THE CHARLOTTE NEWS FEBRUARY 6 1909
The
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Monthly
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Edited tey J. IV. BIGHAM
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Crop 'Rotation
Rowto Main
Ferti
Soil
tain
lity
;:. .1. N. Bighani.
; t 1) :i i has not already done
i! !ir casting about in liis
w'.i.ii he will plant in Ihis
,!, tin- nailing season.
u ca'-ic will of course
t ..M-i.ifiai'ion. Time was
, ,;'n i ion of the rotten was
, ! tor purpose of keeping
Hi.
A THOUGHT FOR FARMERS.
PUKE
OF II
,1 I
is shown an increase of nearly double
i ne yiel'l ol 100 years, thus m-ovinc
what we have so long contended for:
that land when properly farmed, in
stead of decreasing in productiveness
will not meiely retain its fertility, but
actually becomes more productive as
he years go by. No "worn-out" land
I ought, therefore, to be found. If it is.
!t is the fault of the farmer and not
if tSr. 1oti,l if -li-. a-
. . ..' ...... : . . . . i 'i i ik iii mi. it .i i i v r.i "liiovo 1.1
c 111' t'4;M ' M MUtllK 'I IUI1. I """ ,u""Vi J " -
,. i,,. route when the cotton i ;"".sl . nn) e na(1 in country. Sure
,.. M ).. looked at from quite! -v l " time we mended our ways. The
,M . c i ion Th- high prices of ;Uin! r England has been cultivated
J',;',- is; corn, wheat, oats, in ,lor Tillies, here the first century has
. ,, .,11 products of the farm !'lC)t -vet b,Jn passed with most of our
.", i. reckoned with. Farm-I aml- an 111 the ol(lest settled portion
, ,,i to raise these products in Jlutl orc th:m two centuries have
. mm irrespective of what ;ono b- aml Vft have millions of
; ,.r 11. does. Not onlv that ! '"T8 exhausted land. Let us with
; .niiii; fort Hit v of the soil,jlhls 'fJ:,r niIlke u new start and a bet
; ,.f the continued year after tei" ?ne- . , A.
, ;. , hoed ciop culture is be-1 "e -'losp with the proposition we
...nous problem to thought-1 startwi out with that the time has
'' !,...),.., th..v .ivti (.n"r'rti iecnie v.'hen the farmer must look at
, ,,t To'iii-mv farmers 1 llu reduction of the cotton acreage
t.riilitv is becoming quite j llmi mite a different view point than
'.."'""when Mr. Lee got out his 'hat ,tne l)lice wiU probably be in
i'.e -otton crop for 11K)S tal'- An" svstem of farming that
. .;.,. veason the writer regard- '.1cu'6 not rry with it idea of improv
",s .'.te rather low in view of!1"-? or at loast maintaining the fer
.. '.. -,nd the seasonal weather ,ll,tv ot the soil will surely prove dis-'..'r-M.n
, tor ihe vear, basing the I "Planting. This has been proven
i" e on t he average produe-i"orth- south, east and west. Nature
"li-,t live vears whereas i nas beneficently provided the remedy
. Mart Mr." Lee's estimate if the farmer will comply with the
. justified by the recent ' conditions rotation with the legumes,
v :t in tiie ginners" report. The.
If the faith, the mother of hu
manity, is to "wear out," what is
to become of the race? The fact
is that soils, properly treated,
maintain their productiveness in-
definitely under cultivation. The
further fact is that, with the dis-
appearance of pestilence and the
discontinuance of war that belong
to the future, all contributing to
the growth of population, the pro-
ductive capacity of the soil must 1 The wheels of the business world
be sustained at its highest point 1 are revolving faster every day. Hit
or the world suffer want. The
li fe-Qec:lfnniii or mc:er tf fho nil
-1 v tw , v. .... .......
AWAITED DEATH IN A GRAVE.
MODE! FAB
lib
man ingbnuiw is constantly seekin:
new devices to save that most valu-
is lowered in two ways: (1) by able asset of modern business time.
physical destruction, through the
carrying away of the earth to
the sea: and (2) chemically, by
One after another, new inventors are
I being brought into use in an at
tempt to increase the speed of these
the withdrawal of the elements wheels to the utmost.
required for plant life. The waste
from the former cause is very
srrpilt It acpnunto fnv clovilitv
- - - - - - v ... v v ........ . - i ''
Of. all such time saving inventions
jthe greatest is undoubtedly the tie
phone. Introduced only about thirty
the older," which are also the years ago it is under present condi-
more hilly, portions of the cul- tions an absolute necessity as a mean
tivated country. Throughout the of communication. Take for exam-
South this process of denudation pie, the telephone service suddenly
has proceeded far. and is going from the city of New ork and busi
forward rapidly. . And even more ness there would be paralyzed; the
serious, universal and speedy is j wheels of commerce would come al-
the process of deliberate soil ex- " most to a standstill, lms necessity
Japanese Youth's Attempt to Bury
Himself and Die Afterward.
A youth of Kobe, Japan, who sought
mantic than professionalism." he said,
alive and pair an accomplice 25 cents
to spaae the earth upon his coffin
achieved some degree of notoriety
even in Japan, where new things are
happening every day. He failed of
his original purpose, however.
A policeman was strolling alonsr the
bank of the Minotogowa river outside
of Kobe, one day last month when he
happened to spy a joint of. bamboo
pipe sticking a few inches above a
mound of fresh earth. Being a Jap
anese and also a policeman, his cu
riosity was especially keen. He look
ed down the bamboo pipe but could
see nothing.
Then he began to dig around the
pipe. He had a considerable wrench
put on his nerves when a voice came
out oi the end of the pipe right at his
ear:
"Honorable condescend to go awav
ana permit me to die peacefully.
Farm Work for
haustion. James J. Hill, at Min-
nesota State Fair.
'-Jet fiOllie coiuiun in un
let the present crop but
:wz fact of the depleted fer-
seil still remains.
The Charity of Youth.
Not long after the Chelsea fire
some children in Newton, Mass., held
..In rhnritir fair lw ivliinh SIR tvore
. 1 t'ei t ili iv is not only noticea-1 " - , " ,
eetton' states; the same is! realized. This they forwarded to
.. (ll.n and wheat states. Theth rector of a certain Boston church,
,;, ,h.n ha prevailed for corn i .ho had taken a prominent part-in
three v-ar has enabled the relief work, with a letter which
.ho have'been renting land 1rpad somewhat as .-follows: We
en the shares to uniformly nave had a fair and made $1S. We
,. ,,, .ilt tiiov Jtre sending it to you. Please give it
has spread from the large city to the
small city, from the small citv to
i the town, and is now making itself
felt in the rural districts. The mod
ern farmer does not. regard his tele
phone as a luxury but recognizes its
value as a financial asset. He real
j izes the necessity of keeping in close
The Month
Fear
Of
u a r
By Chas. Petty.
This is a very important month on
the farm. Harness, plows and all
farm machinery should be put in first
class condition. The provident man
will lay in extra plows, plow points,
single trees and keep a supply of heel
screws on hand. Extra plow stocks
should always be handy. This will
rave much time when plowing begins.
Every farmer who runs a two-horse or
larger farm, should have n blacksmith
...ill nil iw l 1 IIJ1 . I , '
But the policeman did not go. He . 101) antl a s"m,lv o1' eoal. When that
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suggested io him the practicability of
starving himself to death, but in order Ifcas been no weather suitable for plow-
to be sure that he should1 accomplish ling- To-day a neighbor came rush
this purpose he had determined to ing up to me with a handful of clav
Ihis supplies when the market is low i bury himself in a securely nailed coffin halls and says: "Do you see that? I
an-and sell his crops when it is high. i and await the ravages of hunger. He went over to my lot awhile ago and! does not prepare lor and have a good
didn't want to suffocate first, so he found a hand turning my land. H ! garden the year lound is only a half
The Girl and the Lobster,
Dorando Pietri at one of the many
Italian banquets given in his honor touch with trade conditions. With
in Aew ork, talked about professional the aid of the telephone he can buy
atnieiics.
""Amateuris is no doubt more roraan
uc man proressionaiism, lie said. Science and invention have done
"but we live in an unromantic age." Wonders in raising the standard of
ne smiled. farming. The farmer of yesterday
uniy i ne otner nignt at one or your Was poor, over-worked and narrow in
gayest Italian restarurants," he said. many ways. The farmer of the pres
"I overheard a dialogue that illustrated ent is prosperous, broad-minded and
ioicion me ages iacK ot romance. contented. The telephone has been
it was late. At tne tame next to -m inmortnnt factor in his develon
mine a rich young Italian contractor ment. Broueht into closer relations
was supping with a beautiful young with tlie business world he has been
girl. As the young girl played with nhifi to keen nace with the times and
the stem of the wineglass I heard to aduist the wheels of his farm to
dug some more and finally unearth
ed a pine box, the length of a man's
body and about three feet wide. The
bamboo pipe -led through an opening
into the box. The policeman pried
off the cover of the box. which had
been securely nailed down, and dump
ed the self-appointed corpse out.
Yamada Katsutaro, the man who
would have thus died, told the prefect
of police" that he had wanted to die
in a seemly fashion because he was
out of work. The lack of food had
is the case, if there are lour or five
plow hands on the place, some of them
will be sharpening plows every morn
ing, or noon. It insures better work
and saves much time. Thorough pre
paration makes the work easy. The
man who saunters around and never
;g,c-tjs ir.nii m ui v-UIiI)ll.-,n nine. llOOU
tools should be bought. It is false
economy to give hands a hair worn
hoe or a plow that is only fit for the
junk heap.
The First Work.
Up to the last days of January there
'Neath stormy skies the wintry
blasts
Sweeps o'er the hill and down
the vale,
While children 'round the farm-
ers hearth
Repeat the merry fireside tale.
with their icy
The forests
plumes
Are radiant with the rising sun,
Or sparkle with an armed hosts
Before the dosing day is done.
Jillson.
is enough to make a good man raise
a lutllluia shout to see a large field
so well cared for that there is not un
inch in it where the rootlets or plant n
will fail to find food.
The Garden.
A farmer's dinner without vegetables
is a ixtor aflair. and tho farmer who
her murmur:
it is true, isn t it, mat you love ones in the city.
run more in accord with the larger
me, and me only?"
The tlephone holds perhaps a
i to the Chelsea sufferers. Yours truly.
etc. P. S. We hope the suffering
is not all over." Harper's Magazine.
limnev t nun wnen mey
i. eash to men who fed their
i . iittle. This naturally checks
'i.n- . ii. ent which we regard as of
i tnusi importance towards crop
... ! v.Hiiir nn.l tht mnin-
,. e! fertility. Moreover, high ,ne Language or commerce.
. cu:!i ha- led to the heavy mar- '-I understand that your wife and
i, , ( ., : ami will without doubt daughters have have acquired several
., ; ! r... ,e; se.l n.im'. er of cat-j foreign languages."
i' . I'r.ited Stales. "Yes." answered Mr. Cumrox,
a s;;iiil of cattle is also, "when they're having a good time in
society or at the opera they talk
French or Italian. But when it comes
cf putting on weight as . to telling their troubles they get
; older, and hence are, back to plain English, so that I can
i .i : ...i
r uniers nave Muuieu
than ever before the
'" 'Yes, said the young man, 'though more important place on the farm
this lobster is certainly mighty good
DON'T KNOCK.
k market bogs fed on corn
" . uht. (Vnsequently last
! :;ue nv.r.iber of hogs were
, ' h-h.t w.-igiit for the rea
priced corn looked better
." h..: than in it. It is l'urth
;.;t in .-r.mo instances that
- i I the middle west have
.- m' tin ir brood sows for
ii . -v. rsiocked. Of cours e
i I affairs will right itself
' of time ent the cotton
take a hand.
Don't be a-knockin' the weather!
Seasons will come an' will go;
Seedtime an' harvest together,
God sez 'twill alius be so.
Look at the blooms that are fiingin'
Sweetest of increase on you;
Listen! The birds are a-singin'
Look! See the sunshine stream
through.
E. A. Brinistool in Los Angeles Express.
than in the city. Although not
used with such frequency yet the
long distances which prevail greatly
increase its value.
That farmers all over the country
are having their farms connected by
telephone is the best possible proof
of its value and that it has come
to stay. The farmer, as a class, is
Uhe hardest" person in the world to be
persuaded to adopt an uncertain pro
position in spite of the proverbial
"gold brick" stories which are cred
ited to him. His decisions are t!ie
result of careful thought and due
deliberations. But once convinced he
is not slow to action. Southern Cultivator.
had thought of the bamboo pipe. began in the lowest and wettest part.
The day before the policeman dis- Here is the clay he was getting tin.
covered him, Yamada said, he procured I told him to stop at once." That clay
the box and the services of a coolie, had water enough in it to make mor
Then he dug the hole out on Egeyama tar, with a little addition. That is one
and after giving the coolie his obi and danger. The two-horse and disc plows
fifty sen. his last bit of money, he was should not be used Y'hen the clay is
nailed up in his coffin, lowerd into the wet. It should be dry enough to cruni
grave and covered under six feet of ble and mix well with the top soil,
soil. jAnother mistake is sometimes made.
Yamada promised never to try bury- Some farmers think that two horses
ing himself alive again and the police are needed to subsoil land. That is the
let him go. case where the top soil is five to seven
.inches deep. But there are hundreds
HUMMING. i of acres in every township in the
(Piedmont where the soil will average
All the mills are humming bake it about three inches deep and is devoid
partridge, dear on toast, jof humus.
And let me help your mother to an- j One lively horse or mule will break
other piece of roast; two or three inches of the hard pan
A servant in the kitchen and an on such land by using a narrow twister
overcoat for Jim, or a half shovel. Remember that sub-
Better times are coming, with a bim-' soiling when done right is breaking
bam-bim; Jtwo to three inches of the clay at one
sr itime. More than that is useless.' "T
Better times, busy times a .bigger
slice of pie,
Buckwheat cakes for breakfast, and
the goose hangs high!
Baltimore Sun.
You can always tell how young a
woman is from the amount of gigling
she does.
Mrs.
"Now I wouldn't for worlds have i "Why, that woman hasn't a single
Mrs. Doigluv think that I thought 1 other thought in life except for
. ciiti h can casly see how so," said Mrs. Rubberino to her vis- j those horrid little fices of hers. Now,
i hint unless he hedges ' i i or, "but have you noticed, my dear, I am not taking "the point of view, j ting myself
The wheat lands ol the; that queer angry, reddish rash on i my dear, as some folks do, that a
s lias pone through about her face lately? woman ought to be ostacized from
'ibiur.g as the cotton of j "Yes? I knew won must've, be-j society and be drummed out of camp,
- ,i tediit bulletin of t because it is so frightfully disfiguring, i so to speak, and all that sort of
ie'.aitment will show, and you know- Mrs. Dorgluv whatever thing, if she hasn't a whole houseful
her other defects, used to have a j of children. But it certainly, is dis
nice skin, though, of course, she i guesting, to say the least, to see a
down on excent an uncomfortable a while ago and Mrs. Dorgluv finally
looking davennort. and I am sure 1 i found out that what ailed the mutt tnem.
The
next time get up a little more. Thus
in a few years, if humus is added, the
soil will be 8 to 12 inches deep. With
these suggestions let the plows begin
the first day the so:l is dry enough and
keep them going every day when the
weather will permit. Thorough pre
paration with plow and harrow is about
half the work in making a crop.
These Terraces.
The ugliest sight that comes in view
to one who loves the soil and trees,
as he rides along the laihvay is to see
a hillside or a gentle slope marked by
a hundred red gullies and the land as
barren as the ocean beach. If you
ride much you will see many such
places, looking as if a curso rested on
had no intention on earth of squa-
on that with a whole
man. lie ought to hire out to some
good neighbor and his wife ought to
repudiate him till he refonns. Deep
plowing and much harrowing will pre
pare the garden, but before that is
done it should be well covered with
pulverized manure from the lot. If
acid phosphate at the rate of 40U
pounds to the acre and the ashes from
the fire place or ash hopper are scat
tered over it after the plowing and
harrowing, the garden will be ready
for planting. Manure from the hen
house mixed with three times its
weight of rich dirt that accumulates
about the premises, makes an excel
lent fertilizer for all vegetables. Just
now cabbage and lettuce plants should
be set out. if you have them or can
get them. English peas should Im
planted. Onions planted in the fall
should be cultivated. They need lots
of manure. Spinach and mustard sown
now will give fine salad when the tur
nip salad fails. Crape vines should be
pruned and the strawberry patch cul
tivated so as to get out all weeds and
grass. Get brush or sticks ready for
running peas vrnl beans so that when
ihey need sticking little time will be
required. Prepare the Irish potato
patch thoroughly and manure with well
pulverized manure. 1 hey should be
planted February 0 to Match 10th for
an early crop.
Volunteer Oats.
It is useless to say that good pre
paration of land and sowing oats in the
fall will insure a crop every year pro
vided they are p.;t in the open furrow.
Abort .i year ago the writer saw a two
acre lot near Cafl'ney, that gave a fair
c-iop of oats which were followed by
I car.. When ihey wejc cut off the oats
came vt and the stand was :;o good
that tiu-v were left. Nitrate of soda
,.s produced quite succoss-
!'' it' O'litral New York for some
'iinu li';..- ii.ity years. During the lat
!,i wii! df ih.it period the yields be
in i .ciine. and at the end of an-''!i-r
twenty years they were so low
"i' . '. ,s.." wheat growing became
'"m I'ni'.e.ie. otiio, Indiana. Illinois,
! it'l h rt.i h;i.. each in turn repeated
hi" iii.-'.i. of New York. The soils
(! ii." ! taies were productive in ihe
'";itiid:is. it n l it required forty, fifty
'" .ixtv ..;us for the single crop sys
in ,(i tiiiii.-ri.illy lettuce the yield. In-
; "' in -' i ing the fertility of the
t:r l.titnets have gone in search
in a soils, . skimmed and aban
'"ii.'l .is huh as the old show signs
,,! Ai. iiisiin. Now. that they have
11 .nli" i the jnmping-off place and there
'v I... (;.(;, i West to move into, what
;'' lett behind? The average
'"'1,i ei wt:e; t p,M. acre in New York
!l;;i" ei,u i .-ft years ago was tvventy-
'if iin-,.,.t., p,.,. acie, last year it was
'"V"'1" n. ls.it for considerable tracts
!i ai' i't't'ii carefully farmed in
'" it un an earlv date the gen-
"'' .'- e would now be much low
'' 1:1 tatne short time the aver
'";!' in Indiana has fallen from
'"""ii '''t s i i . . s p,.r acre to fourteen, in
11:111. -,. t,, ., fifteen to thirteen, in
li.il.Ma Lorn fourteen to ten,
'"'"'"'iiia from fourteen to nine,
J, ' "' enihe Tnited States from
' m .,) t.Hi.t,.,.!,. 0 cannot
" inline population witn our
titet nods'. Official sta-
that the net profit from
1,1 twenty bushels of wheat
' ' is as great as that from
"!'-; '.f sixteen bushels per acre,
I" -II': (llvl fit I.l7,ln. inn " t fit
-' im mi n 1 iirn, j... t
ihis showing with what
"' nit in England of the
'! ii'ing u.n. plowed. The
' 'I'.-.-t has just completed an
' i'"' this subject, and
' m- results. "In 1S0S the
1 "I f wheat ier acre was
' 1 '-"Is. in 1S2S. seventeen
l'! ;'ie. in is:;s, twenty-four
" ' in Is IX, twenlv-seven
!" 1 i"'"'. in In.Vs, thirtv-four
' ' r in isrs thirty-eight
1 .' "'". in IS.s thirty bushel-;
11 iss twenty-eight bushels
bi r.ais thirty-two bushels
. M...t a striking comnarison
'' -".'-wii. Instead of a constant
ia- average yield, there
spent half of her time having her
face bleached and massaged and all
that sort of nonsense.
"Well, when Mrs. Dorgluv was
here the other day I felt real sorry
for her, 'deed I did, even if &he
has had four or five of my books for
the last three months and , hasn't
even suggested returning them, and,
of course, I'd rather go to the stake
than ask her to bring the books
back, for if a woman can't get
enough delicacy to
Well, anyhow, my dear, 1 telt so
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'' I'.e,
l.'.'if,.
woman rushing around like a chick
en with its head cut off every time
one of her herd of nasty little mutts
gets a cold or becomes sick any other
way.
"Why, do you know that Mrs. Dorg
luv once bragged to me that she
stayed up all night two nights run
ning with that sniffy little Japanese
roomful of nice chairs that, the dogs
had grabbed for themselves, and so
I just gently, but firmly pushed one
of the mutts off one of the chairs
and took the chair myself; and d'ye
know Mrs. Dorgluv didn't like that
one bit in me, and she picked up
the little cur-raudgeon of a mutt that
I had pushed off the chair and made j
much over it and said to it, um tne
mean ol' 'ooman push mamma's dar
ling off'n the chairses?' and a ,lot
more like that, a-purpose, of course,
to make me feel mean over having
taken the chair.
I'he next ugly sight, but bet
was the toothache, didn't she have-ter than red gullies, are terraces cov-
't.o nerve in telenhoiie to Dr. Mat- "red Willi w ctis, grass ani oiien
',), jier dentist, to come around to bushes several feet high. There they was applied about the first of April
see her never saying a word about stand year after year and they get aland the yield was 2 in "0 bushels to
what she wanted to see him about, little wider too. If you ;;re obliged to the ;.cie. Near the same place w
but oivin the inference that she have terraces make new ones above or have a 4-acre lot. A fair crop or
hercptf needed to have her teeth below the old ones and plow and bar- hippies, oats and pea vines were made
attended to and didn't Dr. Malgum row the old. Then level off the new
rush around there, only to find that and plant a row of the same crop plant
it was a measly little cur creature ed in ihe field on top and then the
that she wanted him to took at. 10 jiiowm m weu.s, ..mj iiios,s -,Ui,
"But to $ret back to the nerfectly
spaniel of her when it was sick? The 1 abominable condition of her apart-
niea, tne very idea: ut cours
there's no way of . proving it, be
cause she hasn't any children, but I'd
be willing to bet anything that she'd
sorry for her that, of course, I could-! hate like all outdoors to sit up two
n't refrain from asking her what j nights running with a sick young 'tin
ailed her skin. She got as red as i if she had a whole houseful of 'em,
the bumps all over her face when
I asked her that, though I am
sure I don't know why.
" 'Oh, this little rash on my chin ;
she said, just as if it was nothing,
and trying to make believe tnat it
was only on her chin, when her whole
face was covered witlrthe red bumps.
'Why,' she said, 'the young woman
who attends my face as masseuse
because I happen to know how Mrs.
Dorgluv loves her comfort, you know,
and particularly what she calls her
beauty sleep the idea of an old
married woman who's 43 if she's a
day talking about her beauty sleep!
"I hate to mention it, my dear, but
did you ever in all your born days
see such a poor housekeeper as Mrs.
ment all the time, why, of course,
there's an answer to that and the
answer is her dogs.
"She hasn't a particle of time for
anything in the wide world except
for that flock of mutts that she
keeps around her all the ime, and
that's why her apartment looks as
if it had been raided by policemen
with axes on suspicion of being a
billiard parlor or is it pool room?
It's something of that sort, any
how. "Why. she washes the fices every
day of her life and takes hours and
hours for the job, when she might
be getting a few tons of the dirt and
coo if nnvthino- nilorl its teeth? ; It is well to change terraces every
"I'll bet Dr. Malgum was good and - year or two any way. But a ten inch
angry- Of course, he had to pretend, r.oil with r.n abundance of humus will
when T asked him about it. that he do away wi-.h the use of terraces. It
wasn't a bit angry, only amused, but
I saw a glitter in his eye all the
samee when I brought up the sub
ject, and I'll bet he had a line or 1
thinks, as my misuanci cans 11, auuui
last summer. list week the ft and of
tats appeared to be good except they
were too thick in spots. The plan is
to h."Tow them about twice in March
and then apply 100 pounds of nitrate
of soda at th proper time. We believe
it will beat cotton for all the oats over
twenty bushels will be net.
Mrs. Dorgluv that wouldn't sound
well in Sunday school, 'deed that's
what I'd he willing to bet.
"It wouldn't be so. bad if Mrs. Dorg
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'"Well, well, my dear; what in the
wide world can you possibly think
of my utter and inexcusable thought
lessness? Do you know, I neyer
thought until this blessed minute that
vou yourself have four dear little
Dorgluv is? My, her apartment at
worked a little too hard with her j ways looks like as if it had been j dust out f her home. 'Washes and
fingers on mv skin the other oay, j rocked by an earthquake; dirt and dresses' them, she callsit the idea:
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I was going to swallow such an
absurd story as that.
"Of course, though. I didn t pi ess
her any further, seeing that under
neath all of her studied calmness sne
was taking it to heart so much. But
my dear, I don't mind telling you
what I think although, as I say, 1
wouldn't have Mrs. Dogluv, poor crazy
thing, know for worlds that I think
so, even if it does serve her per
fectly good and right, for I always
did tell her that if she didn't stop
being so caressy with those miser
able little wheezv. asthmatic, cough
ing, sniffling mutts of hers, why,
she'd be sure to catch something
or other from them some day.
"Now, darling, don't ever breathe
it that I told you I thought so, Nbut
I honestly believe that Mrs. Dorgluv
has the mange!
"Oh, well, of course, I feel sorry
for her, but still it's pretty hard to
get real despondent, over the troubles
of a woman who wastes her whole
life on a pack of yippy-pappy, snivel
ing, sneezy,- grwly, lay, good for
nothing dogs, 'deed it is.
as if it hadn t seen a nroom or a to cover them all up m their "cute
little blankets' that's what she calls
'em and doyou know that women
worked for a solid, two weeks mak-
than I can tell you, although men
get used to these things, in time, of
course, and Mr. Dorgluv himself isji't
any neater with himself than 'he
should be, and maybe he finds the
dirt of his home congenial, I am
sure I don't know.
"One thing I should think he'd
make an awful roar about, and that
is that there's never a chair to sit
down in in the Dorgluv apartment,
because those miserable mutts of Mrs.
Dorgluv grab and monopolize all of
the chairs. I s'pose she expects
folks to sit on the floor when they
call upon her.
"The last time I w-as over there
every last one of tlie comfortable
chairs in the sitting room was be
ing used as a snoozing place by her
dogs, and they all dreamed in their
sleep and barked in their dreams and
sneezed while they slumbered and
went on something awful.
Ing those blankets for her poodles?
Yes, she really did worked for two
weeks to make 'em without once get
ting out of the house.
Well, after blanketing the barky
Mrs. Dorgluv; but, of course, I was
speaking of her particularly, although
after all when a woman devotes her
self altogether to dogs why she
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A summer visitor who was trying
little sneezy, snoppers. why she has j a horse, the property of a New Eng
to take them all out for an airing in i shire farmer, with a view to buying
relays. She takes only two of them
at a time, because when she. takes
them all out in a bunch they are
liable to get lost or stolen, she
says, for it is too hard for her to j
watch all of them at the same time.
Well, to see that woman out on the
street, on the bitterest cold days,
making a perfect- martyr of herself
walking up and down with those dogs
and shivering herself as if she had
the ague well, it's enough to make
a gumboil laugh I mean a gar
goylethat's what it is!
"Yes. and when that Pomeranian
r.pitz or spaniel, or pug, or whatever
it was when that Pomeranian of
him. noticed that after driving a few-
miles the animal pulled very hard,
requiring a firm hand and constant
watching. "Do you think this is just
the horse for a lady to drive?" he
inouired doubtfully.
"Well," ansvered the owner, with
an air of great candor, "I must say,
I shouldn't real!;- want to be the
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