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PAGE SIX Life in Country Today Compared to Twenty Years Ago. Custom of Sleeping Outdoors, for Irtr stance, Is Growing—What the "Movies" and "Canned Music" Have Accomplished. Twenty years ago the inhabitants of entire villages, up in New York state at least, seemed to fear fresh air o' nights and slept with their windows closed. Night air was not healthful, they said—and a lot of them lived to be ninety-seven even on that theory. The window sashes were nailed down and stuffed with rags at the first sign of snow and we slept under those con ditions. In those days If anyone had prac ticed sleeping outdoors, even in sum mer weather, It would have caused a sensation. "Cracked, I swan!" the old fanners would have said. The change came gradually, presum ably because the sons and daughters of the old residents went to work in the large centers where opened win dows were, if not the rule, surely not the exception, remarks a writer in the New York Evening Sun. Now the com plete change hits one fairly in the face when he returns *to the once airless districts of early youth. Night and day now the windows are wide open and sometimes even doors are never closed no one thinks of liv ing without screens and mosquito net ting, even the poor In hollows and by lanes. The families frequently eat out doors under the old apple tree, on red and white table covers or oilcloth or a bare scrubbed board. Like the omni present flivver that carries the clerk and his family to picnics along the roadside, the outdoor-eating habit has done wonders for the health and hap piness of all, particularly the country folk. Out-of-doors sleeping is now well nigh a habit. Hardly a porch In that country nowadays is complete without a khaki swing couch, a made-up cot or one of the old time hard, haircloth "sofies" with pillows and a patchwork quilt or two, ready for the sleeper. Most of these were hung with mosquito net curtains, looped back by day. Nowadays on these outdoor couches are seen reclining in daytime the old man of the family, lying at full length with his bare feet toasting In the sun. Twenty years ago he would have slept fn the darkened parlor behind closed shutters or, if very foolhardy, he might have been caught by watchful eyes of his family napping under the old apple tree. Tes, the country has come on! But outdoor sleeping by rural chil dren has not yet arrived. Here the farmer's wife draws the line. It may be all right for grandpap and herself and husband, but she is not yet sure about the night air for little lungs. So children's cots are not seen upon the porches. They still sleep within four walls and a ceiling. The city and large towns have come to this airy regime through years of propaganda In newspapers, In churches and in social centers. The country ab sorbed it through newspapers and mag azines. I ^ut if there has been a notable change in the attitude of farm and vil lage folk toward fresh air there has been an even greater change in their social life. The small town of twenty years ago is not the small town of to day. Then they had church sociables. Tfcey may still have them, but I do not know where. There used to be buggy rides and prayer meetings, and the greatest dissipation of the younger vil lagers was "going walking," with a pos sible "sody" at the corner drug store. Booth Tarkington depicts these rural scenes truthfully, but his pointed view is now out of date. The movies and "canned" music have recreated village life. Even in those families where there is no automobile life is a far pleasanter thing than It was twenty years ago. The movies en tertain the whole family. And in the evenings, when the movies fail, the av erage soda fountain draws not with ice-cream cones and candy alone but with a rollicking, jazzing mechanical player. The drug store has become largely a refreshment parlor It is now a social center. Young and old meet there and strolling and loafing have gone into the discard. The closing of saloons may have ihelped, but even before prohibition the Jilting notes of music boxes in ice «ream parlors began to woo the vil lagers. Twenty years ago never was there such joyousness In country life, such clothes worn by the young girls, such sang-froid among the boys, such naive sophistication upon all. There spoke the screen in Mary Pickford curls, In styles of an extremity, in a youth's cane, in a girl's vampish slouch. And *11 the joy life. That Is the secret «f the change that has come over vil lage habits of living. The cheap cost of the photoplay and the graphophone has taught the public in out-of-the-way places to get into the game to live joy ously. Wood Strong, Though Light. Tests of balso wood by the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology show ed a strength fully one-half as great as spruce. Yet this Eqnadorlan wood weighs only 7.3 pounds per cubic foot, while cork weighs 13.7 pounds. The wood is stated to be practically pure cellulose, with no lignlfication, the strength being due to its structure of large barrel-shaped cell* BIG CHANGE NOTED TO ASSIST CUPID Movement for "Mixed Clubs'7 in City of London. Method Has Been Suggested to Check Decline In Marriage Rate, Which Is Viewed With Consid erable Alarm. Social reformers, bishops, clergymen and physicians are continually remind ing us that in Eugland we need "more marriage and earlier marriage." The postponement of the age of marriage among men until thirty or the begin ning of middle age la not a healthy social sign. In the middle clam this deferment of wedlock is attributed chiefly to the increased difficulty in earning a suffi cient Income to support the family. The same factor comes Into play among the skilled craftsmen who wish to at tain a fair financial position before they undertake the responsibilities of parentage. We find, therefore, that early marriage Is the custom chiefly of the unskilled workers, casual laborers and the very poor. The economic question Is not the only barrier to early marriage and more marriage In the great middle class. Strange as it may appear, a vast num ber of men and women who wish to marry cannot find mates. Even in these days there are a multitude of men who have very few women ac quaintances, and a still larger host of women who rarely enjoy the society of men. We are apt to forget that a large proportion of the inhabitants of the big cities are practically 'Grangers in the gates." Their "homes" are a bedroom in the suburbs, a boarding house or a little lock-up flat They are country immigrants to the large towns, and in many instances they have not a single acquaintance in the place. If we are really in earnest about the decline of the marriage rate and the deferment of matrimony, we should set about facilitating social Intercourse be tween the sexes. The first practical step is the provision of "mixed clubs" under municipal control. Clubs, as they exist now, are simply internment camps for men or women, and there is no doubt that they tend to a further seg regation of the sexes. It is true that there are clubs in Lon don where men and women can meet. But we require a very much larger number In the metropolis and in all parts of the provinces. My own experience of mixed clubs is that they undoubtedly promote mat rimony. They are a pleasant meeting place for young men and women after the days' work. It Is appalling that thousands of youths and maidens should have nowhere to foregather in the evenings and no choice between the lonely lodging and tiie streets. I would suggest also that every mu| nicipality should establish a marriage bureau and provide candidates for wed lock with Introductions.—From Conti nental Edition of London Mail. Where Soft Drinks Originated. A Philadelphia writer says that there is not much inspiration for po etry in soda water. Let it be remembered that another "first" to be credited to Philadelphia is for the manufacture of soda water —that is to say, {he commonly accept|per ed beverage with fruit sirups. It was made by Eugene Roussel, who conducted a perfumery establishment here about a century ago. Moreover, the Philadelphia centen nial finally confirmed the important place of the industry and the popular ity of the beverage in the United States. Robert M. Green began to build soda fountains in '74, showed one at the centennial, and at the Franklin Institute exposition, held not long thereafter, dispensed his new in vention, "ice cream soda," to an in creasing throng that presently was paying $200 a day over the counter for the seductive new "soft drinks." With the present soda water and soda fountain business approximating one billion dollars a year, this Phil adelphia born industry is still in its infancy. But what a prodigious infant it is!—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Nickel Coins Again. An innovation In currency has beer made by the Indian government,1 which has coined and Issued nickel 8-anna and 4-anna pieces. Two-anna and 1-anna pieces have been in clrcu-| latlon In India for many years, but hitherto no nickel coins of a value equal to the new Issue have been In use In any country—In fact, the 8 anna piece Is credited with being the highest-valued coin struck In base metal in the world, Its recent sterling exchange value being 1 shilling 2 pence, or 28 cents, at normal values. The indlan government was influenced in Its decision to issue the new coins by the high price of silver, and it Is probable that one result of the Inno vation will be to cause the 8-anna sil ver coins to disappear.—Brooklyn Eagle. New Smokeless Fuel. Coalite, a new British smokeless fuel, is claimed to be a natural brlqyel generating as much heat per unit as coal. By a process of low tempera ture carbonization,. a ton of bitumin ous coal is made to yield 14 hundred weight of smokeless fuel, 7,000 cubic feet of gas, 16 gallons of oil similar tc crude petroleum, 3 gallons of refined motor spirit and 20 pounds of sulphate of ammonia for fertilizer. Besides making fuel smokeless, this process supplies by-products of enormous im portance. THE WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD, VALLEY CITY, NORTH DAKOTA COMES OF ANCIENT FAMILY Danish Minister to Iceland Traces Origin to First White Man Born In America. Information has been received from Copenhagen that the Danish consul general in London, J. E. Boegglld, has been appointed Danish minister to Ice land. Mr. Boegglld is widely known In America, having been Danish con sul in San Francisco and Chicago, consul-general in New York and com merclal adviser to the Danish legation in Washington. Mr. Boegglld seems especially fitted for this post, as he has Icelandic blood In his veins. On the maternal side he is descended from the Tulinius family of Iceland, which traces Its origin back to Thorfinn Karlsefni, one of the fa mous Norsemen who discovered Amer ica nearly one thousand years ago. Karlsefni, of whom a statue was re cently erected In Philadelphia, was the first white man to settle in America, spending two years In "Wlneland," where his wife, Gutrld. gave birth to a boy, who was called Snorrl. From Snorri descended a numerous and dis tinguished lineage, among whom Is numbered the Tulinius family, and the new minister to Iceland can thus lay claim of being descended from the first white man born in America.—De troit News. Cook With Oil on Warship. The Hood, the monster mystery bat tleship, launched from the Clyde the other day, is fitted out with a large oil-fuel cooking galley. For several years past the use of oil fuel has been common in the British navy for pro pulsion purposes, but its employment for cooking is quite an innovation. The galley referred to Is capable of cooking for 1,200 men. The heat is obtained by means of special burners, which consume the oil tinder pressure, compressed air being used to atomize the fuel. The result is a white flame of extraordinary heat and cleanliness, which leaves no residue whatever and Is easily controlled. There is an en tire absence of smell—a usual disad vantage in cooking hy means of oil— and there is no chance of the food being contaminated. From Friday's Daily Mrs. C. A. Platou was up from Litchville yesterday and is spending the day in the city. Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Jensen, of Lis bon, N. D., are here today looking aft er matters of business in the city. Miss Alice Fisher, a former teacher 'at the Normal school, will arrive in the city today for a short visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank White. Mr. and Mrs. S.. Sheldon, of Wash I nurn, N. D., are Valley City visitors today arriving here last night. President C. E. Allen, of the State Normal school, is to deliver the com mencement address for the graduat ing class at Luverne, N. D., today. Mrs. M. J. Crose recently returned from California and will spend the summer with her daughter, Mrs. C. R. Simpson. E. H. Light, of the Minneapolis Pa Company, was here yesterday I looking after the trade and was a caller on the Times-Record. Supt. Arthur Deamer, of the Fargo public schools, was a Valley City visi tor last night and left this morning over the Soo line. I Jesse Sargent and her mother leave today on No. 2 for Prescott, Wis., where they will spend the next two months visiting friends and rela tives. President C. E. Allen went to Lu verne today to deliver a_ commence ment address. He will return to Val ley City Saturday to resume school duties. Everybody is coming to hear ex President Wm. Howard Taft at the I Chautauqua auditorium next Tuesday evening. Mr. Taft will have some thing good to say to you. State Superintendent of Public In struction Minnie J. Nielson is in the city today. Miss Nielson will go to Cooperstown tomorrow to confer with school officials there. Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Aurenhagen, of Litchville, N. D., are spending the day in the city. Mr. Aurenhagen is one of the pioneer farmers of the Litchville country as well as one of the solid business men of that town. Secretary Moe says the tents and camp sites are going like hot cakes and if you want a site or tent now is the time to get busy before it is too late. Procrastination is the thief of time. Mrs. Will Wright of Woodworth, has been a guest at the T. B. Swart out residence for the past few days, and left last evening over the Soo for Enderlin where she will visit for a few days with her mother. Gilman Mudgett arrived home Wed nesday from West Point and is spend ing his vacation at home. Gilman is progressing very nicely at the big military academy and it has been two years since he left home, so that we expect he will enjoy his visit home. H. C. Aamoth and family were Val ley City visitors yesterday, and re turned to Fargo last evening. Mr. and Mrs. Aamoth have purchased a fine home in Fargo and will make their home there permanently from now on. Mr Aamoth was recently promoted to president of the National Security of Fargo. Oswal O. Wagley, of Milwaukee, Wis., was an arrival in the city last night and is looking after business In terests here and visiting friends. Mr. Wagley is an old Valley City boy and still owns business property in the the city. Friends of Mr. Wagley are pleased to see him. Parties who were up to the base ball game at Jamestown yesterday say that they received the biggest sur prise of their lives. They knew that the Langer sentiment is slowly but surely gaining headway, but they say that they saw about 10 Langer ban ners on automobiles to every one for Frazier. These were not business men's cars either. They were farm ers who were taking in the fair at that place. Tom Bonhus, knows Attorney Gen eral Langer's 'brother very well. He was a member of Co. F, 362nd infan try regiment of the 91st division. Tom saw him many times in France and says that he was right up in the front lines and any talk of his being a slacker by the nonpartisan press is untrue. He was in the same regiment as Mr. Bonhus and we guess this ought to be authentic. Father Stanton, who is to preach the sermons at the Catholic church during the Forty Hours Devotion, next Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, accepted the delivering of an address at some other place on Satv/day, and so will arrive at Valley City Saturday night at 8:30 on the Soo. He will hear confessions upon his arrival and on Sunday morning beginning at 7 a. m. until 8:30. In order to give to as many as possible the opportunity of seeing him the first mass will be at 8:30. There will be no mass here to morrow morning. The Valley City baseball team went down to defeat for th first time in several days yesterday, when they were taken on by the Jamestown bunch and beaten by the score of 2 to Only seven innings of the game were played, on account of darkness falling so early. This is the first game this season that Valley City has lost to Jamestown. Two or three of Valley City's best players quit yester day just before the team left for Jamestown, greatly crippling the effi ciency of the team. N. P. Langemo, candidate for the legislature from the thirty-eighth dis trict, was up from Fingal yesterday. He has been out campaigning in his district and while he does not say that he has easy sailing like his com petitor, he does say that he is meeting with much encouragement at the hands of the voters of the district. Mr. Langemo is by far the best man of the two to elect to that ob, because he will be influenced in his work by the need of the people instead of by the wishes of the big boss. Mr. Lan gemo left for Fargo today to look after some business matters and on his return will again go forth among the people to put forth his claims for election. The baseball players that quit yes terday were Gessner and McGovern. Gessner has been playing second base while McGo/vern h|as /been holding down the center outfield. The two went from here to Park River, N. D., where they will play with that team for the rest of the season. Their quitting crippled the team consider able yesterday and might be offered as an excuse for losing the game yes terday at Jamestown. The manage ment expects to have new men in their places by next Sunday, when Pingree will play here. There are no more games scheduled at present un til next Sunday. The league picnic at Tolstad's grove day before yesterday was at tended by a large crowd, but it was not attended by any amount of en thusiasm for the league side. In fact most of the crowd present was against the league. Townley did not show up at all and the speakers present failed to rouse any interest in the mul titude but rather bored them. The only speaker who did raise any stir at all was our friend Prof. Selden, who succeeded in spilling the beans as is his usual custom and in raising the ire of the crowd. The band was un fortunate in having its tuba player taken sick and M. O. Grangaard, can didate for state legislature for this district, being the good fellow that he is, volunteered his services to pump wind into that tuba and helped out in in ha he is re at a os of the doctrines of state socialism and free love arose in all his majesty and glory and started a roast on Mr. Grangaard. It was uncalled for, very foolish and shows what a man will do who is trying to land something from the bunch he has so suddenly adopted as the outlet to furnish him a meal ticket. If Mr. Selden wants to advo cate the league program that is all right, but just why he wants to hop onto everybody each time he does some talking we cannot understand. It is safe to say that he made a lot of friends for Mr. Grangaard. Professional Cards Phone: Office 206-J. ReB. 206-L J. VAN HOUTEN, M. D. Physician And Surgeon Offices in Gray Block VALLEY CITY N. D. Res. Fifth Are. N. Phone 36 E. A. PRAY, M. D. Physician and 8urgeon Graduate Utolr. of Pennsylvania Office in Postofflce Block WINTERER A RITCHIE LAWYERS VALLEY CITY N. D. THEODORE S. LINDLAND Attorney and Counsellor at Law Office in Farmers' and Merchants' Bank Building VALLEY CITY N. D. WE SPECIALIZE in EXCHNGES What have you to trade for MIN NESOTA LANDS? Large or small deals considered. Box 1172 Thief River Falls, Minn. Dr.C. E. Johnson DENTIST Office over Middlewest Bank Bldg. Phone 73. Valley City, N. D. E. A. PRAY, M. Physician and Surgeon Offi. Phone 175 Res. Phone 2)5 Office in Pray Block CASTOR IA For Infants ana Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of EXCESSIVE ACIDITY is at the bottom o! most digestive ills.<p></p>KI-MOIDS for indigestion afford pi eas ing and prompt relief from die distress of acid-dyspepsia. MADE BY SCOTT A BOWNB E MAKERS OP scorrs EMULSION^ DRS. FEATHERSTONE Dentists American Exchange Building Valley City, N. D. PROFIT and LOSS Write Us PIONEER RADIATOR CO. Jamestown, N. D. Farm Owners Notice! We have a number of land buyers at hand with considerable cash to invest in your farm if it is for sale. Advise us at once as to your price, terms, legal description, etc. GRANGER LAND COMPANY Young Blk. Room 3, Phone 271 Valley City, N. D. THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1920. Last Big Block of the Canadian Pacific Reserved Farm Lands $ TCanadian HIS announces the offering of the lut big block of the Pacific Reserved Farm Lands. Until this block ip disposed of you can aecure at low coat a farm homo in Western Canada that will make you rich and independent. Never again on the American Continent will farm land* be offered at prices so low. Last Big Opportunity This block contains both fertile, open prairie end rich park lands in Lloyd* minster and Battleford Districts of Central Alberta end Saskatchewan. Farm lands en the rich prairie* of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta average about SIS an acre. Lands ia Southern Alberta under an irrigation system of unfailing water from $50 an Twenty Years to Pay The Canadian Pacific offers you this land under a plan of long term, easy payments that is remarkable in the history effarm investments. You pay down 10%. Then you have no pay ment on the principal until the end of the fourth year, then sixteen annual payments. Interest is 6%. In Central Saskatchewan, Seager Wheeler grew the world's prise wheat. World's prize oats were grown at Lloydminster. 4 Lands Under Irrigation In Southern Alberta, the Canadian Pacific Railway has developed the largest individual irrigation undertak* ing on the American Continent. This district contains some of the best lands in Canada. An unfailing supply of water is administered under the Canadian Government. Prices range from $50 an acre up on the same easy payment terms. $2000 loan on im provements. 20 years to pay back. Special Rates for Homc seekers and Full Information The Canadian Pacific will not sell yon farm until you have inspected it. To make this easy, special railway rates haveabeenarranged. Do not de lay your investigation. This is the last great block of Canadian Pacific Reserved Farm Homes. Send today for complete information without obligation. HOLLINSHEAD & COMPTON Valley City, N. D. For all Information about Canada, ask the WEEKLY WANTS DR. F. L. WICKS. OCULIST Special attention given to .the fit ting of glasses. Wicks Block. Phone No. 493. Don't Be Discouraged! It isn't necessary to buy a new pair of shoes. Your old ones can be re built and give you much service still. Comfortable old shoes are like your old friends. You want to keep them as long as possible. Come in and let us show you how we make "New Shoes from Old Ones." SWANSON'S SHOE SHOP The Goodyear Shoe Repairer American Exchange Bank Building Valley City, N. D. TAKEN UP—Four horses, two bay geldings, one grey mule and one grey mare. Whitfield McKay, Lu verne, N. D. 3-2twp-3tdp FOR SALE—Good milch cow. Com ing fresh soon. V. E. Grant, Cuba, N. D. 22-2td-ltw STRAYEP—On June 24, one black gelding one chestnut mare with colt. Finder Phone 908F21. John A. Johnson. 25-2td-lw A radiator 'that leaks means a loss to you. It isn't the loss of water, but it is the loss of time. The los3 of eneryg in your motor and the danger of burning your be a in an in your cylinders for the lack of water cool them. 75 »per cent of your repair bills are due to a poor cooling system. Get that radiator repaired at once. All work guaranteed. Cleaning clogged radiators one of our specialties. Phone Us, 4998 M) if