OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, NOVEMBER 14, 1918
OREGON CITY COURIER
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BRANCHES III Alt THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
TRAINING LITTLE CHILDREN
Everv Child Instinctively Desires to Use His Hands. This Is
One of the Ways in Which He Educates Himself
Country Homes Abound in Material for
Beginning Handiwork.
Suggestion by mothers who have been kindergartners. Issued by the
United States Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C, and the Nation
al Kindergarten Association, 8 West Fortieth Street, New York.
(By Dorothy Canfield Fisher)
So many of our American farm
houses are situated in very rigorous
climates that a good many mothers
will not think the out-of-doors a pos
sible playground in winter time. This
is less true than they are apt to
think. On almost any sunny day in
winter, little children, if warmly
dressed, will benefit far more by a
brisk, romping, active half-hour's
running and jumping than city babies
do in their swathed, motionless out
ing in a baby carriage. And when
really bad weather drives them in, as
. it should do very seldom, the country
mother has a great advantage in
space over the city one. For there
is about a farm nearly always some
corner, a woodshed, a corner of the
barn, an attic, or an unused room
where the little folks may romp and
play actively. If necessary the sac
red spare room is better used for this
purpose than kept in idle emptiness.
And all the varieties of handwork are
resources for rainy days.
For, as the children advance be-
yound real babyhood and the mere
need for constant romping and climb
mg and runing like little animals
their instinctive desire to use their
hands increases, and this is an in
stinct which should be encouraged in
every possible way. Just as the wise
mother sees to it that they are pro
vided when babies with ample chance
to roll and kick and tumble, so when
they are older she is never more
pleased than when they are doing
something with their hands; and she
has all around her ample material for
beginning this handwork. A pan of
beans or shelled corn, with a wide-
mouthed bottle and a spoon, will keep
a two or three-year-old happy and
absorbed for a long time. A pack of
cards to be shuffled or used to build
houses is another "play thing" which
does not need to be specially bought.
A pan of bran and a handful of
clothespins occupy even a baby of
fourteen months as he pushes them
into the closely packed bran and pulls
them out. A big rag doll the size of
a small child, is easy to make and
stuff with cotton. The most rudi-
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mentary scratches serve to indicate
the eyes, nose and mouth, and the
lips and cheeks can be "colored real
istically with any red jelly. All chil
dren love a big doll of this sort, and
delight to dress it and undress it in
their own clothes. They learn in this
way to handle buttons and button
holes, and to master the difficulties
of shoes and belts and sleeves. A new
corn-cob pipe and a small bowl of
soapsuds means harmless fun for
the five-year-old, which is alway;
watched with rapture by the littler
ones.
And then there are blocks, peren
nial blocks, which need not at all be
bought from a store. A father with
a plane and a saw can plane a couple
of two-by-four stocks and in about
half an hour mke as many square or
oblong blocks (2x4x6 inches is a good
sue) as any child needs to play with
These large blocks not only cost
practically nothing, but are much
better for the little children to use
than the smaller expensive kind that
are sold; and the set will outlast
family of most strenuous children,
A collection of empty spools of dif
ferent sizes is a treasure for the
child of three who will rejoice in
stringing them on a cord passed
through a bodkin. When he is a lit
tle older and has learned skill in this
exercise he may graduate to string
ing buttons with a real needle anl
thread. On baking day a small lump
of dough (made less sticky by work
ing more flour into it) which can be
rolled and played with on a bit of
smooth board is great fun for little
folks; and let the mother constantly
remember that any fun whjch is se
cured by using the hands does not
only make the child happy, but is of
educational value.
On washing day a basin of soapy
water and some bits of cloth to be
washed out will fill many happy min
utes. The oilcloth apron is as in
dispensable for this play as for the
outdoor water play and for clay
modeling. This last is perhaps the
most eternally interesting of the in
door occupations for little children.
If the clay is kept on a bit of oil
cloth on a low table, it is not an un
tidy element in a kitchen.
If dried peas are soaked for a
few hours they are soft enough to be
pierced by a needle and can be strung
by four and five-year-olds into neck
laces and bracelets, or they can be
put together with wooden toothpicks
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into many fascinating shapes. Dried
watermelon and sunflower seeds can
be used in the same way. A box of
dried corn cobs can convert a free
corner of the floor into a farm with
log cabin house, rail fences and
barns. Trees can be simulated by
twigs stuck into bits of clay to hold
them upright, and farm animals 'can
be rudely fashioned out of clay, dust
ed over with domestic coloring ma
terial to make them realistic flour
for sheep, cocoa for brown hrses
and cows, charcoal for black animals
and then baked in the kitchen oven
to make them firm.
A rag bag into which the children
may dive ahd delve is a resource for
rainy hours, and if the mother is at
hand to keep an eye on the process
and tell what colors and materials
are, to suggest matching those colors
and stuffs which are identical and to
make agreeable combinations with
others, rag bag hour is as educational
as anv exercise in a carefully run
modern school. The country mother
has here again a great advantage
over many city mothers in that her
work is always at home, and of a
nature which allows her to supervise
the children's play without giving up
all her time to them.
Provision should be made in the
case of little children for their desire
to handle all sorts of objects; the
desire which makes them enjoy so
greatly a tumbling over of mother's
workbasket. There is no need to let
them upset that when here are in
every country ' house such a vast
number of other articles which are
not hurt by baby hands spoons, tin
pans, boxes, tongs, clothes baskets
and darning eggs. Furthermore, in
stead of being told "Don't touch!."
they should be encouraged to learn
how neatly and competently to "per
form such ordinary operations as
opening and shutting drawers and
doors and boxes and gates, screwing
the tops on cans, hanging up clothes
and taking off rubbers.
Please pass this article on to a
friend and thus help Uncle Sam reach
all the mothers of the country.
SOMEBODY'S DOLLARS WILL DO
IT I WONDER IF THEY'LL
BE YOURS?
(By BruceBarton)
I will tell you what will happen
some night this, winter in France.
Some night when it s cold and dark.
There will be a rustling through
the front lina trench, where our boys
stand guard. And a heaven ladened
secretary will make his way along.
In his hands will be great steam
ing pots; in his pocket chocolate and
cigarettes.
From one man to another he will
go, passing a cup full of hot coffee to
hands that tremble with the cold;
bringing the comfort of a bit of
sweet and a smoke.
Men will hail him cheerily, slap
ping him on the back; and when he
has gone things will be a little eas
ier in that trench because he has
passed that way.
How much will it cost to make that
trip do you suppose? Counting the
pittance that the secretary is paid,
and the cost of the chocolate and
the cigarettes and all?
Five dollars? Twenty-five dol
lars? I do not know.
But whether it is 'five dollars or
twenty-five, I'd like to think that it
MY five or twenty-five wouldn t
you ? That some night when it s cold
and lonesome, my money ahd yours
might send a secretary out along
that front line trench. Let's make
up our minds that WE are going to
pay for a score of those trips. A
score of the nights this winter shall
be OUR nights.
nights when the boya greet joy
ously the chocolate and cigarettes
that our money provided; and are
happier because OUR representative
has" passed.
and Mrs. R. J. Moore. Marvin Eby
was just recently released from the
Oregon City hospital, where he un
derwent a surgical operation.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Smith, of St,
Helens, spent Friday and Saturday
in Oregon City, having come from
their home to attend the funeral of
Mr.. Smith's son, Alfred H. Smith,
which was held Friday at Clackamas.
Mr. Smith died from influenza at a
training camp in California.
Mrs. Angus Matheson has recover
ed from an attack of influenza, and
has resumed her position as book
keeper for Miller and Parker com
pany.
Mrs. Snyder, of Redland, was hi
Oregon City Friday visiting her son
G. Snyder, who is ill at the Oregon
City hospital.
Lloyd Harding, youngest son of
Mr. and Mrs. Georee A. Harding, of
this city, has been promoted from
second lieutenant to first lieutenant,
He is in France with a motor trans
port division.
Born, October 31. to the wife of
J. E. Warren, of 511 15th street, a
son, who has been named Dean Ell
dridge. Mrs. Warren was formerly
Miss Nell Richardson.
Charles Barrv is improving after
a critical attack of influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Northrup, of Mc-
Minnville, were in Oregon City Mon
day visiting their daughter, Mrs.
James B. Johnson, of Eleventh and
Washington streets.
Mrs. August Rakel was called to
Sellwood Monday by the death of her
brother-in-law, Henry Fromong, who
was killed in the terminal yards in
Portland.
Miss Irene Hanny, who is taking a
course in nursing at the St. Vincent's
hospital in Portland, has been ill the
last two weeks at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Jrlanny,
with influenza.
Full of Cold; Had the Grip
This has been such a trying year
for sickness that many will be pleas
ed to read how Lewis Newman, 50G
Northrand St., Charleston, W. Va.,
was restored to health. He writes:
"I was down sick and nothing would
do me any good. I was full of cold.
Had the grip until I got two 50c
bottles of Foley's Honey and Tar. It
is the best remedy for grip and colds
I ever used." Good for grip, coughs,
croup, whooping cough and common
colds. Jones Drug Co.
FERTILIZER ADDS VALUE
TO COLLEGE CLOVER CROP
Application of 10 tons of manure
per acre increased the net profits
irom untreated areas by $iu.yu an
acre. With beans the net profits
from like treatment were $9.99
acre over the untreated plot. The fer
tilizer had a greater value when us
ed in crop rotation, and the great
est value under irrigated conditions.
"Maintenance ot organic matter is
of great importance in the control
of moisture in the dry part of the
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-it does beat all how men
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A little, applied without rubbing, will
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Keep a big bottle always on hand
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Miss Anna Smith, who is teaching
this year in the Tacoma public
schools, is spending a vacation with
her sister, Miss Edith Smith,
Harold Dedman, son of Mr. and
Mrs. E. P. Dedman, of Clackamas, is
in the Sellwood hospital with a se
vere attack of influenza. He is a
member of the student training camp
at Reed college in Portland.
Captain W. E. Hempstead, who has
been stationed at Fort Stevens for
some time, was in Oregon City the
last or the week.
Mrs. Charles Bollinger and son,
John, former residents of this city,
but now living in Astoria, are visit
ing at tne nome ot Mrs. .Bollinger's
parents, Mr, and Mrs, William All-
dredge. '
Bert Harvey, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Harvey, of Twilight, has left
Seattle on the U. S. S. Willimantic
bound for Chili, South America. Mr.
Harvey was book-keeper for the Ore
gon City Woolen mills for a number
of years. He has been stationed at
Seattle, since his enlistment in the
spring.
Mrs. O. D. Eby and sons, Marvin
and Roland, went to Molalla on Fri
day, visiting Mrs. Eby's parents, Mr.
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growing season when moisture be
comes the limiting lactor in. crop
production," says W. L. Powers, pro
fessor of soils at the Oregon Agri
culture college. "Fields that had ma
nure or clover sod disked and plowed
under withstood drouth much better
than untreated companion plots. This
is especially true this season.
"Organie matter can be increased
by application of lime or fertilizer
where increased growth results, by
accumulation in pastures, by green
manures, by catch or cover crops, and
by plowing under manure and clover
sod every three or four years."
Struck by Auto
The ten-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Larson, of this city, was struck
by an automobile Monday afternoon
during the parade here, and severely
cut on the back of his head, lhe
machine came down Main street at a
rapid rate of speed, and the lad was
struck by the side of the auto and
thrown heavily to the ground. The
driver of the machine did not stop.
The' lad was given medical attention
by Dr. M. C. Strickland.
SOME GOOD ADVICE
Ex-
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Kidney disease is too dangerous to
neglect. At the first sign of back
ache, headache, dizziness or urinary
disorders, you should give the weak
ened kidneys prompt attention. Eat
little meat, take things easier and
use a reliable kidney tonic. There's
no other kidney medicine so well rec
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Oregon City people rely on them.
Here's one of the many statements
from Oregon City people.
Mrs. J. B. Schatz, 213 Seventeenth
St., says: "I know Doan's Kidney
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whenever I can recommend them to
others I gladly do so. I have taken
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for kidney trouble and backache and
they have always done me a lot of
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Taylor Promoted
I. D. Taylor of this city has just
received word from his son, J. L.
Taylor, who is stationel at Black
wood, Virginia, with an infantry di
vision, that he has been promoted td
first lieutenant of his company."
Lieutenant Taylor is a graduate of
the Oregon Agricultural college and
enlisted in the service in Montana,
and after enrolling for the officers'
training camp in California, he was
sent to Virginia as an istructor, and
at that time was made second lieutenant.
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the best doctors In the country
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and having to go Into all kinds
of badly heated stores and build
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hours at a time while plying my
trade as auctioneer, it Is only
natural that I had colds fre
quentlri so when this would
occur I paid little attention to it,
until last December when I con
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through neglect on my part
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