state of Iowa
use every year $1,400,000 worth of new
fence posts, which cost the equivalent-
of $600,000 for setting them in the
ground. Without doubt a part of this
expenditure might be saved.
The opportunity for economy is
found, first, in using the kinds of posts
which, taking into account both cost
and durability, are cheapest in the
long run, and, secondly, by treating
the posts to prevent decay. When a
farmer sets a post which will have a
comparatively short life, he loses not
only through having to buy a new post,
but also because of the additional la-
bor involved in setting It. It is true
that in both cases no money outlay
may be Involved, for he may set the
posts himself, after getting them from
his own wood lot. Of the posts used
last year in Iowa, 70 per cent., it is es-
timated. were grown on the farms
where they were used, or were ob-
tained from other farmers or wood lot
owners, and only 30 per cent, were
bought from lumber dealers. Never-
theless, the farmer is out his labor
and the part of the product of his
wood lot which Is used up, even though
he does not pay out any cash.
The average life of a fence post is
stated to be fourteen years, and the
average cost 13.7 cents. There is, how-
ever, greater difference In the lasting
properties of different woods. Osage
orange lasts more than five times as
long as willow, and for length of ser-
vice it heads the list of post timbers
in the state. The comparativ3 life
of other posts is shown in the follow-
ing list, ranging from the longest
period’ to the shortest: Red cedar, lo-
cust, white oak, northern white cedar
(or arborvitae) catalpa, black walnut,
butternut, red oak and willow.
The average cost of posts varies
for different woods, and for the same
woods In different localities. Red cedar
Is most expensive, at an average of
2flvt cents each, and willow the cheap-
est. at six cents.
Taking into consideration the time a
post will last, and the cost of buying
it and setting it. in the ground, the
conclusion must be drawn that the
usage orange post is the most econom-
ical in Iowa, followed by white oak, I
locust, catalpa, red cedar, black wal- i
nut, butternut, willow', white cedar and
«’ed oak, in the order named.
Comparatively few posts of some o( 1
these woods are used. Catalpa and :
butternut together do not constitute
one per cent., while white oak exceeds
forty per cetst. From white oak, the
highest, the numbers used range down
in the following order: White cedar,
osage, orange, red cedar, willow, black
walnut, locust, butternut, and catalpa.
A few posts are cut from other woods.
Preservative treatment increases the
life of all wooden posts and more than
doubles the period of usefulness of
those which are mostly sapwood. The
$2,000,000 spent yearly by Iowa farmers
in buying and setting fence posts
might be materially lessened by put- I
ting into practice the ’well-known meth- ]
ods of wood preservation. It costs
much less to treat a post than to buy
a new one and set It in the ground,
and in addition much wood could be
saved for other purposes. The depart-
ment of agriculture has made a special
study of practical methods of preserv-
ing farm timbers, so that it Is able to
inform interested inquirers how to do
this for themselves.
Introduction of New Plants.
But few farmers have any idea of :
the great work our government is do-
ing in the way of introducing new
plants and fruits from the old world
into the United States. During the
last fiscal year more than 2,000 seeds j
and plants were brought in. The de- j
**I wish to
say that I
have used
Sloan’s Lini-
m e n t on a
lame leg that
has given me much trouble for six
months. It was so bad that I
couldn’t walk sometimes for a
week. I tried doctors’ medicine
and had a rubber bandage for my
leg, and bought everything that I
heard of, but they all did me no
good, until at last I was persuaded
to try Sloan’s Liniment. The first
application helped it, and in two
weeks my leg was well.”—A. L.
Hunter, of Hunter, Ala.
Good for Athletes.
Mr. K. Gilman, instructor ot
athletics, 417 Warren St., Rox-
bury, Mass., says :—“I have used
SLOANS
LINIMENT
with great success tn cases of ex-
treme fatigue after physical exer-
tion, when an ordinary rub-down
would not make any impression.”
Sloan’s Liniment
has no equal as a
remedy for Rheu-
matism, Neural-
gia or any pain or
stiffness in the
muscles or joints.
Prices, 25o., 50o. & * 1.00
Sloan’s book on
homes, cattle, sheep
mill poultry wut
free. Address
Dr. Earl S. Sloan,
Boston, Mass., TI. S. A.
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Wichita Directory^
TYPEWRITERS
riartment of agriculture has explorers I 85 to 80% discount. Many equal to new. Guar-
constantly on the lookout for all kinds EXCHANGE, 108 S. Lawrence, Deo t W. Wichita. Kan.
of plants and fruits that seem capable
of good yields in our own country.
They are picked up especially in Man-
churia. Korea and China. There are
specimens from wild apricot trees
ten feet in diameter. There are wild
grapes and wonderful persimmons
and bush cherries and other curious
and valuable specimens that most of
us never dreamed of.
REMOVEYOUR CORNS
with Means Bros, guaranteed Corn
Remover. Mailed anywhere for 15c.
Means Brothers, Wichita, Kans.
Water for Stock.
Water Is cheap, but It is a neces
sity for sustaining the life of tht
stock.
Laying hens need plenty of pure
water, for an egg is about DO part,
water.
ECLIPSE CEMENT
BLOCK MACHINE
The Western Iron l Fdry. Co.
Manufacturers, Wichita. Kansas
Steel and Iron Ma-
terial for Building!
Pre ponderous of Evidence.
“Sorry.” said the constable, “but HI
have to nrrest ye -you been drlvln*
along at the rate of 50 miles an hour.*
"You nr« wrong, my friend,” said
the driver "1 wasn’t, and here’s *
ten dollar bill that says I wasn’t."
"All right.” returned the constable,
pocketing the money. “With 11 to on#
against me I ain’t goln* to subject the
county to th’ expense of a trial.”-—
Harper’s Weekly.
A TRAIN LOAD OF TOBACCO.
Twenty-four Carloads Purchased tor
Lewis’ Single Binder Cigar
Factory.
VYhat Is probably the biggest lot ot
all fancy grade tobacco held by any
factory In the United States has just
been purchased by Frank P. Lewis, of
I’eoriu, for the manufacture of Lewis'
Single Binder Cigars. The lot will
make twenty-four carloads, and Is so-
iected from what is considered by ex-
perts to be the finest c^op raised In
many years. The purchase of tobacco
is sufficient to last the factory mors
than two yenrH. An extra price was
paid for the selection. Smokers of
Lewis’ Single Minder Cigar* will appre-
ciate this tobacco.
—Peoria ‘Star, January 16, 1909.
it is no use running; to set out ho-
tlines is the main point.—La Fontaine.
To Get
Its Beneficial Effect*
Always Buy the Genuine
SYRirflGS
anc)
EuXIR°$fNNA
manufactured byihe
Qmmfie Syrup (jj.
Sold Iyy all leading
Druggists
OneSSze Only. 5(H n Bottle
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