Thursday, August 8, 1912.]
THE CAROLINA UNION PARMER
Page Thirteen
FASHIONS and
^ PATTERNS
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THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER,
Raleigh, N. C.
HOW TO LIVE.
No. 5908—Girls’ Dress, Closed at
Front—Cut in sizes 6, 8, 10 and 12
years. Age 8 requires 3 1-2 yards
of 36-inch goods, 7-8 yards of 24-inch
contrasting goods. Price, 10 cents.
No. 5917—Ladies’ House Dress or
Work Apron—Cut in sizes 32, 36, 40
and 44 inches bust measure. Size 36
requires 5 yards of 3 6-inch goods;
5-8 yards of 27-inch contrasting
goods. Price, 10 cents.
No. 5092 — Ladies’ Three-Piece
Skirt—Cut in 6 sizes, 22 to 32 waist
measure. Size 24 requires 4 yards of
36-inch material. Price, 10 cents.
No. 5879—Girls’ One-Piece Dress.
—Cut in sizes 6, 8, 10, and 12 years.
Age 8 requires 2 1-8 yards of 36-inch'
goods. Price, 10 cents.
No. 5901—Ladies’ Waist, Closed at
Left Side of Front—Cut in sizes 32
to 42 inches bust measure. Size 36
requires 2 3-4 yards of 36-inch goods;
1-2 yard of 18-inch net. Price, 10
cents.
No. 5921—Ladies’ Shirtwaist, in
Regulation Length or in Short Length
for Attaching to Empire Skirt—Cut
in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure.
Size 36 requires 2 1-2 yards of 36-
inch goods. Price 10 cents.
No. 5878—Misses’ and Small Wo
men’s Empire Dress, Having Four-
Gored Skirt—Cut in sizes 14, 16, and
18 years. Age 16 requires 4 yards
of 36-inch goods, without up and
down. Price, 10 cents.
No. 4 715—Ladies’ Kimono—Cut
in sizes, 32 to 44 inches bust meas
ure. For 36 bust it requires 7 3-8
yards 36 inches wide. Price, 10
cents.
No. 4949—Girls’ Dress—Cut in
sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, and 12 years. Age
8 requires 5 yards 24-inches wide;
3-4 yard contrasting goods 27 inches
wide. Price, 10 cents.
No. 5920—Ladies’ and Misses’ Nor
folk Blouse—Cut in sizes 30 to 40
inches bust measure. Size 36 re
quires 3 1-2 yards of 36-inch goods;
1-2 yards of 18-inch all-over. Price,
10 cents.
5863—laidies’ Two-Piece Skirt,
Closed at Front or Back—Cut in 5
sizes, 22 to 30 inches waist measure.
Size 24 measures 2 1-4 yards around
lower edge and requires 2 5-8 yards
of 50-inch goods. Price 10 cents.
5435—Ladies’ Dress, Closed at Left
Side of Front—Cut in 6 sizes, 32 to
4 2 inches bust measure. Size 36 re
quires 6 3-8 yards of 36-inch mate
rial 5-8 yard of 24-inch contrasting
goods. Price, 10 cents.
5525—Ladies’ Sliirtwaist with Re
movable Chemisette—“Cut in 6 sizes,
32 to 4 2 inches bust measure. Size
36 requires 3 1-4 yards of 36 inch
material; 3 7-8 yards of insertion.
Price, 10 cents.
5881—Ladies’ Waist, Specially De
sirable for Striped Goods—Cut in 6
sizes, 32 to 42 inches bust measure.
Size 36 requires 1 3-4 yards of 36-
inch goods. Price, 10 cents.
"4635—Boys’'Shirtwaist Suit—Five
sizes, 4 to 12 years. For 8 years it
requires 2 3-4 yards 36 inches wide.
Price, 10 cents.
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(Continued from page 12.)
parents appreciate how the nervous
systems of children should be cared
for. I shall mention a few cardinal
rules, the observance of which, I be
lieve, is essential to the care and cul
ture of infants and children, if they
are to reach -sane and vigorous man
hood and womanhood.
We must lessen the emotional at
tention that is given to infants. The
brain is easily injured in early life
and too much emotion may so affect
the nervous system of an infant as to
give it true nervous prostration be
fore the end of its first year.
Children should be let alone as far
as possible: our incessant effort to
entertain them is all wrong and but
continues the bad effects of too much
emotional attention. Children should
entertain themselyes. This will de
velop their minds and rest their emo
tions. It is a great mistake for pa
rents to frequently “show off” their
children and to talk about them too
much in,their presence. These prac
tices are sure to provoke a series of
most vicious emotions that will grow
into habits and influence their chil
dren in a bad direction*in after life.
Parents sometimes argue that their
children ought to be obedient and ex
ercise self-denial as t6 indulgences
which harm, because they have been
good to them in their infancy and
childhood, have found amusements
and pleasures for them, and have
denied them little or nothing. This
is the very gist of the sin they have
committed.
If the emotional natures of chil
dren had received as much tranquil
rest as their muscles had, their de
mands would have been more nearly
normal and they would have develop
ed-resisting powers.
If mothers who unreasonably hu
mor their children would stop to con
sider that they do not so much create
pleasure for their little ones as they
awaken disgust in the minds of all
who come in contact with their darl
ings, to say nothing of doing irrepara
ble injury to brains and nervous sys
tems of the children, perhaps they
would pursue a different course.
There are very few parents who do
not wish the highest goods for those
confined to their care. To know that
the children who are exceedingly dear
to them are referred to by outsiders
generally as little “imps” and “holy
terrors” who are in great danger of
growing up into hysterical, degener
ate or vicious men or women, might
prove a barrier to over-indulgence.
If nature had intended the baby to
be paramount, she would have in
stalled the baby first, and presented
it with parents afterwards.
Many of us lead our children into
pleasures and duties beyond their
years. As Patrick says, we ought to
stop making ladies and gentlemen
out of our children. To push them
early into responsible social life is to
develop emotions and cares and sub
jects the victims to tests and tempta
tions that ought to be postponed for
years. And the only justification we
have for it is our own and their un
wholesome delight in it all; and our
hope for their salvation from diffi
dence. The truth is, that diffidence
in early life is an advantage and
ought to be encouraged rather than
otherwise.
We should see that our children
have as little emotional struggle at
school as possible. The strife for
supremacy, the fear of failure* and
the envy and jealousy of others exer
cise most wearing effect on the brains
of the young. Not all by any means,
but many school children suffer in
this way. It is a duty to find out
the ones being harmed most, and to
work for their restoration to health.
To prevent nervousness in a child
or to remove nervousness already
present, nothing is so effective as the
toughening of the body and mind.
The frequency with which I hear from
a nervous patient that she “was al
ways sickly” is truly startling.
A child wh ohas hard muscles,
strong lungs an davigorous digestion,
who can bear changes of temperature
and endure pain is already a long way
from nervousness. More important
still is the toughness of psychic fiber.
The child who can endure disappoint
ment, who can be “crossed” without
inducing a tantrum and habitually
obeys, is building a bulwark against
nerves, and the one who is not
frightened easily and has self-control
and courage, has nipped many serious
illnesses in the bud.
Two capital errors frequently come
to my notice in the training of chil
dren; errors that prepare little un
fortunates for latter nervousness or
fairly drive them into it. They are,
first, as I have said before, leading
the child into pleasures and duties
beyond his years; and, secondly, mag
nifying his importance in the family
and society. It is quite as dangerous
to give to children the pleasures of
adults as to require of them the la
bors of the mature. That there is a
physical basis for all intellectual pro
cesses seems sometimes to be forget-
ten. Successive groups of brain cells
and fibers come into existence with
successive years; and before the
birth of these tissues certain psychic
functions may not exist. In the be
ginning the fault generally lies in a
mixture of parental vanity and ignor
ance. Fathers and mothers wish to
their children excel and they
see
like to see them indulging in all the
pleasures and excitement of our com
plex social existence. Later the
young person whips himself on to
ruin.
As regards the second error, it has
seemed to me that if deliberately
planned and scrupulously executed
the bringing up of some children
could not better promote what I ven
ture to call centripetal development—
development centering in self. The
child is not only made to be but
made to know that he is the focus of
all domestic affairs—the hub of the
family wheel. The unlucky young
ster develops a distorted view of
things. These proportions do not fit
the facts' of existence and the unfor
tunate individual is sure to be caught
in some sought of nervousness.—Dr.
Butler, in Woman’s Magazine.
PUBLIC MEETING ON TORRENS
SYSTEM.
Dear Brother:—The A. & M. Col
lege Farmers’ E. & C. Union, No.
1047, will have a public meeting at
the court-hpuse in Raleigh on Satur
day, August 17, 1912, beginning at
11 o’clock sharp for the discussion of
the Torrens System for land titles.
There will be speeches by Henry
E. Litchford, cashier of the Citizens
National Bank; Col. Robert R. Cot-
ten, of Pitt, who had charge of the
bill in the Legislature two years ago;
J. C. Little, of the Raleigh bar, who
is familiar with the working of the
system in other States; and Dr. J. M.
Templeton, President of the Wake
County Farmers’ Union.
The discussion will be of interest
to all who wish to huy or to sell
land, and to all who wish to borrow
or to lend money with land as secur
ity.
A warm welcome will be given to
all farmers whether members of the
Union or not, and to others who are
interested.
We shall be glad if you can be with
us on that occasion.
W. A. WITHERS,
ELIAS CARR,
Chairman
R. H. JONES,
L. H. SMITH,
R. E. L. YATES,
Committee of Arrangements.
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