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About The Farmer's Wife
FARMER'S WIFE is dedicated
entirely to the discus-
THE
si&n of matters in rural life of
particular interest to farm
women, in this particular being
just ' .a little bit different from any
other publication in the United
States. The task of the editorial
staff is to select for publication in
our columns a class of material that
is helpful, inspirational, educational
.and practical of application in
every day life on the average farm.
There are many admirable publica-
' tiohs that appeal to city women.
THE FARMER'S WIFE is unique in
that it belongs entirely to farm
women and their interests. That
is a pretty big mission to live up
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Our readers will , perhaps note
that the issues of _ THE FARMER'S
WIFE are growing in size and quality
each month. Your support
makes this possible. In return,
the editors to the best of their
knowledge are constantly striving
to assemble just the sort of material
you wish to read, practical
material that you can use.
Last year, we added the page of (£{
New York dress styles, believing
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that farm women want up-to-date
information on fashions. Then
came the practical department on home
dressmaking, by Mrs. Krum, the home
improvement articles by Mrs. Whitford ,
fet
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the health stories by Dr. Alexander, talks
. with girls by Marian Craig, food instruction
by , Miss Cordiner, stories on making
things grow by Professor. Cheyney and the
discussion of boy and- girl achievements
assembled by Mr. Akers. Mrs. Flagg,
' Mr. Hughes and others have been giving
you the experiences . of practical farm
women who;are really doing things to
make country, life happier and more
wholesome. To our mind, this sort of
helpful material reflects the big worthwhile
things in agriculture. No one can
write for THE FARMER'S WIFE except
those who have an understanding sympathy
for and an interest in farm life. Tell
us, Mrs. Farmer's Wife, is this the sort of
material you care to read?
Last month we conceived the notion
that farm women like suggestions about
music in the farm home so we tacked on
another department. Guess we were
right, because within ten days after the
paper was mailed, over three thousand
orders reached us for the music we had
listed. The department is now a regular
feature. This month we add the Book
Shelf to guide you in selecting good books
for the family. Another new feature in
. this issue is the report of the work of the
ḥome demonstration agents in various
states. Last but not least we have per-
- suaded Miss Koch to tell you of the work
she has done securing home conveniences
for farm women. All of the department
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THREE great questions are of especial interest to
the farm people of the United States at this time. Of
all the current problems incidental to farm life these
- three questions are-of first importance.,. .
The first question relates to rural education and the .
giving to^the farm boy and the farm girl a square;'deal as
compared to the city boy and .girl.: The , government
itself, backed by all the educational forces of the country,'
is this year conducting a -drive to formulate the liecess
sary public sentiment to compel the right and fair'sort of
rural education.
The second question deals with rural health. The
draft taught us that rural people, with ideal surroundings .
for health, are not necessarily more healthy than city,
people. It it time to find out why this is true. A great
campaign is being waged this year to promote the health
of both town and country people. There is nothing
more .important than the conservation of health.
A-third question of great importance to farm women is
the matter of organization of rural interests. All classes
of people in this country are organized except farmers and
farmers' wives. And now the farmers are rapidly becoming
organized. Why should not the farm women of this
country have their local clubs and their larger federations?
Is it not time to have a mouthpiece to express the problems
of the farm home and the machinery to solve these
problems?
THE FARMER'S WIFE proposes to devote a great deal
:. of space to these three great questions during the coming .,
m . years. They are questions that directly affect the J j
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thus developing community sentiment a
for better things in all farm homes. /
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DRIVING into the yard on a dull
September day in an old democrat
wagon which might have arrived
on the Mayflower with his' distinguished
ancestor, scowling and snarling at
a * rack-a-bones of a horse, William Brewster
nervously grasped the reins and slid
gingerly to the ground.
"Whoa! didn't I t^ll ye?" he shrieked,
jerking on the reins and throwing his
clumsy-weight on the tugs. "Back, you old
fool! Do you want me to tear the whiffletrees
out gettin' you onhitched!"
When he stamped . into the kitchen a
few .minutes later, the refined old gentlewoman
by the window lifted her deep grey
eyes for an instant from a pan of pie apples
to drop again.before he could catch their
subtle flash.
"What'd you think has happened now,
Anne Rutledge?" he growled throwing him
self iqjo the big rocker. "Stone has sold
to Bayton for fifteen thousand and oneV
these durned furriners has bought the
Jenkins' place."
It was a piece of real news and the woman's
industrious fingers halted for a
moment as she looked him full in the face.
The Stone place was directly east of the
Brewster estate, the last farm owned by a
"native" between them and beautiful
Kildare, which, within a few years had
been' bought up by millionaires from St.
Louis and New York and converted into a
sort of Bar Harbor of the granite hills.
The Jenkins place was the next farm
directly west.
" AND of all kinds of course it had
*» to be one of these crazy Rooshan
Poles," the incensed "native"
added.
• "Maybe it will be all for the best,
William," his wife softly ventured,
resting her eyes on old Mount Maroonock
rising dimly above the gathering
clouds. ''Bayton has his millions and
will probably convert the Stone Place -.,,
into one of his model farms and as for
the Jenkins place, I'm sure anything j
ought to be better than an abandoned t
farm all going to rack and ruin." —• j
"Jest like you, Anne Rutledge!" he
retorted, "Staring at the mountain!
If your darned old mountain should
bust, an' give us all a fire an' brimstone
shower bath, you'd say the
same. Bayton ain't a-goin' to set up
another of his high-toned farms but
jest hitch a bigger frontier on to his
lordly serfdom. He'll have a barb
wire fence twelve feet high all aroun'
my farm, that'll scratch up my cattle
like the old Harry an' spile my huntin'
an' fishin', darn 'im!
,"An' the worst of it all is," he went
on getting up and pacing the room in
growing excitement, "Bayton swears
that this is the last acre he is goin' to
buy. Just imagine my luck, Anne!
Stone sells for fifteen thousand and I
couldn't sell for fifteen hundred an'
my farm's twice as good as his'n.
Jest imagine it Anne Rutledge, if you
can! A barb wire fence on one side o*
me an' a crazv Polack on the other!"
«s j TELL ye what, Anne! I tell ye
* what!" he cried as his flashing eyes fell
on the beloved Winchester and fishing rod
in a conspicuous corner, "1 ain't goin' to
stan' this insult. A man of my name an'
antecedents ain't called on to do it. My
forefathers fought the injuns at Plymouth
and chopped a home outen the wilderness,
an' a hundred an' fifty years later they did
the same thing all over again up here among
the granite hills. An' now an insolent
money-grubber buys up the whole country-side,
postin' every wood and stream ,
an' fences me in on one side an' tells me to
'sociate with the scum o' the earth on the
other! I'll sell out an' git out if I have t
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hill on the run and only the sudden ap-
(jearance on the scene of the new neighbor,
as, with a flying leap, he caught the horse's
bridle, saved her from a serious accident.
And—here was the thrill—the rescuer had
greeted and soothed the fri ghtened girl in
perfectly good French!
She tried tp thank him in the same ḷanguage.
All that followed was onl y partly
revealed. At least so it seemed to the
gentle mother when, left alone with her
mountains, she thought it all over. Brewster
listened to the story with flushed face
and tingling ears but in thinking over the
French feature of it, his resourceful hatred
found additional cause for suspicion.
"Like's not the critter is one o' these eddicated
Nihilists that had to git up an' git
for throwin' bombs!"
> However, the deeper instincts of the
gentleman prevailed, and he actually
nodded to the foreigner the next time they
passed on the road but the man's industry
and enterprise continued to excite and irritate
him beyond endurance. Every new
venture of the young enthusiast seemed to
strike him as an insulting challenge. The
logging and lumbering, the shingling of the
barn, sides and all, with his own shingles,
the re-modelling of the old farmhouse, the
installation of modern improvements with
second hand materials donated by one of
the millionaires on the hill seemed to Brewster
little short of a «Iap in the face.
it'T'HEidea of that scum o' the earth with
* a bathroom in his house," he snarled.
"A dry sink's been good enough for us."
But even this was not the end for what
should this insatiate foreigner do but revive
an old sugar orchard which had not
been tapped for twenty-five years, the spicy
smoke and fragrant steam rising like incense
over the hill day and night. After
that he attacked an unsightly cider apple
orchard, trimming and pruning so close
that the natives declared the trees looked
"for all creation like sheared sheep with
their hind legs and tails stickin' up in the
As the snowline kept rising higher and
higher on Mount Maroonock, William
Brewster tossed the foreigner and his impertinent
innovations to the glorious spring
breezes and started with plow and harrow
for the fields. And it was with the devout
feeling that all the stars in their courses
were fighting for him that, just as old
Maroonock was putting away its winter
night cap and all the streams were breaking
into their spring songs, he hailed a
"lowery day threatenin' rain." Filling his
pocket with worm ' s released by the plow
and enlisting the dextrous fingers of Anne
Rutledge on his snarled lines, he was soon
off toward the mountain filled with fisherman's
joy.
He cut across the Stone place up through
the woods to the east side of old Maroonock
where the descent jriras the greatest and
the pools the deepest .
" ASFINEadayasever broke," he said to
** himself as he made a bee line for the
big hole under a mighty hemlock,
But there was nothing doing there,
much to his disappointment, although
he bobbed his bait with patient persistence.
And when the next pool
and the next yielded no greater returns,
the main stream being still too
\ high and boisterous, he began to be
|bitterly suspicious that somebody had
3 out-guessed him and sneaked in ahead.
"If that's what's up, it's no use my
fiddlin' any more," he muttered, as he
threw down the rod and produced his
pipe and tobacco. Then he noticed
footprints in the mud. "It's probably
Zeke," he said to himself. "I
beat him good an' hard last year, do
it four years out of five an' if I skin
along now I can maybe get the double
cross on him down at the big bend."
Alas for his hopes! There at the
I big curve his enemy appeared—and it
¦ was not Zeke!
, Astounded and maddened, William
\ Brewster muttered imprecations at
the unconscious offender standing out
in the open and getting ready for the
cast. The high-brow affectation of
fly fishing added insult to injury.
"The low, miserable furriner!" said
Brewster under his breath.
A little above six feet, straight as a pine
and handsome as a Greek athlete, the
young man turned on his heel, threw his
head backward and swung the rod into
position for the cast.
"Cuss him!" hissed the spectator as the
fisher's sinewy wrist started the mighty
whir! that was to shoot the dancing coachman
into the boiling eddy twenty-fivuflft
away. But suddenly something happened
for the quivering rod stood poised in the
air, the line floating down and curling up
limp on the ground.
"He's seen me an' thinks I'm Bayton's
warden," muttered Brewster but suddenly
catching sight of the object which had
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people who know Typica at
MOST all know it as a railway station
where local main-line trains stop
to load or unload milk cans and
where the limited trains do not even hesitate.
The town kindles not a spark of
interest in these people. They glance
from the car windows at the dingy hotel
with its barn and cowshed across the tracks
from the depot and, on the other side,
direct a bored look at the row of one-story
business buildings which outline Main
street. Then they return to their newspapers.or
their naps.
But there are a few people—a very few
in comparison with the great total population—who
love Typica and find a keener
joy in returning to it than in getting away
from it. Back of the dingy hotel, back of
the row of little business buildings, there
are homes set upon green lawns among the
trees, and there are two small church
spires, and beyond these stretch grain
fields and pasture lands and orchards.
Over all hovers a sweet and abiding peace.
Yet life, in its varying changes of joy and
grief , is the same in Typica as elsewhere.
IN THE days not so long gone, many boys,
deep-chtsted and clear-eyed, as was to
be expected from their environment, had
come out from these homes and gone to
war. Many had returned ; some had not.
Throughout all the state there had been
no response to the calls for aid in war work
so prompt as Typica's. The town did not
boast of this; it did what
it considered its duty
quite as a matter of
course, being thus constituted,
and it never for
an instant lost touch
with the world, though
it was to the world unknown.
As is the case in all
communities, Typica had
its outstanding figures in
community thought arid
action. Of these Henry
Branson,, was the radical
leader, Jason Cloud the
conservative, and between
these, sometimes
radical, sometimes conservative,
always with
an eye to the human
side, a bit rough, somewhat
unconventional,
was old Dan McCarty.
He smoked a pipe, did
Dan. Occasionally he
used strong language.
He was careless in his
dress. But years, many
years, ago Typica had
penetrated this outwardness
and found
Well, what it found
gaveinspiration for many
stories, not one of which
did Dan himself recount.
For the most part his life
was lived silently but
when he listened, the
eyes under their bushy
brows gave out light.
And he was ever ready
to listen. When he chose
to speak therefore he
was given careful heed.
One winter night when the rain was driving
in on a south wind and the lights of
Main street casting weird swinging shadows,
he and Henry Bronson and Jason
Cloud had foregathered with other lingerers
about the stove in the corner store,
"Ye Come Home a
Night Like Thi, With '•
Your Babyl Why?" ~3
B
Dan entered momentarily into the talk
pertaining to the ending of the war.
u pRAISE be, 'tis all over," he said.
1 " 'T has been hard on us in Typica
to plan all thim priparations and fight all
thim battles and draw up all thim terms
and things and at the same time take care
of our little troubles here at home % 'Tis a
wonder intirely our minds have stood up
under the strain of it—maylike they
wouldn't, had we not gone a bit easy for
the time 'bein' on the problims that are
within reachin' distance of our hands and
within seem.' distance of our eyes."
Henry Bronson, interrupted in a voluble
statement as to "what the government
should now do and why, looked quickly at
Dan. He saw no guile there. But for
some reason he changed the subject. A
gold star in the front window of the
McCarty cottage across the tracks—young
Dan had been killed at the Marne—rendered
Dan immune from controversial attack
upon matters pertaining to the war.
This at least was the excuse the wise ones
gave themselves. There were other reasons
for this immunity.
It was the winter custom of the three
leaders to go from supper to the postoffice ,
there to get the daily papers from the city
a hundred miles down the line. The
bundle of ^dailies was tossed from the
limited which roared through the town
each evening and thence to the corner
store. The three men remained together
until another train, known as Number 13
and due shortly after nine o'clock, had
passed, then they went home.
On this night when war talk ceased,
town talk flourished. Grandpa Green,
totally paralyzed in both legs and one arm,
was planning to go onto a homestead in the
spring. Ed Either had bought a new car
for spring delivery; he might get his old
car paid for by that time but it seemed
doubtful. This was Lily May Foster's
fourth week in the hospital at White River,
rather a mysterious case; had been reported
as Spanish influenza at first , with
complications; appeared to be all complications
now; likely an operation of some sort ;
her folks were reticent about the matter.
So the gossip ran on, touching many
things*—Dan McCarty's eyes closed, and
the paper, which he had dropped into his
lap with a sigh, slid to the floor. At
length, aroused by the whistle of Number
13, he rose from his place behind the stove,
put the paper into his pocket, turned up
his coat collar and pulled down his hat.
" 'Tis a fine lullaby the rain and wind is
playin' tonight," he observed, "for thim
with soft bids and tight roofs but the
divii's tattoo for thim that hasn't."
"And the devil's tattoo for the guilty
conscience, however soft the bed or tight
the roof," added Jason Cloud.
"Mebby so, Jason; but 'tis many the
guilty conscience that could be stilled by a
bit of hilp from the outside. Good night
to all of ye!"
"Good night, Dan!"
Number 13, its long line of lighted windows
shining dimly through the rain, was
still standing at the station when Dan, his
head tilted to the wind, reached the
graveled platform. But, as if his coming
were the signal for departure, in that moment
the train, grinding and puffing, went
on its way.
Dan, waiting at the crossing, watched it
go. He liked for some reason to watch the
tail-lights fade, to lose little by little the
grinding sound of the wheels and the voice
of the engine.
"Ye're off into the dark," he murmured,
"but if ye stick to the narrow way ye'll
surely come to where ye're wantin' to go.
Like us—yis, enough like us to make it
worth thinkin' of. What "
Something touched him lightly on the
arm, and he turned quickly.
"Mister—Mister McCarty?"
The voice was familiar to him and he
strained his eyes in the darkness to see the
face of the girl. She was wrapped in a
long garment of some sort which covered
her head like a hood. In her arms she
carried a bundle.
"Is it," Dan spoke as one who doubts
deeply, wishes to doubt, "is it Lily May?"
'Yes,. Mister McCarty; I just came on
the train."
"And who have ye with ye, Lily May?"
Dan put out a hand to the bundle.
"My—my boy."
Dan groaned ; he could not help it.
"Ye come home—on a night like this—
with your baby! Ẉhy?"
"I had no more money and they would
not let me stay. It was not raining when
we left White River."
"No, of course not; they wouldn't—no.
If ye are out of money ye can do nothin'—
nowhere."
""THE night telegraph operator at the de-
*¦ pot, the train having been duly reported
out, .began to sing to the accompaniment
of a guitar. He was a stranger, the operator,
and he was lonely. They could hear
him quite plainly, despite the heavy drip
of the rain fronvthe depot eaves.
Dan drew a deep, long breath.
"What are ye aimin'
to do, Lily May?"
"Go home, I suppose; I
must go somewhere. My
father will—I am afraid
-I "
She broke into sudden
tears, sobbing with her
whole frail body.
"Wait, Lily May—
don't—I can't think with
this rain runnin' down
me back—and I .must
think a bit."
He shook his head,
looking here and there in
the darkness.
"We must git out of
the storm." Gently he
took the bundle from her
arms. "Come with me,
Lily May."
He led the way across
the tracks to the hotel
cowshed, the interior of
which was fitfully illumiuaieu
irom we oepoc ngnis.
There was clean straw here.
A cow at the further end oe
the shed snorted and clambered
awkwardly to her feet,
making a clatter of hoofs upon
the board floor.
"Put some straw in the
feed box, Lily May; 'twill be
a fine place for the b'y."
She did as he directed and
he put the bundle carefully in
the box. And then, under
the volition of < a'* sudden
thought, he removed his hat
and stood with his head
bowed low.
Child, he half whispered,
the words laden with awe, "do ye see
what we've done? 'Tis a manger he's
in!"
The girl sank limply upon a bale of
straw, her face in her hands.
"Lily May?" Dan swung about.
"Yes?" Faintly.
"We must find a way out of this.
Ye've always been a good girl. Till me,
Lily May—who—who was the man?"
"Ronald Dean."
«l_IIM!" Excitedly Dan put his hand to
*^1 the pocket of his coat but withdrew
it eTfrpty. "Do you know where he is?"
She shook her head. "He went to the
war," she quavered. "We were to be married
when he came back. He promised."
"He promised—yis, yis. Listen, Lily
May—had Ronald Dean any folks? I
know he drifted in here last year with the
harvest crews and that he answered the
call of the draft from here, but "
"He told me his father and mother were
both dead."
'
"Yis? Thin there will be none to make
a row." Dan spoke in an undertone asy'f
he were alone and talking to himself. Then
he was silent for a space, his hand gently
rubbing the stubble on his chin. Presently
he leaned over and patted the girl's head
softly. "It will be all right, deary. Ronald
will niver deny that he made the promise
to ye."
She looked up into his face, her hand
clutching his coat. "0, 1 know he will be
(CONTTNTOO 01 PAOI 341)

\ The Farmer's Wife , March,:-192»
A NEW IDEA FOR A GIRL'S CAREER
FIROM
the time that I was a
small girl, I planned for a ca- -
reer-^ne that would make
everybody respect and honor
me. I intended to study medicine
and become famous as a physician.
As I was the youngest in the family,
Helen and Ted, my sister and
brother, being several years older,
there was no reason why I should
not go on with my studies. I was not needed
to help with the work at our farm home
and though they all laughed good-naturedly,"
there was no opposition to my plaiis.
I finished High ; School in June seven
years ago, expecting to eriter : college the
following term. In July, my sister and
brother were killed in an automobile accident.
The Wow was so sudden and terrible
that we could not think of anything
else for a time and it was not until.the latter
part of summer that I again mentioned
going away to school. My mother did not
answer in words, but the expression in her
eyes made me understand what it would
mean to her if I- left home. That same
day I accidentally overheard a conversation
between Father and a neighbor.
I Give Up My Dreams .
MV^ES, I suppose we will sell and go to
* town," said . Dad's sad, discouraged
voice, for Mother and I don't feel like staying
here now with Ted and Helen gone. It
would be .different if Wilma were going to
be home but it wouldn't be right for us to
askher to give up all her plans. No other
place will ever seernlike home but Mother
and I can't stay here—all alone."
Right there and then I gave up my.
dream of being a famous physician. The
quiver in Dad's voice was something I
could not forget but it was not easy to
abandon my cherished ambition. My
parents did not know how I felt, for I made
an effort to be cheerful, as they were fast
sinking into a state of melancholy from
which it was necessary that they be
aroused. Mother was the first to respond
and became alujpst happy when she realized
that "the baby" was going to stay at
home; She enjoyed having me help with
the housework and the interest that she
took in instructing her rather stupid
daughter helped to take her mind from
her sorrow. My father, however, was of
a different nature.
Ted had been quite progressive, and our
dairy stock was good. A pure-bred Guernsey
sire headed the herd but the rest of the
cattle%ere grades, though they had been
bred up until they\were practically purebred.'
Some had made good records and
Father and Ted were proud of them but
after my brother's death, the dear old man
lost interest, and the cows might have been
the veriest scrubs for all that he cared.
I Am Captured by Peter the Great
OUR county fair was in October and I
asked Father to take us over, as I
thought it would do him good, but he hardly
glanced at the exhibits. Then we came
to the swine department and I forgot Dad
for a while so engrossed did I become in the
monstrous hogs. Never before had I seen
such animals. Father
did not raise many
fags for market—five
or six a year at the
most, and nearly all
of the farmers near
us were satisfied if
they had enough for
their own use. Our
county, in the northern
part of Wisconsin,
¦ while not strictly in
the corn-belt, is still
*» very good place to
raise corn if one
¦plants the right kind.
There was therefore no especial reason
why more extensive hog-raising had not
been followed as there were dairy herds on
every farm—consequently skim-milk to be
fed.
The animal that I most admired was a
Duroc-Jersey boar, belonging to a breeder
in the southern part of the state. His
name was Peter the Great, and he weighed
one thousand pounds. When I was told
that his owner paid eighteen hundred dol-
This Girl Meant to Become a Great Doctor but Instead Is Successfully Raising Hogs
M ARY Q UINT W ALKER
- No One in the World Felt Richer Than ! When Thi* Bunch of Squealer * Were All Mine
lars for him, I frankly said that even if he
was a most wonderful pig, I did not believe
he was worth that much money. A
by-stander, an old friend of Father's
laughed as he answered, "Mr. Seymour,
who is exhibiting that animal, is rapidly
becoming rich.because he keeps hogs like
Peter, and is willing to pay the right kind
of prices for his stock; People who know
his hogs are glad to purchase them at
what, to us, seem fabulous prices."
Simply Must Have a Hobby!
AM a person who has to have a hobby.
I I simply had to take up something else
instead of my beloved dream of medicine.
It happened to be pigs. The housework,
done by Mother and me did not take up
half of my time; I detested, crocheting,
tatting and fancywork of any kind, and I
could not read continually. I had about
decided to begin music lessons when I saw
Peter the Great; after that, I thought of
nothing but pigs. Upon our return from
the fair, I inspected our own stock, and
Dad It Particular to Hove Hi * Brood Som Tame and Eatily Handled
contemptuously asked Father why he did
not buy some Duroc Jerseys instead of
those "mongrels." To' my surprise and
delight, my impertinent scorn aroused Dad
from his apathy—it made him angry.
"Those hogs are good enough for me," he
replied, "and, anyway, what do you know
about pigs—Duroc-Jersey or any other
kind?"
"Not very much," I admitted, "but I
will soon find out; for I am going into the
business of raising pure-bred swine, and
you will help me, won't you, Dad?"
"Help you nothing!" Father exploded.
"A pretty business for a young girl to
think of—raising pigst"
But my mind was made up and all that
fall I diligently studied the farm papers
and government bulletins,
and I soon considered
that I was
quite an authority.
From my reading, I
Take Your Choice! Here, at the lef t U Dad's Scrub Sailed in "the Good Old Way;" the Other I * My Idea of a Duroc-Jerrey
could not see that there was much difference
in the principal breeds—they were all
good—but because Peter the Great had
been a Duroc-Jersey, I chose them.
In the bank I had five hundred dollars
of my owrr which was to have gone toward
my college expenses. I decided to use it
for the purchase of a brood sow at one of
the sales which I saw advertised to take
place in Grant County. Again my father
became angry when I broached the subject.
"For goodness' sake, if you want to
raise anything- go into the chicken business
or raise ducks—anything but hogs!"
"But it is hogs that I want," I argued
and he again said. "Nice business for a
young ladyr-shame on you!"
That he was full of wrath did not make
rae feel badly, for it was far better than his
listless indifference to everything. "You
will have to help me, of course," I went on.
He abruptly told me that I need not depend
upon him and refused to attend the
sale with me. I coaxed an uncle to 'go.
We bought a brood, sow of exceptionally
good breeding for three hundred dollars
and were told by men old in the business
that we secured a very good bargain.
Father did not think so and took no pains
to hide his disgust.
"You sure must have wanted to spend
money," he said. "Good pig of course but
that is all she is—a pig!"
"That is just the point, Dad!" I exclaimed
eagerly. "This animal is, as you
say, just a pig but so good a one that her'
owners sold-her for three hundred dollars.
You never got anywhere near that much
for a brood sow, did you? Others do.
Somebody must supply the breeding stock
—why should we not be the ones to do it?"
"Well, now that you have this marvellous
Victoria, what are you going to do
with her?" Father said and for the first
time in months I saw the old twinkle in his
eyes.
Father Takes Over Victoria
(«THAT is your part of it," I replied. "I
* depend upon you to show me just
how to take care of this aristocratic lady."
"That is real kind of you, Wilma, and I
feel greatly flattered," responded Dad,
"that you think I am competent to act as
attendant to the aristocratic
Victoria.'" k-——i.*n3
Far from resenting
his sarcasm I was so
delighted that I almost
cried with joy for my father began
to act like himself.
Finally the day came that Victoria presented
us with a litter of eight pigs. I
was disappointed that there were not
more but thankful that they were healthy.
"Better to have eight big ones than a
dozen runts," said Father, and then, "I
suppose these little wonders will bring in
about five hundred dollars each when they
are grown, Miss Expert Hog-Raiser?"
"Not quite that much," I answered
smiling,", but they " will
bring more than those you are
raising."
"Humph—we will see! And
speaking of 'raising' who is to raise
these youngsters? Ami to have
most of the care of them just as I
had with Victoria? You do the
bossing and I do the work?"
I m the executive department," I said
merrily, and again he seeded like my dad
of old, for he laughed as heartily as though
I had said something funny;.
My friends had quite a little fun at my
expense that summer and jokingly called
me "Pig Queen." Then the fun was mine
when, in October, through advertising, I
sold six boar, pigs for almost four hundred
dollars. My advertising came to forty
dollars so I made a profit of'two hundred
and fifty dollars more than Father did on
six pigs of the same age. This was six
years agou before pork had taken such
flight upward, although consumers thought
at that time that it was pretty high.
I Win My Argument
«MOW, will you admit thlt it pays to
*' raise good breeding stock?" tasked
and Dad who was stubborn but not bullheaded,
said "Maybe it would be as well
to look into it!"
"I think it is foolish of people to pay
such prices" he insisted, "but if they want
to do it, I might as well be the man to get
their money as anybody else."
"They pay those prices because so many
more pounds of pork can be raised on the
same feed," I said but Father still maintained
that he would have to be shown.
"I bet I can take a common, little scrub
pig, start it with one of your blue-bloods,
give both the same feed and care, and at
the end of seven months mine will be just
as good for market purposes as yours.
But," he continued, "if there is a demand
for pure-bred swine just because the stock
is pure-bred, I haven't any objections to
supplying the demand. If I am going into
this business, I am going right. We will
keep Victoria and the two gilts; I will buy
three more sows and a good sire and then
we can go ahead."
Father was as good ashis word and at the
next big sale he purchased the stock. The
Duroc-Jersey boar he brought home weighed
as much as had Peter the Great and
cost more! Father grinned when he told
me this. "Perhaps I'm a fool," he said,
"but I don't intend to let my daughter
stay in the hog business alone. If I lose
money, you are the one to blame."
He built a comfortable, little tenant
house and hired a capable young married
couple. These people were paid seventy-five
dollars a month, were given a goodsized
plot of ground, the use of a horse,
the milk from one cow and feed for a pig
and one hundred chickens. They were
perfectly happy and contented and as a
result took as much interest in the farm as
if it were their own. Many responsibilities
were taken from Dad by the willing
young fellow, and he and his wife took
entire charge of the cattle. During the
busiest season another
man was also
employed for there
was considerable
work to be done onour
farm of two hundred
acres. Father
devoted himself to
his new work, and, as
he drolly remarked,
became "a very efficient
trained nurse
for a bunch of hogs."
There was plenty of
work to keep us all—
father, mother and
myself—busy and it was hard to tell which
of the three was the most interested.
Father later proved to his own satisfaction
that a pig of good breeding will put on
more fat than the other kind with the
same amount of feed. He, raised two
together—one a Duroc, the "other a good,
healthy, well-developed youngster from
scrub stock. After weaning, he fed skimmilk
and middlings-yput them on pasture,
(COSTISUEO OK^AOB 332)

ONE SCHOOL REBUILDS A COMMUNITY
How An Inspired Rural Teacher Coupled Up a Poor One Room School with the Entire Community Life
B ERRY H. A KERS
The Upper Picture, Center, Shows the First Teacher's Cottage in Missouri; the Lower Picture Is of a Community Gathering in Front of the Porter School. At the Right Is a Glimpse
of the School Interior as Mrs. Harvey Found It, a Sharp Contrast to the Clean and Coxy Interior Which the Picture at the Lef t Reveals
story might appropriately be
THIS
headed, The Re-Creation of a Community
Through Its School, for it
tells how an isolated rural school in
Missouri has become the center and mainspring
of all the community life and endeavor.
Prevailing notions that school
buildings are built only for school purposes
have been, in this locality, utterly swept
aside and, instead of standing idle most of
each year, this school building now contributes
to the life of the community
through community service.
If any night, not even excepting Sunday,
you should pass the Porter school in Adair
County you will probably find the building
lighted and in use. Or if you pass
there during vacation, you will see signs of
life therein or thereabouts. There are no
boarded windows on the Porter school. It
is a 24-hour-a-day, 365-day-a-year school
and it is So, not because the pupils spend
any more time there than in the average
rural school, but because the community
has learned that its school building is a
community investment that should serve
every need of the community.
School and Community Awaken
THE re-creation of the Porter community
went hand in hand with the
regeneration of the Porter school. Seven
years ago the Porter school was regarded
as;.'one of the poorest one-room rural
schools in Missouri. Community spirit was
dead. There was little interest in the
school. Neighbors seldom saw each other;
they had no interests in common. In ten
years there had not been a community
gathering, except school-board meetings.
Those who sent their children to the
Porter school merely tolerated conditions
until the children were old enough to go
to town to school. Teachers were poorly
paid. Every year there was a different
teacher. There was no school spirit.
Only nine of the 48 farms in that district
were occupied by tenants at that
time. Eighteen of these 48 farm homes
had no interest in the school. Their children
had either "gone through" or "quit"
the Porter school. The district was settled
by thrifty families. Land was good
but farming practices poor. These conditions
make it difficult to understand why
the community should be so divided and
so lacking in the spirit of true neighborliness.
Five different churches administered
to the spiritual needs of this small district.
Even the community was divided in religous
matters. A less neighborly community
could hardly be pictured and the
Porter school building very faithfull y reflected
these deplorable conditions. It was
a dismal old building, cold , drafty, damp.
Children were constantly exposed to dan -
gers of disease from cold and poor ventilation.
Tramps made the school building
a favorite stopping place at night as it was
handy to the railroad. The shutters had
been torn off by these "transients" for
fuel. Much plastering had fallen off the
walls and the paper was dirty and dingy.
The school board tolerated these conditions
for years making but listless effort
to improve the school facilities. "Well ,
no one cares about this school!" was their
attitude and few persons disagreed with
them.
In the fall of 1912, Mrs. Marie Turner
Harvey, who had been in charge of the
model rural school at the Kirksville Normal
School, agreed to take charge of the
Porter school at $50 a month, a financial
sacrifice for her.' This proved the turning
point for the Porter School. Under her
leadership it began to grow; a new community
spirit sprang up and through her
devotion and energy, school and cpmmunity
began the steady climb which
placed them where they are today. Mrs.
Top Picture: The Porter Band Composed of Boys and Girls in and out of the Porter
School; Below: A Parent-Teachers' Meeting in the Porter School
Harvey has demonstrated the progressive
possibilities inherent in the one-room isolated
rural school.
Mrs. Harvey's selection for teacher in
this community was not, by any means,
unanimous. Several families had come to
realize that they were destined to lose their
sons and daughters from the farm homes
if conditions were not improved and these
gave her their unstinted support. Mrs.
Harvey insisted that she be provided with
a home that she might be able to live in the
district 12 months of each year. So an
old cottage, three-quarters of a mile from
the school, was fitted up for her and on
September 1, 1912, with a girl companion ,
she took possession. Incidentally, this
was the first teacher's cottage or "teacherage,"
as such homes are called, in connection
with a rural school in Missouri.
Of course, the critics were constantly
busy. In the face of the opposition which
every forward movement encounters, the
jeers of some, threats of others, predictions
that the teacher would not stay, that "old
methods are good enough," the new order
of things was established at Porter. As
Mrs. Harvey said to me when I interviewed
her in the interest of THE FARMER'S WIFE,
"it was only because of the splendid devotion
of a few families who were determined
to give their children better educational
opportunities and to improve social
conditions generally, combined with my
determination to succeed , that kept me at
the job."
The situation certainly was unique; it
required an unusual woman to face it.
The community received its first taste
of real co-operation the first autumn. Mrs.
Harvey demanded that the school building
be made habitable. The school district
was too poor to do much but the little
group that had a vision of what might be
done found a way to overcome this obstacle.
By contributed money and labor,
the building was raised on a good foundation
of concrete blocks, a basement was
dug and cemented, a first class furnace
installed, a new flue built, tile drain installed,
staircase from basement to vestibule
built, lawn graded and improved, new
outbuildings constructed, broken windows
and plastering repaired.
The men folk, of course, were largely
active in this work and,the women, just as
deeply interested, did their share. Through
their energy a new desk and chair were
provided the teacher, a school bookcase
was built in, two large hanging lamps,
looking to future community gatherings, at
the schoolhouse, were secured. A local
merchant donated an organ. A water
system was installed in the basement, a
school wagon which was operated co-'
operatively in hauling the children to and
from school was bought, and telephones
were installed in the school and the teacher's
cottage.
Later, the mothers raised funds to paper
the walls and the ceiling becomingly, the
woodwork was changed to a golden brown
to harmonize; adjustable shades were provided
for every window; a clock and thermometer
were bought; several good pictures
were bought or donated; the older
boys repaired all the seats.
All these improvements were made without
one dollar of cost to the school district,
at an astonishing small outlay of money,
though at considerable cost of effort and
labor by the patrons of the school.
The contact established by this work
among neighbors who hitherto had seldom
seen each other, was their great revelation
in community co-operation. The months
that followed brought these neighbors into
even closer and friendlier relations, with
the result that the mothers of the district
organized The Farm Woman's Club
of Porter, which has met twice each month
during the past six years. Every mother
in the district became a member. Membership
was obtained by signing the constitution
which states as the objects of the
club:
A Very Remarkable Club
u'T'O PROVIDE means of improvement
* and recreation for all its members;
to foster a-spirit of neighborly co-operation
in all undertakings that will enrich the
home life of its members ; and to upbuild
a school which will serve efficiently the
needs of a growing community—a school
that will be the social center and develop
a community life that will anchor our boys
and girls to their community."
It was through the efforts of this remarkable
club that the school has accumulated
most of the equipment that is used
for community gatherings. There is a
large and complete stock of necessary dishes,
an oil stove and oven, cooking utensils,
canning outfit, and steam pressure cooker;
also folding chairs and decorative material.
These are used at all community and school
gatherings. The school enjoys hot lunches
in winter time and they are prepared, with
this equipment, by the boys and girls.
Individual towels and soap are supplied
for the pupils. There is, in addition , a
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Hendricks, banker's daughter,
stood at the front of the hay-
NANCY
load, cheeks flushed and eyes shining.
Her hands proudly guided
the straining team, as they marched up the
ascent to the barn, clattered across the
bridge, and drew up triumphantly next to
the hay-mow. Then she turned to her
friends with head thrown back and arms
out-flung.
"I think the farm is the nicest place in
the whole world!" she announced.
"That's becausefybu don't have to live
on it,"-commented Sally sourly. Sally,
by sheer perversity of nature, wanted to be
a stenographer in a city office, and instead,
here she was keeping house for her brother,
who, nevertheless, was very dear to her.
Tom, however, gazed at Nancy with his
heart in his eyes. In the dim barn a shaft
of light came sliding down through a knothole,
filled with golden dust-fairies, which
came and rested on her wavy hair, turning
it to gold, too. Outside, a group of oaks
left dark blue-green blots of shadow on the
golden landscape. Here was peace—not
stagnant, but a live, glowing, active peace!
Nancy answered the look in Tom's eyes:
"Isn't it wonderful?" she breathed.
Sally slid down the hay-load with a
grimace and went outside to see to the pulley
rope. Then Tom jumped down too,
and reached out his
long brown arms to
his golden - haired
divinity, who descended
demurely
from her throne,
but could not evade
his grasp.
"Would you be
satisfied ," he whispered,
"to live on
the farm, here with
me?"
Nancy looked all
around the place as
if cogitating, but
dimpled at the little
shake he gave her,
and brought her
gaze back to his
eyes.
"I'd just-^-fcwe—
it," she answered.
A few minutes
later Sally's footsteps
resounded hollowly
over the barn
floor.
"Say," she called,
"when are you people
going to get that
team out here?"
And . Tom and
Nancy came back
to earth.
It was evening,
after a long walk
and talk together in
the maple lane,
when they broached the subject to Sally.
She was sitting on the porch, gazing at the
moonlight which made shadow-lace on the
carpet of grass before her. There was something
restless, as of unsatisfied longing,
about Sally, and tonight, as they approached,
there was something wistful,
too, Tom thought.
Then they broke the news. "And it's
going to 4iappen quite, quite soon, Sally
dear," said Nancy, laying her head on her
friend's knee a.moment, "and you can
make plans for your old commercial course
right away."
"Do you really think you can manage
the work, Nancy?" asked her friend slowly.
"The work!" cried Nancy, "why dear
girl , there's work anywhere and everywhere!
And I am young, and strong, and
why shouldn't I do it? How could I help
but succeed with Tom here?"
He gave her hand a quick pressure.
"But—your folks—" continued Sally.
"I'm going down to see t hem right away,
and I know they won't object. They never
have refused me anything yet ," she added ,
bubbling with laughter.
Sally only sighed and shook her head.
But Tom and Nancy were undaunted , and
she went home with high courage.
He waited a long time for her letter ,
however; but at last, after weeks, it seemed,
he held it in his hand—his first lovc-toR-r.
NANCY'S EXPERIMENT
How the Grit and Perseverance of the City Girl Won Out for the Farm
His tanned face glowed with happiness as
he read her simple *words. But a page,
farther he .commenced to frown.
"I can't understand the folks," he read ;
"they don't see it my way at all. Father
and mother both say I know nothing whatever
about the farm but its romantic side,
and that the work would be too hard for
me, 'n'everything. They say I can't cook
—which is only too true, I'm afraid, boy
dear—and that I simply don't know what
I'm iip against. But I don't care, Tom,
I would do anything—" and here Tom was
able to smile a little once more.
Thinking it over afterwards, however,
he was chilled by the finality that seemed
back of it all. So he decided to go and see
her father about it at once.
That evening the train set him down in
her city, and Tom walked boldly up the
unfamiliar walk and rang her door-bell—
or, more properly, her father's. And the
next minute he held a surprised but ecstatic
Nancy in his arms.
"Tom! How did you happen to come?"
she whispered.
"I came to see your father," he announced.
.
"My father?" she asked, her eyes widening
in surprise.
"Yes," he said grimly, "where is he?
Lead me to him." His voice was hard.
M ARJORIE S AWYER
/ Had a Real Taste of Farm Lif e , Tom , and I Love It.'
"Now?" asked Nancy very doubtfully.
"Right away," he affirmed.
The next minute he was standing before
a plump, bald-headed man, with Nancy
left firmly in the rear.
"My name's Tom Sherman," he said
with a little ring in his voice.
And then a long, earnest conference
followed. ,
"I can't see it that way, my boy," said
the banker, tapping his glasses on the
polished table. "We have to look out for
her happiness, and she was not brought up
to be a farmer's wife. We have no objections
to you, though , none at all. If you
would go into some other business, now—"
His eyes swept over the six feet of lean
manhood, taking in the firm jaws and clear
eyes;—"a position in the bank, now—perhaps
I could manage that for you?"
The young man's eyes narrowed. He
could see in vision the bank clerk's cage,
and as that picture faded, dim purple hills
rose before him, and golden fields , splashing
brooks, and soft-eyed cattle. And
there amid the fields was joy—freedom,
independence. He turned to the older
man.
"I'm sorry, sir," he said quietly, "but I
ran t give up my work." And he turned
and left the room.
"It 's all coming out right. Nancy dear,"
!"• s-iid later, pressing her tear-stained face
to his shoulder, "but it all depends on
you." He held her at arm's length ami
looked her straight in the eye. "Are you
a sticker, or not?" he questioned. "Remember,
all the world loves a sticker."
She laughed once more,, and shook her
yellow head. "Your courage is—superb,"
she flashed at him.
"And so is my faith in you," he murmured.
But after he had gone home, that faith
began to ebb slowly. Her letters were
growing cold, it seemed. Was the pressure
getting too strong for her? Was she losing
faith in herself? Or was he too far away?
Yes, that must be* it!
Later on he wrote that he was coming
Sunday. Soon after he got a telegram:
"Don't come now. Explanation follows."
"She isn't playing fair," said Sally fiercely,
as she peered over his shoulder.
"Hush, Sally! She must have some
good reason," he responded.
A letter came, but no promised explanation.
"I couldn't see you just now," it
said. And Tom was sick at heart.
But he kept on bravely, writing often in
spite of Sally's remonstrances. Gay, gentle
letters—letters full of the spice of summer
apples, and the gold of harvest-fields and
wayside blossoms. But tlie answers came
fewer, and fewer. And at last one came
which shattered his hope into bits, and his
faith, too.
"I am going away," it said. "It is useless
to try to write me, or to find me."
"It just isn't fair," sobbed Sally, her
arms around her brother's neck, "it just
isn't fair!"
"She may have her own reasons, Sally,"
he repeated patiently.
"I wouldrFt stand it," burst out Sally
indignantly. "She means she's jilted you,
but wasn't man enough to come out and
say so.
"Love doesn't work that way, Sally,"
was his sober answer.
"And her father wanted you to give up
the farm! Give up our father's tarm that
he got with his own work!
"Why Sally! I didn't know you cared
so much for the farm!"
Her hands clasped and unclasped.
"Yes—I—care," she said.
No answer to his next letter; nor the
next.
Then one day came a postal—a stingy
postal card: "I am staying with one o(
father's friends," she wrote. "I am near
Mansfield, but don't try to write to me."
And Tom waited again. Wh y did she
write at all? Did she care for him a par
tide? Was she trying to test his love foi
her, or maybe, hers for him ? What was it:
At last, late in October, came a letter, a.
thick one, and in it one cherished sentence:
"If you really care for me, Tom, enough to
marry a hired girl, perhaps you had better
meet me next Thursday in B."
It didn't take Tom long to go; no, indeed;
and quicker, it seemed, than it takes
to tell it, and yet very slowly, the time
came when he was sitting opposite her at
a little flower-decked table.
"Not now," she said, when he asked for
her explanation, "not until after-lunch."
When they had finished he leaned forward
expectantly. She toyed ' a glass with
agitated fingers.
"Well, Nancy," he ventured.
"Well, Tom—I've been working on a
farm." She announced it breathlessly,
her cheeks crimson.
"You've—what?" he blinked.
She laughed then, to.watch the amazement
in his face.
"I've been working on a farm, Tom; as
a hired girl.'It
He imprisoned her hands swiftly. "Tell
me about it," he commanded, the old look
in his eyes.
"Well you see—" She took a long
breath and started again.
"You see father and mother didn't believe
my going onto a farm was anything
more than a mad impulse. And they said
I couldn 't sland
it. I didn't know
what any housework
was, much less
farm-work. And I
would be lonesome,
and home-sick.
I said I would," she
added with shy coquetry,
"if I were
away from you.
No, stop! And at
last I said I would
try farm-work for
myself , and see how
it was. And finally
they agreed."
Tom made an inarticulate
ans-wer.
"Father knew
some people in the
country," she*
continued. "They
were good , respectable
young
people, he said, and
if I were bound to
work out it would
be a good place.
Meantime I' must
stop writing to
you." At the hurt
look in his eyes she
said slowly, "That
was hard on me,
too, Tom." Then,
continuing, "In the
house there were Mrs. Sanders and her husband,
and his brother, and the baby. And I
swept , and made biscuits, and washed the
separator, and scrubbed the back steps,
and it wasn't hard. It wasn't harder than
at home—just different , that's all. Then
Mrs. Sanders got sick." There was a
pause.
"What did you do then?" asked Tom,
in a curiously strained voice,
"Everything," she dimpled. "All I had
done before, and more too. Mrs. Sanders
had a fever, and 1 had to carry a drink
every two minutes. And then the baby
would cry. I didn't do much housekeeping
during that time. If it hadn't been
for Mrs. Sanders' brother I don't know
what I would have done—he was so kind!
What did you say?"
"Nothing," growled Tom.
"And when Mrs. Sanders got a little better
the threshers were there. So altogether
I thought I had a real taste of farm
life. Tom, and I love it! That is—I'd love
it under some conditions, Tom. And if
you want to ask me again to marry you—I
don't think—I shall say—No."
"I shan't ask you again ," said Tom
gently but triumphantly, "for we were
engaged all the time, Nancy—all the time:
and we shall be married at once. It was
the farm against the fates, Nancy—and the
farm had to win. You know that, too!"

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STANDING on the platform of "Medical
liberty on the same .basis as religious
liberty and with the same
constitutional guarantees," the
American Medical Liberty League] is leading
a strongly organized opposition to the
twenty or more medical bills pending in
Congress.
The official headquarters of the league
are located in Chicago but the move to
procure "constitutional guarantees" has
brought the fight to the doors of Congress
and the league has issued an appeal to
every "liberty loving citizen" to be alert
that State and Medicine be kept apart
just as Church and State are separate.
Mrs.. Lora C. Little, secretary of the
league/ makes this significant statement:
"Unless Americans watch their step they
will soon be at the mercy of the organized
medical profession, operating through
health laws. Our attack is directed, not
against doctors and medicine but against
medical control orrState Medicine, which
is defined as 'a body of medical men with
governmental powers; the. laws (statute),
ordinances and rules) bestowing these
powers;, and the additional powers exercised
by these bodies without specific
authority or statute or ordinance."
Mrs. Little furthecstates that:
"The power that State Medicine exerts,
as-is well known, includes:
"Compulsory vaccination and other
compulsory medical treatment.
"Compulsory medical inspection.
"Compulsory sterilization of human
beings, including unsexing in some cases.
"Control of marriage, the doctors to
determine who shall and'who shall not
enter into that relation.
"Forcible confinement of healthy persons—permanent
in some cases—on the
charge that they are 'germ carriers.'
"Invasions of homes, the doctors entering
the same at will. .
"Compulsory destruction of private
property because'germ infected,', millions
of dollars' worth having been destroyed
recently.
"Control of the public schools, their
opening and closing and the terms of admission
depending on the pleasure of the
doctors—thus destroying their - public
character.
"Control of private schools as well as
other assemblages, thus controlling all
education and denying the right of free
assembly.
"Control of public hospitals and other
public institutions, enabling these doctors
to experiment at will on children and the
insane, on criminals and paupers, thus
denying to wards of the state and their
guardians any choice as to school of treatment.
"Power to dictate who shall and who
shall not serve the sick as practitioners of
the healing art, so far as they can make
their demands stick, and that is far enough
to act as an obstacle to the free spread of
popular knowledge on the subject.
"If the medical and public health bills
now pending in Congress should pass,
the appropriation would amount to something
over $100,000,000. The city, state
and federal governments together are now
spending that amount annually, not including
the three quarters of a billion dollars
invested in hospitals, correctional and
charitable institutions, which alone cost
over $200,000,000 annually to maintain.
"We should not forget that our robust,
resistant young soldiers in army camps,
under strict medical control and under
strict allopathic treatment, on top of a
course of vaccinations and inoculations,
had a death rate 4.6 times as high in the
influenza epidemic as the civilian population
with all the latter's disadvantages of
lower physical standards.
"In view of the fact that thousands believe
in homeopathy, the eclectic school,
in osteopathy, Christian Science and other
mental methods of healing, control by one
medical school is essentially a gross violation
of personal liberty. Compulsory
medical inspection of school children is
alsa contrary to the principles of free government.
It is an invasion of the rights
and duties of parents and has been proved
by its own advocates to be often ineffective
in preserving health or avoiding contagion.
"Many of the nation's most prominent
doctors areallied with the cause of medical
liberty. Dr. Samuel G. Dixon of Pennsylvania
says:
" 'The American people secured their liberty
by one great war and maintained it by
another at a fearful cost of blood and money;
and now their liberty is being invaded
insidiously by the specious pretext of sanitation.
They sit complacent under the
delusion that something is being done for
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their good. It is urgently necessary that
they should be informed of the true state
of the case.'
"Although the American Liberty League
is organized mainly to inform people of
'the true state of the case,' it suggests that
if the Government must do something to
improve the physical standards, a plan
that would be fair to all would be to place
the bureaus of vital statistics in charge of
laymen. Require all practitioners of the
healing art to report all cases of sickness
attended, with the number of visits made
and how terminated. Allow entire freedom
in the choice of practitioner. At the
end of the period let comparisons be made,
each system with each, and all with the
boastful 'regulars.'
"If , after five years, with freedom of
choice and honestlv kept records, the general
health improves, perhaps we shall
conclude that it is ffi5t necessary to make
slaves of a people in order to have them
healthy and robust."
The Nation's Mothers
CHILD-WELFARE DAY, an annual
event to commemorate the founding
of the National Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations, was celebrated
on February 17, its twenty-third
anniversary, at the national headquarters
at Washington as well as throughout the
forty state branches.
An inspirational review of the work of
the Association and its growth was presented
in the day's program. The membership
is now estimated at 125,000 and
includes an affiliation of over 5,000 mother's
circles. These clubs are composed of
mothers whose children are outside of
school age and whose problems range from
baby-care to child labor laws.
During the winter months the state
branches of the organization have been
active in raising funds to pay for the
national headquarters at 1314 Massachusetts
Avenue, Washington. The headquarters
is only a little over a year old
and during that time has been shared
with the War Camp Community Service
as a club house for enlisted men. From
here the network of national activities is
directed and here every mother of the
nation whether or not she be a member of
the organization , may send for practical
suggestions in solving her own and her
children's problems. This service alone
amply justifies the existence of these two
great organizations to which uncounted
individuals and groups of individualare
indebted for invaluable assistance.
The most recent activity of the National
Congress of Mothers is the Loan Paper ;
Service. If a mother is called upon to
read a paper at the club, church or social, v
gathering, she may write in to the national
headquarters not only for a list of prospective
subjects but the prepared paper itself.
These papers have been prepared by experts
and cover nearly every subject of
interest to mother and child, such as:
The Problem of Penny Lunches in School,
Community Music as a Social Force.
Education of Women.
Choosing Children's Books.
Physical Care of Children.
The Rights and Privileges of the Child at
School.
Americanization.
A Mothers Responsibility.
Co-operation of Home and School.
Amusements for Home.
__ There are 110 other topics. Each
paper may be loaned for a period of three
weeks at a cost of twenty-five cents, or
a set of twelve at two dollars may be kept
for one year.
Educational Films
SEVEN million feet of film have been
placed at the disposal of the Bureau of
Education for the free use of the public.
A new department, known as the Visual
Instruction Division; has been created in
the Bureau to handle the distribution of
the films. ""An exchange is being established
in each state, usually at the State ;
University, and any public school may
procure the films from the university by
paying only the cost of transportation.
Most of the pictures were made by the
War Department during the war and
include the well-known Official War Review
as well as other educational themes
such as, Concrete on the Farm, Making the
Desert Bloom, and so on. A bill appropriating
$50,000 for the new department is
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city garden plot where she dug and hoed
and dreamed about a bigger farm than her
eighth-acre, and she too contrived by close
economy and thrift and sacrifice, to save a
"-little money. After several years she was
missed one spring from the city gardens.
But nobody made any definite inquiries.
These gardeners come and go in such large
uncertain numbers that no one keeps track
of all the individuals from season to season.
It is more than four years now since
Elvira Drew disappeared from the .little
garden community but last . spring Mr.
Greene had a letter from her at Iroquois,
S. D. She had bought an abandoned
Homestead and _nad finished
paying for it. Her kitchen
garden, she wrote, had been
from the first the envy of all
the ranchers in the vicinity.
She had learned to raise
wheat, corn and oats profitably
but she needed expert
advice about potatoes, so
she .was writing back to her
first instructor.in gardening
to know how to prepare the
soif how to plant, and cultivate
them, and how to fight
potato bugs. The advice
was hers for the asking.
Among others who have
gone from Chicago's city
gardens to wider fields' and
broader acres, are two widows
who succeeded in getting
farms on easy installments
in Wisconsin; and
several men who have been
able to exchange uncongenial hard labor
in a setting of brick walls and smoke, for
truck gardening somewhere in the open
country near enough the city to make
fares for the family to the new home possible,
and to insure a market —
Tony Ricker, a machinist and the father
of a large family, was so enamored of his
eighth-acre that after a few years he got
a little five-acre plot in an outlying district.
At the end of the first year, he
dropped in to see Mr. Greene and consult
with him about soils and crops.
I m going out in the country in the
spring," he said. "I don't know how I
manage. But I manage. I can't bother
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From the Italians she learned how to
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and how to make lettuce head up solid and
crisp. She learned too the food value of
plenty of green salad and the various uses
to which Italians put green peppers and
tomatoes. She learned how to fry green
peppers in olive oil and how to make a dry
paste from the under-sized or over-ripe
tomatoes, that could be used all winter in
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from the neighboring homesteaders
and older ranchers, that they gladly
proffered their wisdom and experience
concerning the growing of grain and the
raising of stock.
That was over five years ago. She has
a title to her land now and could come
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One family, which for years was the
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unit. The wife's tomato paste is famous
among her neighbors and she has
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THE (iJESTIONOF WALL PAPER
What to Buy and What to Leave in the Shop :
I^f'.VE.RY housekeeper will agree that
; t»j| - at ho time in the year are'her rooms
I j more discouraging to look at than
• rii the :first-bright; days in spring.
From one end to the other, upstairs and
down, cleaning and mending the old or replacing^
altogether by something new, is
the, great springtime occupation.
- ^^yearnearfy every Home ' will need
mofe-repaifs than usual. If, when values
werei.going up, three-or four years ago, we
decided not to build, paint or paper and
the work'has waited, today the property
begins to look run down and cannot be neglected
any longer. ¦
About nine-tenths of our joy in living
comes from a combinational good health
and the satisfaction we take in our surroundings,
and there is no better cure for
that tired, discontented feeling, " which
comes with the first spring days, than to
start something interesting in the way of
house improvement. ' . -/
For the amount of money invested,
nothing gives greater charm to a place
than well-selected-paints and wall colorings.
How to choose these with economy
and good taste is a problem in which we
are all interested.
Tfce New Wall Papers Are Lovely
THE new wall papers are very attractive
and even in the lowest priced qualities
there are artistic designs and colorings,
but in each grade the price per roll is
higher than usual, the paper-hanger's labor
costsmore.and-iftheroomlookswrongwhen
it is finished, one has worse than wasted
quite a lot of money.
In choosing new
wail papers, do not
start with the idea
that each room
should be quite different
from all the .
others; that you
want stunning colorings,
or would like
a large patterned
paper that will "just
furnish the room,"
or a paper which
your friends will exclaim
about as soon
as" they have crossed
your threshold. Instead
of either of
these startling effects,
plan to make
your walls simply
flat backgrounds in
pleasant tones of
neutral color,
against which your
more important
things, the pictures,
furniture, books
and small articles,
are to.be arranged.
In other words,
plan to say "hush!"
to every wall in your house and ' make
them all restfully good and quiet.
Until quite recently we were accustomed
to hear people speak of wanting a red room,
a green room; or a pink, or blue, or brown
room, always meaning that this particular
color had to be used on the room's walls.
And although artists are urging us to have
quiet, neutral colors back of our pictures
and furniture, persons who do not study
coloring very much are still clinging to the
idea of rooms decorated in this way. They
have not learned yet that when walls are
quiet in tone, careful combinations of pale
and brilliant color used in the small furnishings,
can make a room as delightfully
"green" or "blue" or "old rose" as one
could possibly wish; and that this is the
sane and artistic way to make use of clear
color.
When a man says that his favorite color
is red, he generally means the reddest kind
of red; moreover, most men think they
would like at least one room in the house
done with red walls, and many a house
interior has been spoiled by this experiment.
For while hotel dining rooms, or
public halls may be done in this color
(though it takes an artist to do this right)
red walls should not come into use at all
in the small-sized rooms.of,private homes,
for they are very irritating to .the nerves
and greatly reduce the apparent size of
the room. In this connection it may be
; A DELINE B. W HITFORD
well to add that red paint on woodwork-is
not desirable in room finishings.
Somewhere recently the experiment was
¦/ ' tried of taking two rooms Of the same size,
and coloring the walls of one , red, and
those of . 'the other; a ' clear, cool ' gray.
When both were finished, a committee of
men was asked to give an estimate, without'taKffgjany-rrtea'surements,
of the number:
of ¦: square fetet; in'^h room.' Their
exact .figures differed, but their'decision
was that - the'roOniMVith' gray walls was
nearly oneSthird' larger'than ' the :one with
recTwalls. Strong green or brown or blue
coloring would haye-had about the' same
effect as the red in making theroom look
small, but these would have gone further
' and made it depressing! / dark by day,
as well as difficult to light up at night.
This, too, is/one reason why experienced
decorators avoid-the popular deep tan '
color on walls. '"
Another reason for not making walls
string in tone, even in such tints as pink,
blue or green, is this: that four walls of a
definite color will ' overpower all other use
of this tone in the room. In other words,
the rugs, chair covers, sofa pillows,
^unless
pictures, and so forth, are very bright, they
are out of balance with the strength of the
wall tone, while if they are bright and
equal to the wall covering, the whole room
has of course been frightfully overdone.
An eastern writer, in urging the purchase
of plainer wall papers, especially
those having small patterns, makes this
statement: "A room with a very bad wall
color—red , green and gilt scroll paper—is
This Farm Home Living Room Is Excellently Decorated and Furnished. Moulding at Top
of Wall Would Be Good Even if Ceiling Were Not Beamed
beyond redemption; nothing can be done
to make it attractive; such a paper dominates
every other thing in the room and
the proportion is hopeless. In this case,
only two means can be employed, repaper,
or tint over the old paper, if its condition
permits."
Demand Good Designs from Dealers
DO not quote this to make us too discontented
with what we may happen to
I
have but in order that those of us who have
new papers to buy may help the move
which is being made today called "Better
homes in America." Indeed it would be a
strong influence towards improving the
art of wall paper designing in this country,
if each reader of THE FARMER' S WIFE
should let her local dealer know that today
and tomorrow and from now on, there is to
be an increasing demand for designs and
colorings which are right when placed
upon the walls and not simply attractive
in the shops.
For the great trouble has been that in
buying wall paper we have usually made
our choice from a sample only eighteen by
twenty-four inches in size, sometimes a
little more. In this small area the color
and pattern are as interesting as a new picture,
we liked them both, and thought we
had chosen rightly, and yet only a woman
who has had considerable experience can
see clearly in her mind's eye how this
colored and pictured paper will look when
its pattern is repeated ovetand over again
on four large walls.
It is no wonder that the amateur home
decorator is often keenly disappointed in
the finished room, and sometimes still
more distressed after the pictures and furniture
' are in place. Once on, of course,
the hew-paper lias to. stay and as the work
of selecting wall-coverings seldom has%be
done mOre .thahVpnee ' in several .years;; it is
difficult for the buyer to learn much from
experiences ' which are so far apart. One
can only avoid such disappointment by
learning how to study each problem when
it comes. .
How to Know What to Select
IN
ORDER to know what tone of paper
a room should have, we study the room's
light. Sunny rooms will call for some of
the tints of gray, while the north rooms or
those with little sunshine must have tones
which suggest the creamy yellows and
light tans. This may sound as though the
choice were small, but there are many
lovely tones of cool grays, some of which
show green or blue or purple tints or even
a brown and smoky suggestion of red, yet
in reality all are quiet gray. And there
are quite as many yellow and buff tones,
blended and multiplied into harmonies oi
other colorings.
Each year the shops show a larger number
of patterns to choose from. This
spring there are small and indistinct
leaves and flowers, which seem like shadows,
they are so softly colored; and other
designs printed in a
variety of clothlike
patterns. Papers
which look as
if they were made
of canvas, are
printed with dim
patterns in the
weaving, each done
with charmingly
soft colors. There
are refined, dignified
designs for
large rooms, patterns
having character
yet not pronounced
in color,
and there are quantities
of misty, indistinct
garden flowers
in harmonies
which combine pale
tones of pinks and
blues and straw
color and lavenders,
the ideal papers for
bedrooms and just
what every woman
loves to choose for
the best spare
chamber.
The large foliage
patterns (leaves and
ferns in smoky tones of gray and creamy
browns, or in yellows and white) are the
only examples of artistic large designs;
but these, too, are indistinct. They are
only used in halls and dining rooms, places
where no one stays long at a time and
where pictures are not needed—for of
course, those huge shadowy leaves are all
the decoration an average-sized room can
carry.
Stripes make a low room appear higher
but let the divisions be very indistinct.
If they are strong light and dark, or distinct
flower stripes, (and especially if there
is a small black line running up in the pattern)
decide against them; for in a twelveby-fourteen-foot
room you will have as
many as a hundred and twenty of those
up and down lines, and unless they are extremely
dim, your walls may look as if
they had been fenced instead of papered.
When ceilings are high they may be
made to look lower (and the room made to
appear more homelike also) by having the
light ceiling paper carried down on to the
side walls for from twelve to eighteen
inches. At this line, where wall coloring
meets the lowered ceiling, place the picture
rail.
Dividing walls into upper thirds and
having two kinds of wall paper, with
mouldings or plate-rails where these join,
becomes less and less popular as people
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if you have our new catalog
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It is an unusual agricultural cata-
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will be our women very soon.
Clubs Co-operate
DURING the war, the women in several
country communities of Marathon
County, Wisconsin, had formed
auxiliaries to the county chapter of the
Red Cross. These auxiliaries met faithfully
every two weeks and' did the work
assigned to them. With the signing of
the armistice the necessity for their work
ceased and they were reluctant to discontinue
their meetings. But, as these meetings
had given them an opportunity for
social intercourse so much to be desired in
county communities, at-the suggestion
of the Home Demonstration Agent , these
little groups re-organized as Home Demonstration
Clubs. This is their constitution:
Article One
This organization shall be known as the
Women's Club of .
Article Two
The object of this club shall be the mutual
Improvement of its members in Homemaking
and the communityjnterests of the day.
Article Three
or vicinity shall be eligible to membership
in this organization.
Article Four
The Officers of this organization shall be a
president, vice-president, secretary and a
treasurer.
The Officers arid an executive committee
of three, appointed by the president , shall
constitute a Board of Managers to conduct
the affairs of the club.
Article Five
Sec. 1—There shall be regular meetings
of the club every two weeks on Friday at
4:00 P. M.
Sec. 2—The annual meeting of the club
shall be on the first meeting in January, for
the election of officers and transaction of
other proper business.
Sec. 3—The refreshments shall consist of
two articles of food.
Article Six
Each member of the Club shall pay, on or
before the first meeting in December, an
annual fee of twenty-five (25) cents.
Article Seven
Two elective officers and ten members shall
Constitute a quorum to conduct the business
of the club.
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r2&^\ *iiwtitiii>i»i, iWSKJSrisfF mbby-laws may be amended by a two-thirds
vote of the members, due notice on any proposed
amendment having been given at a
m^^mmmprevious meeting or by letter, two weeks in
advance to time of voting on such amendment.
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and now we have twelve active Women's
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a girl s canning club was organized
to meet a war necessity
HOW
and attained such desirable results
that its members determined
to put what they have learned to peacetime
use, is the story of the Harvard Canning
and Evaporating Club of Worcester
County, Massachusetts.
This club was organized in' the spring of
1.917 by Miss Clara Endicott Sears with a
membership of twelve girls between the
ages of nine and sixteen years old. The
United States had just entered- the war,
and the girls, filled with
patriotism and a desire
to be of service, hoped to
aid in conserving food;
also to create an emergency
supply for the
soldiers at Camp Devens,
an army training
point-near- by.
Throughout the hottest
days of that summer
the girls worked at home
and at club meetings under
the supervision of
their club leader. The
work was so successful
that the club outgrew its
home town after a time
and its fame spread
throughout the state.
Then came the various
fairs and the club sent
an exhibit to the Eastern
States Exposition
where it won a medal of
honor. This success
added zest to the work
and the girls planned another exhibit in
their home town. This exhibit consisted
of both canned and dried products and
was sold afterwards to Battery F, 303rd
Heavy Field Artillery, at Camp Devens.
There were 1,000 jars of canned and 200
pounds of dried products. In addition,
the girls kept 1,000 quarts, canned at
home, for family use. Only products conserved
at club meetings were sold.
When the canning season of 1918 opened
the girls were eager to go on with;their
work. A number of new members joined
and the work that year exceeded all expectations.
Considerable canned and dried
products were sold that year to outside
parties. Club exhibits were sent to the
Eastern Sta^ss Exposition again, also to
two district fairs, at which prizes
were taken.
That fall, at the close of the season ,
another club exhibit was held in the
town hall. After all expenses were
paid, the club had $100 in cash,to its
credit with 1,320 jars of products unsold.
Each girl was paid that yeai
for the time she spent in canning and
drying. All income above expense?
went to the cliib treasury.
In 1919 the club continued its work.
Expert instruction which had been
given the first two years by the Worcester
County Farm Bureau was
dropped last year so as to throw ujion
the older girls the responsibility of
(teaching the younger girls. Results
were very gratifying.
The club exhibited last year at the
New England Fair at Worcester
where it took first prize on fruits and
second on vegetables. At the Eastern
States Exposition it won first on
both fruits and vegetables, Exhibits
sent to minor expositions met with
simil# success as did individual exhibits
by .the girls themselves.
The season of 1920 is at hand and
the Harvard Canning and Evaporating
Club stands ready to enlarge itsactivities
It already has orders for
more products than the members can
possibly can or dry.
It will begin its fourth year with a
determination to make it the banner
rear.
What Four Champions Did
THERE assembled at Chicago, in December,
at the International Livestock
Exposition, 216 boys and girls from seventeen
different states. Each boy and girl ,
because of some achievement in club work ,
had won a free tri p to Chicago. All expanses
were paid by Armour's Farm Bureau
and were paid l iecause they had
raised a better pig or a calf than someone
else had raised. Each was a champion,
somewhere. ,
Four of these champions stood together
for the picture which appears on this page.
M. G. Eckhardt of Dewitt County, Texas,
was the state's champion baby beef grower
last year. He is the most experienced
club member in this group, having been a
member of a club for four years. Feeders
or breeders who doubt whether club work
pays may be surprised at this boy's
achievements. He has cleared for himself
Members of the Girls' Canning and Evapora ting Club of Harvard, Maes., at Work.
This Club Is Now Starting Its Fourth Season
$4,000 in those four years as a club member.
The first year he won two prizes and
enough money to buy two more Angus
steers which won second and fourth prizes.
He sold one of the steers and kept one for
the next year. He then bought two more
steers and in March he entered three steers
at the Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth; one
brought the Grand Championship, two
firsts and one reserve. The other two
won two seconds, two thirds and one fifth.
He sold them and cleared §750 off the
three head and won about $150 in prize
money. With this money he purchased a
two-weeks old bull calf out of the celebrated
Prizemere and three heifers from
the Champion bull Laddie of Rosemere.
In 1"10 he won the Grand Championship
Four Juniors Who Have Distinguished Themselves.
From Lef t to Right: M. G. Eckhardt of Texas; Gurda
Lexoold of Minnesota ; Bernice Hardy of Florida;
Morrill Delano of Washington
at the Texas State Fair with one of the
heifers, refusing $1,800 for the bull and
turning down $4,000 for the group. It is
his intention to be a breeder of purebred
Angus cattle.
Gurda Lexvold of Goodhue County,
Minnesota , won the championship in the
market pig-club work in her. state. That
was her first experience in growing a pig.
Starting with a Poland China pig 10 weeks
old, weighing 38 pounds she fed middlings,
skim milk, dry oats and barley, and at the
show in November was able to exhibit and
sell a 330-pound pig at 37 cents per pound,
netting a sum of $122.10. Besides this
she won $150 in prizes and the International
All Star gold medal, as well as a
free trip to the International Live Stock
Showi
Bernice Hardy of Putnam County,
Florida, the little girl in the group, is
eleven years old. She was the only representative
from Florida. Duroc-Jerseys
are her favorite hogs. Starting with a 50-
pound gilt , Bernice produced
pork at the rate
of one pound per day
for 230 days at a cost of
4.6 cents a pound. Old
breeders will agree this is
pretty cheap pork production
now. Her net
profit on her pig was
$178.50.
Morrill Delano of
Pierce County, Washington,
is a Berkshire
enthusiast. He was selected
in 1919 as the
champion pig grower of
his state. Morrill not
only raised one pig last
year but he has a herd
of 28 purebreds. How
he secured this herd
should serve as an inspiration
to every pig
club boy and girl. This
is what he writes:
"Four years ago my
father bought a pig to
fatten and butcher for our own use. It became
quite a pet of mine and after it was
butchered I wanted a pig of my own. I
bought one—a scrub.
"At this time clubs were being organized
in the schools and I joined the pig club.
That fall the club leader advised me to buy a
registered pig, and I bought an eleven-montliold
registered bred Berkshire gilt. She farrowed
a fine litter of six pigs. I kept the
three best sows for breeding and sold the
others; the two boars I sold as breeding
stock. I then bought a registered Berkshire
boar to use with my herd.
"The past summer I decided to get a still
better sow. On September 20th, she farrowed
a fitter of eight pigs. They are fine,
all future prize winners, I am sure. ' I shall
now dispose of all my other stock and keep
onlv the best Berkshires ."
Champion Sewing Club Members
ALMA MARQUAT of Douglas
' County, Nevada, won state
championship in the first year's sewing
club work last year. She darned
four pairs of hose, patched two garments,
making the hemmed patch
and made a sewing bag holder, a towel
and a nightgown. The work was all
done by hand and is most excellent.
The value of the mending and of the
articles made is $8.25. Taking away
$2.10, the cost of materials, she has
made a profit of $6.15, besides having
learned to do excellent sewing and
mending.
Elda Rosenbrock , also of Douglas
County, won the state championsh ip
in the second year's sewing club work.
She received a sewing machine as the
state prize for the best sewing club
work in Nevada. She darned seve n
pairs of hose and a piece of table linen ;
patched four garments, making the
hemmed patch on two garments and
the overhand patch on two garments;
mended two pairs of gloves, and made
a sewing bag, two princess slips, a
bungalow apron and a one-piece
dress.
Elda has written this interesting account
of her sewing club work:
"I began my first piece of sewing on
February 4. The first piece I made
was a sewing bag. I made it of tan material
and lined it with green sateen. After
sewing the bag I put my second class emblem
on it. It took me two hours and forty minutes
to make it. The bag cost me $.86?j.
My grade was 98%.
"The next thing I did was to patch. I
made four patches, two overhand patches
and two hemmed patches. I did two on
striped, ^material/and two on checked material.
I spent 75^-hours on the four patches.
"After patching I made a princess slip
I made my princess slip of muslin and trim-

med it with lace and beading. The sewing
together of the lace and beading for the neck
was very tedious because I did it by hand.
After I finished my slip, I ran blue ribbon
through the beading at the neck. I spent
9. hours on the slip. It cost me $2.67 2-9.
My grade was 100%.
"Glove mending was my next thing, I
mended two pairs of kid gloves because I
didn't have one pair of silk or cotton ones.
"The next thing I did was to darn table
linen. As I didn't have any table cloth, I
mended a napkin,
"Then I darned my four pairs
of stockings. I had a rather
hard time darning in diamond
shape so I had to practice first.
"The last thing I made was
a wash dress. I made it thus:
I made the dress of blue Devonshire
gingham. I put a box
plait on each side of the dress
in back and front. I featherstitched
in white on the sleeves
and pockets. On the pockets
and center front I embroidered
a flower in white. I put
a'white pleated collar around
the neck.
"I expect to continue the
work this year."
Millers' Interest In Bread-
Making
"
•"THREE cheers for the
.-*¦ Bread-Making Club
girls"—that's what Kansas
Milling Companies are saying.
They are loud tn their
praise? of the work Kansas
girls are doing.
By their kind words they
not only show their keen interest
in the bread-making club members
but are demonstrating it in a very substantial
way. Eighteen different milling
companies paid the expenses of eighteen
most deserving club members to Manhattan
Farm and Home Week, February 2-7,
where a special week's program was held
arranged for boys' and girls' club members
of the state.
The eighteen delegates chosen for these
trips were selected because of their good
records of achievement for the year.
Practically all of them were members of
demonstration teams from the various
counties. Some of them were first-year
girls who have done most excellent work,
others have done two and some three years'
work, and one is completing- her fourth
years' work in breadmaking.
Practically all of the girls did a much
larger amount of work than the actual requirements
asked for. Not only did many
of these girls assume all the responsibility
of baking the bread
for their families but they
prepared a large number
of meals without any assistance
from their mother
or sisters.
These girls averaged 26
bakings of quick breads
(biscuits and muffins) and
75 loaves of yeast bread
for each member; and
were well able to sing in
one of their club songs :
We bake the bread to feed
the men,
At baking we're quite
handy.
And when we polish off a
loaf.
Oh, say, but it's a dandy!
Club Work Brings Contentment
THE" only way to keep
boys and girls on the
farm is to give them some
real interests of their own.
Of their own is the important factor,
for children do riot like to work without
compensation or ownership incentive, any
more than does any one else.
Clubs which are organized for boys and
girls encourage them to earn, own and
manage personal property. When taught
right methods in a farm operation or in a
home industry, even a comparatively
youthful member is able to make money.
In Marshall, Arkansas, lives Ila Critcher,
who is a member of a canning club. Ila
put up 9,500 No. 2 cans of tomatoes last
summer. By September she had sold several
thousand at a reasonable profit.
The home demonstration agents assist the
club members to market their goods.
This girl plans to use her money toward a
higher education.
Marie Hobbs, another canning club
girl, ilives in Berkshire, Florida. On her
one-tenth acre last summer she raised
Seunng Is
Elda Rosenbrock's Pride
Sherman N. Dillen, Nebraska's
Champion Gardener
3,835 pounds of tomatoes, 101 pounds of
beans, 570 pounds of citron, and a'crop of
peas. She made a net profit of $70.26
from her garden, besides supplying the
family table. Not very long ago, a farm
girl who owned 70 cents of her own would
have felt rich;
Hints from Champion Gardener
THE FARMER'S
TO WIFE: I began
planting my garden May 1. We were
visiting in the East and got home a little too
latefor early planting. I planted
radishes and lettuce first but
had no success on account of the
lack of moisture. This year I intend
to plant two weeks earlier.
Next I planted peas, but
could not get them up. I
made four or five plantings but
they lacked moisture also. The
last planting came up fairly
well. I finally got about 25
quarts.
Next I planted beans. I
planted Hudson Wax, golden
wax, black wax and Kentucky
Wonder beans; also pinto and
navy beans for winter use. I
found beans a very profitable
and easily tended vegetable.
After the beans, I planted Early
Bantam and Stolls Evergreen
corn. •
Then came tomatoes. I set
out about ISO plants. They
made a good yield. In an old
feed lot I planted cucumbers,
squash, watermelons and muskmelons.
"' I sowed radish seed
in with the cucumbers. The
bugs ate holes in the radish
leaves but did not bother the
cucumbers.
. The .squash were not so lucky. The
squash bug, a big brown bug, ate them off at
the rootș and also ate the leaves. I put ashes,
lime and poison on them but it did no good.
The watermelons were -not bothered with
bugs.but the chickens ate them. The muskmelons
were fine. They took first and second
prizes at both State and County Fairs.
One day Mrs. C. M. Matneny, our club
leader, was out to see my garden. She
asked me why I did not send some vegetables
to the State Fair. I did, and got first prize
on corn, beans, popcorn, squash, tomatoes,
onions, pumpkins, sugar beets, muskmelon,
watermelon and several other things. In
all I got $40 in prizes, $9 at the State Fair,
and $31 at the County Fair. I feel well paid
for all of my work and. expect to put in a big
garden this year. I won the championship
of garden club work in Nebraska.—Sherman
M. Dillen, Scotts' Bluff County, Nebraska.
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THE FARMER'S WIFE: I live on a
Feed. Address nearest off ice, Dept. SI.
TO
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Out here our farms are THE SHARPLES SEPARATOR COMPANY
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HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENTS
News of Important Results Being Accomplished in the Various States
THE office of THE FARMER'S W IFE
might well be called the whispering
gallery of the farm world for here,
those who listen in, may catch clear
echoes of what is going on in the rural districts
of every state in the Union. Among
these echoes are very substantial and inspiring
items of news which come to us,
through the Home Demonstration workers
of the various states.
It is impossible to put into one sentence
or a dozen, a statement covering the work
done by these home demonstration agents.
It is necessary for them to be as efficient
and as all-around in their ability as the
successful mistress of a farm home who, for
her family of four, six or eight, must know
how to cut, fit and
sew—cook—lau rider—
keep the home
clean and well furnished—nurse
the
sick—train growing
children—make
and "raise" garden
—manage the poultry
yard—be on
good terms with
the dairy—look
after store-cellar
and pantry—be a
neighbor of the
right kind—a good
mother—a bully
wife—and' all the
rest of it. Indeed,
from THE FARM-
ER'S WIFE point of
observation we believe
that the home
demonstration
agent has to go the
trained farm mother one better, and have
right on tap reliable information about any
and every new way of working which the
farm woman wishes to understand and
learn but which she has not yet had time or
opportunity to master!
For this reason, news from these indefatigable
workers whom the State Agricultural
Colleges train and send into the
field , is more than worthwhile and we are
happy to pass on a few significant items to
our great army of readers most, of whom
know at first hand how to value these
trained and willing helpers.
Toys for Miners ' Children
MISS INEZ M. HOBART, Assistant
State Home Demonstration Leader,
North Dakota Agricultural College, sent
us a pretty story from a clothing school
at Chapin, N. D., a little community near
Bismarck. The women who attended the
school are all miners wives and
their homes are so small that only
a few couW work at a time. It was
necessary for the Home Demonstration
Agent to go out for a
whole day and plan to take one
group in the morning and another
in the afternoon. They all met
at noon for lunch so this gave the
women a social time each week as
well as giving the help that they
needed in clothing. This school
has been meeting every Saturday
since the first of November and
the interest is gaining, in fact there
is a waiting list. Here is the way
the children of this district were
outfitted with toys at Christmas
time. The agent who worked with
the women at the Chapin school
sent this story to Miss Hobart:
The meeting on December 20 was
spent making toys out of cloth that
the ladies had at home. The ladies
in this school decided that they
would like to make up toys for the
children out of the remains of old
coats and dresses that they had at home. The
Home Demonstration Agent got the patterns
for various sized elephants, dogs, cats, dolls,
teddybears and so forth and together with
the women met at the home of Mrs. Ed.
Keenan. The house was soon turned into a
Santa Claus shop. Wonderful dogs were
made out of old cloth fur coats, cats out of
white baby coats, elephants out of grey
flannel covered with blankets of scarlet satin
which had lined a coat, teddy bears out of
fuzzy coat cloth and so on.
At the end of the day, a variety of animals
were on hand to help add to the joy of Christmas
for the children. One of the women
said, "Look at this lovely dog that I made!
i could not have bought one like it in the
store for less than $3.00." It was made out of
a piece of an old cloth fur coat and stuffed
with the stuffings from an old muff.
Homemade Dryer Works
JUNE our Clackamas County Home
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Demonstration Agent gave a canning and
drying demonstration at the Gladstone Chautauqua.
Miss Ethel Baker of Oswego attended
those demonstrations where the cold-pack
method of canning was used and the home
cook-stove drier was discussed as to construction
and method of operation. Miss Baker
is an semi-invalid, due to infantile paralysis a
number of years ago. She went home and
made the drier herself from boxes and pieces
of board and old pieces of tin which she cut
Exhibit of Sealing and Millinery Made by Women and Girls Under Guidance of Home
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LEFT-OVER BREADS
Scraps from the Bread B JX Can Be Turned Into Delicious Combinations
EVEN-in
the household where the
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the right amount of bread for
each meal there will be pieces left
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have been missing some very palatable
dishes. They will also find that they may
save much waste. The best rule to follow
is, not to'let any bread get very old. In
keeping it for a long time there is danger
that it will mold and so be lost.
Bread pudding is very popular in the
homes where it is well made. Out of
many kinds of bread puddings, these two
are good :
Raisin Pudding
1 cupful raisins
1% cupfuls milk
1 tablespoonful sugar
Yi teaspoonful vanilla
2 cupfuls bread crumbs
l egg
M teaspoonful salt
Wash the raisins, beat the egg, sugar,
salt and vanilla into the milk. Butter a
baking dish. Put a layer of the bread
crumbs into the baking dish using one
third of them. Put half the raisins in
next and then a layer of another third of
the crumbs; the remainder of-the raisins
and lastly- the remainder of the bread .
Over this pour the egg-and-milk mixture.
If this does not completely cover the
crumbs, add a little more milk until it
does. Bake in a moderate over for half
an hour. It is best to prepare this dish
several hours before it is baked, if convenient,
as the raisins will soak and become
plumper.
Cocoanut Bread Pudding
2 cupfuls of bread crumbs
1 cupful milk
1 tablespoonful sugar
J£ cupful cocoanut (shredded)
1 egg
K teaspoonful salt
J4 teaspoonful vanilla
Butter a baking dish. Mix the bread
crumbs with the cocoanut and the milk
with the egg, sugar, salt and vanilla. Put
the bread and cocoanut into the baking
dish and pour the liquid oyer. Put into a
moderate oven and bake for thirty minutes
Serve with hard sauce.
The secret of success in making these
puddings is to use enough milk to completely
moisten the other ingredients.
Then it will absorb the other flavors and
make a palatable pudding.
Bread Dressing
This stuffing or dressing, is very good
for filling peppers or tomatoes for baking,
or with roast l»eef, pork, mutton, veal or
chicken.
2 cupfuls bread crumbs
1 tablespoonful butter or bacon fryings
1 tablespoonful onion (chopped ) or a teaspoonful
ground sage
"%' teaspoonful salt
\i teaspoonful pepper
milk
Add the fat , salt, pepper and onion to
the bread crumbs and then add enough
milk to just moisten it. Be careful in
making this stuffing not to mash the bread
together while mixing, and do not press it
down hard when filling the vegetables or
putting it into the pan with the meat.
The bones can be removed from a roast
and the space filled with the dressing.
Bread Dressing No. 2
This stuffing is best to use with baked
fish . It also, harmonizes with roast duck
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Mix the bread crumbs with the seasoning,
add the melted fat and stir until thoroughly
mixed. Lastly add the hot water
and mix lightly. Though the stuffing
may seem crumbly it should not be pressed
together when being added to the rest of
the dish.
Escalloped Tomatoes
Slices of drv bread or toast
Salt
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Pepper
An equal quantity of cooked, tomato as
there is bread
Butter
Butter a baking dish. Lay enough of
the slices of bread in the bottom to cover
it. Cover the bread with tomato and season
with a little butter, pepper and salt.
Continue making layers like this, having
the top one of tomato dotted with bits of
butter. Put into a moderately hot oven
and bake for not less than half an hour.
Long, slow baking makes it delicious. Be
sure that there is enough tomato in each
layer to moisten the bread.
Escalloped Tomato and Oyster
Slices of bread
Salt
Pepper
Equal amounts of each tomato and oysters
as there is bread
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Dainty Colors
/orDelicate Things
'"pHOSE dainty, delicate articles
* such as blouses, waists, stockings,
boudoir caps, negligees, lingerie, and
the like. They soon lose their charm
and appearance of newness and freshness.
Their faded appearance is a despair
Butter a baking dtsh and place a layer
of bread in the bottom. Over this put a
But when washed with Alladin Dye
layer of tomato which has been cooked or
Soap, the original delicate, charming
canned then a layer of oysters seasoned
color or shade is restored. Or a new
with the seasoning and bits of butter.
Repeat these layers until the dish is almost color or shade, if you prefer.
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crumbs to which melted fat has been added Then use Aladdin Dye Soap to color slippers
to match the gown, or stockings to
in the proportion of one tablespoonful to
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match the slippers, or ribbons to match the
gown, or pillow covers to match the draperies
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house that would look and harmonize better
Often there may not be enough potatoes
to make a sufficient amount of hash.
if a different color.
In such cases, bread or toast crumbs may Write for Free Booklet
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should be added to the hash to make it
moist enough.
Finely ground bread or toast crumbs
makes the most attractive top for many
baked dishes such as baked macaroni and
cheese, escalloped potatoes and baked
hash. For this purpose it is desirable to
add a little fat, melted butter or bacon
frying, to the crumbs in the proportion of
one tablespoonful to fat to one cupful of
crumbs. They should then be stirred until
the fat is completely and evenly absorbed
by the crumbs.
Bread or toast crumbs make an attractive
finish to boiled or baked ham. Af ter
the ham is cooked, remove the skin.
Sprinkle the part from which this has been
removed with fine bread crumbs, stick a
few cloves into the ham and put into the
oven long enough to brown the crumbs to
a golden color.
. Both bread and toast crumbs may be
used in covering the surface of croquettes
or other foods which are to be fried. These
crumbs need no special treatment. They
should be made from very dry bread or
toast so that they may be ground fine.
Crumbs from moister bread may be
used in pies to absorb the extra juice.
To do this, sprinkle a few crumbs
along with the fruit when the pie is being
filled.
Bread crumbs used instead of some of
the flour in fruit cakes, help to make them
light.
Dry Cake and Combread
If you did not burn that pan of corn
bread , never mind how hard it is, do not
throw it to the chickens. By using a little
imagination and common sense, every
scrap of any kind of bread can be used in
puddings.
Remembering that milk, sweetening,
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see what we can use. Soak the cornbread
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crackers, hardened muffins or baking
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Use vour judgment.
Add one, two or three eggs according to
size of pudding. Add sweetening. Squeeze
in the juice of that half-lemon or grind up
the peel of the orange Johnny ate after
breakfast. Spices are always good. Add
odds and ends you may have of jellies or
jams—an apricot , cut up, or a few cranberries
or a peach. These should be
dropped in while you afe filling your baking
dish with the mixture. Grease this
dish very thoroughly. Mix a little melted
butter in the pudding. Bake very slowl y.
Serve with sugar syrup or hard sauce,
plain or whipped cream or fruit syrup.
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PLANNING SIMPLE MENUS
Three Basic Principles to Be Observed in the Choice of Daily Food Material
L UCY
D. C ORDINER
Extension Specialist Foods and Nutrition, University of Minnesota
late war has taught us many
THE things and some of the knowledge if
applied in the homes will increase
the well being of the various members
of the family. It is known today that
at least a third of our children are not
among the most fit; that their survival
does not contribute to the actual welfare
of the American people and this in part
so because we have not studied the action
of various foods after they enter the human
body.
Of course, the body is built by the food
it receives. From seven pounds, the
baby's weight increases to that of one hundred
and fifty pounds in the full-grown
man of average size. We know that
American children of foreign-born parents
are larger than their ancestors, if after
coming to America the family have the
advantage of fuller larders found here,
and at the same time retain the advantage
of the simple foods used in their European
home. Still many of us do not know
whether the menus we plan and serve are
capable of contributing to the health, the
growth and the working power of every
member of the family.
Principles to Observe
/- There are three basic principles to follow
in menu planning.
1. The foods offered should contribute
to body comfort and satisfaction for several
hours.
2. There must be some food incapable of
complete digestion in every meal. The
residue furnishes the "roughage" which pervents
constipation and thus contributes to
health.
3. The foods should be so balanced that
the quality of the
body fluid remains
normal. That is, that
acidsformedfrom the
foodsareneutralized.
Every meal should
contain a protein for
body building, a
starch, sugar or fat
for energy and a protective.
One of our most
experienced dietitians
has said that
the standard American
breakfast
menu is:
Cereal Milk
Toast ' Fruit
A beverage
All cereals and
bread are acid-formers.
When they are made of grain products
from which all of the outer husk has
been taken, they are completely digested
or nearly so. Consequently the cereal and
the toast do not fulfill the second and
third rule. However, we take breakfast
foods with milk. This milk is rich in
lime and other minerals which neutralize
the acids formed by the cereal. But
milk is completely digested , again breaking
rule two. However, the fruit neutralizes
acids and furnishes an indigestible
fibre which makes it a balancing food.
It is well not to stint on fruit. It is the
health promoter. Fresh fruit is rich in
protective substances termed vitamines
and should be used in abundance.
Breakfasts and Dinner
Farm homes usually add to the above
breakfast either bacon or eggs and potatoes.
The digestion of bacon and eggs is
relatively complete but the potatoes furnish
bulk and neutralize the acids.
The use of butter with bread and the fat
of bacon prevents too rapid digestion and
thus contributes to the comfort and satisfaction
of the meal.
Why is a dinner usually planned this
way:
A clear soup—meat—vegetables , either
alone or in salad—a starch y vegetable as
potatoes—a dessert.
What are the unknown rules of health
nc have been following ?
' A clear soup is an appetizer and possesses
the power of stimulating the appetite
without satisf ying it in the least : consequently
it is an excellent beginning for dinner.
Meat furnishes the protein—muscle
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building—but because of its acid-forming
propensity and too, I believe, because
of its intense flavor , we neutralize it with
a bland vegetable and for this, nothing
excels the potato. Sometimes rice or
macaroni are used in place of potatoes
and it should always be remembered that
they are cereals necessitating the doubling
of the vegetables.
Dessert may be fruit or custards or puddings
made of such starchy cereals as rice
or tapioca. Fruit needs no accompaniment,
but custards and cereal puddings
should be served as they usually are, with
milk or with a sweet fruit.
Health-Promoting Foods
Keep in mind the health-promoting,
neutralizing vegetables and fruits. Let
them appear often and in abundance at
each meal. The health of the family will
be improved, doctor and medicine bills
eliminated, and the work attendant upon
correcting ills due to bad food habits so
reduced that life will be more full of joy.
A tabulation of foodstuffs is helpful in
our study of menus but there remains the
fact , which cannot be overlooked, if our
planning is to be successful, that the action
of foods is interdependent. Without vegetables
and the minerals they contain,
meat, milk or eggs cannot build muscle
indefinitely. Without the vitamines of
vegetables and fruits the growth-stimulant
of butter is not so effective. A diet of
highly concentrated foods or of highly
manufactured foods will not promote
health because elimination is not fostered
by concentrated foods.
Some of each of the following classes of
foods should appear
in every menu.
Check upthe week's
plans and see where
you stand.
Muscle Builders
Foods rich in Protein:
Milk , eggs,
meat, fish , poultry,
cheese.
Work Enablers
Foods rich in starch :
Bread, rice, cornmeal
barley, wheat products
of all kinds, tapioca,
cornstarch, potatoes,
bananas.
Foods rich in sugar:
Sugar, honey, molasses,
corn syrup, maple
syrup, jams, jellies.
Foods rich in f ats: Butter, bacon, lard,
beef suet, vegetable oils.
Comfort and Health Promoters
Foods rich in minerals: Milk, vegetables
of all kinds, fruits of all kinds.
Protective foods :¦ Vegetables, fruits, all
natural foods.
Sponge Box
ESPECIALLY in the first houses of pioneers,
which are not always built solidly
enough to keep out wind, it is difficult
to find a just-right place where the bread
sponge can be set to rise in the even temperature
necessary.
The little illustration on this page is of a
homemade sponge box or bread raiser
which will help to make the bread better
than it can be when subjected to changing
temperatures.
Perhaps you have or can coax from your
grocer a wooden box measuring 26x20x20
inches. It should be clean and free from
odors.
Fasten cleats to the sides of the box,
about 10 inches up from the bottom.
These are to support a little shelf made of
slats or strips of wood—not a solid shelf.
This shelf permits the heat from the lamp
or electric bulb to rise into the box.
On this first shelf may be placed, as
needed , a shallow pan , containing cold or
warm water to vary the temperature.
A second shelf , firm enough to hold the
bowl of sponge, is placed four inches above
the lower. There is a hole in the top of
the box for ventilation. A hinged door
completes the device.
If a lamp is used, the utmost care must
be taken that it is clean, so that it will
not smoke or be in danger of exploding.
Nothing Better f or Deep Frying I
Mazola is more economical, richer than lard
and compounds and all the natural flavor
of the foods cooked in it is retained. The
same lot of Mazola is used over and over
again. It always remains absolutely free of
flavors and in frying does not smoke up
the kitchen.
Equal to Butter f or Shortening
For rich, delicate cakes, light fluffy biscuits,
flaky pie crust easily digested, Mazola is
equal to butter in richness, costs considerably
less and l A to l /3 less Mazola is required
than indicated in recipe for butter.
1 Mazola is always ready in a handy can
1 for instant use. Tedious "creaming-in" is
1 unnecessary.
I Equal to the Finest Olive Oil
B The reason so many Italian lovers of pure
1 olive oil prefer Mazola is because of the
1 delicate flavor and its rich golden color.
I Salad dressings of all kinds are easily made
I with Mazola because it mixes readily with
vinegar — and remains mixed. The cost
of Mazola permits adding salads to the
daily menu.
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NEARLY every woman rather enjoys-washing
if—and what a big
."if" it is!—she can wash without
half killing herself carrying and lifting
heavy vessels of water. Laundry
labor in itself is not unpleasant.
The two illustrations given on this page
show an arrangement of equipment which
will do away with practically all the carrying
of water. The equipment is not complicated
and can be installed by any wideawake
man who has a simple, fundamental
knowledge of tools and machinery—
and most farm men have this knowledge.
In ' the illustration, you will see that a
length of hose is attached by ordinary
hose-attachment to the pump, which may
be either inside or outside. By this simple
contrivance the wash boiler, on the
laundry stove, is filled without any lifting
and lugging of pails of water.
A faucet at one end of the bottom of the
boiler, allows the water to be drawn off—
some more heavy work eliminated—and
every country woman will agree with me
that every ounce of weight, more or less,
counts.
Between the washing machine and stove
stands a table on good casters. If these
casters are kept clean and oiled, they will
not balk when you need them most. This
table is exactly the height of the laundry
stove. When it is necessary to move the
boiler, shove the table up to the stove,
slide boiler on to table, roll table back to
washing machine—or to the slop sinkmore
lifting and stepping saved! If the
table is zinc-covered, there will be no
scrubbing to do. This table will serve
many convenient purposes, between wash
plumbing, are still quite within the reach
of most farm homes.
They are made of impervious-materia!
so that they are perfectly sanitary, do not
absorb grease and dirt, and can be readily
put in a condition of perfect cleanliness.
The illustration shows two tubs, divided
by a solid partition and equipped with a
drain pipe that conducts the water into
the slop sink. There is a drain pipe, too,
as you will see, to carry from the pumpsink
and these pipes unite and carry the
water outside where a sloping boanTconduit
takes the water still farther on its
course to ground covered with coarse
gravel. This gravel prevents the accumulation
of puddles which are objectionable
for several reasons.
Most of the devices here shown are inexpensive
and are the results of thought and
planning instead of a large expenditure of
money. The hose attachment, the hose,
the faucet on the washboiler, the bench
on casters, casters on the wash machine,
are within the reach of anyone who can
drive a nail, put in a screw and wield a
monkey wrench. There are even women
who can do these things and I know some
of them are reading these words and will
bear me out in what I say.
Now a word about the ironing board.
Any old board, covered with pieces of
blanket and old sheets, is emphatically
not good enough for the woman who has
heavy ironings to do. Have you ever
thought of using a table instead of a
board resting on chair backs, wobbly, narrow
and never quite right?
The kitchen table makes a good ironing
board. It should be high enough to make
it easy to use and not
require bending over.
When we add an uncomfortable
position to
long standing, to the
handling of heavy irons
and the clothes, we are
cruel to ourselves, wickedly
too, if it is possible
to change matters
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JUST AMONG US GIRLS
A Frank Little Talk About These Interesting Boy Friends of Ours
t_
we all wish at times we could
NOW look into the other person's mind
and read just what is going on
there. How much heartache and
worry and suspense it would save us.
It seems as if scarcely a week goes by
that I do not get a letter telling me of some
baffling situation that has come into the
writer's life, one of those trying experiences
when a devoted young man friend, or maybe
a sweetheart has suddenly chosen to
drop out of her life, giving no reason or
explanation. Dear little heart-troubled
girls! If it helps to know that you are not
the only one who has had such an experience
and will not be the only one in the
years to come, then take this small consolation
to yourselves. Many, many of us
have known it and we have emerged—I
hope—the richer and better for it.
Youth just will not permit obstacles in
its path. Wise Nature has ordered it thus
—for it is by fighting and trying to overcome
them that Youth acquires determination
and strength of purpose and will. So
when this wonderful Youth comes up
against a situation in which it must have
patience and wait, it finds it very, very
hard.
The little problems that are brought to
me and which make me wish I were endowed
with the power of offering a real
solution, scarcely vary from each other,
for human nature is the same, the world
over.
SOM ETIMES the boy friend simply
"drops out" of the girl's life; sometimes
there is a misunderstanding that brings
about what the French would call an
"impasse"—a situation wherein neither
want to make a move toward reconciliation.
The girl must try to put herself in
the boy's place if possible and so read his
motives. ' She must face the fact that he
may have lost interest in her and is conferring
his attentions upon another girl;
that he may be disappointed in her; that
he may be one of those fickle people who
tire of their old friends easily and like to
exchange them for new ones; that interest
in his work may have crowded out his
interest in her for a time or that possibly
some "busy bodies" have told him some
untrue gossip.
Of course the manly thing for the boy
to do would be to come to her in the case
of a misunderstanding and talk things over
frankly. But he may not have learned
this lesson yet, so he weakly "drops out"
and his girl friend wonders and waits, realizing
that she cannot pursue him without
sacrificing her self-respect and belittling
herself in' his eves.
THIS is my advice: If she is sure in her
mind and heart that she has done nothing
to deserve his coldness toward her; if she
has made every amend for whatever wrong
she has done and whatever share she had
in the misunderstanding, then she must
possess herself in patience. She must not
let trouble own her but "possess herself."
It is hard, oh, so hard! to learn that lesson
in patience, to acquire that "it-must-befor-the-best"
philosophy. But after all
has she any other alternative that will
square with her self-respect? Then if she
will fill her life with other interests, if she
will try conscientiously to make other
friends, at least she has the satisfaction of
knowing she is going through a characterbuilding
experience.
A girl who had a grievous disappointment
said to me the other day, "Well , it
was awfully hard but it was no fault of
mine. It won't do me any good to get
blue about it and at least I have every
credit coming to me for not being blue
when I have every right to be. So I am
going to get that credit."
And she did. She laughed and was
cheerful and brave, and in my opinion site
ga ined jar over and above what she lost.
So may each of us turn disappointment
and disillusionment into a veritable blessing
and instead of a cloud hovering over us,
it will become a bright shining glory, encircling
us like a halo.
Answers to Your Questions
T\HAR Miss Craig: M y mother is old-
LJ fashioned and will not try any of the new
devices that make housekeeping easier. We
have just installed electricity and can afford
. M ARION C RAIG •
lots of new things. What can I do?-—
Discouraged.
Youth loves to experiment and venture
and I have the utmost sympathy with you,
dear. On the other hand, Experience,
which your mother represents (this sounds
like an allegorical play!) knows much of
which Youth is still ignorant, so I cannot
well take sides. I will, however, tell you
of an experience of a friend of mine who
visits her mother on the old farm, every
summer. When they installed electricity
she wished her mother would buy some of
the new housekeeping devices but her
mother, like yours, would not. So she
arranged a compromise. In her own
home she always drained her dishes in a
wire drainer and though her mother did
not approve, she did it when she washed
her mother's dishes. So one morning she
said : "Mother, I'll agree to do the dishes
your way, if you will give this vacuum
cleaner I have had sent out on approval,
just one trial." The floors all had heavy
carpets and sweeping was hard, backbreaking
work. My friend cheerfully kept her
part of the bargain and did not even ask
her mother how she liked the vacuum
cleaner but it did not go back to the dealer.
Here is an Indiana girl who has the right
spirit. In a letter' asking me for some
party suggestions for her little flock of
school youngsters, she added:
I don't know whether I am going to like
teaching 'way out here or not but if it is
possible I am going to make this the happiest
and most interesting school these children
ever attended and I'll go to college next
spring and summer anyway. See if I don'tl
JDUTH, Massachusetts: You should ac-
¦**- cept the first invitation that a young
man offers you even though he may not be
just the one you would choose. It is only
courteous and fair. It may teach the
"right man" too, to be a little more prompt.
I think you did right in that other affair
but my dear are you not a bit young to be
thinking so seriously of such things?
Tf LIZABETH , Wisconsin: That is a
¦ *-' perfectly splendid ambition of yours
to improve these winter months reading
some good books. As you say, one has to
lay out a program for herself , for it is not
enough to say in a general way, "Now I will
improve my mind and do some reading."
We must set ourselves to certain tasks,
plan a definite amount of "work" for a
definite period of time. A friend of mine
read one good, improving book every two
weeks but I have in mind a better plan
than that. It is simply this: to form a
"book club."
About fifteen girls should get together.
You can "organize" as much as or little as
you like. Then you can buy thirty books
so each one has two at a time to read.
These are passed around in rotation, and
two weeks allowed for each one to read
the two books. You can, if you wish, confine
yourself to novels but more varied
reading is better. Then at the end of the
year you can auction the books off at one
of your homes, and make the affair a kind
of social function. Thus for the price of
two books each will have read thirty.
I will be glad to help you compile a list
of books.
COVER the books neatly with stout
brown paper. Divide the thirty books
in sets of two, one to be fiction , the other
something serious. Then label them Set
1, Set 2, and so forth up to Set 15. Put
the name of the book on the paper cover
and for the first set write: "Set 1, Vol. 1,"
and on the same book write the name of
the other book belonging to Set 1. This
will be Vol. 2. This will enable club members
to keep the sets together.
On a piece of paper, pasted on the first
inside cover, write the names of the club
members, their addresses and the dates
when they should change books.
If you start , say, November fifteenth ,
the date of changing would be December
first , and so on through fifteen weeks.
Arrange the names so Mrs. Jones, for instance,
passes her books to Mrs. Smith,
her nearest neighbor. When you start,
you arbitraril y assign two books to certain
peop'e. Two or three of you will have to
do most - of this work. If any fu rther
information is desired , I will be glad to
tell you all I know.
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The Secret of the Homiest Home I
you know the secret of the home where "company" H
DO
always enjoys itself—which folks always speak of as |
- having "nice things?" ~ E
Miss Elsie de Wolfe uses the secret in 'her business. She ;|,"
is one of those capable American women who has the knack •],
of doing things right. Read the letter she wrote. Lady ' £
Randolph Churchill put her finger on the secret. Lady 1
Churchill is a very wonderful woman—now past 50 years
old—and she owns the best furnished home in England.
That is what she wrote:
LADY
RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
England's grtatctt authority
onfurniturt
"Instead of the usual dentistlike
looking cabinet, Mr.
Edison's designers have succeeded
in putting tie character
and feeling of the best periods
into his phonog raph cases.
These gracefu l 'and artistic
productions will be hailed
with delight by all who can
affo rd them, and will cause
Mr. Man's new phonograp
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houses where less worthy
machines have not been welr
corned heretof ore."
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"What an extraordinary man Mr. Edison is. He perfects
his phonograph to a point where its realism is astounding.
Then he determines to make each Edison Phonograph, even
the least costly, an attractive piece of furniture. Instead ^
of the usual dentist-like looking cabinets, his designers have
succeeded in putting the character and feeling of the best
periods into his phonograph cases. These graceful and
artistic productions will be hailed with delight have by all
who can afford them, and will cause Mr. Edison's
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ONE
of Thomas A. Edison's right-hand men has
written a book about Edison and his work
on the new Edison. The book is careful to stick
to facts. It also contains 17 exquisite plates and
descriptive notes of the Edison Period Cabinets.'
We have issued a special paper covered edition for
free distribution. Write to Thomas A. Edison, Inc.,
Orange, N. J.

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Musterokf
or Colds and
Congestions
Remember thetime when
you bad that dreadful congestion
of the lungs—and
Grandmaslapped asttnging,
messy mustard plaster on
your chest? How you writhed
and tossed and begged Grandma
to "take it off"? i
That wasmany years ago. Now,
Grandma gets the jar of Musterole,
for now she knows .Mnsterole is
better than a mustard plaster.
She knows it brings quicker
relief—and does not blister.
For coughs, colds and congestions,
this clean, white ointment
made with oil of mustard and a
few home simples is uncommonly
effective.
Yon just rub it On your throat
: -«r chest It penetrates way down
' under-the skin and generates its
own peculiar heat which soon
loosens up the coughanddisperses
congestion.
Strangely enough, it does, not
/ee/warm after the first momentary
glow and tingle, but is dev
lightfully cool and soothing.
Try it Ifor croup, bronchitis,
' . ': coughs, colds (it often prevents
pneumonia), headache, neuralgia,
. stiff neck, rheumatism or lum-
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.-V Many doctors and nurses use
. • ' Musterole themselves and recommend
it to their patients.
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MUSIC IN THE HOME
A List of Popular Selections From Which to Choose
E VANGELINE P ERSON
THE readers of THE FARMER ' S WIFE
all must be music lovers judging
from ' the hundreds of letters arriv-^.
ing each day asking for the pieces
of music listed in our last issue. This overwhelming
response to our offer to supply
readers with information about current
music of proven popularity induces THE
FARMER' S WIFE staff to continue the department
regularly in each issue hereafter.
There is nothing that adds more to the
happiness of home life than .music—good
music. Unfortunately, few of .us know
just what music will jast suit until we try
it and even then it cannot ' always be obtained
at the local store. This is particularly
true in the country where one does'
not have the opportunity afforded in the
city for hearing the latest compositions.
To guide you in this matter of selecting
music and to give you the opportunity of
securing it, explains the inauguration of this
new department in THE FARMER'S WIFE.
„.I propose to list in THE FARMER'S WIFE
each month only music that is new and
yet which has proven to be popular by
large sales. At the same time, care will be
taken to recommend music that is reasonably
simple and which cannot be classed
as trash. Notations will be given as to
grade and time in order that one may choose
the pieces best suited to training and ability.
The editor of this department will
be pleased to answer correspondence pertaining
to music not .listed or general questions
about musical* training provided a
stamp is enclosed with the query.
The list this month contains an agreeable
assortment of new music, .the sort you
hear whistled or hummed most everywhere
you go in the large cities. It is music that
I think you will like to hear.
If so desired, readers can continue to order
the music listed last month. It
seemed, from the orders, that nearly everyone
wanted the old but lasting favorite,
Till We Meet Again. I'm Forever Blowing
Bubbles and Oh, What a Pal Was
Mary! were also great favorites.
Feel perfectly free to use this new department
in THE FARMER'S WIFE. I can
secure for you almost any.music you wish,
if you will only tell me. The list I give is
merely suggestive. Some of the old tried
pieces may suit you better. You may
want music for special instruments. You
may desire ftiusic for the school or music
for community singing. Perhaps you may
wish some selections of sacred music. Let
me know and I will try to help you. The
purpose of this department is not to sell
music but rather to put you in touch with
a service that is not supplied in your local
town. Please remember also that the
same selections can be secured, in most
cases, for the phonograph and for the
player-piano. See your local music dealer
about records or piano rolls which vary
in price and which can not readily be supplied
from this office.
M ARGARET A. B ARTLETT
INSTINCTS , we are told, if thwarted at .
their first appearance, many times die a
sudden death. A baby deprived of
crusts and crackers at the period when
the desire comes to chew and fed strictly
a milk diet long after solid foods should
have been introduced, is almost certain to
have the instinct to chew all but killed in
him, and aroused again only after long,
patient coaxing and training.
The same is true with the child's instinct
to love. Love for parents and brothers
and sisters is taken as a matter of
course. They love the child and the
child loves them. But a child's love is
not bestowed wholly on humans: he has an
instinctive desire to love all animals. And
it is this love instinct which many parents
fail to foster.
An unwise mother can change his baby
love to fear and hate. "Bad old cat !
Get out of here!"—these words supplemented
with a kick or cuffing, will amuse
the baby, when kitty scratches but they
will never induce love and kindnessjin him.
Later, when the child has fully understood
abdut hurting things, he will begin
to lavish h is love on everything. His tender
To secure prompt service, address all
correspondence to Music Department,
THE FARMER' S Wire, St. Paul.
Carolina Sunshine: Very pretty either
as a song or instrumental number. If
you liked Till We Meet Again you will
also enjoy this. Very easy. Key of C.
3-4 time. Grade II. Price 35 cents.
Tell Me: The sentiment in the words
and the charm of the melody give this
number a wonderful appeal. You will
fine yourself humming or whistling it
wherever you go. Not difficult. 44
time. Grade II. Price 35 cents.
Alabama Lullaby: A unique, dreamy
Southern song with more merit than is
often found in more expensive numbers.
34 time. Grade II. Price 12 cents.
Patches: A new fox-trot which is characterized
by a cheerful, swinging melody
that appeals to everyone, written by the
composer of Smiles. Can be used as a
school march. 44 time. Easy to play.
Grade II. 30 cents.
Your Eyes Have Told Me So: A beautiful
melody combined with a fine sentiment
in words makes this a most pleasing
number. 34 time. Grade II. 30 cents.
Dardenella: A fascinating oriental foxtrot.
The most popular number at the
present moment. Is being played everywhere.
Dealers can hardly keep'pace
with demand for records and music.
Grade III. 44 time. Price 30 cents.
My Isle of Golden Dreams: A captivating
waltz song, which takes its theme from
Aloha, the famous Hawaiian song. Sung
with success by the Dolly Sisters in their
musical comedy, Oh, Look! Grade II.
Price 30 cents.
My Baby's A rms: A charming number
in which little runs and triplets figure
prominently. Not difficult to play. Ex-
-cellent for a school .march. 4-4 time.
Grade II. Price 35 cents.
Little Birch Canoe and You: A cheery
waltz sing with a graceful, flowing melody
and pretty harmony effect. Grade II.
Price 35 cents.
I'm Always Chasing Rainbows: The
song from Oh, Look! Appeals to everyone
because at times we are all discouraged
and have the same feelings as are expressed.
The melody is most alluring and haunts
one. Not difficult to play but you must
catch the swing of the refrain. Grade III.
44 time. Price 35 cents.
Lei The Rest of The World Go By: Another
beautiful love song by Earnest R.
Ball , the man who wrote Mother Machree,
When Irish Eyes are Smiling and many
others. 34 time. Grade II. Price 30
cents.
I'm Waiting for Tontorrow to Come: A
bright . and fascinating song. One you
will learn quickly but not forget. Excellent
as either vocal or. instrumental number.
44 time. Grade II. Price 35 cents.
BABY LOVES THEM ALL
heart will be touchedjat sight of anything
being killed. Yet there are certain "deaths"
which must occur. Endeavor, however,
to get the child to understand fully why a
fly is dangerous to have around before you
swat it. Show him the rose petals sadly
eaten by. the fat green worm before you
pick it off and crush it.
If his love turns toward toads and
snakes and ants, do not discourage it.
The farmer has no better friend than the
toads and common snakes. Yet there are
many, many grown-up men who still insist
on driving the toad and snake from the
gardens. And no one can deny that even a
child can learn lessons of value from the
busy ants. I have seen my own little lad
of five stretched flat on his stomach , resting
on his elbows, with chin cupped in
hands, watching an ant-hill for half an
hour or so. Eventually he would come
running to me, able to tell how the "nice
little ants" threw up the dirt to make their
houses, how they carried a dead fly into
. their house and innumerable other facts I
' myself had never noted. Baby's dawning
love for all things is at first in the hands
of those who have him in charge.
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SERGE, THE CONQUEROR
(CONT1NOID PROM PAOB 298)
arrested the cast, the pipe dropped from
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THE stout young girl is, literally speaking,
a big one and from the letters I
have received since I started this
series of Clothes for 'the Growing Girl I am
quite sure that at least half of our girls are
stout. That's whyi this month, my page
is just for them.
The stout girl has many advantages over
the slender girl. In the first place she fills
out her clothes better; next, her size gives
her a certain dignity that makes for a better
carriage and to top.aii,- she usually has
a jolly comfortable disposition that makes
her loved by everyone. Just that alone
makes up for any disadvantage her extra
size may cause in the matter of clothes.
wears a ladies' size 40, altered of course to
suit her height and the length of her arm.
These alterations are what I wish to explain
to you for most likely you will have
to use a ladies' pattern too and alter it just
as I have altered these. It is really a very
simple thing to do and with the diagrams
I am sure you will not have a bit of trouble.
Hold the front of the pattern up to you
to get the proper length. These two
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floor and the white skirt, twelve inches.
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Both the one-piece patterns are only a
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to keep the gathers across the back where
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with just the least suggestion of drawing
in—not tight, you understand, for we must
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model is to look her best.
The material is a medium blue Jap Crepe
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Grecian border in the old-fashioned chain
stitch, worked in heavy mercerized floss.
It is very effective and quickly done. You
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your own stores but if not, I will be glad to
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please tell me on what colored materia}
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Pattern No. 9426 is another very goodone-piece
style for a stout girl as the
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to her height. It is a slip-over style, but
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face the revers and for the bias facing at
the neck and the wrists. I also used the
plain blue for the pockets. Use a patch
pocket if you wishf they are much easier
to make.
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FARMER'S WIFE Pattern No. 9529 of Long
Russian Blouse
Plain materials, medium, or narrow
stripes and subdued colors are the.proper
thing for this young lady. Figured material,
unless the figure is very tiny, wide
stripes and vivid colors will make her look
twice her size and that is just what she
must plan to avoid.
Her salvation lies in the long trim lines
of the tailored type of garment.
She must avoid stiff , wiry materials that
stand away from the figure. She must also
avoid any suggestion of tightness, either
through the bust or the hips, as tight
clothes make one look much larger. While
the dress should not hang in folds it should
be loose enough to hang in graceful lines.
This is also true of sleeves, for a tight sleeve
increases apparent size of the arm.
The stout girl should not wear cross
lines of any kind in the shape of tucks,
ruffles or yokes, either on skirt or waist.
Verticle lines of trimming will add to her
height and also make her appear much
more slender. Large pockets, especially
at the side of the skirt or dress (the standout
hip effect) are bad, and so is a skirt in
which the upper half is of one material and
the lower of another. Another thing she
must avoid is the too-short skirt. That
does not mean that she must wear a skirt
as long as her grandmother'sbutan inch or
so in extra length will do wonders to her
height! There is not a reason in the world
why our stout girl should not look her best
every hour of the day!
Under no circumstances should the stout
girl wear a stiff corset. The soft corded
waist, especially designed for the young
girl gives all the support necessary, without
any undue pressure. If she does not
like the waists with theshoulder.straps, the
same styles come without them, either in
the clasp or button front.
Our little model is just thirteen and she
FARMER'S WIKB Pattern No. 942S is a Pretty
Slip-Over
the dress, which will make it about two
yards when finished. Thfs method can be
used to widen skirts too.
The sleeves are just two inches too long
for our little model and that means that
we must take out two inches. To do this,
fold a half-inch tuckthrough the ' paper pattern,
half way between the elbow and the
upper edge and another half way between
the elbow and the wrist. In the dartfitted
sleeve be careful that the folds in the
lower parts are exactly the same distance
from the wrist. For the angel or flowing
sleeve a tuck is not necessary. Take the
two inches off the lower edge. However,
if you want them quite large, take the extra
length out in an inch tuck through the
elbow. Pin or paste the tucks in before
cutting the material.
One-piece styles are especially good for
the stout girl and No. 9199 has a dartshaped
tuck over each shoulder which
gives extra fulness through the bust without
any bulky gathers. These darts are a
great help in preventing a one-piece dress
from "hiking" up in front on anyone who
is very high or full through the bust. The
closing at the side helps to give the slender
effect and so do the pointed pockets. You
will have to cut these yourself as there are
no pockets with the pattern.. Use a plain
straight belt, two inches wide, or a very
narrow belt, two yards and a quarter long,
looped over at the left side. Adjust these
belts (snap them on at the underarm seam;
Blue Jap Crepe Made by FARMER s WIFE
Pattern No. 9199
long. You will notice that none of these
dresses have a collar, though a collar comes
with each pattern. For a short plump
neck nothing is prettier than the collarless
neck, so always use it for this type of figure.
The long Russian Blouse is always good
for the stout girl and this is one of our latest
patterns (No. 9529). It fastens with
snaps on each shoulder, which makes it
much easier to put on than the regulation
slip-over blouse. The material is tan voile
(40 inches wide) and it requires two yards
and a half in the second length. For a tall
stout girl, the third lengt h would be better.
A narrow bias binding finishes the neck.
The embroidery is a conventionalized circle
done in a medium shade of blue wool.
The color effect is charming and as I used
the darning or running stitch, it only took
a couple of hours to do it. The long soft
belt (two inches wide, double of the material
and two widths of the voile) is gathered
at the ends and finished with a little
ball of the blue wool.
The blouse is worn with a skirt of white
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C ARLOTTA M. B ROWN .
Instructor In Millinery, Home Economics Division, University of Minnesota
left-over hat is one item to which
THE every woman should give her most
careful consideration when planning
a season's outfit (whether for fall or
for spring) since the purchase of a new hat
—at present prices—means the cutting of
a tremendous hole in the monthly budget.
And consideration of the left-over hat
means renovation of its materials.
The very first step to take towards the
renewing of a used piece of velvet is to
remove all threads and brush the velvet
with a soft bristle brush, that as much of
the dust as possible may be removed before
the process of steaming is began.
Place two bricks about two inches
apart so as to permit a space for the handle
of the flat iron to be. placed between
them. If you have no bricks take a deep
pan and place therein the -iton—handle
down and flat surface upward, or if such
a pan is not in your kitchen outfit, just
turn the iron on its side on a table. This
last method, however, requires a bit more
skill in the pulling of the velvet over the
edge of the iron. Any iron may be used
but if an electric iron is available its use
is much to be preferred as it does not re-
First Put the Iron in Position f or Steaming and Then Place Damp Cloth and velvet
in Position f or Gentle Brushing to Remove Dirt
quire reheating and is easily regulated.
After the iron (hot) has been placed in
position, spread over it some four thicknesses
of cotton cloth—old sheeting or pillow
cases will do—which have been dipped
in warm water and well wrung out. Over
this wet cloth put just one thickness of dry
cloth that no water may soak through
the velvet; Draw the velvet over the iron
brushing constantly with a soft bristle
brush while doing so and always in the direction
of the nap, never against it. It is
Draw Velvet over Steaming Cloth while You Brush it. If You Handle the Feather
Right You Can Curl the Flues Without Breaking
very easy to determine the direction of
the nap by running the fingers over the
velvet. If the nap remains smooth the
fingers are going in the right direction; if
the surface roughens the fingers are running
against the nap. In following these
directions be sure to let tne steam do the
work. This is an added reason for having
the dry covering over the dampened
cloth, for most persons, when first steam-
.ning velvet, press down too hard with the
brush and many times spoil the goods by
getting it thoroughly wet instead of leaving
the work of cleaning for the steam.
All of this may sound as if it were a long
process but in reality it takes but a moment
or two, for the velvet must be passed
over the steam before the strength of it is
exhausted.
You will find that most old velvets are
tion of the nap and not against it. Begin
at the left of the strip of velvet and take
long, light strokes with the iron, never
allowing the outer edge of the iron (or
the. edge farther from the body) to touch
the velvet. By holding this outer edge
from.the velvet all streaks will he avoided.
After the iron has been taken the full
width of the ironing board return to the
starting point and iron another strip
entirely across the board, overlapping the
first strip a very little to avoid a streak
in the goods. The velvet is then turned
to the right side and the same process is
repeated. Unless the velvet has been
very badly treated in the wearing it will
come back to life as good as new and may
be used over again, not once but many
times.
Plush may be steamed in the same manner
as velvet but it should not be ironed as
the nap of plush is very heavy and should
be upstanding.
All velveteens of light color may be
washed in tepid suds made from good
white soap. Follow the washing with
good rinsing but never wring the goods as
wringing will crease. After the velveteen
is dry brush it well with a stiff brush to
raise the nap.
Black or dark velveteens and velvet
ribbons should be steamed but never
ironed. Grease spots may be removed
from dark velvets by rubbing the spots
with a dark cloth saturated with turpentine.
And now for the satins. Black satin
may be made like new by sponging lightly
with a solution made of one teaspoonful
of borax to one quart of water. When
very much better looking after having
been ironed, or, mirrored, to use our term.
To do this, velvet is turned on the wrong
side—after having been steamed—and the
iron is run lightly over the velvet. Here,
again, be sure to send the iron in the directhe
satin is nearly dry, press lightly on the
wrong side with a moderately hot iron,
first having placed the satin on a heavilypadded
ironing board.
Ribbons are very hard to handle and
great care should be taken with them.
The only ribbon that ever should be
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This may be put in a basin and
washed as is any other soft cloth. After
it has been smoothed out and wrapped in
a clean, white cloth that some of the water
may be absorbed, it is laid between, two
other clean, white cloths and pressedwith
a hot iron. Other ribbons should be
cleaned with gasoline or some good cleaning
fluid and then steamed, as pressing
stiffens them. It is impossible to bring
back the color to colored ribbons after
they have been sunburned but if these
ribbons are but slightly faded the color
may be restored, in part at least, by sponging
them with chloroform, which, it is
hardly needless to mention , should be
done in the open air.
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HANDICRAFT HELPS
Design for a Tray Centerpiece and Two Pretty Edgings
LINEN tray centerpiece is always
in style, very convenient to own
and makes a handsome gift. Make
it any size desired and trim with
crochet corners set in and edging as described
below :
NOUVART TASHJIAN
M aterial: No. SO crochet cotton and
white linen cloth.
Directions: Ch 10, join in r.
1st row: Ch 7, turn, s in 2nd st from hook,
S d over the next 5 st, join to ring; ch 10.
Make four of these petals
around the ring. S 1 st to
top of first petal.
2nd row: Ch 12, join
to end of next petal, cli
12*join to next petal, ch
12, join to next, cli 12,
join.
Jrd row: MakelSdover
each of the 12 ch st loop,
4th row: *Ch 7, join
to center of 15 d, ch 7,
join to end of IS d, turn.
Over the loop make 3 s,
p, 5 s, over the next loop,
3 s turn. Ch 7, join to
center of other loop, turn.
Overthisloopmake 1 s.
p, 1 s, p, 1 s, p, 1 s, p, 1 s,
over the unfinished loop make 2 s, p, 3 s,
?make 2 s at the corner; repeat from * to *.
5th raw: Ch 15, join to center of the 4 p,
ch.lS, join to the corner; repeat around.
6th row: *Over the IS ch , make 3 s, p,
3 s, p, 3 s, p, 2 s, p. 3 s, p. 3 s, p. 3 s; ch 7,
on the chain make 1 s, 5 d in the next S
st; over the next IS cli make 3 s, p, 3 s, p, 3
s, p, 3 s, p, 3 s. *Repeat from * to *. all
around.
7th rcnv: Join thread to corner petal , *cli
10, join to third p, ch 10, join to 2nd p of
nextjoop, ch 10. join to corner petal; *repeat
from * to *.
8th row: Make s ail around.
Set in the corners of linen.
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Notice: ' Be sure to keep
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the work flat , if you find ^o.T^Pjg'Jt-i
that the work is not
f^Scf^^Sm^
flat, increase or de-
As^msvWmVllSrmm.
creasethenumber
of Uie chains for
the loops as the
case may require.
Make four
of these
squares, one
for each corner.
Make an
edging to go
all around
as follows:
Directions:
Work directly
on the
edge of linen
or separatel
y. Make
a chain the
length required.
1st roiv :
1 s in 9th st
Edging No. I and Its Insertion
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from hook, cli 2, skip 2, 1 d, ch 2, skip 2, 1 d.
Repeat all the length.
3rd row: Ch 20, 1 s in 13th st from hook.
*ch 4, thread over hook once, insert hook in
4th st of loop, thread over hook, insert hook
in center of lower half of loop, and 2nd open
space of former row, thread over hook, and
pull through 2 and 2 and 2 and 2, cli 4, 1 s in
other end of ring, this completes ring. Over
this ring make singles all around. S s in each
open space of ring. * cli 17, 1 s in 13th st
from hook, repeat
from * to *. Join
rings every 4th .open
space of 2nd row.
4th row: Ch 10,
1 s in center top, of
ring, * ch 6, thread
over hook once, insert
in center of chain
between the rings,
thread over once, insert
hook in center
of 4 open spaces of
first row, thread over
hook and pull
through 2 and 2 and
2 and 2. Ch 6, join
to top of next ring,
* cli 6, repeat from
* to *.
5th row: Same as first row.
6th row: Fill the open spaces with singles
and make 1 p every 10 s.
SIMPLE sandwich cover to go with
A this centerpiece can be made with a
12-inch square linen. Crochet all around
it a row of singles and a picot every 10th s.
Edging No. 1
Terms Used: Ch. chain; d. double crn
diet; si st, slip stitch; ?. single crochet.
Crochet Corner f or Tray Centerpiece
Edging No .2 and Its Insertion
Directions: Ch 10, turn.
1st row: 1 d in 9th st from hook, 1 d in
next st, ch 2, skip 2, 3 d, ch 2, skip 2,1 d, ch 2,
skip 2, 1 d, ch S, turn.
2nd row: 1 d over 1 d, ch 2, skip 2, 3 d
over the 3 d, 2 d over the ch 2, ch 2,1 d over
the first open space made, ch 1,1 d, ch 1, 1 d,
ch 1, 1 d, ch 1, 1 d, ch 1, 1 d, ch S, turn.
3rd row: 1 s over ch 1 of former row, ch 5,
1 s over each ch 1 of scallop, ch S, 2 d over
ch 2 of former row, S d over the 5 d, ch 2,
skip 2, 1 d, cli 2, skip 2, 1 d, ch 5, turn. '
4th row: 1 d. ch 2.
skip 2, 5 d over S d, ch
2, skip 2, 1 d, ch 2, 1 d,
ch S, turn.
5lh row: Skip the last
open space, 2 d over the
next, ch 2, skip 2, 3 d, ch
2, skip 2, 1 d, ch 2, skip 2,
1 d, ch 5, turn.
dth row: ldoverd,ch2,
skip 2, 3d over the 3d, 2d
over the ch 2, ch 2, make 6
times 1 d, ch 1, join to
former scallop, ch 5, turn.
Repeat from 3rd row on.
Insertion for Edging
No. I
Directions: Ch 25, turn.
1st row: 1 d in 9th st from hook, 7 d, ch 4,
skip 2, 7 d, ch 2, skip 2, 1 d, ch 5, turn.
2nd row: 4 d over the 4 d, ch 4, 1 s over
ch 4, ch 4, skip 3 d, 4 d, ch 2, skip 2,1 d, ch 5,
turn.
3rd row: 2 d, ch 4,1 s over the ch 4, ch 4,
1 s over the next ch 4, ch 4, skip 2 d, 2 d,
ch 2, 1 d, ch S, turn.
4th row: 2 d over the 2 d, 2 d over the
ch 4, ch 4, 1 s over the center ch 4, ch 4, 4 d,
ch 2, 1 d, ch 5, turn. Repeat from 1st row on.
Edging No. 2
Directions: Make a long chain the length
desired.
1St r0W
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'
|gg»gg|gS ra^ 1 d in 9th
MBa i glBStiyq-fpBSa
from hook,
-IlSi^WfiJr*WKJ cn 2- •£f *~s29Jf *tt'*sWm 1 d. S1 ch " P 2 2. '
skip 2, 1 d.
Repeat to
end of chain.
2nd row:
*ch 12, skip
2 open
spaces, 1 s
in next*. *
Repeat to
end of row.
3rd row:
16 d over
each ch 12.
4th row:
Join thread
to center of
loop and *
make 3
times ch 5,
1 s; ch 5,
1 s to center
' of next
loop *. Repeat
to end
of row.
Insertion for Edging No. 2
Directions: Make 2 separate chains the
length desired. Ch 12, over this make 10s.
ch 1, turn, make 10 s over the 10 s, ch 1 turn.
Make in all 7 rows of s. * Ch 9, join to end
of first row of s, turn, ch 4, join with s to
center of ch 9 loop, ch S, 1 s in same st, cli 2,
join to end of one of the long chains made,
ch 2, t s in center ioop, ch 5, 1 s in same st.
ch 4, join to end of solid motif; ch 11, join
to other end of solid
motif, ch 9, join to
end of first row of s.
Make this side similar
to the other
side, joining witli
other long chain
string. Ch 5. s in
center of ch 11 loop.
ch 10, 1 s in same
st, ch 10, 1 s in same
st, ch 5, 1 s at other
end of ch 9 loop,
ttiin, ch 9, 1 s in
center of upper ch
10 loop, ch in.
join to center of
other loop; ch 9.
join to end of solid
motif, turn. Ch 4.
join to center of loop, ch 5, 1 s in center
st, ch 2, join to long chain string, ch 5,
sin same st, ch 4, s to end of ch 9 loop;
10 s over the ch 10 loop, ch 4, join to center
of / loop, 1 treble to other end of loop, ch
5, s in center st, ch 2, join to long chain
string, ch 2, join to center st, ch 5, s in same
st, pull a long loop; take off hook from loop,
and from under pull through the end of lirst
row of singles; make 10 s over the 10 s. ch
1. turn. Make 7 rows in all of singles . *Repc.it
from *.
Page 320
DURABLE :
DURHAM HOSIERY
MADE STRONGEST WHERE THE WEAR IS HARDEST}
u\\\wy Exp erience says: "That
»^ is real value in Hosiery"
can see the
^^L ANYONE
beauty in Durable-
-M-W of*. DURHAM Hosiery. But Experience
^Bf
looks deeper and sees the wonderful wearing
^fT
quality. Every pair of Durable-DURHAM is
strongly reinforced. Legs are full length;
tops wide and elastic; sizes accurately
marked; feet and toes smooth,
,M)8A&{ A. seamless and even. The Durham
fes~ rs>^ii| gg?^2? ^yes not a< w^ * * e-
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for
Styles for children and men as well
as for women—for dress, the work or play,,
every season of year.
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Ask your dealer for Durable-DURHAM Hc-
* T/j iS *&0*W siery. Look for the Trade Mark ticket
^QSI Eft *
attached to each pair.
DURHAM HOSIERY MILLS, Durham, N. C.
Sales Office, 88 Leonard Street, New York
YWNW^ Takes ofl—putson Clincher Tirea quickly
X^Jgfc^ Net? wonderfulinventlon. SSinassa^
^ytki*. Also CASE RIM TOOL rfSssSS s*
. J_ takes rims off tires easy. Kfc=SSsij#
Both malle&blelron. Ask your dealer. Z^SSff Sa.
or send $3.80 East or i4W. Rockies to
MOTOR NECESSITIES CO. OF AMERICA. Minneapolis. Minn.
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Salesmen :—Sell Groceries, Paints,
Lubricating Oils. Roofing, stock Powder, Automobile
Supplies, Phonogranhs, to (armors, ranchmen, and
other large consumers: drop shipment or delivery plan;
profitable, steady, desirable; satisfaction guaranteed;
commissions advanced, 47 years in business. H -
LOVERI N & BROWNE CO., Wfnltull Gnctrt,
1762 S. State Str., - Chicago, III.
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Your Hair Needs "Danderine"
Save your hair and double its beauty. You can have lots of
long, thick , strong, lustrous hair. Don't let it stay lifeless, thin ,
scraggly or fading. Bring back its color, vigor and vitality.
Get a 35-cent bottle of delightful Danderine" at any drug or
^
toilet counter to freshen your scalp; check dandruff and falling
hair. Your hair needs stimulating, beautif ying " Danderine "
to restore its life , color, brightness , abundance. Hurry, Girls!

Why Pearly Teeth
Grow Dtn.gy>nd Decay
( All Statements Approved by High Dental Authorities
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They, with tartar, are the chief cause
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^ for home test to everyone who asks.
You Leave a rllltl Pepsodent is based on pepsin,
to Mar Them
the digestant of albumin. The film
is albuminous matter. The object
Millions know that teeth brushed of Pepsodent is to dissolve it, then
daily still discolor and decay. This to day by day combat it. •
is the reason for it:
Only lately has this method been
There forms on the teeth a slimy made possible. Pepsin must be
film. You can feel it with your activated and the usual agent is an
tongue. It clings to teeth, enters acid harmful to the teeth. But science
crevices and stays. Brushing in the has now discovered a harmless actiusual
way leaves much of it intact, vating method. And that method
It may do a ceaseless damage. And now enables us to fight that film
most tooth troubles are now traced with pepsin.
to film. _. .
Ihe results are soon apparent.
That film is. what discolors—not You can see them for yourself. The
the teeth. It ig the basis of tartar. 10-Day Tube which we supply will
It holds food substance which fer- show. Get it and know what clean
ments and forms acid. It holds the teeth mean. Cut out the coupon now.
PgpsaflgRt
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Now advised by leading dentists everywhere
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AWELL-KEPT
hand is a comfort
and a joy.
Hard work will ,
more or less, leave
its marks on palms
and nails. There is
no shame for the hand
so marked but careful
manicuring is an art
no woman can afford
to neglect, It is an
inexpensive art. The
greater part of the outlay
consists of time and
attention. Once trim,
the nails and fingers
are easily cared for.
» -
NUMBER 1.
Do not
cut the finger nails;
shape them with a
long, flexible file.
2. After filing,-soak for a
few minutes in warm, soapy
water.
3. Push back the cuticle
with the flat end of an
orangewood stick dipped in
sweet oil
4. Gean nails and remove
stains with a little absorbent
cotton wound on pointed
end of orangewood stick and
dipped in peroxide,
5. Touch each nail with a
little liquid nail polish and
polish with buffer.
6. Scrub nails with stiff
brush,.dry hands and re-
•
polish with buffer.
7. A well-kept hand. . I

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POCKET^ARM TO RANCH
(CONTtNuiD TOOK Faoa 306)
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- MMMM * ¦fSTT * BVaa^Lal sinitlc cent in advance. Just »so^S at^^H
through the winter as well as the summer, Vegetables not approved by the superintendent
may not be planted. A footway eigh-
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city gardens for nearly ten years. it is subject to dispossession when needed
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The price of brooms went up too last
Bfafafafafafafafa BB^Ira ^^^ teuilorced rluoothoiirA
— ¦ V- _ 7 ¦ by the owner for other purposes. But this
.^^^ ¦P^i^k . ' JSf- s ",l ¦amMMMM - Wi^aiodli^W^bn WoWRT tsmarit^roosnini year and the thrifty Bohemians straightway
planted broom corn and made their gardening. The Association plows, har-
xn m
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MBSts\sm\\s\ " """>">> fltOSlm. ' JlusK awpoo toi. ot toa eaao I. too Ute; never has interfered in any way with the
*e «S I
^^^^ Hra8&| ^^k I't j^pruulirmrni 1^ IMtnttn on arttnl U^not udstcd on arrnnl £2 ¦
B^B^a^BHa ^^sslia ^B^,^.^ *V°^- ^oUrna return txattaic ¦
;^^^^^^ will btteninded si once. * B^^^ g«^^^^ : .. . - ww^nrp.. . -^1 own brooms. _ One Bohemian gardener rows apd fertilizes the soil, furnishes seed
demonstrated to his own and everyone's and supervises the gardens through the
else satisfaction that he could raise tobacco season. In the early spring, applications
successfully.
¦ are made and the farms allotted for the
A girl belonging to an Italian family-living
in the most congested quarter of the who ever has had a garden once, wants one
summer. It is claimed that every man
north side wrote to the City Gardens Association
at.the close of the 1918 sea-
the next year. Usually he wants the same
PerUnasfl^L ^VO [^i^^>^a^Sr^'''VHHa ^ra H^^^^H
I
'Built for womenTiriu grow^*asQ|HMBHl^^WchsiToQOpattsortJieic
son."-^
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i tag pris on medium round tw ' I
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over for the year
the year before.
list, which,is aiyliah and comlortable. Madcln hi(h cut black and A "b BHHB ^^B". B
I thought
. saVaboiaay brown (menrion color detired when orderioj) SJ inches According to the Association its object
high..
(Bolt grade leather rjppert Have leather coumen,
MBSSWBSMM\ I Jtjyoulct letjrou know what a successful crop
solid lenher ttwed/ afi9analHsBBBaaaBaaaaaaal I'
we have had and how grateful I am for the is "To make idle land within the city produce
food, health and happiness for human
.•lilts, tnsolet, heeli; as smooth as silk inside. Sewed with best grade '
^waxed thread throughout^. Made .aaBaaaBBSkHHBB^aaaaaaaaaaV
on medium round loe I
lui, low^*
garden. My father has been crippled and
[broad_heela,(«»lra^bjck;jtrip lo we«nl rippinj, extra
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full'
recently has lost an .eye, so that my mother beings."
^wide
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^tonVue. T- .ol.vgenuine leiifier ^ v Women's and/
¦growing
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girls' and I, and frequently my small brothers It is doing something more than this.
size* 2fto'8 Psy M.95 on arrival. Mieie*sizes/ isaBnaaaWa^fflamllllMBalBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal
'llktolhr SUSon amval ChiUten'l iue>.6ioll P., S3 JS on/ ^aaSS ^^^^^^^ ilvHsaaaaaaaaal
' who are attending school, had to work the It is developing in city men and women a
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.-tot Ian, arluch allows ptenrr of room lor oVevr too. Widrht-.' .aaSLHawmffiB^r^aaBHBlSNraBB ^HHIlBBBBBS garden. This has been- the fourth year we desire to get out onto farms" and till the
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lotJaaa Ibsa sla.alolUn. W1Dmitwaar
have had itr and each year we have raised
laiao oedoaary oaksT soil.
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not/think ihuthe-bigtEMoaraain; L jdeaWBaa^BMalHBnBlaaBBWB'B^BBBBBBBHBBBBl
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enough potatoes, beans, tomatoes, peppers "There is not one man—ror woman,"
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.
winter. As you know, there are twelve
according to Mr. Greene, "of those who
'
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children in our family so you can tell what a are working the nine hundred city gardens
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saving it has -
been to us. Below you will this year (1919) who would not gladly go
Sljn and Vlfd coupon »I once. '^BaaaaaaaawHaaaaaaaaWBBBaa^Baaaa^B^^ ^Z I
Don't send a ant with It. In - deWf MmSmsSSSBimsmssstWSr Wawfftaadritw^tlasH find just how much vegetables we have had onto a farm if he could see any way of
a fctr days you win itccht tfiJ^ TBBHaaWrP'taaf^ h| GHs';Mo.5«»>,'3;,B
from our garden;
financing the family through the precarious
shoes. II not cnBrelypleued.; JHBBBai ^slaaW*^ «i o ./laV^' " K^ aa» " U 3SaW
don't keep them.^ We guat-
Twenty bushels potatoes; 32 bushels tomatoesj-S
bushels peppers; 1 bushel navy beans;
i^.^Ba- B^^^ *' '*' first year."
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Mleea»a»lng ol $2apalroi ' ¦,
wii . . "„.„..a..... f.m}3.9SJ|
2 bushels kidney beans; 2 dozen egg plants;
iWSrS lt« F»* -»venue Bargain Dense. BepL »$0, Hew Yerk, R. V. 60 heads of cabbage, squash—so many I did
not count—; onions, 1J4 bushels; endive,
teu »w>y from you and you money Including return postage lminedtetely. "~
300 heads;-lettuce, more than enough for A NEW IDEA FOR A GIRL'S
¦»-» thfe.WMiiltrful bargain. , D Ho. 393 Work Shoe, Sizes 6 to 12-Size Wid..„. MS
our family; sweet corn, all we wanted since
tlKWmWIf lsWKMf rWu n Ho. 393 Work Shoe, Sizes 13.and 14—Size-^— Wid ........ 5.45
CAREER
July; parsnips and beets and other vegetables
in .season.
|4i Usilaa£ UU|ls&l^ ? No. 207 Dress Shoo ..—Size- _.Wid 4.65
. (CONTINCED FROM PiOB 300)
¦¦-Kpnewtẉowīt senii money ¦ ? No. 5029—Sizes 2W to 8—Sizo .; Wi« }•»
Ufa advance. We take all Ike I ? No. 4029—Sizes II j| to 2—Sizo ..—\ Mi *» Another woman writes that her family
¦frbk-Send coupon at once and I ? No. 3029—Sizes' 6 to 11—Size ......... Wid 3.9b
and by the time ; they reached the stage
I cniontal loot comfort.at our I .. < ' -
had all the vegetables they could eat all to be put on full feed^ gave them a concentrate
mixture which he had always used for
,
^^rBh ^rtce ^^^^^^^ l Namely. '__i-, —
summer and had saved for the winter, 6
AddreM_^ _. -..: -.—: : —
bushels of potatoes, 15 bushels tomatoes, preparing hogs for market. When he
-5 bushels beans, 10 bushels onions, 10 marketed them at seven months, the pig of
pumpkins, 10 dozen sweet corn, 40 heads no breeding tipped the scales at one hundred
seventy-five pounds; the- Duroc
cabbage, 1 peck pickles.
Still another gardener expresses it as weighed two hundred and fifty.
his opinion that "a person gets between We have been successful, due, I think
GUARANTEED 5C«I MILE TIRES
$63.00 and $75.00 worth of goods off his for the most part, to Dad's good, common
j^m
_^ Durable Doublet Fabric 1>W haT»
farm if he takes care Of it and keeps the
kf^eMx double the amount of fabrleofortHriarr
Bwaa^^wSEBa^aBBSEK23tii
JMMM Urea and arereeonatroctedtoeiv beat;
weeds out of it."
IMl MMM ngUeaaa Mrtiea. Many ThouaandBat-
^U^Q^ 4500-Mile sense methods. Even though- he never
Guarantee
raised any "fancy" stock, he knows how
BfaBBM tsBedCaetomentet^y to the durability, B^ITflSa^iM Woo-nBafelymakBtUaguarantee, The whole scheme of the city gardens is to take care of them. He does not follow
¦ aB of tha« depet^le, lOT priced,; ¦aasJsjHpnpaBm aa-'Alo^i ¦
Qaatlty TlraNvarotnadepf all
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¦isB fsm due to the vision and practical hard work
tires. Order today. Ton »ul be
sjMr
a*»
Wem aaleetea tuterlaf, are all wonderful bar-
any complicated or elaborate system but
¦aHl lightedwith their wearing Qaalitie». ¦¦
Km yp ayV .awriaeMẉinoanrwanTtworaoautoe
of one woman, who was able to see beyond
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The Farmer's Wife , March, 1920 Page 333
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Swans Down Chocolate Cake
Swans Down Maple Syrup add Cake
Cream
fu&^d^
H
cupfu. butter or aubstitute, g
raduaH
cupM
y M of sugar, creaming
another A cupful sugar. Sift, then measure 3 cupfuls Swans Down Cake Flour,
meanwhile. Add 2 eggs, well beaten then M cup ulI of .Wj* J^Mg'
i° c 'J!
and sift again with M teaspoonful salt and 3 teaspoonfuls baking powder added ^ove mixture add H cupful of milk and 2JA i s rainutes. Bake in flat or Iaver pan.
few drops at a time. If not cooked enough (too thin) set the bowl of frosting over . ' ¦
the fire in a pan of boiling water, and beat constantly until the icing thickens per-
To make cake like illustration above, double this recipe. To keep cake from
t
ceptibly This recipe may be doubled burning on top, cover pan with sheet of cardboard or paper Have oven hot at
beginning, cooling as cake bakes.
How To Make Cakes More Delicious
If you want to be more proud of the cakes that you make—if you want them
of better texture—try using Swans Down Cake Flour! All expert cooks say that
this is the secret of successful cake making.
Swans Down makes lighter, whiter, finer, better cake—cake that is really just
like "swan's down."
Because cake is far more delicate than bread, it requires a special cake flou r made
of the very softest part of the wheat. Swans Down combines perfectly with eggs
and butter and milk and other rich things, and keeps them all wholesome and
delicate and delicious to eat.
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SlieHome Transformed
D. T. HOFFMAN, to whose New Hampshire home THE FARMER'S
MRS.
WIFE is a welcomed visitor, has sent us this illustrated story showing the
series of transformations through which her home has come since it
became the property of its present owners.
Photographs 1 and 2 show the old farm house—it was built in 1840—as it was
when Mrs. Hoffman first saw their purchased possession. She says:
"Picture No. 2, minus the piazza, was the first impression I caught of my new
home. For a moment the little blue devils had possession of me. I determined
to have that impression photographed so that, in the inevitable moments of
discouragement, we could look back and see to what extent we had succeeded.
The series of photographs are a truthful record of our accomplishments."
First (Picture No. 2) the piazza was added and in the blank wall facing the
reader, a window cut—see Nos. 3 and 5—to let the glorious view of the setting
sun into the livingroom.
Picture No. 3 shows the unsightly end torn down and begun to be replaced
with new aiding.
No. 4t The f inished product of the f armhouse as it looks today with
the addition of shrubs and Carolina poplar trees which were planted
because of their rapid growth.
No. 5s The bare look without trees and shrubs.
No. $: The improvement of trees, shrubs, paint and well-kept lawn.
No. 7: Front of house in detail. In ref erence to picture 1, note the improvement
of 8 x 24-f oot piazza, and f ront door between the two
f ront windows, f acing the road.
No. 8: The old f ront door. According to New England custom, many of
these f arm houses had the gable end f acing the road and main entrance
on the side of the house.
No. 9: At back of house the vine covered kitchenette door with cement
stone steps.
No. 10: The Carolina poplars and shrubs.
So much for externals.
Mrs. Hoffman tells us briefly of other improvements:
"The first thing my husband did was to lay pipes from the spring and install
a force pump. People had lived in this old house for seventy years without the
initiative to get water in the kitchen sink and had carried it by pailfuls up a
10-foot terrace.
"The north side of the kitchen had only one window. We removed the two
upper panels of the front kitchen door and inserted a glass, 25 by 31 inches.
"We repaired the fallen kitchen ceiling with composite board nailed over plaster
and painted white. Next we laid down a hard maple floor. The walls were
scraped and an "oilcloth" paper in blue and white tile, was put on. Woodwork
was painted light blue.
"Two small bedrooms were converted into one large livingroom—see window
in Picture No. 3.
"Picture No. 1 shows no front entrance facing road. No. 7 shows the added
door and piazza.
"Picture No. 9 shows the former owners' front door, only used on formal
occasions. A glass panel in this door transformed a queer little, dark box entrance
into a sunny room which Baby had for her playroom. Now it is my ideal summer
kitchenette. A cement step, 4 by 6 ft. replaces the ancient rotting log.
"The pictures from No. 1 to No. 10, show part of the transformation from an
ugly, rapidly-decaying place into a comfortable, convenient and much-admired
farm home."
Mrs. Hoffman states that she was inspired to send us this interesting illustrated
story of The Home Transformed by reading the series of articles from Mrs.
Adeline B. Whitford, Making the Most of Our Rooms, which began in
the September issue of THE FARMER'S WIFE and are still
~ ^g
¦H^
continuing.
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BARNUM PUT ITSELF ON THE MAP
Success Came Through Poultry Raising On a'Commuhity Basis
B ERRY
H. A KERB
BiggestHatches
f
Strong Chicks
That> what you want and will
get with a Champion Belle City
Hatching Outfit. My big catalog
f'Hatching Facts" tells &e whole
- story—gives newest ideas and quickest
BARNUM
is a typical northern ounces to the dozen be placed in separate only 38.5 cents per dozen while during 1919 nays to make poultry pay with sty
Minneosta town, set in a clearing cartons; the brown eggs kept separate, and the average was 45.4. This is the 1919
S|09S 140-Eggf Champion
left by the lumberjacks a score of lastly that all eggs for selling must be kept record. It is a good forecast of what the
years ago when the native pines in a dry, cool place until marketed. Mr. 1920 record will be.
uBelle City Incubator
were cut and logged away. -Same old Hanson furnished each of his egg men with
Double Walls Fibre Board—Self-regulated
—Hot-Water CopperTank—Safety Lampdepot,
same old potato warehouse, typical a number, also a rubber stamp bearing that
Thermometer Holder-Egg Tester-Nursery.
19.19 Dozens Av. Price Total
single street that you've seen so many times number this number to be stamped on each
With my $7.55 Hot Water Double-Walled
140-Chlck Brooder—both only $18.50
and always will see so long as you are in egg and on the outside of each carton, so January.... 8,935 $0.52.4 $4,688.43 Freight Prepaid
the. cutover sections -of Minnesota, Wisconsin
and Michigan. Were you passing the seller can very readily be traced.
that in case of a bad egg being found, February... 7,901 .39. 1 3,090.92
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through, this little town would hardly creaate
a ripple of curiosity while a brief visit During 1907 the railroad at Barnum han-
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not so much for wjiat is is, but rather for 450 dozen eggs. In June 1908 Mr. Hanson
made his first shipment to Duluth.
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the settlers' cabins which nestled among always sell at a premium. In 1908 Mr.
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the stumps and second-growth timber will Hanson paid the farmers 17 cents for the
118.643 53,433.02 BelleCity IncubatorCo., Bos 8fl_ Radne.Wll. I
disclose how Barnum put itself on the map. first eggs shipped, which was 2 cents above
How? Because it is the hub of a community
where poultry is not just kept to eat advanced and with a good market, interest has been paying the farmers 2 cents a
store prices. Each year thereafter prices Mr. Hanson during the past 12 years
waste feeds but where poultry raising has in egg production naturally increased and dozen below the market price. Mr. Hanson
furnishes all the cases, liners, cartons,
become a highly specialized and very profitable
industry; where everyone, town as During the latter half of 1908, Mr. Han-
rubber stamps for stamping and quite often
the industry developed,
well as country folk not only raise poultry, son shipped out 6,420 dozen, against 450 does the collecting from the farmers.
talk poultry and.think poultry but dream dozen in the previous year. For these This expense amounts to over one cent a H^^aaaaw3atroi«er chtcka with lesa attention; less
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LTNFORTUNATELY, many people
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when they are hatched. The result is that
many chicks are lost because of improper
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always be obtained at the right time
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chicks are hatched) and, as a matter of
fact, hens do.not succeed as well with early
chicks as brooders do. With a mother
hen, chicks often lack for warmth at the
proper time because the Ken does not feel
inclined to brood them and this is especially
unfortunate in cold weather when very
frequent brooding is necessary. With a
first-class brooder, properly operated, the
chicks can obtain warmth at any time and
need never be chilled or uncomfortable.
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with heat in it is not necessarily a good
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cumbersome or complex in construction.
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good ventilation by forcing pure, warm air
through the hover af all times is bound to
accumulate poisonous gases under the
hover7 which, to some extent, poison the
chicks and not only weaken their constitutions
but make them susceptible to cold
and less likely to take the vigorous exercise
that they need.
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be powerful enough to warm the hover to
a teihperature of at least 95 degrees without
usinfc a flame on the lamp which is
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hover long enough to get chilled and when
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boards up close around the hover (but not
close enough to cut off the air) to make
sure that the chicks do not stray out and
get chilled in his absence.
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after being placed in the
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a. few hours until they get accustomed to
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and fed dry, or dry grain chick feed.
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reduced to °0 degrees until they are two
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HOW I BUILT UP MY POULTRY BUSINESS
By Beginning in a Smalt Way and Increasing Wisely I Have Made Poultry Keeping Profitable
M RS . L ORIN
B ECK
POULTRY raising offers every woman
an opportunity to be an actual
partner in the business of. the farm.
The farm flock, if properly managed,
will yield a return on the investment in
cash and labor that will compare favorably
with the returns from any other
operation on the^arm.
This has been my experience. During
the six years that I have cared for poultry,
my flock has proven the principal source
pf income on our farm and our success has
been due very largely to the producing
power, of the flock. I've been a real partner
in the business, I've made good money
from the flock and I've thoroughly enjoyed
the work.
Six years ago my husband, who was a
railroad conductor, bought a small cutover
farm of 40 acres in Pine County,
Minn., three miles from the nearest town.
This farm was covered with second-growth
timber, fallen timbers and stumps, excepting
about one acre and a half which had
been cleared by a "lumber-jack" for a garden
spot. There was an old house, an old
log pig pen and a log barn on the place.
When we bought this farm we did not
know that we would ever live on it but we
were not owners long until we decided that
it would be our future home. So we left
the village and in the fall of 1913 moved to
this farm.
The hardships were many for myself and
the two children. My husband retained
his job with the railroad
and was home
only occasionally.
So we were left
there on this pioneer
farm, in a country
where neighbors
were few and far
between, to battle
for ourselves. But
I love the country.
It is an ideal place
to rear children. I
rather enjoyed the
new experience.
My husband also
enjoyed the opportunity
this farm
gave him to clear
land, to look forward
to the time
when we would
have a real farm ol
our own.
Our opportunities
to make money
on the farm in the
first few years were
limited. First we
had to clear the
land as the acre and
one-half which was
cleared was hardlv
more than enough to produce the vegetables
we needed at home. But there was
nothing to prevent me for having a good
flock of chickens and that was my first
resolution.
First Equipment
THERE was no hen house on the farm.
There was a tar-papered coop, six by
eight feet, which had housed some chickens
but the neighbors told me it was alive with
mites. I cleaned it out thoroughly and
determined to start with that equipment .
Then I ordered 250 day-old standard-bred
White Leghorn chicks, which were delivered
about May 1, 1914, I recall that
they cast me $25. It was a beautiful flock
of chicks, all from a well-bred flock. I
bought two ḥovers which I put in this
coop so that I would have a warm place
for these chicks. I lost only IS of the 250.
I gave them the best of care and that fall
I had 125 fine pullets but no house for
them.
1 turned to the old log pig pen, eight by
twelve feet in size, to solve my housing
problem. We raised it , put on a new roof,
put in some windows and ventilators and
provided a dust bath. The floor was dirt
as I could not afford a cement floor. When
raised, this pen was four feet high in the
rear and five and one-half feet high in the
front. It was a makeshift , to be sure, but
it was warm as the log walls were thick.
Although it gets very cold in winter, water
never froze in this log house.
I gathered my first egg from these pullets
on August 28 when they were four
months old. I had sold most of my cockerels
in July as broilers. I kept a few of
the choicest cockerels as breeders and had
no trouble selling these for five dollars each
as they were standard-bred birds. The
cockerels I, sold more than paid for the feed
my entire flock consumed that summer until
the pullets began to lay.
First Receipts
IN SEPTEMBER , I sold a half dozen eggs
* for 15 cents. That was my first egg receipts.
My feed cost me eight dollars that
month so I had a deficit but this turned to
a nice profit in the succeeding months.
My egg receipts that first 10 months from
this flock were:
Month Dozen Receipts Feed Profit
September... H M.15 $8.00 $7.85
October 52 14.30 6.00 6.30
November... 120 48.00 10.00 38.00
December... 102 42.00 10.00 32.00
January 51 16.20 10.00 6.20
February. .. 95 20.00 10.00 10.00
March 182 39.00 11.00 28.00
April 225 40.10 11.00 29.90
May........ 188 32.20 10.00 22.20
June. 157 29.00 8.00 21.00
I have always been proud of that first
record. I bought every mouthful of feed
the chickens ate, except what they picked
up on range and that was little. I had
Our First Log Hen House Seen in The Background Has Given Place to This Modern
Poultry Huuse With Concrete Foundation, Double Walls and Plenty of Ventilation.
good luck with them although egg production
fell off in January and February because
the pullets moulted in those months.
During the 10 months period, the flock
averaged about 105 pullets so that that
first year I cleared close to three dollars
per hen. I marked the earliest and best
layers for breeders and bought some fine
cockerels for mating. I was not prepared
yet to do my own hatching but I did sell
hatching eggs from these matings for $1.50
per sitting or six dollars per 100 eggs.
This income was in addition to other egg
sales that year. I might add that the
only farm income we had that first year
was from the flock.
The second spring we bought 250 baby
chicks again from the same source. I
hatched a few under hens so that fall 1
had about 200. pullets, in addition to the
hens I had held over as breeders. More
room was required and our experience the
first year proved to us we could afford to
invest money in permanent and better
equipment.
We Built a Good House
We built a hen house, 16 by 60 feet with
good concrete foundation , with a feed room
at one end, double walls, lots of light from
the south and lots of ventilation. Later
we built a brooder house 12 by 14 feet so
that we are now fully equipped. Our
present quarters comfortably bouse 200
layers and 100 pullets. Each year, the
flock receipts grew. With the flock profits
I have paid for the new buildings, have invested
in modern equipment, have added
to our home comforts. Our experience
has been that there is more money in poultry
than anything except sheep.
When we moved to the farm we bought
one" cow, two bred ewes and a brood mare.
Now we have three colts, four good Guernsey
cows, three heifers, 15 ewes, a new
barn and we now have 14 acres of land
cleared. • The chickens, provided the cash
income that made this increase in stock
possible. My next ambition is a new
house and I know the flock will make that
venture, possible very soon.
This is my record for last year up to
September 1:
Receipts Feed Net
Cost Proceeds
January J69.44 $55.00 $14.44
February 36.36 45.00 9.36
March 47.92 ' 45.00 2.92
April 206.45 45.00 161.45
May 237.81 45.00 192.81
June 134.89 45.00 89.89
July 97.72 45.00 52.72
August 59.30 45.00 14.30
Totals...., $889.89 $370.00 $519.17
My flock has averaged around 200 birds
the past four years. That is about all I
can care for myself. I still have to buy
most of the feed as we are not able yet " to
produce on our limited acreage more than
the stock we are
carrying consumes.
This is a big item
of expense for me
that many other
farm women do not
have. While the
price of poultry
products is high
now, the cost of
feed is also high.
In 1918 my flock
averaged 190 hens.
My total receipts
that year amounted
to $1,022.64 but
my feed cost me
§548.40, leaving me
a profit of only
$474.24. I did considerably
better in
1919, my record for
the first ei ght
months showing a
profit of $519.17.
The flock averaged
185 layers. Feed
costs were equally
as l high as in 1918
but the prices of
poultry products
were also much
higher.
I now do all my own hatching as well as
hatching for other parties. I have a 390-
egg incubator which I set once for myself
and later for others. I have good success
with my incubator. My poorest hatch
last year was 290 eggs and my best was
330 eggs. I am also using hovers for my
baby chicks. I think much of my success
has been due to getting my hatches early
so that I can market my surplus cockerels
early as broilers and get my.pullets to laying
when egg prices are the highest.
I Am Particular
HAVE kept accurate records ever since I
I started. I watch my hftis and I retain
only the best layers as breeders. I cull my
flock regularly each year. I believe in absolute
cleanliness and I have never been
troubled with disease. The houses are
cleaned every day and sprayed twice a
month with a spray made up of one part
kerosene to two of crude carbolic acid. I
feed the usual chicken feeds but also provide
plenty of litter for scratching when
the flock is confined. I finish my broilers
just before marketing with a feed of ground
oatmeal, middlings, ground corn and buttermilk.
I have thoroughly enjoyed my work
with my flock; my partnership in the business.
This year my husband gave up his
railroad work and will devote all his time
now to the farm. This was our ambition,
now realized through the aid of a flock of
chickens which have been given intelligent
and systematic care.
Why try to raise chicks with a
brooder that you are not sure clone
that you have to watch all the
time?
The Standard Coal-Burning
Brooder is the surest, safest
brooder that you can buy—it
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worth a day—requires filling only
once every twenty-four hours. It
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every hour of the day and night,
regardless of outside temperature*
You cannot lose a single chick
that has any chance of life, if you
use the
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Mrs. A. Nasenius, has a flock of White
Leghorns, numbering about 100 hens.
Mrs. Nasenius gives them good care. She
does her hatching by incubator and the
young chicks are reared in brooder houses.
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she sold 19,346 eggs from her flock of 100
hens, the total receipts for these being
$734.80. During the year she has purchased
feed amounting to $214.70, leaving
a net profit of $520.20. Her average egg
production was 193 eggs per hen.
Mrs. J. P. Peterson has a flock of about
200 hens. For the year ending last September
1, her receipts were $1,122.19.
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J^ checks amounted to $155.76, in May to Barnum, but begin today—now, to plan
$146.22. Her total income came almost a bigger flock of poultry next year and
entirely from the sale of market eggs. then find your Mr. Hanson; and remember
Fred Bauer lives in the village and has a that this is not a new theme but an old one
poultry farm composed of two building worked out on a new scale.
lots. In April 1918, he bought 600 baby
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worth of stock and $1,443.13 worth of
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eggs. Total receipts stock and eggs, ly, smoothe it, sprinkle on, the seed as
being $1,933.53. During the year he purchased
all of his feed, which amounted to soil with the hand or a board, and sift a
thickly as you want them, press into the
¦She loves Sl^rpard'a "Famous" Anconaa became of
¦their beauty, vitality and ability. They're heavy $861.64. This left him a profit of $996.89 thin layer of sand, or soil over them. They
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M btida tofoed.
for the year ending April 1, 1919. His should be thoroughly watered and kept
m Ideal Farm Birds average production per hen was 155 eggs.
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Mr. Hanson now ships all the eggs produced
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ootcb prizes, having captured more firats and seconds
,Ay than coal or wood fn the eame stove.
than combined competitors for twelve consecutive show the names of 350 farmers or poultry-
soon as the seeds germinate or they will die.
men as compared to 30 in 1908. Now
how has this all been brought about?
There is but one answer—education.
So great had become the interest in poultry
•in that section that on September 6,1915,
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at a meeting at Barnum , the entire community
voluntarily voted to place its poultry
work under the direction of T. F..
Chapman, poultry specialist at the Minnesota
Experiment Station. They agreed
to follow suggestions offered by Mr. Chapman,
and Mr. Chapman was anxious tn
co-operate in proving what can l)e done
with poultry; not alone for the town of
Barmim but for the country at large.
Mr. Chapman frequently sends poultry
specialists into the community to advise
with the farmers, to help them with their
records and to aid them in meeting any
problems which might arise.
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Mr. Chapman advises units of 100 hens.
It has been proven that in order to be sure
of 100 strong health y pullets 400 eggs is
the necessary number to incubate. Consequently
the 390 egg incubator has. been
adopted by nearly everyone in the community
as being the one most fitted to
their immediate needs. Brooders arc
used in rearing most of the hatches and
colony houses for the young stock are in
general use. Culling is rel igiously practiced.
This community has no sym pathy
for the lazv hen.
There is still another to thank for his
contribution (o the success of poultry
raisins in this ccnimiinitv. He is Hugo
Anderson. This winter Mr. Anderson
has a flock of 4,000 purebred White Leghorns
and for several years has sold baby
chicks to the surrounding district. He
has incubator capacity for 14,000 eggs
and during the year 1919 he sold 50,000
baby chicks—nine-tenths of them in the
Barnum community. Mr. Anderson has
all modern buildings on his farm and many
of them are used as model poultry houses
for that conimunity.
So we have four factors contributing to
the development of the poultry' industry
around Barnum. First there was Mr.
Hanson who came forward with the marketing
scheme, which practically built
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A FLACE FOR THE MILCH GOAT
The Milk Is a Valuable Food Product and the Animals Themselves Are Easy to Care For and Very Easfly Fed
R OBERT E. J ONES
YOU say, "better babies," to the
IF first woman you meet in Pasedena,
California, she responds;"Milch goats."
, ¦ •;." Recently the city fathers repealed
the old ordinance against keeping livestock
in the city limits of Pasadena,' for
it had become a dead letter. Milch goats
browsed on front lawns in select residence
districts and were, staked everywhere in
vacant lots. ' It is fairly safe to say that
the milch goat population of that little
city is as great as the cat population. . At
a milch goat, show which was held there,
Professor. Edwin C. Voorhies of the
University of California, had to pass upon
600 does before he could select the grand
champion.
The goat thrives in all sorts of climates
in the old world, from that of the balmy
Mediterranean region to the Alpine valleys
of frigid Switzerland. There is no
reason why the-, goat should not be likewise
well distributed in the United States.
Though- goat's- milk in commerce has
been regarded largely as a product for a
special trade, immigrant families keep
goats for the home milk supply. Even
if the:doe were an expensive feeder, which
she is not, many could well afford to keep
one or two, for the milk is of such high
quality that, an additional expense is warranted.
-But .the milch goat is an economical
feeder—a most efficient milk machine.
-
While on a vacation trip along the Central
California Coast a year ago, I visited
what is said to be the largest milch goat
farm in the world, It is odd, of course,
to think of the largest of the kind being
so far from the original home of the goat,
yet I doubt if there is a herd anywhere in
the old world that numbers 5,000 does.
This goat herd is on a 10,000 acre farm
in the Salinas Valley. It furnishes raw
material for the largest goat's milk condensing
plant in the world. In this plant
the food of goats' milk is concentrated by
the evaporation of moisture and the 1 product
is canned to oeTetailed through drug
stores all over the United States. The
consuming public is made up almost exclusively
of babies and invalids. *
This farm and condensing plant afforded
an opportunity to make a closer study
of the goat. It has often heen jokingly
stated that the goat (and the average
person doesn't, know the difference' between
a milch goat, a town-lot billy and
an Angora) is a scavenger, living on tin
cans from the dump heap. Such, I have
learned; is not the case. The goat is most
fastidious in its choice of foods but a
starved goat will eat the paper off- a tin
can to get the paste just as a starving man
will chew leaves.
At this great goat ranch \ learned that
milch goats will not even drink muddy
water unless forced to do so. An ample
supply of clear water from an artesian well
is available for them at all times. As to
their food ration, it is much the same as
that given to dairy cows. The goats
range in the natural pasture of the hillside
and valley, and are also given daily a
in life, and that is at breeding time,- so
he is kept far away from the milking barn
and the'does .in milk, - Thus the product
is kept free from the objectionable smell,
and to the unsuspecting, the taste or odor
of the milk seldom can. be distinguished
from that of cows' milk. -
Almost everyone knows that a goat
climbs with the agility of a ten-year-old
boy. --This propensity makes it necessary
to use a peculiar type of fence to keep
them within the fields but it comes in good
use at milking time. . Goats enter the
barns almost with the discipline of a soldier,
and mount stands some two feet high
for milking. If a cow tried a-similar athletic
performance she'would be ruined for
life, but the goat finds it easy to hop upon
the stand. Some goats are milked byhand,
the milker being seated to the real 1
but machines have come into use now
even in goat dairies. Before milking begins,
the udder is carefully 'wiped' with a'
clean damp towel. The milkers" all wear
are taught to suckle until weaning time,
at three or four months of age, when they
gradually begin to take grain and eat in
the pasture.
I mentioned that the kids come in twos,
threes and fours. Injruth the herds increase
with remarkable rapidity. The Department
of Agriculture reports the record
of one Nubian doe in Europe that
gave birth to eleven kids in a year, quadruplets
twice and triplets once. But the
goat people like to have twins come, for
they„are usually stronger animals than if
there are so many.
What is the daily yield of the average
milch , goat? At the great goat farm in
California the average was about a quart
- and a half daily, but that may be regarded
as low for in assembling this herd it was
- necessary, to buy everywhere and it was
not possible to get a.uniform lot of does.
There are hof enough in the country to
supply the. demand. ; Good breeding practices
have been put into effect on this farm
Upper Picture. An Automatic Meal. Below) Two Congenial Friends
ing the year she duplicated her weight •
twice in milk. Her weight is about 120 .
pounds and her yield for the year was over .
twenty-four times her weight.
Why is goats' milk better for babies and
invalids than that of cows? Because the
fat content is high and the fat globules are
so minute that the milk is easily assimilated.
With goats' milk the fat does not
rise rapidly to the top as does the cream on
cows' milk. Then, too, the goat that has
tuberculosis is a rare creature—some.authorities
say that she is immune from the
disease.
As with all other kinds of domestic livestock,
there are common goats, high grade
milch goats and pedigreed milch goats.
Breeding of these animals has not gone far
enough in America, however, so that lines"
of good and indifferent breeding are as
well defined as in dairy cows. Leading
among the breeds in this country, ace, the
Toggenburgs, an aristocratic breed, which
originated in Switzerland; the Saanen,
from Switzerland; and the Anglo-Nubian
from the native goat of England; the Nubian
from Upper Egypt. Then we have
in development the American Milch Goat,
which is a melting pot product, as are we
Americans ourselves.
It is best to invest in a goat of good breeding,
for the higher initial investment will
be many times repaid in the quantity of
the milk flow and the sale value of kids
from a parent of family.
It is no trick at all to fit up a home for
the milch goat, for she is not so particular
as a cow in the matter of sleeping quarters.
There must be a roof to keep out the rain
and snow, and sides to the little building,
hardly larger than a dog house, to stop the
winds. The doe does not ask for straw
bedding; since the days when her ancestors
slept on the rocky mountain sides she has
preferred a hard bed and the bare wooden
floor pleases her best.
Other than a house, the equipment must
include a milking stand, which consists of a
ten or twelve-inch board shaped something
like an ironing board, and set on legs about
eighteen inches from the ground. At one
end is a stanchion, through .which the
goat thrusts her head at feeding time, and
a holder for a pan of grain. The other end
of the stand board should be extended a
foot or so beyond the length of the doe
and rounded into a seat for the milker.
At milking time, when the owner appears
with a pan of grain, the doe will beat him
to the stand, clamber upon it, and be in
position for milking by the time the grain
pan is in place.
As to feeding the goat, she will eat and
turn into value most of the surplus from
the garden, besides many of the weeds.
She also likes alfalfa hay. In addition
there should be fed some grain, for it induces
a heavier and richer milk flow, just
as grain does with the cow. The California
Experiment Station suggests four different
concentrated mixtures, mostly of
grain, any one of which is good and may
be chosen according to availability of the
ingredients. At the heaviest
milking period, goats may be M-\
fed up to- two
iBL
pounds bffeaicen- g\* l^T
Milking the Goat at Home
ration of chopped alfalfa, bran, oats, cocoa
me>I, linseed meal and rolled barley.
Sheds are provided to protect them from
the rains of winter and the heat of summer.
They are never let in the milking
barns except at milking time.
Some suspicion has been directed at
the goat and at goats' milk because of the
peculiar, odoriferous nature of the buck.
The buck, however, has only one purpose
white suits which are washed and sterilized
daily. The floors and drains of the
milking barn are of concrete and are easily
cleaned by the use of hose.
After the milk is removed from the
dairy barns, from which it is carried in
buckets, it is filtered in the dairy house
and cooled, passing through a modern
type of machine, for the purpose, and
finally, at a temperature of forty degrees,
reaches the 10-gallon cans in which it is
carried by a motor truck to the condensory.
The condensing process is similar
to that employed in milk plants for condensing
cows' milk.
For the sake of the human babies and
the invalids who wish the goats' milk,the
kids born to the does on this goat farm are
cheated of their heritage. They are raised
on the plebeian cows' milk. As soon as
a doe freshens, her kiddies, for they come
in twos, threes and fours, are taken from
her and put on their foster mother, which
is a nippled bottle or a short trough with
a number of nippled spigots. There they
and each succeeding generation of freshening
does will undoubtedly show an increase
both in milk yield and in length of
lactation period. Some of the high-grade
animals on the place now give four to five
quarts daily but they do not keep that up
for many months. The lactation periods
average from seven to eight months.
The queen of the milch goat world is
owned by the University of California
Farm. She won her crown through the
milk pail. This goat has the stagey name
of California Gretel. She was milked
twelve- months under official .supervision
and every pound of her milk was weighed.
For the year she gave 2,941.5, or 1,470
quarts. Milch goats do not ordinarily
give a quantity of milk for more than
eight or nine months but California Gretel
kept right along through the year and gave
eighty-two quarts in the last month of her
test. During her best month she gave 145
quarts or about five daily on the average.
California Gretel is truly a wonderfully
efficient food factory, for each month dur-
World's Champion,a Pure-Bred Toggenburg
trates daily, seldom more.
Does are at their prime between the
ages of five and seven years. They usually
freshen at 17 to 18 months, and may
be bred regularly thereafter—twice a year
if the owner wishes. They live to be
12 to 16 years old.
On farms where they can be accomodated
and the milk used or disposed of,
raising goats could well be a profitable side
line for the women and the young folk.

IN THE DAIRY
What Feeding and Good Care Will Do for Run-Down Stock
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A READER of THE ^ W £
f \ FARMER'S WIFE ^"M^
/J^ writes: "For several years,
since my husband's death, I •'
have carried on the farm and dairy
herd but a year ago illness obliged
me to rent and move to town. Now
lam back on the farm, and find my nice
cows in poor condition and giving too
little milk to pay. The common cows I
will fatten and sell for beef but 1 hate to
give up the few pure-bred heifers and two
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(CONTINOED FROM PAOI 332)
touched. S
It does not take long to get a good start
in the-hog business/ At the end of the
third year Father and I held a sale at
which we disposed of sixty gilts and brood
sows and forty boars.. At this sale, we
realized an average price of one hundred
and fifty dollars but there were many that
went at much higher prices. Quite a few
of the gilts were sold for one hundred dollars,
thus bringing the average price down.
We.were well satisfied, however, with the
amount we took/in, although, of course, it
was not all profit as-we paid out quite a bit
for advertisings Air of our previous sales
of stock had been made in this way, and it
was because we were not afraid of using
printers' ink that we succeeded in bringing
so many buyers to our place, for practically
all of the purchases were made by people
from a distance. Our stock was gaining
a reputation for : Father was, and is, a conscientious
breeder. Any hogs that do not
come up to his standard are culled out and
raised for market.
-Up to the time of our first sale, the
County Agricultural Agent had not been
successful in interesting the boys.in raising
pigs, but after that they were more enthusiastic.
We co-operated with the Agent
and the local bank, and made it possible
for the lads to buy a pure-bred pig at less
than half of the usual price.- If they did
not have the money, the bank would let
them have if. "
The first year, five boys took advantage
of this offer. The following year there
were fifty and now there are two hundred
eager boys who are caring for pigs bought
from us. That first sale was also the
cause of making some of the older men
think, and as a consequence several invested
in a gilt or boar. Quite a few of
them bought both; as a result, at the
present time, the'scrub pig is becoming
quite rare in our vicinity.
And as for Dad. ' you should see him! I
am afraid-you might say he is conceited,
for he does not try to conceal his pride in
"our stock" as he calls it, which makes me
feel rather silly for about all I ever did was
to get him started and then encourage
him. All the hard~work has been done by
Dad. How his dear/ old eyes shine when
he exhibits his hog-houses and proudly
shows what he claims is the finest litter of
pigs ever farrowed. »
"I have made more money in a year
than I used to make in ten," he told me
not long ago and it is easy enough to believe.
At our last sale ' two boars—fine
specimens of the Duroc-Jersey breed, were
sold for sixteen hundred each and but one
brood sow went for less than we paid for
Victoria.
But, ' profitable as my partnership with
Dad has been, I am preparing to dissolve
it for I have agreed to a life' partnership
with a young farmer who lives near us.
"And so you will never be a physician
after all," commented Father during a
family consultation concerning the last
named partnership." Tell me, Wilma,"
he went on, "are you sorry—do you regret
the fact that you stayed on the farm?"
"What a question, Dad!" ^answered.
"If I had gone away, perhaps Dan and I
would never have discovered that we were
meant for each other."
Dad is not usually demonstrative Jntt
he drew me to him and his voice was very
tender as he said: "Yes, little daughter, I
know that you are happy preparing for
your married life with the man you love—I
know too that you must have a feeling of
satisfaction in the knowledge that you did
your duty even though it entailed sacrifice
of your ambitions. Mother and I have
never said much about it, but we have
appreciated it, and I want you to know,
little daughter, that it was you that made
me comprehend that for me Life was not
yet done and that I must go on."
"You have been our joy and comfort,"
added .Mother softly.
"Why then do you ask if I have any
regrets?" I asked.
But Father was still unconvinced.
"Sometimes," he said, "I have caught an
expression—a wistful ' look that made me
wonder if there was not a rebellious feeling
because you could not get out into the
world and 'do something' as you used to
put it."
"Perhaps, at times, I have, been a little
blue but not often," I admitted. Father
looked at me thoughtfully as he continued:
"do 'you not know, Wilma, that
you have done far more for the good of the
world by staying right here on the farm?"
I laughed outright as I repeated his
words, "For the good of the world!" but
Dad was quite serious. "Mr. Hoover
would be the first to say so," he insisted.
"For one thing, because of your determination
to be a "pig queen" you have been
the means of starting two hundred or more
boys on the way to become better farmers.
That means something to the world's
future supply of food , doesn't- it ? And
you have been the means of increasing the
present meat and fat supply by thousands
—millions of pounds. Where formerly
there was raised one hog for market purposes
in this community, there are now
twenty, and they are the kind that niake
pork too. Who was it that changed the
kind of swine raised around here? True, "
it would have come eventually, and the
high prices had some effect in inducing the
farmers to keep more pigs, but it was you
that hurried things along, my girl. Last
winter there were 5,000 hogs sold in this
township. Counting each one at 250
ipounds, a low estimate, that would make
n > 250,000 pounds of pork, and. I know that
*I arii right in giving you credit for twothirds
of it. Remember that is in just
one township,. Then think of the hundreds
of pure-bred animals that we have
shipped all over this state, and to nearly*
every other state. Every good pig in a
neighborhood means a difference of many
pounds of meat produced. ; r Do something!
I should say you had done something,
Daughter, even if you did not go to college
and afterward take your place among the
workers of a great city."
"Goodness, Dad! I exclaimed in amazement.
"You surely make me feel terribly
important."
Then we all laughed as Mother remarked
seriously: "And, Wilma, I think
probably you would not have made much
of a doctor anyway."
SERGE, THE CONQUEROR
(CONTINUED PROM PAQE 323)
with my own eyes as near as that hitchin"
post out there, him bobbin' his Kead an'
chirpin' French an' she smilirt' an' blushin'
like a fool an' all ready to jump into his
arms. He was the wild flower she was
after all right an' she was the fish he was
tryin' to catch!!*
"I'm sorry to dispute you, William,"
his wife replied, her still tones striking him
with a vague sort of terror. "I knew
Priscilla before she was born and only the
Almighty has been closer to her ever since,
and if an angel from heaven should question
her word, I'd have to tell him he was
mistaken."
It was the first time in all their twentyfive
years together she had faced and
challenged him and it was like a blow in the
face.
"What do you mean, Anne?" he gasped.
'.'Do you doubt my word? Do you think
I've- so little- respect for myself as to want
to slander my own flesh an' blood?"
"She admits she made a mistake, William,
but it isn't as bad as you make it out
and you. ought to have given her a chance
to explain." ~
He rushed forward artd seized her by the
arm. "Amislake—?"
¦ * '¦ ' ' -
"Yes. ' Only an indiscretion, ' William,
and I am really to bl||ne for it. Shortly
after the runaway accident, she asked my
permission to correspond with a friend in
French for the sake of practice and instruction.
The letters weYe mailed in
Nashua but it seems our young Polish
neighbor was the correspondent."
"You mustn't think hard of your father,
Priscilla dear! It's because he thought
so much of you that he feels so bad. He'd
lay -down his life for you any minute and
thank God for the chance."
Priscilla and her mother were snuggling
together in one of the great clefts on the
southern side of the crest of old Marooriock
drinking in the glorious panorama on one
of the rarest days of the year. Weeks had
passed since Brewster had brought Priscilla
home with him. In those weeks
Priscilla and her father had hardly spoken.
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The tears started in the girl s eyes and
the color left her cheeks. "Oh, Mother,"
she replied, "but why is it he can't understand
me? He treated me as if I were a
little, irresponsible fool. I'm no baby!
I'm three years older than Juliet was when
" she and Romeo were driven inṭo .their terrible
tragedy."
"It's because you're still his little girl,
dearie," the mother answered. "You'll
never know what that means, Priscilla,
until you have a little girl of your own.
Of course, you're almost a woman," slie
added with a sigh, "and it would be madness
to rebel, but 0, darling, make sure it's
the heart that God gave you, you're following,
and not a romantic impulse."
Priscilla thought of this the next afternoon
as the strains of a Beethoven sonata
roused her out of a reverie as she passed
the Jenkins' farm on her way home. Her
heart beat fast and the color mounted to
her cheek as she wondered if he had timed
it for her approach , but urged the horseforward
and looked steadily ahead. Every
day thereafter as she came within sight of
Serge Slezak's house at just the same point
on the hill , the heavenly strains of some
classic aria 1 rolled out to greet her, continued
as she crossed the open ridge and
ceased the moment her team disappeared
over the opposite side.
She could not always identify the selections
and indeed much of the playing was
spontaneous improvising. It thrilled her
to catch the strains of , "0 I have sighed
for thee," or "Celeste Aida." One day he
suddenly introduced , "I hear voir calling
me" into a serenade and as she passed the.
door, she halted her horse, entranced.
The music stopped almost as suddenly as
she did and before she could give her horse
the word, Serge Slezak darted out of the
door exclaiming: "Pardon me, Mademoiselle!
I follow my heart."
Looking earnestly into her face, he
added: "For many weeks I have been
calling you but this is the first time you
have answered."
"I answered the first time but you played
so loud you couldn't hear me!" Her
spairkling eyes and light laugh dazzled him
but immediately she lapsed into gravity
and said: "I have been anxious to speak
to you, Mr. Slezak. I wanted to tell you
how badly I felt about my father's treatment
of you."
"It was' his treatment of you that hurt
me, Miss Brewster," he broke in. "I was
sorry to be the cause of it. I have tried to
talk with him and explain matters bu£ he
cuts me off every time."
0, it is not you personal ly he dislikes,
she said, with a touch of earnestness that
greatly moved him. "Father has the
kindest heart in the world but he has
strange notions about foreigners. He—-"
"O, you need not explain or apologize,
Miss Brewster. I understand. Rethinks
foreigners are all alike and that none of
them are any good. It's strange that
Americans so soon forget that they were all
foreigners once; and just about as straftge
that they haven't yet learned that there
; re foreigners and foreigners just as there
are Americans and Americans."
"0, not all Americans are like that!" she
broke in gently with a subtle smile that
thrilled him.
"No, not all ," he answered. "Young
America everywhere is friendly and generous
and this is the hope of your great country-
Generous hearts are God's great
melting pots; they consume all the dross and
conserve all the gold."
They were silent for a few moments, the
girl nervously handling the reins and looking
anxiously up the roa d and the young
nan devouring her with his eyes.
"We're all friend ly and generous when
we know each other," she said, "and perhaps
the foreigners are as much to blame
for clannishness as we are for coldness. Wc
have a social up at our church tonight ,
Mr. Slezak. Won 't you come up and give
us some of your music?" And then as the
young man look his hand oil the buggy and
looked up in speechless ecstacy, she cracked
her whip and started along.
William Brewster was resting for the
noon hour listening to Priscilla as she
read the late war news, when a fi gure
passed the window and looking up he saw
Serge Slezak knocking at the open door.
"I am here of my own initiative, Mr.
and Mrs. Brewster," began the caller
standing on the threshhold , "and if Miss
Priscilla raises her little finger, I'll just say
goodbye and depart. I leave for, Europe
tomorrow to light for my country's freedom."
Brewster guessed his neighbor's errand
all too well and turned on the agitated girl
with terrible menace. But he could not
catch her eye and she did not raise her little
finger. "You are proud of your Pilgrim
ancestry, Mr. Brewster," proceeded
Slezak, his burning eyes holding the enraged
father, "and despise me as a lowborn
foreigner. Perhaps it is time for me to
remind you that while your forefathers
were despoiling and dispossessing a weak,
savage race, mine were fighting for the
mightiest nations in Europe on behalf of
their freedom. You boast about your
spirit of 76 and it is a worthy and noble
boast but my country has so many 76's
that she does not know which to honor
most! This is my country's great hour
and I am going to help her. Paderewski,
the divine artist, the glorious soul, who
taught me to love music has set my heart
aflame with hope for my unhappy country.
My great-great-grandfather fell
fighting with Koskiusko in his last battle;
my great grandfather gave his life in the
insurrection of 1830; my grandfather sacrificed
himself in Mieroslawski's uprising
in 1863; my father died of a broken heart
because of the fate of his two oldest sons
who succumbed to disease while political
prisoners, one in the Siberian Mines and
the other in the fortress of Coblentz. I ,
myself , learned French to spite my German
schoolmaster who cruelly flogged me for
using my mother tongue and I just escaped
the tragedy of my brothers by
swimming out to a British Merchantman
in the darkness of night and stealing
aboard."
Catching the subtle flash of pained but
admiring approval in Priscilla's eyes the
lover dropped the note of proud challenge
and broke into quiet, wooing appeal.
"I go back to fight for Poland, Mr.
Brewster, to honor my patriot fathers and
vindicate my patriot blood but I have
learned to love this great, glorious land ol
yours and I am leaving my heart behind.
I want you to accept my property in
trust for Miss Priscilla until—" he paused
again and spite of a mighty effort, a misty
haze crept into his eyes and a pathetic
break into his voice as he added , "until I
return—if—"
He had kept his eyes steadily fixed on
Brewster but sensing some subtle movement
he turned to find Priscilla at his side.
He put one arm about her, and advanced
a step toward the outraged father. In
tones eloquent of reverent sincerity, he
exclaimed: "It breaks my heart, Mr.
Brewster, to make trouble between you
and your beloved daughter. My heart
tells me that the good mother is not displeased.
I want you to be my friend, the
good Christ knows I do. I want you to be
a father to us both."
For a moment there was deep silence
and truth tore the bandage from William
Brewster's eyes. Astounded, humiliated
and overwhelmed, he made a desperate
attempt to rally his wits and make the
most of a forlorn hope but miserably failing,
repeated what he had done at every other
crisis in his career—he put his burden
upon the wise and faithful wife who had
stepped quietly to his side.
"I'm all balled up, Anne Rutledge," he
muttered , "fix it up any way you think
best."
And Anne, smiling through the window
at towering old Mount Maroonock, fixed
it up by smoothing out the big clenched
fist her husband stretched toward her and
placing it in the outstretched hand of
Serge, the Conqueror.
McCARTY'S GLORIOUS LIE
(CONTINUED FROM PAUE 298)
true lo me. Mister McCarty."
"But what of the time, Lily May, between
now anrl the day whin ?"
"When he comes back to me?"
"Yis, when—lie comes back—to ye."
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drew back, half frightened.
"Say it agin , with your eyes and your
heart in the manger before ye, that 'tis the
solemn truth that he promised yc."
"God knows it is true."
" Twas a marriage thin , no liss, and now
ye are Mistriss Ronald Dean by ivery law
of right and justice. Do ye understand:
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- MY OLD HAT MADE NEW
, (CONTINUED wtou PAOH, 328)
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learn that the renovating of lace is a-most
satisfactory proceeding. Black lace, in
particular, comes out quite like new.
Dip black lace in a solution of three-fourths
alcohol and one-fourth, waters After the
dipping, do not wring but spread the lace
out very smoothly, 'stretching¦•'¦it on. the
irorjing board or other flat, surface. Every
part of the lace , must be pinned separately
that the design may be retained. The lace
isjth ' en left to dry and care should be taken
that it is thoroughly ' dried before the pins
are removed. .; . ,>
¦' . 'Whitelace may be washed by putting it
in a clean basin in which the same solution
of borax and water as that advised for
the sponging of black satin has : been
placed. Let it remain in the solution for
twenty-four hours. Do not rub the lace
but squeeze it, as rubbing breaks the
threads. After its day of soaking, the
lace should be well rinsed, stretched on the
ironing board and allowed to dry before
trie pins are removed.
Georgettes are a joy forever to the home
renovator. They may be put in a basin
and washed in good suds and then quite
sensibly and easily ironed on a well-padded
board. Old' georgette waists should not
be tdssed aside. Put them with
the hat materials, for they make
excellent hat facings or they.may
be used for inside layers and covered
with new goods. They are
quite worth cleaning for this purpose,
for especially in the use of
georgette facings on winter hats
the material is too thin for use in
one-layer thicknesses and must be
lined. The old georgette is j ust as
good as the new for this purpose
and saves materially in the cost of
the hat. If the old is not the d e-
sired shade, get a package of dye
and make it the_ shade you wish!
It takes dye beautifully and—again
at present prices—is quite worth
thi trouble.
Chiffons are more perishable and
are not used to the extent of a few
years ago but jf some scraps or
remnants should be stickingaround
in your old boxes the light colors
may be cleaned by rubbing with
magnesia and after the rubbing being
rolled in tissue paper and laid
away for several days. Then they
are unwrapped, shaken well and
pressed lightly with the iron.
Perhaps you .will be interested
in knowing how your old and
broad beaver may be made smaller
and so conform more nearly
to present modes. Unthread your
sewing machine and remove the
bobbin. Set the stitch'to the finest
possible stitch and put your hat
under the needle, having first
drawn a chalkline around the top
of the brim to the desired width.
This done, stitch around the brim
twice, carefully following the
chalkline and take the hat from
the machine. Then, with the edge
of the hat pressed firmly between
the finger and thumb, bend the
outer brim back and forth until it
breaks away from the stitching.
Never use scissors or knife as either
will cut the fur and leave a rough,
unsatisfactory edge. The edge
that has been broken away from its moorings
may be put away to be used as trimming
on other hats. Make the design you
desire, in the trimming, by outlining with
chalk and following the same method on
the machine as for the cutting of the brim.
Straw braids are of such a variety that
we will consider only those most commonly
used. Any woman of today, who appears
in public wearing a faded straw hat,
should be quite put to shame for the hat
dyes and enamels now on the market are
so wonderful that she can have no excuse
for her laxity. Straws clean well but if,
by chance, they are too badly soiled to
respond to the cleaning process, two coats
of dye or enamel and—presto!—they are
new again.
If your last year's Panama looking much
the worse for the wear? Wash—or scrub
it rather—with tepid water and good
white soap. The dirt will disappear very
quickly. After the washing, the hat
should be rinsed in tepid water and the
crown stuffed with white paper to keep its
shape arid. size. The stuffing of the crown
is most necessary: for if this is not done the
hat may shrink and become too small for
the head. A good method, also, for the
keeping of the exact head size is to sew a
piece of wire on the inside of the crown
before the washing, but even if this is done
the paper stuffing must be used to support
the crown. When this has been accomplished
the hat is put on a flat surface and
placed in the air (but not the sun) to dry.
White.chip and white felt riats may be
cleaned by being rubbed with magnesia
and left to stand for several hours. When
the powder is dusted off, the hats will
be wearable once again,.
Leghorn may be scrubbed with corn
meal and gasoline or with lemon and sulphur.
For the first method: take a hanful
of cornmeal and dampen with gasoline.
Rub the mixture into the hat with a soft
cloth being careful that every part has
been gone over. For the second method:
saturate two tablespoonfuls of the sulphur
with lemon juice arid rub into the hat.
When dry, brush off the sulphur and press
with a damp cloth.
Black straw may be sponged with a
cloth saturated with alcohol. This removes
all dust and leaves a clean surface.
Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, N. •/. "*
Little Francis Taeher Feeding Panama, a Lion Cub, in Central
Park Zoo, New York
Any of the light straws that have become
too badly burned for cleaning should be
brushed well and dyed a darker shade
than the original for spots will show
through the dye if the same shade is used.
Black hats may be treated in the same
manner. If a very high polish is desired,
the enamel should'be used or a dye with a
bright, instead of dull, finish. ,
Felt hats may be steamed if they are in
need of re-freshening. If they are bent or
creased, the blemish may be removed by
holding the spot over the teakettle spout
until damp and then smoothing the felt
between the fingers.
Now that the ostrich feather has come
into its own again we have the problem
of cleaning and curling feathers, which is
not a small one although it may be done at
home, satisfactorily, if great pains is taken.
If the feather is light and very much
soiled it may be washed in tepid soap water
—if it is a high grade feather. But most of
the home cleaning is done with either plain
gasoline or gasoline and a handful of white
flour as this method is safe. A large
china bowl is used for the washing. Pour
into it a pint of gasoline and, if desired,
the flour may be added. Then use the
tip's of the fingers to rub the flues of the
feathers. The flues are the feathery parts
on each side of the stem: Do not rub in
the hands but press lightly with the-finger
tips. Then pour clean gasoline into the
bowl for, rinsing and after that is done and
the feather is partly dry, roll the feather
in cornstarch and let it lie for a short time.
Then shake gently, to evaporate the gasoline
and dispose of the extra cornstarch.
Black or dark colored , feathers always
should be cleaned in the gasoline alone as
any particles of the flour or cornstarch
which might persist in clinging would
show."
The curl may not come out to any great
extent in the cleaning but the feather will
always need trimming up. A sharp tool
never should be used for curling. The best
tool for this purpose is the back—or dull
edge—of a-silver table knife. Do not
start- the knife close to the stem of the
feather but only curl the tip ends of the
feather. Begin at the bottom and work
upward, grasping small bunches of the
feathers between the fineer and thumb
and pulling gently, but firmly, over
the back of the knife blade. After
the feather has been gone over
in this manner shake it and loose
flues that have escaped the curling
will make themselves known
and may be curled.
DAN McCARTY'S GLOR-
IOUS LIE '
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 343)
ye—and give it to the b'y in the
manger—it belongs to him, and—
and say nothin' ixcipt that ye are
Ronald's wife and stick to that
with all your soul. 'Tis one of
the fortunes of war in a way. Renumber
now! Ye become his wife
before he wint to the war. Ye
must be firm and,' beyond this, ye
must be silent.. And if it should
be that any come tryin' to destroy
the good name that ye must cherish
with care from now on—if
there should I say, but I've a
hunch there won't- be many in
Typica so low down as to do it—
ye will come very quietly and till
me of it, and with the Lord's hilp
I'll talk to thim a bit and mebby
give thim a good swift kick or
two, I dunno. Take up the b'y,
Lily May—he's whimperin' for his
mother—and we'll be goin' home."
Little by little, as old Dan spoke,
the girl's " shoulders straightened
and the expression upon her worn
face changed from the darkness of
despair to the light of new hope.
As he finished and stood silently
waiting, she threw her arms
about his grizzled neck.
"I—I can stand , ' f .—now—
whatever happens," she sobbed.
"God must have—kept you—
there in the rain tonight—till I
came."
Dan gently loosed her hands
from about his neck. "Come, Lily
May," he said in a voice that
shook queerly ; we 11 go on our way, yon
and me, doin' the bist we can."
They passed out into the storm, the girl
holding the bundle tightly to her breast
At the house of her father Dan left her,
waiting to see the door opened and closed
again , and then went to his own home
where his daughter Mary, nodding before
an open fire, awaited him.
"You are late, father."
"Yis, darlin', I had to cut a tunnel in the
rain." Dan tossed the day's paper to the
laughing girl and removed his coat. Then,
sitting before the fire , he took off his shoes
and stretched out his feet to the warmth.
A silence followed, broken only by the
rustle of the paper in the girl's hands, the
snapping of a match as Dan lighted his
pipe, the muffled beat of the storm upon
the windows and the roof.
Presently the girl sighed. "Here's another
name we know in the casualty list,
father; Ronald Dean—died from disease."
"Yis," said old Dan looking hard at the
fire , "I noticed it."

SCHOOL REBUILDS COMMUNITY
(CONTINUID raoti PAOE 301)
good library, provided by this club of
mothers, where the boys and girls may
secure good literature to read. The library
is also used by the older folk of the district.
The next organization to come into being
was that of the Porter Farm Club, the
men's organization, which meets on the
same night as the woman's club, the men
in the basement, the women in the schoolroom.
Every meeting is followed by a
social at which refreshments are served.
Besides the activities connected with the
school and the social life of the community,
the Farm Club devotes itself to the improvement
of agriculture in the district.
This club buys co-operatively at considerable
saving to every member, oilmeal, seed
potatoes, binder twine, navy beans, coal,
flour, shorts„and other commodities. The
members co-operate at threshing time.
When I was at Porter, the threshing season
was at its height and these club members
were helping each other with their threshing.
The jabor was so distributed that the
dub members were^ble to operate three
rigs on three adjoining farms at the same
time. Their oats and wheat were threshed
last year at just one-half price charged by
the commercial threshers.
The members of the Porter Farm Club
hold themselves responsible for the cooperative
care of the school plant. They
put a new roof on the schoolhouse, planted
trees in the school yard, built a fence, put
up hitching posts and provided parking
space. They have made the rental of a
school pianb possible by hauling coal for
the school furnace free of charge, thus saving
the school board this money to apply
on piano rent. These club members also
operate the school wagon. They take
turns furnishing a team free for this wagon
which is driven by the older boys attending
school.
The organization fever did not end with
the fathers and mothers. The boys and
girls of the district formed the Shakespeare
Reading Club, which meets regularly at
the schoolhouse. Those interested in pig
raising have the Porter Pig Club; those in
poultry raising, the Porter Poultry Club.
Pig-and poultry club members meet regularly
and each holdjan annual show to determine
who has raised the best pig or
chicken. These two clubs have done much
to improve the quality of pigs and chickens
in the community and as a result of these
clubs only two breeds of chickens, most of
the flocks pure-bred, and only two breeds
of pure-bred hogs, are now raised injhat
district.
There is also the Porter Senior Band and
the Porter Junior Band. These two bands
are composed of boys and girls, in and out
of school, and are a direct result of a strong
community interest.
The schoolhouse is the clearing house of
all these organizations. In addition there
has been organized an interdenominational
Sunday v school which is held every Sunday
morning at the schoolhouse; also a Parent-
Teacher Association which meets monthly
on Sunday afternoon. Add to these regular
gatherings, the called meetings, socials,
entertainments and lectures given each
month during the year, and you may realize
that the Porter School must do service
almost every day and night in the year.
Is not this community more than realizing
on its investment in this school building?
The school attendance grew as the community
became more neighborly. From
an average enrollment of eight pupils,
seven years ago, the record has risen to an
enrollment of over forty this year. With
the co-operation of the patrons, Mrs. Harvey
introduced several innovations which
did much to strengthen the interest of the
pupils in the school. She believes in play
as well as study so she has provided school
parties for all special occasions such as the
school anniversary, Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, Washington's Birthday
and so forth. To these the parents and
friends were always invited, making the
good time a community affair.
Mrs. Harvey also modified the course of
study so that the school might serve the
agricultural interests of the community.
She sought and received the co-operation
of the Porter Farm Club in holding an
annual farmers' institute. Club members
subscribed the necessary money and in the
fall of 1913 there was held at Porter School
the first course in agriculture ever held in
a one-room rural school in Missouri. Men
and women attended in great numbers and
this course became an annual event.
Next, this energetic woman established
a school garden near her cottage which was
worked co-operatively by her pupils with
tools borrowed from the homes. Her special
aim was to teach the younger children
to establish a "green market" on every
farm so as to insure a varied diet for the
farm family for as many months in the
year as possible. The success of this garden
led to a school farm. An interested
father donated seven acres near the school
for this farm which is plotted and crop
rotations planned for a term of five years.
The pupils work tbe farm and receive
credit for this work in their school work.
Next came the organization of the poultry
and pig clubs, already noted, which
have done so much to improve the quality
of poultry and hogs in that community.
The possibilities of the one-room school
was so well demonstrated, in a few years,
that many parents were sorry when their
children finished there and were ready to
go to high school in town. The children
were reluctant to leave home ạs they had
become imbued with the new school spirit
and were in love with their community.
They had established social ties which were
hard to break. Out of this, feeling came
the establishment of a high school in connection
with the rural school; here the
pupils can continue their studies and receive
sufficient credits to entitle them to
enter preparatory college on graduation.
A small building with the necessary ground
was donated by one pafron for the high
school. Mrs. Harvey agreed to take on the
additional work. The high school is strictly
a private affair. The coal is donated
and all expenses of keeping up the building
is paid from a voluntary fund.
More should be said here of the two
school bands. Music is a sort of heavenly
magic and these bands have contributed
largely to the success of all meetings and
functions in the community. Most of the
members own their own instruments and
most of them paid for their instruments
with their own chicken or pig money. The
musicians practice regularly, rain or shine.
"Nothing seems to keep them away from
band practice and they have a fine band
spirit," the band leader said to me.
¦To one who has the good fortune to visit
this community today, it seems inconceivable
that there could have been such isolation
and such extreme individualism' as
existed there only eight years ago. Now
the community is united in every respect.
War found it prepared for immediate service
and the community oversubscribed its
quota in every loan, gave more than was
asked by the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A.,
fourteen families co-operated in canning
operations at the school, using school equipment
thus aiding in the conservation of
food.
"I only wish it were possible to relate
accurately the transformation that has
come about in this community," Mrs.
Emmet Linder, one of the residents, said
to me. "Seven years ago I barely knew
my neighbors; now we work together in
our club and at our school. I often recall
now that the only time J ever saw one of
my best neighbors who lives on the same
road with me was when I met her each year
at the Missouri State Fair—and, the Missouri
State Fair is 250 miles from the
Porter neighborhood! Mrs. Linder was no
less neighborly than her neighbors. The
spirit of neighborliness just did not exist.
The material result of this splendid community
spirit has increased farm values,
bettered farming practices and created
greater profits. Few persons like to buy a
farm in a community divided against itself
but they are drawn to the community
which pulls together and where team work
exists. Since the new order was established,
only one farm boy has left the
Porter community, except in cases where
a whole family moved from the district for
business reasons.
Farming practices and home conditions
have improved as they always improve
where communities co-operate. Many a
lesson in better agriculture has reached the
home farm as the result of the work of the
children in the school garden and the school
farm. Educational facilities have greatly
improved and it is now possible for the
boys and girls of the Porter district to secure
a splendid education and sleep under
the parental roof every night.
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lived, on a farm In the- very ''Please.areyoiia-brownie? '
To pluck a thorn lnstead.of
nS ff kssT laW / AW ^S>\ THERE
%s *myf \\\\ i * S # y W^^^ ttr^'n
far west
saidBrowme. "Thesame
a rose;
A bright little maiden ant) one of the Allow me the pleasure of
And just the same it isn't a
Retain
best.
learning YOUR name."
joke, - ' '
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She learned to help Mother in dusting the 'Why, 'Brownie,' " she answered
"Indeed?" said
When you are the Queen* of "
f ir , the glowing \
,/ - rooms
the brownie folk,
"To find, as you enter its
•.
tints and satin, softness \
f of youth's felt skin. ~ And, cleaning the elf,
golden gates,
Pro- 1
and sweep-' ""Then surely the QUEEN
Your palace is full of dirty
'§ fectingi wlioleaome, dinging 1
ing with of the brownies herself "
plates
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brushesand
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m^reemank I
' , He spoW&nd/'a wonderful
, brooms music replied, > ~
In stacks and piles from
wall to wall - • »
And airing
p t A sound like the'rush oi? the
And YOU ate supposed 'to \
the parlor incoming tide.
wash them all!' ¦ ^
and . keeping
it neat brownies unseen:
to cryi
The whispering chorus of
No wonder Brownie began
I ^.has been in favor for 40 years, f
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I M taut at all ptia counters 50c (douok __ M
And minding '' Hurrah forQueen Browmel
Then turned to an oddity
the baby so JHurrah for the Queen '
standing by
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I tax MmtoigelW mailed/or v g
1 ^cjAo lc twrrtox. ^
i^nHfiS aV .rosy and
And said with an air. of
M
sweet. Then, running and hopping
high disdain:
\ - The &t*&'&^^*gtwBBg^S^-M
And setting and skipping and sliding.
"What are these dishes?
fc a^sTlume VlmBBaHnHaBBWaBBBaaB^Bk *
the- table The shy little brownies came
V (jompaiiy fajB^flfll ^^^Hn^B^^i^ks
\v .peot.me and.pour- ; out of their hiding
. .'.Mntf So I'm Really a Queen ¦ Please explain!" 7 ¦ '• ' ' * '
HNsnHinK. But One Thing She Hated
" i!v» ora, 'ISS KM^^P^SH
, ing the tea And cast through their fingers
inquisitive glances ¦ at Last"
"Here,"- said the brownie •
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And - feeding
with a smirk,
the chickens: ' (a hundred and three): Or crowded around her with timid advances.
cgaaH ^^^^^^nXQffliJI^^HH , So bright and-so busy that all would ,agree Each ' elf, she ' "We honor the ones who do the work. ...
could see, was a trim little fellow •We hunt the gophers and pull the. weeds .
', In. calling- her- "Brownie." (The. brownies With cap of bright scarlet and tunic of yellow. And keep the birds away from 'the' seeds.! '
you know, '
"Like poppies"—thought Brownie— "that It keeps us busy raising wheat. \ ' ' ' " .
Are good little goblins wherever you go). grow in the wheat.
We hardly find the time to eat, ;
And truly I think, though I may be mistaken,
sweet!"
"I love them, the darlings! . They're heavenly
I think she could even boil eggs and fry
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bacon. r- >. -A drum in the distance began to sound, Would never wash the thing therhseives, .
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We lately made a firm decree . ,
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db every day *
In which the people do agree
Was washing the dishes and
That whosoever would become
Vaseline
clearing avTay.
The sovereign queen of Browniedom
Shall clear the dinner things away -.
Now once when the rest of
the world was in bed ¦
And wash the dishes day by day, • i. : * .
The honor that we give is great, • . ' - • •
BEG.U.S ^AT.OFF.
She crept to the window,
To be the servant of the State; ,
^ and there overhead,
And it is easy to be seen
*< The big harvest moon was
That YOU will make a useful Queen."
Capsicum so cheery and 'bright '
* * * ' .* * ' ' ' ¦ . -5
PETROLEUM JELUV It seemed to say: "Brownie;
come into the lightl
Be«rt5dmu5tat4
' -.
They brought her water and silver sand,'
Come into the wheat fieldall
golden'and white
And soap, the famous Brownie brand,
plaster f or sore
A/towel, and a good supply ' y :
Of cotton dish clothes, wet and dry. i
And watch where the fairies
throat, cola£p,etc,
But Brownie was just in the
"What Are These Dishes? Please Explain!"
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humor to go.
The early morning
liberal Sample
She slipped from her room
' sun in vain -
,. like a shy little mouse,
The brownies could hardly stay on the ground Came streaming through her window-pane^
6Cents Stamps
And down to the kitchen and out of tbe A band in the distance began to play, At eight o'clock her mother ' said, - '
CHES£6ROUGHMFd.Ca house; f ¦ ¦ — .
" A.boy came running to clear the way. "Why, Brownie-mugt be still in bed!"
(CONSOUOATCO) _
loState^eg^^egg^rk , Away through the farmyard with fast flying And in a minute from first to last
Arid so she was, and sleeping. souniJ, . >
feet, .
; The brownie army came marching past. And very happy when she found . - . ¦ ,'
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Haft Often Ruined
.' . By Careless Washing
, Soap should be used very carefully, if
\ you want to keep your hair: looking jts
best. Most soaps and prepared shampoos
contain too much alkali. -This
dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle,
and ruins it.
The best thing for steady ; use &_ Mulsified
cocoanut oil shampoo (which is
pure and greaseless), and is better than
anything else you can use.
One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse
the hair and scalp",throughly. Simply
moisten the hair with water and tub it
in. It makes an abundance of rich,
creamy lather, which rinses put easily,
removing every" particle of dust, dirt,
dandruff and excessive oiL The hair
dries quickly and evenly,.and it leaves
the scalp soft, and the hair fine and
silky; ; bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy, to
manage. . . ,. . "
You can get Mulsified cocoanut oil
shampoo at any drug store, it's very
cheap, and a few ounces will supply every
member of the family for months. Adv.
Brilliant Gut Glass—and
no Scratches
{Prom o housekeeper's note-book)
"f--\OR my Cut Glass, I have found that
M both the cloths and cleanser used
* must be entirely free from grit. Just
orie tiny gritty grain will cause a
scratch. This means the Cut Glass
° may break at that point if it is 'jarred'
or exposed to extreme changes of
temperature; The best recipe is: A
tablespoonful of velvety Gold Dust,
. lukewarm water and a soft brush.
Gold Dust is soft and. soapy and
tfitless. That is why it will help you
to keep your Cut Glass—and keep it
iMiiKantiy sparkling." Adv
QUEEN BROWNIE, DISHWASHER
And down the ' old wheel tracks and into the
wheat,
The field was as still as a baby asleep:
A ripe, ruddy harvest all ready to reap;
. And.Brownie went dancing and singing with
giee,-
"There's nobody else in the wheatfield but
me!" .
'.'THERE IS!" said a queer .little voice, At
the sound
She jumped'.like a squirrel, for there, on the
ground,
¦> ¦
.
¦
Was a .strange little man with an odd little
face. . .' ¦
Not ugly, but somehow a bit out of place.
His eyes were as bright and as sharp as a pin
And all of the rest of his face was a grin.
He wriggled and twisted and shuffled his feet,
Too shy to advance and too bold to retreat.
learn the better art of not cutting up a
room needlessly. The only good excuse
for making divisions of this kind is that
one wishes to lower the appearance of a
room, which is too high.
When rooms are not large, it is a good
plan to paper those opening into each
other alike, especially halls, living and
dining rooms; and a small patterned, or
nearly plain gray or pale buff paper may
be used throughout,\whether the rooms
are north or south, since the colorings in
the furnishings of each room would emphasize
yellow and rose tones in the north
rooms, and cool greens and blues in those
full of sunlight. The one color of wall
harmonizes the whole.
In any color scheme which includes adjoining
rooms, be sure that you keep the
strength of wall tone about the same
throughout. By this I mean, do not have
one room very light and another dark, for
there is a great gain in richness and dignity
THE QUESTION OF WALL PAPER
(CONTINUED FROM PASS 309)
when the several rooms agree in the depth
of their coloring.
There is nothing to say in praise of the
fancy cutout borders. They are not only
a needless expense but they are poor decoration,
for they put a wavy, weak line,
at the place where carpenters and plasterers
have made one of the straight lines in
the building. Since the walls of the room
must support a heavy ceiling and other
walls above, any decoration where walls
and ceiling join must be firm and true in
line as though a part of the building. A
simple wooden moulding around the room
is therefore the best finish, but for a less
expensive line of color use the. straightedged
paper borders, which have firm,
simple designs and look like stenciled
bans. For one of the great rules of art
is this: that a decoration inust never weaken,
even in appearance, that whichj ' t decorates.
Ceilings should be light and may be
And.afterwards ' we need-a rest, " , ¦ ., ' ¦.. ' ¦ • •¦
Our dirty dishes we detest, -.- -v . „ . . - . ,
And therefore,, since the sleepy elves. . ;• . ';
I wish you had seen them, bronzed
and tanned. .
I wish you had heard the brownie
band:
Drummers and pipers and bluebell
ringers
And'a chosen chorus of bullfrog singera,
Each of_ them croaking with all his
might.
"Brownie's the queen of my heart tonight."
"
"Qfra iffTnf l-A tho \ Palarpl" flnmpntip
said; • '
"Here, "Your Majesty, right ahead!"
The gates of the palace were opened
The Whole Adventure Was Just
a Dream
wide,
The guards saluted on either side,
And Brownie said, as the gate shut fast,
"And so I'm really a queen at last!"
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It isn't pleasant, you may suppose.
(Awaking
with a little
scream)
The whole
adventure
j us t a
DREAM.
And now
" whenever
things go
wrong
And work
s e e- m's
dreary,
hard and
She says: "It isn't quite so bad
As all the washing the brownies'had, . . \
And helping Mother keep things clean
Is easy work for a brownie queen." ¦
painted or kalsomined, if the plastering is
smooth and whole even though the side
walls are papered. Ceiling papers show
only the smallest powdered dots or [flakes,
never any distinct figures.
Do not attempt to put oh new paper
over old, no matter how firmly the first
coat sticks. To remove the old, use hot
water with a handful of saltpeter to each
paiKul and apply with a long brush. Wait
a few minutes and apply again 'and the
paper, will soon, loosen. This work .is not
pleasant until it is finished!
Finally : do not be deceived into thinking
that a wall paper cannot be artistic
unless it is expensive, nor that wall papers
which are expensive aresuretobe desirable.
Either one may be very artistic or very
ugly; so it is only safe to select the paper
because of its quiet coloring and design,
and for the good reason that after carefully
studying your problem you believe
it is the right one for your particular room

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