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28, 1911. SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT. Boston Matron The Admiration ol Her Neighbors in Her Domestic Management. There is a young married woman living in a suburb of Boston whose management of her home and chil dren is the admiration of all her neighbors. "Well, you see I took a course in home making," she explained when the reporter asked her to talk about her methods. "Although I am an American by birth, I was brought up in Englnad. There, as you know, there are several schools in which a girl may specialize in home making, manage ment of the house, and care of children. Some Practical Work "'Although the theory is taught first, the practical comes so soon after that it is almost as if they were both taught together. We had instruction in elementary phy siology and hygiene,and caring for babies rin the house gave us an op portunity to put the theories taught into practice. The babies were from 2 weeks to 7 years of age, and they were all the children of working women who, left them for us to care for while they were at work. "Some of them were brought to tts in the morning without being awakened. Their mothers had to get to work so early they were glad enough to leave the bathing and dressing of them to us. All of this was done under the imme diate supervision of a trained nurse. Just as all the little garments were made under the di rections of a trained needlewoman who saw that we cut and made each garment according to the la test and most approved patterns. We had to prepare the food for the children under the directions of a trained cook supervised by a chemical expert. What She Didn't Know. "It was all very interesting once you became familiar with the meth ods, although I was appalled when, within ten minutes after entering the school, I was called in to the class of physiology, and asked such a number of questions that I couldn't answer. You see, when fil ling out my application for entrance I had stated that I had studied physiology. So I had, but from a book with a skeleton to examine once in a while. There is nothing personal in studying even about the human body in that way, and I managed to fail on almost every question asked. "'It didn't require very long.how ever, for me to learn all about the subject when the babies became the subject. So different did the study of physiology become that I soon decided it was the most interesting topic I had even touch ed. From being afraid to handle babies I beqame as familiar with the care of them as I ever had with my dolls. That change, is I think, one of the most valuable results of this training. Housekeeping Very Interesting. "The same thing is true of keep ing house. Once you know it as a science, become interested in learning the best methods of doing each step, and why, it is wonder fully interesting. In that school we not only had trained nurses, sewing women and cooks, but a housekeeper and a kindergarten. In the housekeeping department, as in every other, we were taught why certain results were desirable and now best to obtain them. I do not have a servant, because I don't care to share the training of our two children with any one be sides my husband. A servant has a lot to do with the shaping of a child's character, ,for the simple reason that they care for the house in which the child lives. "In that London school all the training led to motherhood. The well-being of the baby was the ob ject of all our work. One of our instructors used to say that the training of the child began before Its birth, for it was impossible to bring up a happy well-trained child in a disordered household. But having established order in the household, the training of the haby begins almost from the moment of its birth. Its feeding, bathing, sleeping, and airing becomes like clockwork. "When this sort of training be gins early enough baby has no bad habits to be overcome. It becomes as natural for it to lie in its cra dle contented until time comes for it to be fed and bathed as for it to breathe. Having been bath ed, dressed, fed, and given its ac customed exercises, it expects as a matter of course, to be put back in the cradle to play and fall a sleep when the time come3. American Servants Incompetent. "Although I have found the ser vants in America more incompetent than in England, I have also found White Enameled steel closet tanks. Clean and neat with no lining to rust out.Otner fixtures never before shown In Oxford. Q 8 aa 2 Is 33 . "MO 2 i? H 3 STEAM FITTERS, P. H. Montgomery & Co. Shop 46 College St. s w W mo op oi them less necessary. In the first place, because your apartments are so conveniently arranged as to make a servant unnecessary for a small family. I wouldn't have known what to do with myself when I first came over here as a bride if I'd kept a servant. There is a room, for one on our apart ment, but so far she would be in my way. I began in a new apartinent with every article fresh and clean and in place. It has been a very simple matter to keep it so- "So far as I am able to see, such a training is of more value to the average girl than any business course that she can take. Where she has so much money that she cannot live the simple life then it will render her competent to direct her servants, and through them manage her home, and so give her children the best atmosphere. Similar courses are being given in your American colleges. I have talk ed to the teachers and some of the graduates, and I am impressed with the fact that the London method, although less scientific, is more useful, because it is more practical. In an American school of household economics the student is taught to cook, to sew, to amuse the baby, and maybe to nurse, but I haven't heard of any place where you teach by practice all of these branches." THEY SAT IX SHADY SEATS. Ingenious Youth Found Way to Get Them, Though All Were Taken. Xew York Times. All the shady seats in Union Square were taken. There wre plenty of vacant ones in the sun, but it was a scorching hot day. A young man and girl strolled into the park from Broadway and, find ing no place to rest, obtained by stratagem what they could not by fair means. Standing near enough to the sit ters to be heard, the young man re marked: "It's pretty nearly time he pass ed over." "Who?" innocently asked the girl not seeing what he was getting at. "'Why, Wilbur Wright- He's go ing to circle the Metropolitan tower today. Starts from Garden City. It's five minutes of 1 now; let's go see him. He's to be there at 1." The report that one of the Wrights was to do an air stunt spread rapidly and as the Metropol itan tower could not be seen from the choice spot in which the youth had selected to sit, more than half of those occupying the benches start ed off. Two of the coolest, shadiest seats were then selected by the youth, and heand his companion sat down. REPLECTIOXS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. The more succsesful a farmer is the less credit he will give to the weather and the Lord. The noblest thing about a wife is the way she will keep on being one when she has learned better. A pretty girl makes a fool of a man by appearing to give him a chance to make a fool of her. A man isn't necessarily a fool at 60, but he might as well be for all the influence he can have with men under 30. K teaapoonful of medicine in time often pre vents a siege of sickness and saves the little ones a lot of suffering. We have pure, wholesome remedies for all the different ills of children. REX ALU WORM CANDY is the most de lightful medicine you could give children, and at the same time it is a safe and sure cure for stomach and intestinal worms, round worms, whip worms and pin worms. REXALU baby laxa tive is a mild and gentle regulator for the baby. Sold with the Rexall guarantee. J. G. HALL, Oxford, N.,C. H e D QQ 5& B A 9 "I n a .1 w Ees s t s S3. a S A a 3 CO w SO BOHOJB3 iiuon n nrfl. Keep Children Hi THE PURE FOOD MAN. THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL NOW UNDER FIRE. Wiley Has Backing of Prominent Scientists and Unlikely to Lose His Job. New York Eveninsr Post. If there is one thine in the world which does not worry.. . Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley .pure food champion, it is an attack from His adversaries. He has been as sailed so often, and he has made so many enemies in the course of his crusades against noxious food stuffs and drugs, that he probably views with equanimity each new outburst of criticism. However that may be,, Wiley seems to be popular with the American public in general, and it is safe to say that many partisians do not wish to see him ousted from the job of chief chemist, in the De partment of Agriculture. If he has been guilty of a technical violation of law, undoubtedly a number of his advocates will follow the lead of the scientific society which has aiready telegraphed to President Taft a plea for his retention. The public may be inclined to over look his fault, even if it be prov ed, and to remember only the thingf he has done and his interesting ca reer since he taught classics in a small Indiana school. From Latin and Greek, he shifted early to sci ence. Having risen in pedagogical lines until he was professor of chemistry at Purdue University.he became the Government's chief chemist in 1883, and he has been busy from that time until now in crnobating the purveyors of poisons masqueraded under the guise of nourishment. So far as the records go, the first real attack upon Wiley was made while he was a professor at Purdue. The trustees of that in stitution did not consider him suf ficiently pious to guide the youth of Indiana. Why He Stopped Teaching. Years afterward he recalled the college episode which terminated hi service as a teacher. "It was charged before the trus tees," he said, "that I neglected to attend morning prayer, that I rode a bicycle, that I was the pitcher on the student baseball team, and, worse than all, that I even wore a uniform while so engaged- In short, I was irreligious, frivolous and undignified. "I admitted that every accusa tion against me was absolutely true, 'I have attended morning prayer so often," I told the trustees, that I know it by heart. It is the same old prayer day after day, and has become so common and mechanical that it does me no good. Let me repeat it, I said, indicating that I was about to begin. y "Hold on," snouted the trus$swtike to see driven out of business, who had called me a monkey oh a "'To be pure and healthy, soda-wa cart wheel. 'We have heard the prayer " "'Very well I replied, 'I shall de sist. The other matters said of me.' I continued, 'are here confessed- I ride a bicycle, not to be wicked or rakish, but that I may get around easily and comfortably. Sometimes I go long distances, and I have no horse. I play baseball with the stu dents because I like the game and need exercise out of doors. There is no occasion," I said, 'to prolong this hearing.. I shall end the em barrasment of the honorable trus tees, all of whom I hold in high es teem, by resigning.' "Whereupon I put my withdrawal from the faculty in writing and left the room. The next morning I re ceived a letter from the secretary informing me that the trustees had declined, by a unanimous vote, to accept my resignation. I had taught for nine years at Purdue University "In the meantime, I had read at public meetings two papers which were heard by George B. Loring, of Massachusetts, commissioner of ag riculture under President Chester A. Arthur. At Mr. Loring's request I became chief of the Bureau of Chemistry." , Smiles at His Critics. So Wiley, having learned as a college professor to take what was coming to him, did not forget what he had learned, and each attack thereafter has been met with calm ness, even with smiles. A series of onslaughts by manu facturers in the last four years be gan with an outburst from the American Extract Manufacturers As sociation. Their spokesman said that Wiley had been destroying cre dit through his crusades- It was about the same time that the chem 1st made a speech on the harmful- ness of home-made bread, but the housewives who read it probably sought to improve their product rati er than abuse the chemist. Late in 1908, there were rumors that the reformer's attack upon ben zoate of soda as a food preserva tive would cause his removal, hut he continued to oppose its use. "I can make a living outside, I guess," he remarked, when some body asked if he was about to he ousted. The National Molasses Refiners' Association sent a petition to Wash ington on December 19,1908,asking for Wiley's removal. Nothing came of it. In Congress speeches were made in his defense as to benzoate of soda, and President Roosevelt was attacked for having named the scientific committee which ap proved the preservative over the chemist's head. That was the begin ning of a long fight, in which Wiley did not win. He held his job, though, and caused many re forms which angered manufacturers and dealers quite as much as a vic tory against benzoate of soda would have done. For instance, President Roosevelt repeated all the demands of the rceitfiers for a modification oi Wiley's scheme for labelling neutral assertion were circulated, presuma spiiits mixed with whiskey. Refer.-, ibly ky makers of whiskey. He, ring at that time to his defeat in the benzoate of soda controversy; the doctor remarked that the pure food movement was a success on the whole- "Both manufacturers and cosum ers are realizing that it costs less in the long run to make and eat uncontaminated substances than stuff that has been bolstered up by coloring matter and nreservatives." he said. "'Ninetenths of the manufac turers are now turning out unadul terated products. "The rest, I am inclined to think, will continue foistering adul terations on the public as long as they are permitted to do so, or as long as the public will buy what they make. After all, when you come right down to facts, there is no particular reason, why the spurious preserved products should sfcll. They are made and sold sim ply because people can be found to buy them. In a way, then, it is the public's fault. Let consumers positively demand that what they buy shall be pure, and they will get only pure articles- "As a matter- of fact, you don't make anything by buying what isn't pure. On the face of things, it may seem that you do, but analysis dis poses of the assumption. Take the case of catsup. You can buy per fectly pure, good catsup for fifteen cents a bottle. You can buy adulter ated catsup for ten cents a bottle, but there is twic eas much cat sup, in the pure bottle, so that to get as much in the adulterated ar ticle you must pay twenty cents. "The only reason the manufactur ers make spurious foods is that they are avaricious. They can make a few more cents by cheap ening their product and using less expensive ingredients. But more and more, I think, they are begin ning to appreciate that honesty is the best policy. In other words.the man who turns out food 1 that will stand the test is the man whose products will keep the market long est and increase sales steadily. Would Educate the Public. "Our great hopes lies in the per sistent education of the buying pub lic. It cannot be emphasized too strongly that the final decision rest with the consumer. If he refuses to buy impure foods, no manufactur er will be willing to lose his mon ey by making stuff that cannot be sold. It is the gullible the ignorant and the careless who encourage man ufacturing of impure food." Soda Fountain Perils. One of his most recent public ut terances was a warning against so da fountains. Soda itself was all right, he declared, but dangerous in gredients were likely to be hidden in the foam covered glasses. He continued : "The honest soda-water man who sells real soda water is a godsend. I would not part with him for the world. It's the man who sells inju rious chemicals and habit-producing drugs in soda-water glasses to whom I am opposed, and whom I would ter should contain three ingradients pure fruit flavors,pure carbonated water, and sugar, not saccharin or some other injurious sweeting. To sell flavors that are made of chemi cals instead of fruits is criminal. To begin with, what is soda water? That is one question I would like to have Congress and the various State Legislatures define positively. Until there is some authoritative action taken on the question.there is little reason to believe that we will ever get pure, clean soda wa ter in the ordinary drug store. "There is no law which compels the druggists to put specified ingre dients into his concoction. He may put virtually anything under the sun except the poisons which are prohibited by law into a glass and squirt a little foam on top, and, if the mixture is satisfying to the palate of the credulous, he will make money. Some day, I hope Congress will tell us what soda wa ter is, and what it is not. "First of all, soda-water does not, and is not supposed to, contain any soda. The name is a misomer. A great deal of the stuff that is sold under the name of soda water con tains saccharin instead of sugar. That should be prohibited by law. Saccharin in injurious to every one, and affects children seriously. Most Whiskey is Adulterated. "Never drink blended whiskey. Always drink it straight, and, if it is too strong, dilute it with good water. The notion that blended whiskey is merely a mixture of two or more different kinds is all a mistake. As a matter of fact, blend ed whiskey is simply cheap, had whiskey, doctored up with spirits. With that, he produces an out- j fit of chemical apparatus, got a bot tle of alcohol, burnt sugar, and oth er stuff, and went to work. In five minutes he had a red liquor, ready, and passed if around among the committee members to be tested. They took it, tasted and smacked their lips. "It isn't whiskey at all," said Wi ley." '"It is the stuff that is often called whiskey. The greater portion of the so-called fourteen-year- old whiskey is made in less than four teen minutes by the aid of what is known as 'ageing oil.' " Another test before a committee of legislators had to do with eggs The doctor took in a big beaker about three-quarters filled with a 10 per cent colution of common tabl salt. Into the liquid he dropped the eggs. The fresh ones sank to the bottom.. The others floated partially submerged, according to their state of age. The eggs had been labeled to siow when they were laid- So often has the chemist appear ed in the role of lecturer and promulgator of advance to the public that his utterances would fill a whole row of scrapbooks. On one occasion he said he believed that 85 per cent of the whiskey sold over bars 'in this rniintrv was adul- iterated. Rennrts nf his denvine the promptly denied the denial, re peating that most of the liquor was a compound made of neutral spir its, or alcohol, artificially colored, often flavored with artificial essen ces, and sometimes mixed with more or less straight Whiskey to give a flavor. THE NORTH CAROLINA State Normal and Industrial College Maintained by the State for the Women of North Carolina. Five regular Courses leading to Degrees. Special Courses for teachers. Free tuition to those who agree to be come teachers in the State Fall Sessions being September 13, 1911. For catalogue and other informa tion address JULIUS I. FOUST, President, Greensboro, N.'C THE NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS THE STATE'S INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE. Four-year courses in Agriculture; in Civil, Electrical,a nd Mechanical Engineering; in industrial Chemis try; in Cotton Manufacturing and Dyeing. Two-year courses in Mech anic Arts and in Textile Art. One year course inA griculture. These courses are both practical and scientific. Examinations for admis sion are held at all county seats on July 13. For Catalog address THE REGISTRAR, West Raleigh, N. C. THIS $50.00 Cream Separator will be given as a pre mium in the county fair for the best display of dairy products and dairy animals. It can be seen at the Court House. 94 k WPEWMTffi TEST THAT MEANS SOMETHING Blindfold yourself. Have ten typewriters, of different make, placed in a row a Monarch somewhere among them. Try each keyboard in turn. The machine with the lightest touch will be the MONMCH LigM Touch. and you can locate it every time, no matter how its position be changed. Just as the proper tools produce the best work, so does a responsive key action increase the efficiency of a stenographer. It saves her strength. Therefore she has a better grip on her work, is more accurate, more rapid, gets a greater quantity of work done. There is no "three-o'clock fatigue" where the Monarch is used, and a few days trial will convince you of this fact. SEND FOR MONARCH LITERATURE. Learn the reason for Monarch superiority. Then try the Monarch, to the end that you may know that Monarch merit rests In the machine itself, not merely In what we tell you about It. MONTHLY PAYMENTS. Monarch Mochlnes may be purchased on the Monthly Payment plan.' A post card will bring full Information. Tine Boirihiaim Book & Sttattiioiniciry Comrnpaey, DURHAM, IDEAL MANUFACTURING COMPANY. Manufacturers of THE EPEAL Dustless Sweeping Powder OXFORDi - - - - IM. C. OUR PRICES: Ideal Sweeping Compound in 300 lb. bbls. $2.80 per hundred. Ideal Sweeping Compound in 175 lb bbls. $3.00 per hundred. Delivered at Your Railway Sta tion,Satisfaciion Guaranteed j D R U G LI ro ll. o Fresh Turnip Seed. When you buy seeds here they are the growing kind, fresh and waiting for sunshine, earth and moisture to bring them to life. We have a large assortment on hand and will be glad to furnish you. Ask us about the prize we offer this year. o Frank F. Lyon. North Carolina. 10 i '
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