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McCORMICK MESSENGER, McCORMICK, S. TFrTTRsnAY. FEBRUARY 6. 1941
Hospitality for Our
Over-Night Guests
By RUTH WYETH SPEARS
COME people have a talent for
^ making guests comfortable and
they are not always the people
with big houses and what used to
be called a “spare room’* for,
company. I thought of this one
morning as I sat propped up on a
perfectly comfortable folding cot
eating breakfast from a tray.
When not in use my cot was
stored in the hall under the in*
genious frame sketched here. This
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frame had a full skirted cover of
blue denim trimmed in red and
blue flowered chintz. The medi
cine closet on top stood on feet
made of spools glued in place;
and was painted red inside and
•ut. On the cabinet shelves were
cleansing tissue and other useful
tilings.
• • •
. MOTE: In Mrs. Spears’ Books 5 and 8
you will find directions for streamlining
•Id-fashioned couches and chairs, as well
as many dther suggestions for bringing
your home up-to-date. Also directions for
designing and making rugs; hooked,
braided and crocheted; each book has 32
pages of pictures and directions. Send
srder to:
MBS. RUTH WYETH SPEARS
Drawer 10
Bedford Hills New Yerk
Enclose 20c for Books 5 and 6.
Name
Address
Pull the Trigger on
Lazy Bowels, and
Comfort Stomach, too
When constipation brings on acid in
digestion. stomach upset, bloating, dizzy
spells, gas, coated tongue, sour taste and
bad breath, your stomach is probably
“crying the blues’* because your bowels
don’t move. It calls for Laxative-Senna
to pull the trigger on those lazy bowels,
combined with Syrup Pepsin to save
your touchy stomach from further dis
tress. For years, many Doctors have used
pepsin compounds as vehicles, or car
riers to make other medicines agreeable
to your stomach. So be sure your laxa
tive contains Syrup Pepsin. Insist on
Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative Senna combined
with Syrup Pepsin. See how wonderfully
the Laxative Senna wakes up lazy nerves
and muscles in your intestines to bring
welcome relief from constipation. And
the good old Syrup Pepsin makes this
laxative so comfortable and easy on
your stomach. Even finicky children
love the taste of this pleasant family
laxative. Buy Dr. Caldwell’s Laxative
Soma at your druggist today. Try one
laxative that comforts your stomach, too.
Magic in Home j
There is magic in that little
word “home”; it is a mystic circle
|that surrounds comforts and vir-
itues never known beyond its hal-
iowed limits.—Southey.
FOR HEAD
COLDS
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healing air.
you on the "open
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of cold-stuffed
misery.
Remember, free
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ps cut down the time these colds hang
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misery with geouine Penetro Nose Drops.
Youth Through Spirit
If spirit wills, the heart need not
grow old; we live by thought and
feeling, not by days.—L. Mitchell
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•Like a beacon light on
the height—the advertise
ments in newspapers direct
you to newer, better and
easier ways of providing
the things needed or
desired. It shines, this
beacon of newspaper
advertising—and it will be
to your advantage to fol
low it whenever you
make a purchase.
American Agriculture Indebted
To Abraham Lincoln More Than
To Any Other of Our Presidents
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
(Released by Western Newspaper Union.)
A TALL man in rusty black arose from his chair on a flag-
draped platform and made his way awkwardly to the
speaker’s stand. He seemed ill at ease as he gazed on the
weathered faces of the crowd before him.
Then he began to speak. Almost at once his self-conscious
ness vanished. His sorrowful, deep-set eyes lighted up. His
voice warmed. His hearers
continued to be a student of farm
ing and farm improvement.
When Lincoln entered the White
House, farming was being carried
on much the same as it had been
in the past half-century. Man
and horse power were still the
main reliance on the average
farm, although an impressive
start had been made toward
mechanization and improvement
of farm implements. It took
about as long to plow a field,
plant a crop and cultivate it as it
had taken in Revolutionary war
days. This was particularly true
of the newer areas of settlement.
The reaper had been invented
about 30 years before, but its use
was by no means universal. The
steel plow had been introduced in
the late 1830s and had helped
speed the opening of the newly
settled West. The science of soil
chemistry was even more recent.
Although experiments in plant
feeding^ in« Europe led to the es
tablishment of the modem ferti
lizer in this country in 1850, pro
duction amounted to only 20,000
tons in 1860. Today American
farmers use nearly 8,000,000 tons
annually.
| Aids to Agriculture.
Soon after his inauguration,
Lincoln began throwing the
weight of his influence behind
measures that would strengthen
leaned forward to catch each
word.
“No other human occupa
tion,” he said, “opens so wide
a field for the profitable and
agreeable combination of la
bor with cultivated thought
as agriculture... Every blade
of grass is a study; and to
produce two where there was
but one is both a profit and a
pleasure. And not grass
alone, but soils, seeds and
seasons; saving crops, ■ dis
eases of crops and what will
prevent and cure them; hogs,
horses and cattle; trees,
shrubs, fruits, plants and
flowers—each is a world of
study within itself.”
The speaker was Abraham Lin
coln.. The time was September
30, 1859. The place was the agri-
cultural fair held by the Wiscon
sin State Agricultural society at
Milwaukee.
Most Americans remember Lin
coln as our first martyred Presi
dent, as the Great Emancipator,
as the statesman whpse principles
have stirred men everywhefe.
Few, perhaps, realize what a pro
found influence Lincoln and his
administration left on the agri
culture of the United States. Yet
all his life he was a close student
of farming. He knew its needs
and foresaw the possibilities of its
advancement as few men have
done before or since. And it was
as a nationally recognized repre
sentative of the farmer and the
small town democracy he knew
so well that he was invited to
address that meeting in Mil
waukee.
These things considered, it is
not surprising that in the anguish
of the Civil war that threatened
the nation’s existence, Lincoln
found time to promote the cause
of agriculture and give it an im
petus that is felt down to this day.
Boyhood on a Farm.
Abe’s early boyhood was spent
on a farm of 30 acres near Knob
creek, about 10 miles northeast of
his birthplace at Hodgenville, Ky.
Because of the hills and gullies
only 14 acres could be cultivated.
In the fall of 1816 the Lincoln
family moved again—this time
across the Ohio river into the
heavily timbered wilderness of
southern Indiana. Here they es
tablished themselves op a knoll
surrounded by marshy, malaria-
ridden fields. There was no drink
ing water within a mile. Although
Thomas Lincoln acquired an op
tion on 160 acres to be paid for
in installments at $2 an acre, he
completed payments on only half
of this land. The elder Lincoln
continued to vary his farming and
hunting by doing occasional jobs
of carpentry. In 1824, after the
family had been in Indiana seven
years, the cultivated area of the
farm totaled only 17 acres.
Thus young Lincoln as a boy of
15 was hired out to the neighbors
to plow, hoe corn, split rails and
make fences. He also worked as
a ferryman on the Ohio river. For
this work his father received $6 a
month. During the hog-packing
season, however, he received an
additional 31 cents a day.
Once more the Lincolns pushed
westward. This time it was early
in the spring of 1830 and the fam
ily trekked to the bluffs along
the Sangamon river in Macon
county, Illinois. Reaching ma
jority soon afterward, Abraham
Lincoln bade farewell to his
family and began life for himself.
Although he left farm work be
hind as a career, Lincoln never
ceased to interest himself in ag
riculture. A/< a surveyor, as post
master and storekeeper at New
Salem, as a lawyer riding the
court circuit around Illinois, as a
congressman and as President he
JUSTIN S. MORRILL
the position of agriculture and
promote its future growth. This
was sound strategy in view of
the impending Civil war. Within
a year three bills of outstanding
significance had been passed.
These were the Act Establishing
the United States Department of
Agriculture, the Homestead act,
and the Land Grant College act.
Agriculture today owes a debt to
the administration which spon
sored these acts. The progress it
has achieved in the past 75 years
would never have been possible
without them.
As early as his first message to
congress in December, 1861, Lin
coln pointed out the necessity for
a department of agriculture.
“Agriculture, confessedly the
largest interest of the nation,’’ he
declared, “has not a department,
nor a bureau, but a clerkship only
assigned to it in this government.
“While it is fortunate that this
great interest is so independent
in its nature as not to have de
manded or extorted more from
the government, I respectfully
ask congress to consider whether
something more cannot be volun
tarily given with general advan
tage.”
The Act Establishing the De
partment of Agriculture was the
result, and in his second annual
message the President was able
to report:
“To carry out the provisions of
the Act of Congress of May 15th
last, I have caused the Depart
ment of Agriculture of the United
States to be organized. The Com
missioner informs me that within
the period of a few months, this
department has established an ex
tensive system of correspondence
and exchanges both at home and
abroad which promise to effect
highly beneficial results in the de
velopment of a current knowledge
of recent improvements of agri
culture, in the introduction of new
products, and in the collection of
the agricultural statistics of the
different states. Also it will be
prepared to distribute, largely,
seeds, cereals, plants and cut
tings, and has already published
and liberally diffused much valu
able information in anticipation
of a more elaborate report which
will in due time be furnished, em
bracing some valuable tests in
chemical science now in progress
in the laboratory.”
Lincoln closed his statement
with the hope that the department
would “realize at not too distant
a day all the fondest anticipations
of its most sanguine friends and
become the fruitful source of ad
vantages to all our people.”
How prophetic was this hope is
a matter of history. Although the
department was not represented
in the cabinet with a secretary
until 1889, it proved its worth im
mediately. Today every farm
home feels its benefits. County
agents everywhere assist farmers
in improving their farm methods,
testing their soil to determine its
plant food needs, advising them
on how to increase the productiv
ity of their holdings.
The Homestead Act.
Another milestone in agricul
tural development was the Home
stead act, signed by President
Lincoln on May 20, 1862. During
the course of its operation nearly
250,000,000 acres of public domain
have been thrown open to private
farm ownership.
Instead of requiring the pay
ment of $1.25 or more per acre,
the Homestead act gave 160 acres
free to every settler who would
live on it for five years. Set
tlers rushed into the new lands,
and while the Civil war was still
in progress 2,500,000 acres were
thus given away. This created
more than 15,000 farms of 160
acres each. New railroads were
built to link the western farm
lands with the eastern markets.
. The new crops helped feed the
Union armies, furnish fibers and
raw materials to factories, and
provided an exportable surplus
which built a profitable trade with
Europe.
Most important step in aiding
the cause of scientific agriculture
was the Morrill act, or Land
Grant College act, named for
Justin S. Morrill, representative
in congress and afterwards sena
tor from Vermont. Signed by
President Lincoln on July 2, 1862,
this law gave to each state as
many times 30,000 acres of public
land as it had senators and rep
resentatives. This land was to
provide funds for the establish
ment and support of a “college of
agriculture and mechanical arts.”
The far-flung system of agricul
tural colleges in every state of
the Union today owes its exist
ence to this act. These colleges
are a powerful factor irv discover
ing new facts concerning the soil,
its needs, crop and live stock im
provement and better farming
methods. Not only do these col
leges educate young men to apply
these facts and methods in actual
farm work, but agronomists and
soil scientists are continually car
rying on experiments with crops,
soils and fertilizers in their
states. As a result of their work,
the average farmer can have the
benefit of expert and practical ad
vice in preparing his soil for prof
itable crop production. Many of
these colleges provide recom
mendations for fertilizer grades
best adapted to the needs of a
farmer’s soils and crops after a
test has established the necessity
for nitrogen, phosphorus and pot
ash.
“Lincoln’s contributions to the
development of agriculture,” said
an official of the Middle West Soil
Improvement committee recent
ly, “stand as much a monument
to his greatness as any of his oth
er achievements during his presi
dency. It was astounding that
under the stress of war and de
struction he could have sponsored
and supported measures that
would have such epochal conse
quences to our development.”
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dress in a refreshing Spring
print, or bright-colored wool, or
dark flat crepe with bright buttons.
It will give a real lift to your
spirits and look gay as a holly
berry under your winter coat.
There’s no better way to start the
year right than with a really smart
new everyday dress, and a crisp
shirtwaister is smartest of all!
This easy-to-make design (No.
8853) is exceptionally becoming to
AROUND
THE HOUSE
To thread a needle easily, cut
the end of the thread on the bias.
• • •
Parsley washed with hot water
keeps its flavor better and is eas
ier to chop.
< • ' * •
If milk boils over on the stove,
sprinkle the spot with salt. This
will at once remove the disagree
able odor.
• • •
Baking powder biscuits and
cookies rise better and brown
more evenly on baking sheets than
they do in pans.
* • •
Keep cheese in a well-covered
dish or it will become dry and
tasteless.
• • •
An old piece of velvet makes an
ideal polishing cloth for silver or
furniture.
• • •
Iron rust may be removed from
white goods with sour milk.
• * *
Steamed leftover fruit cake
served with a lemon sauce makes a
delicious dessert.
* * •
Creaky stairs, like creaky floors,
are an unnecessary annoyance. If
your stairway gets too noisy,
here’s the way to go about silenc
ing the offending treads. Simply
nail a few extra finishing nails
through the treads into the risers
below. The finishing nails used
should be three inches long, and
they should slant alternately to
the right and to the left as they
are driven in. And after counter
sinking the nails, the nail-holes
may be filled with plastic wood
and painted.
those who take woman’s sizes, and
exceptionally useful, whether
you’re a suburban wife or a city
business woman! It will be pretty
for home wear, too, made up in
tubfast cottons, and the trio of en
velope pockets may be omitted if
you prefer. A very easy style to
make.
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Pattern No. 8853 is designed for sizes
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requires 4% yards of 39-inch material
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How To Relieve
Bronchitis
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Creomulsion relieves promptly be
cause it goes right to the seat of the
trouble to help loosen and expel
g rm laden phlegm, and aid nature
soothe and heal raw, tender, in
flamed bronchial mucous mem
branes. Tell your druggist to sell you
a bottle of Creomulsion with the un
derstanding you must like the way it
quickly allays the cough or you are
to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
Man’s Error
In men this blunder still you
find, all think their little set man
kind.—Hannah More.
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