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About The Athena press. (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 7, 1908)
Pleaaant Voire la Low. If you stop to realize Hint the most glorious music ever written loses Its beauty when played upon a hn-wh and tuneless Instrument, then you can ap preciate how your best phrases, when spoken In a nasal, undisciplined voice actually hurt the ears of your hearer. No less famous person that Demos thenes appreciated that his Ideas could never hold the attention of any au dlence If he expressed them In sharp and strident tonea. Consequently that greatest of all orators gave the most earnest and patient attention to the mastery of his naturally unmusical voice before he attempted to sp:tik to the Athenian people, and, in a small way, It Is quite easy for any one to do Just what Demosthenes did. The way to give smoothness and sweetness to a high, harsh voice is to use the sliu pie device of persistently. speaking one whole octave lower than that which Is ordinarily and carelessly employed, This brings the voice under control and this Is what gives to the voice of nearly every southern woman that nice distinction that enables us to tell In an instant from what part of this big continent she comes, no matter when or where we may njeet her. 2K For the newly born Infant, the first garment should be a yielding bandage In the form of a wristlet made of stock lnette or some elastic material, to be slipped on and off as desired. No pins are required, but two little straps to go over the shoulders and button In front This Is sufficient to support the usual dressing, and also allows the nec essary expansion and contraction of the body. The outer garments should be short, and made without waists, that there may be no compression. Few articles are required to dress baby; five or six are all that are needed the bandage, diaper, a vest, one or two skirts and the outer slip. Regularity Is the keynote to health In a baby. Whatever Is done for him must always be done at the same hour He should have his bath at the same time, always be fed In the same way, at the stated hour; the time of being put to bed, either for a nap or for the night, should not vary five minutes, and his airing must not be interfered with. Baby Is distinctly a creature of habit as well as of Instinct, and unless he Is allowed to do the same things day after day he will have Indigestion, in somnia, bad temper, cold, etc. The daily bath Is not only cleansing, but helps him to bo a well-developed child. It is for this that he should have a tub big enough to splash and kick In, and be given time for this amusement. There never was a healthy boy who did not love this If tho tem perature of tho water Is as It should be. The exercise is most beneficial. For M Girl's Bedroom. For a girl who takes pride In hav ing a pretty bedroom, a bedroom set painted soft French gray, with Louis wreaths In white, with trimmings of French gilt design, Is very dainty. Tho chiffonier, dressing table and bureau tops are of pale blue moire 'under a heavy French plate glass covering. A swinging full length mirror la one of tho necessary accessories. White gal atea with a border of floral designed cretonne makes very effective curtains. When Joining a bias plecs f mate rial to a straight piece always leop tho bias piece underneath, as this invents It from stretching. Prepared dyes are used at &me with complete success and they Mke possible a wonderful amount of dtiing over. Everything will dye black that will dye at all, aud a black dress Is always useful aud unobtrusive. Most of the walking skirts are now finished with braid bindings, so as to protect the bottom of the skirt, and tht I Jld should be allowed to exteui A ' Iff & i vim i JiAiii f ur i i i f asXfl& r. J-. one-quarter of an Inch beyond the edge of the skirt For the decoration of the tailor made, braid, embroidery, buttons and tinsels have lost not a whit of popu larity. Many of the most Itecouiing hats worn with morning tailor-mades are trimmed with frayed ruches of soft silk. Fur Is very much used by the milliner for the present season. One of the smar'xhlt and most becoming hats in one of the millinery salons here is a w'de-brlm shape with high crown and the entire top covered plain ly with bioadtail. It Is trimmed with a wide crushed band of the broadtail and with black feathers. A good many turban crowns are composed of mink, arid such hats are brightened often with flowers of soft pastel tones. The "dead" shades are very suitable for such hats in both flowers and ribbons. furling: Plume. The cheaper variety of ostrich plumes are never in a very presentable condition after once losing their orig inal flulliness. And seldom can they be made dainty In the manner which freshens plumes. The curling Iron can be used to great advantage In giving cheap plumes a fresh appearance. The curler must not be too warm, aud care must be taken In catching the feathers to have the sheath side of the curlers on the upper side, or the tip ends will be reversed. Take only a few feathers at a time, curl toward the stem and HATS OF THE SEASON. gently pull apart with a hairpin. They will stay in curl until worn on a damp day. Ileulta nud ISeuuty Hint. Every lover of a hot batli should ac custom herself to rinsing with water as cold as can be borne without shock. Lemon Is an excellent shampoo for white hair, giving It a lovely, silvery luster and keeping it soft and pliable. Deep breathing exercises besides ton ing up the general health are the best possible means of speedily getting the rounded slender wnlst Hue that Is so much to be desired. To rinse the hair after a shampoo one of the rubber-tubed sprays sold In any of the drug or department stores will be found to give the best service and to save time as well. The girl with a receding chin should be careful to have her hair knotted on a level with her chin or below it, well down on the neck. -Arranged in the middle of the head it accentuates her defect The sufferer from neuralgia can often get relief by putting a hot-water bottle over the afflicted part. Rubbing It with equal portions and benzoin and peppermint oil has also been known to give relief. A simple lotton thnt should be rub bed on the face before going out of doors during cold weather Is made of one ounce of glycerin, one pint of elder- flower water and two drams of powder ed borax. Mix well and use freely. When Buying Glove. When buying kid gloves be sure to test the kid by stretching It. Full the side seams between the thumbs aud fingers. If the kid Is soft and pliable and the pores small and the glove Im mediately takes on Its original shape It Is sure to be of a good quality and elastic. Heavy walking gloves should be tried In the same manner, but a sure test Is In smelling them. If the ode is a fragrant one resembling Rus llan leather, they should be all right Care oC Braaa Bedatead. There Is a vw.v eood nollsh on thn tl.nrket' for keeping?, brass In perfect eoil33 but this only holds good as long "as the brass Is not worn off tbi bedstead. Once this takes place ther is nothing to be done but to send the metal and have It reburuished, and, as a firing process is involved In tht method, this cannot be attempted a' home, of course. The cost of relacquer Ing, as it is called, a full-sized bedstead Is about $0. Adjustable cuffs can be purchased & desired lengths to wear with short sleeved lingerie waists. Many sashes are being worn, , bal they are all broad, ample in width ami none of Jthe "stingy" order. ' No matter what color your wlntei frock may be, the braiding must b black and a touch of some black, flat fur will give It all the chic of an im ported gown. Lace berthas, fichus and capelike col lars are to be abundantly worn, bul with the pretty addition of a half-Inch velvet fold around the neck and down the front edges, The heavy brocades Intended princi pally for costume trimming have been found so serviceable and attractive foi belts and girdles that the pieces are be ing matched in rich cameo slides and buckles for that purpose. The Jauuty tailored girl Is buying one-button yellow chamois gloves. Ol course, their color would not 'be prao tlcal for general wear were it not foi the fact that the gloves are ensilj washed with soap and water and car be quickly cleaned and made to loo new. Golden Broni Cloth, Close-fitting coat, skirt out In thir teen gores, stitched at the top, thea' flaring. "j To Teat Floor. I If flour is white with a yellowish straw color It is good, while If It has a bluish ast, or black specks In, It Is the opposite. i Flour can only be tested by Its ad-J hesiveness wet and knead a little of it between the fingers. If it works soft and sticky It is poor. If a little flour is thrown against a dry, smooth surface and it falls like powder, you may know, that it is not of the best quality. If flour squeezed In the hand retains the shape given It when the hand " relaxt!, It is a good sign. Portable Cot for Hoa-a. Following is the description given by the Wisconsin Agricultural Station of a valuable portable hog cot which will be found of use on the farm. The cot Is six feet wide, eight feet long, six . feet two Inches high In front and three feet High In the rear. TM floor is built first, with 2x4s as stringers, and the frame is held on the floor by blocks at each corner. The large sized house Is provided with two doors in front and a temporary mov able partition and a temporary mov able partition in the middle so that the cot can easily be adjusted to aecora modate two lots of swine at the same time. On a level with the glass win dows, there Is also a drop window, preferably hung on hinges, fastened at the top for ventilation and sunlight. The lumber required for the house Is as follows: Twelve pieces, two Inches by four Inches, sixteen feet long, for frame. Four pieces, one Inch by twelve Inches, sixteen feet long (rough), for floor. Thirteen pieces, one Inch by twelve Inches, sixteen feet I long, for roof and ends. Ten 0. G. SMALL SIZE BOO COT. battens, sixteen feet long, for sealing cracks between boards. The total cost of material to build the cot with floor, door, and window complete amounts to about $12.50. For neatness, economy, durability, and comfort to animals, this type of cot Is excellent. Where It is desirable to keep a number of hogs In one lot the large size is preferable. The cot will accommodate from three to five mature animals and the large cot from seven tonine. Although the Wisconsin sta tion has a large hoghouse with feed room, scales, etc., the cots have been found a convenient means of enlarg ng the facilities of the piggery. To Feed the Horae. A common way of feeding dray horses and other street teams In the city is Illustrated here. A sack is made out of good strong ducking of a circumference that will allow of Its being pulled over horse's nose and leaving sufficient room for him to work his Jaws eas ily. This sack is anywhere from a foot to fourteen The bottom Is made . NOSE BAG. inches In length. of a good stiff piece of harness leather cut out aud sewed firmly into the hem of the ducking. A leather strap Is riveted Into one side of the mouth of tlio R.oclr Jinri n hiit'kla la tlTAtn1 m 1 ' , " ' Wlldl VJU 'the other, so that the whole may be j strapped on to the horse's head, as ; shown. In order to feed a horse must ibe unchecked, and he soon learns to ! place the sack on the ground, where he can push his nose to the bottom of it to !lean out the last of the food. For the farmer who takes a day to go to town these sacks will be found very handy, as a horse can be fed with them without any waste of grain pro viding he Is unchecked. A little cau tion should be used In placing the sack on a horse not accustomed to It, as it may cause him to Jerk back. How ever, after he has once eaten a meal from It he can be considered well broken In. Iowa SJoruestead. Cowiiea Hay. II. M. Cottreil, after years of expe rience and observation, says that cow pea hay Is nearly equal to alfalfa in feeding value, and contains nearly one half more flesh and milk makln&.ma terlal than clover hay. It is rich in the mineral matter that is needed in form ing bone, blood, flesh and milk. These qualities make It especially valuable for feeding growlug cattle and pigs, dairy cows and fattening steers and hogs. The cowpea enriches the land on which It-grows, the same as alfalfa, clover and soy beans. It makes hard soils mellow and aids in holding loose soils together, and stands dry weather .elL Breeding Tip (or Basra. The Maine experiment station has discovered a hen that laid 230 eggs In one year. In fact, she laid 251 eggs In a year, counting from Thanksgiving day to Thanksgiving day. This hen came from a selected family of 200 egg layers as the original foundation. In the same family there were a num ber of hens that laid over 240 eggs in a year. Condiment for Hoara, The most valuable "condiments" for nogs are ashes, salt and copperas. A big breeder says he once a week rakes up the cobs in the feeding yard and burnB then, thus giving the swine some charcoal; occasionally he -hauls In a load of coal ashes, and salt and cop peras are mixed with wood ashes ifed kept 111 a trough where the hogs can at them at any tune. For Lvr it Stock. Dip or wash the animals with a 1 or 2 per cent water tolutlon at a tar dis Infectant such as kreso. A convenient way to apply the remedy In the larger animals Is with a spray pump, and In sheep or hogs by dipping. Whatever method Is used, tho coat and skin must be thoroughly wet with the solution. After treating the he-4, the stables, sheds or sleeping quaters should be 6prayed with about a !, per cent water solution of the dislnferant. or white wash may be used Instead. This is necessary In order to prevent reinfect ing the herd from the surroundings. If there is much litter around the yards It is advisable to mo: the herd to other corals. .. Tar dlslii'ectants In 1 or 2 rr cent solutions do not destroy the egis or nits, hence it is necessary to treat the animal again In ten days or two weeks. Stockmen sometimes ask if the feeding of sulphur to lousy animals will not drive away or de stroy the lice. The feeding of small doses of sulphur will do no harm, nor will It .help In getting rid 'of the lice, and It cannot be considered a remedy for this clnss of disorders when used In this way. Sulphur is effective, how ever, when used externally, and the addition of four ounces to every gallon of tar disinfectant solution used great ly Increases the effectiveness of the remedy. Field and Farm. Foxtail and Plgnveed. Both these weeds are annuals; that Is, they grow from seeds each year or season and the plants die after ripen ing seeds. The way to keep them down Is to prevent the plants from ripening seed and making sure that are no seeds In the grain sown upon the farm. Fox tail Is troublesome, because It springs up In cultivated fields after the crops are laid by, and then It comes up In stubble and In meadows and pastures. Late cultivation of corn fields, and mowing the stubble, meadows and pas tures to keep seeds from forming, Is the way to attack this weed. Judging from the way these weeds spring up, whenever . conditions are favorable, there must be great stores of them in cultivated fields showing the seeds are long-lived. Figweed quickly springs up In corn or potato fields, after culti vation has ceased. These seeds ripen from August 13 to November 1, so it will take vigorous measures to get rid of them. In fact the nly Wfly t0 8et rid of these weeds is to cut them down before seeds mature. If a crop of them Is left to mature In corn fields, and then the seeds plowed under the coming season, you have stored away enough seeds to bother you for the next ten years. Farm Management, Economy Is wealth. Extra and un necessary expense is a millstone around the neck of many who otherwise would succeed. Discharge the unprofitable employe. Stop every leak of unneces sary expense. Money saved is money made. Money invested in Improved machinery Is economy. Money invested in the best seeds and appliances Is economy. Time wasted, labor wasted, Is extravagance. . ' A successful farmer says he does not have to Inspect a farm to see whether it pays or not "Just give me a chance to look into the barn. The con dition things are kept In is all the go-: by I want" The barn Is a telltale on the careless or wasteful farmer. In fact, economy In farming begins at the barn In the proper handling of food, caring for the manure, care of tools and harness and the care given to the live stock stabled there. There is al ways a best way to do things, and the best way is generally the paying one. Money In Peannt Raising:. Texas farmers are getting 00 cents a bushel for peanuts, and with a yield of from fifty to sixty bushels to the acre are calling it "big money." The acreage in peanuts for another year will be large, as this price will bring more than cotton at 10 cents per pound. . The farmers of Burmah have recog nized the commercial value of the-peanut, and have this year increased the area planted to 78,743 from 37,110 acres last year, and it Is reported that a much larger area will be planted to this tuber next season. Thus far most of the peanut planting is done In the provinces of Magwe and Mylngyan. Barn Door Prop. I have a few large barn doors that are hung on hinges, and when I open them I have always had to get a stick OPEN CONVKXIEXT BARN DOOB PBOP. or something to keep them open; so I thought of this little thing. I took t 2x4 scantling and put a hinge on tht end as shown in the cut. Then it it always with the door. Exchange. Sawdnat and Soil. Prof. W. S. Masey says sawdust from resinous pine decays slowly In the soil, and will sour the land when decayed. Even Irhen used for bedding In stables the manure Is not worth half as much as that with ordinary bedding. Look about the remains of sawdust accumu lated about abandoned mill sites that are cfmmon In the piney woods, and you vill see that it takes a long time for ajy egetatlon to start where sav dust fej eea scattered. Iff iij The Longfellow house at Portland Me., has been closed for the winter with a registration of nearly 10,000 visitors this year. Major General O. O. Howard will contribute a series of true stories oa "Famous Indian Chiefs" to St Nich olas during 190a The title of Jack London's bddk daU ing with his experiences as a, "tramp will be "The Road" Instead of "My Life In the Underworld," as previously ' an nounced. Frederick Harrison's - book i entitled "The Philosophy, of Common r Sense" has -Just appeared. It seems,to con sist largely of critical essays? dealing with the work of Spencer, K Huxley, Lewes, Balfour and other contempora ries of Mr. Harrison. The Philosophy of Commofi Sense" supplement "The Creed of a Layman." The press censor of the United States, working through the Postofflce Department, has barred from the ;malls Jurcnd, the German weekly renowned for Its Incomparable plain and colored Illustrations, and the Hamburger Na chrlchten, the Blsmarckian weekly. In the second case the lottery laws pro tect the Itching palm. It is not known whether the embargo is momentary or sempiternal. v In a 6ult for 10 per cent royalty oh her work, "The New Metropolis," one Mrs. Zelslof t forced D. Appleton St co. to aamu mat many copies or tne book were sold as Junk. The publish ers very naturally decline to pay roy alty on Junk. . But a heavy history must nring a fair sum bartered by the pound. Think of the gold mine In selling a German pedagogue's polysylla blc treatise on mare's nests 1 1 We learn that Miss May Sinclair, atv thor of "The Helpmate," writes of Kate Douglas Wlggin's "New Chronicles of Itebecca:" 'The new Rebncca book Is even better than the first onje. Grown up geniuses are hard to 'do,' but the child genius is only 'done' by the grace of God, and that has certainly been with Mrs. Wiggin In the writing of these stories." The grace of God is denied by many to the author of 'The Helpmate." WThat, one wonders, does Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin think? Mrs. Elinor Glyn's remarks th. American men are dears, that they are polite, that they are not superficial and that In Intelligence they are -millions of miles ahead of the Englishman has been repeated back to England. Also, her surmise that the source of Ameri- nnn Oil m'irir la Ml Ktinbnrtiant nnlrA A ....... Al7 ' irui.aiTuca, vanu. A Londan daily says in comment that the American editorial columns strike a "universal note of Joy." 'The Amer ican men are satisfied that Mrs. Glyn has wonderful Insight." Mrs. Glyn Is surely mistaken In the matter of buck wheat cakes. Far from being the source of energy, they are the great sedative and soporific. America eats buckwheat cakes on the Sabbath to stay Its gnawing conscience for the rest of the week. As for the rest American minds and manners Mrs. Glyn has exquisite perception. Mrs. Glyn is profound.- Mrs. Glyn Is a ge nius. The Paper Told the Tale. A certain Greek adventurer soma years ago undertook to palm off upon the Dubllc some false conies of the gospel manuscripts. Many learned men were aeceivedi out not Dr. Coxe, libra rian of the Bodleian library at, Oxford. . - ' " .i - ..... . i.v. ,ma iciRiCT 'n his own words In the Spectator : I never really opened the book, but r hpiri It- In mxr ti n rwT n n ,1 fnnb- nn nnm XT . -wo. uuv yaftCT of it between my finger iand thumb while I listened to the rascal's account of how he found this most Interesting antiquity. At the end of three or four minutes I handed it back to him with the short comment "Nineteenth cen tury paper, my dear sir," and he took it away In a hurry and did not come again. Yes, I was pleased, but I have handled several ancient manuscripts In my time, and I know the feel of old paper. Effect of Whtatle on Rattlesnake. "Should you ever encounter a rattle snake and he shows fight Just begin to whistle softly and the reptile will un coil and lay wlthhis eyes closed and body quivering," said a Tennesseean. "On more than one occasion I have run across -rattlesnakes and have al ways taken the fight out of them by whistllns. The snnke seems to heccms absolutely helpless when he hears a soft whistle and you make noattempt to spring upon you. This whistle ap pears to soothe his anger and robs him of fighting power. I saved my life on one occasion In this manner. Try It and you'll find that I tell the truth." Nashville Tennesseean. A. Good Point. . Prospective Purchaser I like the looks of this automobile, but suppose X should run over some one and Salesman The springs are so easy, I sir, you'd scarcely be Jarred at alL cieveiana nain. ieaier. The longer we live, the more "re become lmnrcfoed with the fact that where you find one person a5le to do 'something fairly well, there are twen , ty who frivol, and believe their worth- 'pAsrtpsu la ffeniiisL Everyone knows something he cast tell
