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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. C.. THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1940
Strange Facts
Reveal Fur Frauds
Stimying Annoyers
Expensive Checking
€L With the aid of microscopes,
microtomes, chemicals and spe
cial lights, a New York scientist
who specializes in the detection of
frauds in furs has discovered sev
eral counterfeit coats that have
been passed as genuine by other
tar experts. He can identify the
species of animal, the part of the
world in which it lived and the
season when it was killed by mag
nifying to 800 diameters one of its
hairs and a piece of its skin about
the size of a pinhead.
4. The telephone numbers used in
■tage plays, movie scenarios and
radio scripts are fictitious and
cannot be called. They are given
to writers by the telephone com
panies to prevent curious callers
from annoying subscribers.
!
H. The men who are engaged
daily in cleaning London’s 240
public statues require three years
to learn the job because, among
other things, they have to be able
•o answer any questions about the
history of the statues put to them
by passers-by.
4. Complete, detailed audits of
the books and other records of
companies with extensive branches
awe rarely ever undertaken, be
cause of the work and expense.
Wot example one recent exami-
aation of a large corporation’s ac-'
counts, although it was far from
thorough, cost nearly $300,000.—
Collier’s.
‘Scented Divorce
In 1700 an act was passed by
parliament which laid down that
any woman, whatever her age and
whether she be married, single or
a widow, who by the use of per-
fuzne, cosmetics, paint, false
teeth, wigs, iron corsets, padded
host and hips, or high-heeled
shoes, inveigles a male subject
«f his majesty into marriage, shall
he guilty of having broken the law
which prohibits the practicing of
witchcraft and other arts of black
aoagic, and any such marriage
will be counted for null and void.
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Kenmore, the home of Betty Washington Lewis, sister of George Washington, in Fredericksburg. It has been
restored by a national organization of women and funds obtained from the annual observance of Garden Week
in Virginia this year will be devoted to the restoration of its gardens. < « i . .»
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
F redericksburg, va., is to live again its colorful
past during the week of April 22 to 27 and the center of
attraction in the old Colonial town will be Kenmore,
home of Betty Washington Lewis, sister of George Washing
ton and wife of Fielding Lewis, gunmaker of the Revolution.
April 22 to 27 is Garden Week in the Old Dominion and this
year it has a special signifi- &
cance.
For the receipts from the
observance will be devoted to
the restoration of the Colonial
garden at Kenmore, a spot
.that was dear td George
Washington and that had the
loving care of his mother,
Mary Ball Washington. So,
during that week Colonial
costumes, worn by the ances
tors of the Fredericksburg
folk, will be taken out of old
trunks and attics or borrowed
from museums, to be worn
again by the descendants of
the men and women who
lived there when LaFayette
was entertained at a great
Peace Ball at Rising Sun tav
ern after Washington’s re
turn from the war in 1783.
From ancient recipe books the
women of Fredericksburg will
resurrect the recipes made fa
mous by Mary Ball Washington
and others. Ginger breads, tea,
Smithfield hams and a score of
other delicacies of Colonial days
will be cooked for the palates of
visitors over the ancient fire
places of Colonial times that
abound in the city.
Gen. Hugh Mercer’s ancient
apothecary shop will also come
to life again, and visitors may
use its famous powdering room,
or procure over its ancient coun
ters the lavender and other
herbs, as well as the potions and
cordials that ancient apothecaries
dispensed a hundred and fiftj
years ago.
Birthplace of Cincinnati Society.
* In Rising Sun tavern, where the
Society of the Cincinnati was
formed and where Virginia’s ear
liest post office was located, the
tavern keeper and the postmaster
will preside over throngs from
many states, while in the cottage
of Mary, the mother of Washing
ton, servants will cook and dis
pense free to visitors those things
that Mary considered delicacies
and for which her recipes are
still used.
On the plantation of Kenmore
Negroes will sing the spirituals
of olden days for visitors, while
Uncle Bachus will prepare meals
in the kitchen building, and visi
tors will be treated to a Colonial
reception during the evenings.
Fredericksburg will receive its
visitors in costume, not only at
Kenmore, but at many other
homes of Colonial date through
out the city.
Old Market square will come to
life again, as it existed in the
days when James Monroe,
George Washington and Thomas
Jefferson met here to smoke a
pipe and discuss the affairs of
the colony in Sukey Livingston’s
coffee shop, where over the door
will be replaced its famous sign:
“Come in, Gentlemen, sit at
your ease, pay for what you
call for and call for what you
please.”
Masonic fraternities are also
preparing an exhibit in the lodge
where George Washington was
made a Mason, and where his
portrait, by Stuart, hangs upon
the wall. The Bible that he kissed
in taking his obligations is still
preserved.
Another attraction to visitors
will be the little cottage on the
corner of Charles and Lewis
streets. For this was the home
of Mary Ball Washington from
March, 1775, until August, 1789.
The property once occupied the
whole square with orchard and
garden, kitchen and servants’
quarters. It was bought by Wash
ington in September, 1772, from
Michael and Esther Robinson and
was a part of the original Ken
more estate. The garden was
separated from the Kenmore gar
den by a fence and gate and
there was a box walk, a part of
which is still standing.
At the outbreak of the Revolu
tion Washington tried to induce
his mother to move in town from
her home on the Rappahannock,
opposite Fredericksburg, feut it
was not until March, 1775, that
she was persuaded.
It was here that she received
the courier sent by General
MARY BALL WASHINGTON
(From the disputed painting by
Middleton)
Washington to tell her of the vic
tory at Trenton. It was here
Washington came after the Bat
tle of Yorktown with the French
and American officers, and she
received him with thanksgiving
after his absence of nearly seven
years. It was here he came in
December 1783. Fredericksburg
gave the Peace ball in his honor,
and it was at that time that he
made his memorable reply to
Mayor McWilliams in which he
spoke of Fredericksburg as “the
place of my growing infancy. '
LaFayette’s Tribute.
It was here that Marquis de
LaFayette came to pay his re
spects to her who was the moth
er of the greatest American. She
received him in her garden, met
all his fine phrases with dignity
and gave him her blessing when
he bade her good-by. He said,
“I have seen the only Roman
matron of my day.”
It was here March 12, 1789, that
Washington came to bid a sad
farewell after he had received
the notice that he had been elect
ed President of the new nation.
With prayers and tears Mary
Washington and her son parted,
knowing they would never meet
again.
She died August 25, 1789. Town
and country assembled to do hon
or at her burial. Her remains lie
in a spot she herself selected on
the Kenmore estate and a state
ly monument “erected by her
countrywomen” marks her last
resting place.
But for all such historic sites
which Fredericksburg has, it will
not be the only city in the Old
Dominion to attract those who en
joy seeing places “where the past
still lives.” More than 80 historic
homes and gardens throughout
the state will be thrown open to
visitors this year. Among them
are eight homes in which once
lived Virginians who became
Presidents of the United States.
Home of the Lees.
Featured in the Garden week
pilgrimage this year will be nine
estates and shrines under founda
tion or other public ownership,
where gardens or grounds have
been restored by and at the ex
pense of the Garden Club of Vir
ginia. The principal one of these
properties is Stratford, in West
moreland county, where two sign
ers of the Declaration of Inde
pendence and Gen. Robert Ed
ward Lee were born.
Here the Garden Club of Vir
ginia has completed the restora
tion of the Lee gardens at a cost
of $50,000.
Another as important, but
whose gardens are not as yet
completely restored, although
well under way, is the Thomas
Jefferson garden at Monticello,
near Charlottesville. The Thom
as Jefferson Memorial foundation
has restored the house and many
outbuildings and refurnished with
original Jefferson pieces this
magnificent and distinctive man
sion. V
Last year the Garden Club of
Virginia began the job of restor
ing the Jefferson gardens, from
plans discovered only recently.
The outlines of the garden were
discovered by archeological in
vestigations and will occupy the
exact location that they did orig
inally. Jefferson’s gardens were
distinctive, for only native trees,
shrubs and plants were used.
Other properties for which the
Garden Club of Virginia has done
restoration include: the Victorian
garden of the Manse, at Staunton,
birthplace of T. Woodrow Wilson;
the Mary Washington monument
at Fredericksburg, over her
grave; the Bruton church at Wil
liamsburg, which will be the
center of a celebration this year
in honor of its complete restora
tion; the memorial garden at Lee
chapel in Lexington; the groups
of Wilton, famous Colonial res
toration of historical organiza
tions at Richmond; and the Rolfe
property, in Surry county, the
grounds of which were given by
the Indian chief, Powhatan, to
the son of his daughter, Poca
hontas and Sir John Rolfe, in Co
lonial times.
Plantation Homes.
Other estates to be shown will
include the famous James River
plantation belt homes, extending
for more than a hundred miles
along the James. Most recent of
these restorations is Berkeley,
birthplace of President William
Henry Harrison. Seven estates
in various sections of Virginia,
never before opened, are to be
shown this year, including an
cient Elsing Green on the Pa-
munkey, one of the most impor
tant of the Colonial Virginia man
or houses, and owned by a signer
of the Declaration of Independ
ence.
Twenty-one places in restored
Williamsburg will be opened to
the public. The great tobacco
plantations of Southside Virginia
form another group.
Piedmont Virginia is offering a
group of boxwood gardens and
famous old homes of unusual dis
tinction, including the places of
President James Madison, two
James Monroe homes and two
estates in which Thomas Jeffer
son spent his life. Two score
other places of great interest,
several of them nationally fa
mous, are to be opened.
CATTLE GRADED
ON TWO TESTS
Beef Type Is Rated by Body
Measurements.
Two simple body mfasurements
of beef cattle—plus a record of feed
consumed by the animal in reach
ing a certain weight—give the stock-
man a good picture of the qualities
transmitted by the most important
member of the herd—the sire. The
two measurements are height at
withers, and weight or heart girth.
The measurements give the index
to carcass quality and the feed rec
ord tells how efficiently the animal
puts on weight. Together- they
make a record-of-performance test
by which beef herd sires may be
“proved.” The herd owner knows
whether or not the offspring of a
“proved” sire are likely to make
efficient gains and yield carcasses
of good quality.
The greatest drawback for such
tests has been the lack of a simple
method for determining carcass
grades of test animals before
slaughter. Only trained cattle grad
ers could do the job.
The two-measurements method,
which makes it possible for the
farmer to do his own grading on the
farm, was devised by Bradford
Knapp Jr., animal husbandman of
the United States department of
agriculture, after studying weights,
measurements, and grades of 167
slaughter steers, including Here-
fords, Shorthorns, Aberdeen-Angus,
and steers of dairy breeding. The
grade or score as determined by
the two measurements for the most
part tallied with the gradfe given
the same animals by two competent
graders.
New Poultry-Keeper
Needs Proper Start
There are three economically
sound ways to get started in mod
ern poultry keeping.
The first and probably the most
efficient method of getting started
is to buy day-old chicks from a rec
ommended source during the early
spring months. This involves the
least capital expenditure for stock,
permits the beginner to obtain valu
able experience while raising the
chicks, and gives him time to ac
quire the information that will be
needed to handle layers in the fall.
The disadvantage of this method is
that, aside from sale of surplus
cockerels as broilers, there will be
little income until the pullets ma
ture to the egg laying stage, which
they will reach at about 24 weeks
of age.
The second method is to purchase
ready-to-lay pullets during the later
summer or early fall months. This
usually means an increased capital
investment, but does provide for al
most immediate income.
The third method is to purchase
adult breeding stock in limited
numbers at any desired time, and
then from this stock produce chicks
in season. The advantage of this
method is that one may buy few
but very high quality breeders and
from a relatively small investment
soon build up required numbers,
gaining much in experience during
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Bang’s Disease Cure
Is Still to Be Found
Recently a national farmer’s mag
azine contained an article quoting
a chemist who had just returned
from Switzerland, and who told
about a powder used in that coun
try to “cure” cattle infected with
Bang’s disease.
Dr. C. P. Fitch, of the University
of Minnesota, says that “miraculous
new medicines to cure and prevent
Bang’s disease” have been bobbing
up frequently for many years. But
it is very unfortunate, Fitch said,
that so much attention should be
paid to a remedy that is not known
and has not been proved effective
by reliable experiments.
“I am not familiar with the par
ticular compound referred to in that
article. I am, however, familiar
with the veterinary literature from
Switzerland. I know that there has
been no mention made of any dis
covery of a cure for Bang’s disease.
To the best of our knowledge at the
present time there isn’t any cure
for this disease.
“The nature of Bang’s disease is
such that it is quite easy to be mis
taken in regard to so-called cures.
In my judgment it is a mistake to
encourage people to believe that
there are cures for this disease until
they have been definitely proved by
competent investigators.”
Blister Ailing Horses
Blisters are the best remedies for
curbs, wingdalls, spavins, and sim
ilar disorders of horses. A common
blistering ointment for horses may
be made of half an ounce of Spanish
flies, an ounce of oil of turpentine,
and four ounces of hog lard. An
other good one may be made by
thoroughly mixing two ounces of
Spanish flies, with half an ounce of
oil of origanum, one ounce of oil of
turpentine, two ounces of hog lard,
and four ounces of common tar.
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS
The cut surface of a lemon will
remove marks made by matches
on painted walls.
* * •
Before polishing furniture, first
go over it with a piece of cheese
cloth wrung out of hot water, then
apply polish. This gives excel
lent results.
* • *
Geraniums like a fairly heavy
soil and must be potbound to flow
er well. They will invariably re
fuse to bloom if kept in a large
pot.
* * *
Before washing colored handr
kerchiefs for the first time, soak
them for 10 minutes in a basin of
cold water to which a tablespoon
of turpentine has been added. ;
• * *
Never salt fresh meats when
frying. Salt tends to extract the
juices and hardens these meats.
• * *
When washing or ironing, put
a thick rug under your feet and
you will find you do not tire so
easily.
* • •
When furniture knobs or handles
become loose remove the bolts
from the knobs and insert rubber
washers similar to those used on
water faucets. Replace the bolt.
The knob will then be firmer. ,
’• • *
Fish, when being fried, should
never be allowed to soak in fat.
The fat should be perfectly hot
when the fish is put in and kept
at the same temperature while it
is frying.
• • •
When spreadlhg sandwiches,
leave about a quarter-inch around
the edges unspread. Then, when
you put the second slice of bread
in position, press it down firmly.
The filling will spread to the
edges, but is less likely to ooze
out. !
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