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THERE 

is no age limit for volunteers 

in the Home Reserves. Uncle Sam 

is helping women to train for citizenship—are 

you getting your share of 

instruction ? Never were the duties of 

citizenship more onerous or more inspiring. 

The work of women is as necessary 

as that of men. All feminine faculties of 

mind and graces of bearing are as much in 

demand as are their maculine complements. 

We must learn to use our citizenship discriminatingly, 

and it is wisest to begin in 

home fields where we best know conditions. 

Our men exercise their privileges of citizenship 

in addition to their business of earning 

a livelihood; so must we add some 

civic duties to our business of housekeeping. 

. 

One of the first obligations of citizenship 

is obedience, and a democratic people prefers 

to obey a request rather than i 

command; so when a request for some 

special form of conservation or of selfdenial 

came during the war from oui 

Food Administration, for instance, oui 

pride as citizens impelled us to obe> 

promptly and heartily, though we did 

not always fully understand all the 

reasons for the request. 

IT WAS vitally necessary to keep 

the food vans moving toward the 

front that our boys might have- their 

bodies nourished as well as have their 

wounds bandaged, and that our Allies, 

impoverished through four years 

of war, might be cared for. 

It is highly necessary also that our 

people at home be well nourished. A 

properly nourished body rarely yields 

to epidemics. To permit conditions 

favorable to epidemics, either in an 

individual home, a town, or a community, 

is at all times inexcusably 

careless, and at the present time is 

almost criminal negligence on the part 

of citizens. 

Now in the chaneine food conditions 

laid upon us by war and by NE 

high prices, how can the busy house- ' 

wife learn to provide proper nourishment 

for her family with the means at her 

command? As our soldiers had to be 

trained for their new duties, so must the 

housewife be trained in the science of nutrition, 

the use [and preparation of new 

foods, and the planning of meals for the 

body's needs, rather than for the appetite's 

caprices. The women soldiers of the home 

reserve must be trained and drilled in ways 

of preserving a state of health, individually 

and collectively, in their homes and in 

their communities. 

WE 

ARE told that the stock of wool for 

civilian clothing is pitifully inadequate. 

How are the women soldiers in the 

home reserve to meet this situation ? After 

a generation of using custom-made woolen 

clothes, comparatively few women now 

know how to make their own wool suits. 

Every good citizen now must learn to 

serve herself , and to learn quickly, it is 

necessary to have training. This training 

the government is helping to provide. 

Lack of workers at the mines and inadequate 

transportation facilities have 

caused a scarcity of fuel in many localities. 

What can our Home Reserve do about 

this? Few women connect their individual 

kitchen stove with the fuel problem. Few 

have thought to so plan their meals that 

one heating of the oven will cook the entire 

meal. Few know how to get the greatest 

radiation from their stoves or furnaces, or 

how to use their fuel to the best advantage. 

Here the government agent's training offers 

great and direct help. 

At all student camps our recruits were 

TRAINING HOME-MAKERS 

Will You Volunteer for the Support of Home Demonstration Service in Your Community? 

MAMIE BUNCH 

in Charge, Extension Service in Home Economics, Illinois state University 

given a course in War Aims. 1 his was as 

necessary for the women of the Home Reserve 

who were sendihg;their men to the 

fighting front as it was for the men themselves 

and now, though the war is over, we 

are still needed.! Every soldier who returns 

from the front will jiave learned 

something of the real facts of life often 

underestimated in commonplace times of 

peace. He will have learned that courage, 

patriotism, unselfishness, honor, faithfulness, 

and love of the ideal are the real assets 

of life, the qualities that endure when prop; 

erty is destroyed. Cannot we in the 

homes learn this lesson and demonstrate 

its truth by practical team work in applying 

these principles in community life? It 

is because, around the individual firesides 

of the world, parents have neglected practically 

to realize and demonstrate these 

NEITHER PLOW NOB FURROW RESENTED THE FACT THAT A WOMAN DID, AS SHOWN HERE, THE THING NEEDED TO BE DONE 

THIS 19 THE PHOTOGRAPH OP A MEMBER OP IOWA'S "HOME RESERVE" DOING HER SHARE. WHETHER IN WAH OR PEACE 

truths that the men of the warring nations 

have had to descend to Hell for a lesson in 

values. 

Our boys will return with a vision of the 

brotherhood of man such as only contact 

with other people in other modes of life can 

give. Shall not we of the Home Reserve 

learn of the lives of the people our boys are 

meeting? The boys will tell us on returning 

that there is no nation that has a 

monopoly on either vice or virtue. 

The real things of life are universal and 

form the basis for the "league of nations." 

As we keep the home fires burning, let us 

see in the embers the vision they glimpse 

in the trenches. This, women, is part of 

our drill, and Uncle Sam helps to furnish 

the officers. 

• The men who went into the army gave up 

home, business and position, for their term 

of service. We of the Women's Home Reserve 

have the advantage of remaining in 

our homes and are asked to co-operate 

only to the extent of helping to pay our 

officer, furnishing her proper equipment 

for carrying on our drill to the best ad vantage,-and 

being ready to act promptly on 

her advice. 

Who then are these officers? How have 

they been prepared for the important work 

of drilling housewives in conservation and 

the duties of citizenship? 

They are women of keen intelligence, 

broad vision, practical experience in home 

problems. They are women who have had 

several years' technical training in home 

economics, including nutrition, clothing, 

house planning, home equipment, home 

nursing, the relation of the home to community 

life, social problems, community 

recreation, and economics and civic ideals. 

They are trained to serve the home. 

They are selected from a large group of 

successful teachers and housewives by an 

appointments committee at your State 

University,- and are then referred to an 

executive committee in each county which 

organizes to support Uncle Sam's efforts 

toward making our homes worthy of the 

boys who will come back to us from over 

seas. 

In Illinois we speak of the office as the 

JTHE map of Illinois shown on page 170 will be of Merest to leaders in 

other states who are studying how their communities may best be organized 

to make aeailable to every rural home just the service which those homes desire. 

In Illinois, Miss Bunch tells us, selection of only the eery best available 

women advisers is made, four years' technical training in Home Economics 

being required, with special emphasis on nutrition, plus practical experience in 

the application of home economic principles in actual farm life, lecturing, 

demonstrating and so forth. 

These trained workers can give inestimable service. " The world do move" 

and the best of house-keepers , the wisest of mothers, the most skillful of cooks, 

still have something more to learn. 

THE FARMER'S WIFEII)I/7be happy to conned its readers with the Home 

Demonstration Work in their respective states. 

If we ourselves cannot fully answer any questions you may wish to ask 

us, we can always f ind for you those who can. 

In writing your letter of inquiry do not . forget the courtesy of inclosing 

postage for reply. This is a "little thing" hut Very important.— The Editor. 

County Home Bureau or the City Home 

Bureau. The Department of Agriculture 

at Washington, through its States Relations 

Service co-operating with your State 

University, backs the local county or citj 

organization, through which it is hoped 

necessary information on all vital home 

problems may be spread quickly and accurately. 

Fifteen counties and five of the 

large cities of Illinois have already availed 

themselves of the States Relations Service 

for women, and .other counties and cities 

are organizing. This was War Emergency 

Service but the tangible evidence of the 

value to the communities where it has been 

undertaken indicates that it will become 

a permanent feature of our training-for 

citizenship. 

What are some of these tangible results? 

First: A breaking down (amongst women) 

of petty, jealousies and political, 

social and religious prejudices, much 

the same work as the army has done 

for its men, resulting in fine team work 

and hearty co-operation. 

OECOND: The discovery of rare 

*J qualities of leadership in mature 

home women whose families have developed 

to the point of self reliance. 

These women are quietly and patriotically 

serving their communities, 

without the incentive of uniforms or 

martial music or the glory of military 

achievement as a spur; they have a 

keen experience of individual responsibility 

for helping to develop in their 

communities a sense of values that will 

make future wars improbable. 

Third: Home women are beginning 

to comprehend their own value as 

economic entities, or in other words, 

their value as all-around citizens. 

For instance, when a woman finds the 

value of the perishable food stuffs she 

has saved for winter amounting to 

more than $100 saved from the winter's 

grocery bill, (and that is a very 

common report) and when she realizes 

too that she has saved the Government 

the transportation ofthe amount 

of foods she has stored for home use, she 

begins to respect her housekeeping as a 

very important business having definite 

relation to state and national life, and she 

awakes to the necessity for conducting her 

housekeeping on business principles. 

MANY women under the guidance of 

War Emergency Agents, have learned 

to so systematize household tasks that they 

have time, as they had not had before, to 

enter into the children's problems and to ~ 

discuss with them the lessons given in' 

school in current history, geography, civics 

and patriotic effort , and they have begun 

to realize their business of home making as 

a great State service. 

Fourth: The States Relations Service 

has proved a mostvaluableagency in bringing 

together home and school in the great 

process of Americanization essential to the 

assimilation of our great foreign propulation. 

For instance, under the instruction 

of this agency at the Allied War Exposition 

in Chicago, the Czecho-Slav women 

prepared and exhibited with recipes twentyfive 

dishes (in common use by their households), 

modified to use substitutes for 

wheat and sugar. 

These are but few of the outstanding results 

which already guarantee the wisdom 

of federal aid in the development of the 

highest standard of home life. A nation 

can rise no higher than the aggregate 

ideals of its individual homes. 

Have you volunteered for training for 

the support of this service in your community? 

Need andopportunityawait v" - .

- ' TEACHERS OF PATRIOTISM / 

' . They Were Needed Before The War And During The Wan Tne Need For Them Now Is More Vital Than Ever 

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WANT to play soldier and be the 

* ;'j . hero! I don't want to wipe 

?• •» 'dishes!" answered the,belligerent 

-' - ^ five-year-old. 

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''¦/ "0, yes, you want to be a home soldier, 

* help me and hear about a hero. Heroes do 

r^heu- duty first you know," and then while 

„• daughter wiped as mother washed, mother 

' told a story. She pictured the hamlet of 

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Boston, the coming«iemy and the arrange- 

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merit for the signals for Paul Revere. She 

* • emphasized the courage of the Minute Men 

who entered the graveyard, climbed the 

* tower of the church in the night, making 

this part of the story of immediate appeal 

:• to the little daughter who was "afraid in 

}' the dark." She then told about the long 

ride, his danger of capture and made the 

matter of duty doing of high importance. 

r Then as the dishes were wiped, she said, 

~ "Could you learn the poem for father and 

" -.repeat it to him some Sunday?" 

And so, in the many dishwashings that 

followed,~-Mother said the verses and 

„ little Patsy repeated them until she could 

say all of the inspiring poem-story. 

* What had this mother done? She had 

ij - Xyf JSS Shetland speaks, in this article written before the war, what she abundantly 

^l : 1VI knows and what all know, who observe us Miss Shetland observes, right on the 

$ ground-floor of daily contact with American citizens-in-the-making. 

% As State Supervisor of Rural Schools of Minnesota and as one of Minnesota's 

I- Council-of-Defence war-workers, as well as a most successful rural-school teacher, 

g; MissShelland was well-equipped to prepare for the Minnesota Department ofEduca- 

';:' Hon, her delightful volume: School Patriotism: Handbook tor Teachers' 

Patriotic League and Little Citizens' League. This volume of nearly 200 

?: '¦ ' pages is solidly packed , from cover to cover, with a wonderful variety of aids to the 

'¦f. teacher who makes (lie inslillment of patriotism one of her earnest daily drives. 

> . Copies of "School Patriotism" can be purchased from the Syndicate Printing 

Company, Minneapolis, Minnesota, for f ifteen cents, by anyone inside the Slate or 

W: out. It will be a well-spent f ifteen cents. 

instilled courage and obligation 1 of duty to 

home and country into that small heart, 

and years later Patsy realized that mother 

struck a "spark that kindles the land into 

flame and its heat." 

—That same mother taught her child to 

know Barbara Fritchie and through the 

•games that followed, both brother and sister 

learn- to-reverence age and the flag. 

Through infinite patience mother turned 

the work hours into hours of inspiration, 

through which her children learned the 

qualities of patriotism—for patriotism is 

love of country expressed in word and 

deed. The seeds of patriotism must be 

sown, the habits of service must be developed 

and mothers all over the land can 

utilize these hours with their children for 

such purpose. 

THIS mother of whom I am writing, 

accomplished another thing. One of 

the neighbors had sickness in the family, 

;- and, in want of better transportation, she 

hitched a horse to the stone boat, put a 

chair upon it and Patsy against her knees 

" and went to the neighbor's assistance. 

'•'.' The brusque neighbor remarked somewhat 

sarcastically: "Land! I suppose you 

. think you are as good as Queen Victoria, 

"^ riding around that way!" 

J, "Certainly, as long as I behave myself!" 

,was the good-natured reply. That atti- 

• tude, the kindly attention to the neighbor 

-and the absolute crushing of gossip at home 

opened the eyes of the children to charity 

of purpose, the necessity for self respect 

Trad their duty to iheir neighbor. 

"Why doyou gotoSundayschool.moth- 

>r, when you feel so badly?" asked the lit- 

" tie daughter one day. 

«DECAUSE, dear, our neighbors help 

JP me on week days when I lack 

¦ strength and I can help them on Sunday 

to learn the thing I know about." Thus 

again the mother, in sickness and pain, 

taught the-child that we all owe something 

to the community in which we live 

and to which we are "related' because we 

' live in it. 

Mothers sometimes ask, How can we 

teach our children patriotism? I wonder 

if the above instance does not answer for 

!|îf one mother by such simple, direct ways 

"^•n inspire her children to bravely do their 

v at home, to their neighbor and the 

munity, certainly others can. And with 

that teaching comes reverence for others, a 

desire tcTemulate them and the courage to 

undertake the difficult. 

It is so easy now, to carry on this patriotic 

teaching because of the war which is 

stirring youth ' and age to vie in doing 

good. Children can be inspired by being 

told what other children have done. Tell 

them of the twelve-year-old girl who "kept 

house for her father, raised a garden, and 

put up 500 cans of tomatoes for sale so that 

she might buy a Liberty Bond. 

With the best chance possible for each to 

do her mite in buying War Savings Stamps, 

helping the Red - Cross, buying Liberty 

Bonds, denying herself unnecessaries, 

who could not teach patriotism ? The 

child cannot give much you say. Perhaps 

not, but a penny a year from each child in 

the state of Minnesota would mean 

$4,841.14, a penny a week would mean 

$106,916.48, and, after all, it is riot the 

money they save and give but the habit 

set up which the child shall follow in the 

coming years, which means most. If every 

child learns to practice thrift in care of 

food, clothes, and money, it will mean great 

things in the future of .the child and the 

nation. 

There is another patriotic conservation 

the child needs to be taught: the conservation 

of health. Eighty per cent of our 

children are defective physically. The 

rate of American children under a year of 

age is 7 per cent; the death rate of our soldiers 

in Europe is only 4"per cent. Can we 

not dcrsomething to help our children establish 

better bodily conditions? Cannot mothers 

see that they keep their teeth clean, 

sleep with their windows open, and take 

plenty of exercise, eat right food, follow 

right physical habits? The teachers are 

trying to establish better health habits, and 

as they ask the children to follow the teaching, 

shall not the mothers at home help the 

children to carry out their directions? 

Another patriotic obligation we all should 

think seriously of is our co-operative community 

life. Is there any danger of each 

one of us becoming so interested in our 

own home, own family, and own prosperity 

that we forget that really our own individual 

progress depends to a large extent 

upon that of our neighbor and of the entire 

neighborhood? "No man liveth unto him 

self," says the ancient wisdom. 

ANNIE E. SHELLAND 

State Supervisor. Rural Schools, Minnesota 

SOME years ago I called on a farmer who 

was working in his seed plot. He had 

selected a fertile plot of ground, enriched 

and cultivated thesoil.purchasedand planted 

a small amount of excellent seed, and had 

painstakingly kept down the weeds so that 

he might secure good clean seed for the 

next year's planting. The next spring he 

carefully prepared a larger field, planted 

his wheat, and rightfully expected another 

good crop. But—beside this field of 

precious planting was a neighbor's field and 

among the neighbor's seed was mustard and 

sow thistle. A good heavy wind, the blowing 

of seed and dirt from the last field to the 

first and the crop on the first plot was ruined, 

all because the neighbor failed to do his 

share. 

Just as a matter of self-defense, the man 

I visited needed to teach his neighbor to 

clean his seed before he planted it. Every 

neighbor for his own sake and also for the 

sake of his neighbor, needs not only to 

clean the seed, but to build good roads, 

good schools, good churches and co-operative 

plants—creameries, laundries ,, rest 

rooms, libraries, community kitchens and 

the like, for community service. Any coun- 

try' neighborhoOjjUcan have all the helpful 

equipment and enterprises found in the 

cities but only when individuals work together, 

each contributing his or her share of information 

and judgment, thus helping the 

community group gain the necessary knowledge. 

Some individual families have their older 

children * and their babies examined by 

nurse or doctor to see that they are in good 

physical condition. ; If-a nurse or doctor 

were hired to come to the township and 

examine all the children and babies of the 

township, each family would not only secure 

the doctor's advice at half the price, 

but certain neighborhood and school difficulties 

would come to the surface and the 

community would wake up to the need of 

a mother's club to help prevent the recurrence 

of certain troubles which were at the 

root of illness and unruliness. The safety 

of all alone is the safety of each. 

THERE are a great many men hi our 

country who are doing with their 

political life as the farmer referred 1 to did 

with his seed. They are reading carefully, 

thoughtfully; they are selecting their 

candidates and preparing themselves 

to cast an intelligent vote. So far they 

have prepared their political seed 

plot and reaped the first harvest. But 

they take very little precaution with their 

community plot. They neither help their 

neighbor select a candidate nor help him secure 

knowledge on all sides of the question 

at issue so that he too may cast an intelligent 

vote. The result is that a good vote 

is often choked out of life by the weeds of 

the community plot—the unintelligent 

votes. Many times the voter says, "If I 

had only known—if I had only understood!" 

Why did not that careful neighbor 

help him to know and to.understand, 

Why not do alLpossible insecure knowl- 

edge on all sides of public questions, for the 

community as a whole, information from 

b6th friend and foe, speeches from all candidates 

and a frank discussion of what the 

candidates stand for before the vote is cast ? 

An organization of this kind with an 

adapted course of study would not only 

help all the individuals concerned but 

would raise the standards of the whole 

American nation. Eight per cent of the 

citizens of the State of Minnesota are illiterate, 

nine per cent are aliens and forty^six 

per cent are foreign born whq do not yet 

know clearly that for which the American 

government stands. And Minnesota is 

just one state. 

Can you, Neighbor who reads this article, 

help the women of your neighborhood who 

do not read.English, to learn it this year? 

Can you help the foreign born and the fifty 

per cent of the population who left school 

before the sixth grade, to discover what 

America stands for? Can you not see how 

the vast army of immigrants who came to 

our land in past years, are gradually realizing 

that freedom for one meant freedom 

for all and that the only government that 

can uphold that realization, is a government 

of the people, by the people and for 

the people? Thousands of those same 

"foreigners" are fighting in the trenches 

to-day, under the Stars and Stripes. 

IF 

WE are to have an ideal government by 

the people, they must have a knowledge 

of our language, our customs, our laws, their 

own individual daily needs and the needs 

of the community groups which comprise 

the government. One of the best ways in 

which this information can be spread and 

instilled is to have continuation schools or 

community councils, in every township at 

least. To these schools or councils the 

•people gather, each giving of what he 1 

knows. Here the earnest message of 

each is heard by all, here come the best 

speakers of the day, discussing this mass of 

information and out of it the community 

selects that which appeals to the most as 

practical common sense. Then men are 

elected "whom the spoils of office can not 

buy"; men who will stand their ground 

for the good of the people. 

But in order to do this community work, 

each of us must realize that we must give 

if we would receive. . The only way to 

keep the spring pyre is to keep it flowing. 

So each must be willing to give of time, 

effort , knowledge and pleasure until each 

one in the community and the community 

itsel f is so full of good things that it has become 

a pure fountain head, a feeding stream 

for a better, purer government. 

The church must awake, and interpret 

the message of the Divine as one that demands 

purpose, strength and action, for 

the followers of the Divine are called upon 

to heal the body politic by casting out the 

devils of intemperance, greed, vice, ignorance, 

laziness, indifference, selfishness. 

OUR nation is "a peculiar people" in 

that we believe that we have certain 

unalienable rights of life, liberty and the 

pursuit of happiness. Upon these rights, 

the rights of our brother, our government 

has been built. In this form of government 

is embodied a belief in the brotherhood 

of men. The greater share of our 

business is built on faith in others. 

Such business, such government, such 

faith call for patriotism or service, such 

service obeys the old, ever new, universal 

commandment, "Love thy neighbor as 

thyself." Who is our neighbor? The 

(t A7"0 TEACHER should forget that she is a lieutenant in charge of her com- 

¦L V . munity and school. Their response as soldiers will be in direct ratio to her 

enthusiasm, her knowledge, and her co-operation with the United States Government. 

A failure on her part will mean a weakness in the rear guard that may bring fatal 

results to the fr ont line. 

"The responsibility is great but the present and future welfare of the nations ¦ 

hinges upon the teacher's action. It must be remembered that great and terrible 

reckonings are coming very swiftly in-these days, and. none can afford to feel that a 

stone is left unturned for our present and future safety. The future depends on the 

present and: 

" 'The present is all thou hast for thy sure possessing; 

Like the patriarch 's angel, hold it fast till it gives thee blessings.' " 

—Annie E. Shetland in School Patriotism. 

i 

one who on this side of the ocean or 

Over There is down among the thieves 

of injustice and exploitation, who needs 

the oil of material comfort and relief— 

the wine of information and kindness and 

rest in the camp of brotherly love. 

He who administers such help, such healing 

and such'teaching is a patriot. The 

patriots of to-morrow are the children of 

today. And the ones who have the best 

opportunity and the greatest responsibility 

of teaching these future citizens how to be 

true patriots, true brothers, true Americans, 

are their mothers. 

SINCE I wrote this article, which was 

complete at the close of the last sentence, 

the prayed-for but almost unexpected 

end of the war has come. The 

editors of THE FARMER'S WIFE have asked 

me to add a post-war paragraph to the 

foregoing article. If I were to write the 

article-over, now that the-Armistice is in 

force arid Peace the great central theme 

of world conclaves, I should still find myself 

applying the same general principles 

to our plans for reconstructive living. 

It is still true, as I said above, "the ones 

who have the best opportunity and the greatest 

responsibility of teaching these future 

citizens how to be true patriots, true brothers, 

lrueAmericans,ARE THEIR MOTHERS.'' 

That the war may not have been in 

vain, MOTHER must still stand , the 

central force that makes for preparedness 

for efficient , steadily-betteringnational 

and international conditions. Since mothers 

began to be there has been no "armistice" 

for them—always they must fight 

the unending fight for Tightness!

PHILIPPA'S long shining needles 

clicked steadily. Luther read steadily. 

It was delightful, this Philippa- 

Lu'ther room. 

"Forty-one!" said Philippa suddenly. 

Luther's eyes appeared above his newspaper's 

edge with mild surprise in their 

gray depths. He was used to sudden 

utterances but there was something arresting 

about "forty-one." Nobody was 

forty-one years of age. This could not be 

the fprty-oneth army sweater that she was 

knitting—— 

"Oh, well," sighed Philippa, "I've got 

forty-one left before / decline." This was 

even more! arresting! The paper slid from 

Luther's knees, ' 

"Yes?" he asked, waiting with patience 

for enlightenment. 

"Oh, 'Luther—oh, Luther! I've just 

thought! When I do, you'll have to, too; 

so there!" 

"Ladies first ," he fumbled politely and 

Philippa shrieked with delight. 

« CO YOU decline to decline before I do! 

^ Boy, you are four years older than 

I. I'll only be sixty-six when your time 

comes to begin." 

"Oh, come on, Phil, say it right out and 

get the worst over! What are you talking 

about?" 

"About Grandmums, of course. That 

is, her poor~declining year reminded me 

..i... IIJ i_ . • « i. 

that I'd come to mine some day." 

" 'Declining year'—'Grandmums'—" 

Luther was in a fog. 

' 'She's seventy on the tenth* You know 

we 'keep' Grandmumsie's birthday and 

this poor dear one especially. Luke, think 

of walking right into seventy with both 

eyes open. Having to' be seventy, knowing 

you would decline from that time forth 

and hating to decline. Maybe Grandmums 

won't realize what it means; that 

would be merciful. Luther, ypu'll have 

to go down and carry our gifts. There's 

no other way this time. She'll expect us, 

of course, now we've moved to her part of 

the world—expressing the gifts won't do 

at all. I'm going to express you." 

tt'T'HE D-ickens you are! But I never 

f saw your 'Grandmums' in my life 

and she never saw me." 

"One presupposes the other, don't you 

think?" from Philippa sweetly. "It's time 

you did see each other. Perhaps it's not 

all unfortunate that Nellie Stoddard elected 

to get married on the tenth. You and 

Grandmums will have a lovely chance to 

get acquainted, all by yourselves. Only, 

Luke " 

"Well?" Had he ever resisted Philippa? 

"You must remember that she is old 

now and—and feeble. You must wait on 

her, hand and foot , Luke; read to her, keep 

her wrapped up—you know. She'll want 

to go to bed early probably; old ladies do. 

And you mustn't smoke in the house, and 

oh, Luke, if you went and rooted in the 

pantry after cold bites! Well, I'll be there 

myself the eleventh—do your best till 

then. I 've always wanted Grandmums to 

fall in love with my man ; then she'd see 

why I did. Think of it, Luke, I haven't 

seen her for five years." 

There had been five years of their 

"wanderlusting," as Luke called it. Europe, 

Asia, Africa and the islands of the 

sea—where hadn't they been on their 

glorious jaunts? Then , at last, back here 

to prosaic existence in a New York flat. 

As yet there had been no chance to visit 

Grandmums, Philippa's only parent. On 

the tenth, chance or no chance, she must 

be visited. Luther must go on ahead and 

Philippa follow as soon as she had properly 

seen to the marriage of her friend. 

i

T. WISH I could dip my pen into some 

/.j. 'kind of magic ink bottle today so that 

: V||-- the women who read this article might 

> ¦• ¦ find in it, not merelya more or less interesting 

discussion of story telling, but a 

truly-personal message to them. That is 

what I do wish it.to be: a personal word 

spoken to all women whose eyes may fall 

here but especially to those of you who 

are the best and closest friends that children 

own—their mothers and teachers. 

. 

In the minds of many, I fear story telling 

has been given an insignificant place. We 

Save been apt to think of a story as a rather 

trivial thing, intended principally for the 

entertainment of children and of little children 

at' that. 

'. That it might be instead a thing so beautiful 

and important as to assume for us the 

proportions of a real duty to our children— 

such an idea has not once occurred to us. 

But- have we ever stopped to think how 

old story telling is? And that there must 

be some wonderful power in it to have 

kept it popular through all the centuries. 

. Ever since primitive men ., crouched 

around their savage camp fires and. told 

their children their uncouth tales of beasts 

and monsters; ever since Homer trod the 

happy isles of Greece; ever since Christ 

taught the multitudes, and "without a 

parable spake not unto them," the story 

has been in vogue. 

I would rather have been a saga man 

in Norway, or a bard in old Ireland, than 

any king on his throne. 

Story telling, to speak truly, is an art, 

and one of the oldest and greatest and 

most human of all the arts. 

It is this last quality that we feel in 

story telling today, as we see it in America. 

Story ,telling is playing a very important 

part in the training of our children and 

young people. 

Teachers are waking up to the power of 

the story in the school room. Stanley 

Hall, perhaps the greatest of modern educators, 

has this to say about story telling: 

"Of all the things a successful teacher must 

know how to do, the most important, 

without any exception, is to tell a good 

story." 

And: he lays this responsibility most 

heavily on the shoulders of those teachers 

who dealjwith older or high school students. 

Obviously we must not tell the adventure-loving 

lad of twelve the same kind 

of story that we offer to his five-year-old 

sister but well chosen stories told to boys 

and girls in their teens may have a greater 

effect than we dare to hope. 

' Think of all the places where the story 

is being warmly welcomed today by listening 

boys and girls: In Sunday Schools, 

for the most advanced students of Sunday 

School methods find in the story their 

most valuable ally; in play grounds, for 

since, the; superintendent of a big New 

york play ground discovered in 1910 that 

he could calm restlessness and check quarrels 

hy_the telling of a story, story telling 

has, made its way into most of the playgrounds 

of the country; in libraries, where 

the stony hel ps to advertise the books; in 

settlements and . hospitals and children's 

Homes, (the sad kind with a capital H) 

and in many other places. 

. Truly, if the value of a story has once 

had a chance to assert itself, it can never 

again be questioned. No one can doubt 

tHe;responsiveness of children to a good 

story; then how can we doubt the power 

in that very responsiveness—power that 

may be-turned into any of a hundred directions? 

* ¦ 

. The question that is often asked, What 

tah a story do?us a very hard one to answer, 

because some of the most significant 

•results are the most intangible. We cannot 

attach a barometer to a story- and 

measure the. immediate and obvious results 

thereof; and if we could , it would be 

•as much of an outrage as to try to weigh 

•th'e 'dewon the petal of a rose. Yet . it is 

part of the story teller's creed to believe 

:that, if we give the sto'ry. its own place in 

.the heart'and mind of childhood , we are 

furnishing the stuff out of which character 

,is ma'de. , ' • • . • ¦- -.. - • 

¦ There.are, of course, certain 'practical 

: and easily recognized results. To mention 

just a few of the most apparent: >v 

The story can equip a child with facts— 

'-'•ts about anything you please—and it 

"DO TELL USA STORY" - 

Mother, the Artist, Can Paint the Loveliest Pictures on Little Minds 

can do this vividly, permanently, and directly. 

¦ 

It can and does help to shape .thought 

and language. Beyond question, stories 

told in good and simple English remain in 

the rriinds of children, often intact as to 

phrasing, and have a decidedly curative 

effect on their own speech. 

An interesting story often stimulates to 

reading, through sheer force of curiosity. 

It prepares and leads to an appreciation 

of the classics; without a background of 

myth and legend our loveliest poetry and 

prose is shorn of half its beauty. And we 

cannot afford' to do without beautiful 

things in life—cannot send our children 

out so unequi pped with appreciation of 

beauty that they will be swallowed up" by 

the prosaic and practical. 

On the ethical side, the influence of the 

story may be a wonderfully potent thing. 

From the people in his fairy tales the child 

FLORENCE 10NGLEY FOSBROKE 

will learn of obedience and kindness; his 

heroes will show him the way to bravery. 

I have heard of a phlegmatic lad being 

made over by the story of the "Message 

to Garcia." I well remember how in my 

own childhood my mother would be fairly 

appalled and greatly mystified by my 

goodness for days at a time, but, had she 

only known it, the kind and industrious 

Brownies of a certain beloved fairy tale 

were the prompters in my happy little 

play and were behind my every action. 

But now I come to my warmest belief 

about story telling: that it is, after all, the 

mothers and teachers who have by far the 

greatest opportunity. 1 am so sorry for 

the women who, with their audience ready 

at their knee, delegate their story telling 

privilege to another, for I know of no lovelier-comradeship 

than that the story teller 

enjoys with her audience. 

One says, "But I can't tell stories, I 

ROSE-FRAGRANT MEMORIES 

BLANCHE AVERIL STAI7FFER5 

I ( A UNT Mary, why do you always have those old-fashioned Hundred 

ZA Leaf roses in your room when there are so many so much more 

beautiful? There.are Cecile Bruhers and the exquisite La France 

Those old Hundred Leafs are homely in comparison with these beauties." 

"Ah, but the Hundred Leafs bring memories of many things dear to me. 

Their fragrance carries me to other days and scenes." 

Margaret caught the dreamy far-away look on Aunt Mary's sweet old 

face. "Make me see them!" she whispered. ¦ 

- "I wonder if I can!" said Aunt Mary. "Well, first is the vision of an old 

homely farm, but the most beautiful place in all the world to the Two. 

"The dusty yellow road wound down the hill past the lonely pine so 

straight and tall, with its plumy tassel of green at the top—the Two called it 

the Prince's Feather—then-crossed.the bridge which spanned the laughing 

little stream, curved in past the-old grjey house with its drapery of wild cucumbers, 

morning glories and nasturtiums. 

"It was such an old, old house, built of great pine logs which sixty years 

before had stood out there in the pasture in companjrwith the Prince's Feather 

—such a comfortable roomy old house, with brown, beams overhead, great 

stone fireplace'and many windows. In front are the tall lilac bushes and the 

great bed of Hundred Leafs. They cover the knoll and ramble down the 

hollow to the spearmint bed next to the drive, and to the clump of rosemary 

on the other side near the row of cherry trees. Strangers passing would stop 

to gaze, beg for a few blossoms and go away with an armful. Hundred Leafs 

were sent with messages of cheer to the sick room, and to the house of sorrow 

with tender words of sympathy, they attended funerals, they went to weddings, 

and, as corsage bouquets worn by girls of the neighborhood, went to 

every country dance. And to the old farm came all these calls for roses—nowhere 

else did they grow so large, so fragrant and so pink. 

"Let'sfollowtheroadonoutpastthe vegetable garden, past the strawberry 

bed, under the drooping branches of the elm. How the orioles love that tree! 

Their hanging nests swing from its high branches and lower down, every summer 

a cheery robin builds her nest. 

"Here we are at the old barn. Isn't it cool and roomy? There are the 

gentle horses, Jack and Jim, fat and comfortable. This is Maude, the carriage 

horse, and Ruby her frisky colt. Smell the new hay piled in the great bay on 

this side of the broad barn floor. Stand in this wide back door and get the 

view down across the pasture. See the little brook, gurgling and rollicking 

over the stones or deep and still, with minnows flashing their silvery sides up 

to the sun. Tall elms, maples and butternuts stand guard along its banks 

and love it so that they dip their branches to touch the clear water. 

"See where that wild grape has climbed to the top of the thorn bush,, 

reached over to the neighbor wild plum tree and made a little arbor between 

them. The cattle love the cool spot, trooping up from the pasture on hot 

afternoons to stand knee deep in the brook in the shade of the trees. 

"The hill pasture is fenced with stumps, remains of the logs of which the 

house is built. Woodbine, grape vines and wild buckwheat have twined and 

draped themselves about the unsightly old roots and here the birds nest, 

"You should see the old bam at night when Scot, the collie, brings the cows 

up from the pasture—Bowers, Old Blutcher, Jersey and Bess walking sedately 

to the-milking places. 

"Then come the sheep, bells tinkling, lambs racing to see which will reach 

the barn first. They all sleep out here at the back of the barn. Old Woots, 

with her squealing family of pigs is fed, and with many satisfied grunts settles 

down for the night. The geese come gabbling Up from the streamin the pasture 

to cuddle with sleepy talk under their shelter at the side of the barn. 

• "Scot drives in a stray chicken which persists in perching on the rttil pile 

instead.of in the comfortable quarters provided for it, ' " ' . 

''Th e horses-are turned outand go trotting down the lane. ¦ 

. "Then\he Two carry the niilk to the house, and when the- cats, Bruiser, 

Tramp 'andTJixie, with Scot, have Kid their warm milk, the chores are finished 

arid, the Two sit together ih,the twilight on the little porch. 

"':." '¦ "-'At last the Two go in at the kitchen door-and then to the roomy, homey 

olcl'living room. ; Such a friendly room as this is, especially in winter: .-Suchroaring 

fires in the stone fire place, such pop corn, nuts and apples,'' books^to' 

read aloud and friends "to gather in the glow of the fire-light, such -stone's arid 

visits! Oh, child, do ybti wonder at my loving the old Hundred Leaf roses?" 

..* 

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_ 

don't know how—and I don't know any 

to tell." 

¦ 

And another says,. "And the time—oh! 

dear, I haven't the time—no time at all 

for such things." \ 

Then a teacher says, "I should love to 

do it, you know but I have to teach half 

a dozen things already and I really cannot 

add anything' else to the list." 

Will you let me answer these objections? 

For they can all be answered. 

In the first place, I will not for a moment 

deny that to tell stories well does mean 

time and study. Just to choose the right 

story means some time, and to learn to 

tell it as well as we can means more. But 

I hardly know how time could be fetter 

spent. I should unreserved ly rate storytelling 

as one of the essential home industries. 

And , if you will take my word as 

a story teller of fifteen years' experience, 

story telling riot only means educa tion 

and development for those who hear, but 

it also means growth and training for 

those who tell the tales. Everything that 

the story teller can hope to do for the children 

about her, she does even more fully 

for herself. I have known women who 

found freedom from self consciousness and 

embarrassment for the first time through 

story telling, who learned in this way the 

spontaneousness and self forgetfulness that 

make for popularity and friendship. 

And now as to ability: to be sure, we 

cannot all of us be professional story tellers 

—we do not want to—but we can be trained 

story tellers. The distinction is an Important 

one. . ... 

The simple human equipment of the 

average person is all that is necessary—-a 

certain Background of education and good 

taste, to be sure; but add to that sincerity, 

sympathy, imagination , a fairl y good memory 

and , most important of all,[the willingness 

to'do some persistent wWk, and 

we can so far master the art as to give 

great pleasure and profit both to ourselves 

and to others. 

In this month comes the birthday of 

the Greatest Story Teller That Ever Was. 

His own birthday story is perhaps the 

most beautiful the world has ever heard ; 

and around that birthday cluster many 

of our most charming legends and tales. 

I wish that some who read this might 

be prompted to organize a story telling 

club among yourselves. There are . illuminating 

books to be studied and discussed 

; and stories could be told by members, 

with much helpful criticism arid 

discussion. 

Perhaps too, as the members grew more 

proficient , they might take charge of a 

weekly or monthly story for the children 

of the community, as well as telling stories 

to their very own. 

Do you know the beautiful tribute paid 

by Denton Snyder to his story telling 

mother? He said of her: 

"She would begin with a glow in her eye 

and would tell me their stories; 

¦ 

- . ' "' \ 

All of their legends she knew: by the htwidreds 

and hundreds she knew them,£ 

Tales of the beings divine. 

.¦> 

And mark: what I as a child picked lip, 

the old man still plays with— < . 

Images fair of the world and marvellous 

• legends aforetime; 

All of them living in me as they fell from 

the lips of my mother." 

In direct contrast to such a gracious 

memory are the rather pathetic words of 

Edmund Gosse, who tells in his autobiography 

of his bleak childhood without 

stories. . 

"Never in all my life ," he says, ."did 

any one address to me the affecting preamble, 

'Once upon a time.'. I never knew 

the rapture of the child who sits, well 

wrapped up, at the niirsery fire, and delays 

the hour.of bed time by cajoling one 

more story out.of nurse or mother.". . And 

he goes on to regret a childhood' wherein 

his. parents undoubtedl y tried very hard 

to. make him good; but very little to make 

¦him happv. . ¦ ' , . . . ' ; ' I 

tf we, parents and- teachers., do-not 

know the storied- path: or if , .having otlcc 

kri'qwn it, we -have somehow lost our way, 

let iis try to set our feet upon it agamic 

discover, 'for our children 's sake, as .$411 

as for our own-,. - . . .., . - . - . ., ;-ij.| 

"How short the road to Fairy Lana} 4 

Across the purple hill."

WHEN 1 W^S IN FRANCE 

A Personal Observation Story of a Red Cross Worker ûring the War 

MABEL SHONKWILER ERB 

WAS my great good fortune to have 

IT been chosen one of four from the 

Northern Division of the American Red 

Cross, to go to France1 our posts as soon as we were settled. Each 

one of us had been trained in the making, 

supervising, inspecting, assembling and 

to work in the packing of surgical dressings, and we were 

Department of Surgical Dressings. In due set to work in this department of 

time, we received our passports from Washington, 

then we proceeded on to New 

York, where we joined 44 others, forming" 

the first unit of women workers assembled 

for Overseas Service with the American 

Red Cross. We spent a few days in New 

York, getting uniformed and equipped and 

being instructed, and then one beautiful 

day we sailed out of New York Harbor, 

and for ten lovely days, we sailed as beautiful 

a sea as anyone ever dreamed of, and 

for those same ten lovely days, we feasted 

on submarines. We had them for breakfast 

and luncheon, tea and dinner. We 

had them on deck, fore and aft and midship. 

We had them in the salon and in 

the smoker. They were served up by old 

and young; rich and poor;, sick and well; 

and in every possible shape known to language. 

In fact , one could not find a single 

secluded spot on board that great ship 

1 the Red 

Cross ur the places where we could give 

the greatest service. 

The first post I had, was in what was 

called, "The Surgical Dressings Clearing 

House." This was a work-room, established 

just outside the great wall of Paris 

in a French Barrack. The room was 175 

ieet long, and 60 feet wide; the floor was 

about 3 feet off of the ground, without 

basement or embankment-there were large 

rattly windows along each side and wide 

doors in either end. These doors had to 

be open all of the time, because wehrought 

the cases in at one door and took them out 

at the other. We had a stove.about fourteen 

inches in diameter, and about three 

feet high, and sometimes we had coal, and 

sometimes we did not have coal, but we 

always had plenty of cold. And we used 

where the submarines sooner or later 

would not get you. But it was all talk. 

As for real submarines, for all any of us 

knew, we were not nearer than 1,000 miles 

to one of those hated German death dealers. 

AND then on another beautiful day, we 

** landed somewhere in France, and the 

next evening found us In Paris. After a 

good night's rest, we reported to the office 

of the American Red Cross at 4 Place de la 

Concorde, and were received and welcomed 

by Major James Perkins, Major Murphy 

beingout of thecity at that time. We were 

very much pleased with the earnest and 

cordial welcome we received from this interesting 

man, who some months later, 

upon the resignation of Major Murphy, 

became our Chief. 

We spent most of the first week getting 

our permits: Permits to go—permits to 

come-^-permits to eat—permits to sleep— 

permits to stay, and permits to do atmost 

anything else one wished to do, and in getting 

ourselves established in our hotels and 

boarding houses. And then the next thing 

we all wanted to .do, was to put on our 

trench coats arid run right up to the front. 

It was only about 40 miles away, and we 

were perfectly sure that our services were 

badly needed. But we soon learned that 

the French Government had very wisely 

provided that women might not go nearer 

than five miles to the front, and when you 

get within five miles, you somehow feel 

that you wish the French Government had 

set the limit of your approach at 25 miles. 

We learned too, that our work was to be 

right in Paris mostly, and we were given 

to wonder if we ever 

would get [warm all 

the way through 

again. And then we 

would think of the 

boys just 40 miles away 

at the front in 

the trenches, and [in 

their barracks, cold 

and wet, perhaps, 

and we would stop 

thinking about the 

cold; and stop wondering 

about it, and 

go on with our packing. 

The business of the 

Clearing House was 

to receive, unpack 

and repack all of the 

cases of supplies coming 

from the American 

Red Cross. Those UABEL SHONKWILER ERB WHO TELLS THE STORY 

of my readers, who 

have been identified with the activities of 

the Red Cross since first we came into the 

war, will remember that in the beginning 

we packed many kinds of dressings and 

garments and other, supplies in the same 

case. This was found to be very inexpedient, 

as the hospitals overseas were becoming 

over supplied with some things and 

under supplied with others. As soon as 

this feature of the work was learned, the 

order was immediately sent to America, to 

pack the supplies in solid cases, but in the 

meantime, thousands of mixed cases had 

been shipped, and the Clearing House was 

established to handle these cases. Of 

course, in time, the Clearing House died a 

natural death, but we had an interesting 

and very instructive time while it lasted. 

We received cases from all over the 

world, where Americans have ever gone in 

numbers, and it seemsthat Americans have 

gone almost every places—and we made 

some very interesting observations and 

calculations. We received cases of supplies 

from South America; from Africa; 

Australia; New Zealand; the Philippines; 

the Sandwich Islands; Alaska; China; Japan; 

Canada; and from every State in the 

United States. T"he contents of these 

cases represented the voluntary unpaid 

labor of many millions of people, and, yet, 

the standard of the Red Gross had been set 

so high and maintained so well, that the 

records of the Clearing House show that 

only one one-hundredth ; part of one percent 

of these supplies had to be discarded. 

This does not mean that even that small 

percent were not used, because they were 

sent to some workroom in Paris and made 

over and utilized m some way, giving the 

Red Cross a standard of practically one 

hundred percent useable production. 

Going a little farther 

with the subject 

of standards: I should 

like to have a quiet 

little word with those 

of my readers who 

will remember their 

surgical dressings 

class instruction. 

Indeed, will any of 

us ever forget it? 

How we used to cut 

gauze by the thread, 

and fold it until it 

looked as though it 

had been folded by 

some wonderful machine. 

And then, do 

you remember how 

we worked at those 

sample boxes, and 

FIRST AMERICAN RED CROSS MILITA RY HOSPITAL, b RUE CHATEAU. NEUtLLY, FRANCE 

none too high. We all realize this. 

Everyone is interested to know about 

the Canteen Service which the American 

Red Cross established to serve our men 

Overseas. There were three kinds: the 

first known as the Rolling Canteen, 

mounted on trucks, served by men and 

going directly back of the line of trenches, 

taking care of the needs and the wants 

of the men who were on the firing line. 

THESE canteens carried hot drinks 

and wherever the American, Armywent, 

there went large quantities of 

ham and eggs and doughnuts, and the 

Rolling Canteens carried these and other 

supplies that could be carried in large 

quantities conveniently. Women were 

not. allowed to serve with the Rolling 

Canteens, but another kind of canteen was 

called the Line of Communication Canteen, 

and these were served almost entirely 

by women. These canteens were 

situated at the stations, near the railroads, 

over which the troop trains passed, going 

to the front and the hospital trains passed, 

coming from the front, and they- served, 

besides, any man in the uniforrri of any 

one of the Armies of the Allies, who happened 

along any time of day or night. ' 

I spent a day in one of these canteens, 

located in a city of about 135,000 people 

—some 120 miles south and east of Paris. 

THE 

first evening I had dinner with 

the Directress of the '.Canteen, and 

she told me some of the interesting 

things that occurred from time to time in 

this busy place! There was located in this 

city an American Base Hospital, a French 

Artillery School, a French Aviation Camp, 

an American Aviation Camp, a Camouflage 

Factory, the headquarters for the 

Italian Army of that Section and many 

other minor war activities, so the Ameri- 

how we wrote madly can Red Cross Canteen fed regularly three 

in . those examina- times a day—anywhere from 100 to 250 

tions? Well,! 

don't soldiers of the Allies. 

know how the rest of you felt about it, I asked the Directress to let me know if 

but there, were some days during those they were going to have a troop train any 

classes when I got dreadfully warm under time during my stay, and the next.morn- 

the collar, and although I did not say it , ing very early she called me over the tele- 

I thought there was a great deal of time phoneand told me that they would receive 

wasted in this very particular class room. an American troop train with 2,000 sol- 

But how glad, and how thankful I am diers on their way to the front at nine 

now for the teaching I had, and that all o'clock, and these men would have break- 

the rest of the women who are making fast at the canteen. Of course I was 

surgical dressings, have had, because it eager to see and hear all that I possibly 

is that very kind of training given so could, so I made swift preparations ac- 

rigidly and with such exactness thai has cordingly. 

made it possible to maintain a 100 per 

cent useable product standard in the Red In the February issue of THE FARMER'S 

Cross. And when we think of the men to WIFE, Mrs. Erb will tell us more of this 

whom these supplies went, and what they deeply interesting story of how our men were 

endured, and the sacrifices they made and cared for in every possible way while they 

were willing to make, the standard was fought in tlie Greatest War of the World.

MUSIC ON THE FARM 

When -the Boys Come Home Help Them Sing—Sing—Sing! 

CHARLES D. ISAACSON 

is to be a little talk of a way 

Tlis to get more out of your land and 

your labor and your life. It isn't 

¦ 

-• _ ' religion or philosophy- or talk. 

,-' It's not for highbrows or lowbrows. 

It's for the entire farm community. 

¦y 

It's music, something we all enjoy. 

¦ 

> .Too many people think 

t- that music is far away from 

;=>them, because it is capable 

t of lifting them 'way up into 

* the clouds. Too many fine 

>.sensiblev folk have never 

-realized the potent power 

' of-music to get behind plows 

and churns and saws and 

all the jobs of the farm 

because they've never seen 

it at work. So this talk of 

mine is to be bottom facts 

>'about it . . 

' - A grouch is a poor, worker, 

" the singing idea is being planted by Uncle 

Sam. 

Will ypu try it out on the farm? Get 

the crowd-'together the ^rst 

so? Well, if a song 

will make a smile out of a 

frown, it's a great thing to 

have around. If you'll get 

your people singing and 

.humming and whistling, 

J-youJye. done a * hole lot to 

jclear Out the .weeds of disr'

Chapter XV 

awake, Trevanion- stood 

WIDE 

with his hands on the railing, 

drinking in the cold air. The 

full moon and twinkling stars 

rnade the heavens a thing of dazzling 

beauty. Beneath, the desolate, sandy 

tracts gleamed like molten silver, while 

far away to the northeast a coppery, red 

glow betokened the light of a prairie fire. 

He began His descent of the staircase 

slowly, buttoning his overcoat tightly 

across his chest, half minded to return 

and crawl into his comfortable bed. ' But 

as he hesitated, he made a startling discovery—a 

few.feet from the ground, a 

broad beam of light issuing, neither from 

moon nor stars, lay athwart the curving 

steps. 

Why Trevanion was so amazed to find 

Herford awake and occupied at that hour 

it would be hard to tell. 

Making no pretense of caution, he drew 

nearer. The heavy shutters which as a 

rule were drawn across the windows, were 

flung wide to the night, and from within 

came the sound of voices, Herford's and 

one other. Trevanion recognized it after 

a moment as belonging to Beverly, soldier 

of fortune. < 

««T DON'T know what to make 'of it," 

* Beverly was reiterating, "I don't like 

it!" The emphatic thump which reached 

the listener's ears was caused apparently by 

the impact of the speaker's fist against 

solid wood. '' He's practically your guest, 

Herford, but I don't see how I can let him 

go in the morning. I'm not fool enough 

to think he committed the murder but for 

heaven's sake, what's his connection with 

the affair? What was the object of his 

trip to the mountains? I've trailed him 

for the last three weeks without being a 

whit the wiser. One thing," his voice 

dropped to a lowered note, "he's taken 

your sister into his confidence. I corralled 

her in her tent at midnight just before they 

left, told her about finding the boy'sclothes 

and all—and would you believe it, she'd 

known it all along! She's a game little 

sport. Do you think she'd give the show 

away? Pleaded with me to trust Trevanion 

and promised me it would all come 

out right in the end. I'd give a good 

deal to.hear a woman defend me as that 

little sister of yours did Trevanion." 

On the stairs without Trevanion stood 

motionless, lis had not intended to 

eavesdrop but every word had rung clear. 

The fact that Beverly had been trailing 

him in connection with the Schneider case 

was disconcerting enough but worse still, 

the woman he loved—he admitted it now 

—had stood for him against law and order 

on the strength of his word alone. And 

how had he repaid her? By insulting 

thoughts and brutal caresses whose very 

touch had been defilement! 

Stumbling heavily he went on down the 

stairs, heedless of discovery, burning with 

a sense of impotent shame. He passed 

the lighted window but the two men, deep 

in conversation , seemed unaware of his 

careless departure. 

THE clinging sands dragged at his feet 

as he turned and walked toward 

the river. Anything, anywhere to escape 

the torture of his restless mind! Trevanion 

sat down upon the bank and stared at 

it with unseeing eyes, his right hand 

clenched against a heavy slab of rock. 

Love had weighed him in the balance and 

found him wanting. And a girl like Peggy—high-spirited 

and proud—would she 

grant him another chance? She must— 

she should! His senses flamed to the 

thought of her shy, sweet surrender, and 

in the sudden passion of the moment it 

seemed to him that the very rock beneath 

his hand quivered in response. Did it 

actually move? 

Startled, he waited, then edged away 

with a stealthy, sidewise motion for slowly 

and silently the rock was moving outward, 

until it lay prone upon the face of the 

river bank. Trevanion's fascinated gaze 

remained fixed upon the opening where 

was framed a pair of meager shoulders 

and a shock of sandy hair—the missing 

lad! Trevanion and the boy spied each 

other at the same moment, and with a 

hoarse cry of alarm the latter dived like 

And so Trevanion Comes Into His Own, King and Hero and Lover 

a rabbit back into his burrow then realizing 

the futility of such a course crept out 

again, his small, furtive eyes peering beseechingly 

into Trevanion's face. 

"Cripey but yer caught me again!" he 

whispered. "Yer there, govner, when it 

comes to poppin' up unexpected like." 

"YOU'RE rather 'unexpected like' your- 

* self," retorted Trevanion, "but as 

it happens, you're the very person I want 

to see." Grasping the shrinking figure by 

the collar, he propelled it firmly a safe 

distance from the tunnel entrance. "Right 

now," he said, "I'm waiting for your confession—a 

full and detailed account of 

the riiurder of old man Schneider. Beverly's 

at the ranch this minute talking to 

Herford. If you leavcout anything I 

oucht to know. I'll take vou UD there and 

I O -- - - - , - j —j- -- — 

deliver you into his hands." 

The boy squirmed frantically in Trevanion's 

clutch. 

"I'll tell," he gasped, "if you'll keep 

Beverly away. He'd 'ang me sure—and 

fer a snake like Schneider!" 

"Go on—never mind Schneider—I want 

to hear your side of it." 

Suddenly the lad squared his shoulders: 

"I'm English," he announced resolutely, 

"and Schneider's German. I went to 

work fer 'im over in the settlement last 

year cause times was 'ard and I couldn't 

find nothin' else. He 'ad a furniture factory." 

"Well?" the listener's tone was sharp 

with interest. 

"Well—I 'adn't been there long afore 

"THAT NIGHT ;. ' 

YOU CAME BACK 

FOR YOUR GLOVES— 

ft' fi| 

' 

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DO TOH REMEMBER?— 

I WAS ON THE POINT OF 

/ 

SHOOTING MYSELF BECAUSE 

BUSINESS HAD HADE ME ITS 

PAWN—DRIVEN ME INTO A CORNER" 

I begins to see the old man was workin' 

on a side line. 'Alf the wood that come 

in wasn't used but somehow it disappeared 

and always at night; and sometimes in 

the mornin' the factory 'd be full of lumber 

that weren't there the night before. It 

struck me sort of odd like, so I ast the old 

man about it once and he was that mad 

I thought 'e'd choke—told me to mind my 

own business or 'e'd bust in my bloomin' 

'ead. Well, one day I was feelin' kind of 

sick, pains in my side and cold like, and 

THE PAWN 

DONNA SHERWOOD BOGERT 

when it comes to qutttin time I cashed in 

behind a pile of lumber afore 1 'ad time to 

call out. When I came to the doors was 

locked. I didn't like it much because it 

was gettin' dark by. that time and I knew 

if I unlocked a window and climbed out 

the old man'd give me fits come mornin'. 

He was awful particular about them window 

fastenin's—" He paused a moment 

for breath and then continued, his eyes 

wide with fear. 

"As I was sayin', I was ramblin' round 

tryin' to make up my mind what to do, 

when I heerd a noise at one of the little 

side doors as though someone was tryin' to* 

get in without makin" too much fuss about 

it. I remembered all of a sudden it might 

be the night watchman, and 'e'd let me 

out—but all the same I made tracks fer 

my pile of lumber, and I got behind it jest 

as the door opened and a man come in 

swingin' a lantern. I could see 'im through 

the cracks but instead of the night watchman, 

it were old man Schneider 'imself 

and jest fer a minute a little prickly feelin' 

went down my backbone. After nosin' 

round a bit he shuffled off toward the office. 

t( I STAYED there fer nigh onto two hours 

*¦ and four or five times I heerd the big, 

front door creakin' on its 'inges but there 

weren't another sound and I couldn't tell 

whether the old man were lettin' folks in 

or jest travelin' in and out 'imself. My 

legs and arms too began to- get numblike 

from keepin' so still so I thought I'd take 

a little peek round on my own 'ook. 

" 'Twas a long ways to the office but I 

pussy-footed down through the lumber piles 

and come up close to the office door with 

nary a sound. The door was shut and a 

light was shinin' through the keyhole, and 

when 1 'ad a look the room was full of 

men as fur as I could see—and old Schneider 

in the middle of 'em, with a wad of 

papers spread all around 'im." 

Trevanion's grasp tightened on the lad's 

shoulder. Vague suspicions stirred in his 

brain but the heart of the mystery was 

still beyond him. German plotting—Ger- 

man secrecy—enormous shipments of 

wood under cover of the night—what did 

it all portend?. 

"What .happened then?" 

"I listened," said the boy frankly. 

"They was smugglin' wood outa Canada 

and sendin' it to Germany. Jest how 

they worked it, I dunno—submarines most 

likely. They said a lot about airships too 

—a new, speedy sort—but they was allfired 

shy on the kind of wood they wanted, 

while the Rockies was full of it." 

"QF COURSE, of course," mumbled 

^-* Trevanion to himself. He boasted 

more than a general knowledge of aeroplane 

construction. "Spruce and ash only—plain 

as the nose on my face! And the blamed 

Kaiser laughing up ' his sleeve for God 

' knows Jiow long!" He shook with silent 

rage and cursed what he took for his own 

stupidity in not solving the mystery earlier. 

He released the boy with a suddenness 

that sent him reeling. 

"Go on up to the house and tell Beverly 

your story," he commanded. "Schneider 

was" a German spy—it doesn't matter 

how or why you killed him. The police 

won't hold you!" 

The lad's eyes glowed. ' 

"I did it. fer England!" he explained 

wistfully. "There ain't no one can do 'er 

dirt when I'm around. The old man come 

out into the factory after the others 'ad 

gone, he and a feller named Lennox " 

Trevanion started. Here was a new trail. 

"Schneider 'ad a map in his 'and showin' 

a juicy piece of woods their men 'ad located 

and the other feller laid down 'is 

pistol to look it over. I was back behind 

my pile of lumber again and they was 

all-fired dost but they mightn't a seen me 

'cept that I was mad clean through and I got 

to the gun first." He drew a long, quivering 

breath. "Well, I shot 'im. 'E didn't 

deserve no chanst—and the > other feller 

couldn't do nothin' cause I 'ad 'is gun." 

Trevanion leaned eagerly forward. 

"The other fellow," he said, "this Lennox—what 

had he to do with it?" 

And in glove with Schneider," returned 

the boy promptly. A sly expression 

crossed his countenance. "He's kept 

me in luxury all winter," he chuckled, 

"scairt to give me up, and too tender- 

'earted to put me out of the way. I spied 

'im in 'is bunk house the night you give 

me the clothes, and he's been a daddy to 

me ever since." 

Chapter XVI 

itVM GLAD Basil changed his mind," 

* Miss Dorothea was saying. "We 

were so afraid, Peggy, that we'd have to 

go without seeing you again." 

"Yes?" queried the girl calmly. A 

faint flicker of contempt shone for a moment 

in her eyes, not for the woman who 

sat on the step beside her, a thin arm 

about her waist, but for the tall figure 

lounging against a veranda pillar in the 

moonlight. 

"I'm so proud of Basil," went on Miss 

Dorothea, happily unconscious of the real 

state of affairs. "Think of him capturing 

that murderer single-handed and finding 

out all about that wicked German plot." 

Peggy laughed and even the older woman 

was aware of a flaw in her attitude toward 

the hero, of the hour. 

«DOOR little murderer!" she laughed 

* ironically. "He wasn't bigger than a 

pint of cider, was he? I almost fancy I 

could have landed him myself." 

Trevanion bit savagely on the end of a 

mutilated cigar. He knew that he deserved 

all he was getting and he resolved 

doggedly to hang on to the bitter end but 

his pride since Peggy's return had been 

flayed to a finish. 

"There was no question of a capture," 

he said coldly. "The boy gave himself 

up at my advice. I knew a trial would 

exonerate him. As for Lennox's part in 

the affair, I was as much surprised as anybody—hadn't 

a suspicion. It seems his 

mother was of German birth but his father 

was clean American and Lennox's exposure 

nearly killed him." 

Peggy rose, drawing the other woman 

with her. 

"Miss Dottie, it's time we turned in 

(CONTINUED ON PAGE 1801

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£ : - " Applying the Service of Home-Demonstration Agents to bur Work of Reconstruction 

W - ADA MELVILLE SHAW . ' 

THIS first page-of this issue of THE FARMER'S WIFE, Miss 

ON Mamie Bunch, Illinois State Leader in Home Economics Demon* 

i* stration, discussed the subject of woman's training for home-making 

and citizenship. Miss Bunch closes her article by asking, "Have 

you volunteered for training, for the support of this service in your 

r community?" This is a question of tremendous importance. 

The day is past and almost forgotten 

when it was taken for granted that because 

a woman was a woman she was 

therefore by nature and without further 

special preparation, a good mother, 

seamstress, cook, laundress, nurse and 

so on through the long list.of her takenfor-granted 

duties. Gone with that day 

is the one when it was also taken for 

vgrantedfthat being born of the feminine 

sex automatically disqualified her for 

and debarred her from the duties of citizenship. 

Those "good old-days," peace 

to their ashes! had begun to pass before 

the Kaiser's 'madness set the world on 

?fire, and the war-period has ushered in 

;the dawn of the new- and better days. 

Miss Bunch calls bur attention to the 

Summons of the period just before us— 

a summons equal to any call we heard 

during the war and a summons to which 

women cannot make sufficient and efficient 

reply unless we are outfitted and 

drilled—even as our soldiers were. 

I was talking very recently with the 

president of a woman's club which has 

installed in a small town a . Communitycenter 

rest room to which country women 

are most ¦ I heard a patriotic woman say this: "I celebrated the armistice by 

making a big pan of fluffy, white-flour baking-powder biscuit! How 

good they tasted! But I shall not be extravagant again—there are too 

many hungry." 

So I am sure we all say. We have not really let down—we have 

only been taking a breath of relief before we settle to the harness of service 

and begin anew the long up-hill 

march. Al| the peoples Over There 

need the help of the "land of the free," 

and in order to give that help, you and 

I must go on doing, each in her own 

place. 

Is our specialty just being mothers? 

Then let us put ourselves in line for all 

the mother-wisdom that's 

heartily welcomed. She 

told me two facts that come forcibly to 

me as I write .this article:' 

(1) How wonderfully the farm women 

measured up in all war work, and 

THE STATE IS DIVIDED *-' \ 

INTO SEVEN GENERAL DIS- 

TRICTS. -COUNTIES IN BLACK 

HAVE COUNTY HOME ADVISERS AT 

WORK, THOSE CROSS-BARRED ARE 

(2) That all women as well as all men 

seem now to be more or less letting 

down in their community work. 

ORGANIZED TO INTERVIEW CAN- 

DIDATES. SLANT LINES INDICATE 

ORGANIZATION NEARI NO COMPLE- 

TION. CITY AGENTS EMPLOYED 

ARE INDICATED BY DOT. 

Of course farm women were wonderful 

in their service for they have had long 

and intensive -training in helpfulness! 

Equally, of 'course, if women have re- HIS map, coupled with Miss Mamie Bunch 's article (see page 

J 

laxed a bit now the trenches are not 164) on Training Home Makers, puts squarely before every rural 

community reached by THE FARMER'S WIFE, the proposition of the 

dealing out and receiving death, they practical value of Home Demonstration workers not alone to the indi- 

will be the first to come back to the full vidual iarm home community but to the stale and the nation. Could 

THE FARMER'S WWE swing of reconstruction. , 

gather in the testimony of every rural home that 

¦„ knows by f irst-hand experience, tlie value of these trained helpers, the 

The accompanying map of Illinois' story would make a volume of inspiring facts. 

organization for skilled home-making Our readers are hereby heartily invited to tell THE FARMER'S WIFE 

and splendid citizenship shows much by correspondence what they know about County Home Advisers or, as 

done, much more to; be done. 

they are more commonly called, Home Demonstration Agents. 

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war has still to be paid and the lessons 

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us as war-participators: it took every man, woman and child of us, sent out through the agency of the State Universities, rural communities 

to win the conflict! The armistice was signed in the presence of a in great numbers took tremendous strides forward in the science of 

few men, and at the Conference Table of the Nations a mere handful of home-making. The work is but begun and no one but the home-makers 

leaders will decide on the terms of Peace:it -will take every man, woman themselves can go on with it. It is a progress that begins at the center 

and child of us to work out the terms >of peace and carry on the new and works out and it will begin and work out, exactly as fast and far 

era that has begun. 

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COMMUNITY DRIVES 

As These Neighborhoods Succeeded by Pulling All Together, So May Yours 

FLOY M. KINSER AND MRS. C. A. LAGGETT 

First-Prue Letter 

community is located in the 

OUR heart of the farming and coal-mining 

country of Illinois. Miles and 

miles of level prairie stretch far in 

all directions covered with abundant grain 

and the improvements of man. "These 

are the easily-seen treasures' of the land 

but are not all its treasure for three hundred 

feet below the surface lie 'vast 

deposits of coal. ¦ In the mines, work hundreds 

of men, many of them foreign-born. 

Our community then consists pi farmers 

busy from rise till set of sun and miners 

—many of them barely able to understand 

English, oftentimes slovenly in ways and 

suspicious of others, but good at heart 

and true lovers of their adopted country. 

We live about three miles from town 

so instead of having many country clubs 

most of us go to town and help in the 

work there. There we have the Commercial. 

Club, the 'Woman's Club, and 

Household Science Club besides various 

lodges and small organizations. In these 

we take an active part and1 "our town" is 

really one big community composed of 

farmers and miners with a few merchants, 

bankers and others for variety. There 

are about five thousand 

inhabitants. 

Before the war 

the dirty work of the 

Hun seemed far Prize News Letters 

away and like a 

dream: the average 

/N THE October FARMER'S WIFE, in connection with our Neighbor- 

farmer, miner, or hood Club Department, we offered two substantial cash prizes for the 

merchant comment- best letters on Community War Service. 

ed a little on it, and 

The letters poured in. There were so many of them that before 

forgot it during the 

they could be read through and classified for judgment as to the prize 

next week of business 

awards, the armistice was signed and suddenly war news became a thing 

and pleasure. They 

onl y believed half of the past. 

they read, before the 

War articles still have, however, distinctive value, especially those 

war, such dreadful which dwell on Construction instead of Destruction. 

things, seemed im- We therefore are glad to publ ish here the two prize articles. 

possible. 

Miss Floy M. Kinser won the f irst prize of f ifteen dollars. 

When war was 

Mrs. C. A. Lagged won the-second prize of ten dollars. 

declared it sent a 

These articles are of value now because they show how communities 

hard shock through 

can get together, work together and win together. 

our usually quiet 

For the period ot Reconstruction on which our country is now well 

community. Prices 

launched and in which each citizen must play an active pari if it is to be 

went up in jump s 

and Mr. Smith began a period of genuine national re-building and upbuilding, the rural com- 

to raise more hogs munity has as urgent work to do as this war-service work which Miss 

and cattle not espe- Kinser and Mrs. Laggeti have described to us. 

cially because his 

Two factors made these war community drives a success: 

country needed them 

(1) A common object to work for, and, 

but for his own 

(2) Working together for that common object. 

benefit. 

These factors, worked, wilt make any community drive a glorious 

Then when the 

success.—The Editors. 

local Red Cross began 

to make .bandages 

and pajamas for the 

soldiers and to knit, 

we on the farm who were not in the work 

from the first began to think. But when 

"our boy" came in and with a light 

shining in his clear eyes said he was off 

to enlist and when our neighbor's sturdy 

son and some more of our young men 

went bravely off to camp, then we were 

awakened properly. Quite suddenly it 

seemed our Red Cross headquarters was 

filled and busy fingers flew over the work. 

Suddenly people found time to knit more 

and to think more of things that do not 

bring material wealth. 

Then our Household Science Club conceived 

the idea of a Red Cross sale. All 

the gifts were taken to the new Masonic 

Temple on the city square : cows, purebred 

calves, a pen of sheep bought and 

donated by the children of one of the 

schools, chickens, fruit, a load of coal, a 

load of hay, and two of corn, and many 

other things of great value to the donors 

but sacrificed willingly for a great cause. 

One energetic school teacher conceived the 

idea of selling flowers. The high-school 

girls dressed as Red Cross nurses carried 

the flowers to all parts of town1—carna put the entire amount in Liberty, Bonds not organize new clubs or societies, which 

and War Savings Stamps. Thirteen dozen would in any way conflict with or deter 

carnations were.donated by a local un- from the regulat work of the old ones. So, 

dertaker who ordered them from Spring- at last through the haze the light began 

field after the local supply gave out. to shine. Go .to the nearest Red Cross 

A little later on the high school secured Chapter, get a bundle of yarn, a bunch of 

the motion picture, Over There, for the needles, plenty of knitting directions, and 

benefit of the Red Cross. The manager take them to the very next meeting and 

donated all expenses of production and after the business of the day is disposed of , 

quite a sum was realized. One of the propose to the members and neighbors 

"between act specialties" was the song present that we make a regular business of 

Over There by a boy scout in uniform.with knitting at all our meetings. 

a DotftSell^r a chorus of fifty girls in Red Cross cos- That-is just what we did. We are still 

tume. 

at it, and, although some oi us have not 

In each of the Liberty Loan campaigns very many articles to oar credit we feel 

our community has gone over the top that we are actually "helping." One of 

with a whoop. The miners have been es-. our members has thirty-seven pairs of 

pecially generous and in both the third socks turned in, another twenty-five, all 

and fourth Liberty Loans every miner the others doing nearly as well, while the 

bought at least one §50 bond. Now they writer (I have four children, the youngest 

are working steadily to get enough coal of whom is seven) has up to now, made 

to supply our ships and at the same time two pairs of socks, four pairs of wristlets 

not cause the stay-at-homes to suffer. and two whole sweaters! 

As for the farm—help was very scarce. Then we always take our knitting to the 

Many of the women helped fill the places Farmers' Club where the busy click of the 

of boys gone to the war. I am proud to needles has become a part of our monthly 

say that I, myself, helped put in our fal l programs. 

crop of wheat. Long ago we women It was not long before our Ladies' Aid 

learned to buckle on our work harness with Society took over regular - work, with a 

trained Red Cross 

instructor at each 

meeting, until we 

became full-fledged 

Red Cross garment 

makers. 

In the spring, pur 

county had a drive 

for funds to cover the 

cost of the immense 

amount of yarn and 

garment material. 

It was suggested in 

our weekly newspaper 

that the district 

schools have socials 

to raise money for 

the drive. It was 

not long before our 

district felt the urge 

in the patriotic 

speeches.at the town 

hall, on the corner 

on Saturday ni g ht 

and in the pulpit on 

Sunday. So the 

word flew along the 

party lines, and every 

family for miles 

around was busy tieing 

quilts, baking 

pies, cakes, with a 

guess hidden in each 

luscious center, little, 

peaked maple sugar 

cakes, cleaning some 

a smile to do our very best for America. choice vegetables or fruit all to be donated 

Besides we helped in the little individual for the occasion. And then, the wonder- 

ways, saving sugar, wheat, meat, and fats ful box lunches that were packed. My 

and buying W. S. S. In our community three older children each made a box; 

it is quite fashionable to wear last winter's the oldest girl decorated hers with strips 

coat, and help the Government with the of green and white crepe paper, woven 

money we intended to spend on a new hat basket fashion; the younger girl used pink 

or dress. 

and white finished with a wonderful bow 

As for the gasoline-less Sundays, we of pink, and Son made Mother's white 

were willing to stay at home to "help win with bows of green. 

the war." The farmer, the miner, the Then we piled into our car with our 

merchant all worked to win the war. We sacks, bundles, boxes, Father, Mother and 

are only an ordinary prosperous American the four youngsters and we certainly look- 

community and I believe our war feeling ed like a war truck, loaded with ammuni- 

is characteristic of our entire country. We tion. 

are willing to endure anything to make The largest house in the community 

the war end as it should , to make the was opened for our social. 

whole "world safe for democracy" and With our county sheriff as auctioneer, 

secure freedom for all people forever.— our county agent and one of the bankers 

F. M. K. 

as speakers and jokesters, we certainly had 

a lively time. The guess cakes sold at 

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OURS is a strictly rural community. sugar cakes brought one dollar each, pump- 

After reading our "Daily" from the kin pie sold for the same price a piece, and 

busy city, of the many wonderful things potatoes, apples, carrots and canned fruit 

that were being done in the busy city for all created lively strife. Then when the 

the war, we all wondered what service we entire array of donations including two 

tions at ten cents each and lovely potted could find to do. 

quilts had all been disposed of the gayly 

pansies at fifteen cents each. Few could Of course, farmers were asked to raise trimmed boxes were brought out, and the 

resist the appeal of the girls and the right- more crops and more stock and more poul- real fun started. 

eous cause. Several bought with bills retry, but those were common-place things; The first box was sold for five dollars, 

fusing all change. For two days the sale nothing about them at all suggestive of a several for four, son securing a beautiful 

lasted. The mines laid off and everyone great and terrible war! 

fluffy pink affair tied with real white rib- 

vied with his neighbor in buying. About So, naturally, Vhen we went to the bon! And the rosy-cheeked maid whom 

five thousand dollars were realized of which Farmers' Club and the Ladies' Aid So- I later saw eating out of that same box 

about three hundred sixty dollars were ciety and the W. C. T. U. meetings at the with him was as happy as he. 

brought in by the high school girls them- "corners," we wondered how we could Our social added the sum of two hunselves. 

Our local greenhouse man , a Rus- help. We had read that it would be a dred dollars to the Red Cross fund , which 

sian by birth , refused to take more than mistake to stop work in any of our farm helped by that much to get the $4,000 

seventv-five dollars for his flowers and or Christian organizations and we should thev finallv secured.—C. A. L. 

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THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB 

"Along the Friendly Way We Journey Together to Achieve 

the Best Things for Country Life" 

most wonderful year the world 

THE has ever known is ours in which to 

build things anew. In it there is 

the chance to make all the people of 

the earth move toward an equal chance 

for everyone. With peace and the triumph 

of liberty and a new sense of brotherhood, 

we daVe hope our dreams and deepest desires 

for democracy will come true. 

Just as the war meant sacrifice and tremendous 

cost, so also, we must pay the 

price for this work of reconstruction. After 

a very ill person has undergone a surgical 

operation, there must be long careful nursing 

and rest before he is well again. These 

after days are as important for his recovery 

as the operation. This is true of the part 

that is yet left for us to do before the 

world will be well again. 

There is an old legend of a little fairy 

creature who was always flying around 

finding things to make grow when the 

world was new. When asked to pause and 

rest, he said: "The world is at the beginning, 

I must go and help the king." Our 

marvelous new, changed world is at a beginning 

and we must all help. Everywhere 

there will be precious things to make 

grow, understanding between nations and 

races, the realization of democracy, the 

deepening of world brotherhood. 

We have found and tried our strength 

as a nation. That strength must continue 

to grow as we take up the burdens of making 

a new world. All through the war, 

our Neighborhood Clubs did their part. 

Gladly we helped our communities to go 

over the top in everything that was asked 

JESSIE FIELD SHAMBAUOH 

LJERE is a "real" picture which conveys a very "real" impression—-mot too 

¦*¦ •* pleasant an impression. The community spirit that is not mighty enough to 

make impossible such slavery of farm womanhood as we see illustrated here, sorely 

needs awakening by the voice of a live and consecrated Neighborhood Club. This 

bent f igure stands for unimproved habits of living that still exist. How much longer 

shall these cruelly hard inconveniences exist in our country? The answer largely 

lies with the Neighborhood Clubs, does it not? If they are alive, it does. 

for by our government. All the experience 

we gained through this service we 

must use and more, too, to do our part in 

this great new year. 

Let us look out from our kitchen windows 

at our country roads winding on and 

on, forgetting the miles that separate us 

from new nations struggling into being, 

and think of ourselves as a living part of 

the living whole. At the programs of our 

Neighborhood Clubs, let us have a good 

new map of Europe before us. As we welcome 

our boys home during the year, let 

us have them come to the club to tell us 

what it is all like and how we can help. 

There is a part for us to do. That is certain! 

We must work with just as earnest a 

purpose as ever to produce food and to 

save it. Great masses of our world-neighbors 

are starving. Many counties have 

found the value of a county agricultural 

agent through having one as a war emergency 

measure; her salary, as you know, 

was paid by the government. We will 

need to keep this work going through our 

own united efforts after the war is over. 

We may not hear so much about saving 

food and cloth , but the need still exists and 

with the experience we have had , surely 

we can go on and on. 

Our boys at tlie front never went back! 

Let us remember that. When they come 

home they will expect to find the same 

spirit in us. We dare not go back in our 

patriotism, our generosity, our willingness 

to take responsibility and to work together 

in our efforts to feed and help our world- 

neighbors. That is America's mighty destiny 

and privilege. You and I are Americans! 

The part we have in reshaping the world 

is for the most part in our own neighborhood. 

Every place has a beauty of its 

own. It is a part of the work of Neighborhood 

Clubs to discover this beauty, 

strengthen and preserve it. In these years 

of reconstruction some country communities 

in America will stand out for all time, 

showing the way to the best things for 

country life. These communities will come 

into their own not because of numbers or 

wealth or climate but because of the spirit 

of their people. Neighborhood Clubs can 

plan and work-to put first things first , to 

give the children the best chance possible, 

to put the gladness of thoughtful intelligence 

into every day work, to forget the 

things that separate people and remember 

only those things that draw them together. 

Such a radiant, glad New Year! Never 

before have we had so much to do and so 

much to look forward to. We will see in 

it the radiance of a new earth; and country 

people have the proud knowledge that they 

have borne much of the burden to make 

this newness possible. 

So let us lift up our heads and, shoulder 

to shoulder, have faith in and work for the 

greatest fulfillment of its promise. In it, 

may every organization of country people, 

who are working unselfishly to make life 

come to its best, find new zest and courage 

as they journey "along the friendly way." 

Can we not have word from you about 

what you are doing to welcome the boys 

.home and to help m reconstruction ? 

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Next you should send for the little book, 

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first! She's always taught me that. 

She was wild at the thought of parting. 

I reckon all mothers feel that way. She 

shamed me out of volunteering. You'd 

better keep your socks and your dinner 

for a worthier subject." 

Mother Bady shook her head. "There 

never was a pair of feet needing socks 

worse!" she said calmly. "Nor a much 

hungrier young stomach! - It's meatless 

day but I shall give you bacon—eggs and 

bacon go mighty fine together. You'll 

like my jam if I do say it as shouldn't. 

The barley loaf is good and wholesome and 

I've butter. It's a long, wet trip you're 

making this weather. Couldn't you get a 

way to ride?" 

His uplifted glance was sullen. " I didn 't 

care to lay out money for hire. Mother 

needed all we had. I guess I am hungry. 

I could not eat much this morning. 

Mother was crying so 

Mother Bady nodded. "The 

heart of Rachel!" she sighed. "Come 

now. Draw up your chair. I hope 

you'll eat real hearty." 

He did, with evident " She Sent Him From Her Proudly—A Man Who Had Found His Country 

: ' 

. 

' V ROSE WILLIS JOHNSON 

saw him coming up the road, a "You 'll see! Presently she'll be writing 

SHE forlorn wayfarer, and knew he would you how she spends her lonesome hours, 

turn in at the gate. Many persons knitting. She'll, tell you that into every 

did. Her "house by the side of the pair of socks she knits the prayer, 'Bless 

road" gave greeting and invited- entrance. and guide the feet that hastened at Thy 

Mother Bady set the kettle on the fire call, 0 Lord!' Don't be ashamed that you 

before opening the door. "Comeright in," go drafted. Sometimes it is noble to stand 

sh$ invited. A laugh rippled in her eyes back and wait. Sometimes a very slender 

and ran down her face. "Sit there. Why thread is hard to break 

* Duty, as you 

ypu are half-dead, boy! Been -walking saw it, checked your own free first desire. 

far?" 

The draft set that duty aside and now you 

. "A good way. I've far to go—to Ed- have nothing to regret. My own boy, 

monton, for physical examination." Jim, waited." 

"Oh! You have been—called?", There was a tense silence which present- 

. The laugh no longer rippled. A deep ly her cheery voice dissolved. "I am alone 

and quiet tenderness replaced it, making 

her homely features beautiful. 

"You'd better take off your shoes and 

dry your feet. I've just been pressing my 

last pair of socks and here's a soldier-boy 

to my hand to wear them off. I'll set out 

our bit of lunch now. I hadn't noticed it 

was so near noon." 

He regarded her curiously. What manner 

of person was this? Warmth, food, 

clothing to a stranger! 

. "Are you so kind to me because—because—I've 

been drafted?" 

"Yes—no. You're a boy, tired and not 

very happy. 

France.!' - 

I have a boy—somewhere in 

She turned, her hands busy with 

their task ; but her eyes were serene 

when she came back to him. "We. ' -

MOTHER-WISDOM 

What Shall I Do for My Child Before the Doctor Comes? 

HELEN JOHNSON KEYES 

IS a dangerous, mistake to try to get such conditions, but in proportionately 

IT along without a physician in severe and 

puzzling illnesses. On the other hand, 

small quantities. Afterward he should be 

wrapped in a blanket or several blankets 

it is wise to know what to do until the and rubbed till his legs are warm. 

physician can arrive. 

A sprained or fractured member should 

In the first place, put your sick child to be plunged into cold water, which is.kept 

bed. Bed calms excited nerves, brings cold by fresh supplies being added, or by 

repose to tired muscles and warmth to a ice, for half an hour. In the case of a 

body which is chilled. In the case of sprain a tight bandage will give relief until 

fevers, it is the only safe place to take the doctor comes. 

care of the little patient. 

A fracture needs splints put on so tightly 

The great majority of the disorders of that there can be no movement of tbe 

boys and girls comes from poisonous sub- broken ends of bone, yet pain and pressure 

stances in the digestive tract. This condi- must not be felt. To make splints, use 

tion may result from bad eating, from pieces of board and pad them with soft 

chill, from decayed teeth, or from several cloth. 

other causes. Where stomachache, head- When a lump appears between joints 

ache, fever, roughness of the skin, coated after an accident, the diagnosis is probably 

tongue, bad breath, or any of the other a dislocation. Pull the member straight, 

familiar symptoms of indigestion exist, very gently, and bind it between boards 

administer a safe laxative. Feeding which are wider than it is. This is only 

should be omitted altogether for several first aid ; a doctor must complete the 

hours and then begin with liquid diet, re- treatment. 

turning very gradually to normal food. A bleeding wound is a dreadful thing for 

In the case of a severe fever, a high enema a parent to look upon and is as likely as 

of warm «soapsuds should be given at once any condition to produce excitement and 

with a fountain syringe to which has been helplessness. But the bleeding can be 

added some rubber tubing which will controlled often by pressure above the 

reach the Tiiph intestine. The rapidity wound or by a tight bandage placed either 

with which the temperature falls after above or below it. Spurting of red blood 

this treatment is often extraordinary. from a wound indicates a cut artery and 

Fevers which have other causes and do the bandage should be placed between it 

not yield to evacuation of the intestines and the heart. If_the bleeding is steady 

are often relieved 

and of a darker col- 

by sponge baths at 

or, it comes from a 

intervals of about 

vein and the band- 

fifteen minutes with 

water at a temper- 

HTHERE has been no f iner maga- 

¦*¦ zine service offered to rural 

age needs to be beyond 

the wound 

ature of between 

70" and 85°. Sweet 

spirits of nitre can 

be given also. / 

Almost every 

mother is familiar 

with the treatment 

for babies' convulsions, 

consisting of 

a bath made |by 

mixing four or five 

tablespoonsfuls of 

dry mustard in a 

gallon of warm water 

and immersing 

the child until the 

skin is red. After 

recovery is complete 

a high enema should 

be given, the tubing 

passing several 

inches into the 

bowel. 

Epileptic attacks 

mothers than that furnished by THE 

FARMER'S'WIFE inits Mother-Wisdom 

Department. Mrs. Keyes has sent 

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instead of between 

it and the heart. 

For nose bleed , 

succession of plugs 

of absorbent cotton 

or cotton waste 

soaked in peroxide 

or, better still, in 

adrenalin chloride, 

will check the hemorrhages 

in a short 

time. A very cold 

cloth on the back 

of the neck and 

pressure at the base 

of the nostrils on 

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also. When 

a child manifests a 

strong tendency to 

heavy nose bleeds 

a doctor should be 

consulted , f'or 

anaemia may result 

cannot be averted or 

and there have been 

shortened except by regular treatment for extreme cases where death has resulted 

the condition which produces them. This finally. 

may be eye strain , stomach trouble, or The theory of treating burns is to keep 

some similar cause which seems, to every out the air. For this reason blisters 

one except the doctor who understands should never be opened. A cloth satur- 

the intricacies of the human body, very ated in linseed oil will give relief or poul- 

remote and disconnected. It is an act tices of common baking soda. 

of mercy to lay a pillow under the head Curiously enough the treatment for 

and a soft cloth between the teeth to pre- frozen nose, ears, fingers, toes, is to apply 

vent biting the tongue. 

more cold. Keep them away from the 

Chills which have not as yet been fol- heat; plunge them in ice water or in snow. 

lowed by a fever require the application When feeling returns, wrap them in cloths 

of hot-water bottles, hot bricks or bags wrung out in ice water. 

of hot salt. Warm milk should be fed the Water fills the lungs of the drowning per- 

patient until perspiration sets in , when son—that is why he drowns. The cure 

alljieat-producing measures must be dis- is, therefore, to get this water out. To 

continued and the skin, kept dry with rice do so, open his clothing about the neck, 

powder, starch or cornstarch. 

turn him on his face, stand astride his 

Lightning stroke and electric shock are body, pick him up by the hips so that his 

treated with hot applications and hot face falls toward his toes, and shake him 

drinks. 

up and down several times. Then wipe 

For sunstroke put the patient in a cool out his mouth. Lay him down again 

place and pour cold water over the body, on hisj face but turn his face so that 

rubbing it with ice, if ice is 'to be had. it is not in the dirt. Bring his arms above 

When he is able to drink give him cold his head , straddle his legs close to his hips 

water, not ice water, in small quantities. again and place your hands under the 

This is the treatment for sunstroke, which lower edge of the lowest rib, turning your 

can be distinguished from heat exhaus- palms outward so that your fingers point 

tion by the hot, dry, red skin of the patient away from his backbone. Put the base 

and the deep breathing. 

of your hands two or three inches from 

Heat exhaustion differs m its symptoms his backbone, so that the little finger of 

by producing a cold , damp skin and shal- each hand lies along the lower edge of the 

low breathing. The treatment consists of lowest rib on each side. Keep your arms 

placing him in the shade, opening his straight and throw your weight forward 

clothing about the neck, lowering his head on your hands, staying in this position 

below the rest of his body and adminis- for about three seconds. Suddenly retering 

coffee or other stimulants. These move your weight and do not put it on 

are justifiable even in childhood under 

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TOLD BY THEMSELVES 

E VERY young reader of TEE FARMER'S The second year every boy was re- 

XV.WiEp will enjoy the three stories cm quired to get a registered sow pig. Three 

this page written by the young folks who did boys out of that bunch have become breed- 

all the things about which'they.have written. ers and have a small herd of their own.' 

The third year the majority of the old 

My Club Work and Results boys raised their own pigs and lots of the 

.; ANNA PROKOPEC 

new boys purchased pigs from the old 

CANNING , work is what I am going to members. This past year there was a 

tell you about especially because I en- large number of the boys in the pig club 

joyed it the most and I will tell you why. that raised their own pigs. 

I canned at school The-first year I was in the club . I won 

with the rest of the" $37 in prizes on my 

girls of the club, 

when school was 

out. Miss Partridge 

was our leader. In 

a few days of canning 

she organized 

a team consisting 

of three girls, Lorraine 

Bach , the 

captain, Leona Jepson 

and myself as 

associates. She 

appointed Miss 

Marion to drill us 

in canning. We 

then began our 

work earnestly, can- 

. ning once every 

ANNA PBOKOPEC week. before the 

week of the county 

fair when we canned every day of that week. 

The canning was done at the homes of 

the contestants, always canningthree pints 

of our own products; corn, tomatoes and 

plums were the most common to can. 

Lorraine did the talking while Leona and 

I did the work. It was work, too, not play. 

The day of the 

county fair came 

and we were all 

prepared for it. 

We took our places 

on the platform at 

7:00 A. M. facing 

a large audience.of 

onlookers. We 

worked together 

evenly and accurately. 

Everything 

seemed to go just 

right. The judge 

told us we did just 

SCOOOAN JONES ANO A PDOF1TABI.E PIO 

fine so we went 

home delig hted. 

Morrilhg dawned bright and cheerful. 

The telephone rang while I was still in 

bed announcing the good news that we 

had won first prize which was ten dolia'ta 

and a free trip to the State Fair. How 

happy I was. The next Monday we packed 

our suit cases and started for the Twin 

Cities. 

Tuesday we canned at the State Fair 

and there everything seemed to go all 

right too. We canned two pints of each 

product instead of one so that put us off 

the track a little but not very much. One 

of our cans cracked after we had taken 

it out of the process boiler because we 

canned opposite a large open door and 

the cold air rushed in as we took it out of 

the boiling water and cracked it. We 

went home Wednesday night. 

Saturday Miss Partridge called me up 

and said that we won second prize at the 

State Fair. We were more than delighted 

now. We thought it was great to win at 

the county fair but to win at the State 

Fair was greater still. The second prize 

was twenty-five dollars and a trip to the 

Hort iculture meeting at St. Paul in December. 

I made twenty-seven dollars in prizes 

on my garden and canning work so far this 

year. I also received five dozen jars, six 

dozen jars rubbers and my two trips. I 

have a large patch of cabbage which I intend 

to sell soon. My garden contained 

five square rods. Everything has not been 

estimated so I don't really know how much 

I made on my club work. I had a good time. 

' My Profits in Pigs 

SCOGGAN JONES 

HAVE been a member of the Kentucky 

1. 

Agricultural Association for the last four 

years. I liked the pig club work best. 

This work has been both instructive 

from the standpoint of learning and beneficial 

from the standpoint of money to me. 

I have been fortunate in being president 

of this organization for the last two years. 

The first year that I was in the club, 

thf bovs raised market hogs. 

" market pig. The 

second year I won $5 on my pure-bred gilt 

and finishingJourth in the breeders. The 

third I fed five pigs that I raised myself. 

At the Jefferson County Fair I was not 

beaten with my pigs. I also won prizes at 

the Kentucky State Fair and a Silver Cup. 

The picture I am sending is of the prize' iplDS 

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winning gilt. She showed twice and won 

two blue ribbons. I won $55 in money 

that year and a silver cup valued at $25. 

This year I fed six pigs for the club. I 

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County Fair, second on her at the Kentucky 

State Fair and I was also fourth in 

the promotion club against the breeders. 

I beat three large breeders in that class. 

The prizes that I won this year amounted 

to $37. I now have a herd of forty 

hogs so I think this work has been very 

instructive and beneficial to me. Don't 

you think so? Try it out for yourself. 

How I Won My Gold Medal 

QRACB EVA NEWMAN 

^ 

IT WAS through my earnest desire to 

* have some share in the winning of the 

world war, that I became so interested in 

war gardens. My 

father rented a vacant 

lot near our 

home in which I 

planted and raised 

a large variety of 

vegetables. 

About the middle 

of last July, under 

a government supervisor, 

canning 

clubs were organized 

and all the 

children with war 

gardens were invited 

to join. I was 

chosen secretary of 

the Lincoln School Club. We were taught 

to can all the products in their season.' 

At the end of the season, we had a series 

of competitive demonstrations of canning 

to select a team of three to represent 

Stillwater at the 

Minnesota State 

Fair. 

By this time I 

was thoroughly interested 

in the work 

and the prospect of 

a week at the fair 

made me more determined 

to win a 

place on the team 

when it was selected. 

To my great joy, 

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of the winning 

team, the other two 

members of which 

were Ethel Lagerstaedt 

, sixteen GRACB EVA .NKV.MAN 

years old , and 

Clarence Berggren, aged twelve years old. 

So early Monday morning we left for 

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quarters at the girls' dormitory at the 

agricultural farm school. Here we met 

girls from every part of the state. My 

team was to demonstrate in the afternoon 

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them to the public. All went well except 

for a can of corn breaking in the boiler. 

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week, visiting the large department stores 

and the pretty parks about the city. 

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eighth place. My winning the medal was 

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of their boxes Fillings for sandwiches: Minced ham, 

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that good firm minced egg, apple and celery salad, tuna 

cardboard boxes salad, olives and green peppers, brown 

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give- a sad-look- Soups: Cream of pea, cream of celery, 

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to the lunch. clear tomato thickened. 

Another neces- Puddings: Gelatine with fruit, bread 

sary is paraffin with raisins, rice, tapioca, chocolate. 

paper. 

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'the lunch box is not 

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lunches tomorrow. 

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few nuts, simply shelled or salted or a few 

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United States. 

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MONEY IN FURS THIS YEAR 

Trapping And Hunting Are Profitable Sport 

M. o. CUTTING 

HERE'S A FARM NAME 

PRIZE LIST 

IN 

FIVE lines at the foot of a page in 

THE FARMER'S WIFE for September, 

we offered a little prize of two dollars for 

the best list of fifty names suitable for a 

farm home. In answer to this we received 

412 lists. It was "some" job to 

Meadowbrook Sprucemead 

Hillandale Green Meadows 

Boulder Ridge Prairie 

Rose Hill Idlewild 

Pleasant Valley Oakland 

Woodcote Woodbine 

Evergreen Lone Tree 

Edgewood Running Brook 

Cedar Lawn Crossroads 

Home Ridge Overlook 

Poplar Grove White Clover 

Riverside Heart's Delight 

Pinehurst White Feather 

Fairvietv Riverview 

Sunny Slope Rocky Creek 

Hillcrest The Pines 

Elmenhurst Plum Grove 

Limvood Orchard Farm 

Inwood Village Park 

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Wayside Maplerow 

Golden Rule Golden Corn 

Clover Leaf Blue Grass 

Burr Oak Willow Bend 

Urbandale Sunnybrook Farm 

Homewood Dairyland 

Walnut Grove Honev Bee Farm 

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vour farm or ranch or homestead and we 

examine these and arrive at a fair decision 

The prize was awarded to Dorothea S, 

Leffler, Inwood Farm, Iowa. 

Following is a list of some of the best 

names received including those sent in by 

Miss Leffler. Every farm should be named. 

Valley Farm Restawhile Farm 

Golden Rod Farm Mulberry Drive 

Wheatland Wide Awake Farm 

Hilltop Farm Honey Suckle Acres 

Long Cane Farm Popple Creek Farm 

Hay Seed Meadow Meadow Sweet 

Fertile Acres Lookout Farm 

Grain Valley Comfort 

Acres of Plenty Everfree 

Homestead Pride Victory Grove 

Patch o' Paradise Grassyland Stock 

The Service Farm Farm 

Acorn Bridge Farm Quictdale Farm 

Echo Farm Golden Harvest 

Horseshoe Bend Dairy Farm 

Mount Hope Stock Well Farm 

Wayside Rest Welcome Way Farm 

Early Sunrise Cool Waters Farm 

Sunlit Lands Mossy Creek Farrn 

Old Trail The Pride of Crea- 

Joy Homestead tion Farm 

Nature's Farm Future Hope Farm 

Sunset Hill Farm Cabin o' Wildwinds 

Deerlodge Cabin Courageous 

Happy Valley Deerwoods 

Broad Acres The Place 

Spring Dell Farm Cumanstay 

will suggest some appropriate names. 

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Furthermore, trapping is not necessarily 

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- astonishing heights they attained which are neither dangerous nor physically 

this fall, and never has the remunera- difficult to catch. There are farm girls 

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this. In the first playjr?; so many regular are countless farm boys spending their 

trappers, both professional and amateur, spare hours along the water-places and in 

have entered the service of their country, the woods, and making more money than |*"^" 

that manufacturers expect a shortage in 

the supply of raw furs this winter and have 

been competing for the available supply at 

they could possibly earn in any other way. 

It is a healthful and profitable occupation 

for any girl or woman whose time is not 

almost any price. In the second place, the 

demands of the Government for wool have 

left very little of that commodity for civilian 

uses, resulting in enormously high 

prices; and civilians are finding it practicable 

this winter to pay the extra premium 

for furs. In the third place, the 

earning power of the masses in this country 

is unusually high at the present time, 

and a great many people are gratifying a 

longing for furs that never could be gratified 

before. 

It is, then, a combination of enormous 

demand and expected shortage that has 

raised the price of raw furs to unheard-of 

figures this fall. As this is written, the signing 

of the armistice injects an element of 

uncertainty into the future fur situation; 

but, unless manufacturers refuse to follow 

the present trend of values, there does not 

seem to be any reasonable possibility of a 

material drop in prices during the forthcoming 

winter. The American and Allied 

armies will not demobilize with the cessation 

of hostilities. The trappers will not 

return for some time to come, wool will 

remain scarce and high in price, and American 

prosperity should continue. Nothing 

seems more certain than that those who 

fully occupied at home, and to the boy it 

is the supreme happiness of life. In every 

farm family there must be one person— 

father, son, mother or daughter—who can 

tend a fewtraps this winter and take advantage 

of a situation which may never come 

again. 

The staple furs in this country are the 

skunk, muskrat, mink, weasel, raccoon, 

opossum, foxar)(l wolf. Then therearethe 

civet cat and badger which enter largely 

into the trade this year. All of these animals 

are distributed over large sections of 

the country, many of them over the entire 

country. With the exception of the wolf, 

none of them requires very large traps or 

great physical strength in trapping. They 

are the commonest of our fur-bearing animals, 

the smallest, and, with a few very 

rare exceptions, the most valuable. That 

is what makes their taking so attractive to 

the amateur. 

The prices which have been paid for 

some of these furs this fall are undoubtedly 

tempting. According to size of the pelt 

and latitude of origin, manufacturers have 

been paying according to the following 

schedule for No. 1 skins: skunk, $2.50 to 

$8.00 ; mink, $2.00 to $8.00; raccoon from 

take furs this winter will receive prices for Middle West, $1.00 to $3.00; Northern 

them higher than ever have been known. raccoon , $5.00 to $10.00; muskrat from 

To farm people who have never trapped 

before, the interesting phase of the situation 

is that this is their golden opportunity. 

Agreat many of ourregular trappers 

have gone to war. It is known that 

fewer pelts were taken last winter than the 

Middle West, 50 cents to $2.00, and Eastern 

higher; white weasel, 75 cents to $2.00; 

civet cat, 25 cents to $1.00; badger, $1.00 

to $3.00; opossum, 50 cents to $2.25; red 

fox, $15.00 to $40.00; grey fox, $1.50 to 

$4.00; soft-furred wolves, $15.00 to $35.00. 

year previous, which must have had a ten- These are the prices which manufacturdency 

to allow the fur-bearing animals to ers have paid to dealers this fall for sup- 

increase. The enormotis demand for furs plies kept over from last winter. As this 

of all kinds has given a real value not only is written, it is impossible to quote dealers' 

to the commoner furs but also to the poorer prices to trappers, since the trapping sea- 

grades of fur, which never were worth much son is just opening up and since the uncer- 

before. With fur-bearing animals increased, tainty of the world situation makes dealers 

experienced trapping competition diminished, 

and an insatiable demand for almost 

a little wary of quoting prices in advance. 

It does not seem likely, however, that 

any kind of fur, the amateur farm trapper 

comes into his own — if he only will. 

prices should fall materially, and ic does 

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MUSIC ON THE FARM 

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for more. Do you suppose that when 

they come back home they are going to 

forget this newt-taste for art which they 

have acquired through the war? I think 

hot! ^They're going to say: "Now folks, 

why can't all the neighbors get together 

and start something along the music line. 

I can't forget it. I'm hungry for it." 

Out on the farm should be the natural 

place to find real native dyed-in-the-wool 

music-lovers. Nature is first cousin to 

music. The greatest composers have 

written their melodies out on the farms. 

The finest inspirations have been felt on 

the hills and down near the brooks. Folks 

who know how to respond to nature's 

calls, should first a'nd best understand 

music's message. For most music is about 

nature and people close to the soil, just 

as nearly all true poetry is. A big piano 

number may seem at first like a succession 

of chords of harmony. But close your 

eyes, set vyour imagination at work and 

you find that it is an idealization of the 

sound of your own neighborly brook, or 

the musical interpretation of a thunderstorm. 

Have you ever attended a nature concert, 

without a human being present except 

yourself nor a single man-made tune 

being played ? 

Go out into the country on a cool, breezy 

summer's afternoon—say up in the mountains. 

The concert has already begun. 

You have missed some but there is plenty 

more—as much as you want. There is 

no conductor, except the Greatest Conductor 

of all, yet everything is in perfect 

harmony. 

Hear the chirping of the birds singing 

their recurrent notes with a rythm most 

enchanting. Hear the rat-a-tat-tat of the 

grasshoppers and their kindred. Hear the 

bass drummer, the woodpecker, play his 

part. Hear the soft roulades and trills 

of the distant waterfall. The breeze that 

moves the leaves is like the swishing ^ of a 

dancer's veil. When the rain falls what 

a beautiful patter-patter—it begins like 

a scherzo or mazurka on a fine_ old concert 

grand. 

Altogether, what a melody, what a harmony 

unfolds! This is music for the 

musician to hear and profit by. There's 

a fine recreation in which any of us may 

indulge—interpreting music—finding the 

composer's real message. 

When the family and the workers gather 

for that "sing," try this idea of asking 

what the music means to them. 

For instance, suppose you have put on 

a record of a violin composition. "What 

does it mean to you?" you ask. "Is it 

about anything that sounds familiar? 

What idea or picture does this suggest 

to you?" 

On a summer day close your eyes as 

you lie in your hammock or stretch out 

on the grass. All nature is alive. You 

can hear it and see it. When you listen 

to the great composition, music is painting 

in flaming colors. Some chords are 

red as carmine, some are drab as steel 

gray ; some are muddy, some lurid , some 

the color of ashes and some the pink of the 

rose-petals. You can listen to some music 

and see only black—the blackness of infinity, 

of overwhelming space. Some 

phrases suggest cats' eyes, green and distrustful. 

Whitecaps dance in an arpeggio. 

Another passage will make you think 

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dancing. The whitecaps are wet—they 

smell of salt and sea-weed. They are 

surging and ebbing with restless impatience. 

The rose petals are soft and velvety. 

A sweet fragrance is wafted in the 

nostril. It is strange and difficult to 

understand how this can be but it is nevertheless 

true that music paints real pictures 

on the mind: 

Pity the children who grow up without 

melody and harmony. Be glad for the 

youngsters who can look out on life 

with an appreciation and love of music. 

They will see beyond the horizon line. 

They will see beyond the dollar sign. 

They will see more than the daily routine. 

They will blossom and make the loveliest 

flowers on the farm. If theycan play or sing 

to make folks tingle with happiness just to 

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friends and citizens of America. 

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How to Make These Skirts and Blouses for the "Welcome* Home!" 

WILL A W. AUM 

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Over There. Of course we shall would wash satin. 

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be of the strictly tailored ¦*"¦* "talking clothes." She talked with such fetchingwi sddm thai 

type of wool material, or a business woman who was listening, exclaimed, "If I could , have 

the dressier type of satin, you to help me select and make my clothes, what'a burden would roll 

silk poplin or taffeta. off my tnindl" 

'Whichever of these four Well , we of THE FARMER'S WIFE own Mrs. Krum! Why not 

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should not prove difficult 

for any home dressmaker. 

The- four blouse waists 

shown with the skirts are also of/the 

simplest construction and offer suggestions 

that can be worked out in various 

materials, and for various types of figures. 

•A, our Stout Lady wears a skirt fashioned 

by Pattern No. 8875 and her 

blouse by "No. 8861. Both garments belong 

to the strictly tailored class and have 

exceptionally good lines for a full figure, 

or one inclined to be rather stout. The 

long collar, with a semi-surplice effect adds 

height to the fi gure and takes away from 

the width as do also , the inverted pleats 

in the skirt. The back extends over the 

shoulders on to the front in yoke effect 

and the fullness at the yoke line is becoming 

to stout as well as slender figures. I 

added a row of stitching % inch from the 

edge of the collar and cuffs to carry out 

the tailored idea. These are made double 

of the material. 

Stout Lady's skirt is of a dark wool material 

with a tiny hairline stripe. Serge 

or poplin would make up equally well. 

The blouse is white wash silk, a material 

that gives excellent service and is easily 

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that you can pjit together in two or three 

hoiirs'and yet is just as stylish and good- 

• 

looking as the other, skirts'. This is made 

The one button fastening is very pop- of blue-and-tan plaid. The blouse is 

ular on the tailored waists this year. a rather heavy cotton voile and the Gypsy 

Figure B shows blouse and skirt with collar and turn-backs on the cuffs are of 

splendid lines for the average figure. These blue voile to match the blue in the skirt. 

are also of the tailored type. The skirt You can use tan voile, if that color is 

material is dark blue serge and the blouse, becoming to you. The collar and tie are 

blue-and-white striped wash silk, the blue all cut in one. I am sure if you use this 

stripe matching the blue of the skirt. - The pattern, you will end up by making three 

notched collar is of white wash satin. Lit- or four waists by it and all your friends 

tle white "turn-backs" can be added to will ask to .borrow your pattern the first 

the cuffs if preferred. Such a color com- time you appear in 

bination is very smart looking and is equally 

suitable for home or business wear. 

Plain black tailored buttons were used to 

trim the skirt, which opens at the left side 

of the front. 

C illustrates a combination- that will appeal 

to the girl of,eighteen or twenty, as 

well as to older women who are still happy 

in the slenderness of youth. For this I 

used embroidered voile for the bjouse and 

trimmed the collar and' the ruffles at the 

top of the long cuffs with inch-wide "val" 

lace, slightly fulled on-J tiny pearl buttons 

decorate each side of the front. This 

blouse gives the new square neck line, and 

while it is not so universally becoming as 

the V-sbaped neck, it can be worn by anyone 

with a plump neck. 

The skirt is of silk poplin, made crosswise 

of the goods. This is a fad of the 

season, and is really a better style for this 

material than to have the ribs running 

round and round. If you use the poplin 

this way, you^will have to piece it under 

the lower tuck. Use the 40-inclTwidth. 

D is skirt 'pattern No. 872° and blouse 

pattern- No. 8718. I have not been able 

to make 'up my mind which I like the 

best ; can you? Pattern No. 8718 is a regular 

"love" of a blouse and very becoming 

and No. 8729 -is a little three-piece skirt 

' one of them! The 

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one but one can be made of the material 

of the skirt. An inch and a half is the 

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inches. Two _ ratker large 

buttons finish the front of 

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of construction that I 

have mentioned so often 

(see THE FARMER'S WIFE 

for Sept.) and so also can 

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otthe one with the two 

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WITH all the other" "come backs," 

now that war is over, we who have 

Agent* 

OUR CO-OPERATIVE FARM COLONY 

We Think We Have Perfectly Solved the Problem of Cc>mmunity Living 

LIVE in the Llano Cooperative Colony 

in the highlands of Louisiana, where 

1 

the lumbermen have cut off the timber 

and hundreds of thousands of 

acres are idle and non-productive. ' I belong 

*^) the Colony organization. Our 

plan is\ complete cooperation in every 

way, with equal participation in profits. 

We collectively own the land, the implements, 

the livestock, and the industries. 

We farm cooperatively, too. - 

Similar enterprises have been tried at 

various times; not many have been successful, 

usually because o{ legal difficulties, 

mismanagement, or poor judgment in selection 

of location or industrial activities 

in which to engage. 

We first made a study of all other co-operative 

colonies of which we could get any 

information. Then we incorporated to 

secure the fullest protection of the law. 

We employ ourselves, so that all of us 

stand in the unique position of being employers 

and employees at the same time. 

We have selected our location with care 

and are making good progress in farming. 

We are using the usual corporation form 

of management so that we expect to avoid 

that worst of all errors—mismanagement. 

•But what I want to tell is how we are 

taking our part of the burden of war conditions 

and shortages. We came here a 

year ago, an! we are not wealthy. We 

cannot afford to buy many bonds, so we 

must do something else. And our "something 

else" is the economy of time and 

effort through our form of organization. 

We could not produce much this year, 

any more than any other farmer the first 

year that he reclaims land from the wilderness 

but we will be able to do a great deal 

next year. 

Ours is a sweet potato and peanut country. 

We can grow tremendous quantities 

of them. So we are going to devote 

most of our energies to this. 

Because we do not have to run many 

fences except outside fences, because we 

do not have to own and keep so many 

teams'1 and animals and implements, and 

because we are able to shift bur labor, from 

place to place, we are able to economize 

greatly. We are living on the least possible 

amount, because we must and also 

"because the more we can put into machinery 

and essentials for tilling the soil, the 

greater will be »ur production. 

We plot our land to farm it to the crops 

we wish to grow. Our foreman, with the 

foremen working with him, put in the different 

crops. If there are implements required, 

they are shifted from place to 

place,"and there is no unnecessary duplication. 

We will install machinery of various 

kinds, all of which will be owned by 

the entire community. 

that picture would live on the walls of 

Luther's memory: A big bare room; dust 

and cobwebs and sunshine; the Jedge and 

Angelina. All the others were mere background 

to those two. 

Not for an instant had Luther been in 

doubt of its being Grandmums. He saw 

a plumpened, brisk , ripened Philippa— 

Philippa's straight shoulders and small fine 

head; Philippa's tantalizing little wisps of 

curls around the ears. This ripened 

Phili ppa was speaking in a clear and happy 

voice. She was looking straight at the 

Jedge. 

"Forty-two-miles—that isn't bad but I 

could do better. I wouldn't have missed 

it for anything—go ahead and fine me, 

William Stickney. You wouldn't dare to 

go forty-two miles an hour. You never 

dared to slide down Old Breakneck—we 

never could make you. That time I did 

succeed in getting you on the sled, at the 

top " 

"Order in the court! The defendant is 

in danger of additional fine for contempt." 

The judic ial eyes behind the gold-bowed 

spectacles were twinkling with enjoyment. 

The scrap was on. Luther'heard the station 

master chuckling at his side. 

"You always were a little timid , 

William. I can well remember how 

MRS. ERNEST S. WOOSTER 

TT IS not possible for all or many 

¦*¦ communities to be turned into colonies, 

nor would such a move be wise 

if possible. All communities, however, 

f ind it beneficial to communize 

some of their activities and for _ this 

reason, Mrs. Wooster's enthusiastic 

recital is broadly suggestive. 

We have our own store, shoe shop, carpenter 

and cabinet shop, physician, hotel, 

laundry, machine and blacksmith shop, 

dairy, poultry farm, hogs. We own them 

all together. In this way we are able to 

adopt to a degree in our farm operations, 

the system of specialization that has made 

the Henry Ford shops so efficient. The 

men who are carpenters or the best builders, 

are kept at this work as much as possible, 

so that the best farmers can stay 

with the farm crops. It is alizarin work 

of course, and if the carpenters did not 

build the sweet potato drier, for example, 

it -would mean that fiie farmers would 

have to quit and do this work. There is 

more result obtained if those best fitted 

for this work are kept at it. 

We have our own cane mill to make 

sirup, and are producing a large proportion 

of what we use. The women make 

clothes, the colony buying the cloth for 

the shirts, overalls, and so forth. Most of 

us women wear overalls at our work. We 

encourage the women to eat at the community 

hotel and thus escape household 

drudgery as much as possible. 

All over the country, last spring, there 

was talk of back-yard gardens. Well, we 

wanted the women and children to do garden 

work. So we made the garden a part 

of our colony school. We have a man 

who is a marvel in handling children. He 

can take an incorrigible boy and make 

him into a good worker. He takes the 

children into our co-operative garden and 

this , year they produced about $1,000 

worth of vegetables. Of course we used 

most of them ourselves, but the fact that 

the children did most of this work shows 

how we are making our "war gardens" a 

reality. 

Our community life is delightful. We 

are all just farmers. Many of our people 

are well educated and talented. We do 

not believe in making entertainment a 

commercialized feature, so all entertainment 

and education are free. We have 

classes in language, music, philosophy, astronomy 

and other subjects, the number 

being constantly added to. No charges 

are made, and we have typists, musicians 

and others who have learned their professions 

or developed their talents in the 

colony. Our dances are free, and we are 

now building a theater in which our dramatic 

club will give entertainments. We 

WITH THE WIND IN HER FACE 


meekly you took all those floggings——" 

"That you would have had to take if I 

hadn't stepped up like a little gentleman!" 

The retort shot out involuntaril y as though 

the Jedge were not a Jedge but a mere 

man or—boy. But instantly the mantle 

of his dignified office fell about him again 

like a shrouding garment. A flush tinged 

his grizzled cheeks. 

"The prisoner will please confine her remarks 

to the matter in hand. Tell the 

court , please, what the speedometer registered 

when-—" 

"Yes, you were rather a good little 

scout," conceded Grandmums reminiscently. 

She was enjoying herself beyond the 

speed limit. "You made a nice soft little 

buffer, William! You always did manage 

to get me out of scrapes." 

"If you think I'm going to get you out 

of this one—" There he went again! 

Angelina Moody was putting the dickens 

into him and taking the dignity out. 

Wrath seized upon the Jedge. 

"Order!" he pounded sternly. "The 

dignity of the court " 

"Mercy, I don't ex^ggt anything! Go* 

ahead and fine me a nice fat fine, why don't 

you, and then come outside and I'll give 

you the spin of your life. For-ty-two 

miles, William!" purred Grandmums. 

already have a moving picture machine, 

and we will, as a community, rent films 

and give entertainments occasionally. 

There is a big saving in all of these things. 

We live on an allowance that is unbelieveably 

small but we are building for the future, 

and we know that if we are not bothered 

or handicapped by unforeseen circumstances 

that we will be well fixed in a few 

years. Our co-operation and the elimination 

of profit and non-essential things and 

useless duplication of labor, and careless 

waste of materials and effort will all help 

us in becoming prosperous. 

We have made farming pleasant because 

we live in a community together. We 

enjoy a social life that is not equalled anywhere 

that I have ever been. We believe 

that our community system of farming is 

one that should commend itself to the Federal 

government in its search for a means 

of establishing returned soldiers on the 

soil. It is the barrenness of farm life in 

so many places and the dearth of social 

life that so frequently turns the farmer 

from the farm to the city. We are overcoming 

that in a natural and sane manner 

that is already a success. I believe, too, 

that our plan is a good one to use in settling 

up the cut-over lands of the South 

and of the North. The co-operative method 

of farming which we are using, and 

which we call the Llano plan, together 

with the collective ownership of land and 

the implements and other means of farming, 

will attract people to the land. We 

believe we are demonstrating, too, that 

more results can be obtained by our method 

with less effort. 

Women are not household drudges here. 

We have tried to relieve them from this, 

to teach them to enjoy life. We are succeeding. 

I wish other women could see 

what we are doing. I think we are setting 

an example in wartime economy that is 

worth while. We have not the capital to 

buy bonds, but we are economizing to the 

fullest extent. We permit absolutely no 

loafing, and we have enforced the "work 

or fight" order ourselves without waiting 

for the government to. do so. We insist 

that every able-bodied person work, and 

we have men up to seventy doing full day's 

work, with children as young as seven 

gladly working in the co-operative garden. 

We believe there is no other community 

in the land that can make the showing 

that is made by our community here at 

Stables, Vernon Parish, Louisiana, and we 

believe that our patriotism is equal to that 

of any patriot in the land. I am sure that 

the work we are doing is worthy of the 

highest praise. And should it not serve as 

an illustration of what can be done' when 

people agree to agree for the good of all 

and the happiness of all? 

Listeners broke into joyous applause. The 

bare cobwebby place rocked with joy. 

Grandmums' beaming face regarded the 

face (beaming, too, but under such cover 

of decency as was possible) of Judge Stickney: 

But the judicial voice was tremulously 

stern although behind thegold-bowed 

spectacles much was going on. 

"The prisoner at the bar will please 

state her age." - 

"Same as yours, your Honor, lacking a 

month and seventeen days. You knowhow 

it is to be seventy—give me a tip. 

I'm on the ragged edge myself. No, I'll 

give you a tip—speed up, William , and 

take it with the wind in your face! Open 

up the throttle! Enjoy yourself while you 

can." 

"Fifteen dollars," the Jedge said sternly. 

A few minutes later Luther and Grandmums 

came face to face. Luther's hand 

shot out, admiration , relief , delight shone 

in his eyes. This was the kind of a Grandmums! 

"Grandmums " 

"Who's calling me that? Must be 

Philippa " 

"Or Philippa's man! How are you, 

Grandmums? But I know—I've been in 

at the scrap." 

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WITH THE WIND IN HER FACE 

"Wasn't it fun!—You really mean, you 

are Philippa's Luke? Splendid! What 

are you doing in these parts?" 

"I came down to start you on your declining 

" year. Proxy for Philippa. There's 

a wedding—" 

; "So 1 she ,sent you, to comfort me in my 

Old age ? Nice child!—Day after tomorrow 

she'll come, you say? Well, we'll 

make the most of it and have a high old 

timeih between! Come on—I'll drive you 

home in my. car. Out here, round the 

cor.nerX' 

She led the way to a natty little maclri'ne. 

With a whisk of dainty petticoats 

she was in behind the wheel and they were 

off. 

"Isn't she a beauty? She's my third 

and I'm going to keep her. When we get 

out of sight somewhere I'll show you what 

she can do. I've just paid fine enough to 

be entitled to a little fun!, You may be 

official honker for me if you want to. 

That's one thing I'm very particular about 

—honking^. William Stickney can't say 

I've ever run over so much as a fuzzy 

caterpillar. I'll tell you something—•" she 

leaned sideways and whispered sibilantl y 

above the little car's song. "I did run 

oyer a high silk hat once. There wasn't a 

soul under it! A child must have left it 

there in the road—it's a low hat now!" and 

Grandmums' pleasant laugh ra ng out. 

The car was.picking up speed under Grandmiiins' 

urging toe. A long clear stretch of 

road opened before them. 

"Wicked to waste it—look behind and 

see if William Stickney's ghost is anywhere 

in sight! Now see my little lady go!" 

liack in the hamlet of white houses, 

Grandmums drove up a curving drive and 

stopped at the door of one ol them. 

"Here we are. I'll let you out and then 

take the car around. Won 't be but a minute." 

Over her shoulder she called happily. 

"It's'scrumptious to have you at 

last—we don't need Philippa!" 

Thcjninute she was gone was a terribly 

short one for ' what Luther had to do but 

he managed it. He was actually panting 

a- little when Grandmums came back but 

those two frightful birthday packages were 

nowhere in sight. They did not even protude 

tell-tale knobs and ends from under 

the great lilac thicket near by. . 

"Good job! ' thought Luther relievedly. 

Suppose lie had not got there and discovered 

'em leaning against the front door! 

It had been a narrow escape. Luther's 

mind congealed at the awful thought of 

presenting this Grandmums with an Invalid 

Table and a foot Warmer, lie had seen 

no evidence of invalidism or cold feet. 

Later, up in Grandmums' cozy guest room, 

after a delightful evening on the porch, he 

found himself suddenl y laughing. He sat 

up in bed the better to do it. The surprise 

that was coming to Phili ppa—Luther 

fell back on Grandmums' fluffy guestpillows 

and rolled for iov. 


The next day he presented Grandmums 

with a nifty, little dashboard clock, two 

step-mats and a rear mirror. They made 

a very presentable appearance spread out 

on the couch and how Grandmums did 

love them! Her brjght blue eyes so much 

like Philippa's eyes fairly beamed delight. 

"You must have been inspired , you 

two!" cried she. "You must have known 

exactly what 'Grandmums' want on their 

birthdays. And there I was afraid Philippa 

might think I was growing old! Dear 

boy—- ' suddenly her hands were on his 

shoulders and she was looking up to him 

with Curious earnestness. "Dear boy, I 

am going to motor thru old age—motor, 

with the wind in my face! No," her eyes 

lighting up again with their inimitable 

humor. "No , I shan't- get to the end o' 

the road any sooner for I'm going a roundabout 

way!" 

It was a happy- birthday to Grandmums. 

She fell in love with her girl's 

man. 

"Why didn't you ask me to marry you 

instead of Philippa ? I'd have jumped at 

the chance," laughed Grandmums, plying 

him with cooling drinks and having a 

beautiful time. She was in a queer garment 

of blue jeans and a little smudge of 

black ove- one eyebrow gave her a saucy 

appea rance. She had been turning down 

the grease cups on her little car. 

"Yes, I take care of her, myself ," she 

nodded in answer to the unasked question 

on Luther's face. "I don't trust anybody 

else. Guess you didn't hear me before 

you got up. I drove down to Ephe Legget's 

for gas—we'll want a lot today." Her 

gaze rested joyously on her lovely gifts. 

"I shalLride all over town to show off. 

See if I don 't!" 

The next day Philippa appeared , her 

lively young face subdued to appropriate 

gentleness. Grandmums met her at the 

station and a petrified and speechless 

Philippa rode back beside her in the natty 

little car. To Luther , waiting joyously, 

the picture suddenly assumed pathos. 

Poor Phili ppa! Her illusions had been so 

tender and sweet. She had been ruthlessly 

robbed of a dear declining Grandmums. 

"Don 't speak-tome," whispered Philippa 

as she descended into Luther's arms. 

"Take me out of sight somewhere and kiss 

me. I need it. Oh , yes, of course I'll 

laugh when I get my breath—of course I'll 

like it, but I've got to have time." 

Out of sight, between kisses, Luther remembered 

something with an awful jolt; 

Philippa's birthday ! 

"Dear," he said with anxiety tempered 

with twinkles, "I'm afraid you won't like 

what I've go! for your birthday but it 's 

the best I can do. It 's—it's an Invalid 

Table and a Pool-warm—•—•" 

Phili ppa got her breath then. I hey 

laughed together in each other's arms in 

joyous abandon while Table and Warmer 

reclined peacefull y under the lilacs. 

DREAMING OF SWEETHEART 

HE 

AND his comrades had just been 

moved back from the front line trenches. 

He was wet , cold , hungry and so tired 

that for the time he could not feel grateful 

that lie was not dying out there in No 

Man 's Land. Por six hours the soldier lay 

in a stupor of utter fati gue until need for 

food aroused him. After hunger was satisfied 

and he was comfortable in dry clothes, 

he rested and through half-closed eyes, 

dreamily listened to the never-ending rumble 

of artillery. 

Slowly the scenes of war receded and in 

their place he.seemtd to see a small white 

cottage surrounded by the pleasant greens 

and browns of a summer farm scene in 

"the old V. S.'A.," as he and the boys fondly 

phrased it. 

The distant rumble of artillery seemed 

transformed into the humming of the bees, 

the.sing ing of the birds and the ripple of 

the brook in the nearby wood lot. Who 

was that standing, there on the little side 

porch among I he honeysuckle vines '. Could 

it be—why, yes , of course! it was Mother. 

And that strapping fellow coming from the 

barn with the two brimming buckets ol 

milk? Why that was himself! And his 

mother was saying, "Hurry up, Phil! Susa 

Hell wants you to come over early ami 

help her with a few last things before the 

LOIS BEUN'ICE AVKRY 

party tonight. \ on go on and dress and 

I'll take care of the milk." 

Susa Bell was the prettiest and dearest 

sweetheart a man ever had. Would he 

hurry ? He raced through the house, and 

accompanied by cheerful bursts of whistling, 

the farm laborer disappeared and an 

immaculately shining young man of the 

world took his place. Kissing his mother 

goodby, he hurriedly cranked his little ohf 

roadster and was off to see Susa Bell. 

Susa Bell was in the garden gathering 

some flowers. He would surprise her! 

Otiietly he made his way to the garden. 

The filmy white sleeves had fallen back 

from slender girlish arms eagerly reaching 

for the much desired pink rosebuds. The 

setting sun was turning her shining curls 

to glory and althoug h hpr eyes were turned 

from him , he could see their heavenly blue. 

"Oh , Susa Hell!" lie stammered. 

She t urnetl with a ri pple of silvery Jaug liler 

but -was she coming toward him? 

She seemed to be receding from him—disappearing. 

And her laug h—a h . the guns! 

Rubbing his eyes, lie leaped to his feet and 

ran to his place in the trenches. 

It was only a dream but it was such 

dreams as these that keept our soldiers 

line and clea n and heroic while they foug ht 

(or ns Over There. 

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Sometimes a woman feels tired and turns slowly—the 

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to get through quicker , the skim is just as clean, and without 

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lose cream when turned under speed but the 

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jffBf of feeding that are effective during the winter. 

Sou A hen can no more lay eggs without the necessary 

__t| material for their production than a cow can give 

H|o| tank if fed on straw alone. 

grill The secret of winter eggs Ilea In proper housing, 

IBI careful feeding, sufficient exercising, and looking 

Barm after the comforts ot "blddle." 

(£____. The details of these egg producing secrets are 

&___¦_ told by Mr. Nourse, Mr. Bleb, Miss Ellison 

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seem likely that dealers will be bidding for 

pelts at prices ranging up closely to those 

quoted above. 

From the first of December on, all of 

these furs except the muskrat are "prime," 

or- of best quality, over practically the 

entire country. Along in February, speaking 

generally, they begin to decline in value 

when the animal starts to shed or the fur 

to fade. The muskrat and other aquatic 

animals, such as the rarer beaver and otter 

do not become fully prime until later in the 

winter and retain their quality later in the 

spring. For that reason, the trapping of 

the.muskrat, among the commoner animals, 

should be left until the last. It is at 

its best during the month of March. 

The quality of fur depends not alone 

upon its primeness but also very largely 

upon its place of origin. It is hardly necessary 

to say here that the farther north 

one goes the better does the quality of the 

fur become, with the one exception of the 

muskrat. The North undoubtedly is the 

trapper's paradise. However, there are 

fur-bearing animals in the Central States 

and in the South, such as the civet cat, 

grey fox and opossum, which the northerner 

seldom or never sees. So profitable 

trapping is not restricted to any one section 

or latitude. 

The skunk and civet cat are the earliest 

of the small fur-bearing animals to become 

prime in the fall, and the earliest to shed 

in the spring; hence traps should be set 

for these animals first. The skunk has a 

wide distribution all over the United 

States; but the civet cat rarely ranges in 

the North, being most abundant in the 

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Bedtime 

REBECCA 1IELUAN 

J VESSEL lies syringing, asleep in the bay, 

Swinging, swinging, swinging; 

The gay birds are trilling songs over the way, 

Singing,"singing, singing. 

mal and may be found almost anywhere, 

in the woods, along the banks of waterplaces, 

or under piles of logs and stones. 

The muskrat is abundant in all sections 

of the United States, and while more of 

these skins have been taken than any 

other it does not seem to diminish greatly 

in numbers. Its winter home usually is 

in houses which it builds in the water, with 

the entrance below the surface and the top 

projecting above. In some sections it 

makes its home in a high bank, with the 

entrance below the surface of the water. 

It is not difficult to trap, and the skin is in 

great demand. 

The badger is abundant in the prairie 

states west of the Mississippi River, but is 

seldom found in other sections. He makes 

his home in an underground den having 

several passages, usually in a sunny location, 

where he hibernates for the winter. 

He is very easily caught by trapping, shooting, 

or even knocking on the head with a 

stick when he emerges on a warm, sunny 

day. Because of his hibernating habit, 

his fur is not always prime unless it has 

been exposed to severe weather. 

The red fox and soft-furred wolves are 

very valuable skins, but they are not at 

all easy to get. Both animals are very 

suspicious of man's efforts to take them, 

and only careful trappers are successful. 

The red fox is found quite plentifully in 

the northern half of the country, the best 

furs coming from the Northwest. Farther 

south the grey fox is plentiful, but does 

not produce so valuable a fur. The softfurred 

wolves are the brush or buffalo wolf 

and the coyote, when captured under the 

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Rocking, rocking, rocking; 

The clouds o'er the house-tops are gathering like sheep, 

Flocking, f locking, f locking. 

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HTHE FLOWERS in the garden are curling their toes, 

Swaying, swaying, swaying; 

Dear children are kneeling in sleepy-time clothes, 

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'I of human habitation, and they will walk marten, although they are extremely val- 

into almost any kind of a trap that is set uable. The beaver is still found in the 

:| Free Pony V A in their way. Their favorite abodes are North , and even quite far south in the 

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^^^ or along the hedge-rows, of in hollow logs, otter is fairly well distributed over the 

and frequently they will locate them- entire country where there is water adapted 

selves under old buildings on .the farm- to his habits; but neitheroneisatall plentistead.ful. 

The marten inhabits only the north- 

The raccoon and opossum are generally ern sections and is very scarce. 

associated together because of their attach- The commoner furs mentioned are the 

ment to the South and because of the fa- furs for which the trade is clamoring, and 

vor which their flesh finds as food by some they are furs which can be obtained in 

people in that section of the country. The greater or less variety and number in or 

raccoon is found in almost every state, near almost any farming community. Di- 

but is most abundant in the Central and rections for trapping, skinning and ship- 

Southern States. The opossum seldom ping can be obtained from any reliable fur 

ranges far north. Their habits are simi- house. The most successful trappers, of 

lar, both having a fondness for the woods course, are the experienced and expert ones; 

where they can disport themselves in the but no person can become expert until a 

trees. The raccoon usually makes his beginning is made. There never was a 

home in a hollow tree or log, while the time when the amateur's efforts were likely 

'possum seems to have no fixed place of to be so well rewarded as they are this win- 

abode. 

ter. 

The mink and weasel are harder to take Make it a winter recreation , if notabtisi- 

in steel traps than any other of the small ness. If the man of the farm can't spend 

animals previously mentioned, the mink the time, buy the boy or girl a dozen or two 

being especially wary of human designs. good traps and set their feet racing toward 

Both are widely distributed over the Unit- the woods and water-places. If there is 

ed States, but the fur is less valuable in the neither a man nor a boy nor a girl to go, 

South; and only in the North is the pure- get a short skirt and some high boots and 

white weasel found that sells as ermine. try it yourself . In these days women are 

The mink may be caught along the banks filling many occupations that they never 

of creeks, rivers, lakes, ponds, swamps and dreamed of entering before—and finding 

marshes. The weasel is not a water ani- health and profit and satisfaction in it. 

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COUNTRY 

^JIAHV BTUAET 

Eight Week Club organized 

OUR Under the auspices of Young Woni^ 

en's Christian Association was 

the uniting' influence in our community. 

When the twenty girls belonging 

to the community came together they 

represented the three rivaling churches. 

' At the first meeting of the club one of 

the girls expressed the sentiment of all by 

saying, .What we need most here, is a 

good time. There's no place to go and 

the evenings are long." So we aimed to 

give everyone such a taste of good, wholesome 

recreation in one summer that the 

district would never find its young or old 

people lonesome and wanting to go somewhere 

else. -r- 

Our first attempt was in the church by 

trying Sunday Vespers. As there was no 

church service on Sunday evening,'' this 

immediately became the meeting place ol 

all the people young and old. One of the 

club girls entertained the little children 

with stories, and in some cases we won the 

interest of the parents through the children. 

We had a simple sendee with lots 

of singing and then we would sit and talk. 

After two pleasant Sunday evenings the 

club divided into three Recreation Committees, 

one for Outdoor Sports, another 

for Indoor Sociability and a third for 

Music, and then began a summer of play 

which gave our community such inspiration 

and recreation that much better work 

was done because of it. 

The Indoor Socials, though they were 

not indoor except on rainy nights, began 

with a community rally and continued with 

a meeting of all the community each week. 

Fathers, mothers, boys, girls and babies 

all came and had such a good time! No 

refreshments were served; it was jiist an 

evening of play. It was great sport for a 

girl to see her less dexterous father catch 

the plate she would spin or for a boy to 

see his mother beat him at "up Jenkins." 

ARE. y ou, for some reason, having a 

¦ lonely, " dull time? Then stop having 

ill Our minds are given to us for the purpose 

of overcoming poor conditions and creating 

belter ones. Refuse to be lonelyl Stir 

your bonesl If you cannot f ind one person 

with whom to pldn -for a bit of recreating 

play, drop a line to the Editors O/THE FAR- 

MER'S WIFE. Two or three heads are better 

than one. No head is a "cabbage head." 

These Thursday evenings, besides giving 

us good times, gave us a wonderful new 

vision of comradeship with our fathers and 

mothers. It was such joy, planning to go 

and 1 talking over the good times on our 

walk home. 

The Outdoor Sports Committee secured 

land from one of our generous country 

people for an athletic field and it was an 

interesting sight to the city people riding 

by in cars to see a volley ball court and 

base ball diamond and croquet grounds all 

in use in the heart of the open country. 

It was great fun to a boy who had pitched 

hay all day to come and play volley ball. 

Some evenings they would change the volley 

ball to tennis. But the value of these 

evenings when for an hour or so before 

dark, the girls and boys of a country neighborhood 

would gather for exercise, cannot 

be over estimated. 

These games continued all summer and 

when the rainy fall came the work of the 

Music Club started. During the summer 

they had gathered from the Physical Education 

Department of different states, 

musical games, folk songs and plays. We 

always met at the house of one of the girls 

where they had a piano and a large porch 

to help hold the people. Even the old 

darkies around the place would begin to 

grin when they heard the Virginia Reel. 

At the close of the evening when we had 

played ourselves tired, we would sit around 

the open fire and sing old Southern songs. 

We learned so many new songs too, songs 

of other nations, that would make us feel 

a closer brotherhood to all mankind. 

The things we are doing are simple, and 

could be done anywhere but they are remaking 

our community, our school and 

our churches. People who can play together 

well can work together better. 

Our Playground in the Country has become 

the nucleus of a happier, more contented 

and a more useful people. 

. To Cuslf omers of ^ 

Montgomery Ward & Co. 

The Mid-Winter Special Sale by Mail for 1919 begins 

Wednesday, January 1st The 120-page book of special 

bargains—about a thousand in number—should be delivered 

in your home hy that time. In the selection of merchandise 

for the sale we tried to be particularly careful both 

regarding quality and prices.. We knew it would have to be 

a bargain book, but more than that, the goods must come 

up fully to the standing agreement we have with our 

i customers—satisf action guaranteed or y our money back 

Purchases for this sale were made not have received their copy and 

long in advance, and in every case 

we have given the customer the 

are writing us for one. Of course, 

we shall be very glad to send you one , 

benefit we were able to derive 

from our buying early in large 

at your address immediately under 

those circumstances, if you will 

quantities. s kindly write as early as possible so - 

It was the plan to have every one 

of our customers receive this Sale 

that ? mr wep-st reaches us before 

*% are exhausted. Meanwhile, 

Book. However, the United States 

h*'1 wait * get at these Bargains 

Government, through the War Industries 

Board asked for curtailment 

in the use of paper, and to 

meet with that regulation we have 

been compelled tolimit the number 

as early as possible. If your book 

has not arrived, do not hesitate to 

ask your neighbors for theirs^this 

SPecial Sale is 80 fuU of bargains 

*"* we do not want an of Sale Books issued. 

7 one who 

has dealt & m t0 miss "*• 

Here and there may be cases where All lines are included, from ladies' 

some of our customers do not re- _ coats and dry goods, groceries, 

ceive this January-February Sale furniture, and household, equip- 

List. We have reserved some to ment, to gasoline engines and farm 

send to such of our friends as may machinery. 

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In January Lay AH Your PlansandStartEgg-WorfcforSpring Business 

H. A. >JOUR8E 

V TOT many*.years ago the poultryp(Ll 

keeper-who had nothing but stan- 

I. \ dard-bred fowls was understood by 

f- .* ¦ : most people to pay more attention 

to "fuss and feathers," as they put it, than 

to the practical branches of poultry culture, 

the production of eggs and meat. 

In those days there were but few large 

poultry farms, and thegovernment.whether 

state or national, paid no attention to 

poultry and made no attempt to assist in 

solving the poultry-keepers' problems. 

Things are considerably different now. 

The poultry-keeper who does not have 

standard-bred fowls is justly regarded as 

behind the times, and the government, 

both national and state, gives considerable 

attention to poultry-keeping problems and 

unreservedly recommends strong, vigorous, 

standard-bred fowls in place of mongrels. 

The old idea that exhibition fowls were 

weak and unfit for practical purposes finds 

but few adherents these days. It has been 

proved beyond all 

doubt that there is 

more profit to be 

made with standard- PERSONS unfamiliar with 

bred fowls (those best practi ces are urged to 

bred according to the write to their Sale Experiment 

American Standard Station or to the U. S. Depart- 

of Perfection) than ment of Agriculture for litera- 

can possibly be made ture on fteiin gi. housing and 

from mongrels. general care of poultry. Per- 

People have dissonal assistance may be secured 

covered that . .the 

from county agents and farmers ^ 

makers of the Standard 

of institute workers. There is 

. Perfection 

wisely provided that both a national and world need 

each breed of fowls for more eggs and the ultimate 

should have the shape aim should be to make every 

which would make farm poultry house an egg fac- 

them most useful for tory rather than a fatteni ng pen. 

practical purposes, 

whether it be the 

Winter weather conditions 

production of eggs or play a dominant part in pr ices 

poultry meat, or both. bat best calculations point to a 

In laying contests good market for all fresh eggs 

and in the yards of eoen though a maximum num- 

individual breeders, ber is produced.— Untied States 

standard-bred poul- Food Administration. 

try has distanced 

mongrels arid crossbreeds. 

Not only is 

greater production possible from high 

class * geVcnances. FindUfffSUn 

ISMMwhat anjncuba-1 of breeding stock and. eggs for hatching. 

_g_| nr It made of before " sSs^mmmM 

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A reasonable amount of money spent in 

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cure a trade in breeding stock at prices 

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B^ffiHsW today. A postal will do. In 

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than to studyingt:the intricate problems of 

balancing a ration so that it will provide 

j ust so much-fats, proteins, etc. Water must 

¦ always be furnished, and must be free from 

ice and clean. The fact that milk is given 

the fowls to drink does not by any means 

make water unnecessary. Both'the hen's 

body and .the eggs which she lays are composed 

-very largely of water, and unless 

sufficient water is furnished the best results 

cannot be obtained. 

Caring for-the stock in winter quarters 

¦ is usually, very' simple. The different rations'are 

fed twice or three times per day, 

preferably at certain hours. Nothing is 

allowed to frighten the fowls, for fright 

hurts egg production. The house is kept 

fairly warm but well ventilated, the roostplatforms 

cleaned frequently, and the 

bedding on the floor kept dry. 

These are the main points in successful 

feeding and care of fowls in'winter, and 

there is nothing about this work that anyone 

cannot do successfully. 

• • 'V Poultry -Yard Briefs 

IF 

YOlf have standarcUbred fowls; exhibit 

some of them at the nearest poultry 

show. 

If you' cannot exhibit this year, be sure 

to visit a poultry show, for at such an exhibition 

much can be learned regarding 

the correct shape and color required for 

the different varieties. 

Fowls which are confined to the poultry 

house during severe weather must have 

plenty of green food of some kind or they 

will not keep in the best of health and will 

not prove profitable. 

Grit , shells and charcoal should always 

be within , reach of the fowls during the 

winter. 

All surplus market geese and turkeys 

should be gotten rid of as soon as the market 

has recovered from the effect of the 

holiday trade. 

I'sually more eggs per lien are secured 

from small flocks than from larger ones but 

when a large number of fowls are kept, 

the added labor of caring for them when 

divided into small flocks sometimes offsets 

the additional income. 

Warm poultry houses which are well 

ventilated are necessary in cold parts of 

the country, because fowls which use most 

of their feed to generate heat cannot lay as 

well as thev otherwise would. 

HOW I MADE MY POULTRY PAY 

ROSA YATES 

THE first of January, 1917, I bought 

24 young Plymouth Rock pullets, gave 

tliem good care and fed them for eggs. In 

three weeks they were laying finely. I 

then bought two incubators. I set my 

liens' eggs and added some others to fill 

up the incubators. I set four liens at the 

same time. 

.My firs t hatch came off the middle of 

February. I hatched 266 fine chicks from 

389 eggs. I divided the clucks among the 

four hens and a good brooder. 1 kept 

part of the chicks in the brooder at night 

until they were six or seven days old , then 

gave them to the hens. For tlicir first 

feed I gave them finel y crumbled egg 

shells and prepared chick feed , plenty of 

fresh water and fine grit. After they were 

two weeks old I kept tliem in a small building 

with clean litter for them to tt ork in. 

I gave them plenty of milk. 

I raised 460 good chicks from .la.i eggs. 

At three months old I sold all but 87 pullets 

which I kept for winter layers. 1 

received $186.60 for the hens and young 

chicks, the hens bringing S16.S0, which , 

after I deducted S58 for the feed , eggs and 

oil for the incubators, left SI 11.80 for my 

work (or four months, and my 87 . pullets. 

Then I began to feed for winter laying. 

The first ol September I gave them a noon 

mash of beef scrap, chopped bones and 

bran. After we butchered our hogs, 1 

fed a mash of turnips, potato peelings, 

table scraps and meat cracklings , with a 

tablespootiful of sulphur once a week. 

My pullets bega n to lay December first. 

I sold eggs as follows: December S18.60; 

January S28. G.*; February S.i5.75; March 

$40.45;.A pril S..8.94: SI ()2J1 in five months. 

1 sold the 87 liens for S7.?.°5 so the total 

for hens and eggs was S2.ih.32. The cost 

of feed for the hens being Sfto , 1 had to 

mv credit SI 73.32 for the hens and eggs. 

Si 11.80 (or the young chicks, making the 

total for all $285.U in sixteen months. 

Poultry Preparedness 

THEY are eating horses in Europe, in the United States we are eating chicken. 

It tastes better. It looks better. It IS better—every way. 

How Do We Get Chicken? 

By the grit, grace and glorious gumption of the farm women—for it is the farm women, in the aggregate, who raise . 

the chickens that conserve the supply of beef. 

THE FARMER'S WIFE 

Visits 750,000 farmers' wives once a month. 

THE FARMER'S WIFE has something especial, to say to these farmers' wives about their chickens because THE 

FARMER'S WIFE knows better than any other rural journal, what chickens mean to the farm and to the nation. 

During 1919 

THE FARMER'S WIFE will publish the stories of poultry-women who have made good—exceptionally good—and put their 

business on a solid cash basis. , . . ^ , . . ,. 

We also will make a specialty of articles describing methods of marketing, national egg-laying contests, egg shipping 

associations, the use of the parcel post as an aid to speedy marketing and other live poultry topics. 

In every issue THE FARMER'S WIFE purposes to tell the farmers' wives—and their sons and daughters— liow to make 

that poultry plant pay . ' ' 

. . . . 

Mr. Nourse's regular department will, each month, anticipate the month s work with the chickens, the complete 

series forming a year's directory of how to succeed with poultry'. • 

It will pay every woman, whether her flock numbers sixty or six hundred or more, to watch—and study—the poultry 

fcatures of THE FARMER'S WIFE for 1919, 

160 Hens 

¦1500 Eggs 

|L H|lt 1 As America's foremost poultry expert I predict that eggs are going / 

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ll^^^nM tvl to retail for a dollar this 

dozen 

winter. 

a 

Right retail 

now the 

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IBM^flf j lJi 'M I £° in£ to make trementJous e #= Profits - You , » , too» can make surfe of a bi2 egg yield 

llak^lMwlMI 1 by feeding your hens a few cents worth of "More Eggs" tonic. 

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aw ning money. Don't delay. Start with a few cents worth of "More fcggs tonic now. 

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t- ^___Î writes: "I eet from 40 (o SO cres a day now. Before >isinjf 'More ESKS' I was getting only 8 or 9 eggs 

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