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’Tis not in mortals to COMMAND success, but we’ll do more, we’ll DESERVE IT. — Addison. 
The Low Price of Milk. 
Considered merely as a beverage, and 
a mighty good beverage it is, aside 
from its food value, there is much to 
be said and has been said in favor of 
milk. 
But from one point of view a fact 
that stands out conspicuously I have 
not seen mentioned. This is a wonder 
especially when we remember the jokes 
that have been tossed at the dairyman 
about the pump and the well in connec- 
tion with milk. Isn’t it astonishing that 
ginger ale, sarsaparilla and other so- 
called “soft drinks’’ should cost more 
than milk? How is it that a pint of 
ginger ale is sold for twenty cents and 
a quart of milk for fifteen? Certainly 
the small amount of ginger and flavor- 
ing and sugar should be cheaper than 
the slow and laborious process of rais- 
ing the cows through two or three 
years of nonproduction, then giving 
them the assiduous attention they 
should have, extracting the milk by a 
slow process, delivering it at the un- 
canny hours of the early morning, 
working perpetually with ice under 
sanitary conditions, then selling it for 
less than half the price of soft drinks 
that require seemingly not one-tenth 
the labor and cost. It behooves every 
manufacturer of soft drinks to explain 
why plain water, a little flavoring, a 
little sugar with no special expense for 
handling should cost twice as much as 
the best milk. 
We have recently had a milk week in 
which we were urged for the benefit of 
our health to drink more milk. One 
argument that might have been used, 
and it seems to be a good one, is that 
milk should be used universally until 
these ginger ale manufacturers reduce 
their prices to a reasonable figure. A 
duty that they owe to the public is to 
explain why things are thus and so. To 
any one who looks at the subject im- 
partially, it would seem reasonable that 
milk should cost at least six times 
more than a little flavored water that 
needs no ice nor special care to preserve 
it. Jokes are out of order against the 
dairyman for he can discard the pump 
and the well and beat them both hands 
down — milking into a pail. 
I enjoy and greatly appreciate The 
Guide to Nature and consider it one of 
the most important magazines pub- 
lished, as its message is so great and 
yet simple enough to be understood by 
every one. — Mrs. R. S. Slater, North- 
port, New York. 
A Letter of Appreciation. 
Stamford, Connecticut. 
To the Editor : 
I have been asked by the faculty and 
students of the Merrill Business Col- 
lege to perform the pleasant duty to 
address these lines to you, to thank 
you and the Misses Nellie and Pearl 
Bigelow for the great kindness shown 
us during our recent visit to ArcAdiA. 
There are times when the heart is 
not capable of furnishing the words 
that should be used, and I find myself 
in that position today, knowing that 
words can’t express even part of our 
gratitude to you. We are sure that the 
goodness of your nature alone prompts 
you to act kindly, and not the hope for 
anything like a return ; but we trust 
you will accept this token of apprecia- 
tion from those who spent a pleasant 
day in the Home of Mother Nature, 
thanks to your kind and generous heart. 
Though the time flies and the years 
of our life are passing along like the 
passing of a summer breeze, like the 
melting of the morning dew in the gar- 
dens of ArcAdiA, yet the waves of time 
can’t carry away impressions like those 
of the day we spent in the Home of 
The Agassiz Association, as they are 
carved deeplv in our memory. 
THE MERRILL BUSINESS COLLEGE, 
By lames Cookorelos. 
