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SATURDAY, MAY f>. HU7 DELICATE CHILDREN. FALLS CITY NEWS Pulnts Thai thvulii Da Observed In How It Happened to Acquire It* DU tingulehed Nome. Q u a rd in g T h a i r H a a lth . "Tho question of extrcise for tho ilr lira to child i« ono that should re ceive a groat deal of thought and attention," sun » Dr. Roger li. Dcn- nett in the Woman’* Homo t'oinpuu- ion. “Fatigue uniat be uvoidod, but tho proper »mount of eicrciao 1 a absolutely necessary. In tho city doliruto childreu are often taken Upon long wulka over the puveinenta and becorno thoroughly tired from too much exertion. Tho ideal meth od of getting exureiao ta in play. If thero ia something to stimulate the interest in the play and make the exercise entertaining, particularly the association with other children, one need not worry about the deli cate child’s getting too much exer cise. “It ia a serious matter to adviae taking children out of school or to delay tho beginning of their educa tion, and advice upon this aubject should never bo given without care- fully considering all sides of the problem. Hut, in spite of the great importance of education, health ia fir«t to be considered. “Delicate children should be tak en out of achool, for a time at least, if it ia found that they are failing in health. Nowadays in many of the cities, fresh air schools are pop ular, aud this often helps in decid ing the problem. Kvcn delicate children may attend an outdoor achool all winter, with only a few days’ interruption in the severest weather. Tho notoriously bad air of many schools is thus done away with, and it is remarkable how alert tho child's mind is when he is study ing in the open air. “Although delicate childron do not require any more sleep than healthy children, they often get less, and their sleep may bo inter rupted by dreams and other mani festations of their nervous makeup. It is particularly desirable that such children should ho put to bed early in tho evening, at least by 7 o’clock, before they are allowed to become excited by callers or even the usual family life. A nap should bo in sisted upon pach day, and even if tho child will not sleep he should bo required to lie down after the noon meal for at least an hour.” ' VOTERS WHO 00 NOT VOTE. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON. Hinca Washington came into world fume and the abiding affections of Ilia countrymen thirty-fivo stutes have been added to tho Union. In view of the nution’s deep love and veneration for his exulted character it seema strange that not one Of tho new slate* pre erupted to itself the uume of Washington until our own state took it territorially in 1 852. It would he more historically ac curate to say until it was given ua, for the pioueurs who organized the territory had chosen a different name. They christened the infunt Columbia, and Columbia it would now be had not Representative Stanton of Kentucky on the spur of a happy inspiration moved from tha floor of the house an amendment changing the name to Washington. Only ona state could be Washing ton, and that distinction and privi lege was reserved for the remotest corner of tho Union. But twenty- nino states have countiea of Wash ington—namely: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, In diana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minne sota, Miaaissippi, Missouri, Nebras ka, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, I’cnnsyl- vauia, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. Every one of these twentjr-nino counties named Washington has greater population than was in Washington territory when it was cut away from Oregon. Though the new territory included, addi tional to its present area, all that part of Idaho and Montana which lies north of the forty-sixth parallel and west of the summit of the Rocky mountains, fewer than 4,000 white people ware inhabitants. A census taken bv United ^tatea Mar shal Anderson immediately after his arrival in 1853 showed a total of only 3,9(55. But the people were brave, Oregon was willing to let them go, and congress had no ob jection. — Spokane Spokesman- Re view. Obllyallun* o f Clti**neiiip Thai Ara Shamefully Neglected. It would aaam that If tha people were greatly concerned over any one thlug ubovo all other* It would l,o In framing tho coiiktltiitlon of Ibtdr roiniimuwcNlth - their charter of government, with which all law* and ln«Ulutliiii* are to conform and the Mpirll and wladoiu of which enler Into tho morul Blwr of the community. The conitltuilon Use* the rlghta of tlie whole ixople, deduce aud clrcnmacrlhea them, sup|>oM-dl/ for many year* uheiid No provision should aver he written Into u »Into or uutlonal cou*tltut!on that I n not of Milth-lcnt worth am) of *uch general application • » to make It In a large measure a fundamental and iwrmauent principle of liumau conduct. Out an examination of the volea on lha adoption of state constitutions, and especially oir tha adoption of Impor tant amendments to »tat* constitution», 1 disclose* the fact that leas than one- third of the qualified voters of most state* signified their preferences In the matter. The figure* reveal a shame less aud Indefensible betrayal by the citizen of hie first duty to society, to hie neighbor, to the elate aud to the general government. We cannot study the statistics of those votes without rnnrludlng that what we need iu this country above all other things Is an old fashioned revival of civic rtyhteouaweea—the thorough Simple Spot Remover. This is a recipe for a very good spot remover: Two ounces of castile soap shav ed fine and two quarts of pure soft water. Boil till soap is thoroughly dissolved, strain and cool. When cool add one ounce of sulphuric ether and two ounces of wood alco hol. Shake it well and keep corked. It is now ready for use and will remove spots and stains from your clothing like magic, especially wool en garments.—Exchange. An Ironing Tip. Here is a solution for ironing a buttoned frockj shirt or, in fact, any garment that has a row of buttons. Fold a Turkish towel into scvei'il thicknesses. Lay the garment en the towel and iron it on the wrong aide. The buttons will sink into tho towel and the garment will be amooth and well ironed. TH* Crucial Question. • "But you can cook?” asked the prosaic young man. “Let us take these questions up in their proper order,” returned the wise girl. “Tho matter of cooking is not the first thing to be consid ered.” “Then, what is the first?” he de manded. "Can ”ou provide the things to be cooked?*’—New York Times. A Close Student. Robert Lowe, afterward Lord Sherbrooke, was so nearsighted that when he was reading his nose liter ally touched his book. He took high honors at Oxford, irit a wit aaid of him: “Lowe would have taken higher honor* at Oxford if he had not rub bed out with hi* nose what ho had written with hia pen.” Fallii «‘Ity, K« » <]•!•( e Phone .ln» Uryfon ATTORNIA Y-A T-LA W THE FALLS CITY NEWS. E. K . P I A S E C K I ATTO K NEY-AT-LAW »» Mill Street. PAI. LAS. OPE Business daros HOTEL G E T jfalls Sam (litt Ifootcl ple Rooms Y O U R BUTTER W RAPPERS P R IN T E D AT T H IS Best Accom modations f ■ Drooee. P r o p r l .i o r O F F IC E. HAIthKH SHOPS Bohle’s Barber Shops is the title of a new 32 page atlas just placed on the market. It is the most comprehensive work of its kind and is accurate in the smallest details. There are 15 pages of maps in three colors (15x11) covering minutely the various theatres of war, and showing all the towns and villages mentioned in the daily dispatches from the front. There are pages of photographs, many of them made ex pressly for this book, of persons, places and things about which so much is said and so little definitely known. Photographs of zeppe- lins, submarines, submarine chasers, mines, torpedoes, torpedo nets, anti air-craft guns, gas masks, giant guns that shoot 2-ton shells, German trenches, etc. There is a complete chronological history of the war to date, and the answers to a thousand and one questions on every phsse of the costliest and bloodiest struggle in the history of mankind. An Invaluable Reference Book for the Home Possession of this book will enable anyone to give exact in formation on subjects on which his friends speak from heresay. It is a valuable addition to any library and contains a wealth of facts on the one subject in which everyone is interested at the present time. The book itself is printed on the finest grade of enameled paper and is the best that skilled workmanship can produce. Falls City News ona year and Atlas S I .30 Even water gets lazy sometimes. The experiments of science have shown that, with an increasing tem perature, there is an expaneion of preaching of the gospel of civic re the particles of which water is com ! sponsibility. power and the Influ- posed, aud this, while diminishin, j once of a state The doiwnd not on the mani their density, lessens the weight an fold laws on Us ststute hooks or on the driving force of a stream. At noon number of complex and experiments) on a sunny day during the course of theories that It tries, or yet on the om a sultry afternoon water wheels be nipotent care of an expensive bu reaucracy, but rather on the earnest come sluggish, and weirs require sustained, use of the Instru opening more often when the gun is mentalities vigilant aud on the faithful high than in the early morning or observance at of hand obligation that after nightfall. — St. Louis Globe- binds the citizen every to the community, to Democrat. the state and to the country.—Senator Reputation is one of the prizes for which men contend. It is, as Mr. Burke calls it, “the chief de fense and ornament of nations and the nurse of manly exertions.” It produces more labor and more tal ent than twice the wealth of a coun try could ever rear up. It is the coin of genius, and it is the im perious duty of every man to bestow it with the most scrupulous justice snd the wisest economy. — Sydney Smith. O flk t ii'4 g»* _ Ä n/t<) "The World’s Greatest War” Jokabl* Relative*. Reputation. PIIY31CIAN AND fcUKGICON Ottica one door east of P. O. Falls City News, one year The Manufacturer Total Both papers, one year Borah In Youth's Companion. YAKUTS OF SIBERIA. These People Live In the Coldest Re gion on Earth. The Yakuts are the largest and most cultured of all the primitive races of Siberia. They live In the great prov ince of Yakutsk, a territory five times larger than that of Texas together with all the New England states. The extreme northern part of their country Is the coldest region on earth, the tem perature falling to SO and 00 degrees below xero. There the soil Is eternally frozen for hundreds of feet below the surface; even at the height of summer only s yard of unfrozen soil veneers the admixture of earth and Ice. afford ing foothold for the gray tundra moss and occasional patches of grass aud dwarf willow. Tho natives live In yourtas or semi- underground huts and a few one story log cottages, as do the Russian admin istrative officials. For ten months the country Is a dreary, trackless sea of driven snow, with far lower tempera tures than the regions about the north and south poles. During the brief sum mer thaw of two months the tundra, as the open country Is called, is an Im passable swamp. The Yakuts are the most numerous tribe of eastern Siberia, numbering some 250,000, and are typical repre sentatives of the culture of the Turk ish tribes of central Asia. In spite of tbelr present Isolation from the other branches of the Turkish race and tbelr probable mixture with Mongols and othfrs^ the Yakut» In. the course of cas tel i Shirr, la ir Cat, Bath •r ‘t h i s f AZ«st fir Dallas 'Ifam I xa »dry iu e a d a y e v e n in g Bu iirita i f o r w a r d e d MONUMENTS G . L. The United States has entered the greatest war the world has ever seen. The part we play may determine the future of Europe both politically and socially. Every American man, woman and child is vitally interested in this war. Some of us will give our lives, all of us must make sacrifices. Water Laxinest. Spid-es and tha W est, ar. F. M. HELLWARTH THE WORLD’S GREATEST WAR Cotton Manufacture. The spider is an excellent guide to the weather. Not only is he ex tremely sensitive to the state of the atmosphere, but ho takes a keen interest in the habits of flying in sects. Ho knows that these do not come out in the wet. When, there fore, ho is “resting,” you may be certain that he is expecting rain. But should he be busy constructing a new web it is a sign that he is looking forward to n fine spell—and he is generally right. PH vaici AM F a l l s C it y . O r e g o n A notebook of a justice of the peace in Connecticut in the year 1750 specifics tho behavior of a cer tain small meeting house hoy as fol lows: A rude aud idel behaver in the meting hows such as smiling and larfing and intiseing others to the same evil. Such as larfing or smiling and pulling the heir of his naybor be- noni simkm in the time of public worship. Such ss throwing Sister Penticost Perkins on the ice it being Saboth Day or Lord's Day between the meting hows and his plare of abode. —Blits, “Sido Glimpses.” The manufacture of cotton was introduced into Europe by the Arabs. Abdurahman III. about the year 930 caused it to be commenced in Spain, from which country it spread slowly to other European lands. He also established exten sive manufactures of silk and leath er and interested himself much in the culture of the silkworn. The Arabs were also the authors cf the art of printing calicoes by wooden blocks, a great improvement ou the old operation of painting by hand. NEW COMBINATION OFFER Where yea One of tho curious social customs practiced by the Crow as well as by many other Indian tribes is the "mother-in-law taboo”—that is to say, a man is under no circum stances permitted to hold conversa tion with his wife’s mother. An other strange regulation is that re lating to (he playing of practical jokes. A nun is not permitted to jest with any one he pleases, but is limited to the individuals whose fa thers belonged to the same clan as his own father. Within this group, however, practically any liberty is allowable. If a man discovers that a “jokable relative” has committed some foolish or disgraceful act he can publicly twit him with it, and tho person so derided must not get j angry, but bide his time for some favorable opportunity to retaliate. Bor at Colonial Days. professional darOs H A W K IN S MARBLE AND GRANITE M O N U M E N T S D alles, Oregon ri'KKRAf. DIRECTOR R . L. C H A P M A N FUNERAL DIRECTOR We attend to all work promptly. Dallas and Falls City. Ore. BKAi. JWTATIt J. O. M ICKALSON Denier in REA L I STATE ta ils City, Oregon. C R0W R-SI8LEY ABSTRACT CO: CIO Mill Plrwt. Ore#»a. JOHN K fcJBl-kY, M « u tter. O ur eb n im rt p leu t ir p*«wie«l d ally f ro a Pulk fot» ni y Bttfortk. Notice to News Subscribers A mark here indicates that your subscription is delinquent. Please cail and fix it. their migrations have preservec on* 6.- Mr. H orno Sooksr— tbe oldest and purest dialects of the C O M FA E LL T O S F CITY. A OREGON D w a r f Tree*. language spoken by the Kirghiz. the Dwarf trees are suited to small gar and Buy O rchard Land Tartars and other Turkish peoples.— dens. They occupy little space, are St Nicholas. easily cared for. bear sooner than standard kinds, and they ate easily Post Office Time Card Everybody Can Take Milk. shaped Into bushes and pyramids or If a person tells me “I cannot take can be used In espalier forms, trained Office hours: Daily, except Sun mlllc" I always say, "You can if you on buildings, fences or trellises. will take It In a certain way.” It Is it day. 8 a.m. to 6.30 p.ui. questiou usually of taklug It aright or Afraid. of taking it like soup, with a spoon, “Yes. I proposed, but she said I'd Mail arrives, from with a bite of some carbohydrate sub have to ask her mother first.” Salem 9.00 a.m.. 6:15 p.m. stance, cracker or bread, between the " A n d d id yon?“ Dallas, 9:00 A. M , 6:15 P. M. sip*. I do not think everybody must "No; 1 was afraid the mother might Portland via Gerlinger, train 102 take milk, but I think everybody can.— accept me." Dr. R. C. Cabot In "A Layman's Hand 11:55 a. m. book of Medicine.” Gradual Process. Black Rock, 1:30 P. M. She—My dear, can't you manage to Mount Genevieve. raise me a silk dust cloak? He—By Mail closes for: From Mount Genevieve, a peak tn degrees, darling. I’ll have to begin by Salem.8 50 A.M., 1 P.M. and 5:30 Gilpin county, Colo., s person, can see , raising tho dust. — Baltimore American. P. M. into five states. Ou a clear day the ob server can discern the I'lnt» h moun Dallas, 8:50 A. M. and 5:30P. M. Runaway Match. tains of eastern Utah, the Medicine "People wouder how I got my wife. Portland via Gerlinger train 102 Bow range of Wyoming, the tips of the a runaway match. I ran away, 1 p. m. Rockies tn New Mexico and the princi It ami was pal peaks of Colorado. The plains nal. she run after V me.”—Cassell's Jour Black Rock, 1 A. M. stretching away to the east are quite plainly visible clear Into Nebraska.— Mail Order and Postal Savings Argonaut. window closes at 6 P. M. A Tragedy. "What's this In the mall?” S unday O nly The Rev. Irl R. Hloks 1917 Almeneo "A tragedy of mine." "Have you really written a tragedy, Office hours: 9:30 to 10:30 a.m: The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac old chap?" Mail arrives from Salem, 9.00 like It. I've paid return post a m. for 1917 comes out bright and bet age "Looks It now fourteen times."—Lonla ter than ever. His splendid por vllle on Courier-Journal. Mail closes for Salem, 8.50 a. m. ( trait in four color work, taken from life in May, 1916, proves that this old friend of the millions is very far from being “a dead man.” Eve^y home,. office and business in America owe 'it to this faithful, old friend of the people to send for his Almanac and Mag azine for 1917. This Almanac is 35c by mail. His monthly Mag azine with Almanac, one dollar a year. Send to WORD AND WORKS PUBLISHING COMPANY, 3401 Frank lin Avenue, St. Louis, Mo. General Delivery Window Open And She Fell For It. From 9.30 to 10:30 A. M. “I am not easily flattered." she said. Effective March 11, 1917. “Indeed not" be replied. “It would bo difficult to make you out to be more I r a C. M ehrling , Postmaster beaxitlful than you really are.”—De troit Free Press. Extra copies ol The News are Her Specialty. “H a* your son *ny particular athlet printed each week, and will be sent to any addresa desired, postpaid, ic faidlity at college?” “Obw yes. He Is running through for 5 cents per copy. my money.”—Baltimore American. Correspondent« wanted in every We must laugh before wte are happy or else we may die before we ever neighborhood in this section ol tti« country. laugh a ll—La Bmyere.