Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1916 — Page 3

TO SAVE LIVES OF INDIAN BABIES

APPEAL MADE TO PRACTICALLY EVERY INDIAN AGENCY IN THE U. 8. WONDER PRIMITIVE PAPOOSE LIVES Carlisle School Gets Interesting Reports and Contrasts From the . Reservations Carlisle, Pa—ln response to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Sells’ appeal to superintendents of Indian schools, urging them to do their utmost to save the lives of Indian babies Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps of the Carlisle Indian school has received interesting information relating to aboriginal babies from practically every Indian agency. z Commissioner Sells believes that this campaign for better babies, the rescue of a race, calls for redoubled energy and zeal throughout the Indian service, for it means personal work and tireless patience. Some of the photographs of Indian babies cared for in primitive fashion present rare contrasts to those of the more fortunate little reds who have advantages of civilization, such, for example, as the children of Carlisle graduates. All are fascinating sped mens of babyhood, though, and the only wonder is that the primitive papoose ever lives to grow up. Dr. W. K. Callahan states that the papooses commonly come into the world well endowed physically, but old Indian customs of carelessness and neglect are responsible for many subsequent ills. The new born child-is usually wrapped up in an old blanket fol* the first ttfo or three weeks of his life and is not bathed until the mother is able to bathe it herself* Dr. Charles L. Zimmerman of the •Ponca agency, Oklahoma, believes that the first step in the instruction of the Indian mother as regards the health of her infant should be that of "proper feeding". An almost universal disease of Indian children is tuberculosis, and when one- considers that 99 per cent of all children of 10 years of age in the white race are said to have tubercular implantation,Tie can appreciate its danger and importance in the tepee. Forced feeding and a daily batli for these cases will do much to overcome an inherited weakened body. Bridget C. Keough, field matron, SL Xavier, Mont., reports that in the Big Horn Valley, on the Crow reservation, Indian mothers are learning to take better care of their bafiles. While some still listen to the medicine women, or old grandmother, when the baby is sick the majority go to a doctor for advice and try to follow suggestions as to cleanliness and diet. The Crow mother will not prepare a layette for her baby, as it is a superstition among them that the-baby will die—if its clothes are made in advance. Dr. Martin 11. Reiber of Arizona, writing concerning Hopi Indian babies remarks that the living quarters and conditions of this Indian are not such as would be conductive to the health of the infant, and consequently the death rate is extremely high, lake the entire family the infant reposes only on blankets or sheep pelts on a bare, hard floor of clay. The one room house necessitates its occupancy by the entire family day and night; a door or window, if they have one, is seldom kept open even in the mildest weather; remnants of foodstuffs often litter the floor, and facilities for the disposal of garbage are deplorably inadequate; and moreover, the Hopi frequently does not take kindly to any suggestion that might remedy the situation. The water supply is inadequate, as it usually has to be carried a mile or more on the backs of the women or borros, and is often used for culinary and other purposes when alive with various larvae and absolutely unfit for human consumption. Concerning the Apaches of Arizona, Tassie Mary Scott of the San Carlos Indian Agency, writes that the mothers bundle the babies into the carriers, tie them, allowing no room for the movement of the babies lower extremities (which is necessary for muscular development and exercise), or for the proper expansion of the abdominal muscles, or necessary respiration. They leave them so for hours, generally with a heavy blanket, thru which no air can penetrate, covering the whole carrier.

Bride Balks at Red Wig

Detroit, Mich—Alla Mallad was in complete disguise at the time of his marriage to May Hassan. His new little red wig didn’t look like at all. It looked jdst like his own hair. His bride hadn’t discovered the disguise when freinds in Highland Park near this city, gathered to welcome the couple to their new home. It was then that Mallad drew his bride to him for the first kiss, and it was then that she discovered the disguise and went home to mother. “I don’t know what was the matter with that woman,” Mallad said to Judge Mandell, while testifying for a divorce. “She never kissed me and never lived with me.”

At the age of 21 a man has more ideals than ideas.

FARMERS BUILD TOWN; RUN IT WITHOUT HELP

Fernaid, Io a, Is Common Center Where Interests of Ruralists Are Consolidated Des Moines, lowa—Out on the prairies of lowa is one of the most novel towns of the country. It; is called Fernaid. At Fernaid there is no bickering between townspeople and rural residents as is often the case. The farmers for miles around feel perfectly free to go to town without wearing starched sh irts and col la rs. There is an air of mutual interest between town arid country which would gladden the heart of any rural life expert. And the reason for this is that the town is owned by the farmers them selves. When he goes to town to buy a tar of soap or a new plow the farmer buys of himself, or rather he is a partner in the store. When he goes to the elevator he sells to his company the grain he has brought in. Perhaps his next step will be at a bank owned and managed by the farmers themselves. All of Fernaid's business enterprises are owned by farmers living within a radius of three or four miles. Tho built fourteen years ago when the railroad was built, Fernaid has a population of only 100, and probably will not grow much larger in the years to come, because of the nearness of numerous other towns. The town was founded by the farmers in order to avoid making long hauls in delivering crops to the railroad. A line elevator was built shortly after the town was founded, but it was until about two years ago that it was purchased by a group of farmers operating under the name of the Farmers’ Grain Company. H. S. Fleagle, the farmer wso put thru the deal was made manager of the elevator. This investment proved a wise one, for in the first year under the new management the elAvator paid a profit of 95 per cent on the $5,000 capital. The Farmers’ Lumber Company was organized by four farmers with a capitalization of $6,400. Mr. Fleagle also managestheaffairsof-this company and its SIO,OOO stock. Another enterprise founded by the Farmers Cooperative Mercantile Company. After a brief period of competition the rival mercantile store w as, comp elle d to close its doors leaving the management of the town and its business affairs entirely in the hands of the farmers themselves. The town’s founders then establish ed the Farmers’ Savings bank, with a capital of SIO,OOO. The deposits have reached the $40,000 mark in three years. Mr. Fleagle’s ability for management was recognized a third time when he was made vice- president of the bank. Fernaid is in Richland Township in Story County,

PIANO SELLER INHERITS HERMIT’S HALF MILLION

He Saved the Old Fellow’s Life, But He Also Put Strings on his Fiddle Omaha, Neb.—Just because he was a good fellow and put strings on an old, broken down violin while visiting a hermit in the sage brush country in California, Eber Smith, a piano salesman in Omaha, has fallen heir to half million. >■ The hermit has just died and named Smith in his will as heir to this portion of his vast fortune. Of course Smith did more than string the catgut on the old violin for the hermit, but that was the first tning that endeared him to the old hermit’s heart. The first thing he did was hunt sage hens on the old hermit’s land. The second thing he did was call down the wrath of the old nermit by his presence on the land. The hermit was going to drive him off with sticks and stones, but Smith, being a good salesman and a good talker, stopped to argue the matter. That was back in 1904. He explained that he was a piano salesman and just out for a vacation. .* “Pianars,” repeated the old nermit. “Do you know anything about a fiddle?’’

“I know a lot about a violin said Smith, politely: “Come in,” said the hermit. Smith went to the lonely cabin, put strings on the old man's shattered v’olin, tuned it up for him and played him some pieces that delighted his heart when he was a boy. In 19O8|, when the forest fires in San Bernardino County threatened the settlers, Smith again chanced to be 1 in the vicinity on one of his annual hunts. He grew anxious about the old hermit and fought his way for eight miles thru the fire to see if the hermit was all right. He found him lying helpless in the cabin with a broken leg. He dragged him to safety. Since then he had heard nothing of him, until he was officially notified, a few days ago that Thomas Simpson, hermit of San Bernardino county, California ■bad died aid left him heir to half a million.

“OPEN THE MOUTH PLEASE”

f She Did, and So Wide That Her Jaw Was Dislocated 1 Easton, Pa.—Miss Irene Spense visited physician’s office and comcomplained of having a sore throat. The physician requested her to -open her. mouth so ■ an examination. She opened it so wide that she dislocated her jaw ahd was taken to a hospital for treatment.

HER TROUBLES

"For mercy’s sake,” cried the girl in the new suit, ‘'when did the last ship get in from Paris? Where did you get the clothes? I never saw anything so gorgeous in all my life! Your hat is a dream, and that veil is another. You are a marvel! What for, especially?” The other young woman smiled complacentiy. "Do F strike you That way ?” she inquired in gratified tones. "Then 1 must be all right, for that is precisely the effect 1 intended to produce. It it bad been a jjAade less I should have considered my toilet a failure! I wanted to make it impossible for any one ,to think of me as anything but the most fashionable thing on earth!’’ “Well, you’ve done it,” declared the girl in the new suit. “Why?” "You know,” explained the gorgeously appareled, one, Harry s family had never met me before we were engaged. They lived miles away across town. Alter we were engaged Harry raid they were all coming to call on me. Naturally 1 was anxious to make a good impression.” ( - "Well, that was easy,’’ said her friend, “it never is what one would rail hard work to look at you!” "Wait!” said the fashionable one in hollow tones. "For two weeks I went around from breakfast time till the lights were out at night, so dressed up that nobody dreamed of asking me to dust the living room as usual, or do anything but ornament the place. Then a bushel of tomatoes came the day mother had to go to a luncheon. ‘Go cn!’ I told her heroically. ‘I will make uie chili sauce and the catchup!’ “We never leave such things to the cook. In fact to get rid of the cook I told her to take an afternoon off, so that I would have a clear field in the kitchen. I suppose there are wonderfu’ individuals who can work up a bushel of tomatoes while attired in a neat blue serge with white collar and cuffs, like the angelic persons we see in the pictures and emerge unruffled. “But when I tackle anything like tomtitoes I get into it up to ffiy elbows. - There were tomatoes on the walls and oinatoes spattered in my hair and over my face and my apron was a sight. ‘‘Everything on the stove started boiling at once and was hot and frustered when the door bell rang. i“Let it- ring!’ said I to myself. It rang again. You know there is something intensely human and personal about a doorbell that you aren’t answering. It seems so accusing and reproachful. Just as I said for thri fouith time ‘let it ring,’ I dropped a preserving spoon splash into the catchup and matilr to the door. “I had remembered that the dressmaker was to send home my dress that afternoon for the dance that night. I wrenched upon the front door to catch the figure descending the

steps. “Oh, yes, it was Harry’s mother, dear. It couldn't have been any one else on earth, you know. There she stood gazing at her daughter-in-law elect, who resembled at that moment tt—cross between an inebriated cook and a squashed tomato. Harry’s mother is one of those neat, perfect women to whom a hair out of place is a perfectly unexplainable phenomenon. I know she burst into tears at son’s fate the instant sh? withdrew from my presence. And the tomato catchup all turned up while I was sitting in the best, parlor chair smearing it with tomatoes and acting as tho I was quite happy. “The men came to clean out the furnace the other day, and mother and I took the same time to clean the store room. You know what a store room does to you—it puts cobwebs in your hair and grimes you with dust, and you get soot on your nose and wear the gown that is worse than your worst one. When the bell rang this time —it being the maid’s day outmother said, ‘Oh, Ifbther! That must be Mrs. Phipps for the sewing society stuff! Bo run up and hand her the bundle I left in the front hall!’ “I ran, incidentally tumbling over the furnace man’s litter and putting my hands into a basket of soot and ashes, which 1 dusted off on my apron as I went. Yes, it was Harry’s married sister, who takes two hours every day to dress and hyphenates her name. “I will say nothing of the day Harry introduced me to a- cousrn-of liiswhqm we met by chance, when it had been raining and I had no umbrella, know what my Lair looks like when it gets damp—exactly like straggly shoe laces! “Nor will I mention the time I met Harry’s younger sister. It was in a beauty parlor, where I had my hair pulled back from my countenance and cold cream all over my face. Are you able to imagine me smiling in a selfpossessed way and saying, ‘So glad to meet you, at last’? “Well —I am now waiting for the taxi which .is to bear me ih all my present splendor to make a round ot calls on mother, married sis+er, young er sister, and cousin. Do you blame me?” “Mercy no!2’*said her friend. “But I am sure the-taxi will go to smash and hurl you into ajnud puddle in front of Harry’s mother’s house!’’

“I understand .you got several wedding 1 gifts.’’ J : ‘We did. At first I thought I’d have to hire a safe deposit vault, but after going over the stuff we simply stored ’em In a barrel in the cellar.” ■ 1 ■ r

Home Town Helps

PLAN YOUR HOUSE WISELY Your Own Interests and the Interest* of the City Alike Demand Care in Building. One factor often overlooked in fixing the value of a house is the mistakes in Judgment that often occur in planning and locating It. “You have often heard the remark, "There stands a $5,000 house on a $3,000 street.” Meaning that while the house pointed out cost $5,000 to build, the other houses on the street average only $3,000. Such mistakes in Judgment in buil<V _ing would be less frequent "if two Ideas were kept in mind by more people when building. Real estate men have found that, as a general rule, a ratio of about three to one should exist between the value of a single family dwelling and the value of the land it occupies. Also, houses should be made to harmonize with other buildings in the block. Keep these two facts in mind when buying. Then—fine houses are sometimes built near undesirable surroundings, such as noisy factories, livery stables and the like —which are sure to lessen the value of the house. Under mistakes in planning comes the “freak” house, built to suit some man's personal whim. Such a house may be very costly and yet not at all salable. The cost of unusual or unduly ornate fixtures and decorations is generally disregarded in fixing the value of a building. These things must all be considered in fixing the value of a house —in con-*, nection with the cost to replace, depreciation and obsolescence, if any.

WORK ON BUSINESS BASIS

City Parks Association of Philadelphia, Might Well Be Copied in Other Communities. The City Parks association has fox a good many years now performed a most useful function for Philadelphia. It has managed to combine qhd concentrate the efforts of a large number of civic organizations upon a certain definite line of endeavor. This was originally, as its name indicates, the creation of a comprehensive park sys-tem--the enlargement of existing breathing spaces, the creationofnew ones and the linking of all into a well-ordered system. While this great work is still in the making, the association has expanded its functions and it has done yeoman service in keeping alive high ideals of city planning, teaching the people of Philadelphia the importance of the larger vision in dealing with problems of urban beautification and pointing out far ahead of their actual realization the great works which must be carried through if Philadelphia is to continue to be a city* of homes, alive to the progress of the times, a beautiful as well as a comfortable place to live and work in.

Milwaukee’s Trees.

One of the charms of Milwaukee, a charm not so distinctive as it should be, is the shade trees along the streets—. : Greater care should be taken of these trees. They should be protected against vandals and against destructive insects. They should receive other care that many of them do not get. Instead of being permitted to grow in a helter-skelter way, for instance, they should be pruned. The elm tree, naturally a thing of rare beauty, is not pleasing to the eye when ragged branches reach almost to the ground. The trees that adorn our streets are a boon to the community. They give the city a touch of nature that nothing else can give. The community which benefits so greatly from their presence should take care of them. Nobody can do this except experts, men who know- the different kinds of trees and their habits. Milwaukee has been suffering for years, and is suffer! ng« more than ever today, from lack of scientific management of shade trees. Milwaukee needs a city forester. — Milwaukee Journal.

Unwise City Administrations.

Any city administration whose acts are prompted by petty jealousies and whose officials, either elected or appointed, refrain from performing the duties they owe the people because of those jealousies, ought to be 4mpeached. Honest, efficient service cannot be rendered the people when their public servants have such a narrow vision that they fail to appreciate the value of public opinion, and therefore commit those acts which prove that such narrowness of vision really exists. The public servants who accomplish public good are men of broad, vision, whose first alm is real pubUc service, and not self-advertising and personal glorification. Jealousy can allow murderers to escape : permit Infcompetents to remain in office; create Inefficiency in official labors, and bring about a chaotic condition so apparent to the peoffte that they cannot fail to see it. Some cities are today suffering from Just such causes. —South'Bend Tribune.

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Sneak Thief Broke Into Stockton Home Tuesday Night.

. Taking advantage of the absence of citixcnn from their homes Tuesday t night, when they were up town awaittlu- election returns, a sneak -i«<| the home of Mrs. Almira Stockton, on North 'Division street, by breaking in one of the 1 rear windows. Mrs. Stockton was 1 not at homo at the tifne, but Hope Hur'ey, who stays at the Stockton I home, was there and heard the noise I but did not go to investigate. Mrs. i Stockton returned in a short time. I The would-be thief vent out 7>F the ' front door. Nothing was taken, how- ■ over. On the same evening a horse belonging to Mrs.. Ei: Critter was taken from hd hom"* at the east side of town, but tho animal returned home later. Two men wore seen takI ing the horse by members of the Critser family. Now’ that election is over, let’s buy I that now suit and overcoat at Hil- , liard A HamilEfc—-

NOTICE. Having severad my connection with the office of John D. Dunlap, I have opened an office for the practice of law in the stockton-Williams Bldg. E. M. LARUE. A Conundrum —Easily /Answered. Why is Hilliard & Hamill’s clothes business TWICE as*large as it was a year ago? A necktie, a shirt, shoes, hat. lit*tle things in every man’s wardrobe that should be right—and they're always right when from Hilliard & Hamill.

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