Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 10, Number 233, Decatur, Adams County, 30 September 1912 — Page 7

Second Section Pages 13 to 16 „ F AO THIS, tF YOU MEAN BUSINESS <ev**n room house*, with electric „,,, water, bath, detern, all In good , ialr, on Mercer avenue, not fnr out. 11500.00. Ten room house on Mivlhall street, l.iie location, abundance of fruit and pic,, garden, property tn good repair. Price, 12500.00. pice acre tract with modern Improvements, Including house and barn, owner must sell soon. Great sacrifice in price. Two hou-s* on Jefferson street, very reasonable. Two nice residences on North Fifth street, near greenhouse. Price. $2260.00 and J 1400.00. / Fine location and fair improve iiients, near the Presbyterian church. Nice residence on Eighth street, rear G. R. & I- depot, very reasonable and attractive. Price *2500,00, S< ven room house on Rugg street, n.ar Sam Hite grocery. Price, $1750. Two residences on Mercer avenue, Inside railroad. Price, J 850.00 and! $2530.00. Two large, mode; a bouses, one, blo< :• of court house, on brick street,; dirt cheap. Two vacant lots on Closs street. Two vacant lots on Monroe street, ’ , heap. Several other vacant lots, well | located, at low prices. A good up-to-date house and barn! on North Second street, very reason-, able, owner wants to sell badly and , will sacrifice on the value of prop-1 erty. Two modern, up-to-date houses on Winchester street, inside the railroad, much below original cost. Fine dwelling on Adams street,] three blocks from the court house. Good house on West Madison street, l x, the railroad, brick street om-i vernent paid. Price, >2000.00. Modern house with good barn on, Jefferson street. Price, >2500.00 House with two lots on South Elev-i •T.tr. street, very reasonable. DAN ERWIN. i r < d-lw Erwin Bld., Op. Court House j 525.00 REWARD. The above amount will be paid for the return of a black gelding, six years old, weight about 1,350 pounds, white hind foot and white star In forehead. Strayed or stolen from barn of J. M. Lenhart, Decatur, Ind. Sand information to T. J. Durkin, Decatur, Ind. 224t3 FARMS FOR BALE OR TRADE. I have a 40-rore, a 120 acre, a 160a< i » and a SnO-acr* farm, all tn Midland county, Mich., and all good fsrm land, which will sell or trade for , town property o»* farm land in Adams county. 'Phone 661. ‘ 21»t12 Dt.VID FLANDERS. ESTRAY NOTICE. I have enclosed a stray hog. Owner please call for same. J. P. DAVIS. Monroe Telephone. 229tf FARM FOR SALE. C-*«- and stock farm. 4 miles from ] county seat. Coldwater, Mich.; 120 acres, bank barn and other out-build-lings; 9 room house, with cellar, windt mill, school 20 rods away, and orchiard; nearly all cleared, on good pike, [close to churches. For further parkiculars, viite, A. J. .Hawkins, Cold- ! water, Mich., R.‘R 3. 230t3* FOR SALE—Choice home raised tim ‘ othy seed, >1.75 per bushel. Monroe : Phone. ,1. P. Davis. 220t6 I Far first-cAsss tivery service at rea [sonable prices, good services, and prompt attention, call on Ernest [Schlickman, Third and Monroe Sts. [’Phone 182. 223t3* r ANTED —Me- to work on streets and in clone rnarry.— ’ -live BiHaugk. 229t3 ■WANTED—T»c furnished rooms for I light housekeening: have own ■stoves, dishes and bedding. Medern ■Convenience* preferred. ExclJent refserences. Address C. E. M.. care Deni go.-rat. 228t3 ■STRAYED OR STOLEN—From the E Riverside fees h*rn, 1 grey mare. 9 Wears old, weighing about 1400 Tbs. gFinder call 'phone 37, or notify River B|lde feed barn, and receive reward. 231t3* RENT --Eight-room house on K Third street— M~s. P. B. Thomas. ■OR SALE—Very nice grapes. Seth--1 er home, corner 12th and Monroe Hphone 544. 227t6‘ SfrOß SALE—Packard organ. In- | nuire Mrs. H. F. Costello, Third freer 220t6* SSFANTOD —GMrl for general houseg: work, only two in family. Apply at 4nea to J. H Stone. 230t3

MEMORY IN CHILDREN I OVER-CULTIVATION OF BRAIN / SERIOUS M!«TAK»L ■ ' i tntsllsctual Development Largely a Matter of Environment —Preco* clou* Infant Rarely Makea Good Early Promisee. Much to the eaaement of our social amenities, the precocious child has gone out of fashion. No longer have we to stifle yawns and to smile while our fingers tingle from a desire to smack as a baby prodigy recites Shakespeare or gives Impromptu scale-practice on the piano. In fact, the tendency is the other way; we are on the upswell of a Rousseau movement and the dear babies are being turned out to do gardening and to cultivate power* of observation apart from books and pen and Ink; the nursery has become a menagerie and botanical museum, and that her boy or girl of seven Is ignorant of the alphabet Is the latest and proudest boaet of the loving mother. A change all to the good, surely, did it not seemingly take as much time, trouble and teaching to keep up a con- ! dltlon of book ignorance as of book knowledge. What is considered brain development tn a child is nearly always a ' matter of memory and adaptability. I just a parrot-like quality strongly developed. The child just remembers , and imitates. One has this shown very clearly in ■ the historical records of royalties. ; Where the young prince or princess ! has, through the pressure of state asI fairs, been obliged to live surrounded by diplomatists and ministers, th* 1 child has picked up the jargon in the most astonishing fashion. I Have we it not on record that when Mary, Queen Scots, as a child of eight years, met her mother at Rouen. , the little queen’s reply to the ma- ' ternal caresses was the inquiry: ' "What factions continued to exist in I the noble families of Scotland?” and I “whether the English still harassed i her native country: whether worship : remained pure and the prelates and , clergy did their duty?” ! At eleven She quotes Plutarch, and I at twelve she writes an essay on the ■ j demeanor and duties of princes, ; Pouched In the language of an elderly ' statesman. Yet, though a brilliant ' woman, who can say that Mary Stuart's later life was remarkable in wis- ] ' dom and diplomacy? Her precocity i was just the repetition of the sentiments and expressions she heard 1 about her. I And might not one hazard the opinion that the weighting of the memory destroys other faculties and gives a reason why the precocious child so early becomes a distinct rocket —its light and fizzle and glare all ended before maturity is reached. Perhaps It Is this consciousness which makes us all have a feeling of pity for the precocious child and to rejoice so heartily that juvenile displays no i longer shadow our afternoons In i some things at least we make for progress.—Exchange. Turpentine as an Antiseptic. % One of the most famous surgeons in New York writes to the World apropos of a discussion about the safety of carbolic acid, bichloride of mer* cury and other violent poisons as an tiseptlcs, that one of the best and certainly the safest thing for the lay ' mar to use on wounds is turpentine He Is Dr. Morris Stark, assistant attending surgeon at Bellevue hospital, and lecturer on eurglca! dressing to the training school of the French hospital. His words are as follows: "Ordinary turpentine, if rubbed into a wound which has not bled properly, ‘provided the wound seems to have gone through the skin, will not only ' act as a most powerful germicide but will start bleeding, a most desirable feature when a wound is first re ' ceived. When free bleeding has be [ gun the turpentine should be washed ] .' away with a little alcohol. This Is an , absolutely safe procedure. The wound ; is then dressed with any mild anti- . septic, such as boric acid or ordinary salt solution and kept moist with' these solutions.” __ —ui Rural Justice as She Is Dealt Out. “According to the newspapers.” re | marked Constable Sam T. Slackput i ter. the well known sleuth of Skee dee. “the New York police have grafted >2,400,000 off’n evildoers, and are now killing ’em for complaining about It. That's a heck of away to H do. ain’t it? Now. out here, when a ; I Mier breaks the law I just pull him ■ i and take him before old Sqtflre Dorn- j blazer, and we graduate the penalty | according to where he’s from and how ( 1 well fixed he 'pears to be. Frinstance, ! if he is one of our homo boys he gets off with a dollar and costs; if he be- ; Jongs over at our rival town of Whil- , lersvllle he is assessed ten dollars and i trimmin’s— which is really less than any of that outfit of tarrepins deserves, anyhow—and if he is a rich I cuss from Kansas City that has run his automobile too fast he gets $56 ' and the usual side dishes. Our way- ) me and the old squire’s—ls to sorter temper mercy with justice, as you might sky.” Indications. [ “I think rooms reflect the personalitv of thefr inhabitants.” ’“Then I take it, the lady who uses 1 this room is of a very worrying dispo- - Bi “ What makes you think that?” t “Because it has so much fret work.

MAKING USE OF WASTE LAND Cogent Thought* on Subject Th** I* Being Forced on th* Attention of the People. A genuinely civilised country—eoo nominally speaking, at least—is one whose land la divided into small holdings. each of which supports its own fapilly. This ia the land’s final, stationary stage, ao to speak—The eort of thing one sees, for Instance, in the smiling, truly prosperous provinces 1 of France. The French lend money to all the world. They are perhaps the most prosperous of peoples A country divided Into such small selfsufficient holdings is defended in the strongest way against financial explosions and shipwrecks. Whatever may be the test of cow-punching or the charm of the old-fashioned plantation life, no state can be said to have reached social maturity when It is composed of large holdings and its inhabitants are dependent on the financial ups and downs of the few. The swamp lands of the United States are particularly good examples of this sort of backwardness. They are useful for nothing hut timber, and oftentimes not for that. Anything more unsocial or desolate than a southern cypress swamp it would be difficult to imagine. Yet those who are Interested In the tremendously Important question of swamp drain age often meet with a curious local opposition. In addition to the obvious mechanical difficulties and the tangle of state lines. Owners do not want to break up their large holdings, even though the value of the land will be vastly improved. They have been big landholders for generations, and big landholders they wish to remain, even though much of their land be worthless. It is a tradition of prejudice to ; which the tendency of the age Is op- 1 posed. | However far or near Socialism may . be, there Is no doubt that—ln a broad sense of the word —we are becoming every day more social. Thia ma/, ' now be a matter of taste. It will presently be a matter of necessity. , People will have to touch one another whether they like it or not. For there ' is less and less elbow room. —Officer’s . Weekly. Origin of Vaudeville. I Writing to the Kansas City Star con- . . Corning the origin of the word vau- . Seville, Raymond Weeks, professor of romance languages at Colombia uni- • varsity, says “the word Is derived from the Vaux de Vire (the Vales of i Vire), a village in Normandy. ' “Oliver Basselln was a French poet who resembled Robert Burns and who lived at Vaux de Vire in the fifteenth ( centary., He wrote many popular songs, largely jolly drinking songs. These spread far beyond the obscure hamlet where he lived, until, finally, the name of Vaux de Vire, by which they were known, not being understood, they and similar sengs were called Vaux de Ville. They are mentioned by Boileau In his Art Poetlque. 1 Early In the eighteenth century in ] France, such songs were Interspersed . to vary light operetta*, which later . were called by their name. The songs of Basselln in praiee of cider and wine 1 are probably the flneat of their sort i tn any language. "As for the fact that we have taken I vaudeville from the French, let me | observe that most of our important terms relating to the theater came into English from French.” Boarding-House Suggestion. In a business women’s boarding home, with 35 to 40 permanent guests, there was a disposition to form cliques. This was somewhat du* to the fact that women who sat together at table day after day became well acquainted with each other, while having hardly more than a bowing acquaintance with those at other tables. Then one day the manager announced that, to "keep things moving,” there would be a reallotment of seats at table the first day of each i month. Some murmnrs of dlsapprov- ’ al greeted this, but when the first day I came everyone was greatly interested ' in seeing what neighbors she had ' The tables were lettered and [ the seats lumbered, and each guest : drew a slip bearing her designated i place Meals for days afterward were ■much livelier than they had been. There were new people to *alk to, new subjects coming up at each meal, ! and everyone voted the innovation a ' great success. —Woman's Home Companion. Made It Diamonds. Mrs. Percy V. Pennypacker, the new president of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs, said in San Francisco of the “new woman:” “My type of new woman has a high sense of honor, a manly sense of honor. She isn’t like a certain old-fash-ioned type of woman who does dishonorable things without the least notion of their being so. “A woman of this type was playing bridge. Her partner passed the make to her, and she made it diamonds, but her hand, on being put down, was found to contain only two diamonds, both very low cards. " ‘What on earth induced you to go diamonds on such a hand as that?’ her partner asked. “ ‘lt’s your fault,’ she answered petulantly. ’Why did you twiddle your diamond ring?’” Anticipating a Relapse. Doctor—Well, we’ve pulled you through after hard work. You’ve had a terrible shock. Patient—Yes. doctor, and I’ll hsr* another when I get your bill

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