MOWER COUNTY NEWS, AUSTIN, MINNESOTA PAGE TWO ECLIPSE CORNER PREPARE TO PAINT, on the grate will collect the moisture Uncle SAVE ON BUILDINGS and thus prevent rust. SOME "DON'TS" FOR Leave the boiler of a steam or hotwater Do your painting early, is the advice HOUSE-CLEANING Weekly Shavings Edited By heater filled with water up to of H. B. White of the engineering Volume 364. Splinters April 7, 1921 Don't take down the stove the safety valve, during the summer. division, University Farm, and too early. thus "get the jump" on dirt, flies and (©, 1921, Western Newspaper Onion.) TALKS ABOUT BUILDING MEND IT WHILE THE SUN Don't try to clean the entire other insects that are detrimental to SHINES is Lumber prices are deflated. Lumber, house in one wee^. The happy man Is he who cheerful a first-class job of painting later on. with moderate means the unhappy You can neglect a leaky roof while the last great commodity to advance Don't use water on waxed In "The idea that paint, is used only he who Is discontented the midst the sun is shining. But when it in price, has been the first to woodwork. Rub with a waxed of plenty.—Democritus. for appearance," says Mr. White, "is starts to rain—that's when the leaky come back to a normal basis. While cloth, then with a clean flannel Paint roof quickly comes to grief. common in many localities. lumber constitutes* less than 30 per SERVE SOME SOUP. cloth. improves the appearance of buildings Line Up the Old Garage—Few gar-sages cent of the cost of the average frame Don't wash all the curtains at GOOD OLD TIMES and implements, but it is even more house, these reductions mean important are lined up properly. They're of Even spoonfuls of leftovers vegetables, one time and don't starch them. saving in building costs. You cold in winter, damp in spring, hot important that it be used to prevent steak bones, broth from corned Use a little rice water or thin can build now with confidence. Deliveries in summer and cheerless in the fall. deterioration. Scarcity of lumber or from of material are certain, prices Wall board will take away all of this starch in the last rinse water. A fine lecture last evening," said tongue, a cupful and its relatively high price make it can be protected against advances, gloom. You can do this work yourself. New curtains are not starched Mrs. Jamesworthy. "He held up to of gravy or less, clear that the life of the buildings and building labor is available. scorn the pessimist who says the why advertise that your curtains celery leaves, There are good reasons why many should be given more attention than GO AFTER THE RATS world isn't getting better, and described are old by starching parsley these people should build homes for themselves. when material and labor were less expensive. Rats, which cause considerable loss conditions as they were a hundred If you have been thinking them? last may be dried to farmers, should be fought consistently, years ago. about building we invite you to talk and kept In bottles—in Don't beat rugs such as Brussels says the biological department Cigarette "A farmer can often do his own it over with us personally. The Then people traveled fact anyin or Wilton on the right side. of the United States department of Eclipse will gladly help in meeting f/ainting. If rapid depreciation is to on foot or on I a is agriculture. Rats reproduce so rapidly Lay them face down on the any of your building problems and horseback, and a be prevented, it is essential that a that a spasmodic raid on them good, no matter how small the quantity, our friendly counsel and assistance grass, beat and sweep on the short journey was building be given a coat of paint is not lasting. They begin to bear may be utilized in a soup. The will not obligate you in any way. wrong side. When replacedon young when three months old and have a serious matter trimmings sent from roasts, the bones every three years, or two coats about To seal In the the floors wipe the surface with six to ten litters per year with an there were no telephones, of fowls as well as the feet may be DEAD LANGUAGE every five years." delicious Burley average of ten young per litter. The a cloth wrung from hot salt no elec* used. The soup course planned and "Fill 'em up again Johnnie." best method to control rats is to Summer Care of Heaters tobaooo flavor. trie lights, and water. This brightens and prepared from such combinations as make rat proof buildings so the pests "One more an' we'll all go home." none of the conveniences freshens the rug. abov& mentioned may be served at a There is danger of rust when a It's Toasted cannot get inside and eat. we are of very low cost. An occasional day "What'll it be, gents?" stove of furnace stands unused for used to." cream soup may be served to add variety. some time. Smokepipes shoulds be "It is true there J. J. CLEMENS PIECE OR A CAR LOAD j/ taken down in the spring, cleaned, NOVEL SUITS FOR SPRING were no alleged Soup.—For Vegetable three quarts and stored in a dry place. The doors conveniences of of soup use one cupful each diced should be left open to keep the interior ?hone: 47 Local Manager those days," replied .V.wv.. meat, fresh or cooked carrots, turnips dry. A lump of unslaked lime James- of and tomato. Add one-half cupful worthy, "and for that reason I think of minced onion, one tablespoonful of the old times were better than the salt and one-quarter teaspoonful present I only wish the old conditions A pepper. few leaves of lettuce, cabbage could be restored. A hundred or summer squash may be added years ago the married man had no for variety. Bring to a boll, using four reason to dread the poorhouse. It quarts of water and' cook slowly one was practically impossible for women and one-half hours. The last half to be extravagant then. If they wanted hour add one-half cupful of rice and to blow themselves they had to go more salt and pepper If needed. 1921 Will to town, and in order to get to town Cream of Salsify Soup.—Scrub six they had to ride in old coaches which good roots of salsify, cut off tops and weren't as Comfortable as a modern let stand in cold water until ready to hayrack. cook. Cook In boiling water until tender, "The woman of a hundred years ago press through a fine sieve. Put couldn't lean back in an easy chair the pulp with a sliced onion and twrf and order a hundred dollars' worth of sprigs of parsley Into a double boiler. junk by phone. If she ordered by Add a pint of milk and let stand on letter, it took the letter three weeks the fire until needed. Melt one-third to get anywhere,and by the time the of a cupful of sweet fat, add one-half goods arrived they were out of date, cupful of flour and cook nntll smooth. and she had to send them back. It Add one teaspoonful of salt, one*half teaspoonful of paprika and one quart would be a great blessing if things of bubbling hot milk. Then add the, were that way now. "But the modern married woman salsify and m!lk and press all through has the softest snap ever invented, a fine sieve. Reheat and add two wellbeaten Mrs. Jamesworthy. If she happens to eggs mixed with a cupful of be too lazy to put on her brass-mounted cream. (Serve hot. The yolks may be harness and go downtown to do her cooked In the soup and the whites beaten stiff and placed on top of the shopping, she has that great modern hot soup as a garnish. convenience at her elbow. It isn't Many of the style features that distinguish A tablespoonful of whipped cream necessary to make herself presentable this season's suits ate attractively or less on the top of any cream soup to do her shopping. She sits down combined in the trim model, Is a great Improvement. A few kernels with an old wrapper on, and her topknot with 1Ts*~straight-line silhouette, that of nicely popped corn is a pretty askew, and her mouth full of invites study here. Beginning with garnish for corn soup. hairpins, and calls up the butcher and this uprightness of line it adds the baker and candlestick maker, and orders flaring sleeve, the odd management of "HcUjiU everything they have in their pockets, simplicity and cleverness in joints, and has it charged to her husband. its decoration to appeal to the woman who likes smart suits that follow new your sway-backed professor .a "Aa styles in conservative way. The These are the days of the Go-Getters. WHY NOT START said, a short journey was a serious very simplest of embroidery is used A FAMILY BUDGET? business in the old days, and as a result on it but it is unusually effective—especially arm's people stayed home and attended Aggressiveness counts. The days of where it defines the to their knitting. If a woman journeyed "Keeping accounts," says a Morrison eye. nine miles in one of the oldtime county woman, "keeps me from thumb-sucking and finger twaddling are coaches she had a backache for buying bargains I do not need and Hats First Worn as Symbols. three weeks, and so the idea of going thus saves me money." The earliest hat was a symbol— away from home didn't fill her with over. Read that heading once more. away back 6,000 years ago, when the "Just that one lecture at the bank enthusiasm. But nowadays traveling Egyptians invented it, to show the the other day on the household budget," is a luxury. All a woman has to do rank of men. And then, along the remarked a Duluth woman, is to hold up her husband for the fare, Tigris and Euphrates hats appeared— "has helped me in a lot of ways." and then the urbane railway people as helmets of fighting men. The Customers must be brought into The budget club is a feature of the do the rest, and make everything so archaic picture of Niram-Sin, ruler of organization work carried on by comfortable for her that she hates the Agada, shows him in a helmet with your place of business by tactics a idea of ever returning home. And because home demonstration agents representing curved horns. Cloth and fur came of this luxury, women are forever the state university and the farm first—hats modeled after the old tigerskin entirely different from those used hunting up excuses for a trip bureau. Why not start a family idea—and then, legend runs, St. somewhere. Kersmith told me the budget now? when money was so easily made Clement invented the mode of felting other day that his wife traveled three rabbit's fur. Cloth hoods, mailed "and hundred miles and back to match a and as easily spent. caps, also, developed through armor. Beat The Moth To It Act Now ribbon, the local stores not having the The more general use of hats seems to "Now is the time," says Mary L. exact shade she wanted. Kersmith is have originated in England with" the just about three cubits ahead of the Bull, extension specialist in home Norman Conquest, 1066 A. D., and in THE MAIL This is a period of readjustment, sheriff, and his wife knows it, but she management with the university, "to the thirteenth century hats with-brims wouldn't let a small matter like that brush and clean and sun heavy outside SALES BROADSIDE appeared. In 1254 Pope Innocent the of reaction, and the bright, warm" interfere with her trip. Fourth authorized the wearing of hats garments and put them in moth "In the halcyon days people used to by cardinals. Medieval plumed hats appeared proof wrappings. Wash, mend and sunshine of the new day portends The printed mouft Uncle Sam carries tallow candles and were all the better for you at le pastes all cordons of human about this time. wrap mittens, mufflers, stockings, etc. for it. There was no satisfaction in sentries and receives a dean-cut reception. a new era of prosperity. It means Mark all packages before putting reading by a candle, so men didn't Folders and circulars appeal to the business men,if for no ether reason than that they are them away it wiU'jsave time and energy blow in their substance for fool books Sea Chameleons. educetionel. Even if this is the motive sane thinking, and sane buying. prompting their reception, it is and magazines. The randies kicked There are no more talented camouflage later on. Clean and rearrange Quickly tubordinatedto the appeal of%our message. up such a smell that they were extinguished artists than some kinds of tropical bureau drawers and closets. Heavy Dig out the sock from its hiding Our printing injects into folders and circulars as early as possible, and so sea-fish. A scientist who has been bedding which is being laid aside and in fact, all printed matter, the elements no money was wasted. Now we have making a study of their color phases which will drive home with telling is not wa&hable may be aired, brushed, place and use the money for the force your appeal. the electric light, which is a great convenience. says some of them can .fake on in turn dunned and packed away for the by Prices ouoted us far printing an from It is such a thundering convenience, the hues of coral, rocks, seaweed, things you need, Mr. Customer. the uniform summer." Mrs. Jamesworthy, that it is sand, almost instantly making themselves greasing the road to the poorhouse for invisible to the hunting enemy. RANKLIN They are enabled to do this by the innumerable heartsick husbands. The Why Franklin's Writings Live. PRINTING remarkable nervous control of the Business IS good. And those whoknow average citizen finds it impossible to For those who know how to write PRICE LIST chromatophores under the skin with convince his wife and daughters and English there are the examples of which nature has favored them. The use and read the advertising other female relatives that the electric Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, and Ben* cowfish has four color phases, the gave juice costs money, and so his home is jamln Franklin, 1706-1790. Both which assures one price to everybody on glasseye, four that fascinating dandy columns of The Mower County illuminated from basement to garret their lives not only to letters but to affairs, high class workmanship. of the deep, the sergeantmajor, three highminded. every night. Few women remember to and both were honest and Let us counsel you on the makeup of your printed projectiles. while the red gruper displays six and News, the County Paper. turn off the light after having it turned Johnson wrote "literary English," the Nassau gruper can actually provide resonant, sonorous, even-flowing, on. If I drop dead of heart failure the astonished spectator with a In long antithetical sentences. Franklin one of these days, it will be when looking prismatic progress through eight colors. wrote In the language of the people—familiar over the electric light bill. In the words and short, immediate, 1921 Will Reward Fighters old days—" homely sentences. Today Johnson "Oh, bother the old days, and the Better to be talkative and say nothing Is is known chiefly because he the young days, and the middle-aged than talkative and say something ever subject of the greatest biography days 1" cried Mrs. Jamesworthy. harmful. as a written, but Franklin is studied master of forcible living English.— You can't get up in the world by That Depends. Youth's Companion. getting others down in the world. "You know, my dear fellow, we really gain by our trials in life." Mower f^ounty News .i- "That depends on the kind of lawyer you employ." He Started Early. Mozart began composing at an earlier age than anybody else on record. House of Service At four he was exhibited as an infant prodigy, and at five he composed concertos. When he was eleven he wrote an opera bouffe. Co-ed at the Start. Of the three oldest universities in KOBE'S CAFE western Europe—Salerno, Bologna and Paris—two were open from the first r* to women. Those were Salerno and Bologna.