Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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w f . 2 HELP THE WOME nil Tiir Ninto whose keeping is trusted the future of drudge on and on. as w riniao lianrl anil lipr rViililron THE LANCA so largely en- ing friends, her sor the state, to bear her burdeu. e ask her lius- The demand of he to do in pv<>r eial eniovment must STER NEWS JULY 9, 19 row, and alone he replied, "becaui I It seems to me lu I r nature for so- uncovered a very I hp hp. in thu nrnhlom Af 15. Be of my family." operative rural this reply we have together" coiuw important element nq pian for rural 11 f a o.wl . spirit, and the "get- lacking a per unity Idea. , with the prop the betterment of revolve, ha nuinent center, inspired ier spirit, around which ve proven ineffective to UN I tit Congressman Lever's at Winthrop NEEDS OF RLR.^ rAKIVIi increasing and sharpt tion with an inferioi needs and wants are f } Address Here, to my mind, is shadowing problem of sistent, glaring, appal pealiug. It 's possibh lL life. these women that com venience. that satisfyi ning coiupeti- fore a full contentnn r race whose the rural women, ar below hers, early morning until h the one over- j is too tired for th the state?In- music, art or literat lling, and ap- ' for self-intellectual ? to bring to Women's clubs, wellfort. that con- and small towns an ng social con- nishing opportunity ?nt can come to need of rural worn Working from rlous fact recogniz* ite at night, she ' by all thinkers, thi e enjoyment of j of this state is fa ure too weary preparing rural hi improvement. 1 the responslbilitiei known in cities rural life, d villages, fur-' Education, if it tor social inter tical purpose, must .u.?> .wo ?.?o rural conditions, lan. It is a noto- to meet the ne? id everywhere and nian, can sueee it the rural school not provide for lling far short in er. Agricultura ays and girls for times has been 9. and duties of cause of the seei devising any pla is to serve a prac- community can t supply the tools, nently and eftiei , no scheme intended J meet the Q0 :ds of the rural wo- ' ed fully which does uiuntty. The the community lead-1 rural life is tfc 1 progress during all ; er who shall t greatly retarded be- community, I ming impossibility of 1 n by which the rural j rectlons and be organized perma- ; tails of its ac ently along business eds of the rural corai present great need of te compett nt rural leadIream the dreams of the nsplre It in correct dlbave charge of the detivUtcs and aspirations. Modern Conviiiieiiccs, j Social Life and lie Financial Strength ! Congressman A. F. Le tome good work awaken among the farmers of t those things which they about their places which life easier and sweeter :? Satisfying that financial asonable are entitled? VcotN. 1 here ar.? forty-f ver is doing hite male land-ownii ing interest "le state. and while th he state iu ''lt? w'veg and dangh might have !armers *8 'ncomparab would make l'ial ?t the wives and for the wo- ",e ,(Mia?t farmer, yet smallest t?er cent of help to which 1 course aiul an excliai known luxuries to far Ive thousand tnd yet they are no ug fanners in than they are for to e condition of With the work c ters of the? ? greatly reduced throu ly better than venlences, the inaugi daughters of women's clubs, readii only the very clubs, literary clubs, c the homes nt' of everv ilescrintion uge of ideas, as tjie machinery^ wi< ui coiumunities. piexing difficulties less a necessity are t,e worked ads or cities. iuui must be made >f housekeeping school, of such 5 igh modern con- themselves to the jratlon of farm ns students. Onlj ?g clubs, sewing the boys and girls ommunity clubs have the opportun is a nossihllttv .. ?" th which the per- | like and lntellif of everyday life | Voluntary f out. Its curricu- up. if it is a rural 1 studies as relate ! probable work or j W .* two per cent of 1 4P < of this state ever j |J( lty of completing - flh mt rr?i _ I "I U/a r? . ... The itinerant ;ent lines. arm organizations, uaed in this IHHttttttM aved Girl's nt trv fall trmi wiiot tunndnrfiil V> teacher will fill a large respect. Life f r?n of it T liatfA m. T man they love, in a rei before the graduating el; throp College, a copy o have had the good fortun he emphasized some of t Beginning with the that the unit of goverui family the speaker dev necessity of a home for and the presence of a v\ ent acuiress ass of Win- ,and farmers f which we vith 8Uch modern aPP!1 e to secure.|(hinery lls are l.ese points. ^"Jence and comfort declaration ,,f ,he home11 ent is the The saiue old S-V3te' eloped the aild lroninR' the sam that family awkw"d cooking uten oman. who ^convenient and insui 3 is equipped dependent, however, a noes and ina- provement of count d for the con- places for meeting, of the woman ! tnent is rapidly prog j day is not far in the l m of washing country will be girdle e heavy and ed with reasonably f. sils. the same the meeting place is lllcient stoves, her use. ? _ , ? i-uiiese course. upon the im- eight per cent go :ry roads, and work from the r Road Improve- schools, and yet it ressing and the j curriculum of tin future when the school is of such d and intersect- much more nearly ;ood roads, and girls for entrance now ready for for entrance into , social, economic an i ue oilier ninety- i ?? directly into the ceivcd fTO! ural and graded J Mrs. Sylv. is a fact that the (P "J| gg ' ?verT rur.a' S ?ver and a character as to . prepare boys and ' dA| Saved my into college than j ^ they went life, or into the | J Black-Dra id religious activi-l* more troul > ?? *V ?VII JVU TTIIHI VTVIIUViaUl w m the use of Thedford's Blackinia Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky rtainly has no equal for la gr stomach troubles. I firmly belie\ little girl's life. When she 1 in on her, but one good do ught made them break out, and lit I shall npvur ha u/ithnuf W'livin a hut w aw? -Draught," writes 2 ippe, bad colds, J /e Black-Draught 2 tad the measles, V se of Thedford's 2 she has had no 2 would become its soul, it its inspiration and its go Outlining the tuture o to consist mainly of workers and farmers th man stated that the tut state "is largely wrappei Juture of its rural wome Congressman Lever's a :s ambition. th* same old heav-v' od angel. "peaking methods of s f this state sa,ne old c,uiin and 1 agricultural i;ravv busket' the sa e congress- >vi,h s,11"king lamp c ure of this same old I up in the oId 9tru8Ple with flies. .. >|tiitoes, the same wear ddress i- -v- tae bedside of loved 01 malarial anil tvnlmi.! i clumsy back- The country schoo scrubbing, the cases the country chr tvindlass and ture, must be utilized me old battle 1 ty center where the r himneys, the men and women, m :nps. the same common ground and ants and mo?-1 controlled buildings y watching at problems, and to devi i?*s, sick from quaintance and a bet nniamilni o nn in t? ,,f oonli ntlior >1, and in some {ie3 of rural coinm iroll for tlie fu- The tendency of 1 as "a comiuuni- today is to teacli ural population, awav from the it ay meet upon jnt0 the country, t in community V\ith country life r to discu>s their murage tliem into plop a closer ac- ()<* jts great possib ter understand- The currlcu [unities. , ! Qp tlie rural school I t boys and girls ^ instead of ? to dissatisfy them ; than to en- i an understanding UULa a?<l advatl-j# fa my ho? in in seems to have j B| 7 n?cc miln THEDFORD". ICK-DRA ie." For constipation, indigestion w',-% i..... K.I: UGlif i, headache, dlzzi- J follows: It is my earnest belief, years of study of rural that the unrest among c< pie so patent to all obs never cease until comto ience atul contendedness i to the. farm woman. Ru faction will continue just ? So life i \ i th?> fa rm wi?m after many slU1 fouml ia t(>? Ula": conditions. home8 ,hat vvere found ountrv peo- of the ^ast Reiteration, ervers. will mU(h of ,he stajiniition intellectual and aesthe rt. convenaverage farm woman tl are brought . , , hi the lite of her mot ral dissatis. mother, so long as :i 11 lines no! A I,lere man C8n h?r y ot' our farm 1 No life can be com in the homes bed of its social feati There is still , especially true of the in the social, j woman. Her need t< tic life of th?- ' lying social environni hat was found j comprehensive social her or grand- sistent and empliati< Many rural wo me dlv appreciate they need and what t in mina a proies plete when rob- those who eouiple ires, inid this is have in uiitul a p life of the rural individual for the >r a more satis- to i,e followed. If lent and a mere lo meet fully the horizon is in- practical age. its ei reorganized from , in know what The present syst hey should have ally inefficient but sionai career lor qp te it. it should pk ailments, ' reparation of tlie 1 ? career most likely ? the rural school i? If yOll demand of this 01 Draught irriculum must be j 0| \lpa to Omega. i dp yCWS 01 em is not eespeci- young and it is emphatically i _ iiiOf viiiuo aiiu itvti, uiuuuDiico. rhedford's Black-Draught has pi entle and valuable remedy, i suffer from any of these comp It is a medicine of known me splendid success proves its \ ! old. For sale everywhere. Pr 3, auu an annual m oved itself a safe, 2 lalnts, try Black- (ft rit Seventy-five J ralue. Good for J ice 25 cents. ^ rJ<ul 'W more nearly approximat< of what country life. t home, the country si should be. It is not fair, nor jus sonable to ask the countr be content with one whit portunity for physical, and social well being than e the ideal ;vhat plent>* of lie countrv ! lome and about lhe b< trroundings ^sseni?K *he drudgery of the life of the farm ,t. nor rea- i perts say that n'ne-tent v woman to den of the farm woma less of op- viaU>d by run:!inK wate intellectual The aVerage wom&n ? i is afforded j,alled upon each day to ; water in the in the way of home ci >use means in community organiza ami hard shin j.and intellectual irnprc woman. K\- handicapped tremend hs of the bur- tainment of their ide n can be alle- lack of means, a sea r in the home, with w hich to operat n the farm is The country womi lift, in water out ambition and vis onveniencea and insufficient. The c tion for social not lie in what it d ivement, hut are what it fails to do. ousl.v in the at- it is reasonably g als because of a woefully short in , rcity of money, The curriculum in .e. ; winnowed out to an is not with- most advanced ides lion; she is full should at the sam rttlclsm of it iloes HVHI oes so much as in - ? - ?? as far as it goes, food,, hut it falls going far enough, addition to being make it meet the CflHpl is of an education e time be supple- 9 A-rr, > I m i$k \ !to her sister in the town is too much to point the i I to the daily drudgery of of the life of her mothe usk her to make that lil of her ambition and thi her future. She will have none of i help it, and to escape it, s or city. It " country girl ?undred ?r tho< the routine | 11 is thia everlasting r an?l then I her' this con<*ant P re the ideal rePe""on of it. that e dream of! than any other thin> j farm woman to cry ot t if she can lot ,n ,ife" 11 is druc he will turn I cha cter that plows t . i ?Kiwi Iter brow, extracts the ( liiousuuu rive I <" lilt-Ill. many t isand pounds, would have in their hi burden upon cooker, modern runs spect of daily ter. lights, attracti more largely screens, music, niaga: ?, causes the and many a rural co it against her have in it such orga lfiery of this women as would bes he furrows in intellectual and soeii reshness from ! the earning capacity < uuuiry woaieu i merited with the s ames the rirelesj tural science and hi es, running wa- j There is more n ve furnishings. 1 standing of domes tines and books, sanitation and ri mmunity would than there is in an .nizations of its Greek roots and t promote their though these last il well btlng if in a complete ed jf the rural man should not be Dei studies of agricul- R ^Hfgj ome economics. I eed for an under- g stic science, farm 1 iral co-operation understanding of Latin verbs, alhave their place |'1E| ucation. but they f j |H 'initted to occunv i lb ill ^ nacK upon me irit'ima ?? hood, the sweet and tendt of the old home, to east to win her fortune peril tranners in a strange la: It seems to me who has s preeiation of the totlsom ly life of the country won it in their hearts to bla this effort at improvemei r mamoriss ller chee<*s and drive her lot and ; ness out of her 8teP* a taps among , to totter trough lif? id. No one she were 8ixt>" >,t,ars < ,nv real ap- j 11 is this '"heritanc * an 1 lone- | ,ho daughter to rebel tan can had I life and to despise it me her for ! on,y for "household lt drudge." It is here th s the nimble-1 w ere greater and if nd causes her i farm looked upon the at forty as if ly as an incident of }f age. . ness of the farm, b< e that causes and soul. There mi against farm more of the co-partm as a thing fit tween man and wife 1 slave and ' home can attain its 1 at we find the ment. the man of the; the whole picture, home not mere- should fit country I th ; larger bust-1 that training whict it as its center to deal most effe ust be built up and intelligently t ershln spirit he- the most compreht before the rural that term, lighest develop- The chief difflcu the rural school s The rural school fel >oys and girls with HQ 1 will enable them .JB ctively, efficiently villi rural life in mm ?nslve meaning of MM ilty in redirecting {[ so as to make it rjw Lgyffl ^ - ? U/ 7 There are thirty-five white male tenant farmei -age in this state, most 01 living in three and four r ?I almost sai'l home! 1 of these homes, not eve - antiquated typ >' the coo made its appear;-nc, and of white farm women the i thousand <a,,sc or so muen or the s of voting ; (ountry people and of t f whom are J t'on w'th country life, oom houses ' While water is the in the mos' j IUos{ important single n the most riira' woman from the dt st(ivo hs^ 'u*r 0?nifort and conv* thousands are many other simple mothers of sivu conveniences wit homo mav ho onninno.t unrest among | Much might be dor He (Jtssatisfac- increasing the bank i women if some plat i largest and them into co-operatl i jieed of the selling societies for tl standpoint of the home and the i enience. there garden the lot. and and inexpen- be devised. The indiv li which the od of marketing farm unoh .1U ' o.w.K ie in the way of more nearly meet \ iccount of rijral life is to be found 1 of organizing petent teachers of ive buying and domestic sciences, te necessities of comes when such jroducts of the had, we shall hav the yard could , teaching of these t iduatisti" nieth-' consolidated rural -home prod icts,' itinerant teacher p the needs of rural in a lack of com- HH agricultural atul Until the time teachers may be j^H e to rely for the jranches upon the school and the rovided under the PEjggEglJQ "Now'Serving 2.000.000 Hom f AAl/" P?An ?ri i n our children, the trustees tion and government and burniug their brains out open fireplace which sen queiitlv both as cook-fire use of the family circle. Vo one can depict ade awful tragedy of the lives these country women. SI or civuiza- ? society, are 'y'cnfl lights, improved before the 'n* boards, screens, i - es too frt- bich would go far in i and for th<> beeping u pleasure r; task. quately th?> Whoever devised i of most of j ''??ker should have a le serves as| n,arb bis or her place ih?r?nman. I fbis simple contrivance ranges, iron- j cream, poultry and ei and the like ly expensive and exti naking house- generally conceded b ither than a this method must gi co-operative plan of 1 the tireless ing for the home, monument to Wherever intelligf of rest, for in en, the co-operative i ?. so cheap, 1 keting has been foun< jcujuirs, urn*. aK^'cunurai exiens ggs. ia extreme- i called Lever bill, ravugant. It is ; Tjm act. when y students that wm provide a fun< ve place to the,tlieir part. of eight juying and sell-; tired thousand dol 1 the employment of ?ntly undertak- j or teachers in hoc method of mar agriculture. These 1 to be pre-emi- ? ?r?it ion aci, or ine soIt fully matures, NE 1. if the states do million, six hun- 1 lars annually for gj itinerant experts r ne economics and ! trained men and CI t hn onniimnlntuil juvjkjiv ruiv. in .W PERFECTION ou'll see her in the w id on the counters of har irniture and department /erywhere. LI3 ? GIRL : indovvs BB clware, HB : stores |H 4;tKJK, mum, iinnuwi, nurse, teacher and at the does a hand's part in the -work begins long befor shows itself in the east an long after the beasts of tl the fowls of the air ha their rest. She draws th all household purposes, to for the bath, for watering same time | I see the eniane field. Her r,ira' woman from the e the sun j l'le open hreplac-e d continues i 'ashioned stove, le field and 1 the problem of *e gone to ",an fan not be solved e water for : ,ne '"ere installation >r the wash. ' '10"'e of running wa ? the chick- | '!K'>ts. tireless cookers ipation of the | nently successful and galling yoke rural woman in poul and the old and fruits, produc enough, if not unprc the rural wo-ied, to supply her wi adequately bv bank account. Tiie in the farm does not improve bees ter, acetylene markets on the one and such oth- marketing facilities 01 profitable. The j knowledge of all t Itry. vegetables. ,.entra lreservoirs. each year jn jt8 intelligible t >fltably market- m;in and woman, t Hi an Imposing ^iri, under their < bank account ,)eculiar social ar uise of a lack of ouatness envlronmc hand, and of a8 near a n the other. The ^ dft so take thf. he ages from Its " and disseminate P form to the rural he rural boy and ttssj own especial and CI id economic and \ H s it Is practicable ( agricultural col- f>\ he stands for the ERFECTION OIL C TOVE ? the simplest, hcient Oil Cookstove lready it has made co isier and kitchens cleai /er 2 OftO 000 Knncpiiriirof most H made. EE oking BE tier for SB ens and pigs, from a fifty five foot well by means ? and windlass and the two gallon bucket. She knows nothing of pies of sanitation; she hi taught that the bite of tl is more deadly than that tlesnake and that the h to seventy- ('r Iiei'**s.sary ann impo of the rope ?*1CGSand a half Man is a gregarious so is woman, only just the prinei- so. If the average ru is not been t;*d in the home as um le mosquito ( t>le average farm woma of the rat- , were as empty as muse fly is I wife and daughter, if h I ? ' ? ~ I ? riant convent- waste to tne farm n woman, because of t ? animal, ami '"io*. if computed j a little more would startle the peo ral man wer*' (liven modern com sensing!)' as is home, opportunity n, if his social <10f'ial life and a reas is that of his strength, that rural e were denied stil' have need for i ? i- - ' and that kind nf edin mnie, the rural , . . . lege and normal co hese insufficien.... , These initerant te; and published. . . .. . . the genuine rural pie of the state. to work a revolui r-eniences in the , .. , . schools and in ou for a satisfying , , ? . . ties. They are tl onable financial .... , . the ideal system of woman would i , . . . . . . a system which eqi ural leadership , /* . . . boy and girl for thi at inn tvhirli r** liege to the farm. , aohers filled with ^ spirit are certain Sli Lion in our rural r rural communile forerunners of 1H at rural education? 9HB lips every country ^HE e lives they are to |^B ""UJV ?r ivv-c [ade in I, 2, 3 and 4 tes; also NEW PERFEC 3vcs with fireless cookin tachcd. Uam Aladdin Security I or Diamond White C 1?- - ? HN burner TION 2 oven H Oil H >" a the worst enemy to ma knows only in the most way anything of the car* nor does she have even a r idea or the correct prei relative value of foods. Her social life cons monthly attendance at ch casional visit to town on rwl o ttionniu 1 iinlift fit < nKinu; sne ? "*> mi.vu w elementary elbow touch of friends i ; of health, a??l daughter he wo udimentary frazy or die of ennnn i (juration or anf' " he were denier tual atimuliis which re dsts of a c,a' contact as are urch, an or- (daughter, he would bee circus day '"f? idiot in a year's tlr ?nme nnliti- When the hnrriena ill 11*5 IIUIU I II'1 I 13 are his wife itself to rural co uld either go l'ea anfl aspirations, n thirty days. Expert opinion agi I the intellec- the chief factors In t suits from so- country to town liei his wife and 'luacy, the insufficien onie a chatter- ' schools of the state, ne. When the average of Hip farm cumulated sufficient mmunity aotivi- | 'ea(*This method of , , jection of agriculti ees that one of , . . ? . Science Into our rui he exodus from . .. . . ium, of course, is * in the made , ' ... ' # , the consolidated ru icy of the rural Is Mlcknrf farmer has ac- j if not. it's wick wealth to Der-! ness and means of teaching, the iniiral and domestic ral school curricu- R^E conditional upon ral school, the co- Dh a Sin? H ed to neglect ill- IK I relief. It's wick uuuhu me ucm i (sum in Stoves, Heaters and Lam] >FPil^Xri oil mgma I r\M I cal gathering. She kno gardening, less of flowers and hooks, and fails to rj sufficient for the use of She is a stranger to o comfort, company and mi Her lot is pitiable bi pare, her life one long, m dor of gloom into which t ws little of man become too heavy i ami music 1o not go right about 1 ?ise poultry easy for him to seek the family, genial friends and in a onvenience, get; hut no matter h iney. burden, how deep the ?yond com- 'nsistent the cause for irrow corri- the average farm won he sunlight is her place and there s . when things m't to do no, ho he place, it id mily into town out his con- ' bptter educational ar i measure for- ! 'ages than are afford ow heavy the This Is a fact bo sorrow, how fl1' agricultural surv sympathy, to Not long since I lan the bouse nent farmer and bank he must nurse like to move back h promptly moves to endure liver in order to set 'j1*?81'?1'; constip i i (,?f,e ?' ^o-Do-Lax iff social ad van-; Do-Lax is Podophy ed in the coun- without the gripe, rne out by care- "''er, increases the eyg ture's antiseptic in constipation and ol heard a promi- over night becaus< er say he would helped nature to i ato the country a ,fro#m ills, headache, inatinn, when one MH gives relief. Po- BH Uin (May Apple), jH It arouses the flow of bile?na- S the bowels. Your ^Hj w ther tils disappear Wash! ? Po-Do-Lax has Norfof emove the cause. Riclun your druggist to- Qj nfton, D. C. (N?w JtrHy) Chai k,V?. (BALTIMORE) CK? and, V*. Cbu 5 I 4PANY 'lotto, N. C. H ww.vt Hp ( ton, S. C. H seldom enters, and yet, i 0 ^ W * _ ve ask her, alone, without the aid o ? . i'A'.'S" . of sympathiz- and when asked why . ^ . _ . . liixj. uri I 1U UI he did not do bo ,/ver nirht ft 4taJCfai1ii <11 frti iMii r.-J yuur coilHlipauoil I 3 > Hi . <