The Earlsboro Messenger. (Earlsboro, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 10, 1912 Page: 3 of 4
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Woman’s Section of the Paper
Serviceable Linen Costume
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GIVING CLOTHES A REST.
Good Rules to Follow From the Stand-
points of Looks and Economy.
Clothes need rest ns well ns people. :
When I couie home from my work
dully I tnke off my business suit, brush
nnd cleanse It. nnd hang It nwny cure-
fully on Its proper hnnger. My street'
shoes next receive nttention. After- j
ward 1 put on n comfortnhle house !
| gown nnd slippers. Both my clothes
nnd 1 profit by the rest nnd change.
On my weekly holidays l mend nnd
press my clothes and do the necessary ^
refurbishing.
1 nlwn.vs follow three cast iron rules
concerning clothes:
Never throw nwny anything that can
he made over.
Never lounge in good clothes.
Plan the entire outfit carefully be- ;
fore buying any part of It.
By buying late In the season I often
get serviceable bargains.—Harper's Ba
zar.
when a cat turns over. ! jjie 'j Illustrated Story
Billy’s Reformation
Anefit the Saying That the Feline Al-
ways Alights on Its Feet.
It Is a common saying that If a eat
is dropped iu any way whatever It
will always alight on its feet Since
a man cannot lift himself by his boot-
straps or n boat cannot propel Itself
through the water except by pressing
against the water In some way, one
iiw.v well wonder whether this Is not
one of the common sayings which arc
fallacious. The general principles In-
volved are of such Interest that the
question was taken up a few years
ago for consideration at a session of
By HOWARD L. WORTH
0
'NEIL stepped to the door of the
saloon, holding his glass so he
could see the colors of the sun-
light through the liquor. The
street was comparatively deserted, for
when cowboys were In town it was
customary for the Inhabitants to be-
think themselves of needed duties lu-
ll French scientific society. Forest Hay , doors. The color of the liquor proving
The girl In the steamer chair wears a smart gown of heavy linen adorned
with embroidery in the new punched work. It has one of the smart double
skirts, the lower one being plaited. Crochet ball buttons adorn the bodice.
With tli • suit is worn one of the new wide flat shapes which are so popular
In Paris.
OUR LOVED ONES.
What sweet privileges we ex-
tend to those who love us!
We permit them to toll for us,
think for us, smile for us, live
for us and die for us.
So often the only reward they
get Is a weak, surly, sullen face
that one would be ashamed to
show to the world.—Chicago
Tribune.
Moulton of the University of Chicago
In popular Mechanics says:
“It is a fact that It Is dynamically
possible for n cat to turn over no mnt-
ter how dropped, and experiments have
shown that they actnnlly do it. If a
balloonist or air mail should fall from
a great height and should find that lie
were descending so ns to strike on Ills
head he could turn himself over so as
to strike upon Ids feet If he knew 1lie
proper menus of accomplishing It. But
the distance he would have to fall In
order to have time to turn over would
he so great that lie could have only an
academic Interest In striking on his
1 feet rather than on his head, for the
■t | final result to him would he the same
In either case.'* Professor Moulton
shows how the principle may. he ap-
plied In theory to the earth in order
to work changes In climate.
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MINDS OF CHILDREN.
Should Be Molded When They Are In
the Plastic State.
To many thoughtful minds the most
vital problem in the world today is
the moral education of the child. Pro-
fessor Newton N. Riddell and many
others have employed mental sugges-
tion with remarkable success in char-
acter building. A brief outline of the
method may prove helpful.
First win the child's love nnd confi-
dence. Explain to it that you wish to
help it develop n beautiful character.
Every morning have it repeat nfter
yon these or similar words: “This
day, God helping me, I will be kind,
good, pure and true. I will do all 1
can to make others happy. I can nnd
will do right.”
If It has any fault to overcome,
earnestly and impressively repeat to It
affirmations adapted to Its need and
have It also repent them severaJ times
each day and at bedtime every night,
but always when It is iu a passive, re-
ceptive ' mood For Instance: "Deep
down in your little heart you are kind
nnd loving. You always do unto oth-
ers ns you would have them do unto
you.” Embrace every opportunity to
praise it for the opposite virtue.
If you put your whole soul into those
affirmations, believe them yourself and
repeat them a sufficient number of
times to make a deep, abiding impres-
sion on the child's mind and heart,
experience proves that they will al-
: . ... . ; . ; J.
11 ON YOUR BAKING DAY.
Scrub Your Potatoe*.
Tnstead of segnping the potatoes with
n knife try using an old worn down
scrub brush. These brushes exist in
most households. Scrub each potato
with it, and in half the time that it
takes to get he skin off with the knife
How to Tell a Woman's Age.
A Parisian gourmet believes he has
found an infallible method for getting
at n woman's age. Watch her at din-
ner.
If she goes through every course,
chatting all the time, and is equal to
an Ice after dessert, not to mention
chocolate nnd crystallized fruits, she is
still iu
hands. The potatoes should be kept
as wet as possible while scrubbing
them.
| it will tnke to get It off with the
. , , i brush, and there will lie no staining of
Cocoanut Pudding.—Mix half a pound
of granulated sugar with a pound of
grated cocoanut Heat a pint of cream
and a pint of rich milk to the boiling
point. Add a little salt and stir the
cocoanut 'and sugar into them. Re-
move from the stove and then heat
through it the whipped whites of eight
eggs. Flavor with orange. Bake in
custard cups for three-quarters of an
hour: or, if prepared, use one big dish
instead of the cups. Serve the pud-
ding cold, with or without cream.
Prune Pie.—To the whites of three
eggs whipped to a stiff froth add a
cupful of cooked prunes stoned and run
| through a meat grinder: three table-
spoonfuls of sugar, one tiiblespoonful
of vanilla extract. Bent well and long
and bake in a lower pie crust. This is
enough for one “fat” pie.
Recipe For Crullers.—Cream a fourth
of a cupful of butter, adding gradually
a cupful of sugar, the yolks'of two'
eggs well beaten aud the whites of the
eggs beaten stiff. Mix four cups of
flour, a fourth of a teaspoonful of grat- !
ed nutmeg and three and n half tea-
spoonfuls of baking powder. Add al- !
ternately with a cup of milk to the
first mixture, toss on floured board. ;
roll thin and cut in pieces three inches
long by two inches wide. Make four j
one inch parallel gushes crosswise at I
equal intervals. Take up by running I
linger in and out of gashes ami lower J
To Mend Granite Ware.
Break Into small bits the old rubber
rings of fruit jars and heat them over
the fire until they bubble. Then spread
the melted rubber over the leaks in
the seams of the vessels. Galvanized
washtubs can be mended iu the same
way.
A Baking Day Hint.
An apple or orange placed in a box
of fresh cookies will keep them from
drying out nnd impart a delicious
fruity flavor. A cut apple in the cake-
j box will keep cake fresh for a long
time.
her teens, if she makes a good
start with the hors d'oeuvres. does well
witli the caviars, salmon and such deli-
cacies, but shows no interest in the
| rest of the meal she is between twenty
and thirty nnd married. When she de-
clines every other kind of game, but
takes some pheasant, she has passed
thirty, but lias not yet readied thirty-
five. After thirty-five she dotes on
every kind of game, the more highly
flavored the better. If at the end of
the dinner she takes cheese, showing
special partiality for the odorous Ca-
membert, then, snys the Parisian ob-
server, there enn he no mnnner of
doubt about It. She is n woman of un-
certain age.—Toronto Globe. .
satisfactory, O'Neil's hand dropped
from Its significant position on his hip.
“Hike hero, yon tellers!" lie yelled
suddenly. ''Yonder's Billy l'atterpnt
turning the corner, l.et's cover the
street and make him dance.”
“Hull!” drawled another cowboy
who was leaning against the counter,
emptying glasses nnd flinging them at
whoever he thought might not lie able
to dodge and holding ills revolver in
readiness to meet possible objection
to his playfulness. “Pnttorpnt won't
dance. He's Joined the little party of
Mennonltes up country and gone plnin.
Ain't you heard? Billy ain't frivolous
auy more.”
“We're goln* to give him a drink
first,” significantly.
The figure at the counter straight-
ened. “Why, of course, of course," he
conceded, "a good drink will bo oil for
Pat: ‘rpat's feet. 1 did used to know
Billy. The only troublo with him was
that all his brains nnd fun and every-
thing wns jest in his feet.”
As they filed out a newcomer from
Texas looked discontentedly at O’Neil.
“Any special inducement 'bout that
Patterpat's feet?" lie inquired. "I've
been pretty comfortnhle sitting on the
counter. We have dancing down to
TexaB."
was in their midst, struggling nnd pro-
testing, his eyes lilg with terror.
“Don't you give It to me. gentlemen.”
he pleaded. “I’m plain now, nnd It
wouldn't be right Ain't danced in sir
months and ain't tasted a drop.”
"Look at that, Billy," said O'Neil,
holding up a bottle between Billy's
eyes nnd the sun. “Don't that look
good? .Tnst see how It smiles! It's the
very best In town, nnd we've got more
bottles In waiting. There's ten
glasses for you, Billy—Just for you.
Cultivate the Memory.
The woman who forgets names nnd
faces lacks social grace. The gift of
remembering people often makes the
difference between success aud failure
in making friends.
The Grave of Key.
In Olivet cemetery, in the old his-
toric city of Frederick, Md., Is the
grave of Francis Scott Key. Over it
I stands a marble column supporting a
statue of Key, his poet face illumined
| by the art of the sculptor, his arms
j outstretched, his left hand bearing a
i scroll inscribed with the lines of "The
| Star Spangled Banner," while on the
{ pedestal sits Liberty, holding the flag
‘ for which those immortal
I written.—Lippincott’s.
"Better go back there,” curtly, “or
go sit on the counter if you like. As
to Inducement, there ain't only one
dancer, and that's Patterpat I’ve been
to Frisco and to Kansas City nnd to
Chicago, nnd I’ve seen dancin’—least-
ways what they called dancin'—but
1 ve never seen but one Patterpat, only
he has to be Umbered up with great
Jugs of whisky first. Then his legs are
all wheels and parabolas and ricoshnys
and scintillates. Now, you stand right
here, and I’ll canter out to the middle
of the street. That’s him coinin’ yon-
der and begtnnin’ to dodge already.
That's the way he used to do, nnd we
had to round him like we would a wild
mustang nnd then till him up.”
Billy Patterpat wns a block and a
half away, coming on slowly nnd look-
ing from side to side for some avenue
of escape. The gradual spreading of
the cowboys across the street brought
up memories of past experiences, nnd
ills eyes had begun to grow troubled
and full of apprehension. At length he
stopped nnd looked back, but it was too
late now Several of the cowboys were
near their mustangs, nnd us he turned
lines were | they swung into their saddles and dash-
ed up the street. In a few moments he
The Children's Department
most invariably become controlling ] into fat-
factors in its character, says Flunk M. Raisin Cake.—Beat togolhor a cupful
Craig in the New York American. I of lmtter with two of sugar, add a eup-
Teach the child the laws of personal ful of molasses, three well beaten eggs.
Above nil, exemplify in your : n cupful of buttermilk, a cupful of
purity.
life what you would have the child be-
come.
When Hie little mind is forming be-
neath the mother's heart then is her
golden opportunity to mold it as she
will.
stoned raisins, five cupfuls of flour, one
aud a half teaspnonfuls of soda, two
teaspoonfuls of cinnamon, two tea- j
spoonfuls of cloves nnd a grated nut- ]
meg. Stir well together nnd Imke two
to three hours.
Ain’t Goin’ to Be No Core
GAME OF HUNTSMEN.
Hera Is a Splendid Pastime For a Nut-
ting Expedition.
As you mny guess by the name, this
game is to lie played out of doors, it
is splendid to play on a nutting trip,
but it could also be played in the city,
where there are so many good places
to hide. The eight or ten players are
divided Into two sides, each with a
leader. One side pretends to be squir-
rels and Its leader the guardian. The
other players are hunters, with one
player as guide. While the hunters
are all wnlking to a certain place de-
cided upon at the beginning of the
game, the squirrel guardian hides all
of the squirrel players in one [dace,
lie agrees with them to mention some
particular nut, such as chestnut or
beechnut, ns a signal to them that the
hunters are approaching very close,
lie agrees to call other nut names, but
they will be said only to deceive the
hunters, who think that each nut name
might he the one to warn the squirrels.
When the hunters return from the
"walk” they start to hunt the squir-
rels. They must all keep in u straight j
line, for those who do not are taken
out of tile game by the squirrel guard
inn. When the hunters are very nenr
the squirrels (he guardian gives the
signal to prepare the squirrels to run.
Neither side may start back to base, ;
though, until the guard calls, “Bush i
I tails—run, run. run!” Then all run to
| a certain base. The first player rench-
lug there becomes guide for the hunt-
ers, so chooses his side for the new
game. The second player reaching
base becomes guardian for the squir-
rels. so he chooses his side. During the
hunt the hunters must search for the
squirrels where their guide directs.
Built
One Only
Photo by American Press Association.
GAME OF BADMINTON.
—St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Sandman.
Have you heard tell of the wonderful man
Who looks so tired and his cheeks so
wan ?
He comes stealthily round at close of day
To scatter sleep, so the good folks say.
Sh! It's the sandman!
He's weighted down with a rusty brown
sack
That's full of sand and ts tied to his back,
And he puts his hand In ever so deep.
Then gives the children the gift of sleep.
Sh! It’s the sandman!
When golden heada nod and sleepy eyes
close
And little people beginning to doze
And then journey off to the faraway land
Some one's around with his bag of sand.
Sh! It's the sandman!
—Churchman.
Shuttlecocks Used Instead of Balia, but
Rules of Tennis Are Followed.
Tills play is a mixture of tennis and
I battledore and may be played in a
| court or ball, out of doors or in or on
I a tennis court, it is played with a
| tennis net or one even smaller than
i that which does not quite reach the
ground. Shuttlecocks are used instead
of balls.
Tlie rules of tennis are followed,
with slight changes owing to the char-
acter of the shuttlecock, which does
not bounce like the tennis hall. All
the hits must he made on the fly. The
player must not touch the net either
with racket or clothing, nor must lie
touch tlie shuttlecock with ills hands
after tlie first service. The points are
counted just as in tennis.
Nature Lessons For Children.
Hold your head high, like a giraffe.
Don't’chatter too much, make faces
or he disagreeable, like the monkeys,
but when you see a good chance of get-
ting a good thing before some one else
be as quick and clever as they are to
grasp the opportunity in a quiet man-
uer.
Be ns industrious as the ant, but
don’t go about blind for all that.
Stick to anything worth having like
a bulldog and never let go until you
have got what you want.
Don’t crow too much like the bantam
rooster, but have some of his self pos-
session and self confidence. It goes a j
long way even in a barnyard.
Don't be mean nnd crafty, like the j
fox. but be shrewd, alert, quick witted !
and quick footed ns he is, never miss-
ing a good opportunity to lie of some
benefit to yourself.—New York Suu.
A Problem.
At the end of the marvelous rainbow,
Where the elves live—so I've been told—
Fairies have hidden securely away
A wonderful pot of gold.
There’s one thing that worries me con-
stantly.
Although I'm not very old—
It ts ttiat my lesson books cannot tell
How big is the pot of gold.
Now, what Is the good of arlthmetlo
Or of history hoar and old
If they can't tell when any one asks,
“How big is the pot of gold?”
— Selected.
“What we say goes, Billy, and you must
drink tha whole thing.”
Think how it'll feel running down your
throat nnd remember how it smells!”
He reached out the bottle suddenly, •
and Billy's hands—both of them—went
hungrily toward it. His eyes were
shining, his Ups trembling.
"Don't, O’Neil!” ho implored. “Don’t,
don’t, don't!’’ his voice rising quaver-
iugly. “Y'oii know how 'tls with me.”
‘‘It'll do you good," inflexibly. “You
are getting thin from going without it
so long, and it’s better to enjoy the
stuff trickling down your throat slow
than to have it poured down in bot-
tles full. You know what we say
goes, Billy, and you must drink the
whole tiling.”
Billy dropped upon his knees.
"Don't,” he repeated dully. “I don’t
want to. If I smell I can't stop then.
Y’ou and me's been good friends,
O’Neil, nnd I’ve danced and—and
drunk a lot for you. Let me off this
time. And—and, if you don't mind, I'd
like to say why.”
“Oh, let the poor devil make his con-
fession, O'Nell,” Interposed one of the
cowboys good naturedly. “You know
j how ’tis with Patterpat If he smells,
i as he says, he won't stop easy. It'll be
I two months before he sobers up. Let
him start in right”
BiUy shot him a grateful look.
“It's like this,” he said, with a pa-
thetic eagerness in his voice. “Six
months ago I happened to be np in
the country, and I saved a girl's life.
She was caught by a bear, aud—and I
1 suppose I acted some brave. Anyhow,
; she and her folks thought so and took
i me In. Since then I've been up there,
and I ain’t tasted a drop, and I've been
feelln’ that mebbe I could make some-
thing of myself some time, like I used
to think a—a long while ago.” There
was a little catch in his voice; then he
j went on in lower tones: "Me and the
girl was to be married. I came down
j today for a ring and license. They
believe in me up there, and I’ve Joined
j in with them, and"—his eyes suddenly
becoming steady nnd aggressive at a
I giggle from one of the cowboys—'*lf
| 'twan’t for the whisky I believe I could
be a good man again—a better one than
you could ever be, Danny. But, of
course"—his voice again dropping and
his hand reaching mechanically toward
| the bottle—“this will finish it all. Up
there they don’t have anything strong
to drink, and—and they never suspect-
ed I was .hat way. When they find
tills out it’ll he over with us. I’ll run
through myself soon’s I can, and—and
the glri and they’ll feel sorry, but you'll
have your dance carnival. So we won't
all lose. Now you can give me the bot-
tle, O’Neil.”
But O'Neil wns holding the bottle
up between his own eyes and the sun.
“Seems a pity to spill such good 6tuff,”
ho said regretfully, “but it's got to be.”
Then in a louder voice: “Here, you fel-
lers, see that stone over t’other side
the street? Well, every one who’s got
a bottle shy at that, and the one who
breaks Into the most pieces will go
with Billy to see about the ring and
license. Then we’ll all club in for a
present and”—
Billy's head went up suddenly. His
eyes were moist
"No, no," he protested: “I don't want
no present, gentlemen. I've been work-
ing hard up there and have got some
ahead. I’m ull right long's I can keep
away from that stuff."
“Shut tip, Billy!” O'Nell retorted un-
graciously. “ ’Tnin't you; It’s a present
for tlie bride. And I reckon we’d bet-
ter make It two of our best ponies.
They’ll be handy’s anything up among
them Mennoulte farmers. Now, fel-
lers, one, two, three, nnd crash!” And
with tlie last word n half dozen or
more bottles delivered from ns many
unerring hands crushed against the
stoue.
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