Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 8 December 1910 — Page 2

OSES OF KITCHEN MUST BE TAUGHT

Less Cramming of Book Knowledge

did More Kitchen Knowledge for

Girls is Advised.

More kitchen learning and less cramming of book knowledge into the heads of girls, is the most crying need of the day, according to Dr. Jane E. Robbins, Executive Secretary of the Public Education Association. "The defect in ourpubJic school fly stem," she says, '"is that it inculcates disrespect for the normal occupations of the home. Our girls are taught everything except the one supremely important thing—how to be good wives and mothers. "Our children, and especially our girls, are being, not over-educated, but over-booked. When I was a child the girl with bookish tastes was an exception. Now she is becoming the rule, and she is distinctly at a disadvantage after she has left the school room. "What can she do? Ask the average grammar or high school graduate what occupation she wishes to take up and she will answer stenography or school teaching, and in many cases she has no practical training for anything else. She is as helpless as a baby when she comes in contact with the live responsibilities of the world. "Those girls hold the future in their untrained fingers. It is the mothers of our children whom we Are keeping in ignorance of the great study of home-making. "What we need to remember is that it is quite as important to have brains in one's fingers as to have brains in one's head. The girl who can't do the higher mathematics, but lmows enough to put the butter on the ice, so it wont melt, is quite as valuable a person as the mathematical prodigy—who would be apt to forget all about the butter. "Very few girls today receive any sort of systematic domestic training from their mothers. Sometimes the mothers themselves are ignorant aometimes they are foolishly unselfish, or bitten with the silly notion that book-learning is the only genteel Imowledge. The children of the rich ore quite as much in need of lessons in domestic science as the children of the poor."

WILL EATVElON IN SM OF TEXAS

Luther Frost and his brother, Albert, of this city, and Clarence Bundy, of Knightstown, will leave Tuesday for San Antonio, Texas, in the inter«st of the Leader automobile, but will not forget to hunt some while there. They expect to eat venison for Christmas dinner as they did two and four years ago. Albert Frost, one of the party, expects to remain in Texas for the winter. The others will return bome the first of the year.

OLIVER IK. STEWART AT CHRISTIAN CHURCH

Preached a Great Sermon to Attentive

Audience—Was Prohibition Can

didate for President.

One of the greatest sermons ever preached in a Greenfield pulpit was preached yesterday in the Christian church by the Hon. Oliver W. Stewart, of Chicago.

Mr. Stewart is a minister in Christian church and was the Prohibition candidate for president of the United States a few years ago and was recently a member of the Illinois General Assembly from one of the Chicago districts.

Mr. Stewart took for his text "But whpn the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth His son made of -a. woman, made under the law." Gal. 4:4.

He showed the part played in the world's history by the Jews, Greeks and Romans. He showed the great work of Paul. He said the Jews believed in the beauty of holiness of beauty. The Romans gave us law oven by the sword, but the Lord-Jesus Ohrist taught us the law of love.

The sermon was full of good things from beginning to end and was heard by an attentive audience. Mr. Stewart spoke at Milton yesterday afternoon and at Richmond last night.

Mr. Bussell, of Brown township, who was elected county commissioner from the eastern district, was here today attending the meeting of the commissioners and taking items on the routine of business.

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World Revolves

Father can see another handkerchief or pair of slippers for Christmas just like he has received for many years past.

Some men live to attain great fame and receive the admiration and plaudits of a nation, yet after all, if misfortune overtake them, how soon they are forgotten and they pass out of the minds of the people. How often do we hear of the death of a person in the alms house, that in the heydey of their success, sat at the head of the table, honored and respected by all the people. How often a man or woman is talked about, has accomplished great results, has achieved greatness and the world made better by their being in it, yet when the tide turns against them, they are cast aside and pass out of public recognition and no one is interested in them or their welfare. The last to come to the attention of the public was the late John G. Carlisle, a statesman of great note, who was to his state what Morton was to Indiana, and his greatness led him into President Cleveland's cabinet. The following statement of his death and burial, comes from a Covington, Ky., newspaper, that is pathetic in the extreme: "Not only was the body of John Griffith Carlisle, for many years representative, speaker of the house and senator and secretary of the treasury, hauled from the depot to the undertaker's establishment in an'express van, when sent here for burial, but the great man's body was buried by contributions from those who knew him only by reputation. "A collection was taken up from the citizens of Covington, and only by that means was the body saved from a pauper's burial in the potter's field. "No gathering of friends or rela tives, no citizens' committee anxious to honor the body of one of the greatest men the Bluegrass state ever produced, met the coffin when it was taken from the train. After it had been carted to the undertaker's establish ment in an express wagon it was found that there were neither relatives nor friends to arrange or pay for the burial."

John G. Carlisle was not only one of the greatest men the Bluegrass state ever turned out but he was one of the few great men in this country up to a few years ago. Surely it is the irony of fate that such a man should die practically penniless.

Carlisle, after his retirement from the cabinet, located in New York to practice law. It is probable he didn't do very well and that he was too proud to let his friends know his circumstances.

The Moore trial now dragging its nasty length through the courts at Vincennes, proves that the Great White-Way is not confined to New York alone, but exists with all its lights and shadows in dear old Indiana as well. A profound lesson should be gathered from the testimony in this trial by men and women who are tempted to go tripping down the primrose path.

He'll not go home this year, alas! to where the old folks are, to gaze across the withered grass upon the hills afar he will not clamber from the train with bosom thrilled with joy, to hear the glad words once against

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welcome home, my boy!" Ah, yes, the old home stands today just as It did of yore, and oftentimes his thoughts will stray back to the big front door, and he will muse upon the times when he hailed it as home, ere he sojourned in foreign climes or beat across the foam.

With weary head upon his hands he'll dream about the lane, about the climbing rose whose strands tapped on the window pane about the rambling little street that idled through the town where often have his boyish feet In gladness hurried down.

There is a picture entitled An Empty Stocking" that never fails to touch the heart of those that look at it.

It is a picture of Christmas morning. A little one in her "nightie" has eagerly jumped out of bed to see what may be in her stockings, so carefully hung on the wall the night before.

They are empty. The picture shows the poor little girl, her face down upon the bed, in an agony of grief and disappointment. In her hand she holds one of the empty stockings, while the other hangs lean and limp upon the wall.

As you comprehend the picture a great pity seizes you. The story is all there. In all her future life, you think, this child will never face a deeper sorrow, a keener wound She was so full of hope the night before. She believed Santa Claus was too. kind to pass by a little girl who had tried to be good. Perhaps she never knew that Santa Claus was poor, but certainly he would

bring her something. And she was forgotten. Poor child.

GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1910.

It hurts to have your little heart filled clear to the brim with sobs. It is hard to learn when you are only a bit of a girl the lesson of neglect, because between a childish heart and its first great grief is interposed no shield of experience.

You and I know the world's stern ways. We know what it is to trust and be wretched, to hope and fail, to fall and rise and trust again—

But a child !J The picture is a true one. There will be thousands such when Christmas, not so far away, comes again.

There are homes in Greenfield, in every town, where hunger often shows its haunting face, homes where there are not even a few pennies to buy one little toy. And it takes so little to make happy the heart of a child.

Oh, yes, Iknow— The parents, but that is no fault of the children.

Pitiful that in a land of plenty one little child who craves the ownership of some trifling thing—a cheap doll or a tin soldier—should sob in cruel disillusion, holding in her little hand an empty stocking!

Maybe you can see in such a picture a duty which should be to you a great delight.

The time of the year is approaching when the average man begins telling how he used to shovel paths through eight feet of snow at four o'clock on mornings when the thermometer registered so far below zero that the mercury rattled around In the bulb like a mustard seed.

That is the sort of man who will go out the first heavy snow and show his family how to clean the walks. He will have a nice new dollar snow shovel sent up from the store, and will begin operations by slipping and falling down the front steps. During his slide several bushels of snow will surreptitiously become inserted between his shirt and his undershirt How in the name of time It gets there Is a mystery as deep as the cause of the aurora borealis or the production of radium, but the fact remains that it gets there. The man will overlook it for the moment, however, and begin tossing great shovelfuls of snow to right and left, and he will be working like a steam plow when the old man who lives up street and who has a bad temper and rheumatism will happen along and get forty pounds of snow in the face. After the ensuing argument the average man will resume operations. By and by his back will begin to ache, his neck to be stiff and sore and his arms to feel numb as though they had been paralyzed since he was ten years of age. But he will stick to it, for his wife and children will be watching papa from the Window, and the baby will be pounding the window pane with its sticky fingers and googooing gleefully.

At last, after years and years of lifting and shoveling, the walks will be cleaned, and the man will straighten up painfully and start to the back door when his wife will open the front door and cry: "You left a litfle bit of snow behind the horse-block."

Thoughtless people go right along saying and writing things about women just as they did a couple of generations ago. The same old jokes come around and are dressed up a bit and reprinted, with the imaginary foibles and foolishness and weaknesses of women as the feature, with never a thought of the changes time has wrought never a realization of the fact that the women of today are far different from the women of past generations— that the place accorded women in the affairs of the world is altogether different from that that she occupied in days of old. The experience of Mrs. Scott Durand, of Chicago, is happily illustrative. She conceived the notion of establishing a model dairy. Possibly she may not have had any very comprehensive idea of the kind of a game she was going against, and followed theory rather than practical ideas. She soon found herself "in the hole" to the extent of twenty thousand dollars. Right there is where the jokesmith would see his opportunity, and foolish people who have never learned anything about the difference between the now and the long ago as regards women, would have had her sit down and cry over the matter and then let the whole thing go to smash. But that is just what this typical woman of today did not do. She simply counted all that had gone before as so much spilt milk, not to be wept over. Then she donned a white cotton dress and a big white apron, and rolled up her sleeves, and she got right out into that dairy herself. She was her own manager and she didn't need any assistant ornamental officers. She got rid of all that sort of people, and she set in to learn the business and to do the work. Now she has about the most perfect model dairy in the country and runs it herself and is making big money. That is what the woman of today does.

Elmer Rafferty and Miss Mae Beaton, of Fountaintown, Omer Rafferty and Miss Pearl Ferris, of this city spent Sunday the guest of Mr. W. Rafferty and family of near Moristown.

JAMES F. REED WAS RE ELECTED SUPT.

Methodist Episcopal Sunday School

Board Elected Officers for Year

Nineteen Eleven.

The Bradley Methodist Episcopal Sunday school board met Sunday afternoon and elected officers for the year 1911. James F. Reed was reelected superintendent Samuel J. Offutt, assistant supt Mrs. Sarah Archey, supt. intermediate dept Mrs. Cora Orr, supt, Junior's dept Mrs. Ella Fletcher, supt. primary dept Mrs. Iza Davis, supt. Beginners' dept Miss Mary Duncan, supt. Cradle Roll dept Mrs. Sarah Houston, supt. Home dept Barton Pogue, secretary Nannie Hagans, ass't secretary James L. Smith, treasurer Clare Fletcher, Earl Barrett and Ethel Gant, librarians Mrs. Effie Smith, organist Thomas I. Morgan, chorisister.

These officers will begin the new term the first of the year.

H. B. MURED BY FALL

Mrs. H. B. Wilson, while on her way to the Baptist church Saturday afternoon, fell on North street. She went on to the church but afterwards becoming sick, went to her home. Sunday a physician was called and found that while there were no bones broken, her hand is very severely injured. On account of her age the accident is made more serious.

New Case Filed.

James M. Duncan, administrator of the estate of David I Duncan vs. Martha H. Duncan, et al, Petition to sell real estate.

Did You Love This Old Mao?

Millions loved him and revere his memory. Mark Twain was the Christ mas spirit personified. He was a sort of literary Sauta Claus to all mankind. Do you know why so many people loved himV It was because ^le waikind and gentle and tender and loving.

But—Mark Twain was a kicker? Oh, yes—yes, indeed, he was! lie admitted it himself. He kicked against all kinds of injustice. Whenever a brand of injustice, old or new, dared to show itself Mark Twain kicked it hard. HE WAS NOT KIND OR GENTLE OR TENDER TO INJUSTICE.

Late in his life, after having done his best to kill off the street car hog and cure the ill tempered ticket agent and eliminate other unnecessary evils, he became interested in the Early Christmas Shopping Movement.

He had been in the crush at the stores just before Christmas, and he had seen how the shopgirls were overworked, how they and the men clerks, too, were rushed to death in the last few days before Dec. 24 and even up to nearly midnight on that day-. So Mark Twain became an earnest advocate of the Early Christmas Shopping Movement.

It was a case of ingrowing kindness of heart that made Mark Twain urge all people to do their Christmas shopping early—to begin a month or so in advance of Christmas and thus make the lot of the shopgirls easier.

This Christmas for the first time the snows will be sifted over the ,grave of Mark Twain. If you loved him and if you revere his memory remember that his big heart was touched by the overworked condition of the clerks at Christmas buying time and that he asked all of you to DO YOUR SHOPPING EARLY THIS YEAR,

Notice of Final Settlement

The State of Indiana, Hancock County, SS: In the Matter of the

Estate of No, 1,607

Charlie G.Willett,Deed In the Hancock Circuit Court, November Term, A. D. 1910.

BK IT KNOWN, That on the 28tli day of November, A.D.1910, Raymond V.Willett, ad? ministrator of the estate of Charlie G. Willett, dee'd, filed in the office of tiie Clerk of the Hancock Circuit Court his final settlement account in said estate. The creditors, heirs and legatees of said decedent are hereby notified of the filing and pendency of said final settlement account, and that the same is set down for hearing on December 20, A. D. 1910, the same being the 2C judicial day of the November Term, A. I). 1910, to be begun, held and continued at the court house in the City of Greenfield, commencing on Monday, the 21st day of November, A. D. 1910, and that unless they appear on said day and show cause why said final settlement account should not be approved, the same will be heard and approved in their absence.

And said heirs are also notified in addition, to appear on said day and make proof of their heirship to said estate.

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Notice of Administrator's

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In the Matter of the Estate of Agnes Bennett, Deceased. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator of the estate of Agnes Bennett, deceased, wiil offer for sale, at Public Auction, at the late residence of said decedent, in Blue River Township, Hancock county, Indiana, a 1-2 miles northwest of Morristown, Indiana, 3 miles east of Fountaintown, Indiana, and 7 1-2 miles southeast ofGreenfield, Indiana, on

Wednesday, Dec. 28,1910,

the personal property of said estate, consisting of household and kitchen furniture, includinir a Majestic range in good condition, 1 heating stoves, a kitchen cabinet, a dresser, a Davenport, 1 division wardrobe almost new dining table, dining chairs and bedsteads Provisions, potatoes, canned fruits, etc. Farm implements, binder,mower, hay rake, wagon, buggy 8 head of hogs, 2 cows, 1 yearling heifer, 3 doz. chickens, 4 tons timothy hay, 500 bushels corn in crib, aud other articles too numerous to mention Sale to begin 10:00 a.m.

TERMS: All sums of five dollars and under cash in hai.d over five dollars a credit until September 1st, 1911, will be given, the purchaser executing his note therefor, bearing six per cent, per annum after inatunity, waiving relief, providing for attorney's fees and with approved surety thereon. No property to be removed until terms of sale ar_ complied with.

RICHARD A. BENNETT, Admr.

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Notice of Final Settlement

The State of Indiana, Hancock County—SSIn the Matter of the Estate of

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In the Hancock Circuit Court, November Term, A. D. 1910. Be It Known, That on the 28th day of November, A. D„ 1910, Huldah L. Cory. Executrix of the last will of John D. Cory, deceased, filed in the office of the Clerk of tho Hancock Circuit Court liis final settlement account in said estate. The creditors, neirs, und legatees of said decedent aro hereby notilled of the filing and pendency of said final settlement account, and that the same is set down for hearing on December 30, A. D. 1910, the same being the 26th judicial day of the November Term, A. D. 1910, to be begun held and continued at the Court House in the city of Greenfield, commencing on Monday, the 21st day of November A. D. 1910. and that unless they appear on said day and show cause why said final settlement account should not be approved, the same will be heard and approved in their absence.

And said heirs are also notified in addition, to appear on said day and make proof of their heirship to said estate.

In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of said Court this 88th day of November 1010.

WM. A. SERVICH.

(Seal) Clerk Hancock Circuit Court Offutt fc Richman, Attorneys 48fc8

Administrator's Notices

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Notice is hereby given, that the undersigned has been, by the Judge of the Hancock Circuit Court, appointed Administrator of tho Estate of Agnes Bennett, late of Hancock County, Indiana, deceased.

Said estate is supposed to be solvent. RICHARD A. BENNETT Administrator. Jas. F. Reed, Attorney for Estate

About twenty members of the local order of Red Men attended the funeral of -Edwin Lyming at Mt. Lebanon church Sunday morning.

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John Worth and family have moved from Pierson street to the corner Noble and Fifth street.