The Lancaster news. (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, August 28, 1917, Page 3, Image 3
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THE AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE
SEES IT THKOUOtl I
Now that Mr. Herbert Hoover,
food administrator, has mustered in
American housewives to help him
feed the world they are going to see
it through.
When Mr. Hoover cabled President
Wilson in April last that the
food supply of the world couldn't
last until A^rll, 1918, without
miraculous achievements in America
and that unless the achievements
were promptly forthcoming all the
world would be hungry by next
year, he specified the housewives of
the United States as the persons
who could be relied on to save the
situation.
This he did in part because ultimate
food consumption is woman's
problem and, in part, because the
women of Europe have come up to
every need since the war began. And
Mr. Hoover believes with all his
heart that "there is no body of women
in the world so capable of rising
to an emergency as American
women."
^ Red tape mav tie un the country's
activities, but the housewife knows
nothing about red tape and cares
less. For generations she has worked
on the prinicple that the dinnerbell
must be rung when dinner-time
comes. If the United States has
agreed to share meals with the allies,
the American woman will not
let the guests go unfed.
The practical housewife has so
long been the voteless victim between
the upper and the nether millstones
of politics and food speculation
that her first reaction to the
proposal to muster herself In for a
COLUMBUS (JOT CALUHT.
Slid Down Chimney, But Hud to Be
Pulled Out.
Hampton,. Aug. 24.?Last night'
at 11:30 o'clock Columbus Wright,
a negro about twenty-live years old,
was discovered in the chimney of
the Charleston and Western Carolina '
Railway depot, supposedly in an at-|
tempted robbery Columbus had
climbed up the semaphore post, got '
off on the roof of the depot and slid j
1 down the chimney, ^>ut upon his *
landing at the bottom, greatly to his
consternation, he found that the tireplace
had been cemented up, and
owing to the narrowness of the
chimney flue, he was unable to
crawl back out of his self-imposed
prison. His cries attracted the attention
of Mr. Walter Owens, a
mgni eiecirician, wno was passing
toy, and upon investigation Columbus
was discovered. Chier of Police
Stanley was then notified of the negro's
predicament, and he secured
j a hemp rope from a near-by garage
and let the rope down the chimney
to the imprisoned negro. After considerable
expenditure of -muscle on
the part of the chief and several assistants
the negro was Anally hauled
out, more dead than alive, and
carried to jail.
I Columbus had received his usual
quart a month on , esterday, and noticing
several more quarts in the office.
had probably decided to quench
his thirst regardless of the Quart-aMonth
Act. He, therefore, proceeded
to slip down the chimney, with
the evident intention of coming out
through the fireplace Into the office,
and then, after securing what he
waited, escaping through the ware
Inoujjp cioor. ne naa not counted on
the /act that recently the railway
company had decided to do away
with fireplaces and use stoves with
piping, and had, therefore, cement"ZZZ
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courses and the superfluous footmei
There should be no waste in the ni
more intensive economy was war
ness. Knowing her worth in tt
problem of making last night's dii
ner coldly furnish forth today's lui
cheon, she regarded with askanc
those first large newspaper headline
which proclaimed her a kltchei
waster and a market-basket slacke
But women are quick in the u]
take of ideas. Presently they b<
gan to see that the call to "hel
Hoover' meant a call on their pr<
fessional skill in making five loav<
and two small fishes feed the mult
tude. Forthwith they girded u
their anrnn Htrlnen fnr new ?ttnrt
Today the American housewife
seeing this "No-Waste Campaign
through, not to save money but t
save lives. She is helping Hoov?
take care of the world's huge fam
ly. Her household task has swelle
a milllonfold, but, like Mr. Ftritlini
she means to see the war through.
Economy is not Parsimony.
While you are economizing in tl
patriotism be sure that you dan
spell economy parsimony. In tt
name of patriotism well-nigh irr
parable economic injury may be in
posed upon a nation. When it conn
to the economic welfare of a countt
good old horse sense is not to be fo
gotten. The kind of economy tin
America wants to practice in th
hour of stress and strain is not th;
false economy insured by the frigl
tened and unreasonable curtailir
of nuying and selling, not the tyin
up of money in banks and tea ca<
dies and stockings, but that high*
economy bv the elimination of wast
It is well to cut out the cxti
bly used this method with success c
other occasions, and had visions <
one more glorious celebration befoi
national prohibition goes into effec
If your child Is pale and sickl
picks at the nose, starts In the sle?
and grinds the teeth while sleepin
it is a sure sign of worms. A reu
edy for these parasites will he four
In WHITE'S CREAM VERMIFUGI
It not only clears out the worms, hi
It restores health and cheerfulnee
Price 25c per ?bottle. Sold by e
dealers In medicine.?Adv.
One's Real Duty.
There Is an Idea abroad anurc
moral people that they should meli
their neighbors good. One person
have to mnke good: myself. But tc
duty to my neighbor Is much moi
nearly expressed by saying that I ha\
to make him happy?If I may.?R 1
Stevenson.
Circulars
Rave yon something foe
want to tell tho poopU
about? Tell it to them
IN A CIRCULAR. Let
ua FIX IT UP for yoo.
We'll Guarantee
Immediate
Results
[K LANCASTER N KWH TUKSDA
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a. tion's food stuffs, and men are not P
i- nearly so much needed at the front pa
t- door as In the trenches. But in so
ie far as ordinary reasonable expendil
tures are concerned the patriot cani
not serve his country better than by
:e keeping them steadfastly to the
?s scratch. What thre country needs
l- now, what it always needs for its
r. commercial health, is money in cirp
culation. Women may well stop ait ?
e- wasting. They will ruin the country | j |
P if they stop spending.
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EXCUSES ONLY.
ip Speaking at Bangor, Me., recently,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt set
is forth that there are no longer any
i" real arguments against woman sufLo
frage; there are only excuses. "The I
?r latest excuse suggested Is that the
i- women of Maine and New York are
id not to be given the vote because cerg,
tain women in Washington have
conducted themselves in a manner
unpleasing to the general sentiment
le of the times. This is the argument:
i't "Since some women are engaged
le in pickting some of the time, all woe
men should be disfranchised for all
n- time.
is "Equally sound would be the ar y
gument that because some men have
r- burned a negro quarter in East St.
it Louis, and because some men have
is burned a man alive, and because
it some men have instigated race riots
ti- in Chester. Pa., and because some
ig men of the I. W. W. organization are
ig threatening to hum forests and
1- crops in the Northwest in order to
E>r prevent shipbuilding and keep food
e. j from the allies, all men should he
-a forever disfranchised."
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re S EPIGRHYMES: * /
t. 4 ? *
? I've been a failure all J
Jr my life, n typical "Black *
* Sheep!" I've made a lot ?
>p J of money that I've spent while *
^ g good folks sleep. This "Busi- 4
id 5 ness, First," has never J j
* been my main philosophy; my if
nt, J dollar, "so almighty," has
is. * Just died of atrophy. And *
ill J I'm ashamed thnt I have looked jj
* for that old TURN, so long? *
1 ^ the turn they say exists In J
each Life Lane?I've been all * ~
$ wrong! For OVER every phase J RK>
* of life I've thrown a cloak *
[? tf of fun and carelessness; I've
^ J never stopped to "Rend as I * Rioting
^ * have run." But. reading if
Thomas Dekker's play, which * Hous
l 2 has A shocking name, a bit * go,dier8
] I of pathos struck me square? J
Ji Don't laugh?no man's the * try who
\ | name, when once he seriously 2 t?n 'aa1
t i shakes the deep dice-box of # tonight
^ j | Life, and glimpses some NEW { N. M.
I j i visions I So. in this appalling V C'api.
I j j strife there Ilea the chance 2 battalio
I j | to wash the Hack from lota J action
1 4i of sinning sheep; and Someone, 2
fwno raows every leaf, wui ? " ~~
honest tally keep. Are you $ SOf>
a "Black Sheep," too, old man? * nal8 of
$ Let's sneak away .and five Just ?$. enacted
* all we have?our bodies?t* J afternoi
,m Our Flag?then, men, we'll live I * the ba1
* Robert Russell. J negro I
X "Turn over a new leaf." Z
X Flanl
4 W N i n et o e
(Copjrlfht, 1917, by Iat'l Preaa Boreas.) |., I (j p
of the
("rocket
The Deadly Torpedo. marche
Between 1877 and 1898, when the
Spanish-American war broke out, there K'ounr 1
were only 12 lusts noes in which the stacked
torpedo had been used in actual war- 'he rlfl
fare. The Russo-Japanese war In 1904 veyed t
afforded many opportunities for the where
nse of this deadly weapon of destrue- hoaVy >
tlon, and Whitehead's invention caused Surr<
great havoc. The combination of the *"
submarine boat and the torpedo had ' rl
Its first real trial in the present war, 'he neg
with what effect the reader need not he reiju
J be reminded. at the i
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Y, AUG. 28, 1917.
ancaster Depa
The Best Place To
^pfcs* Fine
And when saj
B 1 f fl 1 mV nf have named are
II / llli I 111 disposal. Ther
[///, / (I Mft tieally every sui
l/ll If II III son; a few silks
III II II 111 models to choos
7jT I - Priced
L Form
Closing Out
The final cleanup of an exceptions
notch prices are in order. It's a great
for any voman who wants a smart lit
which ever one she chooses can be worn
Of course sizes are broken, and they a:
a kind but each is distinctive and ren
priced.
PRICED $7.50 TO $25.00
Formerly Pirced $10.00 to $4
These Summer Suits
.it* 1 'IM.
, ?? IH* llll.U
yA I mm'i I li i; i < I (
fOVINCi \K(*KO TKOOP8. vented from comn
violences,
at Houston Practically Tonight Gen. Hule
Mutiny, Says Officer. tain of the restricts
ton. Tex., Aug. 24.?Negro law *?vern,nK the c
of the Twenty-fourth infan- rtTard,nK the passa
? shot up the streets of Hous- through certain dist.
t night were being entrained ( orroborating to
to be removed to Columbus, tbe statements made
earlier in the day by
L S. Snow, commanding the a prlvate of Cf>mpl
n, said late tonight that the fourth infantry, Jan
of the negroes was "practi- other memb" the
utlny I today gave a statem
ne probably unique In the an- trict attorney's depa
tho United States army was R'vlns told V>f the
at Camp Logan during the two offlcer8 by tbe nf
on when the 600 soldiers of re,eafle upon ^treaty
ttalion of the Twenty-fourth poraI that they shc
nfantry were disarmed. .army men.
Iced by a full battalion of the Kisley Young, anc
nth infantry under Col. Mil- ComPany attached
Waltz and three companies 1011 ? ' ame
coast artillery from Fort SerKt Henry' ^y'"
t. the negro soldiers were had threatened to kl
d four abreast to the parade clid not t?"ow him.
9 where their arms were Military officials.
. Army trucks then loaded era1' refu9ed toni*ht
es and ammunition and con- s<,riousnnss ?f the <
hem to the camp storehouse, Pun'8hment in store
they were placed under 8ol(Hers.
guard.
>unded by his men with load- Psychologic
?. Col. Waltz then aifctrozsod ' ^T"No"'!
* ... aw He fwith cold feet)?'
Toes, telling them they would __,<The oook (a,ks of
ired to stay In camp, and that our family Is too lnrg
same time they would bo pre- thing to Induce her t
I
in In?. |i7|-, t
1
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j
rtment Stores
Shop After All.
d Clearance of
Dresses
1 V
j 44tinal" we mean that the prices we
low enough to guarantee a complete
e are sheer dainty voiles and parciuner
style that had a vogue this sea;
are also included; there's a host of
e from in almost any color effect you
[ $3.65 to $14.50
erly Priced $5.00 to $18.50.
~~ ? 111
r Suits
l1 stock5?last ^
opportunity v ^.4/Ah J
tie suit-and
far into fall. jr-Vr
re but one of / \ UA
larkably low i y
0.000.
For Men, Must Go
summer clearance prices have been
of the remaining lots left of our tine
its?mostly two-piece suits, in liglitlit-colored
fabrics filled with style
?oks. Suits that suggest comfort in
Suits that well-dressed men have
ng all summer long with utmost com- i \
ijovment. I [
te remaining lots are ott to join tne
those who buy now will get them at
ings than they have ever sold at.
to two big lots for this final summer
$4.75 and $6.75
=j>
iltting further ,
Preparing for a Big Dog.
A nouveau rlehe who was noted for
n removed cer- hla misuse of the king's English la
r>ns of military quoted by an exchange as dilating on
ity and county the cost of the kennels for his new
ge of civilians country place In these words: "It's
riots. t1181 throwing money Into the fire. Wa
a great extent ^ ven't an animal on the place worth
tn an affidavit J*/, bUt th? KWfty tho?e
. .. fitting up those confounded kennel*
Leroy Plnkett, anyone would think that they expected
iny I, Twenty- them to be occupied by the Dog at
aes Blyins, an- Venice himself 1"
same company, :
ent to the dis- Origin of the Word "Lady."
rtment. Why we call a woman a lady la
holding up of kftown, probably, to few women. It
>groes and their cdme from a practice that obtained la
of a negro cor- the manor houses of England where,
>uld not attack ottce a week- the ot ^ manor
distributed to her poor neighbors, with
I hsr own hands, loaves of bread. Sba
ither private of c4ine to be called "Laef day," the
the major por- guon words for bread giver. These
he outbreak to tv#o words became one: "Lady."
g the sergeant
11 any man who MEDICINE OK FOOD.
You have always bought the bulky
State and fe<r- ... - - -
1 stock rood and Riven to your stork
- to discuss tho I .. , . . .
I as a medicine. Why not buy only
o t nsi and the medicine and furnish your own
for th< negio fQO(j? medicine will be much
more certain. In fact, B. A. Thomas
Stock Remedy is so certain to give
al Moment. tl,e results that we sell it on
"wJ0 HSk ST* *he monpy back plan. If It doeen't
wny now7 Sno . . 4
leaving because ?< ighten ?P your horse or cow or
e. Pa'U do any- 8heep, we give your money back,
o stay." LANCASTER MERCANTILE CO.