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A laalilon note remarka tbat women are to be flat'buated. Coosidering ttae price of mllUnery, it aeems likely.
i tomers seemed to be getting their > Wi,y Advertising is Read
usual adrertUing business. Some of I One of tbe foundation principles of I them were doing better. i successful newspaper work in that
i Yet In many c- these towns, the ex- the closer anything comes home to port trade of the factories had been the personal affairs of the reader, the cut off. and there was complaint of more Interest it excites. An item ! I slow times la the retail stores. Thla about the business interests of a ; seemed to h;m to prove that mer- neighbor is likely to be read with i ch&nis have Renerally learned that t.he moje attention than a report of some , fact that sales fall off is no reason for fateful disaster many miles away, af- • stopping effort to increase sales. On/(etling communltieB and people of ' the contrary, it is a special reeeaiS^lOtHnaich^ixfy one knows anything, 'pushing goods. j This gives one an idea why it Is
[ Even In the dullest times, there that advertisements are always read are always a great many thrifty peo- with such attentive interest. They pie who will take advantage of a bar- relate directly to the personal affairs gin. They watch chances closer In of the public.
slow times. A 10 per cent cut in a People are deeply concerned nowa- standard line of goods looks big to; days about the cost of living. They them. If you advertise a real bar-!iie awake nights worrying about It. gain in the newspapers, it will attract; The club Xormed to discuss the poetry more interest now than it would in i of Tennyson may spend much of Its
very flush and conhdent times.
As the President Is talking economy, it ia not believed that Congress will Increase the appropriations more than several hundred Millions.
So far it has not been reported that any bridge parties have been given up in order to raise money for the Bel¬ gians.
Mr. Taft saya hen^ having a good time up in an apple jree watching things, but he can't expect to'araa^ popular enthusiasm until he gets Into the plum tree.
Wben you read that the colleges fav¬ or a shorter course, doea it mean a shorter dlsUnce for the boat race, or cutting down tbe running track?
After reading the heroic daring of the soldiers in Belgium^ many of us decided to again put off that tooth- milng Job at the dentist.
Congress is abouli to re-assemble with a large attendance, consisting ot at least all the door keepers.
Although the President is again to give up the New Year's reception this year, Washington society has not yet moved to have him impeached.
So far the Turkish government bas not asked the United States to apolo¬ gize for having a launch around where they were firing off guns.
Advertising In Dull Times A man connected with one of the printing trades says that he bad fear¬ ed that business In his line would be burt owing to the dull times created by the war. He had been a good deal pleased to see that his newspaper cus-
The modern family economizes af¬ ter Thanksgiving, by throwing the turkey leavings away, and thus saving the time of the cook who formerly made them up into hash and soup.
Although the rulers of Europe must feel ashamed of themselves every timo they read the editorials In the I American rural press, yet they still j keep on with their bloodthirsty ca¬ reer.
lime talking over the cost of beef or the wages paid servants.
So anything relating directly to liv¬ ing coRts appeals as keenly as any¬ thing there Is In the newspaper. The accouht of the battle over in Belgium is hrililng, but it is many miles away, and without Immediate effect on the reader.
But wben one learns from some wide awake merchant's advertising, that be bas acquired a lot of potatoes or oranges or flour or overcoats at a special bargain, and is prepared to close them out at a low price, the thing hits nse where we live.
E^reryDne tjuit wants to reduce his cost of living, and that includes nearly the whole community. Is affected by such an advertisement. It is read more eagerly by the housewives than the news ot the distant battle. The men also are interested, and ask their wives why they don't go there and buy.
Advertising is often the best news in the paper. Merchants wbo use it may be sure that every line they say is read.
Some people pay the grocer for their Thanksgiving feast by giving him an order for Christmas.
For the next few weeks, it is cus¬ tomary to decide every night to do Christmas shopping next day.
seven And eight cents a pound, need not hink thai the} ^onld ever make a lortune speculating In stocks.
T It might shorten tee wat if the Eu¬ ropean kings coull be impressed with the idea that thete is lots of gl^ry in getting out on the firing line.
Some of the trends to whom you give an embroldcned sofa pillow for Christmas will bn secretly wishing that it was a bushel ot potatoes.
B€^ore giving a man «k, $2.50-Christ¬ mas necktie, why not offer him half a I the profi Ib dollar and let him go around and pick one out himself? I
will give our fruit growers raluable pointers on how to raise the best of everyttnhg and how to make monej iU their busintss?.
These, profetsors expect to do much work through the winter in the organi- .:atlon of grangisi and spciai gather¬ ings, where tie Jami'Jes may gather j and find sometbini^ of interest for | every member. Pro. Graham says; this social feature is one of the most! important aids in keeping the boys! and girls on the fafm. He also advo-: cates that tlie children be taken Into ' partnership, and have pome share in j
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The people who felt pride in their foresight when they bought sugar for J
The latest danre is called the "knocliabout trot," and it will proba¬ bly continue in style until the dancing classes have almost learned it.
L. I Agricultural School
The Long Island State School of Agriculture, located at Farmingdale, is doing commendable work. The pro¬ fessors have two laudable alms, one to aid in every way to Increase the yield and profit from crops, the other to in¬ terest the boys and girls so that they will stay on the farm and in the old home. !
The men who go out from the school among the farmers to confer with and aid them, report that they flnd them j highly intelligent as k class. I
Prof. A. .B Graham says he met | fully flfty Cornell graduates who were engaged partly or wholly in farming, and nearly every farmer takes agri¬ cultural papers and books and many are scientific experts. He says that there are few if any fruit farms in the United States equal to the peach, pear, apple and plum orchards of F. A. Sirrine, north of Riverhead. There are other flne orchards and there are no belter sections for fruit growing anywhere than on the north side of Long Island, for a stretch of seventy or eighty miles, and the business can be made highly profitable.
But only the best kinds of fruit should be raised, the trees thoroughly sprayed and pr<^>9rly pruned and fruit picked from overloaded trees and only the best allowed to remain.
Hand-picked apples, pears or peaches from such trees will bring the highest prices in the market. The professors of the Long sland School
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