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Ef:E'S wishing you all a happy Thnnksgivingl
“May good digestion wait on appetite and health
on both." it is a poor heart that never re]oices,and
even if 191.2 has not brought you all the good things
you anticipated you will iind that there is much for which you
have ample reason to thank kind Providence. 80 count your
blessings and thank the Creator for all his goodness.
When barn and byre are is. -
When lioclu an in the o d.
When far and near the burdened delds
Hava bowed ‘neath harvest‘! rn
When clusters rich have dropped
run: many a biushinz vine,
and rental orchards, wins and (air.
[lava owned the touch divine,
‘rhea up from ratcxnl earta
sliou d oyfu pralse arise
V n in w u give: tn waiting earth
Tho hlelllng of the skies.
-irsmm: E. snag-m.
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c o a a
One of the foulast blots on the fair fame of this great
land of ours is child a . The last census report on child
labor gives some astonishing hgures. From it we learn that
the total number of children under iilteen employed in mines.
mills, factories, ete., reaches the appalling total of 1,752,157.
in the period from ten to fifteen, occurs the transition
from childhood to adolescence, and normally each year in-
cluded in that period marks important changes in the ehlld’s
growth and development; herein any question relating to the
education and welfare of the child, a difference of only one
year is siguihcaut.
it is evident that as regards the problem of child labor, a
child of ten or eleven years does not belong in the same class
with a child of fourteen or iiftsen. The census report clsssilies
the ages of thus infant wage-earners as follows:
10 years - - - - - 142,107
11 years - - 159,-ns
- 12 years - . - 241,313
13 years - - - - 259,421
14 years - - - - - 406,701
15 years - - - - - am,
An examination of this report shows that the great
majority of these little wage slaves are employed in the South
. Atlantis and Middle Atlantic States, with New England bring-
ing up in the rear. Our western triends will be glad to know
that scarcely any infant wage-earners are to be found in the
mountain and Pacific states
The industries these children are engaged in are many
sud various. They include clothing, road products, canning,
trope, eonfectionery, electric machinery, cordsge, fur goods,
patent medicines, gloves and mittens, artidcisl ilower making,
tobacco v industries, pottery and tire clay products, woolen,
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wanted and felt goods. Then, too, there are many children
engaged in glue factories and coal mines.
hose interested in the agitation now going on to free
children from their lives of slavery. have presented to Con-
gress a mass of information that Is simply appalling. Children
have almply been torn from h mes, schools and playgrounds,
and chained to looms, sewing machines, and locked up in
sweat shops for twelve and often thirteen hours a day.
census report, however, does not deal with the
abuses of child labor. it has come, however, to the knowledge
of Congress from those noble man and women who are seeking
to free the youth of our land from the thnldoin oi slavery, the:
children whoarslorced to become wage-earners before they
have scarcely learned to beooms children, are stunted physi-
cally, morglly and mentally, and the death rate unzong them is
terribly high. In some Massachusetts cities hygienic condi-
tions are terrible beyond belief, and here the death rate of
babies is often as high as Hlty per cent. .
Senator Barah’s Child [labor Bureau bill it is hoped
when it is written into the Iawxof our land, will rectify many
of these horrible outrages on helpless ebildreu. Every ehort
so far that has been made to combat this frightful evil, has
been defeated by mercenary manufacturers and heartless em-
ployers of child labor, who in the Senate have found plenty of
men of wealth, or representing wealth, equally heartless, ready
to detest any measure that would Interfere with the coining of
the life and blood of children into dividends. . .
An attempt to forbid the handling of child-made goods
in interstate oommerea, failed disuially. As usual the consti-
tution, which is supposed tolls the bulwark of our rights and
liberties, the mighty breastwork that protects us all from
oppression, was used as an instrument to defeat this humane
and Christ-like measure. It is unconstitutional to prevent
those living in one state trom poisoning and killing those resid-
ing in an adjoining state with the vilest of liquor a.nd the rank-
eet of alcoholic poisons; it is uneonstitutionslto prevent child-
mude goods being sent from one state to another,“ they claim.
in the light of such [sets would it not seem that the constitu-
tion when interpreted by unscrupulous, unpriucipied men, has
with it many elements which are a menaeetothe nation and not
is protection.‘ But the truth is the wnstitution, rightly inter-
preted, contains no such balslul restrictions. ”
We must not, however, expect too much from Senator
Borahla bill, for already the manufacturers are using their all-
poweriul induence to see that a man of their own choice is
appointed to head this Bureau, and if such a man is appointed,
the slaughter oi the innocents will eontinue. Laws are of little
use unieas there are honest, fearless men behind them to enforce
them. One of the very worst features of government in
-November
orde by the Editor-
Americs is the non-enforcement and public disregard of law.
U. S. meet inspection has proveu to be a farce. The
nation has been paying a big sum torprotection, but the publis
is being fooled and poisoned as of yore, and it has been charged
that this is becsuse the packers have a. pull with the depart-
mental heads in Washington while the public has none.
Let us hope and pray that public opinion and public
sentiment will force Congress to see that the laws it passes an
administered without fear or favor. Other nations enforoa
their laws and so must we. ,
Much of the social unrest, discontent and general dis-
satisfaction existing in this country today is due to the fact
that the laws are enacted for the beneht oi the people and are set
aside and made nug-story by wesithy monopolists who profit
by their non-enforcement. it is such conditions as this that
breed anarchy and threaten the very existenoe of our Institu-
tions ilnd liberties. '
' s a s ‘s o
The demonstration funnwork In Arkansas has brought
about such astonishing results that Secretary Wilson of the
Agricultural Department has issued a special bulletin that will
be reed with avidity by all those who are Interested in farm
and crop production. - ’ .
There are seventy-five counties in the state, and In
sixty-oneof these counties all the agricultural work is super-
vised by an agent of the Farmers’ Cooperative Association,
which begun this work In 1897, when this movement was hrs
started. Each county agroedtopay half the expenses of the
agent. in 1911 there were 3,760 demonstrations, and no lea
than 9,788 co-operators, who represented more than four hun-
dred thousand acres of agricultural mid. .
As n result of the scientific knowledge spread by those
engaged in this movement, the avenge increase in yield from
the farms owned by those receiving instruction, was from, hfty
to a hundred per cent. In gnin and cotton, and the increased
production in other crops was equally largo.
Let no ugrieulturlat despair. [at bed seasons dis-
hearten the taller in the slightest. ' Seientidc farming will yet
make the poor former a thing of the past. Scientidc farming
willincresse the value orfarn: lands. The up-to-date farmer
knows this and has put the knowledge he has acquired to good
use and to such good use that there are going to be as many
automobiles in the country as there are in the city, and in many
cases a great many more. What has been done in Arkansas
can and will be done in other states. COMFORT is doing its
share in this movement through its Modern Farmer depart-
ment which is much appreciated by our resdars who are mostly
interested in farming. '
0‘ e a
Comfort‘: Editor.
The Memory House
(corrmuun non uses 1)
told him over her shoulder, as she led the way
to the kitchen. "A ham, and lots of canned
ghlugs. . You forget that I had planned to stay
ere." -
seemed all run and rnerrlmeut uver the
. Ind Sherwood forced
her mood. !Vhcl:I they
be familiar dining-room.
mustn't eat so much." she remonstrsted,
as he helped himself to s third slice of ham.
0 uuws, when we'll get away, If this
storm keeps up. us getting worse, too.”
"Whce-re-ee," wind. vocifrirously.
Iseeuteil the I
“I don't car det-lsr S erwoo , reckless! .
“I'm going to satisfy this inferior gnawing now,
and let the Iuture inks (‘are of Itrc!i'."
ey ng um coffee. and leaning hack in
his chair. the smoke or nu elm-eue half veiling
I-Elizabeth's face from him. Sherwood mi silent.
lsveryw are c loo I'll. some do r, femillsr object
brought back the past he had Sll’I‘IKKlPll to forget.
The little room with its dark-panelled walls. the
tall rsudlcs irks. whose shaded lights were re-
iiectcd in the polished table. the very look of
the blue-and-while chins, wove about It m
e
of our Intimste mnrueuts. ruse like s
Ellznhi-Iii herself’. seen dlmy through
the smoke veil, might have u s Wrnil , u
sure called up hy tuncy. She est motionless,
her head all my hcut. gazing uuseelngly into
the depths in her (-0 ea-cu She was loveller
than ever. therwoo nus: .
lie reasrdad her tummy, xtndyluis with that
same IDK of memory. the delicate Inn of the
prnuie. the soft brown hair, 2 grace o the
slender thrust which the collarlcss
lie stirred restlrssly In his rhair, and she
Btlrtod from her absorption.
" his will never do I" she derlnred. "Just look
It all these dishes to be washed."
When the -came blt t
washing and putting sway
chins, the dre was I be
"l)ou’ " said Ellzs
men: to throw on number lor. "Thlt Is, vlnla
you want it. I think l shall go to bed. I41’
a little re ."
lie wondered If he had Imagined the catch in
r voice. vlvaclty was gone, and she
be
I0 K fl .
!=‘ip'I! ‘ii: here ma smoke a while." he sold.
“EVE well. k'ou‘l! dud the little blue room
res Y or you." .
On the bottom step the paused, looking buck to
wher stehing her.
2 he stood hy the iireplece,
“Good night. Jimsy.”
9 .
Tough 1...... for the Turkey
is scheduled for tomorrow. and thst
Though a period of rejoicing, for human beings, ‘ii: true
You've got to lost your bad, old boy. don't mind
I've lost in ‘
S
You'll iecl tlegaut tomorrow In the oven with the pie.
We'll have s spread tomorrovl. the Hunt In the land.
lien‘: a no
"Dear Bill.“ she says, "I ll be on time tomorrow for
Shall bring my appetite along. and at a ion at lust.
Regards to
When lie‘: on the table tell him. I won't do a thing to Iii
Don't mind Aunt K
You'll feel elegant tomorrow In the even with the pie.
lien’:
“Look I
Be it
Am going to fill up good you bet. to o
Regards to Mister Turkey, and I'll try
To get away with both
You're weeping Mister Tuvkty, well, It's tough I won't deny,
But you'll Iul elegant tomorrow In the oven with the pic.
If you can't make up your in nd, dear , w
' Just go and ask the turkey which stuifing Iis't‘!
By Charla: mu ooujlna (mun cam-ml 6
Copyriyht, 1912, by w. u. Gennslt, runzuiu, Inc.
annlvc
Im sorry Mirtcr Turkey, but Thanksgiving day you its
nary '
1 mighty tough, I will admit. poor Mister Turk. on you.
that trifle small;
a score of tunes. It didut hurt at s
our nmru unstrung, and don't ht
n‘tygct all u to cry;
ow, do
is from Aunt Maria. I guess you know Mr hand;
the least,
Mister Turkey. hope he's fat and In good trim.
in," ’
Ia, Turk, aid boy. be brave and wipe your eye: X
t not: from Uncle Billy. line Ieliow Uncle Bill:
or me. Iolks. tomorrow. and I'm going to eat my liI!I'
1 at lust.
and do my beat.
his legs. a wing and lisif Mi breast.”
Sister Susan‘: coming, and she‘: lust stat Mother word,
"I'll bring baby sits: breakfast and help you Hi: tht blrd.
Chestnut or oyster dressing? Now motlur don't rule
in
'II bring them both, and you can then decide lust which you'll use.
am
like he:
tget down-hearted Mister Turk. and Ior heaven's sake lion‘! cry;
ill!
- You'll ml tlcgsnt timiorrow In the oven with die pit.
Don't worry Mister Turkey. for on Thanksgiving day. '
You'll be monarch of the table; king, of all tint you survey;
You'll h ' ‘
Isizr ny gnu, snd get a splendid view,
wearlly. W cu he turned back to the tire, c min
HEW "8 gleam ihfuurh a mist, as the light in the 7 As he raises one eye skywsrd, and keeps t'otliu eye on you.
"""""" ""1 "W" "'"’“3"."‘9 ““”‘ 9‘ "‘" ”"" . You'll imam“ pus you complimcnli, laugh at the Ioltu my rmk,
Iug‘snow.
llizuheth WI! very busy In the studio with tl I
duster when he came down-stairs the next morn.
5.
“I'm awfully late.” he a ololzlzed. "Ind l lilvs
a feeling that the furnace re Is on it! way out;
"Ilorroral" she cried. “Stop It quickly! its
too cold for that sort of thing." -
Following much noise of flttllnz Ind hanging
from bi‘!DW. he reappeared, trinm hunt. and au-
uonncvd that he had arrived at the psyrhololrlrnl
moment to prevent the total disappearance of the
furnace lire. be ' VI! on I in the
preparation of I niolit delightful bresllfslil. and
heading against the kitchen dresser, he wuiched
er. ,,
"Have you noticed that it's stopped snowing?
she asked. ’
lie cast I judicial glance out of the window.
luspectking the high-piled drifts and the lowering
3 IV a
-No . rm afraid.” he answered. word.
“Those: cigizdsimicio I II of snow. l'm -hang forcing himself
yo-ru have to have me as a Thanks win; fun 4-via
lie noticed that Elizabeth was Ioeslue 1! street gar
logly retty in a pink dress. and daciously eakfast.
he iolnihier no. She turned ave blue eyes upon
him (or sn instant. than loo ed away without a in th
Give the whole bu
Fix the details In the oven when yuu’rz roasting with the pie.
He wondered if the air of guiety he was
you bring all those pretty tracks with
he salad her wickedly, as
"JImsy Sherwood 1" ens paused dramatically
on
s set at pouring the cadre.
f mid you itclwhen the cold steel Is drawn across your back,
indigestion, make them think uuyrc going to die;
So cheer up Mister Turkey. though tonight your head you lost.
Time’: not 1
Though yoirrc going to get it in the null. we'll in the an is sharp,
Bill! and you're In the turkry Maven, pcriormlng on a harp.
Don't go and have Iiyslulcs, get your nerves all out ol whack:
the gravy down your back.
New bid your friends adieu. and mention when you say good y, 7
You'll feel elegant tomorrow In the even with the pit.
c tart occasion for you to have the hluu '
Iiink how nice ‘twill be when mother pears
to sssluliie, was ulle cunvluclllz.
eye. choked. then "
they It! It
"Do y "I've been abroad," he ma.
lch vlsy to have him drum! ,
Iilnlu srr new I
used.
say you uilnr these c
"019. " she a
r
went on brave! .
l-went away." El!
.. e the man ng silence llrspernicly.
What have you been doing this last year?”
"dtudying." .
meg? turned quickly to him, her face vividly
z . - V -
“Oh! Have you been successful?"
“Yes. I at! se i have," he answered, rather
llsuussly. “ 'vc been commissioned to do to:
murul, decorations l avmiIlIounire'l ballroom.
ls magazine is paying me 3 very nil! '
sum for the exclusive right to all my published
work in the next two years."
She clss d her hands dclightedly.
' o
own used to it by this
“However, I'm none till
y so u .
9sn't surprise rue thitt success has come
d "Elizabeth, seriously. "I always
it would. -. g
were always in kindest critic-more
kind than Just. 1 Am I raid."
“Do on remember," she asked
on were to study in Paris?
he s re to succeed with that lddrd
And now vour wish and your proph-
ecy have come rue."
x
anxious
you won
cle .Yohu‘s money has done
rs r. 0 you’ remem-
ow we used to Woudrr whether he would
hospitals und colleges? I'll!
d of me. but I Sli
in
stood In-side him, leaking
out over the snow-hurled country.
t me or ‘Oh, for a lodge in some
Vast wilderness,’ " she uotra.
The reuse of her nesrness caught at his heart,
so that he moved hastily awn . “It’s apt to be
me time," IIe'remRi'!iEd. “Come
cits, let's do the dishes. Then We can Ion!
In front of the lire."
The fill . outside a swirl of biiudlur
haos of wind-blown drifts. growing ever
Inside, the ure leaped. died down, roared
afresh‘ as n lags we is on It.
r
n
5'2‘
r they dined. : went "nu. to ur-
easy-choirs. There was no light in the room
m:r:n.tr of the leaping flames. After a while.
shamans. It-nnlug hack into the shadow. sui-
closed eyes. he [9
ly. bringing out i 2 lines of the irllith figure In
relief niialust the dark lcsth Ellz h‘s e a
brnoiirii u n t llsmes, her race, he thought,
had nr er tenderly beautiful
v en so ,
“Ell i th,“ his ii I d [h h 1 .
. .:':.’;.. .. ...:52::.5:.m. 9 = ‘= "M
she said very softly. her eyes still on
re.
in .llmm-tin. ltdg<in’t.;
ar cyes use a t en, steadily. althou h her
lips trembled. he dim room waited, breszthlesl.
' " the v0 e was imiv y na-
Ions! time."
lug the chair-anus op-
tile. Sherwood leaned
quest!
on.
was too ashamed of
never forgive:
ve np the unequal battle. -
wu herd. going down ahjertly to meet ills
dilierout restIug- !l&. -
said Sherwood. “ II‘!
ne was. never could be any-
Oh. i have missed you so I”
U - um snowing," he said happily,
"And the hsm‘s almost all gone," nngnea
-E
u
zuimu.
On the bottom st th to t and
night to the srelltei-'oome,yhuii‘li:' ttiuignlcrw
the happiest Thauksgivlu they had ever known.
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