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^EARLY every public school displays a flag.
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salute to the flag and the pledge. But often we
find that these are omitted and the flag goes up
without ceremony while games go merrily on.
'l eaching patriotism is like teaching religion. If
you are not interested in the subject, neither will
the children be interested. Patriotism must begin
at home. So let us have a flag both at home and
j at school and teach the children the wonderful and
beautiful things for which it stands.
! Never should it represent mere war and bloodshed,
but rather the battles with cold and hunger
in the frozen zones and with fever and thirst in the
i tropics ; what it means to the starving ones over
seas when it is borne by the ship which brings food
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the flag goes, church and school and freedom follow.
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Our celebration of Independence Day would have
the man from Mars wondering what all the racket
is about. Sometimes jazz replaces our love ly
national songs and no patriotic word is spoken.
If the little children of immigrants, so numerous in
our public schools, ever learn to love our (lag it will
not be because our native-born children always
respect it.
Americans arc said to be seeking thrills. Every
American should get a real thrill when Old Glory
unfolds to the breeze. It will do more for the
coming generation than courts and counselors if we
can pass on rea l patriotism. Better patriotism
| without the flag, than the (lag without patriotism.
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On tyigh borliness
IK I could express my thoughts eloquently I should
inscribe a eulogy "To the Best Neighbor I liver
Had." Since I can not do that I shall try simply
to tell you about her, because her life has in it
example and inspiration.
She was a good woman , experienced in all the
trials of home making, one who had "weathered
the storm" and was willing to help young, inexperienced
women like me. If 1 wanted to know how
to wash some delicate fabric or to find what ailed
my baby chicks all I needed to do was rim across
(lie roa d to Mrs. J. If company drove up suddenly
and caught me unprepared , somebody would steal
through the back door and leave a plate of delicious
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this same Somebody would come over and help me
to get ready.
I recall one day when she was starting Iter washing,
she ran over (just as if she knew baby had been
J cross and I was behind with my work) and slid,
| "Gather up sonic of the baby's dresses. I haven't
J-^OR this issue the editorial pen was laid aside
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our editorials. These conlributionswcre
not solicited, but were selected from one week's correspondence.
They may not be in customary editorial
style, but they express interesting ideas of
intelligent farm women about the rural home and
its advancement, and they have in them a warmth,
a genuineness and an earnestness that commend
them. ' If you like this experiment, write and tell
us so and we may repeat it.— THE EDITORS.
a full-sized washing today." And she seemed
quite happy to bring back that evening a stack of
fresh , clea n clothes for a baby who was just a
neighbor's child.
We have moved many miles away from her.
The morning I bid her "good-bye" I told her I
could never repa y her for what she had done for me.
"Oh! never mind ," she answered, "you just pass
the kindness on to some one else who needs it and
some one else will help me when I need it." And
there was in those words something of the secret of
being neighborly.—Mrs. E. L., Missouri.
Saving Mother
THERE'S a little clement of danger in Sally
Sod's story of "One Month Out of My Life" in
the April issue of THE FARMER'S WIFE for she
stresses the way she gets on without conveniences.
If many of our husbands read that story, they may
be tempted to say, "What Sally can do without
labor savers, so can you." Wherea s, farm women
are endeavoring to raise standards of farm home
equipment. They are realizing that saving Mother
is quite important.
Such energy and ambition as Sally and other
mothers have could do greater things these days
than expend themselves on an "armstrong and
elbow grease" combination.
I have put in just as full days as Sally, but I hope
I stopped in time. My severa l washings for nine
(six of them under thirteen) have dropped to not
more than two and usually but one every other
week, due to my washer. And the washing is done
in half the time I formerly used. The time thus
saved is used in some way to help with the next
payment on the washer.
The time saved by a pressure cooker for canning
and cooking was used to grow a few extra bushels
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of easily-marketed vegetables which paid for the n
cooker the first season. Other labor savers made
it possible for me to go to the Home Economics \
meet, club convention , and other gatherings. This
contact keeps me growing along with the children.
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is the extra time that is now available for the
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We need to save Mother of the farm home and n
not wear her out , and the ways to save her can be
found by every farm home.—Medium-ly Modern,
Nebraska.
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The Married Woman and a "Career" 1
VV7E ALL know people who say that a farm
woman ought not to earn money in her own
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her husband and taking care of her house. To
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marries is no reason why she must become a house-
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after marriage should give up their professions and
become farmers. It would be just as illogical.
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Some contend that the wife following a career !j
can not take good care of her home at the sa me time. ||
Certainly not. She wisely hires expert and depend- |
able help. The doctor, lawyer and merchant chief a
do not scrub their office floors, wash their windows
nor dust their furniture. They hire help. I)
Nowadays women are encouraged to take up pet
hobbies and capitalize them. Having a hobby
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makes the wife and mother more contented. And
if she can realize financiall y on it , so much the
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better. What is this but a career in a small way? I
THE FARMIS R'S WIFE presents each month an r
interesting and inspirational article , "How Some
Women Succeed." These women have careers. [_
Their husbands arc not unreasonabl y demanding [
of them , "Choose between ME and your career!"
i\o, their husbands and families help and encourage
them. True , most of these successful women do a
good dea l of their housework. Many of them have
hired girls to hel p carry on the work of the home. r
Is the mother who spends much of her time with a
profitable hobby or career any less motherly because |_
she pays a girl to wash the dishes and make the j
little tots' beds?
The families of these successful women arc happy, ¦
healthy and well cared for. And more,—the extra |
money that the successful mother earns is used for |
the benefit of her family in attractive house fur- r
nishings, a piano and music lessons, flowers, shrubs,
trees, a college education. |_
I think a woman is worth twice as much to her ["
family if she has a hobby, a special interest or
a career. It makes her that much bigger.—Mrs. L
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SINGING happily along the street of the half-awake
little desert town went old Topango Jake Shinn ,
eager as a boy going fishing. Before him went a
lazy jackass of uncertain age. Old Topango cocked
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a wise eye up at the sun, which showed an inch of rim
above the crest of Table Butte. He was singing—for his
unpopular Mr. McGummon , Topa ngo Jake Shinn van.
ished into the desert.
own amusement, not for the town's delight—a scandalous
trail song:
"Old Topango's off on another prospectin ' spree," the
storekeeper called across the street. He was just opening
Here's to William G. McGummon
Dum his cattle-slcalin' hide!
People said he went a-hummin'
Up to glory—but they liedl
his door for the day. "They never get over it, do they?"
"It's in their blood ," said Garry McEwan. "The only
time they really live is when they arc tagging a jackass
round over the desert. It's in their blood."
When the devil saxv Bill comin',
"Still ," said the storekeeper, "if I had a hundred
He committed suicide/
He smacked his sleepy jackass with an old bed slat,
thousand dollars, same as old Topango Jake's got, why I
bet you I'd cut out the long trail. Me, I'd sit down in a
raising a cloud of dust. The startling impact sounded
like a pistol shot, and Garry McEwan stuck his head out
of the assay office, saw old Topango Jake, and laughed.
"Say, you old lizard," he called , "that 's a bruta l way
to kill fleas!"
rockin' chair and put my feet on another chair , and I'd
stay there and never do another clurn thing ! Yes, sir!
And if anybody ever got me to work again they'd have to
use violence!"
"You don't know what you'd do!" retorted Garry
Topango Jake grinned back, but did not abate his pace good-humoredly. "Old Topango made a hundred thou-
toward the farther edge of town and the gray-blue hills
that lay on the northern rim of the Mohave.
"One more word ," he threatened over his bony shoulder
—"one more word and I 'II come back and raise so many
sand dollars out of that mine up on Table Butte, and as
soon as he did that , why everybody said he was through.
But they didn't figure on the trail habit. Topango had
it. If he didn't go off on a long prospecting trip two or
welts on you that Aunt Caddie Siphers'll be usin' you for
a washboard!"
three times a year, he'd die. And, Jim , you can't brea k
a man of the prospecting habit with the gold cure. If
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"Going prospecting?" asked Garry.
Old Topango grinned joyously and nodded.
"Cholla Hills," he explained. "Tellurium. And say:
Topango had a million , he'd still go prospecting."
"Maybe you're right , Garry. All the same, lie's aclin '
plumb redic'lous. Him a rich man and act in' like he's
Silver ain 't bad—if you got enough of it. Hup kai, old poor!"
donk!" He popped old Sanchez again with the bed slat, "He's trying to live over the old days," said Garry.
and the aged donkey kicked at him.
"When Topango was poor he got all his fun out of dreaming
Far from resenting the hostile demonstration , Topango
Jake chuckled delightedly.
"See that?" he called back. "Plumb bustin' with zip
and jazz, ain't he! Sassy old chuckawalla—still got a
good wallop in the old hind laig! Hup kai!" Topango
that he was rich. Now that he's rich , lie gets all his fun
out of pretending once in a while that he's poor."
"Well ," sighed the storekeeper, "I'm not gifted thataway
at all! She's no drea m with me—bein ' poor ain't!
Believe me, Garry—she's a nightmare!"
Jake tilted his floppy old hat rakishly over his bald head
and plowed on. He was very happy. Garry McEwan
stood in the door of the assay office, looking after the old
man with an affectionate smile. He and Topango Jake
fV-D Topango Jake Shinn was not singing when he
'"' returned to Table Butte three months later. I Ic came
into town after dark , trudging silently behind his gaunt
Shinn were great friends. Far down the street the ancient and weary donkey and avoiding Main street. Carefully
prospector again broke into his trail song:
he made his way across vacant lots, stumbling over rusty
William G. was hale and hearty
baling wire and tin cans until he came to his little corral.
And as playful as could he,
After he had finished his supper he sat for a long time
Till he shot at Pete McCarty—
in his up-and-down board shack, thinking. He was
Which same citizen was me;
worried. Anyone would have seen that. The humorous
Then we organized a pa rly
wrinkles about his eyes were swallowed by the worry
A nd exterminated he.
wrinkles that corrugated his brow fiercely. After about
And still continuing to sing of the shortcomings of the an hour of solitude he could stand it no longer. •
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"I'm going over to tell Garry," he muttered.
So he put out his light and went across to Garry's
office. He found Garry whistling over his work in the
rear of his shop. Old Topango did not waste words in
elaborate greetings, but went straight to the point.
"Garry," said he, "I'm in trouble. "
The boy came alert in an instant. "Who is it?" he
demanded, his lips coming together and his eyes narrowing,
his attitude advertising his willingness to take up the
matter for his old crony. But Topango Jake shook his
bald head.
"Ain't nobody," he said. "That is, nobod y that can
help it. It—it's a little girl, Garry!"
Young McEwan regarded the old prospector with delighted
amazement. "Why, Jake!" he chided, "you
naughty li'l rascal! Did you ask her to be Mrs. Topango
—and did she wham you on the head with a rock or
somepin '? And I, your best friend , never guessed it!
Oh, you sly 'ittle snookums—"
"Say!" interrupted old Topango sourly. "About a
thimbleful more of that and I'll smack you across the neck
with a pickhandle! Now you ca'm down and listen to
here."
TTI E strangely matched friends settled back in their
L chairs and the old man began:
"You remember when I left town? Well , we rambled
round quite a spell , old Sanchez and me. We'd been out
about a month or six weeks when I ran across a feller
rampin' by the water hole at the upper end of Pedrocito
Gulch , on the far slope of the Cholla Hills. Pale sort of
a feller and he was sick. He told me he had been prospectin
' for nearly three years. Always managed to keep
a little ahead of the game, though sometimes it was hard
sleddin', him bein' sick, you know. He was a nice feller ,
ami I liked him. But he shorely wasn't feelin' very well.
"I asked him to come along with me, but he said no;
he thought he'd rest up some more. Besides, he was busy
dry pannin ' the sides of the gulch. A dry panner generally
lives, you know, but I never heard of one gettin' rich.
Not out in this man's desert. There's too much sand. A
feller gets discouraged after a while.
"So old Sanchez and I we told this here sick feller
good-by and drifted across to the edge of Skeleton Hills.
We got caught in a regular sandstorm over in the Skeletons
and had a fine time. Just like old days. After a while
the grub began to get low, so we started back. When we
came to the Chollas I remembered about this here sick
feller, and I thought I'd pass his camp and see how he was
gettin' along. When we got to the water hole at the upper
end of the Pedrocito the feller was still there. But he was

about gone. That same night his light went out.
"But before he went he gave me his papers and told me
his name. It was Ensley. He had a daughter in the
state university named Jean, For three years he had been
helping her with money. Dry pannin', Garry! Think
of it—dry pannin'! For three years he had been puttin'
up a big front, writin' to her in every letter that he was
doin' well and that pretty soon they'd both be on velvet!
Tellin' her what a whale he was—healthy as a houn' pup!
Think of him writin' like that—livin' on flapjacks and
beans, dyin' by inches—and dry pannin' in the hot sun!
"YF7ELL, just before he cashed he roused and told me
*» he wouldn't mind goin', only what was to become
of Jean? It was goin' to be mighty lonesome for that li'l
girl without a father. And she hadn't no money. Not
none at all. But she was studyin' to be a school
teacher. It kept worryin' him, and it worried
me to see him worryin'.
" 'It's shorely tough, old-timer,' he says to me,
'slippin' out of the game this-a-way—just when
my li'l girl needs me worst! For three years
she's been slavin' away in the university, lookin'
ahead to the time when we'd both be together
for good. And now, when she needs her father—'
"Well, he kept gettin' sorrier and sorrier, and
finally I says to him: 'Here, old-timer, you go
ahead and pass out nice and peaceful and leave
this here worry to me! I'll be a father to your
li'l girl if it'll brighten up things any. I reckon
I'll make a poor shift of a father, but out here in
the Cholla Hills you ain't got much of a crowd
to pick and choose from.
"Say, Garry, that seemed to make a big hit
with him. I felt glad I done it, and everything
seemed as fine as silk—while I was away out
there in the Pedrocito. But after I left that
place and began to get closer to home I got to
realizin' what I'd done. Garry, you're my
friend. I've come to you for help. Whatever
am I goin' to do?"
GARRY was silent for some moments, for the
old man's story had affected him deeply.
However, he tried then to liven Topango's spirits.
"Do?" he said. "You promised to be a father
to her, didn't you? That's all you have to do.
Just go ahead and be a father to her!"
"But how?" demanded old Jake. "I didn't
know how! That's what I've come to see you
about!"
"D'you think I'm more experienced than you
are?" retorted Garry. "But if you put it up to
me, why, I'd suggest that you write her a nice,
fatherly letter—say once a month; inclose a
nice, fatherly check in each letter—"
"She wouldn't take charity," objected Topango
positively. "Her dad wasn't that kind—"
"Of course she wouldn't!" said Garry. "But
couldn't you say that her father found a rich
pocket the day before he died ? That he had
turned over three or four thousand dollars to
you, to be given to her in the shape of a regular
monthly allowance? Sure! It's easy, see?
Easy as pie! You did right to come to me, Jake.
You're lucky to have such a bright young fellow
for a friend!"
"But hold on!" Topango's face had brightened
only to cloud again, for the idea of writing a monthly
letter appalled him. He thought a while and then
briehtened once more.
I'll tell you , Garry," he said hopefully, "we'll divide
this responsibility fifty-fifty—"
"We will not," said Garry, beginning to be uneasy.
"I'm out—and I'll stay out! Besides, it's your party—"
"Fifty-fifty," went on Topango Jake firmly. "You 'll
write the letters and I'll write the checks!"
"No, sir!" Garry was frightened badly now, for he was
not used to girls. "Haven't I told you it's your party?"
"Ain't we friends?" wheedled Topango, but Garry saw
through him.
"Layoff now!" he said. "I won't! You get into a
fight with a he-man and you'll find me there with loud
cheers. But—but this .is different. I tell you I won't!"
Old Topango recognized the finality in the young man's
voice. Dejectedly he lapsed into silence and worried on.
Presently, in rummaging through his pockets for a match ,
he brought out a small package. He was about to return
the package to his pocket when Garry saw it.
"What you got there, Jake?" he asked.
"Letters," said Topango. "From Ensley's li'l girl.
Her picture too. Ensley turned 'em all over to me before
—before—" He handed the package to the young man.
For a long time Garry gazed at the fearless young face
that looked back at him so trustfully and with such a fine,
unspoiled belief in this big, wonderful world where she
had lived for so short a time. Her wavy brown hair fell
about her face in clusters as though the girl had a moment
before run in out of a mischievous, tangling wind. The
picture seemed very real ...
Old Topango Jake slid from the table after a while and
started for the door. "Well," he sighed, "I reckon it was
a fool thing to do, after all—promisin' a dyin' man such
an outrageous thing as that. I told him right—I shorely
would make a poor shift of a father! Yes, best thing to
do is to tell her the truth , I reckon—"
Garry McEwan turned upon his ancient crony a glance
that was terrible in its majestic scorn and amazement.
"Would you do a thing of that kind?" he demanded.
"Jake, I had a higher opinion of you than that!"
"But—" Old Topango was bewildered. "Just now you
said-"
"I never said any such thing," said Garry firmly.
That Little Girl of Mine
By PHILIP KANE
SOFTLY the organ played and as the minister intoned solemn
questions and the solemn answers came, my eyes misted so that
1 could not see. That pal of mine, who had been part of my
very heart, no longer could hold the same relationship. The
foundation of another home was laid and she was pal to another
man.
The mists cleared but it was not the bride I saw at the altar. It
was a wee child, whose clinging fingers entwined themselves in
mine, whose soft lips fell like rose petals on mine. Then I saw my
Margery of little girlhood, sweet as a wild flower, my little confi -
dant, a girlish pal. Again the picture changed and it wasmy girl of
high school and college, vibrant with health and happiness, reaching
out for the joy-cup of life which brimmed so full.
Yes, that little girl of mine has gone to a new home. I feel
bereft and though there is laughter upon my lips my heart is sad.
She was my pal. All the days of her life she was a joy to me as
your girl, fellow father who reads this, is a joy to you. What
magic pearls upon the strand of life our daughters are and how we
should thank God for them.
My heart is sad because no w many miles separate us and Margery
never can be dad's pal again. But I would not have it otherwise.
It is God's immutable plan that homes must be torn asunder that
new homes may be built. Hearts must bleed in parting that
hearth fires of new homes may be made holy because of sacrifice.
So it was when with Margery's mother I established a new home.
So shall it ever be.
Yet you brides of yesterday and brides to be, I pray you, give
thought to Dad. His is no romantic figure like that of the knight
who came riding into your life, but deep in his heart is an undying
fealty, an undying gratitude that the AlhFather gave him you .
Daughter of mine, something grips hard at my heart, again my eyes
mist as I think of you. My Pal!
"Well , I—I thought from the way you talked a minute
ago—Now, where for the love of Jasper is that picture?"
"Didn't you put it in your pocket?"
"Who, me? Did I?" The old man explored every part
of his regalia, but found no picture of a little girl with
fearless eyes that looked at you frankly from a face
framed in a maze of wind-blown hair. Garry joined in the
search, and they hunted all over the shop. They found
the package of letters, but the picture had mysteriously
disappeared . Later on it was discovered in a warm pocket
just over Garry McEwan's heart ; but when this happened
old Topango had gone home and Garry was quite alone.
/^ARRY McEWA N had an excellent command of
^* English. Moreover, he possessed a warm, sympathetic
nature and a wonderful imagination. He was able to
write eloquently about things that would have paralyzed
his shrinking tongue or made it stutter hopelessly, for
Garry was but twenty-one and he never had had much
experience with girls.
Garry reread his first letter and pronounced it good.
It told of a deep friendship that had existed between the
writer and little Jean Ensley's father. It told of the sum
of money that was to be paid to her regularly in the form
of a monthly allowance. It ended with warm, paternal
expressions of sympathy and the hope that she would
consider him—the writer—her real father. The letter
was signed "Jacob Shinn."
The effort finally admitted by its writer to be absolutely
perfect, Garry took it and hunted up old Topango Jake,
Topango, however, would have none of it.
"I never did like letter writin'," he said, "and it hurts
my eyes to read."
"But I've signed your name to it," insisted Garry.
"You ought to read it before it's sent!"
"No, sir! "remonstrated Topango earnestly, defending
his plain rights with anxious vehemence. "I wrote you a
check, didn't I ? The rest of it was to be your job. So you
take your durned letter and go away from me. If you're
goin' to be one-half of a foster father, why you better
start right in from the first and don't go imposin' on somebody
else. Me, I got plenty of trouble bein' my own half."
GARRY continued to protest, but feebly, very feebly.
After a while he took his letter to the post office. Then
he climbed up on the grim breast of old Tabic
Butte, where he sat. upon a rock and looked at
his precious picture a long, long time. The sun
went down and Garry returned the picture tc
that warm pocket just over his heart.
Somewhere up among the rocks and brush a
Mexican whippoorwill began reiterating plaintively
its three sad notes. To Garry the bird
seemed the voice of a little girl, crying in her
sleep and calling to her father. The boy sighed ,
for it was the first time that he had ever written
to a girl. The spell of the moon was upon him,
and he was twenty-one years of age.
It is a strange fact that if you pretend a thing
long enough you will begin to believe it yourself.
For two years Garry McEwan had been writing
letters to Jean Ensley, letters carrying always
the warmest expressions of fatherly affection.
They were his letters. He had written them.
But whenever he reached the bottom of one of
these loving masterpieces he felt a positive pain
of disappointment, for he was compelled to sign
every one of them, " Your loving father, Jacob
Shinn."
As time went by Garry felt more and more
that he was the sole foster father. Gradually
old Topango fell more and more into the background
as the boy constructed his letters. He
no longer felt that he was writing for Topango
Jake Shinn. The personal note had superseded
everything, and now Garry was writing from his
own heart.
The answering letters, of course, came to
Topango, but the old man invariably passed
them on to Garry unopened. The old man's
checks appeared as regularly as the first of the
month came round, but the aged prospector
never mentioned Jean Ensley, save to ask once
in a while how she was getting along. Garry
always answered cheerily, and Topango was
happy.
The little picture was much worn ; it had been
much worn when it came into Garry's possession.
Besides, it was an old picture. Garry often
wondered what the little girl was like today.
JUST before the second Christmas following the
J inauguration of the foster-father partnership,
Garry received a thick letter from Jean. It was
addressed, as usual, to Jacob Shinn , and it made
Garry vaguely resentful. He seemed unable to
get over his unreasonable resentment because his
old friend owned half the foster-father rights. It always
made him unhappy. He hurried away to his room and
opened this thick letter. A picture fell out—a picture of
Jea n as she was at the present. As he contemplated it,
Garry felt himself a lost soul. He had won this tremendous
bit of cardboard dishonestly! For would she have
sent it to him—a young man whom she had never met?
Of course, Garry reasoned desperately, he was half a
foster father. But the little girl didn 't know it. He
had rights—certainly. But who gave 'em to him? He
had assumed them! Of course old Topango knew he
was all right and that he meant well, but—and there
Garry always became demoralized.
Accompanying this wonderful new picture of little
Jean was a letter. It was affectionate, humorous, serious,
elusive, giving one a kaleidoscopic glance into a young
mind, well-balanced and full of possibilities. It closed
this way :
"You have never asked me for my picture, and I wonder
why. It doesn't seem natural, somehow, for a father—
and such a dear of a father—to be indifferent regarding
such a vital matter ! I have decided that it is scandalous
that you don't know what I look like. So I am sending you
with this letter a picture of Jean Ensley, your frightened
daughter, costumed for the Junior Prom. I say frightened
because I'm scared to death you won't think I look well.
Besides, maybe you don't have Junior Proms where you
live. But I know you will believe me when I tell you that
the Junior Prom is the chief excuse for the existence of any
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 306)

"HELLO SAM ", SAID 'OLD
PARRAKEET' AS 8II E
DRAGGED TAD BEFORE
BARRY . "WE'RE BACK FOR
A NEW TRIAL"
Four Duck.s on a pond
A green ban\ beyond
What d very small thing
To remember for years
To remember with tears
SPITE of her poor home, "Tad" Mason determines
IN to get an education and make something of herself.
At State College she meets a young man with a North
Ireland burr in his voice, Daniel O'Brien Herron, who
strengthens her courage to climb up. Tad wins her share
of recognition and gains a good measure of happiness, her
joy heightened by Danny's affection for her. Then her
hopes are destroyed by a letter from home, telling her that
her mother has been sudden ly stricken and asking her to
give up all and come back home. After the death of her
mother, Tad tries to make a real home for her smaller
brothers and sisters, when unexpectedly her father marries
a crude, loud-voiced woman and Tad decides quickl y to
put the children in good homes and return to college. Her
industry and ability bring her continued success, but she
wearies of the struggle and her spirit seems to change.
She and Danny spend the vacation in work at the same
summer resort hotel, where he urges her to go with him
down life's pathway, but she determines to refuse him because
to go with him would only mean more struggle.
Part VI
ar\LD Parrakeet" was sunning herself in the gardens
^-' before breakfast. Color flashed about her like an
earthbound rainbow: peonies, roses, foxgloves, canterbury
bells. She worshipped color much as the pagans worshipped
fire.
"Old Parrakeet" was something Tad and Danny could
not agree upon. Tad thought of her only as a horrible old
creature—one of the rich old women who came to Barrys
to show off their fine clothes and jewels and stuff themselves
with the famous food. She was the wife of the oil
magnate and she sat at one of Tad's tables.
This rich woman had clothed her old , shrunken body in
greens and purples, rose and pale yellow until she looked
like some hideous, old, mummied bird of the tropics. Her
head twisted this way and that like a bird's; like a bird she
fluttered among the flowers, poised over this one and that as
if she expected to draw sustenance from them. Her sharp,
jetty little eyes moved alertly on their wide orbit. Like a
bird 's they saw everything;—the guests walking by, serene
and stately, casting half mocking, half amused glances at
her as they went; the childre n , darting furtively from cover
to cover as if hiding from a hobgoblin. "Old Parrakeet"
knew that she scared the children. She hadn't a doubt
but that their nurses put them to bed at night with the
warning, "Go to sleep quick or 'Old Parrakeet' will get
you." She laughed sardonically at the thought. Money
couldn't buy good manners—so often they did not go together.
If she could scare rich children into behaving
better, it wouldn't be so bad.
She stopped in front of a great bed of salmon colored
peonies. Of all the flowers at Barrys she liked these best.
Unconsciously as a bird she began to preen herself. Her
thin, nervous, clawlike fingers loosened the skin on forehead
and cheek, ran furtivel y over her neck and then over
each eye, as if in a vague hope of bringing back a tinge of
wtfiMP^ r^r
|jf ^ ^/our
Z/ucks on a JLonA
By RUTH SAWTER
color to the yellow, wrinkled surface. On they raced over
silk and lace and jewels, as if eager for contrast. She
twisted the heavy rings on her fingers ; she straightened the
chain of pearls about her neck. Of all the women at
Barrys she was the only one who wore jewels at breakfast.
Looking up from the salmon peonies she found the
gardens empty; it was time she went in. But she hated
breakfast , or any other mea l for that matter, without T. H.
T. H. always acted as a buffer or a bulwark against those
mocking, jeering glances; without him they seemed to bore
straight through her. She stiffened her chin , shriveled as a
dried fig, and resolutely set her face towards the great
hotel.
THE sunny breakfast room at Barrys was as perfect as
¦*• everything else. Through it moved the grey uniformed
waitresses without noise. A waitress was dismissed at the
end of her first week if she rattled dishes at Barrys.
Between the great French windows hung willow cages
with birds in them , English linnets, mocking birds and
canaries. They sang from time to time, adding their
notes of harmony to the rest of the scheme. No signs
of discord were ever allowed to manifest themselves where
they could be seen and observed by guests. The excellence
of Barrys' table was famous the country over; farther in
fact, for there were many who crossed the Atlantic to
spend a season here. The golf course was perfect; the
drives around the neighboring country as' lovely as one
would find anywhere. The rich were as comfortable ,
many of them more so, than they be could made in their
own homes,—no annoyances, no worries. All this wasoffered
to offset one inconvenience, absurdity if you like. Barrys
had one impregnable rule—no card playing was allowed at
the hotel and guests who broke that rule were never
allowed to come back.
Tad Mason moved between the tables she was serving
as expertly as the older waitresses, only her eyes showed
that fear which underbuilt her whole nature. She hated
the groups at both her tables. The VanDuyns kept her in
a constant state of trembling,—a large thick-necked overweight
man , a nervous, overbearing, intolerant woman
who carried herself like a royal dowager. They were of the
sort that invariably fail to find the world adjusted to their
liking. They ordered melons and changed to prunes as
more healthful; French rolls were more than likely to give
way to bran muffins; eggs were either boiled too little or
too much. No matter what her original choice, the
dowager cast on Tad a perpetually accusing eye as if she
were responsible for their unsettled states of mind. "Old
Parrakeet" and the oil magnate sat at the other table and
ate like horses. They liked everything and apparently
had the digestions to take care of it all. This morning
"Old Parrakeet" sat alone and ordered item after item
straight through the bill of fare ; melons, cereal , ham and
eggs, waffles. It was really quite horrible, the amount of
food she managed to put away, and the open relish she had
for it. The VanDuyns never failed to mark these
perpetual banquets; the dowager did not hesitate to sniff
audibly her disapproval.
/^UT of her small beady little eyes "Old Parrakeet" saw
^-' everything. She caught sight of a departing egg from
the next table and wagged her head sympathetically as
Tad brought her an extra helping of butter for her waffles.
"Must hurt them considerable to watch me take care of
a real breakfast ," she said confidentially. "It certainly
hurts me to watch them sparring with food. Might as
well be dead as act dead."
There was nothing shrill or birdlike about "Old Parrakeet's"
voice, it vibrated like a C-string on an old 'cello.
Every time Tad heard it it moved her in spite of her disgust
for the old creature. There must be something wellseasoned
and mellow about her to give out a tone like that.
Tad set down a finger-bowl and she splashed her ringed
fingers in and out of the floating rose leaves then jerked
them back to her napkin and wiped them dry. Darting a
look at Tad she caught her look and marked in it all her
disgust. The twisted sardonic smile came back to her
lips, "Hah! I'll wager I could scare you about as bad as I
do the children. What would you do if I said 'Boo!' "
Tad said nothing and "Old Parrakeet" went striding out
of the room, the eyes of the guests turned contemptuously
upon her.
(CONTINUED ON l'AGH JIGS)

(//ooks and Quails
This is the second of a series of stories which unlock
the doors of the magic. land of childhood. It will fas'
cinate you and restore happy memories of your youth.
ANCY DONALY squirmed on her seat in
N school and thought of many things. Her
~5^/£->> history book was lying wide open on her
S^C desk with twojwhite pages sticking up like

By
BETTY
ECKHARDT
State Agent. West Virginia
University Extension.
{ j \ 70U had a good fair!" The president of the
Pocahontas County
Y
Fair heard this same re-
J[ mark year after year,—"YOU had a good fair."
He felt that something must be wrong. He
and the board of directors had been giving unselfishly of
their time and energy to make a Peoples' Fair and still they
said, "you had a good fair." Somewhere the "soul" of the
thing had been killed. The directors went over the
situation carefull y to find their mistake. They must have
found it and remedied it , for now the president hears on
every turn , "Say! didn 't we have a fine fair this year?"
The "revival" was brought about in this way. First,
they revised their premium list so that it would appeal to a
great many people with varied interests. Then they
planned to have the people furnish a part of the entertainment,
and this story tells how they did it.
First they called together presidents of community
councils, high school principals, Sunday School superintendents,
and representatives from the various organized
groups from all over the county. Just to insure their
coming, the fair board made it a luncheon meeting. The
county agent was invited and also the state agent. During
the discussion the group decided that the four districts
should compete in five entertainment features as given in
the accompany ing score card and that the number of
people participating and miles traveled would also count
in the final score. The Fair County Association offered
four cash prizes. The score card was arranged so that the
district winning the greatest number of points received
first prtee, but it also allowed for different districts to win
first place in the various events.
Competitive Features and Score Card
Points
1st. 2nd. 3rd. 4th.
1. Number of people participating 25 20 15 10
2. Average number miles traveled 25 20 15 10
3. Old fiddlers contest _ 25 20 15 10
4. Orchestra 40 35 30 25
5. Community chorus possible 50 points
6. Dramatic event possible 50 points
7. Pageant or festival possible 100 points
Each district was asked to furnish the
entertainment between the races in front
of the grand stand for one day. The
district that won first place in each event
was asked to repeat it on the fifth day.
Final contests in the horse shoe tournament
and in the old fiddlers contest were
held on the last day also.
The first two points on the score card
did much to help keep everyone happy.
Communities nearby lost out on number
of miles traveled , but made up for it on
number of people present. At the end of
each day each committee chairman gave
the judges a list of those who actually
took part and the number of miles
traveled by each one. These were
counted to get the score for item No. 1
and averaged to get the score for No. 2.
The chairman made a special effort to
9{ome
^Jalent ^aves
the ^air
encourage those who lived in the more distant communities
to take part. Many of these had never attended the fair
before.
The old fiddlers contest was conducted in the grand
stand. There was little difficulty in getting contestants
since "the woods are full of fiddlers. " The music alone did
not carry to all parts of the grand stand, but when the
fiddlers were put on a raised platform and a jigging contest
was added , the whole grand stand cheered.
JVAUSIC is said to be the "universal language." It proved
^»* so with the community orchestras. They were literally
made up of the "butcher , baker , and candlestick maker."
The members of one were a barber, a garage owner, a
tannery employe, a dentist, a clerk, a hardware merchant,
a farmer, a poolroom owner, and a tannery superintendent.
In practicing they played for many public gatherings.
The chief value to them, of course, was in the preparation.
The orchestra took on the name of "Shake Rag" and is
practicing now for next year's fair.
Among the most popular "free acts" were the community
choruses. Each group came in costume. "Ye Olde Time
Singing School," shown in one of the illustrations , came
from Huntersville district. These folks had little contact
with the fair before this time. The preparation for the
fair stands out as one of the biggest pieces of cooperative
work they have ever done.
To present a 15 minute act before a grand stand is no
small task. When enthusiasm is high , half the battle is
won. The dramatic events included a Virgina reel in
costume, an old square dance, dramatized songs, and a
circus day parade. This last event won first place. A
successful livestock farmer acted as "ring master." The
crowd agreed that he would' probably make more money
by taking his troop "on the road."
The pageants were night spectacles and were done on a
platform in front of the grand stand. The pictures they
"YE OLDE TIME SINGING SCHOOL," IN COSTUME , MADE A HIT
THE ORCHESTRA LITER-
ALLY INCLUDED THE
"BUTCHER, BAKER AND
CANDLESTICK MAKER." A
FEATURE OF THE PARADE IS
AT THE LEFT, AND BELOW
HORSE SHOE RIVALS ARE
MEASURINO A CLOSE POINT
presented will always be among the beautiful memories of
the spectators. One district presented a harvest festival.
A song and dance festival made a gay spectacle on a second
evening, A district with an unusually strong Sunday
School organization gave a beautiful presentation of a
religious pageant called "The Flag of The World." A
historical pageant won first place. It centered around the
John Smith and Pocahontas story. "Braves" on horse
back added much to this spectacle. Some of Pocahontas'
own decendants helped in the writing and presentation of
this pageant.
This fair had a number of other entertainment features
that Were not included in the score card. The horse shoe
tournament was among the most popular of these. Twentynine
community champions took part. Each morning a
base ball game was played in spite of the rain. In the
afternoon the farmers donned their red breeches and contested
for the championship in soccer foot ball , and interest
was very keen. Some of the players were 45 years old.
ONE hundred and ten of the finest race horses from all
the country around spent the week of the fair in the
stables. The continual drizzle and rain made it impossible
to carry out the racing program. In front of the grand
stand there was ten inches of water. High gum boots
were the approved foot wear. Some of the characters
for the Indian pageant were brought on in boats.
Not even the wind and water could stop the local horse
show, the mule races and the potato races. There were
"gents' all-day saddle classes," ladies' saddle class,
farmers' class, etc. The potato race was most popular.
It reminded one a bit of the "knights of old." Each rider
was given a long spear and assigned a small box in front of
the grand stand. A one-eight mile circle was arranged
within the race track. A barrel with potatoes was placed
an the far side of the circle opposite the grand stand. At
the signal each rider rode around to the barrel , speared a
potato, deposited it in his box and rode
back for another. The man spearing the
greatest number of potatoes in ten minutes
was pronounced the winner.
The mud and rain have been mentioned.
On the first day the directors
were a "sorry looking lot," but they sang
a "hymn of thanksgiving" before the end
cf the week. In spite of the mud and the
almost continuous drizzle, each district
came out to uphold its honor. Of course,
the other districts came out of curiosity
and the result was most satisfactory,
particularl y from a financia l standpoint.
The fair directors agreed that without
home-talent entertainment there wouldn't
have been one hundred people on the
grounds each day. They rejoiced, too,
over the fact that they had discovered a
way to have a 'Teoples' Fair."They call
"Home Talent Entertainment" the "finest
kind of advertising" and the best
kind of "rain insurance." Moreover, it
exerted a good community influence.

Nally rood's (Success
I JlotO I
\ c£rnerWommn
\c/ueeoe£ $
HAVE seen Sally Sod.
"Then there is a Sally Sod?"
I "Who is she?"
"What is she like?"
"Is she as jolly as she writes?"
"Is she a Success?"
Not so fast—please. You shall "know
all" as quickly as it can be told.
Sally Sod is as real as you yourself and
all the facts in her story, "One Month
Out of My Life," are true as true. Her
every-day name is Mrs. Elwyn Green ,
or to use her personal signature, Lorretto
Hughes Green. And she lives in Wayne
County, Michigan. She is just as full of sprightly goodnature
as you would guess from her story and is ten times
a success as the mother of ten sturdy, wholesome, delightful
children who are bubbling over with rollicking fun and
who are nevertheless making good in school.
Success? Why, you feel it as far as you can see and
"feel" the house. But it is success of a definite and
specific kind. The kind about which Danny, in Four
Ducks on a Pond , told Tad. He said, "Everyone . . .
would be ready with a tale or a song or a gay bit of fiddling
—each one sharing something fine or foolish . . .
There's seldom poverty of heart in Ireland." It is family
success—home success—success of the very best sort.
Sally Sod sailed under no false pretenses. She told us
all frankly, "Ours is not a Success Story. We still live on
a rented farm with positively no modern conveniences,
either in barn or house."
So I was not surprised , that Sunday afternoon , when
there loomed up out of level, bare, March fields, a modest,
shingled house, guiltless of porch, bay-window, sun-parlor,
or other apology to the public. It stood plain , straight,
uncompromising, humble and proud of it. But it had one
beauty. It was bursting with bloom at every window,
the bloom of childhood. In another moment they were
around me, a bevy of little children ; modest, but friendly,
smiling, unafraid; fairly prancing with eagerness and high
spirits. I had a guard of honor through the mud and up
to the back steps where Mr. and Mrs. Green awaited me,
"Is this Sally Sod?"
Not one breathing second was she the disconcerted
hostess, surprised and caught off guard. A warm grip,
an eager flow of words, a torrent of laughter. And I was
fairly swept into the house on the wave of it; through the
dining-room with its long, long table, a regular harvesthand
table ; into the little parlor. And when we were
seated, with most of the little folks standing, the room
was furnished as no interior decorator could do it, damask
of pink-and-white cheeks with the roses of red blood in
them, jewels in sparkling eyes.
And how we laughed! I never laughed so much to the
square inch in all my life. Just why? I've tried to recall.
But the little jokes melt away into thin air,—too fine to
be caught in the mesh of words. Very little jokes passed
muster, sparkled and "went over big" in that atmosphere.
There was something magic in the air.
You see, Sally Sod is Irish on both sides. "Grandparents
right from the bogs," she said. So now we understand.
It is impossible for her to speak without giving a
quizzical twist to her words. And the children , born and
bred to humor, are always read y with a come-back.
Their father, a Yankee by birth , has a merry twinkle in
his blue eyes,—born there and kept always busy.
So they laugh ,—the Sally Sod household. And the
house is full of their laughter. You feel somehow that
little elfin laughs of the past are perched all over the ceiling
and above the windows. If you ask me, I think this is the
secret and heart of the whole story of their success.
"Laugh a lot?" Sally Sod repeated when we caught
our respective breaths. "I'll say so. I wish you could
hear and see this outfit of mine when they are shut in for
a time. You surely would hear some rib-crackers. Every
last one of them is a regular old Fulla Pepp."
"Ma , she's writing it down ," shouted nine-year-old
Jessie from the other end of the table. She was reading
upside down as fast as I could write.
"0, we have a circus here all the time," Sally Sod went
on. "I suppose I could make something of it if only I
had the sense to appreciate it. I've just finished writing
'The Diary of a Distracted Mother.' I bought a big
tablet and wrote it full. And I still have more to say.
"You certainly have found me just as I am and at once
both at my best and my worst. I say my best because I
have my entire family to back me up; my worst because
of being caught off guard.
"And here are my ten. Robert, 14, is my chief executive.
He has just taken a prize in a declamation contest
and won a gold medal. But he's so dignified he doesn't
like to have me speak about it. He's planning to be an
electrical engineer.
"Mervin , 12, is our joke-smith , our clown, the cause of
our greatest laughs. He's the. boy who is going to rubberize
his Father's milk checks. His ambition is to drive a
truck. He has just won the seventh grade spell-down
which made him grade champion and brought him a fine
modern dictionary.
"Glad ys is eleven and mothers all the children. She is
a prize-winner, too. She spelled down the fifth grade last
year and won a dictionary with a 'G' in gold letters."
FLAXEN-HAIRED, pearly-teethed "Gladys—withthe—joke."
She was standing a little apart, bubbling
over with amusement. It danced out of her eyes and rippled
out in her voice. And finally, with a little coaxing, the secret
popped all the way out in one breathless rush.
"I knew Ma wrote those Sally Sod letters. She didn 't
tell us. But I guessed it, 'cause Ma had counted up what
she had done in August. And I knew no other mother
had. So I guessed it." And Gladys laughed—such a
rippling little laugh, mischief darting from her eyes.
"Jessie, nine , comes next. All the babies love her.
She's a good scout and a born little mother.
"Marian , eight , is a dyed-in-the-woo! flapper." At
which Marian looked up all smiles and dimples.
Next came seven-year-old Evelyn, the Brownie, brown
hair, brown eyes, brown skin , a real nut-brown maid.
"Little Miss I-Don't-Care," said her Mother.
Then Cecil, the five-year-old beauty, with a turned-up
nose and wonderful golden hair with a permanent wave.
"Next is Farmer John , my 'pride and joy. This boy
was born under the worst possible circumstances. I had
whooping cough together with seven of the children when
he was born. He weighed only four and a half pounds at
By GRACE FARRIJSSGTOH GRAT
BALLY BOD'S CROWN OF SUCCESS
—HER CHILDREN — AND BELOW,
SALLY SOD HERSELF
first; was raised in a market
basket till he was seven
months old. The first few
years he was very delicate.
Our doctor took such an interest
in him that he said:
'When you call me, tell me
if it's John and I'll burn up
my little old car to get to
him.' Now, at four, John's
quite a boy."
And so he is. A
sturdy, squareshouldered
1 i tTl e
fellow with a sweet
serious face.
"Frances, two
years old, is 'Pa's -
baby.' Though for
the matter of that,
they're all father's
babies. They'reall
crazy about him.
Elwyn, my Husband"
(we capitalize
Husband because
that's what
Sally Sod did with
her voice) "says it's
my fault because I
tell the children 'how nice Pa is.
"Our little 'Ma-Ma Doll,' the baby, is Laura Nadine—
sweetest of the bunch."
Then hastily, lest some one should be hurt: "Of course,
they've all had their turns at being 'the sweetest.' But
their turns have been rather short.
"You can see that all I've ever had a chance to do is to
raise children. I have six in school and four at home.
What I told you in*One Month Out of My Life ' is absolutely
true and is a sample of what's happening here all
the time.
«/~\F COURSE, my work runs largely to 'eats.' I'm keep-
^ ing house for twelve healthy, hearty people. And
every one of them has a good out-of-door appetite to be
appeased three times a day. My cake-baking averages
around five cakes a week; I peel an average of a peck of
potatoes daily and everything goes in the same proportion.
"My 'daily dozen' and forearm developer is mixing up
14 loaves of bread.
"Our weekly washing usually consists of one big family
wash and three smaller ones. One week there were 42
dresses and in one single wash there were 22. I put them
on the line and looked them over. Nineteen I had made
myself.
"I suppose you are wondering, 'What about the ironing?'
I do my ironing as some people can fruit. The
cold pack method for mine. Lots of the washing is folded
at the line and put away. I iron only the best clothes,
school dresses, shirts and'table cloths. My little girls are
learning to iron their everyday clothes.
"Then there are the trips that I make. Some to town ;
some to mill; some on errands; some to get milk cans. I
fi gure that these save my husband's time as I take the car
and make them all during his working hours.
"Now that my children are growing older they can do
lots of the smaller jobs which leaves me more time for the
big ones. And I think you will agree with me that it is
lime I need. Mervin , here, is quite a cook. 0, but you
should hear 'the bunch' sing at their work!"
"Yes," piped up Gladys-with-the-joke. "And Ma
always says, 'Slop that groaning.'"
When the laugh subsided Sally Sod went on unperturbed.
"I don't want this to sound like a long drawn
out wail of misery, because life always has its own compensations.
When I work my hardest , my little ones
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 375)

^f \xn in c/acation (^amps
A WATER PAGEANT IN CAMP A
HOME-MADE TROPHY CUP, TREAS-
URED EVEN IF TIN
, that is the primary reason why
FUN everybody comes to a vacation camp.
And so the Recreational Director is busy
during the first hours when the campers
arrive with their grips and bedding rolls. Ha
must get the campers organized into groups or
teams, for good naturcd competition is the key
to successful play. As soon as she arrives a
cheesecloth arm band is pinned on each camper
with tiny safety pins. The Director very
carefull y sees that bosom friends are put in
different groups for no little cliques are going to prove a
kill-joy in this camp.
Finally she blows her whistle and announces: "All
those with red arm bands please come over here ; blue
ones, here; green , here; orange, here." It takes only a
minute to' segregate the groups, and then the Director
says: "You four groups are going to compete all week.
The score will be read at breakfast each morning. A
prize will be awarded the winners at the close of camp.
Good sportsmanship counts 100 points a day, so don't
crow if you win , don't grumble, if you lose. Broken rules
will mean a loss of points. Now I give you five minutes
to get a name for your group with some bearing on your
color, to elect a captain , yell leader and song leader.
Speed!"
The groups confer and then announce: "Green
Goslings," "Orange Crushes," "BlueGiants ," "Red Birds."
The Director issues another command: "You have
three minutes to make up a yell." Each group rehearses
its yell in whispers so the others will not hear. The
Green Goslings win first place beyond a doubt:
Once I was a Gosling, mamma turned me loose,
Let me go away to camp. Noiv I am a goosel
Competition is the life of group play and the quickest
way to organize a camp for fun. By the time these yells
have been given , recent strangers are patting one another
on the back and vowing to fix up a yell next time that will
"knock 'em cold."
"And now," says the Director , "go and get settled in
your tents and cabins. But first , make up a song to sing
tonight at the supper table, something with bearing on
your group name."
At the supper table there are no embarrassed, silent
diners. All are astir. Pencilled copies of songs go about
the tables so all may learn the words. Each group sings
its song while plates are changed and dessert served and so
the progress of the meal is not interfered with. The Blue
Giants triumph this time. Mounting their chairs to give
themselves additional height, they sing to the tune, "The
Farmer in the Dell."
We're Giants of all heights, yes Giants of all heights,
We can't be beat, just watch us eat , we've Giant Appetites.
The other three groups greet this effort
with hearty applause. "Good sportsmanship"
note the judges on their score sheets.
Now everybody knows that "Stunt
night" is the biggest event in camp, the
climax of it all. The mistake is often made
of leaving all preparation for this until the
last afternoon , the result being an awful
hodge-podge of unrelated stunts. To guard
against this the Director gathers all four
groups right after supper to discuss stunts.
"We are going to try a camp pageant ,"
she announces. "Every number must be
about camp life. Each group is responsible
for two episodes, neither to last longer
than ten minutes. You must plan something
so that every member o^ your group
has a part. One of the camp instructors
will help each group and this is the main
idea of the pageant: As the Spirit of Outdoors
sits on her throne, a Pilgrim comes
by, tired and careworn , and asks where she
By MIGHOH $UAW LOTT
is, "You're in Happy Time Camp," the
Spirit replies. "Would you like to see a
bit of our life here?" The Pilgrim says
yes and seats herself at the foot of the
throne. Then you groups act out the
different episodes of camp life before her.
Now get busy and find out what talent
you have in your groups."
Under the guidance of the instructors
the different acts are formulated. Among the Giants are
four interpretive dancers; among the Goslings, some
specially good singers ; the Red Birds have one who can
strum the ukulele , and others who can jig, turn handsprings,
do f olk dancing and so on. Before they go to
bed that night, the episodes have been blocked out and
everybody has a part. They do not take all evening
to plan , for there is a jollification about the camp fire
during which each camper tells who she is and
where she came from.
Setting-up exercises next morning find two
members of the Giants tardy! Five points gone!
And at breakfast it develops that the camp
policeman reported a Gosling in one tent making
such a disturbance that her roommates could not
sleep! The groups do not grumble^rver this bad
luck , but they resolve to use preventive measures
in the future!
After breakfast comes the tidying up of rooms,
all counting on scores. And then lessons, also
counting their quota of points. Right after
dinner the Recreational Director calls
"Supervised rest!" and directs each camper ,
to bring a blanket and spread it on the dry ]
ground under the trees. Such a sight! i
Rows of relaxed figures, lying on their backs '•
gazing lazily up at the summer sky! Soft
music comes from
somewhere and
ABOVE, ONE OF THE 0-
FOOT GIANTS Of THE
PARADE. BELOW, A
MOCK WEDDING AND
OTHER FUN "STUNTS"
the Director tells a sleepy story crammed full of drowsy
words like buzzing and droning, resting, dreaming. It is
not long till almost everybody is sound asleep! "And
that," remarks the Director "is positively the only way to
get them to rest. They'd romp or visit or rehearse every
moment otherwise'."
At 3 o'clock P. M., after lessons are over, the games
begin. No onlookers here. Everybod y plays. It is a
pretty sight, Giants, Goslings, Red Birds, Orange Crushes
in parallel lines extending the full length of the playground ,
all facing the Director. Each group has a gay flag at the
head of its line.
The Director is featuring homely equipment found in
any farm yard. "Our first game," she announces , "is a
tire passing relay. Each group will be provided with an
auto tire. The first player puts it down over her head,
steps out of it and the next player steps into it and
brings it up over her head and so on down the line.
You see it goes down , up, down, up and so on.
The side to get its tire down to the end first ,
wins. Ready, go!"
Such scrambling and screaming as the old
tires go down the lines!
"/^\UR next game is a combination of auto tire.
and potatoes. It is a game of marksmanship.
^^ Will two players from each line please hold up
the tire so the others can throw through it?
Now every player will have three chances to
throw a potato through the tire. Every time it
goes through , it counts 5 points for your side."
Wild excitement reigns before the first three
games are done. When it conies to the tug of
war and the obstacle race the yells are deafening.
"We're going to conclude the games with a
shoe scramble," shouts the Director. "Take off
your shoes and pile them all in this spot. Now
all get back to your places. When I say 'Go'
everybody races up to the pile, gets her shoes,
puts them on and runs back to her place. The side to
get back first, wins."
That night, at the supper table, another announcement
is made. "Right after supper ," says the Director , "will
come a parade. Each group will march by itself in costumes
suggestive of its group name. You will have 20
minutes to get ready." "Wlice!" shout the diners,
"Parade!" For everybody loves a parade as the Director
well knows.
Space permits onl y the description of the Giants' part
in the procession. Here they come, great lumbering
ungainly creatures, eight and nine feet tall. This
MuuajuiMu
effect was achieved by making life-sized
heads, stuffing them and sewing them to
the tops of umbre llas, half opened. Sheets
made the skirts of these creatures and concealed
the marchers underneath.
We must skip the swimming and hiking,
the candy pulling and pillow fighting and
come to the last big night and the pageant!
Sheets strung on wire made a curtain which
conceals the stage from the audience. A
piano dispenses music while the crowd
gathers. Behind the scenes, Giants, Goslings,
Red Birds, Orange Crushes are
hustling into costumes. A tall , stately
Orange Crush maiden mounts the throne
of white, the curtains are pulled aside and
the performance begins! The Pilgrim, a
Gosling, enters with heavy step, wearing
the cook's bathrobe, an ugly brown affair.
A dark hood conceals her face, her step is
heavy and slow.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 374)

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EXPERIENCE shows that breast-fed
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Nurse your baby, if must be handled properly. It is best
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is perhaps the greatest, warm or bright
colors being preferred by most people.
In nature there is no such thing as an
ugly color, but bad contrasts or poor
association may spoil a good color.
These so-called color clashes may occur
between the flowers themselves,
between the flower
and the container, or between
flowers and the surrounding
walls, drapes and
furnishings. Red is very
conspicuous. Therefore use
it sparingly. It is always
lovely combined with foliage
green, neutral gray or
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trio in the battle of the
colors. Use them freely in
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Our best guide in securing good combinations
of bouquets is nature herself.
Study the flowers as they grow on the
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ideal. The use of a single color
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What can be more lovely
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or a low bowl of
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orange-yellow roses are cxampies of
harmonious contrasts. The effect will
be more pleasing if the cool colors, as
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Pale tints of pink , yellow, blue, lavender
or any other color blend beautifully.
The same can be said of deep shades,
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others. Tints are more delicate and
refined and exceedingly more popular.
Third, variations of a single color: It
is really surprising what beautiful effects
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mixture of calendulas, yellow snapdragon,
gaillardia , nasturtium , mignonette,
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THE babies in a
AS family grow up into
boys and girls,
each one different
in so many ways from the
others, parents and neighbors
often throw up their
hands in amazement and
exclaim, "How do they
get that way?"
They are no more puzzled
than are doctors and
other men of science by
what happens in the
growth and development
of human beings.
The question of just how
many of their varied
physical, mental and moral
traits children inherit ,
and how many arc the
results of their surroundings
is today a constant
cause of discussion , not
only in the home, but also
in the institutions of learning
and research throughout
the world.
There seems to be no
doubt about the inheritance
of physical characteristics,
but when it
comes to the question of
whether mental, moral and
behavior traits are inherited or acquired,
then the discord begins.
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the simplest phrases of the subject, in
the hope that mothers and fathers may
get some practical information which
they can apply to themselves and to
their children.
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Dr. Holland Discusses
privilege and x)uty
YOUareanythinglike
IF I am , you have trouble
with these two words,
privilege and duly. I
am forever getting them
backwards, putting duty
first , instead of second.
Perhaps duty needs to
be first for little children ,
but privilege is the royal
word for grown-ups.
Duty was described by
Wordsworth as "the stern
daughter of the voice of
God." Privilege ought to
be defined instead as
"the glad daughter of the joy of God."
I think my meaning can be made clear,
If you face the obligations of life and
do them from a mere sense of duty, work
will be drudgery. If you can shoulder
the burdens of existence from the gladness
of privilege, work will be a joy.
Some people look at the responsibilities
of citizenship from the angle of duty.
Consequently, in a republic that is chesty
with pride, and noisy on July Fourth ,
only One- Half take the trouble to vote
in any given election. If one could only
think of the millions who have died that
we might have a free government , then
the duties of citizenship would be a
sacred privilege.
I had a team which I worked for three
years. One pulled from a sense of duty
and needed strong breeching straps.
The other pulled from a sense of privilege
and now and then snapped a tug.
Any drudge can do his duty, but the
artist works because it is a privilege to
toil at tasks that are worth while.
NOT long ago a proud young father
said to me, "I honestly feel sorry
for the man who has not such a wife and
baby as I have to work for. It's a wonderful
privilege." That young man has the
highest human incentive to hold him to
every pure and beautifu l sentiment.
It will also help him to keep his
Nancy was never lonely on the road ,
even when Paul was not with her. If
the sun was shining her shadow was
along. In the morning it pranced ahead
of her. At noon it was almost under
her feet. And in the evening as she went
home it vvas very tall and thin. It
teased her with its shifting lengt h along
the road. Sometimes in the morning
she tried to put her foot upon its head ,
which kept bobbing just out of her
reach. And the more she ran after it ,
the more it bobbed about and escaped
her, though she ran and ran until she got
a sharp pain in her side.
The school was ju st one big room with
windows on each side. And fifteen
childre n sat on the hard scats and
squirmed and studied and played and
got through the long day as best they
ronld.
Nancy sat on the hard seat and swung
her feet and wiggled her bare toes, because
she had to wiggle something. It
was funny that , though she could make
her fingers do almost anything she wanted
to, she couldn 't make her toes do
very much. The big toes wiggled beautifully
and the little toes could wiggle
pretty well. But the others couldn 't do
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"succeeder" in high gear.
How different the case
of a woman who came to
me with her heart problems.
She said ; "I am
tired of life. I just do
one duty after another.
My life is a treadmill.
Whenever I hear a train
whistle, I want to go
somewhere. The children
take my energy and I just
work for my husband and
family all the time."
I looked at her and her
face seemed to settle into
one great word, duty, I told her what I
honestly thought , namely, that she had a
good husband who earned enough for his
family, children of whom she would be
proud in her after years, and a place in
society that was an honor. I tried to show
her that she had more sunshine in her life
than shadow, and that no life is unfortunate
driough to miss all trouble. She
looked at me with a quizzical look and
said , "I wonder if I have made the mistake
of dwelling too much upo n the
things that / Have To Do? "
YOUNG people frequently drop out of
church because it is forever dinged into
their ears that it is "their duty to go."
I heard that and never liked it. As soon
as it became clear to me that it is a good
thing for one to meet with his fellowmen
and steep his soul in the esssence of the
best thoughts known to mankind , then it
became a happy privilege.
Can not we all improve ourselves by
thinking what a privilege it is to live,
love and pray! To feel the pull of good
ideals, and fight to attain them; to cultivate
our fellows, and to be neighborly to
our neighbors, to cherish and protect our
very own; to believe that everyone tries
to be better than he is and then to hold
our courses straight through to the end.
In short—to play life's game well because
it is a privilege to live!
anything by themselves. She had to
wiggle them all at once. It was very
interesting.
Paul could keep something going on all
the time. He could stick a pin through
his big toenail and poke it into the boy in
front of him. He could tie a piece of
string to his desk and loop bis heel into
it, so he could swing his foot back and
fort h like a pendulum. He could hold a
bit of mirror in the sun and send sharp
lights around the room. He could make
a popgun from a quill and shoot bits of
raw potato from it. It was always interesting,
watch ing Paul.
But it was Nancy's mind that wiggled,
mostly. She would lie back in her seat
and stare out of the window at the clouds
in the blue sky. And she would watch
the shifting lights and shades in the top
of the big maple tree that grew in the
school yard. Sometimes there were
butterflies out there, and a black and
white bird that went up and down the
branches, and a little gray bird that hung
upside down. She couldn't get her
lessons as she should , because when her
mind ought to do one thing it did something
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A Vacation Made Easy
DEA R Editor: Last year we took a
vacation that lasted all summer and
well into the autumn, and yet the actual
"vacationing" took place on only one
day each week. John and I both
believe in the re-creating powers of an
occasional outing, and since we could
not lea ve our little farm for more tnan a
day at a time, we hit upon this plan.
Every Sunday morning last summer
we were up before dawn and while I
packed a well-planned lunch, John took
care of the chores. When everything
was in order for the day, our little car
slid down the shadowy driveway and out
into the open road. And with what joy
Ave went out to meet adventure!
Sometimes we had a trip planned , to
some resort or beauty spot, a visit to a
distant relative, to the mountains or the
lakes. Or again we started out with no
particular destination in view, just
following any road that took our fancy.
Sometimes after a strenuous week we
looked for a quiet spot where we might
just rest among Nature's beauties. A
fishing trip, perhaps. At least that is
what we called it—even though our idle
lines bobbed on the sunny waters all day
long and we never caught a thing)
Each of these trips brought its little
adventure, its bit of beauty, a lesson, an
amusing incident, a lovely memory to
store away and think about and discuss
all through the following week. Our
kodak album is filled with pictures that
tell the story of each of those trips, and
often during the winter we have taken
them out and laughed and talked them
over.
And best of all, we never missed a
Sunday at church all summer. It was
always possible to find along the way a
church of our denomination holding
services sometime during the morning.
We always came away refreshed , awakened,
with some old truth or some new
thought to take with us on our little
journey.—Mrs. M. T. C , New York.
Loving Things Into Crowing
DEAR Farmer's Wives: I wonder
how many of you read the article in
the April FARMER'S WIFE about Galli
Curci and said, "Pooh! singing to her
flowers doesn't make them grow."
Now, I believe the singing helps a good
deal as the singing is her way of telling
them she loves them and love will go a
long way towards making flowers,
vegetables or chicks grow, I know.
I can't sing, but I can talk and I surely
love my vegetables, flowers, and chickens
and I tell them so. And they respond
by growing.
People say, "How do you grow such a
nice garden of flowers and vegetables?
It is too dry or too wet for mine to do any
good."
They just laugh and wonder how soon
they will have to send me to the insane
asylum when I say that I love them into
growing. Of course love alone won't
make things grow, but if you love anything
you are sure to do everything
possible for it.
It is the same way with my chicks.
I love them into living and growing.
Whenever I go among my chickens,
whether old or young, I am always talking
to them and looking to see if they
need water or anything else for their
comfort. I always get eggs, but just
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let me get sick and some one else care
for them and they can feed as I do, but
they don't get the eggs.
So if things don't grow to suit you ,
don't think of how much hard work
there is to it for what you get, but try
looking for the beauty in the growing
things and study them and Mother
Nature and you 'll soon find a difference,
not only in the way things grow but in
your own feelings, as you will find you
can do the same amount of work without
being utterly tired out.—A Lover of All
Growing Things, South Dakota.
Keep the Letters
Coming!
B EADING the letters sub-
*•*• mitted for this page is the
editor's most gratifying task. "
Not all can be published, unfortunately,
but every one brings
inspiration and helps more than
we can tell in our thinking and
planning for THE FARMER'S WIFE.
By all means keep them coming
through the summer!
And don't forget to vote for
the best letter this month. Many
voted for the April letters, Mrs.
A. E. A., Nebraska, winning the
$10 prize, with "A Kansas Homemaker"
a close second. The
other letters published win $3
each.
Manage the Man, Jiot the Hog
DEAR Editor : I read the letter from
Mrs. C. T. of Iowa in the April
FARMER'S WIFE with a mixture of feelings.
You will recall that one of her
fi rst problems after she, a town girl , had
been married to a farmer, was to cut and
put away the carcass of a hog which her
husband had just butchered and whose
carcass he brought into her kitchen.
She certainly is to be congratulated
for the way she went after that hog, but
again she will never come in for much
praise for managing her husband.
She should have put on her bonnet and
gone away for the day also and then
when they had bot h arrived home, she
should have smiled her sweetest and
said , "Now, how will we cut up this hog?"
Her husband, I believe, is a "mama's
boy" who has never grown out of the
notion that woman was made for his
express comfort. In the beginning
when love is young, it is so easy to mold
our husbands. It isn't necessary to keep
on with the spoiling process and grow
gray hairs.
A famous jud ge in a New York divorce
court once said that mothers were to
blame for most of the divorces, because
they do not prepare their sons to live
with another woman.
I think Mrs. C. T.'s husband has
"Master Farmer" stuff in him , but she
will have to do a lot of work with him to
bring it out.
If she ever has a son , I hope she doesn't
make the same mistake with him as she
has with her husband. His wife may
not be so "gritty," but may take the
easier way, the divorce court.—A Farmer's
Wife Who Doesn't Chore and Whose
Husband Helps During the Meal Canning
Spasm.
In Green Pastures
It
T^EAR Friends: must have been
*-* the subject that attracted my attention
to the April letter, "Whence Cometh
My Strength," but it was not until I
read the whole letter that I felt such a
sweet sense of mutual understanding and
satisfaction. When I reached th,e sentence,
"No one can help me, but the
Divine One," I stopped and drank in the
full meaning, for it had the fullest meaning
to me. It expressed my own heartfelt
feelings—whether in sorrow or joy.
It was the crowning point of all—sweet
communion with God. It is the key that
unlocks the splendor of the buds and
blossoms and makes their beauty have
a double meaning. Because of this
knowledge the little birds sing with a
sweetness that seems to have a touch of
the Divine, and in it we find a broadness
that will enable us to love all mankind.
I thank Mrs. G. R. B., North Dakota ,
for such a soul-reaching thought.—Mrs.
C. A. W., Maryland.
Teaching Children Thrift
DEAR Farmer's Wives: Thrift! Tc
spend just a little less than you earn!
To save a bit, no matter how little you
earn. We cannot begin too young to
teach children the meaning of that word.
It spells all the difference between
success and failure.
For each of our children we began a
small bank account on their first birthday,
just one dollar. Then on each
following birthday we added as many
dollars as they were years old—two on
their second birthday, three on their
third , and so on. There are five little
tots around our table, but while they
were young and the sums small, the
burden was , not heavy. They soon
learned the meaning of their penny
banks and it became a natural act to
put all their pennies into it.
As they grew older they began to help
a little to make the sum in the bank grow.
Each spring they gather up the junk
that accumulates about a farm , rubbers,
rags, paper, scrap iron. Whatever the
ragman pays is divided among the five,
pro rata. During the summer I pay
them for all the stolen nests of eggs they
find—a cent for each egg. This is always
thrilling work. Many of our city
friends come out to the pastures for wild
raspberries, and the older children pick
for them. They are always well paid
and have learned to pick pails of clea n
berries. During the early winter , we
sometimes gather greens for Christmas
decorations and sell them at our local
merchant. Early fall and winter is the
time mice migrate to barns and houses,
so the children trap mice at a cent a
piece, while a rat brings them ten cents.
All this is only a bit at a time, but the
yearly total is sometimes quite surprising.
Each child is determined to have his
birthday money gathered "all myself"
by the time the great day comes around.
Best of all, the grand total, when the
son or daughter reaches majority, will be
enough for a year at college, or if business
opportunities seem preferable, it will be a
nest egg for a modest beginning. It will
never be a burden to anyone of us, and
since each child has had a hand in earning
his money, we earnestly hope that
he will have learned the value of money,
learned how to save, and felt the joy of
toil rewarded.—Mrs. L. LaB., Wisconsin.

Shall We Go
(/jack to the ^f erosene ^amp?
A Plea for the Lamp
j^EAR Editor:
*-* I .like the Success Stories of farm
women. I like better the stories written
in response to Sally Sod, from women
who are doing their bit , who have
grown from their own efforts from a
sixth grade education to editing a department.
Or just raising a family.
Just ordinary farm life.
The Success Stories always show
material achievements. A modern home.
A successful business. Money to me is
not success. I have only a gas light or
an oil lamp. / always use the kerosene
lamp because it seems more homey to me.
For myself , I have a little house that
was put up thinking it might turn into a
hen house. We have lived in it ten
years.
In the winter we sit around the stove
and crack nuts with the aid of a couple of
flat-irons. Dad pops a dish-pan full of
corn in a big frying pan. The table is
piled as high as it can be with papers and
magazines. We are all together.
When the neighbors come in , they
entertain themselves. They help get
the lunch ready. They never feel like
company. They enjoy coming.
I have not a modern convenience but
I get a lot of fun out of life. Washing
is hard work on our farm and so I do not
wash. I pick out the jobs I like best to do.
I take money for the things I get enjoyment
out of. I do the things I can do best.
The lime seems approaching when I will
have these modem conveniences that seem
to mean the difference between success
and failure. When each one has his man
room, his own light and so on, what will
hapbe n to our home life!
Farming today seems to be so high
powered. Unless you are making a
great deal of money, working at top
speed , have all the things that this
century has been able to invent to make
living luxurious , you are a failure. If
one could take a normal gait and enjoy
her work, plant flower gardens, make a
homey yard and enjoy the colts and little
chicks and calves.
Yet all the pleasure I get out of farm
life is from these things, not from farm
life lived the modern way. I do not
believe that modem conveniences have anything
to do with happiness on the farm.
I believe the great urge to bring these things
to the farm is activity mis-spent. All
these things are bringing us that much
nearer to the city and its problems of
divorce, suicides from fast life, the feverish
desire to go somewhere. Anyway,
successful farm life does not always lie
in the handsome modern farm.—Peggy
Sod , North Dakota.
A Plea for Progress
DEAR Peggy Sod:
We are glad that you read the Success
Stories so thoroughly and we cheerfully
admit that their whole value lies in
the fact that they are stories of actual
farm women told by themselves.
Wc entirely agree with you that
"money is not success." It is merely a
measure of business success.
Nevertheless wc arc obliged to disagree
with you when you say. "I do
not believe that modern conveniences
have anything to do with happiness on
the farm." We believe that modern
conveniences have much to do with happiness
anyiohere. For this reason: they
multiply opportunities for happiness.
The tireless cooker makes it possible for
Raising Woman Power
C1GNJNG herself "Peggy Sod" in a
^ letter on this page, a North Dakota
woman raises the question whether
success, happiness and good rural home
life are necessarily increased by modern
conveniences—the putting aside of the
kerosene lamp for electric lights.
Of course happiness docs not depend
on externals.
But merely because happiness is
independent of externals ive do not say:
"Therefore I will not eat." Neither is it
logical to say, "Therefore 1 will not have
comforts."
It. is the duty of every woman to
raise her woman-power to the highest
passible point. Therefore THE FARM-
ER'S WIFE, stands on the platform:
The highest possible comfort to the
greatest number of farm homes.
Whatever your own viewpoint, you
will find the discussion on this page
interesting.
a woman to attend a neighborhood gathering
while her dinner cheerily cooks by
itself. The automobile makes it possible
for her to cover long distances and to
carry that spirit of contentment, that
love of the farm, that ability to turn
everything to prcttiness, into the life of
school, church and Farm Bureau and so
to multiply happiness in the whole community.
The radio brings to her—
without even interrupting her work—
extension lectures, music, contact with
the big outside world—inspiration.
WE
BELIEVE (hat you will agree
with us that every moment spent
in doing the work which a machine
could do, is a moment stolen from higher
things which a machine can not do.
Our feeling is that modern conveniences
mean not less time for the pleasure
of farm-life but more. More time for a
woman "to enjoy her work, plant flower
gardens, make a homey yard and enjoy
the colts and little chicks and calves!"
If we should set up the ideal you
suggest: " Use the kerosene lamp because
it seems more homey," the questicn rises:
Why stop at the kerosene lamp? Why
not go back to lovely candle light? Or
back of that to the flari ng torch? Or
back of that to the dying embers of the
fire. Lincoln studied by fire light.
We notice that you say: "The lime
seems approaching when I will have these
modern conveniences." We should lx:
very much interested to know just why
you will put them into your home. Is
it perhaps that you share, a little bit, our
feeling that while they cannot make
happiness they can enlarge it?
There is a note of alarm in your words:
"When each one has his own room, his
men light and so on what will happen
to our home life!"
You surely do not mean that your
happiness lies in a kerosene lamp. Take
away the lamp and your happiness will
still remain in the inner light of your
hearts. If your happiness is fixed in
eternal things—which wc agree is the
better part —then bring ing in modem
conveniences will have no power to
change it.
While the marvelous labor-saving
devices of today may perhaps rob us of
something of the picturesque and "the
homey," they give us that which far outweighs
these things,—more time and new
Opportunity. And these, properly invested,
arc what happiness and heaven
itself arc made of .—Grace Ftf ritiglon Gra v.
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Sleeping
Out Over
Hight
is an adventure which every Lone
HERE Girl Scout will welcome. Invite your
chum or another Lone Girl Scout or
your sister to spend the week-end with
you. Make plans not only for sleeping out,
but for cooking a sunrise breakfast as well.
C noose a spot for your bed—within call of the
house. You will want a clean , level spot. A
recently cut grass plot, or a new mown hay field
is just the thing. The word level is important
for one can not sleep slanting down hill and it is
amazing how gravity does move one uncomfortably
down a slope at night.
Your spot should be open and high, where
mists can not catch you, and from where you
can watch the stars during the night. You
must sleep some, of course, but seeing your old
friends, Draco, Cassiopeia and Leo is fascinating
enough to keep anyone but the most persistent
sleepy heads awake. To tell the truth,
most of us arc a little wakeful and it takes the
experienced camper to sleep from nine until six.
WHEN you have selected the place for your
bed lie down on it to see if there are any
bumps that need removing. Even a clod or
pebble will feel like a Rocky Mountain by
morning. Take anything bothersome out and
then gather together enough sweet smelling
grass or hay to lie on comfortably. It will soften
the bumps and a three or four-inch thickness
will keep out the damp which comes from the
earth. Now first of all spread on the ground a
large piece of oil cloth, the shiny side to the
ground, or a piece of canvas or a poncho or a
rubber sheet, or some old automobile curtains,
not too highly prized by father. If you have
none of these use a heavy horse blanket or a
piece of old carpet. The ground sheet keeps the
moisture from the grou nd out of your bed.
For bedding you will want a comfort and one
or two woolen blankets. Make your beds up
AFTER a delightful night comes washing
your face in cold water, and then breakfast,
just as the sun is rising, the birds are singing
and all the world is fresh and dewy. Choose
something you like very much,—bacon and
eggs, toast and milk with strawberries fresh
from the garden or wild from the field , or you
may be lucky enough to be near a stream where
you can catch a fish for breakfast. One of you
had better start the fire as soon as she gets up.
Make it like the one in the picture of the two
Dayton Girl Scouts, only your fire will be a
little one, suited to the size of your meal. They
are cooking for a whole patrol.
While one of you is caring for your fire, the
other one can arrange the strawberries on a big
green leaf with little piles of white sugar to dip
them in , and pour milk to wash them down.
If you have caught that fish, now is the time
to clean it so that it will be ready to cook just
as soon as you have a bed of glowing coals.
You will need the same kind of a fire for the
bacon and eggs and toast. A sharpened green
"A Girl Scout is a Friend to all and
a Sister to every other Girl Scout"
stick makes a splendid toaster for the bread.
Before leaving your camp site pack up your
bedding in neat rolls, and scour your dishes,
pots and pans. Put out your fire, and leave
everything shipshape, Girl Scout fashion, so you
will love to come back and camp at this spot.
One of our own Lone Girl Scouts from
Ohio wrote this letter about her camping trip
last year: "Dear Friend: I will tell you about
my going camping for a day. I went a short
distance from my home where there was a small
woods. I found a clearing where there was no
grass to build my fire. I took two logs and laid
them near each other and made my fire between
them. I cooked eggs and toasted bread. It
surely tasted fine. I am going to try it again
sometime."
Be sure to write the story of your camping
out in your Trail Book, but do write me about
it too. Why not take a good picture of your
camp and send it to me?
If you want to and think you can go to a big
Girl Scout camp this summer, write to me and I
will send you the name of the camp nearest you.
Louise Price, Camp Department.
Name . _
Address
County
I am
Slate
years old.
If you use the whistle , it is like the flash light
only long and short blasts take the place of the
flushes. The pauses are the same in all methods.
Write to your captain about this adventure
and send her a sentence in code to sec if she can
read it.
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-..|| | HI Can you read this?
May Puzzle Sentence: How do your gardens
grow? At 6 and 7 or 9 out of 10 kept well?
Margorp Erutan
If you can f ind me paint me in your
Nature Book.
Cora kelson
LONE «uu, SCOUT CAPTAIN
, Flor Dei
What is a flower
Plucked, cast aside
Dead in an hourl
Nay, let it bide
on the hillside
Gift of a higher power.
T. D.A.Cocknell.
Both Dove ana Eagle
A Camp
HAVE just been watching a humming bird
The bed was made, the room was f it, I dart in and out among the nodding blossoms
By punctual eve the stars were tit ;
of a clump of columbine which brings each year
. The air was still, the water ran,
a touch of red and gold to the gray boulders
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separately as that way of sleeping is more No need was there for maid or man,
near my nature nook. Time and again he has
comfortable and more healthful. Blankets for Where we put up, ray ass and I ,
thrust his slender bill into the nectar cup at the
covers should be woolen, not cotton, though At God's green caravanseri.
very tips of the flower spurs. These are indeed
cotton ones may be used for sheets. Coyer
Robert Louis Stevenson.
horns of plenty. Have you seen other visitors
your blankets with another ground sheet, with
coining to the feast? A big bee is tumbling
the waterproof side up this time. Half a dozen DID you have great fun comparing the num- about this minute among the tuft of golden
or more blanket pins or large safety pins will ber of hours you sleep, your height and stamens which hang from the flower cup like the
hold the edges of your blanket together and weight, with those given in the April issue? clapper of a bell. What can the bee want with
Go over the Zflj^lfil keep you snug all night. A sweater or pillow Tenderfoot Girl Scouts, try to do this today. all this gold dust? Do you know?
surface slip filled with hay or grass or leaves makes a It is one of the Second Class Adventures. There l They have both gone and my eyes
HI^EBW good pillow. If you have pine needles, con- Write date in your Trail Book. If you wish a still linger to enjoy the beauty of the delicate
sider yourself favored by the gods. If brother Health Record Book, send 10c.
blossom itself. I see the five dainty doves
or father has a large army poncho or two,—one
circling as in a nest and it is easy to see why we
for each of you—you can use one for the ground
Signals in the Jvj'ght
gave the gentle name of columbine to this
sheet and covering of your bed.
LOOK back over the trail to be sure you know flower ,—for columbine comes from the Latin
One way to make a single poncho bed is to all the signs and signals that were in the word columba , which means a dove. But it has
spread the covers out flat on the poncho, and
March, April and May issues. Perhaps on your not always reminded poeple of gentle doves for
then fold them in toward the middle, one by camping trip you can have fun sending messages there arc legends which associate it with lions,
one, apple tart fashion. Turn the extra length with flash light or lanterns or whistles. If you and it is called the lion's herb, and its scientific
under at the foot and hold fast with safety pins. use a flash, a short flash is a dot, a long flash a name is aquilegia which means an eagle. Can
When done, button the poncho down the side.
dash, make no pause between dots and dashes you see the eagle in your columbine?
If you undress, tuck your day clothes out of the in the same letter. An interval the lengt h of There are other blossoms coming to my wild
dew, or you will have nothing dry to put on in three dots comes between letters, of five dots flower garden and I wonder if you have the same
the morning. Otherwise , you will take off your between words, and a longer pause at the end friends,—spring-beauties, buttercups all freshly
XUuKRJp shoes, and any tight clothing, and then work of a message. If you use lanterns, put a light varnished for the spring—can any of you find
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your way into the bed from the top, and snuggle on the ground between your feet as a steady its nectar cup? Here is a secret for you. There
down to enj oy the beauty of the night.
point. Then for a dot, swing your lantern to are violets, too, yellow and white and purple,
the right, for a dilsh to the left.
but I will not tell you any more for I will let you
name your own. Shall we see just how many
Polish wild flowers we can make our friends this
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summer? I should like to try it witli you,
with a \j £MmSxF VI
and perhaps it would be fun to have a Lone Girl
Miss Cora Nelson.
1927 Scout wild flower "quest" with a nice surprise
Girl Scouts, Incorporated,
at the end of it.
670 Lexington Ave.,
Write down in your Nature Book the names
New York City.
of all the wild flower friends you make and all
the interesting things you learn about them and
I have read about the Lone Girl Scouts
in THE FARMER'S WIFE and should like
fro m them as you go along the trail. Remem-
to know more about the organization. ber to save some seeds for Lone Girl Scout
Please send me blanks so that you can Christmas presents. Next fall send in the
check my qualifications for becoming a story of your summer's quest.
Girl Scout.
Bertha Chapman Cady
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(^taster ^arm ^omemaker (^ontest
first nomination of a MASTER
THE FARM HOMEMAKER reached
THE FARMER 'S WIFE before the
last copies of the April magazine
were off the press. Interest in the plan
is growing rapidly and we are busy here
in the office getting in nominations and
sending out the "work- sheets" to the
women who have been nominated.
This "work-sheet" is really an information
blank which the women who are
nominated by their neighbors are asked
to fill out for the state judges.
The first copy was prepared in THE
FARMER'S WIFE office after consultation
with extension leaders in three states.
When this was ready it was sent out to
a large group of people for criticisms
and suggestions. They were so interested
that 82 took time out of busy lives
to study the work-sheet and to sit down
and write their criticisms and suggestions.
Thirty-nine of these were homemakers,
practically all of them farm
homemakers.
So this work-sheet will be based on the
thinking of approximately one hundred
people scattered all over the United
States, and will represent the ideas of
these people as to what MASTER
FARM HOMEMAKING really means.
WISCONSIN homemaker, who
A studied the plan with her husband,
writes:
"It will make every woman who reads
it through think. She will reorganize
in a number of 'spots' as time goes on,
or I miss my guess. To me it is all so
interesting that I thoroughly enjoyed
going through it. The woman who fills
it out but does not win will have enjoyed
the work and profited thereby too."
One of the men who went over the
work-sheet (for we felt that it would be
valuable to know what men think should
be emphasized in honiemaking) makes
the following comment:
"I should like to see the outline so
made up that it would bring out the
most worthwhile things in the home;
namely, the training of children and the
cooperation between parents in making
it a happy place in which to live."
From Missouri comes the suggestion :
"Somewhere in the work-sheet there
ought to be a place for a definite expression
of the woman's philosophy of life and
her conception of what place wellrounded
country living has in the genera l
scheme of things. To my mind the important
thing is, first , what does the
woman herself think this business of
living is all about; then , how nearly does
she come to translating her ideas and
ideals of life into living, allowing for
handicaps beyond her control?"
One of our thinking Minnesota farm
carouses rjfnterest
By BESS M. ROWE
What kind of a neighbor has she been?
. . . Is her family so trained that
she can leave them at times when duty
calls her elsewhere ? Has she had time
to help a neighbor who was in need or
to sit all night at a sick bed?"
Most farm women realize that community
honiemaking is quite as important
as is individual honiemaking and one
of them states this thought as follows:
"True community spirit is just an
over-How of love in the home—eager
and anxious to share its blessings with
others. The homemaker is responsible
to a very great degree for this spirit in
the home and what better way to judge
her than by the quality of the product
of the home?
"The character, ideals and ability to
realize these ideals of those who have
grown , or are now growing, in her home
should be a very good means of judging
the homemaker. True, some children
reflect no honor on their parents—neither
do some kitchens."
ANOTHER of the men who helped
us work out this plan says;
"What makes a home? Something
about it that invites people to come
there. May and do the children invite
their playmates there ? Is it a hospitable
home? Do the neighbors like to drop in ?
If the children cannot have company,
and the neighbors do not drop in of their
own free will, you probably haven't a
home, no matter how many other things
you have."
One of the leading professional women
of the country, a woman whose work
brings her into close contact with hundreds
of homes, says:
"To me, the greatest measure of
success of a homemaker is the physical ,
mental , and emotional health of the
children and of the husband. I should
like to detect in the home the attitude
of peace, comfort and happiness, which
the farmer finds from a satisf ying home."
AND this final comment from another
farm woman in the Middle West:
"I think your plan is wonderful and
I'm all enthused about it all. I went
over the whole plan twice and then I
imagined I was a homemaker filling
out the sheets and what a lot of fun 1
have had.
2 "What about the living room? I d
like to see this room and see the famil y
1 there some evening, or is the family all
- out having a good time elsewhere. Does
1 the family look to the home for good
times, or do they have the good times
2 down town or perhaps in someone else's
f home? The living room really speaks
s of really living but we haven't said much
1 about it. Are we living with our children ,
r or is the school, the church , the movie,
etc., left to manage and train them?"
t Through these comments we have
women suggests that the following thingss
shared with you a little of the joy we
have a bearing on master
have had from these
farm honiemaking:
letters about the
"Is this home a place
MASTER FARM
where the husband and
HOMEMAKER work-
grow n children love to
sheets. They also give
stay and bring their
you a little idea of what
friends? Are the friends
it means to be chosen
made welcome? . . .
for this honor.
Delco-Light
will make your home
a better p lace to live in
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furnish plenty of electric light for the farm home, it
would be a Godsend.
But it does so much more than that! An electric washer,
vacuum cleaner, electric iron, Frigidaire electric refrigeration—every
electrical appliance designed to lighten the
burden of household tasks is made available for your home
when you have Delco-Light to furnish the electric current.
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and bath, for washing-plenty and how easily you can
of water for every farm and pay for it on the General
household need. Motors plan of deferred
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Sp" Salad
ERE'S a salad designed for
H busy women whose days are
very full. Try it. See how good
it is.
Orange and Canned Peach Salad
Peel oranges and cut into one-fourth inch slices.
Arrange on lettuce-covered salad plates, alternately
with canned sliced peaches. Garnish with walnut
halves.
Your family will compliment
you on its deliciousness. Tell
; them it's healthful, too.
Oranges contain natural salts
and acids that are rare appetizers
and digestive aids.
And oranges, though known as
"acid fruit ," have an alkaline reaction
in the biood . They
actually counteract the acidity
caused by other good , but acidforming
foods, such as meat, fish ,
eggs, cereals, breads, etc.
"Acidity," as all physicians
know, is the basic cause of many
common ailments.
So serve oranges often for their
lusciousness, for the time they
save, and for the good they do in
balancing the diet.
We've a booklet that gives all
the latest recipes for salads and
desserts. Write California Fruit
Growers Exchange, Dept. 2006,
Box 530, Station "C," Los
Angeles, for a copy. We'll send
it to you free.
The better California oranges
are trade-marked "Sunkist" on
the wrapper and on the skin of
the fruit. Rigid standards of
selection make them uniforml y
good. Your dealer has them.
To be sure of getting
_ Cali
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Sunkist
Oranges
of Uniformly Good Eating Quality
Look for the Trade-mark
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California Fruit Growers Exchange
Boi 530, Station "C"
Los Angeles, California
WHEN THE HIKK
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SUMMERTIME is just around the
corner and hike time is here!
Overnight and early morning
tramps, long hikes on sunshiny
afternoons and gay strolls on warm
evenings, all are fun , especiall y when
there's a fire with good things to eat at
the end. And when the hike is for a
group of boys and girls a "treasure hunt"
is best of all! Captain Kidd and his
bold buccaneers had no greater thrill of
pleasure in finding a cache of gold than
the treasure hunt hikers who find at the
end of the trail savory "angels onhorseback"
and melt-in-the-mouth
"some-mores!"
A "treasure hunt" must be well planned
ahead of time. The trail must be
carefull y marked and provision made
for both food and fun. If the group is
large there should be two or more trails,
all leading at last to the place selected
for the dinner. Mark the trails with
arrows, stones, and mysterious messages
left in out-of-the-way places.
There should be a chief for each trail ,
—Chief Flying Feather, perhaps, and
Chief Blue-in-the-Eye! Provide headbands
for each chief and his followers.
Hands of bright blue, with many colored
feathers may be given to Chief Blue-inthe-Eye;
while the followers of Chief
Flying Feather may wear gay green
head-bands. Numerals cut from white
paper are pasted on the front of each
head-band , so that each player has a
number.
T H E leader, who has planned the trail,
* may be Chief Black Eagle. He and
the boys and girls who have helped him
wear black head-bands, with upstanding
orange and black paper feathers. Chief
Black Eagle may appear at the gathering
of the hikers at the beginning of the
treasure hunt , but his followers should
be off for places of concealment along
the trails; for it is their task to trap the
treasure hunters and bring them into
the place of rendezvous as captives.
Captures are made by calling out the
numbers worn on the headbands of the
hikers. Everyone may carry a small
branch , which he may wave before his
face to protect himself from possible
capture. Large branches with big leaves
are "no fair!"
The first directions must be found
near the place where the hike begins.
A blue feather to which a note is tied
may be found on the hedge by one of the
followers of Chief Rlue-in-the-E ye. He
calls the others to him and off they go to
find , down by the creek perhaps, an
arrow, made of stones, chalked with blue
or splashed with blue paint. Tlicv follow
By
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BOWLIHG
the direction of the arrow to the place
where the next clue is found. Chief
Flying Feather does the same, except
that he and his band may touch no
paper, nor follow any indicated trail
that does not have about it some bit of
green that marks it as their own.
Excitement runs high , when suddenly
a group falls into an ambuscade! Concealed
under a bush or behind a tree at
strategic points along the trail Black
Eagle and his "tribe" wait to capture
the confident hikers, who soon forget to
protect their numbers! The players in
ambush may be captured also, if they
are seen; for they too wear numbers.
The group arriving at the rendezvous
with the largest number of free players
should be given a prize by Black Eagle
and his followers. Whatever the prize
may be, a bag of candy kisses, or fancy
paper tomahawk medals, it should be
awarded with great ceremony.
"W/HETHER the hike is long or short
*» everyone will be ready for food at its
end. The "picnic" box lunch has the
advantage of being ready to eat , but it
is ever so much more fun to cook the
meal out-of-doors. It need not take
long and if the following menu is used
the result will be "eminently satisfactory"
to all!
Make small fires with dry sound wood
that will quickl y give a bed of hot coals.
There is nothing fast about a big bonfire
for cooking. For each hiker the
following rations should be providedplus
a few extras for emergencies!
2 rolls 4 graham crackers
2 slices bacon 1 bar sweet chocolate
2 one-inch cubes of 4 marshmallows
cheese apple or orange
lettuce
First of all , when the fire is right , are
"angels-on horseback." Wrap well one
cube of cheese with a slice of bacon and
roast it over the coals upon a pointed
green stick. When the bacon has
reached just the proper degree of "crispiness"
the angel must be popped into the
roll which is held in readiness in the
other hand in case of accident! With a
lettuce leaf "saddle" the "angel" is
trul y delicious.
After two, or more, ' angels," the
hikers are ready for "some-mores."
A half bar of chocolate is placed sandwich
fashion between two graham
crackers and two toasted marshmallows
are included just before the top cracker
is put on! The reason for the name lies
in the eating! An apple or a juicy orange
makes a delicious "last course," particularl
y if there is no safe drinking
water nearby.
The Farmer's Wife , June, 191)
JAPAN
TEA
r "Ihe drink f or relaxation
^f reshing
as an hourb
nap
Nothing so restful as a cup of really
good tea!
Try it whenever you feel tired.
Stop for just ten minutes to linger
over a bit of fragrant steaming green
tea from Japan .
You'll find it as refreshing as an
hour's nap.
For Japan Green Tea is tea at its
best, tea in its natura l state, uncol'
ored and unfermented, with all the
flavor-laden juices of the fresh leaves
M preserved by immef
i'i diate sterilization.
"^-* Drink it with every
meal and at least once
during the afternoon.
, Specify Japan Green
)J Tea when yvu buy. Put
up for the home in
pac \ages under various
brands. Several grades
and prkes. Tliebestuitll
cost you only a fraction
of a cent a cup
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^oosier Girl ^ins (Contest
Edna Bowling pul ls wi l iantty
through the sea of contest letters
OUR How-We-I-.arned-Money con- On election day last November we
test is over! What a time we have sold lunch to the voters, and homemade
had try ing to decide which were the candy and popcorn balls to the children.
best of the "oceans" of letters that you When there is a public sale in the
sent us! We know that you want to community we serve lunches. Some-
read them too, not all six piles, but some times our expenses are greater when we
of them! This month we publish the serve large amounts, but we always
letter written by Mabelle Crandall , an make a profit. It is lots of fun.
Indiana high school girl. Mabelle won Throughout the term wc have filled
the first prize of SI0.00 because her special orders for cakes, ginger-bread ,
letter was well written , the plans she raisin bread , persimmon puddings, and
presents are practical and give evidence pies. We had many such orders during
of thoughtful effort by the group. the Christmas holidays and at Thanks-
Second prize (SS.00) goes to Ruth giving time.
Howard of the Willing Winning Workers,
a Kentucky 4-H Club; third prize AT
Thanksgiving we served a four
($2,00) has been sent to Maxinc Bright, course dinner to the public and
of the Live Wire 4-H Club of Ambrosia , earned nearly twenty dollars. We also
West Virginia. Dan Wakefield , Wis- served dinner to a number of guests at a
consin; Wynona Hays of Iowa , and house party, and we are planning to serve
Ruth Hughes of Pennsylvania wrote the a nice dinner to all of the teachers in the
letters which won "Honorable Mention" county at the teachers Joint Institute,
with a prize of $1.00 each.
which will be held at our school in April.
Mabelle Crandall's letter follows: A class from a neighboring school gave
a play in our auditorium and we earned
DEAR Club Friends:
part of the proceeds by decorating the
When school began , we girls and stage for them.
our Home Economics teacher decided We solicit subscriptions for good
to earn money to pay the expenses of magazines.
our class to Purdue University for the Last year the girls of the Home
Round-up in May this year.
Economics class made articles of cloth-
We began by canning fruits , vegeing such as dresses, aprons and undertables
and tomatoes. As some of the clothing and had a bazaar in April. At
girls of our class live in the country, we this they also sold cakes, pies, canned
took most of what we canned from home, fruits , and loaves of Boston Brown bread ,
and it did not cost much to can. Our besides pretty paper bouquets and many
teacher let us do the work at school for other little articles. From the sale of
our lessons in canning.
these things they obtained the rest of
During the winter we served hot the necessary money to finance their
lunches on Thursday each week to the trip.
teachers and pupils of the school , and Those who live where holl y, ever-
to others in the town such as the mergreens and bitter sweet grow can sell
chants' wives who help in the store, the such for Christmas decoration.
banker and many others. For these Early vegetable seeds may be planted
lunches we used the things which we in boxes, if there is a warm basement
had canned in preparing soups, fruit in the school house, and the plants sold.
salads and hot vegetable dishes. Our Last of all wc share our ideas to other
parents also donated canned fruits and club workers through this contest in
vegetables. This enabled us to serve THE FARMER'S WIFE.—Mabelle E. Cran-
the lunches without much cost.
dall, Nabh, Indiana.
THIS is the way the
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look at the first National
4-H Club camp
to be held at Washington,
D. ('., this month.
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camp and the skirt
will be worn on the
trips about the city
which will be such an
interesting part of the
camp program. The
hat is of soft white
felt , and the uniforms
are of jade green poplin
with detachable
collars and cuffs of the
same material.
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had read these words at the
When parents realize that they must together
conclusion of so many stories decide upon what is best for the children they
that she never doubted they have brought into the world, the rrodem ten-
would be true of her and John
dency toward selfish personal considerations in
the breaking up of the family will be checked,
Jones. But pretty quickly and men and women will build for the future,
after their wedding day the even if that building must sometimes be upon the
trouble began , probably both wreck of individual happiness, and out of recognized
mutual responsibility may develop that
being to blame. Things were a
mutual respect and community of interest which
little better when John , Jr., are the necessary foundations for a stabilized
came. But when he was two- home.
and-one-half years and Bobbie,
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John was cruel. In court the judge said
that John must pay a certain amount
each week for the support of the chil-
services and the earnings of their children.
Other states like Rhode Island have
changed their old laws under which the
dren , but John disregarded the order and father has rights denied to the motiier,
Mary supported them for five years. but there are still two states where the
Always her conscience suggested that right of the father over the child is so
she might have been more patient and absolute that he can even will away his
so after five years she went back to John. wife's unborn child to a guardian chosen
Again there was misery and again by him and the wife has nothing to say
Mary went away just a month before a
baby girl came. This time she secured a
divorce, but the court awarded the two
little boys to the father and only the
new baby girl to the mother. Mary
about it. There is one state where the
father can will away a child from the
mother after the child has reached the
age of 14 years. There are six other
states where the father is the sole guard-
appealed to the Supreme Court of Rhode ian of his minor children and four states
Island , the state in which she lived, but
the court ruled that the natural guardianship
of minor children, belonged
primarily to the father, even when father
and mother are living together in harmony,
and that in the event of a divorce
"undoubtedly the right of the father
should prevail unless it appears that the
interests of the child will be subserved by
a different course."
where there are qualifications which
interfere with the mother having an
equal voice with the father in controlling
the child's life.
IT
is unusual for a father to use his
power to will away a child from the
mother, but there are court records of
cases in which it has been done. It is
seldom that the father would desert his
young children , letting the mother sup-
MARY learned that when John , Jr.,
and Bobbie were old enough to work
the father could bind them out as
apprentices and that he would be entitled
to their wages, and that even if she had
stayed with John this power still would
port them during infancy, and then reappear
to claim the wages which they
earn between the ages of 16 and 21. but
there are such cases on the court records.
You may not need a better law in your
state, for you and your husband prob-
have been his. The only solace that ably talk about your children and decide
Mary had was a statement of the court together what is for their best interest.
that if John should not properly care for It is not for the sake of you and your
the two children then she might show
"that the best interests of the children
required a change of custody."
This case and others similar to it , led
men and women in Rhode Island to
childre n that the law needs changing, but
for the sake of other women and other
children who are not protected by a
sense of justice, fair play and decency on
the part of their husbands and fathers.
seek a change in their laws. Campaigns
were made by various state organizations
and a Children 's Laws Commission
How did the law ever happen to give
such rights to fathers? Not through a
mean , malicious attempt on the part of
was appointed and made recommendations
to the legislature which in 1926
passed a new law maning both parents
joint natural guardians of their minor
children , equally responsible for their
men to take advantage of the mothers of
their children. But because the laws of
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still the father by law was regarded as
the one responsible for the child's support
and he was allowed to collect and
keep the child's wages as his compensation.
Some of those laws are still in force.
I ; or instance in Texas the law says that
"where the parents of the minor live together,
the father is the natura l guardian
of the person of the minor children by the
marriage, and is entitled to be appointed
guardian of their estates."
THE services of a minor child belong to
the father in New York state and
therefore if the child is put to work the
father alone may collect the earnings.
Even in a western state, where the law has
been made far more favorable to women
than many other parts of the country, the
father has the right to bind his minor
child as an apprentice or clerk, without
the consent of the mother. An ambitious
mother, eager to have her child
receive an education which will fit it for
better things, and willing to work herself
or to make sacrifices in order to keep
the child in school , is helpless against an
avaricious father who wants to put the
child to work as soon as the law allows,
her content being necessary only when
the father is dead, or incompetent , or an
habitual drunkard , or has abandoned his
family. The father also has authority to
assign or contract for his children's
services during their minority without
the consent of the mother.
The Maryland father has entire contol
of the labor and earnings of his children.
Therefore the father alone may
sue for a wrongful injury to the child
and damages secured go to him alone.
While recent legislation in New Jersey
gives the mother and father equal rights
in the services and earning of their minor
child, the law does not appear to touch
upon the natural guardianship of the child
while the parents live together. Therefore
the old common law would still be in force,
under which the father is regarded as the
natural guardian and given all parental
authority and if the mother during the
father's lifetime exercises discipline over
the child , "the law presumes it to be done
by his direction and with his consent."
The father, then , is entitled tojdecide the
extent of the education of the child
beyond what is required under the state
school law, the nature of the child's
employment , and otherwise to direct the
course of his life .
In another state, which shall be nameless,
there was a case in which it was
decided that the father was entitled to
collect damages for the death of his
child and also for the mental pain and
anguish of the mother.
No one for an instant thinks that the
millions of generous, just American
fathers want these discriminationsagainst
women to continue in the laws. No one
for an instant believes that the millions
of happy, contented America n mothers
want to have laws remain which may
cause miserv to even a few other mothers
and children. The laws can be changed
as they were in Rhode Island and as they
have been in other states if right-minded
mothers and fathers ask the members of
the legislatures to do it.

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BACK in the gardens again "Old
Parrakeet" moved restlessly about.
She was thinking now of , unhappy Tad
Mason—of the fear that lurked always in
her eyes. "She hasn 't the spunk of a
flea , I'll wager," thought old Parrakeet ,
"She's not worth the little finger of that
Irish boy in the dairy. Heigho! If God
Almighty would only let me turn
matchmaker."
A figure stopped on the path abreast of
where "Old Parrakeet" was sitting among
the salmon colored peonies. It was Mrs.
Van Duyn,
"Ah , my dear Mrs. Haskins, there you
are! I was wondering if you would not
find it more pleasant to join us in a little
game of bridge in my room at 10 o'clock.
You seem always so lonely without your
husband."
"Old Parrakeet" smiled like a wise old
bird . "Pleasant no doubt , but hardl y
profitable. It's T. II.'s and my rule to
stick by the laws of thecountry, wherever
we happen to be. Sounds stupid, I
know, but in the end we've found it
pays." And with a curt little nod she
opened her book upside down and became
instantly absorbed in it.
At luncheon "Old Parrakeet" was late.
As she came in Mrs. Van Duyn moved
majestically towards the door. She
granted her the very briefest of nods and
"Old Parrakeet" acknowledged it with
an inward chuckle. She was halfway
through the menu and was considering
whether she would have apple pie a la
mode for dessert or pineapple trifle when
the Van Duyn dowager sailed unexpectedly
back to her own table with a
conspicuous air of annoyance. The head
waitress was beside her, solicitous as most
head waitresses. She was speaking,
"I'm quite sure, Mrs. Van Duyn , that
you did not leave your bag here. Your
waitress would have turned it in to the
office if you had."
"And I am quite sure that' I did. I
remember now that I left it beside my
plate. Mr. Van Duyn remembers it.
It was a black beaded bag, silver
mounted."
The head waitress called Tad and "Old
Parrakeet" toyed with her food that she
might watch the little drama through.
Tad came; she was quite sure that the
bag had not been upon the table. "Old
Parrakeet" liked the way she answered,
straight-forward for all her fear.
THEY stood there making an acute
triang le. "Old Parrakeet" saw the girl
drawing her breath in quickly and she
thoug ht , "Heavens, I hope she won't let
the old cat fuss her," and then as if
conscious of the group for the first time
she called , "I'll take my finger bowl if
you please."
Tad brought it. The instant she had
left them the dowager and the head
waitress put heads close together. At
the same moment "Old Parrakeet"
dipped her fingers into the rose leaves and
whispered, "It's under the table , slipped
ofT her lap likely. You find it."
With flushed checks Tad went back to
the table,, stooped, felt under the central
pedestal , picked up the bag and handed
it without a won! to the owner. The
dowager took it and eyed her suspiciously
then , before them all, she opened the
bag and laid the contents carefully on
the table, a handkerchief , a compact , a
gold pencil , a folded piece of paper. She
swept her hand over them as if to say,
there you see what there is; to the head
waitress direct she made her accusation ,
"I had considerable money in that bag
(CONTINUED FltOM PAGE 347)
when I left it. Someone has taken it."
The head waitress proved undeniably
that she was worthy of her appointment
at Barrys. With a courteous smile she
returned the contents of the bag to its
owner, gave a commanding little nod to
Tad Mason and led the way out of the
dining room. Not a word spoken and of
all the guests no one but "Old Parrakeet"
knew that anything discordant had
happened.
There was a sharp glint in the little
old woman's beady eyes as she muttered ,
"Of all stacked cards!" For the next
hour she betook herself and her unread
book to that part of the gardens that lay
between the Barrys' kitchens and the
cottage where the table girls were housed.
Back and forth she policed it until she
saw at last what she was waiting for—a
small dejected figure, red eyed and chin
set to an angle of despair , emerge out of
the back doorway. "Old Parrakeet"
swooped down upon her, not unlike a
keen old bird of prey upon some tender
morsel. "Look here," she demanded,
"what did they do to you?"
BOTH fear and repression held Tad's
tongue; but in the end despair loosened
it. "Do! What people always do, I
suppose, when they think they've caught
a thief. They dragged me in to the
manager and then to the older Barry.
It was just like being dragged into a
court."
"H'mm! Did her husband come?
What did he say?"
"That he'd given his wife the money
that morning so he knew she had it.
She said that I was poor and probably
needed money, that this was an easy way
to get it."
"Old Parrakeet" eyed the girl closely.
"Anything else?"
Color surged into Tad's cheeks, more
than the usual fear into her eyes, "Yes, I
gave notice at the desk this morning, I
told them I was leaving. It looked—
queer."
"It sure did. What did Sam Barry
say?"
"He told me that I couldn't have
possibly-spent the money between breakfast
and luncheon. I was to return it at
once and then leave." The girl's voice
rang with bitterness. "Return it!"
"Well, are you going to?"
"How can I?" Tad turned angrily
upon her, "I haven't been here long
enough to earn a quarter of that money.
I've just got enough to pay my carfare
. . ." Tad was going to say "home"
but remembered that she had no home
to go to.
"Old Parrakeet" laughed. It wasn't
an unkind laugh , only extremely amused.
"I expect you hate the whole lot of us—
rich , ugly old women. I know what it
means to be young, have nothing and
want the whole world. Come along."
"Come—where?"
"Back to Sam Barry. There, don't
look so scared , child. It 's time you
spunked up. I've watched you being
scared long enough. I'm sick of it."
"We're going to appeal your case, my
dear. Lord , how it takes me back to the
old days when T. H. and I had to fight
our way through every inch of life, whenever
we lost and knew we were in the
right , we always appealed."
"Old Parrakeet" gave one peremptory
bang on the door of the office and then
swung it wide with , "Hello, Sam! We've
back for a new trial. Guess you judged
the case a little mite too quickl y."
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JUNE roses, and as a wedding is a time for
feasting, we are giving two suggestive
menus for suitable meals for such occasions,—onea
breakfast to be served any
time before noon and the other an evening
meal.
For a week's menus we are featuring
green peas, trying to give you new ways
of serving them. Peas are a very
nutritious vegetable and when combined
with cheese, egg and milk make a very
satisfactory meat substitute.
Wedding Breakfast
Strawberries on the Stem
Creamed Chicken on Toast
Shoe String Potatoes Peas
Rolls Currant Jelly
Ice Cream Cake Coffee
Wedding Supper
Fruit Cup
Roast Fowl Potato Puff
New Beets Rolls
Asparagus Salad
Ice Cream Cake Coffee
One Week's Meals
Sunday
Eakcd Chicken Dressing
New Potatoes and Peas
Lettuce Salad
Strawberries and Cream
Monday
Dried Beef and Peas
Carrots and Onions
Lettuce Salad
Rhubarb Sauce and Cookies
Tuesday
Arabian Casserole
Buttered Asparagus—Radishes
Cherry Pie
Wednesday
Eggs and Peas Beets and Greens
Onions Radishes
Strawberry Shortcake
Thursday
Canned Tenderloin Spinach
Carrots and Peas
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Cherry Mousse
Friday
Creamed Canned Fisli and Peas
Boiled Potatoes Tomatoes
Lettuce Salad
Fruit Sauce with Cookies
Saturday
Pea Souffle—Creamed Potatoes
Buttered Asparagus
Cherry Batter Pudding
Strawberries on the Stem
When gathering the berries leave a
long stem on them. Wash , drain and
arrange on small service plates around a
tiny mound of powdered sugar. The
stems should be toward the edge of the
plate so they can be easily grasped by the
fingers.
Shoe string potatoes are our old friends
French Frys only cut into much smaller
pieces before frying in deep fat.
Potato Puff
Cook and mash potatoes, season with
salt, pepper, butter and rich milk , beat
until light, pour into buttered dish and
place in hot oven to brown on top. Instead
of putting in the oven the potatoes
could be forced through the pastry tube
making roses. These would be most appropriate
for a wedding meal.
Dried Beef and Peas
3 cups white sauce % cup shredded dried
(medium) beef
2 cu ps cooked peas
Combine ingredients and serve hot on
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toast. Pass grated cheese to sprinkle
over it. (This is a good way to use leftover
peas.)
Arabian Casserole
6 pork chops or Tomatoes
sausage cakes Onions
}'i c. uncooked rice Peppers
Salt
Place pork chops in baking dish. Add
rice, as much tomato, chopped onion ,
and green pepper as you want. Season
and cover with water. Bake in a moderate
oven 2 hours.
Eggs and Peas
6 hard cooked eggs 1 tbsp. butter
1 c. peas 2 tbsp. flour
Toast 2 c. milk
Salt and pepper
Make a white sauce of the butter ,
flour, milk and seasonings. Put the
toast in a buttered baking dish, cover
with sliced eggs, peas and white sauce,
bake 15 minutes.
Cherry Mousse—6 Servings
1 tbsp. gelatine 1){ c. cherries
M c. cold water }£ c. cherry juice
J-4 c. boiling water Whites 2 eggs
Salt
Soak gelatine in cold water, dissolve
in hot water, add cherries and juice.
When mixture begins to thicken add
beaten whites and salt. Turn into wet
mold and chill. Garnish with whipped
cream and nuts.
Creamed Canned Fish and Peas
Tuna or salmon—Serves 4
1 lb. can fish 2 c. milk
2 tbsp. flour J.ji tsp. salt
1 tbsp. butter 1 c. peas
Make a white sauce of butter, flour,
milk and seasonings. Add the shredded
fish and drained peas. Serve on toast.
Parsley or pimento may be added for
seasonings.
Pea Souffle
2 c. pulp 2 eggs
1 c. cream 1 tsp. salt
Put cooked peas through the sieve or
vegetable press, to each 2 cups pulp, add
1 cup cream, salt and yolks of eggs beaten
until light. Fold in the stiffly beaten
whites, pour into oiled baking dish and
bake in slow oven until firm.
Cherry Batter Pudding
1 c. flour 1 tsp. fat
2 tsp. baking powder H c. milk
Salt if needed
Fill baking dish % full of sweetened
cherries. Sift dry ingredients, add milk ,
and melted fat , beat the mixture only
until smooth and spread over the fruit.
Bake until brown in a moderate oven.
Serve with fruit sauce:
2 c. fruit juice Sugar if needed
1 tbsp. cornstarch Salt
3 tbsp. flour 1 tsp. butter
Heat the fruit juice. Mix cornstarch ,
sugar and salt and blend with fruit
juice. Cook ten minutes, stirring while
it thickens. Remove from fire and add
the butter. Beat thoroughly and serve.
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university. The clothes you see in the
picture cost the whole of my last month's
allowance . . .
"But don't imagine that I shall always
demand such fine raiment. I have no false
ideas about life. Like butterflies, we poor
people have but a short summertime,
don't wc? So, please, just let me have
my one little butterfly dance in the sun,
and then I shall settle down and help earn
the living for us both. I have a feeling
that life is a struggle for you as well....
"I love you so much, dear father!
Isn't it strange that I love you, even
though I never have seen you? . . .
Sometimes, when I think over your
letters, perhaps when I am falling asleep—
when I'm just on the border line between
sleeping and waking, you know—it seems
to me that I have known you always and
forever. Do you mind my saying this?
I hesitated before saying it; but you have
been my father for such a long time, and
surely you will not mind if I show you
my thoughts. They are good thoughts;
for life is good and you are good, and the
future is a splendid thing . . .
And in this vein the letter went on to
the end, and was signed simply "Jean."
But after the signature was the inevitable
postscript:
"I love you, dear foster father! "
ONCE more Garry climbed up the
breast'of Table Butte and ,sat miserably
among the rocks watching the night
creeping over the rim of the world like
a somber pall gathered from the four
corners of the earth to shroud a poor
dead day.
Even so the pall of despair was wrapping
Garry's own soul and mocking him
for a poor, fatuous pretense of a foster
father. He was no foster father. He
never had been a foster father. He had
been a lover all the time! He knew it
now, and the realization crushed him
until he felt as old as the grim hill which
towered into the night behind him. He
loved this girl! Not with a fosterfatherly
affection, but with the jealous
love of youth which watches the stars
come out and senses the vague mystery
of life when the moonlight steals into
the blood. He loved her! And now
he had gone so far that he never could
hope to square himself!
And Jean—she loved her foster father!
The same foster father that sent checks
signed "Jacob Shinn"! Poor Garry's
heart toppled over into an abyss of woe
and splashed as it hit the black waters
of jealousy below. Who was he, Garry
McEwan?
Nobody! Jean had never even heard
of him. . . .
Garry's next letter was even more
fatherly than ever, though the writing
of it filled the young man with the
torture of honest shame. He realized
the enormity of his action. All through
his letter—he could see it now—sounded
the voice of the lover, hiding behind the
skirts of foster-fatherly privilege and
not daring to come out. He knew he
ought to confess.
But he could not find it in his heart
to give the matter up. He knew he was
a fool—he acknowledged it bitterly and
smote his breast. But a fool is like a
jackass: he never backs out of trouble.
He doesn't know how.
Old Topango Jake Shinn walked
snryly into the post office and got his
mail. He was full of the joy of life, for
out in the desert men do not grow old.
"You shorely have got a noble feelin'
today, Jake," ventured the postmaster.
"Where'd you get it?"
"Ain't none on the desert ," said
Tcpango. " That is, so far as I know."
U'ONTINUBD FROM FAUE 341))
The postmaster handed the mail
through the wicket. "Then what's got
you all jazzed up?" he inquired . "I
heard you singin' as you came in. You
was singin' that there Bill McGummon
song."
"I' m full of jack rabbit," grinned old
Topango. "Once in so often I got to
have a jack rabbit dinner to remind me
of the old days."
THE old prospector went outside and
began opening his mail , sitting upon
the edge of the porch. There were several
important communications, for now
Topango was a very rich man, and his
word was most influential in the mining
district of Table Butte.
Humming to himself , Topango came
at last to a thick, square envelope. He
did not recognize it, for he was thinking
deeply about the letter he had just read.
But Garry McEwan would have known.
Mechanically the old man's thumb
broke the edges apart. Abstractedly
Topango brought his eyes to the written
page. For a moment he sat thus, then
the abstraction left him in a flash and
his bony figure stiffened tensely. He
caught his breath and his ancient eyes
goggled at the letter in his shaking
hands.
He sprang to his feet and started
down the street toward the hotel, his
frenzied feet kicking sand high in the
air as he hurried along. But when he
reached the door he paused with his
hand on the knob.
"Garry ain't here!" he muttered
tremulously. "He went up on the
Butte today—I forgot all about that!"
He fished the old red bandanna out of
his hip pocket and wiped his bald head,
breathingconvulsively. "Love of Mike",
he half sobbed. "Whatever am I goin'
to do!"
He opened the door and proceeded
straight back to the kitchen. All was
peaceful there. At the table he found
Aunt Caddie Siphers engaged upon the
evening's batch of biscuits, her plump
bare arms covered with flour. She
turned and regarded Topango benevolently.
"Somepin' after you, Jake?" she
inquired. "You look fussed!"
Topango dropped the letter upon the
sink and backed toward the kitchen
door.
"Garry," he stuttered thickly. "Give
it to Garry! It's his letter—"
A moment later the front door
banged , and the amazed Aunt Caddie
was left alone with a mystery in the
shape of a thick letter which lay upon
the sink and looked harmless.
Yes, it looked harmless! But a ton of
dynamite dropped squarely into the
middle of the Table Butte mining district
would not have created more of a
mental upheaval.
THE eveningstage came in. Two hours
after the arrival of the stage Garry
McEwa n entered the hotel and charged
toward the dining room in a hurry, for
he was late. Aunt Caddie served him,
then took a seat opposite the young
man , and watched him through her
glasses. Garry was nearly through his
dinner when Aunt Caddie spoke.
"In college, Garry," "she said, "what
did they teach you?"
"Oh—the regular things," said Carry
lightly, and named them.
"Was there a course in literature or
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somepin '?" inquired Aunt Caddie
blandly.
Garry laughed , but an uneasy feeling
was laying hold of his heart. What was
Aunt Caddie up to, anyway.
"Read this!" said the good lady
abruptly; and one plump, capable arm
was extended across the table. A letter
fell before the eyes of the horrorstricken
boy. Frozen immobile, he read :
"—and now the butterfly is going to
work. What is a degree anyway, when
I have the chance to help work for you,
dear, old foster father ! I have a school!
And what school do you suppose it is?
The one in your town! Actually! Did
you ever hear of such luck?
"You'll be proud to have a daughter
who is a school teacher. I know you will.
But I shan't tell you what day I shall
arrive in town. I want it to be a surprise.
What fun to try to find out which
is who! But it will be soon—"
(CONTINUED FROM PA GB 306)
Caddie cheerfully. "All about this
foster father stuff. Now let's switch a
while. I'll be foster mother for, say, a
month, and we'll see what happens!"
AND all through the fatal hour while
Aunt Caddie was out in the kitchen,
Garry McEwan had been searching
franticall y for old Topango Jake Shinn ,
If ever he needed Topango, he needed
him now. But Topango had mysteriously
disappeared . At last Garry ran
across old Andy Shull.
"Topango Jake?" said Andy. "Why,
shorely! I met him a while ago, driving
his jackass out of town and headin'
toward the Panamints.
" 'Where you goin', Jake?' I asks him.
He don 't stop nor he don't turn his head.
Just keeps drillin ' on.
'"I ain't goin',' he says. 'I'm there!'
" 'Where's that?' I asks him.
"Tn hell!' says Topango Jake; and
IT
HAD come at last! The thing he the last I sees of him he's urgin' his
had been dreading—the exposure of jackass with a slat and lookin ' back over
his duplicity! It took poor Garry's warm his shoulder a heap apprehensive. I
heart in an icy clutch and turned the reckon you won't see Topango none for
tender organ into stone. Aunt Caddie's maybe three months."
firm hand came across and dropped
another letter beneath his nose. It was
a letter he had written the evening
ANDY Shull came very near qualifying
as a prophet of the first order. In-
before, meaning to mail it to-night. deed , it was six weeks before old Topango
"I ransacked your room ," said Aunt Jake came back. And, as before, he
Caddie mercilessly and without shame. sneaked furtively into town , traversing
"And my suspicions were confirmed ! devious ways that led him stumbling
Mr. Garry McEwan, what's the idea?" across vacant lots. He put the weary old
But Garry was stumbling out of the Sanchez in the corral , then, without
dining room, speechless and beaten. waiting to eat supper he struck out for
He was through! Oh , guardian angel of the hotel , meaning to slip up to Garry
all poor, loving young hearts, why had McEwan 's room and surrender.
you been lying down on your job! But He had just put out his hand to the
Aunt Caddie overtook him just opposite knob when the door opened and Garry
the parlor door, which stood partly ajar. came out. At first the boy could not
"Now tell me," said Aunt Caddie, recognize him in the darkness, and
still speaking firmly and Gorgon izing Topango spoke.
him with her compelling glasses, "what's "Garry," he said tremulously, "I've
it about? Why have you been corre- come back! First time I ever deserted
sponding with a Miss Jean Ensley—and my pardner, Garry! I—I—"
signing old Topango Jake Shinn's name, Garry uttered a joyous whoop and
hey? This is the show-down!
yanked the old man inside—straight
Aunt Caddie's clutch was secure on into the little parlor. "Here he is," said
his arm. Moreover, it was anchored to Garry exultantly. "This is the old
Aunt Caddie's two hundred pounds of rascal himself ,—the real foster father!
amplitude. Garry realized that it was Seize on him , Jean!"
indeed a show-down. He told Aunt And Jean did. A bewildered glimpse
Caddie all about it.
old Topango had of a little girl flying
"I was honest—at first , Aunt Caddie," toward him across the room. Then . ..
he finished, his voice broken, his dejected
form advertising his despair. Here's lo William G. McGummon;
"At first I wrote for old Topango ; but Ilmo that brother loved to bicker!
after a while I—I wrote for myself. I When he started things to hummin'
didn't realize it till just a little while You could hear the devil snicker;
ago, Aunt Caddie. I thought I was Now he's said good-by lo—
doing my share of being a foster father. Howling his ridiculous song to the
But one day I woke up. It was when listening world , old Topango Jake Shinn
she sent her last picture. Ever since walked proudly down the sandy street,
then I've known it. I—I—"
going toward Wilson's General Store.
Next moment there was a young man He was anxious to tell all the boys the
missing, and Aunt Caddie stood alone great news. In front of the post office
in the darkened hall. Her ample frame he met Andy Shull.
shook convulsively, and one capable "I got a daughter!" he babbled.
hand held her nose to suppress her "Huh?" gasped Andy, and stared at
violent mirth. Softly she tiptoed out him with falling jaw and batting eyes.
to the kitchen and.did not go near the "Her name's Jean!" pursued Topango.
little parhr door again. Not for an "And she's goin' to marry Garry
hour. She was a woman of rare intui- McEwan!"
tions, Aunt Caddie was.
Still Andy Shull swallowed convul-
When at last she went into the parlor sively, unable to negotiate speech. Old
it was quite dark. Over by the window Topango cocked his floppy Stetson upon
a little figure sat and looked out across his bald head and stuttered happily on.
the world toward the Panamints, where "She kissed me!" he said over his
the desert of stars came down and joined shoulder, and lost himself in the night,
the desert of sand, with the night throw- still insulting the memory of the late Mr.
ing a mantle of mystery over all. Aunt McGummon. It was his way when he
Caddie tiptoed across and took the little was very, very happy. And behind him
fi gure in her motherly arms. The little Andy Shull stood listening, staring
figure clung to her.
stupidly through the darkness after
"I know all about it ," said Aunt Topango Jake.
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PETROLEUM JELLY
patchwork and Quilting
ijM@f\ in pillows
WOULDN'T you love to make
one of these joll y patchwork
or quilted pillows to tuck in
the corner of the sofa or the
favorite arm chair? In bright, crisp
calicoes with hand-quilting and real
patchwork, they add a dash of color and
a quaint touch to room furnishings.
Like grandmother's old-time treasure
quilts they arc made by hand.
The front is no larger than a quilt
block. Seams arc made on the wrong
side or they may be made on right side
and bound. They are hand quilted or
left plain. Sides are boxed with cording
or tailored trimming inserted at scams.
Quilting is quite simple to do. It
consists of fine running stitches, done
with- matching or contrasting thread.
To quilt a pieced pillow top, lay a
piece of sheet wadding on the wrong
side of the pieced top, then cover the
sheet wadding with voile or unbleached
muslin (the size of the pillow top) which
has been stamped with the quilting
pattern. The quilting is done from the
wrong side, using buttonhole twist if
the pillow top is silk or strong cotton
thread if the top is of cotton. The
beauty of the finished pillow will depend
on the fineness of the stitches.
Changeable gold colored taffeta was
used for the round pillow at the right
above, with basket design in handquilting.
Hot-iron transfer pattern
No. 1130 was stamped on a circle of unbleached
muslin , 13 inches in diameter.
Top and back were cut the same size
and the side strip was cut 2 inches wide.
A layer of sheet wadding was placed
over the taffeta top and the wadding
was covered with the circular piece of
stamped muslin. The basket design was
hand-quilted with matching buttonhole
twist from the wrong side. Three rows
of quilting, 14 inch apart, added a nice
finish to the edge of front.
The round pillow with point edge is
made of yellow calico with a quaint
little flower design in green, rose, yellow
and black on a pale yellow ground.
The front and back are of the same
material. Pillow width is 13 !4 inches.
The point edge is of red and black
glazed chintz. To make a point , cut
a 4-inch square of chintz, fold diagonally
and then fold again through center to
give the point of 4 thicknesses of cloth.
Make 11 black and 11 red points. Pin
points together, alternating black and
red, lapping them Yi the width of point.
Baste point edges together and baste
to edge of pillow top. Sew front to
back, leaving opening to insert pillow.
The oblong quilted pillow, illustrated at
upper center, was made of an old taffeta
waist which was dyed a soft shade of
rose. The front and backs were cut 9
by 11 inches with a strip 2 inches wide
for the side box. Front and back were
quilted alike in diagonal lines Yi inch
apart with rose silk thread. The edges
were corded with a self-covered cord and
the boxed sides quilted in straight rows
\4 inch apart.
pATCHVVORKand quilting are com-
*• bincd in the other little oblong pillow
illustrated above. The back is cut of
yellow calico 9x1lYi inches. The front is
made of yellow, green , and rose flowered
calico, pieced together. Seams are
bound with black binding. After the
pieces are sewed and seams bound the
front of the pillow is quilted with white
thread in parallel rows Yi inch apart.
The strip for the sides is cut 2 inches
wide. It is quilted in parallel rows to
match the top and the seams where
back and front joi n the side boxing are
bound with black binding.
The round pillow illustrated at the
CHEERY PILLOW AT LEFT, OP ORANOE ANDBLUE-AND-
WHITE CHISP CALICOES WITH BLACk BINDINGS
PRIM PILLOW AT RIGHT WITH TREE-LEAF DESIGN
REMINDS YOU OF THE QUAINT FURNISHINGS OF
COLONIAL DAYS
By LEOHORE DWWGAH
THE BASKET DESIGN SHOWN ABOVE IS NO. 1130
lower left measures 13 inches in diameter.
It is made of three triangular
sections of blue and white figured calico
and three of orange calico with a blue*
and-white design. The sections are
sewed together, alternating the color,
and the seams are bound with black
binding. The front may be quilted or
left plain. The back is cut in one piece
of orange figured calico. The side strip,
which measures 2 inches wide, is also
of orange calico. The sides are sewed
to top and bottom , making seams on
the right side. The seams are finished
with black binding.
""THE old-fashioned , tuck-under-arm
*¦ pillow at the lower right is made
of black-and-white polka dot and blackand-white
striped calico in quaint treeleaf
pattern. The latter consists of a
pieced leaf of four small triangular
pieces and two oblong pieces sewed
together diagonally at center with stem
in applique. Six triangular pieces and
one 3 inch square complete the front.
The front and back of the pillow measure
9x9 inches, with box strip cut 2 inches
wide. The side strip is of red striped
calico and hack of blue calico. The
front is pieced together like a quilt
block and quilted diagonally in parallel
rows Yi inch apart. The side strip is
quilted in straight rows Yi inch apart
and sewed to top and back with corners
boxed.
The tree-leaf is also attractive in light
calico pieces with background of dark
pieces. Write to the Handicraft Dept
for further information on making
quilted and patchwork pillows.
Quilted Pillow Handicraft patterns may be secured from the Handicraft Department of THE FARMER'S W IFE. Price 10 cents.

Cx^ ^ine ^dea !
IF
YOU have a relative
or intimate
friend to be married,
start a rag bundle for
her. Include in this
bundle, soft old white
cloths, pieces of silk
and sateen, cotton
goods such as muslin, outing and overall
cloth if she is to be a farmer's wife, and
any other that you think of. All of
this will come in handy as a new housekeeper
is lost when she needs cloth for
various purposes. This can be presented
in an attractive bag.—Mrs. A. R. B.,
Kansas.
TF PLATES are heated before pies are
* put on them, the undercrust will not
get soggy. It is the hot pie on a cold
plate which produces a sweat and makes
the pie soggy.—Mrs. F. M. H., Indiana.
TT IS difficult to catch a moth with the
*¦ hands as it flies through the air.
However, if the hands are moistened,
the moth can easily be caught, as the
nearness of a wet surface seems to have
a paralyzing effect upon its wings.—
Mrs. M. H., Iowa.
WHEN cutting cheese for sandwiches
or any use where it is desirable
to have thin slices, try warming the
knife before cutting. Bread will also
cut better when knife is heated.—Mrs.
G. E. S., Minnesota.
FOR the little tot
who is learning to
dress herself , I find it
a great help to mark
each garment so that
she can tell which is
the front. I make a
small cross with some
thread which is easy
to see, at top of bloomers and skirt and
just inside of the neck of the dress.—
Mrs. N. W., Indiana.
WHEN replacing old elastic in
bloomers and so forth, sew one
end of the new elastic to one end of the
old and then pull the other end of the
old elastic. As the old is being pulled
out, the new is being pulled in.—Mrs.
G. M. F., Nebraska.
FOR my recipe book I took six envelopes
and pasted the lower edges together
and then let them dry. Then for a cover,
I cut thin cardboard which I covered
with construction paper. The envelopes
were then placed between the two
covers and the back bound with a strip
of cloth, and strips of paper pasted on
the inside holds the envelopes to the
pasteboard covers. Then I labeled each
envelope.—G. H. K., Oklahoma.
WHEN gathering fresh peas, use
scissors to clip the stems. This
is much quicker than pulling them off
and it also avoids ruining the vines —
E. J., Indiana.
IF
A nail is dipped in hot water before
it is driven into a wall, the plaster will
not be cracked, when it is driven in.—
Mrs. A. S., South Dakota.
TWO holders fastened
on a tape one
yard long and thrown
about the neck while
cooking, will save hunting
for one and also
burnt fingers—Mrs. M.
E. B., Wisconsin.
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Gets the
Dirt and Lint
Instantly
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••I sure, I
J_ did not
come
from anything so
big as a goat, or a
seal, or a tree.'-' The
ribbon began in answer
to the cap's
question as to how
she came to be so
much admired. "At
first I was nothing
but a black worm,
&n the ©othesline
V—THE RIBBON—Bv EVIE CORNEY
no thicker than a
4^' ^MPMV' * ' i y ii '^P / ' pin. .
thc oven , they were
thrown in to a pan of
warm water, which
softened the sticky
substance that kept
the threads in place.
"The loosened
ends of the cocoon
silk were gathered
up by a girl with
sharp eyes and nimble
li ngers.. Severa l
of these ends were
brought together
and put through a
metal eyelet, fast-
AS a time saver the carpet sweeper has "I was born in
ened above the pan
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of water, and passed
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you with its ease of operation. Rubber
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covered with a paper
filled with tiny
holes. I crawled
through one of the
holes and bega n to
eatthe tenderyoung
mulberry leaves
spread on top of tne
paper.
over a reel. The
reel turned slowly
and took up the silk
threads as they were
unwound from the
cocoons.
"The silk from the
reel was finally wrapped
into a skein. The
Efficient housekeepers keep a Bissell on "How I did eat!
skein was put with
each floor. The price is so low and the time I ate so much that
other skeins and
it saves more than justifies having the extra by the end of the
made into a bale,
sweeper.
month I had be-
which was brought
The cost of the first half-dozen brooms it come as large as a
to this country.
saves pays for a Bissell which lady's little finger. By that time I was "The silk thread was dyed and woven
lasts for years. Play-size tired and sleepy.
^
in much the same way that the cotton
{¦Ltv J _ Bissells for a few dimes.
^HRBgN ^ dSJJUMLBOll;
A 1 i "I crawled up on a twig, with hundreds thread was colored and woven. But
BlW^SEjjE
of other silkworms, as we were called , after that, I was sprinkled with wax
and began to spin a cocoon to sleep in. and ironed between heavy steel rollers to
I made it of a gummy substance in my make me glossy."
own body, which men call silk. It came "You may have been beautiful when
out of my upper lip in a thread , which I you were glossy. But wc should not
wound round and round my body. As have known it now without having been
soon as the cocoon was finished , I told ," interrupted the shawl.
dropped off to sleep.
"By putting the cocoons into a hot
oven , the keeper of the silk worms took
good care that the worms in them did not
wake up as moths. Had he not done so,
the moths would have bitten a hole in
"If you had been tied into as many
knots as I have, you would be even more
wrinkled than you are," the ribbon
replied saucily. "At least I am still the
color of the sky, and therefore beautiful ,"
she added with a proud little swish.
the cocoons through which to come out. At that moment , a few drops of rain
Such a hole would have cut the long splashed on the roof. Mother hurried
threads of silk that had been wound into out, and , before the shawl could reply,
the cocoons.
carried everything into the house.
"When the cocoons were taken out of
("HE HND )
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liJl ^BH anc' na[ dware stores.
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pressure ^gSsT of your present sweeper
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Picture Puzzle
By Florence H. Moore
THIS' month's puzzle looks like a
mountain with its reflection in the
water, but it is an iceberg which sometimes
is as big as a mountain. In this
puzzle, there is a picture of an arctic animal
which is an expert diver and fishcr-
man. He s probably foraging for dinner
this minute. The letters of his two
names may also be found. This animal
belongs to the genus Urstts, and , while
he is classed as a carnivorous mammal
(better look up all these words), he
prefers roots, nuts, honey and insects.
Thisparticulartypeis maritime. (Where
letters of the name repeat themselves,
only one is used.)
Test Tour Vocabulary
1. What mate is a companion?
2. What mate is final?
3. What mate is entire?
4. What mate is a school fellow?
5. What mate blocks the game?
Answers to May Puzz les
Cities in Southern States
1. ChattoHooga 5. GrccnviWc
2. Evergreen 6. A'tHgfishcr
3. G'rawville 7. Pine Bluff
4. Red
Cities in Central States
1. Omaha 5. Waterloo
2. St. Joseph (>. Red Cloud
3. Topeka 1. Rochester
4. Red Wing
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Are
Q/our ghildren Wealthy?
By WALTER R. RAMSEY, M. D.
Associate Professor, Diseases of Children, University of Minnesota
THE Child Health Department of THE FARMER'S WIFE is ready to serve
mothers by answering health questions concerning children. Write the facts
clearly and enclose a 2-cent stamp for reply, and prompt reply will be given. A
list of valuable booklets, available for a few cents each, will also be sent on request.
Address Child Health Department, THE FARMER'S WIFE, St. Paul, Minn.
MY
baby is now one year old and so far has
not a single tooth. The baby is bottle fed ,
takes only milk about 1 quart daily and a little
cooked cereal. It weighs 16 pounds' and is rather
pale and does not creep or stand. It perspires a
lot around the head and cries a lot. Do you think
there is anything wrong or are the teeth j ust
delayed!—Mrs. P. M„ New York.
Your baby has rickets and you should give it
a good mixed diet of milk, vegetable puree and
some fresh fruit juice and cod liver oil. The
baby should be gotten out-of-doors daily in the
sun and when it is warm with all clothing removed
for at least a short period. If it is too
cold put it in the sun in the window. The
flowers do well in the windows so some of the
sun rays which come through glass must have
value even if the ultra violet rays are cut out.
Send for booklet on Care of Children During
First Two Years.
/It A VE two children ages three and two years
both very healthy, active with rosy cheeks, but
not fat. They have plenty of good food milk, eggs
and sunshine, but I can 't seem lo get them fat
even if they are pictures of health. As long as they
are healthy, active and hard , does it matter if they
are not fat? The girl age three weighs 30 pounds
and the boy age two weighs 26 pounds.—Mrs. T.
II. M „ Nan Jersey.
The weights of your children are about
normal for their ages and if they arc otherwise
healthy as you say there is no reason why they
should be fat. This very prevalent idea that children
should be fat is quite erroneous. Proper
development of muscles and bone is much more
And when Miss Lucy asked her a question
, it was sailing away somewhere else
on wings like a bird.
Nancy wanted to know so many things
it seemed sometimes that all the inside of
her was one big question mark. But
she didn't ask many questions. She
could chatter well enough about just
nothings. But her real thoughts, deep
down inside her, she never talked about.
She listened for an answer, every day in
school, but though Miss Lucy talked and
talked , the answer never came.
For Nancy loved only the things of
Nancy's world. She could not remember
the rest. A breeze blowing in at the
window blew them right out of her head.
It blew them clear away. And Miss
Lucy wondered where in the world all the
history dates and the arithmetic tables
had gone to. She tried to put them back
in Nancy's head, but they would never
stay.
Nancy was sitting very still. She
should have been studying but she
wasn't. She was reading a book and
was far away in a rich land of dreams.
For it was Nancy herself she saw there in
all the experiences of the world. Life
opened out to her, venturous and thrilling
and good. She read on breathlessly
from page to page. She could not put
the book down for fear the magic would
depart. Or that some harm might come
to the people in the story if she were not
there to see. They were a part of her.
She committed all their crimes and
suffered for them , she fought their battles
and went down to defeat , she loved with
all their loves, her heart ached with their
sorrows, and she was aglow with happiness
when the good , at last, had won. It
was an excursion into life from which she
came back rich with experience. A book
was not just a book to Nancy. It was a
r/Jooks and ^ails
(CONTINUED FHOH PAGE 3551
important than being fat; in fact more than a
reasonable amount of fat indicates improper
feeding or some form of malnutrition.
rHE Public Health authorities in our slate are
urging that the children in the schools be
given toxin-antitoxin lo protect them from
diphtheria ; would you recommend that we have it
given to our children? We hear so muck about
these vaccines and serums now a days , it is hard
for anyone lo know what to do,—Mrs. W. L. P.,
Wisconsin.
¦ Yes, the toxin-antitoxin can now be given
with the assurance that if properl y given the
children will be immuned at least during childhood
and perhaps for life. The United Stales
Public Health Science has thoroughly investigated
this matter and have decided it is safe and
practical. For detailed information write your
own State Board of Health.
Af OW that summer is here how soon can the
I » children discard their woolen underwear and
wear cotton?—Mrs. W. M „ Indiana.
Right away. There is a tendency in " this
country to undress children as soon as the weather
is warm. The less clothing children wear the
better for their health. Their bodies should be
exposed to the sun for a period every day and if
they can go barefoot all summer long so much
the better. The wearing of much clothing__ is
largely habit. For a good part of the year'in
mild climates clothing is worn cither to cover
nakedness or for show, as there is no need to
wear it for warmth. Children "take cold" much
more often as a result of being overdressed than
undcrdresscd.
door that opened and she walked right
through.
Recess was the busiest time of the day.
There was always so many things to do.
They all played baseball and prisoner's
base and other games, and Paul was the
general manager of everything. He knew
how the games should be played , and the
other children did whatever he told them
to. All the other boys wished they could
be like Paul, and the girls thought he was
very wonderful. Usually they played
along the little stream that ran down
through the schoolhouse yard. They
could paddle in it, and sail boats on it,
and build a dam and set a waterfall.
And in the winter they could skate a
little bit upon it.
Sometimes Nancy and the other girls
played at "houses" in the corners of the
fence, with green moss for carpets, and
stones and bits of chinaware for furnish -
ings. It was a lot of fun. But there
was one bit of blue plate in Nancy's playhouse
that always bothered her. It had
the picture of a man , broken off at his
waist. But his legs were set in such a
purposeful stride that Nancy knew he
must be going on some great adventure.
Where was he going and what was he
going to do? It was a teasing question.
The rest of the picture might have answered
it, but the other pieces of the broken
plate had been lost long ago. Maybe
he was rushing to meet a lovely lady!
Maybe he was on his way to war!
Maybe—maybe—! None of the stories
she made up seemed thrilling enough.
The bit of china was like so many others
of the things she knew at school. It
set her thoughts a-sail. Her imagination
leaped ahead, but it could not
satisfy her. She felt she must know.
But where he was going or what he was
going to do—she never found out at all!
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dropping out.' So I say, even though
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much help, as I've had , you can not
afford to let music dic'out of your home.
It is good for you and for your family."
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Fun in Vacation Camps
(CONTINUED FROM PAUE 301)
"Who are you?" she asks the Spirit
on the throne.
"I am the Spirit of the Great Outdoors,"
replies that estimable lady.
"The out doors!" exclaims the Pilgrim
, "I know nothing of it."
> "Let me show you a scene of camp
life ," urges the good Spirit. "Sit here
on the throne and watch."
And so the pageant unfolds , episode
by episode. Four graceful wood nymphs
do an interpretive dance in flowing
draperies of cheesecloth. Old Camp
A ppetite , a gigantic stomach, rolls onto
the stage, demanding to be filled up and
waitresses bring food galore. A group
of Orange Crushes go through some fine
setting-up exercises, the Goslings give a
f rst aid demonstration , all in pantomine
and to music. A miniature sty le
show emphasizes clothing lessons learned
in camp, then comes a bed-time song
with the singers yawning sleepily over
candles. And now appears a regular
three-ringed circus showing games in
progress.
The audience has completely forgotten
the Pil grim but she springs up as the
wood nymphs appear once more. "Let
me join you!" she begs, "I want to be
young again!" They dance about her,
loosen the ugly bath robe which falls
with her hood to her feet and lo she
stands forth—beautiful , gay, lighthearted
, like the rest of the campers!
And now the grand finale with everybody
on the stage and best of all,
waiters passing light refreshments.
The Recreational Director mounts the
stage and announces the final score.
The Orange Crushes have won! With
great impressiveness, the captain is told
to come forward and receive the prize!
A hardsome loving cup it is, made of
By EVANGELINE PERSON
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two tin funnels with elaborate handles
soldered at the sides! "Speech!" yells
the crowd.
"In the name of the Orange Crushes,
I thank you," says the captain.
"And for myself I want to say I shall
ever have a crush on this camp!"
The activities described in this article are
only intended to be susgestive and to be
altered to suit the occasion. Kor further information
write to Vacation Camp Department,
THE FARMER'S W IKE, St. Paul , Minnesota.
How Do They Get That Way
(CONTINUED FROM PACE 351)
both father and mother are thoughtful
people and anxious to do the best for
their children , each child will be required ,
as a matter of course, to take his or her
part of the daily routine at home and at
school. If the parents know how to
handle each child properly, the result will
be that all of the children will perform all
or most of these duties fairly well,
excelling, of course, in those things for
which they have an individual aptitude.
Children who in the course of general
training show special ability in some
particular field, should be encouraged to
develop it, but not to the exclusion of
the other necessary things and not until
it is well established by consulting an expert
in the matter that their ability in
that particular field is exceptional.
Knowing, therefore, that children inherit
physical and mental traits from
their parents, it is essential that only the
mentally and physically vigorous should
be the parents of children.
After having been born fairly normal,
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to a large degree, upon his surroundings.
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eally yod's Success
smile their sweetest. And it s many a
laugh we have over their queer sayings.
"The other night when I put my little
two-year-old to bed, I said, 'Good night,
Darling.' And she answered, 'Good
night, Sauer Kraut.'
(< 0 UNDAY is my day of rest. I don't
?^ bother with potatoes that day. A
little extra baking on Saturday leaves me
more time on Sunday. Sometimes I think
to myself: T work hard all the week so
that I will know enough to appreciate
my rest when it comes.'
"My little trips are a pleasure, too.
They give me a few breaths of air, a
change of scenery and a little chatter
along the way. All three of which are
very refreshing.
"I can't do any Community work.
But ," brightening, "Elwyn always gets
me out to vote. He says, 'It's a duty
now that women have the ballot.'
"One of our greatest compensations
is reading. We are all great readers.
We read everything we can get hold of.
The source of our supply is two of Wayne
County's circulating libraries and the
grade school and high school. Between
these we can get any kind of book any
time.
"We have the daily papers, the farm
papers, the general run of magazines and
THE FARMER'S WIFE. What are you
editors doing? Giving the magazine
more milk and sunshine, or what. It
seems to be improving right along.
"Astonished at the amount of work
I do? Well, there is more to that,
too. You see my health is fine, 100
per cent, and I am still young.
"Moreover, there's my Husband.
He's the backbone of this institution.
I wouldn't be anything without Elwyn.
"He's a fine farmer , and a fine man ,too.
Every year I see his work all done so well.
"We're doing general farming and
specializing in Holstein cattle with a
registered sire. The cattle are the cause
of the children's health. Milk saved
their lives. 0, I wouldn 't dare to live in
town with this 'bunch.'
"One thing I find in your Success
Stories. All the Success women have
modern conveniences of 1926 while I have
the inconveniences of 1890 . . . But
you may look over the place for yourself.
"Just see our 115 acres of low, flat
land. It's so flat that sometimes I
think it must ache, like Mexico and
China, for a little uprising.
"Back to the house. It was built
new for us when we had one baby and
here it stands,—made strong and warm.
But it was either stunted at birth or else
it developed the rickets immediately
after, ' for it has failed to keep pace with
our growing family. Five rooms. No
more; no less. Not a porch , cellar, cupboard,
clothes-closet, well or cistern.
So if I am a Success, you see it is in a
cramped and cluttered way.
"I had no training at all for farm life,
though I was born on a farm and lived
there till I was four years old. I was
the youngest of six and so much younger
than the rest that I grew up almost alone.
"If there is anything sweet and gentle
in my nature it came from my Mother.
You know her kind. She was Grandma
Hughes to the whole neighborhood.
"It was from my Dad that I got my
ability to 'laugh it off'; also my square
shoulders. He was a hard-working
man, a horse-shoer by trade. At the
age of 76 he still has a hearty laugh , can
crack a joke and dance a merry jig .
"When I was a small child, we moved
(CONTINUED FBOM PAGE 350)
into town and I went to grade school and
had two years of high school. Then I
worked one year in a paper mill and
that's where I met 'me gude mon.'
"Elwyn was sick. He couldn't stand
inside work,—couldn't eat. That's why
we decided to come here to his father's
farm. I was only 18 when I came here
as a farmer's wife. I didn't know a
thing about housework. Couldn't boil
water without burning it. They laugh
at me still because I tried to freshen salt
pork in boiling water. I don't know
whatever I would have done if it hadn 't
been for my Husband's three sisters.
I do wish you would say that what I am
in the line of cook, housekeeper and
seamstress, I owe to them.
"Of course I've been too busy raising
children to help financiall y. The only
money I've ever made has been from
THE FARMER 'S WIFE. First there was
ten dollars for a prize letter, 'Writing
Home to Mother,' and then the money
for the 'Sally Sod' letters and the 'One
Month' article. When your letter came
telling me they were accepted , I drew
a deep breath and was transported
straight through the air to the southwest
corner of a gloriously pink cloud. And
there I am yet.
"It has been one of the greatest desires
of my life to burst forth on a printed
page. But I never expected it to happen.
"And the money . . . I really
didn't know I had that many dollars
worth of brains in my dome. Elwyn
insisted I should spend it all for myself ,
but of course I wouldn 't do that. It
meant a lot to the little Greens, coming
just before Christmas, as it did..
"I had no idea that the simple expression
of my feelings would cause such an
outburst. I wish I could answer all the
nice letters that have been written in
reply. But that would be quite an order.
I had to smile when I read them. I
couldn't help thinking, 'How human
these women would find me if they could
sec me reading their letters leaning on
my mop handle.'"
MR. GREEN had taken a lively pa rt
in the conversation , adding an illuminating
word now and then. Finally I
asked him point blank; "What is the
secret of your wife's success?"
And he replied without a moments
hesitation , "Her good nature." Then
he added slowly, thinking as he spoke:
"Don't you think that when people have
the right slant on life—even though they
haven't much money —they get more out of
living than people who have everything—
and haven't the right slantl"
"Success?" Sally Sod echoed. "No
one knows any better than I, that I am
a complete failure in more ways than
one. And if our Ship of Matrimony
should, sometime in the future, anchor
safely in the Harbor of Success, I should
feel that it was the farmer's success—
not the farmer's wife's.
"Webster says: 'Success is the termination
of anything attempted.' That
is what we are working for now and we'll
have to keep right at it for years to
come. It's going to be uphill work.
"After seeing me, if you still consider
me worthy of a niche in your Hall of
Fame please don't write 'Finis.' I still
consider myself only a candidate for
success and I am willing—more willing
than ever—to wage a heavy campaign.
My motto will be:
Hard work and more of tl.
"And my emblem—a baby buggy with
a pair of patched overalls rampant."
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The Unproductive Age
Cut it Short!
T^ROM the day a chick leaves the into heavy layers in a hurry."
A shell to the day it lays an egg is These pouItrymen _ thousands of
an unproductive, profitless period. them _ a H re ha;ing almost unbeliev.
Throughout the spring and through- able results from Purina Chick
out the summer, your pullets eat Growena and Purina Intermediate
and eat, and produce—nothing. Hen Chow. They are advancing
Some folks try to economize by the productive, age. They are
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time. What happens? The unpro- nei ghbors are still Spc

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Conducted 6> CLARA M SUTTZR
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Mrs. Raymer Raises Poultry
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Sizes 16, 18 years, 36, 38,
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1900 — — The Same Old Moon — — 1927
June Madness
"Whal is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever come perfect days."
And perfect nights, and an opal moon
What is so rare as a day in June?
Hut lest the verse maker should forget
A small imperfection of the month,
I think a line or two might well be set
Ancnt the sprightly June bugs I have met.
June days are gay days, that I will agree,
But when the shades of night come trembling
down,
I seek the solace of my porch to sec
The June moon cast its shadows oc'r the lea.
'Tis then that June (for me) drops its effect—
I feel a creepy coldness up my spine.
I leap, and rant and rave and cry "By Hcckl
"That poet never had a June Bug down his
neck!"
Helga, the Hired~Girl, aaya:
"Judging from the fiah we buy'fromthe
nah peddler, there'a a lot of truth in the
old aaying, 'There's better fiah in the «ea
than have ever been caught. 1 "
A Virginia darkey recently sent out the
following announcement to his customers:
"Notice: De copartnership heretofore resisting
between me and Mose Skinner is hereby
resolved. Dent what owe de firm will pay me, and
dem what de firm owes will settle with Mose."
There is a newspaper in Detroit, known as the
Detroit Free Press. But a certain Scotchman
evidently did not read it.
Sandy was on a visit to the Automobile City
and was spied by a friend wandering up and
down the street with a pair of trousers on his
arm. "What are you doing with the pants,
Sandy?" inquired a chance acquaintance.
"I'm looking for the Detroit Free Press,"
replied the Scot.
Aunt Bade on Farm Relief
"There's been a lot of talk in the papers
lately about some kind of a Bill for Farm Relief
in Congress, the McNary-Haugen Bill, or something
of the kind. What us farm folks need is
relief from automobiles and automobile drivers.
The farms is gettin' so full of 'em it's getting so
we don't even have nightmares any more on the
farm ,—we have tractor deliriums!
Every time Hiram starts plowing in the south
forty he has to up and run out of gasoline and
get out the Kord and go to Midburg for gas
and when he gets to Midburg he stops to gas
and don't get home until dark or after.
The automobiles have made it so easy (o
scoot around that nine-tenths of the fanners in
Beeswax County kin be located comin' and
goin' instead of on the place. It used to be
that neighbors was neighbors, but since the
factories starting grinding out flivvers the
nearest neighbor is always 30 miles away.
I never know when I ring the dinner bell
whether Hiram is somewhere on the farm or
over in the County Seat discuss-in' politics.
And if he ain't out somewhere in the flivver,
some city folks is buzzin' along the road makin'
hash out of my prize roosters, or climin' fences
to raid the orchard.
Yessir, I figure that automobiles is the real
farm relief issue But at that I wouldn't
t rade our ftivver off for half the land in Violet
Township."
A visitor being shown througth an
English insane asylum noticed one of the
inmates, an American, who was jabbering
senselessly and covering his cell with
diagrams.
"What a pathetic easel" he remarked.
"Yes," replied the superintendent.
"He tried to explain to some Englishman
what pancakes were,"
Two Irishmen went into the trenches for the
first time and their captain promised them a
dollar for every German they killed.
Pat lay down to rest and Tim watched for the
enemy.
"They're comin'! They're comin'!" yelled
Tim.
"Who's comin?" shouted Pat.
"The Germans," replied Tim.
"How many are there?"
"About fifty thousand."
"Begorra ," shouted Pat, jumping up and
grabbing his rifle, "our fortune is made."
A farmer was told by his doctor to count
sheep jumping over a fence in an effort to cure
insomnia.
The next day the farmer came back and said:
"It didn't work, doctor. I counted enough
to pay off the mortgage, and got so mad because
they were not real that I stayed awake all night."
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Four Ducks on a Pond (Part VI).. Ruth Sairer 347
Books and Sails Mar j Meek At{cson 348
Features
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Home Talent Saves the Fair. . Betty Ectjumlt 349
Sally Sod's Success Grace Farrington Graji 350
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Flowers in the Home £. C. Volz 352
"How Do They Get That Way?"
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Who Owns Your Children?... Mar/orie S/mler 362
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That Little Girl of Mine Philip Kane 346
Privilege and Duty Dr. John W. Holland 355
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Shall Wc Go Back to the Kerosene Limp? 357
The Lone Girl Scout 358
Master Farm Homemaker Contest Arouses
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Heigh-ho for Hikes Edna Bowling 360
Hoosier Girl Wins Contest 361
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June Meals Lola G. Terljes 365
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Smock It Or Shirr It For June 369
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Leowre Dunnigdtt 370
A Finc Idea 371
On the Clothesline (Part V) Erie Cornej 372
Arc Your Children Healthy? .Walter R. Ramsej 373
Music in the Home Evangtline Person 374
Culling the Hens Clara M. Sutter 376
The Farm Woman's Poultry Business
Clara M. Sutter 377
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