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STARTING THE NEW YEAR ON THE UPGRADE
JANUARY, 1937
MINNESOTA HISTORICAL
SOCIETY

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uUHE I^TJIHL « V my New Year s sermonette 111
FOR tell you first of all the story of the
woman who was threatened with
blindness. She went to her physician ,
and after a thorough examination , was
told that she could have her vision not
more than two years at most. It was
rather a stern destiny that she faced.
Two courses lay before her. She could
fill the time with anxiety and gloom,
making her loved ones more unhappy, or,
she could fill her heart with patience and
contentment. She chose the latter plan.
She determined to fill her mind with
every possible beautiful thing which she
might remember with pleasure in case her
eyes did fail her. Ranging upward from
her back yard was a low line of foothills This beautif ul old Spanish Mission at Santa
which were shoulders for higher moun- Barbara, Calif ornia , was f ounded in 1786. Its
tains in the distance. This was her thick walls have withstood earthquakes,
storms and weathering, and its altar lights
favorite view. Many times each day, she
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have been kept burning continuously since
would go out and peer long at the distant
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the endless tasks, which will become
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ness would run through her mind, when
glow which
the light of Christ will shed in our mind.
it seemed to her that she could see farther
Perhaps some additional reading might
and better.
After months, she consulted her doctor
strengthen the view of the mind. Snatch
.4 good habit to start y oung and told him what she had been doing.
some time each week to let your thoughts
He examined her eyes, and said, "This
travel the unaccustomed ways and to keep
looking off to the hills and stars seems to
zest in your life.
have strengthened your eyes. Keep up
I shall not speak of New Year resolutions,
the habit, and with care your eyes will
though no return of the day ever
... it's easy work
last you through your natural life."
comes to me but that I see things which
] must do with myself.
Do you recall that one said, "I will lift While many of these resolutions die at
up mine eyes unto the hills. From whence birth , some of them do actually grow up
cometh my help? My help cometh from within me, and become a vital part of
with Bon Ami the Lord which made heaven and earth." "The Man I mean to be."
I wonder if we all do not allow life to Some one has written:
make our minds nearsighted ? Nothing
is commoner than to meet people who I'll hold, my candle high, and then
WF course the children can clean up the bathtub ...
no longer practice the "far off look." Perhaps, I'll see the hearts of men
My wife and I have just enjoyed a drive Above the sordidness of life —
and make a good job of it, too, if you give them Bon Ami
through the mountains of Tennessee and Beyond misunderstandings, strife.
North Carolina. Beyond the Big Smokies, Though many deeds that others do
to work withl For Bon Ami gets all the dirt off the tub
we stopped for dinner, at a hotel which Seem foolishness, and sinful , too,
in a jiffy, and pol ishes at the same time. What's more it
was nestled close up to the foothills. I Were I to take another's place
talked with the grey-haired lady who I might not f ill it with such grace.
rinses away quickly and easily, leaving no grit behind
to collect in and clog up pipes or drains.
You'll find, too, that cleaning the tub the Bon Ami
served us at dinner. I said , "The views
must be wonderful here from the hilltops."
She replied, "I get so tired working
down here in the Valley that I do not
have time or energy to climb the hills for
the beautiful sights."
And who am I to criticize
What I perceive with )»y dull eyes?
I'll hold my candle high, and then,
Perhaps, I'll see the hearts of men.
MEW Year Time may be for us a strength-
' ^ ening of heart and mind if we will practice
the high wisdom of the distant look.
We are creatures of many duties which
demand immediate and concentrated
attention. Things simply have to be
done, and done now. Unrelieved by occasional
views of the far away, we settle
down into the ruts of habit, and too rarely
climb up over their edges to see really
what our lives are all about.
You may think that you are too busy
to go to church , and worship with your
neighbors, but you are not. I conceive of
church attendance as a time when , for an
channels of our daily occupations, and
hear something of the goodness of God,
and of people who walked the highways
of character. It sets a rosy sunrise on the
eastern rim of the work-a-day week, and
leaves a picture of hope and faith in our
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neat little rows and everlastingly tidying
up the island. Otherwise she wouldn't
be so bad."
"I'd like a person who could sing well,
perhaps, or be otherwise amusing . .. one
who'd be jolly and interesting at the right
times and keep still at the right times
. . . one who'd never get cross or have
those soft, homesick streaks... one who
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"You'd better go alone!"
I observed the conversational ball roll
on and on recently when four people
started discussing the best shows they
had ever seen. Someone said , "Just for
fun, let's make a list of the best movies
we have ever seen."
It grew to be quite an impressive list
of pictures before the discussion finally
died down and somebody yawned and
said , "Who wants some lemonade?"

"Nice day." Cat suggested.
"Fair," said
the villager, "bat it
may rain, and it
may not"
GalMsdr aJJickr/
RUTHERFORD looked critically across
ANNIE
the dining room table at her husband as he took
another helping of hog jowl and black-eyed peas,
and then reprovingly wagged her fork in his
direction.
"Cal Rutherford," and her words were firm, "if you
eat any more peas and hog jowl you're goin' to burst.
Besides we ought to be a savin' of some for Little Cal, on
account if he don't eat hog jowl and peas on New Year's
Day he'll be poor the whole year through."
"Superstition, just plain superstition ," Cal snorted , but
good humoredly restrained the impulse for another helping
and turned instead to the rice and drippings gravy, just
by way of finishing off.
"It don't be superstition ," and Annie's voice was firm.
"All my life I've heard of how you should eat hog jowl
and black-eyed peas on New Year's, and besides,—" but
Annie saw that Cal's agile mind was already off on some
other angle. After a time he spoke, spoke coaxingly.
"Annie, did it ever be occuring to you we've lived in
this district around ten years and I ain't never been up to
Sadler's Ford?"
Annie's face showed surprise, almost consternation.
"Cal Rutherford!" and her voice was crisp, "you don't
be meanin' to say you be actually wantin' to go to that
place?"
"Why yes, Annie, I do. I do be hearin' of a fellow named
Polk Green that has a night huntin' dog he'll be swappin'
for a hog, and it do be a awful long time since I had a night
huntin' dog."
Annie sniffed , sniffed in the way of women the world
over when night hunting dogs, penny ante and other such
diversions of men are mentioned. In addition, with Annie,
there was the community of Sadler's Ford, itself.
The folk around Sadler's Ford had a reputation of being
a careless lot, much given to coon hunting and square
dancing by night, and extemporaneous debating at the
general store by day.
The community lay back in one of the many niches in
by LILLARD McGEE
Illustrated by
J. M. O'Malley
the hills, away from the blackland of the big plantations,
and the Sadler's Ford news came down to the plantation
country only by rumor.
Cal could remember one day at a public sale when a
neighbor had been selling out to return to the Sadler's
Ford district and the auctioneer had stood on the family
cotton cultivator and thrown everyone into gales of
laughter when he had shouted: "Now folks, be speedin'
up this biddin' cause Mr. Fordney be in a terrible hurry
to get there to the Ford—the neighbors' pigs already be
a-eatin' of his acorns."
Annie, to think that Cal should even wish to venture
into such an easy going and reckless community, was
almost frightened. In her imagination she could picture
Cal disappearing into the blue hills, maybe never to return,
to spend the rest of his life coon hunting by night while
the falling acorns fed his pigs.
"Well," and she spoke with resignation, "I won't be
sayin' you can't be goin' Cal, but I do be wishin' you
wouldn't be goin'. What you be needin' with a night
huntin' dog, anyway?"
CAL mused. "I don't know Annie , I really don t. I guess
it just be a notion. I remember when I was a boy
most everyone had a night huntin' dog, and in the fall
there would be a big coon hunt that sort of started things.
There was night hunts, and square dancin', and spellin'
bees and—well, it just don't seem folks have the fun they
used to be havin'."
Annie knew instinctively that Cal was going, even before
he left the table to go to the garage, where he soon began
to spin the motor on the old car and get underway.
As he pulled the car up in front of the house for a
shouted farewell, his hat jiggling backward and forward
on his head from the vibration of the motor, Annie again
had the uneasy feeling, but managed to smile as he leaned
out of. the car to kiss her.
"Annie," and his voice was wistful, "would you be a
favorin' of a black and tan hound, or a liver and white?
I remember Old Twist, that I had when a boy, was a
black and tan. There, Annie, was a hound dog. You
could hear him treein' for miles, and when he whooped we
all went runnin'. Old Twist wasn't a high strung kind of
a dog to be gettin' you all excited over a torn cat on a
granary roof."
CHE watched the car out of sight, down the pike to the
^ corner where the gravel road to the Ford turned off , and
smiling to herself , returned to the kitchen to prepare the
ginger cookies young Cal had hinted he would like upon
his return from school.
As Cal went jogging over the gravel road, the uneasy
feeling which Annie had had was the exact opposite of the
feeling of peace which settled over Cal. Mountain man
by birth, he never had grown entirely used to the low, flat
and level country of the cotton districts, and the hills
brought contentment to his soul. He had bought his own
farm on the few hills in the district, where he could look
down on the perhaps richer, but duller acres of his neighbors.
The mountains, it seemed to Cal, were moving
south to meet him.
The town of Sadler's Ford, Cal discovered , consisted of
a post office, sharing space with the general store, and
grouped about it, on the bank of the little river, were
some four or five houses. A man , coming down the street,
moved toward his car as he beckoned.
"Nice day," Cal suggested.
"Fair," the villager drawled not wishing to put himself
too strongly on record with a stranger. He looked at the
sky. "But it may rain, or may not."

"Good weather for coon huntin'."
"Well, yes and no."
"Be livin' in these parts?"
"Well, I reckon I do."
"I be from down the line. Rutherford be the name,"
and Cal, knowing that the amenities of greeting had been
carried out, became more direct. "I wonder if you could
be directin' me to a man named Polk Green?"
"Be aimin' to trade for his coon dog?"
"Some."
"Well, that be him settin' on the store porch. Oh Polk,
here be a fellow to see about your dog."
ANNIE WAS RIGHT
ABOUT DOGS IN THE
FIRST PLACE, CAL ADMITS
A lean and lanky man, unfolding himself like a carpenter's
ruler, slouched toward the car. "Howdy," he
muttered and placed one foot on the running board.
Again the examination of the weather and the coon
hunting prospects was carried out, and then the tall man
spoke. "You be lookin' for a dog?"
"Well," and Cal seemed to study, "I don't be exactly
lookin' for a dog, but then I don't be exactly not lookin'.
If I see a likely lookin' dog, and the dog don't be too old,
and the price too high, and I be takin' of a fancy to him,
I might be considerin' of doin' a little swappin'."
Polk Green nodded.
"How's the acorn crop?" Cal next inquired.
"Oh, fair." And the dog owner reached for a whittling
stick and began to peel off long white shavings with a thin
bladed knife. "The sweet masts be about all gone, but
the bitter masts be just a comin' on and be fair—fair to
middlin'."
"Be keepin' a lot of hogs, I reckon?"
"Yeah, I reckon they'll keep a few. Trouble with hogs
be though, you always have to be roundin' them up. I
sometimes think I won't be handlin' no more hogs."
Cal sighed in response.
"That's the way I be figurin'. They do be an awful
nuisance. But then they be pretty valuable too. Right
now I got a young hog that be drivin' me most crazy.
He be a good hog, good bone and a fast growin' hog, but
he be a mountain hog and not likin' a pen. I be figurin'
he be makin' two hundred in the mountains, by spring
maybe."
"Right fair hog."
"Yeah, fair."
The jockeying continued between the two for nearly an
hour, with the hillman's subsequent promise he'd be
amblin' down that way with his dog to be takin' a look
at the hog within the next few days.
"We might," Cal suggested, as he left, "be doin' of a
little night huntin'."
"Maybe."
A ND Cal, satisfied that his negotiations were proceed-
^* ing correctly, turned back toward home.
Annie looked curiously into the car when he returned,
and not seeing the dog, sighed with relief.
As a result her surprise some four or five days later was
only heightened when a lumbering wagon, behind two
mules, pulled into the yard while hound dogs hung their
heads over the sideboards, from all sides and angles.
When the driver released them they seemed to flock all
over the yard, and Cal, coming around the corner of the
house, arrived in time to whoop his hat and scare away
three of the younger ones which had so forgotten their
manners as to back Annie up against the side of her own
house, treeing her with deep throated bays of pleasure.
"Pshaw," and Cal grinned, "they won't behurtin' you.
Annie, this is Mr. Polk Green. Mr. Green and I be
figurin' on a-doin' of some night huntin'. I figure Mr.
Green can be usin' of that spare bedroom you got all fixed
up in case your Ma should come a visitin' from Georgia."
Mr. Green, as Annie soon discovered, proved a man of
parts and following a supper to which he gave his devoted
attention, he returned to the wagon to pull an old fiddle
from under a pile of sacks, and as the fire in the stone fireplace
crackled and burned the visitor industriously sawed
on the fiddle, an impatient foot tamping out the time.
"You should be a hearin me, he apologized bashfully,
"when I got a good lively gi\ to do the secondin'." The
bow swooped along the strings, and then suddenly he
broke into song.
"Coin ' down to Jericho, ridin' on a mule
To put my kid brother in the Jericho school.
Teacher, wear out your cane on some other one
And lay off my Bud, he's a son of a gun."
Cal applauded, and thehillman began the second verse.
"Coin' down to Whipple creek, my head in a whirl
Goin' down to Whipple creek, to see my girl—"
"Cal," Annie suddenly spoke, a smile on her face,
"remember when you give up fiddlin' and went to banjo
pickin'? Your banjo is in that box under the bed."
Little Cal, a new look of admiration coming on his face,
watched in wonder as Cal went for the banjo and then
joined in the music.
Annie finally went to bed and far into the night, heard
Cal and the visitor chatting. The next morning Cal was
quiet and preoccupied and apparently, without noting,
allowed himself to be so discourteous as to stop eating
three pancakes short of the number consumed by his
guest. When he spoke, it was suddenly.
"Did you say that land up there sold for five to ten
dollars an acre?"
The stranger gulped a mouthful of griddle cake before
answering. "That's what I said, and it will be growin'
anything. Why someday them hills will be bloomin' like
gardens."
Annie, very doubtful, allowed herself a sniff, while Cal
seemed to ponder.
"It do beat all ," he said finally, "how these folks around
towns will be lettin' themselves starve when they could
be gettin' themselves a little farm for as little as a hundred
dollars."
"Don't it though?" Polk Green echoed. "I think sometimes
something should be done about it."
£"AL again was turning something over in his mind and
^" from the look in his eyes Annie gravely suspected that
he was giving birth to another of his great ideas.
"It would be takin' of advertisin', and advertisin' be
takin' of money. Would them people be sellin' of parcels
of their land, if they could be advertised?"
"Would they though?" Polk Green echoed, "But what
would a fellow be usin' for money?"
"That's what I be calculatin ' on."
By noon a glimmering of an idea was showing in Cal's
eyes as he seated himself at the table.
"Annie," and he looked about the large kitchen with
The visitor sawed on the riddle, an
impatient f oot beating the time
satisfaction, "did it ever be occurin' to you we could be a
havin' of a right smart of a dance here? We could be
movin' the kitchen cabinet and table into the backyard
and be a puttin' a chair on top of the kitchen stove for the
fiddler and we could be havin' of a right fair dance."
Annie's eyes bulged.
"A dance! Cal Rutherford, at our age? Why folks be
thin kin' us crazy."
"Why, we ain't old."
"No, we ain't old, but when folks is married and has
children they should be puttin' of childish things behind
them."
"I alius said," the unquenchable Mr. Green interposed,
"a person be no older than they feel. Now at Sadler*!
Ford I often be a seem' Grandma Eich en born doin' of tin
schottische, and she be 75 if she be a day."
"My lands!" Annie ejaculated , "that be soundin' hardly
respectable, and at her age."
"It all be," Mr. Green remarked sagely, "how you be
a thinkin ' on it, and on how Grandma Eichenborn be a
doin' of the schottische."
AS Annie's face flamed red, Cal suddenly, and without
** warning, seemed to choke on a teaspoonful of
mashed, creamed turn ips, and red in the face, hastily
fled toward the back door.
Annie, a cross look on her face, cornered Cal immediately
after dinner..
"Cal Rutherford ," she demanded, "how long is that
man goin' to be stayin'?"
"Why Annie," and Cal half grinned, "I don't reckon
I be knowin'. It be dependin' on our dance. I be havin'
him play," and Cal being a firm believer that victory lies
in the sudden attack hurried on, "and . Annie, do you
reckon you could be a secondin' on the piano, if I got the
loan of one?"
Annie, demurely, returned to her work.
A beaming Cal and a chattering Polk Green returned
from the settlement on a Thursday, with the piano in the
back end of a wagon, and by Friday afternoon grapevine
telegraph had carried the news to far and wide that the
Rutherfords were giving a dance, with numbers to sell at
25 cents each.
By seven o'clock the yard was full of cars and by eight
o'clock when the dance was scheduled to start the probabilities
seemed that the dance would last all of the night
before all the numbers could possibly be called.
Mr. Green sat atop the kitchen stove with his fiddle ,
Cal with his banjo sat to one side, and Annie, with the
piano back of the stove, dressed as Cal remarked, "fit
to kill or to kiss," in her new pink taffeta, leaned over the
piano expectantly. Young Jerry Hudson from the Custer
plantation hovered about, an anxious and solicitous floor
manager, and then Mr. Green arose and cleared his throat.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he began. "It may surprise
you good folks to know that I am a public
speaker, but in my earlier days I was an
auctioneer, and still am—no job too large or
small. What I started out to say was, this
is a benefit dance, for the benefit of Mr.
Rutherford and Me who are going to use the
money to incorporate the firm of Rutherford
and Green—"
"What," a voice interrupted from the
audience, "you figgerin' on doin'? Buyin'
ammunition to hunt rabbits on shares?"
Mr. Green smiled coyly at the audience,
and continued , "Now I ask you, is that any
kind of a question? Why I can tell by lookin'
into you good folks' faces that you don't
approve of such a question. I don't know
who asked that question, but I'll bet that
whoever it was is too confounded triflin ' to
hunt rabbits on shares."
The crowd roared , much to the discomfort
of a Mr. Blythe from Tennessee, while Mr.
Green smiled and waited for the laugh to
pass, then continued.
"What I was saying was, this is a benefit
dance for the benefit of the firm of Rutherford
and Green. Mr. Rutherford has kindly
consented to furnish the firm with social
standin', while yours truly will furnish the
brains. You folks, of course, are to furnish
the money. We are figurin' on several of
these dances and we also are considerin' a
benefit coon hunt with each person contributing
a dog and a quarter, with the pelt and
a prize of one silver dollar for the first deg
to tree. Now we are awful glad to welcome
you ladies and gentlemen here tonight and
hope you have a dandy, fine time. Now the
first dance will be a square dance, with room
for eight couples, and we will take the numbers
from one to eight inclusive. Gents find
your partners."
There was a mad scramble for partners and the dance
went on until nearly midnight, Mr. Green calling the numbers
in a stentorian tone and covering himself with glory
as he propped his fiddle on one knee and in his rich baritone,
broke into the words of
"Old Dan Tucker was a f ine old man,
Washed his face in afryin' pan
And combed his hair in a wagon wheel
And died with the toothache in his heel."
At midnight Mr. Green again took the floor for public
speaking to announce that cider and cookies were on sale
in the bedroom for 10 cents a helping with Jerry Hudson
Continued on Page 14

Uou^^iQec^
\)fi ft QINTY / DEYNON ^0^
F YOUR family is growing
up, now is the time when you
need an attractive home in
which to entertain their
friends. No, it won't take so
much money, but it does take
time and thought. Then with
the help of a husky young son
or brother, you can make your
home the center for all their
good times.
Suppose we sit down in the
living room for a few minutes,
when there is nobody else
around, and take a good look
at it. Why does it have this
feeling of being down-at-the-heel
perhaps even ugly? Is it the
furniture, and the way its ar
ranged, or is it the walls or the
carpet that is off color ?
Enough of thinking.
Now get up and shove the furniture
around.
We mean just that.
Pull and push until you get one or two
of the arrangements that you have seen
and admired in some home or favorite
magazine. Your pieces may not be quite
so grand perhaps as those you bring to
mind but that's no reason for not arranging
them in much the same way.
There s one thing to keep in mind,
always—that big pieces, like the piano
and davenport, must be kept straight
with the wall. If you don't, your room
will look cluttered and hodge-podge.
Smaller pieces on the angle, but not the
big ones.
Then you must remember also the use
of the different pieces. Never put a desk
in a dark corner and don 't put Father's
chair in a draughty place or where it's not
convenient to a good light. Of course, you
don 't want to block the line of traffic from
one room to another either.
With these limitations in mind , go
ahead and shove the furniture around.
It's great fun. In one position each piece
stands out like a quarreling family member
that won 't compromise an inch. In a
different arrangement it falls into a
friendl y group. Almost indispensable at
this point is an amiable assistant. If he
is impatient and says, "Oh heck, why do
you want to move that bookcase again.
We only put it there five minutes ago,"
you're sunk. You must have the help of
somebody who, though he may not know
what it is all about, is willing to be shown
or who is disposed to humor a harmless
lunatic. Try every possible grouping
until you find the one that almost shouts,
"I'm right!" You'll know it when you
get it.
The only tip that we can give you is
that furniture arrangement in small
rooms must be in one or two groups,
while in large rooms there should be a
number of groups within the larger one,—¦
an intimate litlle corner that invites one
to sit down and read the evening paper,
and another arrangement where two or
Inviting places to read, visit or rest are planned f or in this hospitable homt
three people can sit down for a friendl y
chat.
Doors and windows, which break into
the wall spaces, complicate this business
of attractive arrangement. Sometimes
there is a door or an archway that is no
longer used. Close it up, cover it with
grandmother's old paisley shawl, or a
panel of embroidery, or some plain wall
board, and add that much to your available
wall space. It's no trick at all to
convert such a doorway into a bookcase
with open shelves.
When the ideal arrangement of your
furn iture is achieved your room may be
so different that you hardly recognize it.
That's all for today. Go back to your
work in the kitchen and unless it is your
daily living room, don't go into it until
the next morning. Then if the room,
though greatly improved, still doesn't
"click," sit down and think of the furniture
that you have in other parts of the
house and see if any of it could be exchanged
for that now in the living room.
Almost certainly some changes will suggest
themselves.
Perhaps you were surprised that we
didn't decide on the wall finish before we
arranged the furniture. Our reason was
that we wanted to know whether the lines
of it were good , indifferent, or definitely
bad. Some of us have inherited ugly
furniture , some of us have bought it ourselves
in a moment of mental aberration.
We know that it's ugly and we hate it,
but it is strong and does its job and we
don't want to throw it away.
THERE are two ways of subduing its
' ugliness. One is to make the walls behind
it blend into it in color. The other is
to paint the piece or cover it to match
the wall. A slip cover on an overstuffed
piece can do worlds for a drab room.
Let us show you what we mean. Take
a black chair. Set it against a white wall.
It becomes an etching, each line sharply
defined. Move it over against a dark wall
and it is much less conspicuous. Paint it
white and set it back against the white
wall and only the artist's outline makes it
visible to you at all.
In other words if your furniture has
beautiful lines, emphasize them by a
strongly contrasting background. White
walls or pale green will make old mahogany
or walnut fairly sing. Tan or yellow
walls will subdue the hard brightness of
golden oak or the too heavy lines of
mission.
The next problem is the kind of decoration
to use, kalsomine, paper, or paint.
All are good. It depends partly on the
use of the room and the amount you have
to spend. Kalsomine is not practical
where there are small children whose
dirty hands will smudge it. But it is the
least expensive medium of decoration
and in company rooms it can be charming.
White kalsomine is very inexpensive and
plain white rooms are the last word in
smartness just now. If your decorative
plan calls for color, you can buy the
tinted kalsomine.
HERHAPS you prefer wallpaper which is
¦ having a great run of deserved popularity
due in part to the colorfast and washable
finishes. There are charming patterns
as well as lovely textural effects that look
like fabric. Smart New York decorators
are using it in combination with paint,
all the room being painted but the alcove
and that covered with a paper that takes
up the shade of the paint, or the other way
around.
For the room that gets hard use, paint
is excellent because it can be washed. We
strongly recommend that you use one of
the good makes of paint. It covers so
much better that you are ahead in the end
and it will stand up twice as well. We
don't need to tell you how to paint but
we do want to suggest that good brushes
will be worth their weight in gold. They
will make a more even finish and won't
leave hairs on your wall.
With the walls decorated so as to make
the best of your furniture, let us consider
the floor. If the rug agrees with the new
color scheme, let it stay. If not, out it
goes. In one of the other rooms, there
may be a large rug that will be right, or
almost certainly some small hooked or
braided rugs that will be attractive.
Perhaps some clever budgeting
will allow you to get one of the
lovely new floor coverings, or
you might send all your old ones
to a manufacturer who will
make a lovely reversible one for
you.
A hardwood floor should be
given a coat of shellac or wax or
both. For durability, your
painted, soft wood floor must
have a coat of shellac and then
wax. Remember there is no law
compelling you to use the muddy
brown which painters cling to.
It can be blue, dead black, bluegreen,
red or yellow. You can
step up your whole color scheme
A'ith the use of the right color
on the floor. A very dark room
will get an effect of sunlight from white
walls and woodwork and yellow floor
with yellow curtains at the windows.
And that brings us to the subject of
curtains. Personally, unless they clash
with the color scheme, I like yellow curtains
because on the dreariest day they
give an effect of sunlight. And we can
all have them for an investment not
exceeding thirty cents. Simply wash,
then recolor them a lovely sunny yellow
with a cake or powder dye. If they have
lots of old color, remove it with a bleach
which is put out by your favorite dye
company. If yellow does not appeal to
you, it is possible by the same means to
get any shade you please. Tinting in
strong coffee will give you a deep ecru ;
in strong tea a slightly more yellow tint.
With the curtains up we're almost
finished. There remain only those finishing
touches that make a room shout with
joy,—a mirror carrying light into a dark
comer, an old copper pot filled with
zinnias, a sofa cushion or two that tie
the room colors together, a fine old piece
of embroidery in a panel on the wall.
No, don't go out and buy these pieces.
Rummage through the house for them.
That old brass kettle out in the barn will,
when polished up, make a wastebasket
fit for a king. The old willow plate on the
top shelf of the kitchen cupboard may be
what the mantlepiece is crying for. Try
it and see. Not many things are needed.
Just a few thrilling high lights. And your
room comes togetherwitha loud ,"Hurrah!"
Living Room Improvement
THESE books will help to bring your
living room up to date.
Old Furniture Restored—100 photographs
and drawings showing how to
tie broken down springs and remake
uncomfortable chairs. 25 cents.
Slip Covers and How To Ma\e Them
—A booklet telling how to renew
furniture with slip covers. 10 cents.
If you have special questions on Home
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Home Furnishings Editor, THE FARM-
ER'S WIFE Magazine.

Up Till Now
LUCINDA, ten years old,
enters upon a year full of
adventure when her mother's
poor health demands that both
father and mother spend twelve
months in Italy. She goes to
live' with the Peters sisters,
maiden ladies, and meets many
interesting folks—Mr. Gilligan,
hansom cab driver; Patrolman
M'Gonegal; Tony Coppino,
whose father owns a fruit
stand; lonesome little Trinket
and.her parents—making friends
withV all of them. With the
help' of another policeman,
Jerry Hanlon, she even wages
a war against a gang of boys
who were raiding the Coppino
fruit stand from time to time.
Life- was lively and happy ex*
cept for her Aunt Emily, a
very dictatorial person who
thought that Lucinda was
terribly naughty and sought to
train her up to be a perfect
little lady. And so we come
to the third chapter:
PART
THREE
LUCINDA'S Saturdays
—from four o'clock
on,—were dedicated
to Aunt Emily and
sewing.
There had been two
faultless, best-mannered
Saturdays since Lucinda
had joined the orphanage
and begun her weekly visits
to Aunt Emily. There had
been no tantrums. Lucinda
had grown old enough to
realize that combat with
Aunt Emily ended in defeat
for her. For two afternoons
—four to six—she had sat
very properly on her chair,
legs dangling, had tried to
take small, neat stitches and
had kept her mouth safely
shut. .
Meekly? she had bent to
Aunt Emily's command
that she should not skate
there on Saturdays. She should come walking like a
little lady. Twice Lucinda had managed it without too
much rebellion; and had arrived in a reasonable frame of
mind. But the third Saturday was a day for out-of-doors,
a day for free movement and shouting, a day to spend with
a boy. Tony, having the last of the afternoon free, had
asked her to spend it in the Park—had even invited her
to one ride on the swan boats. She had wanted terribly
to go.
Needing something to bolster her feelings of disappointment,
Lucinda conceived the delightful new game of
really arriving at Aunt Emily's like a lady. She fell behind
several ladies on her way, imitating each detail of their
posture and walk. She had waddled behind a fat woman,
she had strutted behind a proud one. Now as she approached
Aunt Emily's she fell in behind a timid, and a
nervous one, who minced in walking, and darted furtive
glances at houses, persons, and vehicles that she passed.
By this time Lucinda was enjoying the game. She was
working into her best form as she reached Aunt Emily's
stoop, where she ran up the stone steps, two at a time.
torn SKATES
Rutk JawLjer
"Better than sewing, eh, Luanda?" said Uncle Earle
She had worked off much energy ; she was prepared to
be a model child , to take pains with her sewing and answer
Aunt Emily properly: "Yes, Aunt Emily"—"No, Aunt
Emily." "If you wish , Aunt Emily." Her lips were
moving on the words silent, by way of reminder. There
is no reason to believe that all would not have continued
as on the previous Saturdays.
But Aunt Emily had been standing behind the Brussels
net curtain; she had watched well Lucinda's deportment
up her street, straight to her front door. I will not describe
how Aunt Emily opened the door, herself , for Lucinda,
how she looked, how she held a frozen , thin-lipped silence
until Lucinda had taken her chair and opened her sewing
basket. I will not repeat the things Aunt Emily said
then, in one of the worst moments Lucinda had ever seen
her.
Lucinda held her tongue by the simple device of biting
it between her teeth. It caused a thrust-out look to the
lips , and for this she was scolded. "Lucinda, why are you
making a face like that?
Are you making it deliberately?"
"Not exactly, Aunt
Emily."
"What do you mean by
not exactly?"
"I mean just that!"
Lucinda's voice was jerk ing
out the words and beginning
to fling them at Aunt
Emily. Inside she was
thinking: Why can't she
leave me alone until I get
hold of myself?
"Have you anything else
to say, Lucinda?"
CHE knew what that call-
*^ ed for. She was expected
to say how very sorry she
was—how wholly, completely
ashamed of herself—
and that she would never
do it again. She was to
throw herself upon Aunt
Emily's charity and allow
Aunt Emily to forgive her.
Being Lucinda, she could
not manage so much humility.
She sat up straighter;
she gripped one dangling
foot with another. She
looked very straight and
unashamed and said : "Well,
you asked me to come—
looking like a lady. Aunt
Emily, I'm not one. We
both know that. So I just
copied ladies—going my
way; and I did it the best
I could." Remembering
with what abandoned delight
she had done it she
couldn't suppress a giggle.
It was out and away before
she knew it.
Aunt Emily was outraged.
"Lucinda, you will
sew for the next half hour
without speaking. I cannot
have you setting my
own good little girls such
an example of impertinence."
So Lucinda sat. She
glowered at the four docile
daughters—Frances, Virginia,
Sybil, and Agatha. Lett to themselves, deyond the
reach of Aunt Emily's invading eye, Lucinda could have
a fairl y good time with them. But in Aunt Emily's
presence they became prigs. As her eyes traveled from
face to face she could see on each a holier-than-thou look.
She dug her needle viciously into the petticoat she was
supposed to be making. She believed the devil must have
invented a needle. From the moment you first learned to
thread one, and knot the thread , it had you plagued to
death. She hated—hated—hated sewing; this kind of
sewing!
For the next five minutes the needle was yanked and
pushed, in and out. Then it became unthreaded and had
to be threaded again. Then the thread knotted and
broke, and a beginning had to be made all over. If anybody
had scuffled her feet along the carpet and given
Lucinda a spark, it would have set her off like a package
of firecrackers.
And somebody did. Aunt Emily. She saw the jerks
and the yanks and she approached Lucinda with a forbidding
eye. "You'll never learn to sew very nicely that

way. You must learn to control your temper. See my little
girls. How patient they are. You're so good at imitating
others, you might try imitating them."
The whole Fourth of July went off inside of Lucinda.
Her sewing basket , scissors, thimble, work went across the
room. She bounced to her feet, her eyes blazing forth
some of the inward fire. "I know I don 't sew nicely—I'll
never, never sew nicely. I wish I was in heaven and you
and your everlasting sewing in hell, Aunt Emily!" Lucinda
did not intend this to be the damning thing it sounded.
She had wanted to place Aunt Emily and herself as far
apart as possible.
A silence so horrible followed that Lucinda wished herself
dead-and-bc-done-with. Out of that silence rose
Aunt Emily's voice. "I cannot allow you to stay and
have supper. Get on your things. Kate will take you
back to your boarding house."
But Aunt Emily reckoned without fate. In the door-
WHEW! LUCINDA
HAS SUCH A TIME
WITH AUNT EMILY!
way stood Uncle Earle. He had heard everything. He
gave Lucinda the impression of laughing although not a
muscle in his face moved. His eyes were very serious, his
voice very solemn, "If Lucinda is too wicked to stay in
the parlor, I suggest that she come to the library and have
supper there. Her temper will have no effect either on me
or the books. Come along, Lucinda."
He drew her to the doorway and stood there long
enough to make a second remark: "You must remember,
Emily, that all children are not turned out the same, like
button molds, or like your own little gazelles."
had her roller skates—thereby gaining a motion free,
flying, that would give vent to some of the emotion within.
She thrust hands deep into her reefer pockets and took to
a jog-trot. Her head was tilted upwards that the rows of
brown stone houses might be obliterated , that she might
see overhead only that ribbon of sky which undoubtedly
was unfurled over Prospero's magic island.
CO WOULD she have run amuck several times had not
^ passers-by given her good thoroughfare. "Ariel, I love
you—I adore you." She was shouting it in whispers as
she took the curb.
"Hey, you, there!" a boy driving a delivery wagon, was
turning the corner. He reined in his horse just in time to
avoid running down Lucinda. "Say—what's the matter
with your head ? Can't you look where you walk?"
"I'm looking all right." Lucinda walked under the
horse's nose and turned to grin back at the boy. "You
see, I'm not walking where you think I am; I'm walking
on those yellow sands with Ariel."
"You're crazy as a bed bug," said the boy.
Back with Miss Peters and Miss Nettie, she did full
justice to the afternoon, generous alike to her humiliation
and her joy. "I expect you had better punish me. You
see, Aunt Emily, tried her best; but this time Uncle Earle
interfered. I was terrible, but Aunt Emily was funny.
She looked exactly like the Queen of Hearts about to say:
'Off with her head!'"
Miss Peters, knowing Aunt Emily too well, was not
inclined towards punishment. She rebuked Lucinda
gravely and urged better behavior in the future. "I guess
there won't be any future." Lucinda was not quite certain
whether to be glad because the sewing was over and
done with or sorry because she would lose the good suppers
and Uncle Earle. "Aunt Emily'll never have me there
again. I'm too bad an example for the gazelles. Isn't
that a heavenly name for them? Uncle Earle invented it.
But at least never again will I have to sew there. I'm
just not the sort to sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam."
But the next moment she had forgotten her abhorrence
of sewing. She was catching at an idea and sharing it
abundantly. Uncle Earle had told her it was the custom
in Mr. Shakespeare's time to give a play at Twelfth Night.
Could there be a better plan than The Tempest? She went
into the work room and staggered out with the theater,
sat down on the floor with it and talked in an unbroken
stream. She showed her accumulation of doll actors,
explained the theater, that was made out of a stout
wooden box, with a back that dropped down on hinges
like the lid of a desk. There were grooves at the bottom
on which to run scenery ; there were slits chiselled out at
the sides, front and back, through which the actors made
their entrances and exits. Lucinda had conceived the
idea of such a theater when she was six and had been
taken for the first time inside of one. To her oldest
brother, at home for his Christmas holidays, Lucinda
spoke her dream aloud ; and he had made the bare bones
of it. She had written two plays, made out of Robin Hood
from Howard Pyle's book, and from one of Johanna's
Irish fairy tales, the one called Peter, the Humpy. She
and Johanna had spent a whole winter making Sherwood
Forest and Jerkins of Lincoln green. There was no time
to lose if she was to have The Tempest ready by Twelfth
Night.
THE library was Uncle Earle's own room; hardly anyone
else ever came there. It smelled of tobacco and worn
leather and books. It was the haven or heaven that
Lucinda had wished herself in a moment before. The
chairs were deep and embracing; pitted all over with
buttons. Lucinda selected hers and almost disappeared
into it while Uncle Earle looked over the book shelves.
At last hesaid, "Ever met William Shakespeare, Lucinda?"
"I haven't, but I've heard about him. Quotations, you
know, every morning at Brackett's. You get to hear about
a lot of people that way—but never to know them."
"Well, it's time you knew your Shakespeare. We'll try
The Tempest. You 'll meet up with some of your own kind
in it. It all happened on an enchanted island that never
was on the farthest sea. It makes enchanted reading."
He took down a book, took his chair opposite, opened
the book and began the cast of characters : "Alonso, King
of Naples, Sebastian, his brother, Prospero, the right
Duke of Milan . . . Ariel, an airy Spirit."
"Does that mean a fairy ?"
"An elemental. They are much the same. Ariel-
Puck—you'll dote on the fairies Mr. Shakespeare has
caught and held for children of all time. Better than
sewing, eh, Lucinda?" Uncle Earle looked up over his
glasses and winked solemnly. Everything about him was
big—even his wink. His face was set about with reddish HER tongue had run long past her bed time; Miss.Peters
chop whiskers, with room in the middle to kiss without bridled it with difficulty. "But it's such fun talking.
scrubbing. But it was his eyes Lucinda liked best. They Isn't it an elegant idea? Can't I stay up ten minutes
were as blue as dust flowers along the sea road at Narra- more—five minutes? To-morrow's Sunday. Will you help
gansett ; and they told you things that the lips left unsaid, me with the costumes, Miss Nettie? There'll be so many
that is, if you were a little girl and your name was Lucinda. different kinds. What do you think Caliban ought to
Uncle Earle read The Tempest into a slow-gathering wear?"
dusk. Only once did he stop, to ring for Katie to bring By the time that she had folded her clothes on the chair,
up Lucinda's supper. "I can feel your Aunt Emily's dis- said her prayers, put out the light, plunged, flapping, to
approval rising up through the floor. She would have the folding bed , and drawn blankets to chin , her fancy was
made a good Roman centurion." He took Lucinda's chin flaming high. She would ask everybody to come. Tony
in his big, finely-shaped hand and waggled her head, would help; you always needed a boy for such things.
asking: "Shall we on with the play?"
What fun telling everybody! She would begin tomorrow.
They on-ed. Katie brought up the supper tray and No time to waste; it wouldn't do to have anybody make
Lucinda noted with satisfaction that Aunt Emily had not another engagement. She would say to all her friends:
scrimped on her. Came seven o'clock and The Tempest "I'm giving a performance of Mr. Shakespeare's Tempest
was over. It was time for Uncle Earle to go down for his on Twelfth Night; and you're invited!" Wouldn't that
dinner. Lucinda bore her feet to earth, or rather to the make their eyes pop! Wouldn't they wonder what sort of
library carpet , with reluctance. She clasped Uncle Earle performance it would be! And wouldn't it be a magnifi-
around the middle and prodded a fierce head into his cent surprise when they found out? Sleep was close at
stomach ; she was trying to convey something of her joy hand when she came to her final inspiration. "I'll invite
and gratitude, having no words lovely enough. She would Uncle Earle, but I won't ask Aunt Emily and the gazelles.
have to hunt through the dictionary as soon as she got We'll keep it a secret from them."
home to find new ones to use for Mr. William Shakespeare. For days her joy mounted. She had to tell everybody
"Here, take it along." Uncle Earle thrust the small red about it; Patrolman M'Gonegal, Tony, even Miss Brackett.
book into her hands. ' 'You'll be wanting to read it all over Lucinda took an afternoon to skate down to the Gedney
again by yourself. And what about going home?" House to tell her friends there. She found Mrs. Caldwell
"I'll go alone. Please, Uncle Earle! I'll go quick as a in her room. Pygmalion was dozing in his basket; but
jack rabbit."
was up in a whisk, with a volley of barks and a variety of
Into the late, keen twilight of that September day contortions to welcome her. Lucinda was as expressive in
Lucinda went in a state of pure rapture. She wished she her way as the tiny black and tan.
"I declare I've been homesick for Piggy—never knew it!
Can't I take him out for a walk—I mean a skate? He'll
love it, truly, Mrs. Caldwell. And when I get back I'll
tell you all about my performance of Mr, Shakespeare's
Continued on Page 14
There was no time to lose if she was to have The
Tempest " ready by Twelf th Night

ITS TIME * SEW
of these days you are going to start in earnest on the "after Christmas sewing. In
ONE anticipation of that time here are designs for big and little, playtime, and busy hours.
How to trim a dress to take it out of the homemade class? Here are suggestions:
Two or three strands of pearls on a plain black dress with a high neckline.
A neck clip and a brilliant belt buckle, tiny fabric covered buttons from neck to waist line.
A raspberry tassel at a blue crepe dress neckline; a raspberry zipper down the back.
Three rows of silk covered cording—red, green, and blue—on the lower edge of a black silk crepe
skirt; the same trimming around the neck and across a pocket.
A belt of contrasting suede or patent leather or a twisted sash of satin on a black wool dress.
Quilted floral designs at the hem edge; a bow of matching or contrasting velvet ribbon.
Color combinations as flame red, Kelly green, or royal blue with black; burgundy with gray;
copper with chocolate brown.
No. 3005. Three-in-One Pattern. Designed for sizes
14, 16, 18 years, 36 to 42 inches bust. Size 36 requires
Hi yards of 35-inch material for brassiere and panties
with 3 yards of lace; and 1M yards of 35-inch material
with 3 yards of binding for step-in combination.
No. E-11171. Provides for 25 names in assorted
sizes for use on lingerie, children's dresses, pajamas,
handkerchiefs, etc. Costs 10c extra.
.No. Z9Z6. Plaid wool two-piece dress with tiny fabric
covered buttons and pique collar. Sizes 11, 13, 15, 17
and 19 years. Size 15 requires 3# yards of 39-inch
material with Ji yard of 35-inch contrasting.
No. 2982. Velvet or metallic blouse with silk crepe skirt.
Sizes 14, 16, IS years, 36 to 42 inches bust. Size 36
requires 2 yards of 39-inch material for peplum blouse
and l\i yards of 39-inch material for skirt. The tunic
blouse requires 2% yards of 39-inch material.
No. 2970. Simple, tailored dress with elbow length
sleeves. Very smart, made of wool. Buttons match the
dressl Bow is of contrasting color. Sizes 36 to 48 inches
bust Size 36 requires 3% yards of 39-inch material
with \i yards of 4-inch ribbon for bow. Attached
three-piece skirt.
Wo. 2981. Short Puffed sleeves, high neckline for little
girl of 2, 4, and 6 years. Size 4 requires VA yards of
39-inch material with VA yards of braid.
No. 2739. Red rickrack trims a powder blue percale
dress and apron. Sizes 16, 18 years, 36 to 50 inches bust.
Size 36 requires i% yards of 39-inch material with 4J£
yards of rickrack for dress: and IH yards of 39-inch
material with S% yards of rickrack for apron.
No. 2721. Attractive slenderizing frock. Sizes 36, to
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back in your easy chair while
I tell you of my recent trip from
annual conclave of dietitians in Boston
from New York's Cornell University, from
St. Paul to Boston and back to learn —well, keep on with this broadcast and try
what is new in nutrition. News from the these menus,—they are good to see and eat.
Plenty of Vitamin C
THAT evasive vitamin C—it's in
' garden-fresh peas but something
happens during cooking. It disappears,
but where? 48 per cent of it,
Vegetable juice cocktail
*Pork chops baked with corn Baked yams
according to Dr. Faith Fenton of
"Molded apple sauce
Cornell University, goes into the
cooking water, 10 per cent is entirely
destroyed, 42 per cent stays in the
cooked peas. So what? Dr. Fenton
recommends serving the cooking wat-
Tomatoes with toasted bread cubes
, Clover leaf rolls Orange marmalade
*Fruit-mince pie superb
er as a cocktail, much like tomato juice. tells in THE FARMER'S WIFE Magazine
(We liked the liquid from tender canned for October how she uses vegetable cook-
peas, chilled and seasoned with celery salt.) ing water. Smart woman, she was a jump
Or Elizabeth Shaffer, a busy homemaker, ahead of the crowd!
High in Vitamin A
*Baked cheese omelet with tomato sauce
Dutch green string beans
Whole wheat bread and butter Milk
Caramel roll
k lOW that it is the open season for
' ^ colds, you'll want to hear what New
York rural women are learning from
Linnea Dennett , extension nutritionist.
They are studying anti-cold measures since
this includes a study of how -to get more
vitamin A into winter meals. In 243
DERHAPS you are in for a jolt,
' perhaps for a shout of joy.
Recent studies at Wisconsin University
show that food iron is often
in a form not absorbed by the blood.
Some foods formerly given a high
rating for iron have slipped down in
the scale — spinach for example. It's
available iron is SO per cent or less of the
total amount present, which was high to
begin with however. Foods which rate
high in amount and availability of iron
are: liver, red muscle meats, oysters and
Anti-Anemia Lunch Box
Liver loaf sandwiches
(udnfl whole WIIC.IL bread)
'Apricot nut bread with butter
Celery and green pepper strips
Molasses cup cakes Orange
homes surveyed , 56 per cent under
21 years of age and 61 per cent
over 21 years of age had two or
more colds a year. While there is
as yet no scientific research to show
that vitamin A will help prevent
colds, there is evidence that it in-
creases the resistance of the lining of throat
and nasal cavities to infection. And that's
where cold germs start. A vitamin-A-rich
meal which these farm women prepared
and enjoyed at their meeting is given here.
The recipe for caramel roll is in THE
FARMER'S WIFE Magazine for August.
Iron, Protein, and Vitamins
*Liver-beef loaf Baked potatoes
*Peas, French style Celery curls
Brown and white bread Strawberry jam
*Apricot upside-down cake
shrimp; whole grain cereal, particularly
whole wheat, egg yolk; dried beans and
peas; dried fruits; green vegetables, particularly
green leaves; potatoes cooked in
their jackets (the iron lies close to the
skin), molasses, nuts.
food or poor use of it. Nutritional
anemias are common among women,
particularly through adolescence
and up to 45 years of age. There
are robbers of the blood all along
the line and we must be watchful
to provide, first of all, blood-build-
" A NEMIAS of Nutritional Deficiencies" ing food. Dr. Minot is an ardent believ-
'* as a subject is frightening, right off, er in a high-type diet, one which is
but wait. Dr. Minot's talk was simply on "tops" rather than second rate. It must
causes and remedies for a poor blood be rich in iron, but also in protein, in
supply when it is caused by omissions in vitamins and other minerals.
A Glass Cooked Meal
TO
SEE glass as pliable as cookie
dough , pulled, twisted, cut and
blown or pressed into shape was a
Sirloin steak Yorkshire pudding
(in-lop-okslovc .saucepan)
sight not soon forgotten. To see
the kitchen laboratory where this
f'imiento
potatoes Breaded parsnips
(Oven-browned in glass pic pan)
famous household glass of Corning, C)range
and lettuce salad French dressing
New York, is tested for perform- Individual apple sauce puddings
ance was extra interesting for having
(suamed in custard cups)
watched them brought into being. Hard sauce Coffee
The delectable brown of glass-baked pie
crust, the mellowness of glass-brewed
coffee, the-simplicity of glass-baked and
stored fruit cake was mine to see and
sample. The new family members, topof-the-stove
skillets and saucepans are a
leader in factory production, what with
their convenience in being watch-able,
and then serve-able.
TO INVITE Vilhjalmur Stefansson , the
' famous Antarctic explorer, to speak at
a national gathering of dietitians is something
like asking a sheep man to address
cattlemen in assembly, if you know what
that means. For Mr. Stefansson lived with
100 per cent meat eaters, himself at first
an unwilling victim of a most restricted
diet and later a student of it. He's not a
Just Another Good Meal
*Oyster pie with golden crust
Jellied cranberry—apple salad
Toast strips
*Prune cup cakes with brown butter
icing
Hot tea with lemon
believer in such a diet for you and me, but
he is a believer in being open-minded , not
dogmatic about diet. The progressive
person doesn't close her eyes to new ideas
in diet, neither does she follow, will-o-thewisp
fashion, each new theory.
The Recipes
(For menu items marked with *)
?or\ Chops Ba\ed with Corn
5 or 6 pork chops J^ c. sour cream
Flour, salt and pepper 2 tsp. meat or poultry
1 pimiento, cut seasoning
1 c. canned .or fresh
corn
Dredge chops with seasoned flour and
brown in a little hot fat in a skillet. Place
in a baking pan. Blend corn, pimiento,
cream and seasonings. Pour over chops
and bake 45 minutes in a moderate oven.
Molded Apple Sauce
1 pkg. lemon flavored 1 c. smooth, unsweetgelatin
ened apple sauce
1 c. hot water 2 tblsp. lemon juice
2 tblsp. cinnamon Grated lemon rind
candies
Dissolve gelatin, add cinnamon candies,
apple sauce, lemon juice and rind.
Mold and chill. Serve in a mold or
squares on a lettuce-garnished platter.
Good with pork.
f ruit'mince Pie Superb
1 pt. cranberries 1 tblsp. flour
1 large or 2 small 1 tblsp. cinnamon
apples H tblsp. nutmeg
\4 c. nuts \i c. boiling water
M c. raisins I tblsp. butter
1 c. sugar
Put cranberries, apples (cored but not
peeled) and nuts in a chopping bowl.
Chop quite fine—there should be about
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have a cold ? It is this-"Are your bowels
regular?"
Doctors know how important a laxative
is in the treatment of colds. They know,
also, the importance of choosing the right
laxative at this time. Before they will give
a laxative their approval, they make doubly
sure that it measures up to their own strict
specifications.
Read these specifications. They are important-not
only during the "cold season,"
but all year round.
THE DOCTOR'S TEST OF A LAXATIVE:
It should be dependable.
It should be mild and gentle.
It should be thorough.
Its merit should be proven by test of time.
It should not form a habit.
It should not over-act.
It should not cause stomach pains.
It should not nauseate, or upset digestion.
EX-LAX MEETS EVERY DEMAND
Ex-Lax checks on every one of these
specifications ... meets every demand so
fairly that many doctors use Ex-Lax in
their own homes for their own families.
For more than 30 years, Ex-Lax has
given complete satisfaction, not merely to
thousands of families—but to millions. Today
it is used by more people than any
other laxative in the whole wide world.
Anyone who has ever used Ex-Lax can
quickly explain why Ex-Lax is so popular.
It is thorough. But it is gentle.... It is
effective. But it is mild. ... It gives you
welcome relief. But it spares you all discomfort.
No nausea. No stomach pains.
No weakness. That's why it's such a favorite
not only of the grown-ups, but of the
youngsters, as well.
EVERYONE LIKES THE TASTE OF EX-LAX
Perhaps you have been taking bitter
"druggy" mixtures. Thenchange to Ex-Lax,
and find out how really pleasant a good
laxative can be. For Ex-Lax tastes just like
delicious chocolate. It pleases the children
as well as the older folks.
AH drug stores have Ex-Lax in 10c and
25c sizes. Or write for free sample to
Ex-Lax, Dept.FWI7, P. 0. Box 170, Times-
Plaza Station, Brooklyn, N. Y.
When Nature forgets—remember
EX-LAX
THE ORIGINAL CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE

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Lson't let chest colds or croupy coughs go
untreated. Rub Children's Musterole on
child's throat and chest at once. This milder
form of regular Musterole penetrates,
warms, and stimulates local circulation.
Floods the bronchial tubes with its soothing,
relieving vapors. Musterole brings relief
naturally because it's a "counter-irritant"
—NOT just a salve. Recommended by many
doctors and nurses. Three kinds: Regular
Strength, Children's (mild), /^2^\
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2)4 cups. Add raisins. Mix dry
ingredients and combine with
fruit. Add boiling water, mix
well, pour in unbaked pie or
tart shells, dot with butter.
Cover with strips of pie dough,
lattice style. Bake IS minutes
in a hot oven (450° F.), then 25
minutes at moderate heat (350°
F.). This makes 1 large pie or
8 tarts.—Mrs.L.E. D., Michigan.
Ba\ed Cheese Omelet
5 eggs, separated 1 tsp. salt
2 tblsp. quick-cooking Dash cayenne pepper
tapioca; scalded with 1 c. grated cheese
% c. milk, and cooled 1 tblsp. butter
Beat yolks, add to tapioca scalded with
milk. Add seasonings and cheese, fold in
whites beaten until stiff. Melt butter in
hot skillet or baking pan, pour in omelet,
then bake in a very moderate oven
(325° F.) until firm to the touch. Fold
as for other omelets or cut in squares.
Serve with tomato or mushroom sauce.
Delicious Beef and Liver Loaf
1 lb. beef or pork liver 1 tsp. salt
Broth, about 1 c. 'A tsp. sage
6 slices stale bread >£ tsp. pepper
3 c. cooked beef , quite 1 tsp. Worcestershire
fat sauce
1 small onion 2 eggs
Slice liver and simmer in salted water
to cover until barely tender. Drain ,
pouring enough of the broth over bread
to moisten it. When soft, beat until
smooth. Grind liver and beef (a good way
to use the fatter parts of left-over roast
or boil) and onion, add seasonings, eggs,
and bread. Pack in loaf pan and bake in
moderately hot oven (350-375° F.) or
steam about 45 minutes. Serve hot with
tomato or cream of mushroom soup
(heated) as a sauce. Or serve cold sliced
or in squares with potato salad. Mild and
delicious in flavor.—i. D., Michigan.
Peas, French Style
1 can green peas 2 thin slices onion,
4 stalks parsley, chop- chopped fine
ped Butter, salt and pepper
3 or 4 outer leaves head
lettuce, shredded
Drain most of liquid from canned peas,
(serve it cold with celery salt as a cocktail).
Put peas in a saucepan with
shredded lettuce, chopped parsley and
onion. Add a lump of butter and a
sprinkle of salt and pepper. Cover saucepan
, simmer 10 minutes, when onion is
cooked and lettuce is wilted. Serve hot.
Apricot Tiut Bread
Fine for Lunch Boxes
H lb. dried apricots 2\i c. flour
1 c. liquid Yi c. sugar
2 tblsp. melted fat M tsp. soda
1 egg 2 tsp. baking powder
y$ c. chopped toasted 14 tsp. salt
nuts
Soak apricots several hours or overnight.
Cook slightly, if necessary, to
soften. Drain , chop or cut fruit. There
should be 1% c. fruit. Measure apricot
liquid and add water or sour milk to make
a full cup. Combine egg, fat, liquid and
fruit. Sift together dry ingredients, including
nuts, combine with liquids, stirring
just enough to moisten ingredients.
Put in a well greased loaf pan. Let stand
15 or 20 minutes. Bake 1 hour or slightly
longer in a moderate oven (350° F.).—
Mrs. C. B., Missouri.
Two'In 'One Sponge Ca\e
4 eggs 2 tsp. baking powder
1 c. (scant) white sugar 1 c. milk, scalded
1 c. brown sugar 2 tblsp. butter
2 c. sifted flour 1 tsp. vanilla
li tsp. salt
Beat eggs with a rotary beater until
very light. Add sugar, first wh ite, then
brown (free from lumps) and beat again
thoroughly. Add flour sifted with salt
and baking powder. Heat milk until
almost boiling, add butter and vanilla,
add to cake. Mix well. The dough will
be very thin. Pour' in one large sheet pan
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bottom. Pour in half of the
sponge cake batter and bake.
Serve with whipped cream or a
sauce made of apricot juice.
Butterscotch Cake. Bake cake
in a greased tin. When done,
(firm to touch), remove cake and
pour over the following topping
made by blending: 3 tblsp. butter,
l /i c. brown sugar, 2 tblsp.
cream, XA c. chopped cocoanut
or nuts. Put back in oven and bake until
it is brown and crusty. Double recipe il
the topping is to be used over whole
recipe of cake.—Mrs. F. B., Iowa.
Oyster Pie with Golden Crust
1 pt. oysters
1 c. cooked sliced
(medium-selects) celery
3 tblsp. butter Golden Crust
3 tblsp. flour
2 c. sifted flour
M tsp. salt
3 tsp. baking powder
Dash of pepper and } tsp. salt
mace H c. fat
1 c. rich milk
1 egg or 2 yolks,
K c. oyster liquor
beaten
lc. cooked, sliced 'A c milk
carrots
Look over oysters and remove any bits
of shell. Make sauce of melted butter,
flour , seasonings, and milk. Stir until
thick and smooth. Remove from heat ,
add carrots and celery. Heat oysters until
edges barely curl and add , allowing about
l
A c. oyster liquor.
Keep the pie filling quite thick for it
thins out some during baking.
To mix crust : sift flour, salt, and baking
powder in a bowl and cut in fat. Combine
egg and milk and add all at once to
mixture in bowl. Stir just until it forms
a ball, turn out on a lightly floured board
and knead a few seconds. Roll out thin
— /i
l inch in thickness—into one large
and one smaller round. Line a baking
dish with the large piece. Pour in oyster
mixture and top with crust, in which a
few gashes have been cut. Dampen
edges and seal. Bake at once in a moderately
hot oven (400° F.) 20 to 25
minutes. The oysters are less likely to
be overcooked with an undercrust unless
a fairly heavy casserole is used.
Prune Cup Calces
H c. fat 1 tsp. baking powder
1 c. sugar 1 tsp. soda
2 eggs ]4 'sp. salt
1 c. unsweetened prune 2 tsp. cinnamon
juice H tsp. allspice
1 c. cut, cooked prunes % tsp. cloves
2 c. sifted flour \i c. nuts, if desired
Cook prunes without sugar, drain
liquid , pit and chop prunes to make a cup
without liquid. Cream shortening, add
sugar and cream until fluffy. Add eggs
beating in thoroughly and sift together
dry ingredients, add alternately with
prune juice. Beat until smooth , add
chopped prunes and nuts. Bake as cup
cakes (24 small cakes baked in paper
cups set in muffin tins) or 2—8-inch squares,
20 to 25 minutes in a moderate oven
(350° F.). Ice with brown butter icing.
To make, brown 2 tblsp. butter in a small
saucepan, add 3 tblsp. cream and }4 tsp.
maple flavoring. Add powdered sugar to
spread.—Mrs. I. B., Nebraska.
Human Gardens
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that they would welcome him back and
inviting him to come for his meals in the
daytime. But Frank, feeling a bit shamefaced,
left and wasn't heard of again until
the next Christmas. Then the Hamlins
got a card saying that he was getting
along fine in a CCC camp and thanking
them for all they had done.
It was to get under-privileged children
into real homes like this that Judge
Robison convinced the Portage County
Board of Supervisors to junk the county
Children's Home.
He had noticed that some of the chief
causes of delinquency among the children
coming to his court were lack of good
home training and supervision, lack of
affection , lack of economic security, lack
of anything constructive to do, and lack
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WITH SEEDS
outMiriam J. Williams
ME the magic of "Open Sesame
TO has not wholly vanished from childhood
memories of Arabian Nights.
Ali Baba's password to the robbers'
cave still means to me new discoveries and
high adventure.
It was years after storybook days that
I saw and tasted my first sesame seed rolls
at a baker's school where they were making
a hundred and one varieties of breads.
There again was the magic, this time in the
thrill of a new taste sensation.
Old as civilization itself is the use of
sesame and other seeds in cookery. There
are references to these ancient cereal
grains and herb seeds in Biblical, historical
and folklore readings. In Matthew
is Christ's warning to the Pharisees, which
reads in part—"for ye pay tithe of
mint and anise and cummin."
Familiar to foreign-born and their immediate
descendants is the use of poppy
seed, of seeds of card'amon and caraway,
of aniseed and fennel, coriander and
cummin. But unless we have been brought
up with some such background, we are
K 0pm
weanm
likely to miss the food treats that come
with their use. It may be difficult to get
some of these seeds unless you are a
herb-garden fan and grow your own.
If your grocer does not handle the ones
you wish, the druggist or baker in town
may have them. In cities, grocery stores
patronized by Italians, Czecho-Slovakians,
Jews, Germans and the like are fascinating
places to visit for that very reason..
So here are recipes tried in THE FARM-
ER'S WIFE Magazine Country Kitchen
together with suggestions for new flavor
possibilities which are simply variations
of everyday cooking. Remember that a
little bit goes a long way.
Vegetables and Salads
Cabbage slaw seasoned with vinegar,
salt and sugar and lots of celery seed, as
much as a tablespoonf ul to a pint of very
finely shredded crisp cabbage. Use fresh
seed; and roll with a rolling pin before
using. Delicious with cold meats.
Sauerkraut or hot cooked cabbage
seasoned with butter, ham or bacon fat
and a sprinkling of caraway seed.
Beet pickles or salad made of sliced
cooked beets let stand in vinegar
seasoned with salt, sugar, and a
few caraway and coriander seeds.
Or use dill or fennel seeds, any of
these sparingly.
Celery seed or caraway seed
added to hot cooked salad dressing
then poured over cubed potatoes
for salad. Let cool, add
other ingredients.
i Salad sticks made by brushing
pastry strips with egg, then
sprinkling with coarse salt and
caraway seed before baking.
bh Meats
tj m Coriander seed crushed
391 and added to meat loaf, to
|H stews and hearty soups.
Hi Rolls
MMSHK Crusty Vienna rolls made
MlDBl by shaping bread dough
¦yflR into oval rolls and placing
|BHQ9K them far enough apart on
HEP^^ 1 pans that they do not touch.
Before baking, brush with
water, sprinkle with coarse
salt and caraway seed.
Crescent shaped rolls made by winding
up pie-shaped pieces of dough.
Shape as a crescent, brush with beaten
egg and sprinkle with poppy seed. "Kolachy"
rolls made with squares of sweet roll
dough , corners folded over a cooked poppy
seed filling. Poppy seed , by the way,
contains no "dope."
Three-in-one rolls, a variation of cloverleaf
rolls, baked in muffin tins. Before
baking, brush with beaten egg, sprinkle
one with caraway, one with poppy seed,
and one with coarse salt.
White, whole wheat, cracked wheat or
rye bread or rolls brushed with water or
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Roller Skates
Continuedfrom Page 9
Tempest I'm going to have on Twelfth she promised to hold Trinket's hand all "Yes, it's yours—your very own—to take
Night. I might even have two perform- the way and be careful about curbs. home and keep."
ances. One could be here at the hotel—
if Mr. Spindler liked the idea."
Consent came at last. "Yes, I think
she can go. Trinket's father isn't here,
Inside she felt a riot. It worked with
Trinket just as it had worked when she
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Lucinda resumed her skates, and with
Pygmalion on his leash they celebrated the
peak of Lucinda's joy on Broadway. It
but I think he would want her to go.
Please wait downstairs. I'll have her
ready in a minute."
was Trinket's size and her adored Uncle
George had taken her to a toy shop and
she had been given the little red cart she
took on something of the nature of a riot. Lucinda waited by the front door. wanted in the same mysterious way.
Pygmalion was accustomed only to sedate They came, Mrs. Browdowski leading
walks with his mistress; but with Lucinda Trinket. As always, the tiny girl's face DACK in the Misses Peters' parlor
I By appointment on skates—here was an event. Other was very solemn but there was a shining ^ Lucinda took off Trinket's things and
dogs joined in, other children on skates, expectancy there as well. Rather awed, then her own. She drew up a rocking
I to his Majesty! in free, joyous vagabondage. Lucinda Lucinda received Trinket's hand from her chair, lifted Trinket to her lap, and felt
I '• Make no mistake, he's every cuddly yipped , Pygmalion yapped , the others mother's. "Doll's size, isn't it? I feel with astonishment the little body that
I inch a monarch. And at feeding time, expressed themselves as they chose. Mr. just as if I were taking my biggest French weighed only one feather nestle to hers.
¦
when he calls lustily for cup and Gilligan passed with a fare and waved his doll for a walk; only nicer—much nicer." There was not length enough to Lucinda
I bowl, his royal preference is definitely whip until he was out of sight.
¦
On the lowest step she put on her skates to hold the long sigh of contentment she
for strained foods made by Heinz.
and then away they went, slowly but with gave; it snapped off when it got to the
I We believe babies are people. Their CHE was dog-tired, as Pygmalion had suppressed excitement. Trinket tripped to bottom of her boots. She had never had
I strained foods should have both taste ^ been, when she came in at five-thirty
a little girl to play with and she had
I appeal and nutritive value. Since ex- and threw herself bodily upon Miss Nettie.
wanted one sorely. She was the youngest
I posure to air dissipates vitamins and
"I'm
flavor too,
just too happy to live. Could I have
—no baby had ever followed her in the
Heinz Strained Foods are
cooked in sealed receptacles.
a bath before supper and eat in bed with Bond
families of aunts or uncles. She never
the cutting table close beside it?"
expected to own—half or quarter—any-
Heat a serving of Heinz Strained
, Foods. Taste. Tfou'II agree it's a dainty
She sang as she undressed ; as the water
by M. Cherniak
thing as darling as Trinket. It was won-
dish for Prince Charming. And remem- ran against the tin of the ,tub it made a
derful—too wonderful!
ber, every tin bears the coveted Seal of pleasant accompaniment. She brought to THIS is the bond, from year
She looked down at the small, rapt face
to year
Acceptance of the American Medi- her supper a face scrubbed and glowing
turned up to hers for the moment in comcal
Association's Council on Foods. like a harvest moon. For the first time
Both of us cherish, son and I;
plete surrender, then back to the precious
11 KINOS-1 Strained Vegetable Soup. she begged for company: "Just a few Not gratitude, respect , not fear- doll she held in her lap. "I tell you what
Peas. 3 Green Beans.
4 Cereal. 5 Carrots. 6 Beets. minutes—before you go down to dinner. When have these made a living we'll do," said Lucinda. "We'll sing your
7 Tomatoes. 8 Spinach. Isn't it elegant not to have tantrums any tie?
dolly to sleep. We'll sing: 'Froggy would
9 Prunes. 10 Mixed Greens.
11 ApricotsandApple Sauce. more.' I guess half of it is because you
a-wooing go.' That's the song I used to
S2
don't expect them; and the other half is This is the bond, and it will wear like best when I was only as big as a
Childproblems.homemaking
on Heinz Magazine of the Air, roller skates. They use up a lot of energy Resilient through life, and after: pint-pot." So Lucinda sang:
half-hour radio program— and iron out a lot of feelings. Like Mrs.
Mon.,Wed.andFri.,
The precious memories we
11a.m.
"Froggy would a-wooing go,
E.S.T., Columbia Network. Winslow's Soothing Syrup—they ought share—
Heigh-o, said Rowley;
HEINZ®#
to be called 'the mother's friend'." The warmth of joyous, blended . Froggy would a-wooing go
Lucinda went to sleep that night think- laughter.
Whether his mother would let him or no;
ing she would be needing a good deal of
With a rolly-polly gammon and spinach,—
money. Her allowance was one dollar a
Heigh-o, said Rowley.
week, dealt out by Miss Peters. Fifty
STRAINED FOODS
So off he went with his opera hat;
cents for carfare to and from school, but Lucinda's moderated swing. Lucinda
Heigh-o, said Rowley;
saved every day but a rainy day. Five talked ; Trinket listened. At Jenkins'
So off he went with his opera hat,
cents for the plate—Sundays—and the Lucinda bought cardboard crayons, paints,
And on the way he met with a rat;
rest for sundries. Having spent little, especially silver, and two new brushes.
With a rolly-polly gammon and spinach,—
Lucinda found herself in October with a Jenkins was only an incident, the toy
Heigh-o, said Rowley."
full purse, feeling terribly Jay Gouldish. shop was an event. Trinket had plainly
Out of school the next noon, she wasted never been in a toy shop before and it cast
Continued in February
no time with shinannigins. She bolted her a spell upon her which Lucinda watched
dinner; tore up to the parlor; took off her with growing delight. She lifted the tiny
Cal Meets a Slicker
pinafore; wadded it into a ball and kicked girl up to see the marvels on the high
Continuedfrom Page 6
it into her wardrobe. She was going to be shelves, and was amazed to find how light
officiating at the cider barrel. There
her own Lucinda for the rest of the year she was. "Why, you only weigh one
immediately followed a rush for
and wear nothing and do nothing that feather, Trinket. The wind will blow you
that
portion of the party, and Mr. Green
marked her otherwise. She had on her into the sky if we don't watch out."
wiped
a perspiring brow and turned to Cal.
Scotch plaid gingham and it did look nice.
"I do declare," he chuckled, "this
She put on her Sunday shoes; they had THEY lost themselves in an hour of ensure
does be one dance hungry crowd. I
kid bottoms and cloth tops and they but- ' chantment. What delighted Trinket most
sho
LIGHTS INSTANTLY- NO WAITING
am glad we're not havin' it at
toned snug and high. Her legs looked nice was not the dolls but the little kid ankle-
the Ford ,
Here's the iron that will "smooth your way on
ironing day". It will save your strength... help
as they'd have every
in them , if only they didn't have to go ties on the dolls, pink, white and blue.
hill for miles around
you do better ironing easier and quicker at less
danced down to a nubbin' by
into underdrawers—long bulgy ones. She touched them with a quiveiing fore-
this time."
cost
- A Seal Instant Lighting
Check up revealed the next
Iron... no heating
Reefer on, the elastic band of her sailor finger and said : "Pretty, so pretty."
morning
with matches... no wailing'. The evenly-heated
that the dance had cleared in
snapped under her chin, skates buckled They were almost the only words she
the neigh-
double pointed base irons garments with fewer
strokes. Large glass-smooth base slides easier.
borhood of seventeen dollars,
and dangling, she closed the door upon spoke through that whole afternoon.
and Cal and
Ironing time is reduced one-third. Heats itself
Polk Green sat long by the table figuring
... use it anywhere. Economical, too ... costs her going and climbed up to the third The pretty dolls gave Lucinda an idea.
only Hit an hour to operate.
with pencil and paper.
See your local
Two hours work
floor. She was going to borrow Trinket. She left Trinket, to whisper an aside to
hardware dealer.
resulted in a carefully worded message,
- FREE Folder-Hlustrating and telling all about She found the Browdowskis home at the the shop person : "How much?"
which was duly copied,
this wonderful iron. Send postcard.
placed in an
back and knocked, waited, knocked again. "Fifty cents apiece."
THE COLEMAN LAMP AND STOVE CO.
envelope and mailed.
DepfcFW318Wichita,Kan8.j Chicago, ltLt When the door opened it was only a crack ; Fifty cents came out of the purse and The results, from the northern weekly
Philadelphia, Pa. J LOJ Angeles, Calif, issis the not-so-tall woman who was Trinket's Lucinda hurried backand artfully inquired, newspaper, began to roll in the next week,
mother put her face to the crack and looked "See, Trinket, these little dollies have slip- dozens and dozens of letters addressed
startled. Then she opened the door a little pers, too. Arent' they pretty?" And to the firm of Rutherford and Green ,
wider, but held her body against it as if when Trinket agreed , "What color do you each and every letter copying the spirit
AGENTS:
she were hiding something. Not so long think is the prettiest?"
of the advertisement which had inquired :
afterwards, Lucinda was to discover what The tiny girl ran her finger up and down "Why not be independent? Own your
it was. Instinct prodded her into caution. the box several times; at last it came to own farm. Raise your own vegetables
She mustn't say the wrong thing; she rest on the doll dressed in red, with white and meat. Rich new country. Ten
mustn't ask to come in. Instead she smiled slippers and sash. Lucinda beckoned to dollars down and ten dollars a month."
eagerly: "I'm Lucinda Wyman , one flight the shop person. "Wouldn't you like to Polk Green had returned to Sadler's
down. You remember? You said I could have this little girl take a doll home with Ford , leaving a black and tan hound. A
T will place this nandsome, mono- HttHCPsE
borrow Trinket and I want her today." her?"
somewhat addled Cal departed posthaste
1 making Display Outfit In your bJSjW'l.TjnianjII There was hesitation but Lucinda went The shop person thought it would be a
bands for 30-day trial without your BassssBJvln. «.la
in search of his partner, whom he found
risking a cent. Serve your steady MSSSff Vxr II exuberantly on, trusting her instinct. splendid idea, cut the string at the back busily lining up tracts
customers on a regular weekly route.
of land for sale.
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Big profits with over 260 groceries, MBgSBrJmSimmi She told about her theater, about The of the box, and pulled out the doll in red. Cal and Polk patiently wrote out
drugs, and household necessities.
Bnm^uw Fori Tudor Sedan given as AMmmS 'SKiREiBt Tempest. Now she was going over to The hands that were doll's size reached
aU^A!l* cfisK)V tflnU answers to each of the inquiries and
boniis to producers—besides essh earn nrvVnanananubSssnanBaa
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FREE, No obligation. Act at onoe. MsasnaaeasajeeaaajaawaM
they were selling
shop—the lovely toy shop. There would chin. Lucinda nodded vigorously to the
ALBERT MILLS, Pros.
no pigs in a poke and would the inquirer
tEBg3&$MjSm
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ps. 0 YOU remember way back in your childhood when
I \ you and your little brother, with perhaps a cousin
J
or two and some neighbors, assembled for play?
'¦¦
" The get-together took place with bluster and
happy informality. You never noticed how you said hello
to each other or who had darns in the knees of his stockings
and who didn't. You had too much fun to accomplish.
Besides, the main thing was that you were together
and that was what counted.
No thick, heavy silences, no self-consciousness, no fear
of saying the wrong thing or appearing foolish in someone
else's eyes. You were having too much fun to care.
For persons who haven't had a thoroughly soul-satisfying
good time for quite awhile, because a certain shyness
and stiffness with others takes the keen edge off their
fun , perhaps the play experiences of long, long ago offer
a solution. Perhaps it's a little plain, unvarnished fun,
in which there is quite a strong element of the childish.
It might be making lemon teeth, for instance.
The person who thought of lemon teeth must be one
of those lovable individuals who hasn't let the spirit of
fun freeze up inside of him just because childhood has
slipped behind him. When you want an evening full of
grins and giggles whether there are two or four or ten
of you—make yourselves some lemon teeth and see if you
don't get aching sides from laughing.
I remember my delight at first seeing them. One evening
I heard giggles and squeals, mingled with shouts of
masculine laughter, coming from a back booth in a drug
store. There, of all places, were two girls and two young
men making lemon teeth. One girl had suddenly said,
with a gleam in her eye, "Just for fun, let's make some
lemon teeth!"
Everyone had looked shocked and said—"What!
Here?"—but soon had the same gleam in their own eyes
and asked the waitress for lemons and knives. Most of
the customers in the store, probably fond of peace and
quiet , soon left. About an hour and a half later four
rather toothy-looking young individuals left the drug
store while the proprietor stared. Instructions for making
lemon teeth in our leaflet, "Just For Fun", will be sent
free on request.
Did you ever, just for fun, try throwing cards in a hat ?
This is one of the little ways to keep a date from having
a drowsy evening. It's the sort of game where Father
looks up over his paper and observes his hat on the floor,
which brings him out of his easy chair with a grunt.
He stands and watches you try to toss playing cards
into it from a distance of five or six feet. Pretty soon he
says, "Here, let me show you how to do that." Then he

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Polly Suggests New Year s
Resolution
I HOPE you'll laugh a lot in 1937—
' quite often at yourself. If I could add
one New Year's resolution to the nice
long list I know you are all going to make
(?) and keep (??) it would be this one:
To stop a minute when there is a tempest
going on inside of you—a fri end you thought
perfect has failed you, for instance ; your
family 's cruel; your personali ty's f lopping
—to stop and have a look at yourself (about
as far away as the length of a room); a look
at those whirling thoughts of yours and the
funny shape they are taking, and see if you
don't start laughing at yourself.
During the Civil War when things were
at a crisis, one of Lincoln's officers seemed
to be sitting back and relaxing peacefully.
Lincoln's urgent, repeated requests that
he push on, advance, do something found
him still doing just nothing.
One day when things looked grim and
tense for the Union, Lincoln received a
message from the officer. It said: "I've
captured a cow. What shall I do with
her?" There are a lot of messages
Lincoln could have sent back. He replied:
"Milk her."
Dear Polly: I am very self-conscious
about my height. I wear low heels all the
lime, but I still seem to tower above my
chums, and even some of the boys. How
can I make myself less sensitive about it?"
—"Wendy."
I KNOW what a helpless, exasperating
I feeling it is when you ache to take
several inches off the top of you. You
look at teetery heels with a lump in your
throat. No matter how nice your best
dress would look swishing about them you
think of how they would raise the top of
you up another notch.
I wish every girl who is tall and hates
it could know Ruth B. No one who once
knew her could ever again think that
being tall is any hardship. Ruth really
is tall ,—but she seems to be blithely
unaware of it or else doesn't care in the
slightest, so nobody else cares, either, or
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Savory Casserole
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H lb. dried beef
l A c. grated snappy
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M tsp. pepper Hot tomato juice or
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Cal Meets a Slicker
kindly consider himself invited to come
and inspect the land. Some visitors purchased,
but not so many as Cal and his
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then they go off to talk it over and change
their minds. Now up at Mountain Village
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down payment. I figure we should be
goin' like we be goin' to buy a farm and
listenin' to him and gettin' some tips."
Polk took the first trip and returned
with a self-conscious quirk of a smile
about his lips and a week later Cal departed
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grinning to himself, and then plunged
hard and fast into his own job of selling.
It was getting time for spring plowing,
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which he neglected sadly.
"Cal ," she inquired, "do you be makin'
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Cal shifted uneasily. "A little Annie,
a little; not much but a little."
"I just be wondenn , and then she
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people to buy land. Do they be worryin'
about taxes and payments?"
Cal looked at her sharply and half
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she was holding in her hand, "Cal," and
of onion have been added. Drain thoroughly.
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daily, and the alcohol every three or four
days. If there is any evidence of pus, the
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or brushing, but let them come off themselves.
They will do this when a new skin
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after we had exchanged greetings and
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They didn't come out very well,
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DID YOU have an interesting garden
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And don't I know! For among my
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plants that didn't come true to any of the
representations that were made for them
by a roadside seller who sold them to me.
I lost a whole season's enjoyment of
really good petunias just through carelessness.
DECAUSE the lawn around our house
^ was badly hit by the dry weather, we
discussed how to take care of it this coming
spring. Uncle Charley told me what he
expects to do.
"First ," he said , "I'll give the grass
plots a good raking as soon as I can after
the frost is out of the ground and the top
soil has dried out. I'll use a steel rake
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1D0 not like, in winter,
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Yet any time last summer
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The wind that shakes the tree tops
I do not like a bit,
Yet I'd have liked , last summer,
To have a whiff of it.
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And blow upon my thumbs.
Why fuss about the weather?
I'll take it as it comes.
New Year's Resolutions
"\ \/ /HAT'S that ?" asked Benny-
\ Y /Becky was writing on a long
\A/ yellow sheet of paper.
" »y< y New year's resolutions,"said
Becky. "I'll read them to you;
"I hereby resolve: (1) To brush my
teeth without being told. (2) To quit
hopping when I'm excited. (3) To like
Ann Macey, even if her grades are better
than mine. (4) To remember I'm too
young to have face powder. (5) To quit
giggling when we have company at the
table. (6) Do not leave the hard pans
soaking when I wash dishes. (7) To learn
the sevens so I'll never forget them.
(8) To—"
"Whoa! How many do you have?"
"There's thirty-two now, but I'm
going to make fifty."
"Whew! You'll be just about perfect
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"Well, Mister, it wouldn't hurt you to
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"Fifty? Fifteen's all I need." Benny
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time he said, "I can only think of ten."
"If you keep even ten , it might help."
"I say, you better make fifty-one resolutions
and make the last one not to say
smarty things to people."
Becky kept right on writing, but she
finally looked up and said , "Well, what
are your good resolutions?"
Benny screwed up his forehead. "I
can't make out this first one," he said,
but began to read.
"Wel l,—No. 2 is I will take my overshoes
off on the porch. (3) I'll not write
on my arms at school with.ink. (4) I'll
not go over to Miss Rosy's whenever I
smell cookies baking. (5) I'll not gulp
my milk. (6) I'll hang up my clothes.
(7) I'll not bang doors when Buddy is
asleep. (8) I'll not shove my food at the
table. (9) I'll lay the sticks strai ght in
the woodbox so more will go in. (10) I'll
comb my hair."
Becky looked thoughtful. "Today is
New Year's Day. We have the resolutions
all written down, and the day is half
done, so I suppose it will be all right to
begin keeping them tomorrow."
They folded their papers carefully and
laid them on the window sill behind the
curtain.
"Let's go tell Miss Rosy about our
resolutions."
Miss Rosy laughed when they asked
ELIZABETH C.WHERRV
her if she had made any New Years
resolutions. "I make them every day,"
she said. "Every day begins a New Year,
and if I made them all at once, I'd forget
and break a lot of them, so I make a new
one whenever I need it."
"Oh goodness," cried Benny in alarm,
"if I did that I'd have to be thinking up
new ways to be good every day."
"We're beginning to keep ours tomorrow
morning," said Becky.
"I'll come over," promised Miss Rosy,
"to see how you get along."
Next morning there was no school, but
Benny and Becky were up early, eager to
put their good resolutions to work. Miss
Rosy was already there. She said she
came to borrow sugar.
The twins ran to the window sill to get
their papers—but the papers were gone.
They hunted through the magazines on
the library table. They looked in Mother's
desk. They looked in the waste basket,
in the toy cupboard and among old papers.
"Whatever are you hunting for?" said
Mrs. Dean.
"For our good resolutions," said Benny.
"We made them yesterday and we're
going to begin keeping them today," said
Becky. "We left them lying on the
window and now we can't find them."
MOTHER thought a bit. "Were they
written on Daddy'stypewriter papei ?"
"Yes! yes!" said the twins. "Have you
seen them?"
"I'm afraid I did. When you went over
to Miss Rosy's, Baby Bud went to the
window to watch you. He found some
yellow paper on the window ledge and had
a great time tearing it up and throwing it
around. I didn't know it was important
and swept it up and burned it."
"Now we've no resolutions!" said Becky.
"And we can't be good!" cried Benny.
At that Miss Rosy's apron strings began
to shake, her knob of hair wobbled a little
and her shoulders rocked up and down.
She laughed out loud. Mrs. Dean began
to laugh. So did Benny and Becky.
Baby Bud crept around the door, clapped
his hands and crowed with delight.
Everybody laughed till they cried.
"Remember what I said?" asked Miss
Rosy. "Every new day begins a new year
—like birthdays. Begin today, and make
one resolution at a time. Then you won't
have to write it down."
"That's fine," declared Benny. "Becky
can begin with her fifty-first one and go
backwards."
"And you can begin with your eleventh
one, Mister Benny Dean."
"Tut-tut," said Benny laughing, "you've
broken yours already."
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it should be just high enough in front to
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To add to the insulation of the house
and improve its ventilation, a straw loft
should be installed if the house is more
MAKE COLD
than seven feet high inside. If , for
example, you have one of the gable or
shed roof houses with a ceiling height of
from nine to twelve feet install a straw
loft so that the ceiling in front is seven
feet from the floor and at the rear about
five or five and a half feet. The straw
may be supported with either chicken
wire netting or boards. If boards are used
they should be laid far enough apart to
give ample space for the foul air from the
house to rise between them, yet close
enough so that the straw does not fall
through. One by four inch boards laid
three inches apart make a good support.
For an outlet for the foul air which
rises through the straw, cut holes at either
end of the building above the straw loft
For 19 years we have maintained a large trapnest breed- I7.S83 PouKrv Rollers Order.
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A produce better chicks for our customers. At the World's Customers reorder year after
JL Fair, Chicago, Booth Farms had Championship Trio of year because they know from
(LWm pens both years. In the past 7 years, our birds have won experience that they make more
__L _K DID niCPnilUTO 949AwardsandCupsat NationaILay- money with Booth chicks.
DID. lllOlUUMo ing Contests. All of these hens were Ifl Times ol Mnnw too*
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BEST LIVABILITY
IN 1935-1936 EGG-LAYING CONTESTS
Including all the birds of all breeders entering Ave
pens or more In the 1035-1030 egg-laying contests,
Itoselawn Leghorns finished the year with the best
livablllty record regardless of breed or variety.
HIGHER QUALITY AT NO PRICE INCREASE
INCREASED EGG BREEDING In 1037 Roselawn
chicks at NO PRICE INCREASE. Over
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YHHHBI. . .JaW- . ^HHV Day old pullets in Heavy 1
\_____srf" J*\wl Breeds 1 9.95 29.70 49.25 94.50
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11 about amesing flock Improvement
i on dlseaee eradication in parent
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jka and ecientiSo eeloction of breedere
in an effort to build high flock eggproduction
averages In handa of
cuatomera. S2 Brcede. Turkey Poults.
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ew caah eavinga plan or eaey C. 0. D.
money down plan. PREPAID. Get De*
, loweet pricee. Asa't All Breeds,
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BUSH HATCHERY
Clinton, Me.
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¦J/ Leghorns, Blues and Minorcas. f 12.95 38.70 64.25 124.50
^^^^^ HRl f^^rx Day old pullets after March 1st will be $3 per 100
Mrs. ^Sa^a^ma ^Sa ^aW^ higher Heavy than Breed these prices.
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cockerels, 9c each. English Leghorn cockerels,
^*HH^^^ Sc each. Assorted Light Breed cockerels, 4c each.
SEXED 90% ACCURACY—AND REMEMBER THAT WE SEX ONLY OUR VERY BEST GRADE
Postage or express is prepaid when full amount accompanies order. - If your order, or a part of order
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HEIZER'S QUALITY HATCHERY. NEW ALBANY. INDIANA
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SNAPS PAY
by W. H. KIRCHER
and leave them open throughout the
winter. Windows should be,so built that
they can be opened from the top to
permit entry of fresh air.
But though you do these things, the
birds are still going to be uncomfortable
if they are crowded. "I have been having
a great deal of trouble with colds and
roup in my flock," one of our readers tells
us in a letter, "and I can't understand
why. We have a good laying house 16x28
feet, and our flock ranges in size from 350
to 400." Overcrowding was probably the
cause of the trouble which this woman
was having. Her house is large enough for
only 100 birds. Put three or four times
that many in it, and it is almost certain
that trouble will develop.
If a good housing program is carried
on consistently through the winter your
flock will be laying almost as many eggs on
those extremely cold days as in mild
weather.
Vaccinating Layers
WHETHER to vaccinate or not to
vaccinate when fowl pox or chicken
pox breaks out in a laying flock is a question
over which veterinarians disagree.
There are those who take the stand that
vaccination after the disease breaks out is
worthless because it does not become
effective until after the disease has run
its course. These men also declare that
the vaccination may react so severely on
the birds that the loss will be greater if
the flock is vaccinated than if it is not.
However, there are many veterinarians
who take the opposite stand, and it seems
to us significant that so many of the
veterinarians who favor vaccination as a
means of halting a fowl pox outbreak live
in states where the disease is an old problem,
and therefore they have had much
experience with it.
If fowl pox, which is evidenced by wart-
and hatching 31 yearn. Asaurea greater CM production, larger CMS,
bi«« broilort!, more profits. BloodteBted. Trepaid prices. Can ship
C. O. D. Order direct from thifl ud. If order is acnt in before February
let redi'ca thceo prices Ho per chick, eft mf. ¦ iDO 1000
Barred, Buff, WHite Rocks; 50 10 ° 5D0 10UU
S. C. Reds: White Wyandottes:
Buff Orpingtons...$4.95 $8.95 $44.25 $87.50
White, Buff Minorcas; New _ ,„ JA „ „ __
Hampshlres 5.25 9.45 46.75 87.50
Brown, Buff , White Leghorns 4.75 8.45 41.75 82.50
All Heavy Breeds, Assorted.. 4.45 7.90 39.50 79.00
Assorted, $5.95 per 100; seconds. $4.00 per 100.
Got prices on BCXCO baby pullets and cockercla. Also prices on baby
turkeys. Gunnmtco 100% live arrival and replace any you loose first
two weeks hulf price. Can. make immcdlutc or future delivery. Catalog
free Order today.
Clover Valley Poultry Farm, Box 9, Ramsey, Indiana
•tilt ' MTITT^ ^
HATCHED IN WORLD'S Jt j
$50 to $150 I LARGEST IsQP
MORE PROFIT INCUBATORS ^
If, ner nen n nSns OurFamousBloodedCMcka
like growths on comb and wattles, by
running nostrils, and in some cases by pus
patches in the mouth and throat, does
break out it is best to call your local
veterinarian immediately and get his
advice on what to do. He should be able
to tell by the appearance of the flock how
severely the vaccination would react, and
to guess fairly accurately whether or not
it would be best to vaccinate.
Should fowl pox occur this winter by
all means vaccinate both old and young
stock next summer to avoid reoccurrence
of the disease. Although there is disagreement
as to whether or not it is wise
to vaccinate a flock in the winter after
the disease gets started, there is general
agreement that once the disease occurs in
a flock the young stock should be vaccinated
when it is about three months old,
and the old stock should be vaccinated at
the same time.
Culling and Selling
"THERE never is a sick chicken or one
I that appears to be a poor layer in
your flock ," I remarked to a flock owner
sometime ago as we were walking through
her laying house.
"You just don't see them," she told
me, explaining that she always scans the
flock each day as she feeds, and when she
sees an ailing bird, or one which shows by
its appearance that it is not laying, out
it goes. The result is that the feed her
flock gets goes only to layers and therefore
it is fed profitably. Constant culling
is especially important in times of relatively
high feed prices, and it is important
also that the birds be put on the market
or eaten immediately after they are culled.
They are usually in better flesh then than
later and so they are better table poultry
and command a higher price than if
allowed to remain in the flock.
• For Hatchable Eggs
FEEDING has a great deal to do with
• the hatchability of eggs. Experimental
work done at many of the agricultural
colleges shows that breeding flocks need a
good laying ration which includes considerable
quantities of vitamin carriers.
Cod-liver oil is especially important. In
most sections of the country a quart of
good cod-liver oil per hundred pounds of
laying mash will give best results.
. Send Your Questions
Your questions on poultry problems will be
answered free by mail if you will send them to
the Poultry Editor of THE FARMER'S WIFE
Magazine, St. Paul, Minnesota, and enclose a
three cent stamp to pay return postage.
If you are planning to build a new poultry
house or remodel an old one you will be inter'
ested in the set of Poultry House Plans obtainable
from THE FARMER'S WIFE Magazine at
ten cents per copy.
The answer to Conundrum on Children's
Page—Baking Day.
•^ ftlATURED STOCK BL00O TESTED AND RIGIDLY CULLED 100 PER CENT ^*
AAA MATING (unsexed)
Barred, White, Buff Rocks; White Wyandottes; 50 10
° m so 10
Reds and Buff Orpingtons
$5.00 $8.95 $26.55 $44.00 ° $87.50 °°
Australorps ; Black and Buff Minorcas; Columbian
and Silver Laced Wyandottes; Rhode
Island Whites; Giants and Brahraas 5.50 9.95 29.55 49.00 97.50
Anconas; Black, Brown, Buff and White Leghorns
(large type) 4.75 8.45 25.05 41.50 82.50
Heavy Breed Sexed Day-Old Pullets 6.00 10.95 32.55 54.00 107.50
Light Breed Sexed Day-Old Pullets 7.50 13.95 41.55 69.00 137.50
(PRICES ON STANDARD MATING $1.00 TO $1.50 PER 100 CHEAPER THAN ABOVE PRICES)
Heavy Breed Cockerels, 9c; Giant and Brahma Cockerels, 12c; White Leghorn Cockerels,
5c; Light Assorted Cockerels, 4c.
NOTE; Pullet prices will be $3.00 per 100 higher, effective March 1, 1937.
We guarantee 100% live delivery. Postage prepaid. Write for calendar catalog,
explaining our SUPERIOR and STANDARD MATINGS with complete prices and
details.
PREMIUMS GIVEN ON EARLY ORDERS
HEIZER'S QUALITY HATCHERY
NEW ALBANY, INDIANA
GROW CAPONS MON T E H V E M B ASERS
"Marcy Farm Strain," Sex-Guaranteed Day-Old
Cockerel Jersey Giants (White or Black) , make
Largest, Finest Capons. Command Premium Prices.
Our customers making Big Proflts. Parent Stock. Illinois
U. s. Approved and Fullorum Tested. Buy your chicks
Now. Big Discounts. Descriptive Literature.
"THE MAPLES," Drawer 2705, PITTSFIELD, ILLINOIS
Big, sturdy Northern Bred E. O. P. Leghorns—lay lots
ot big eggs—big profit makers. All stock bloodtested.
Michigan Bonded, u. S. approved chicks that live and grow. Write
for FREE CATA LOG una attractive prices. Aek about acxea chicks.
TOWNLIHE POULTRY FARM, Box 70S, ZEEUND, MICH.
1£]&^3JXi ^mT Bockenstette'i ^k
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because by proper feeding, the
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during the first few days after
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from Purina-fed breeding flocks
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... their chances of living have
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Write nearest address.
FAMOUS POULTRY FARMS,
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Money-Making Strain 37 Years. Every Breeder
Blood-Tested. Mountain reared. Trapnested.
Big White Birds. Free Catalog explains all.
MERLIN'S POULTY FARM, 215 Walnut Rd„ Cmtro.Hall, Pa.
-ffM Jrom the World's Finest
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Cost ¦ "OSCTOXuui to YOU I Wycoft, Flshel, Thompson,
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Build It Yourself—Broods 150 Chicks. FEW CENTS
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ATZ'S FAMOUS CHIX f^ffi
be sure to read our large ad on page 24 which gives complete
Information and prices on Atz's Famous Clilx.
Atz's Mammoth Hatcheries, Huntingburg, Indiana
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{.laced at H cricel 3. We guarantee 100% lire delivery anywhere
n the U. S. Vigorous, healthy chicks from free-range flocks that
are stronger, healthier, because the? ore on free range almost the
year aronnd-hsve extra months of sunshine, fresh air, green feed.
Also chicks from pedigreed mattags, Bloodtested. Accredited. Ask
Profit nuking chirks from big TORI Barron White Leghorns. Wo H4YFX V about onr Easy Purchase Plan-Jl books order. Prompt service.
import direct. Flook averages to 223 OBEB. Winter layers of Urga
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POULTRY FARM, BOX 146, MONTROSE, MO,
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or cockerels. Sexed strafcht breeds or
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i \ ./* Amcricn with a Master Breeding Farm nnd Plan for.
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•aSTR. F. NEUBERT Co., Box 831, MANKAT0 , MINN.
liDV (lUlftlfC Choice Pure Bred
CgS£>jv!& DHDI VnlUIVO Lars* AAA Grade
lffifflj H bardy Northern "Gold Seal" Quality Stock.
VSmbg&P All leading breeds and all at Lower Prices.
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^ -~ POULTRY TRIBUNE «Mi
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Fire years $1.00; one year trial 25c in U. S. A.
v PIIPP Thousands of Royal squab baby
Poultry Tribune, Dept. 30 Mount Morris, III.
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Magazine, St. Paul, Minn.
Write number and size and your name
plainly.
THE Fall and Winter Fashion Book
of THE FARMER'S WIFE Magazine
is illustrated in color and contains
exactly the help that the home sewer
needs. Price 10 cents. Send for it
today.
A Handmade Collection
Quilt Book IV. Because of the demand
for more quilt patterns, we have ready for
you this newest book of ten designs. Each
one, with seam allowances, is printed on one
side of the page, so that it can be cut out
without losing any of the others. Directions
and amounts of material necessary are
included.
The designs are: Double Irish Chain,
Grandmother's Patchwork , The Melon Patch,
The Flower Basket , Skyscrapers , Pinwheel ,
Drunkard's Path, Daisy Star, Orange Peel and
Tulip Garden. Price of book, 20 cents.
Knitted triangle scarf, belt and cuffs
are made of two colors of Shetland floss.
Directions for making. Price, 5 cents.
Knitted Weskft. The knitted vest is
very new and very smart with its crocheted
edge of red, blue and yellow, embroidered
red flowers, red buttons and gay tassels.
Directions for making. Price, 5 cents.
No. 73V4- Needlepoint design on
canvas (12x12 inches) suitable for pillows,
bookends, doorstops, bags or footstools.
The design is entirely finished in soft shades
of rose, blue, green and amber wool yarn.
Yarn for the background may be had in dark
green, light green, brown, black, taupe or
red wool yarn.
Finished design on canvas with wool for
background, tapestry needle and directions.
State color. Price, 95 cents.
No. 6010/1. Needlepoint design on
canvas (21x22 inches) suitable for chair seats,
radio benches or ottomans. This attractive
design is completely done in shades of rose,
rust, blue and green. Yarn for the background
is available in dark green, light green,
brown, black, taupe or red.
Finished design on canvas with wool for
background , tapestry needle and directions.
State color. Price, $2.50.
A Question
I 'M young and fair
Still;
I sew and tear
Scraps of cloth to make a patchwork quilt.
I wonder what I'll do when
I am old and gray?
Will
I dance and play ?
—Mary Fulton
* * *
MOTHER was trying to tell Father
how much better it would be for
her and the family if he would buy store
overalls instead of depending on her to
make them.
'Store overalls are all right," said
Father, "but I wish they'd sew on the
buttons as tight as they do the labels."
* * *
" A ND Joseph consults me about every
t\ deal that he makes, before he makes
it," said the newly wed Hannah Helgerstrom
that was, in a boastful sort of way.
And then the seasoned Mrs. O'Malley
! CHICAGO NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO broke in to say that maybe Joseph merely
wanted some one to blame if the deal
went wrong.
* * *
YOU can't twit Jennie Jenkins about
being an old maid. The other day
she told the driver on Milk Route No. 1
that an old maid is merely a woman who
never made the same mistake once.
* * *
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The SPICE CUPBOARD
"/ just thought I'd return a book my
grandf ather borrowed from your grandfather."
* * *
JOHNNY'S mother had caught him
•* in telling a lie and was scolding him
gently for it. "Why, I don't think that
your father told lies when he was a little
boy like you," she said.
"Well, Mamma, when did he begin?"
asked Johnny.
And the scolding ended.
CONTENTS FOR JANUARY
I Wif e: "Next time I call you to dinner you'll know I mean business!"
IT MAY be true that more women, than
I men go insane," remarked Mrs. Tillie
Sharp, "but I suspect it's the men who
drive them insane."
* * *
YOUNG William's best girl was home
from college during the holiday vacation,
and he went a pretty pace with her,
making the rounds of parties, dances,
motion pictures and the like. When she
had gone back to school William sighed
a sigh of relief and remarked to his family,
"That girl should be renamed 'Appendix.'
Because she's so expensive to take out."
* * *
"/">UR undertaker's very smarts
V-/ He didn't need a dole.
For he got rich when oilier folks
Were going in the hole."
* * *
AUNT MANDY, big, round and goodnatured
, had to tell her age in making
out some legal papers recently.
"I reckon I'se about 7-0, Jedge."
"Are you sure? You don't look to be
70." With that Mandy hesitated a minute
and then suddenly exclaimed:
"I guess you'se right, Jedge, and I'se
wrong. I recollect that's my bust measure."
* * *
EVERY argument proves something,
but what it proves oftenest is the
fact that it doesn't prove anything.
* * *
"/"•AN my husband and me both use one
Vy bank account?" asked young Mrs.
Weatherwax who was Rosy Pennyworth
until her marriage a few weeks ago.
"Yes," said the cashier at the county
seat bank. "Do you want to open a joint
checking account?"
"Well, I don't know what you'd call it,
but I'd like for an account where my
husband does the depositing and I do the
checking,"
Page Page
Cover Design Lee Brown It's Time to Sew 10
Editorial F. W. Beckman 3 The Country Kitchen Broadcasts
Miriam J. Williams 11
c . ,- _ Open Sesame with Seeds
Fiction Miriam J. Williams 1.1
Cal Meets a Slicker Litlord McGce 5 Just for Fun Katharine Seymour 15
Roller Skates (Part 3) Ruth Sawyer 8 Hairlines Katharine Marshall 16
Up in Polly's Room 17
C„„,.,-„,.
Human Gardens and Crops
f eatures Carroll P. Slreeter 18
Be Your Own Decorator. .Ginly Beynon 7 Letters from Farm Women 20
A Handmade Collection Skin Infections
Orinne Johnson 11 Dr. Waller R. Ramsey 21
Garden Talk 22
r»y,„.„l general
Children's Page.... Elizabeth C. Wherry 23
Making Cold Snaps Pay
Looking Forward... Dr. J. W. Holland 4 W. II. Kircher 24
Puppy Ways
ALWAYS dragging something round,
Chewing at my shoes,
Yelping when he thinks he's hurt.. .
Why do children choose
Puppies when a dog would be
Better every way?
Now I have to teach that pup
Everything all day.
But, you know, he sure is cute
When he comes along,
Whimpering, whining at my feet,
Knowing he did wrong . . .
I just have to stroke his fur,
Have to lift him up .. .
Sorry that I punished him . . .
Lonesome little pup. —Mary Parries.
* * *
HACKER picked a political plum
SI
when he captured the office of county
supervisor, but he himself has become a
good deal of an official prune.
* * *
I SPY!
From Weldon (111.) Record:
"CARD OF THANKS
We wish to thank all those who in any
way helped to distinguish the fire at our
home last Saturday. Chester Persons."
* * *
MOST of the human sympathy that's
being dished out goes to folks who
look as if they needed it, but many of the
greatest sufferers in the world don't show
it on the outside, and they get only
criticism.
* * *
"By thunder you will drinkl "

cA Handmade, Collection
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Orinne Johnson,
PERHAPS
it is the snow-covered
world outside that makes it seem
more fun to work with lovely, rich
colors at this time of year. Woolly
yarns, soft and caressing, fashioned into
knit accessories! cotton print piecings
combined in a favorite quilt design, or a
' needlepoint piece made for a walnut chair
—all of these are inspiring when the wind
howls around the corner and you sit con- Jff l
tented at your own family fireside. T
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Before any one of these pieces, is fin-
_ _ ! ished, many hours of work along with a ^ ^j
' certain outlay in money will be invested.
\ But what a wise investment if it brings .
. : happiness in making and satisfaction in living
with it, afterwards.
Subtle colors that combine two or more in one
—the blue-purple of an eggplant, the blue-green
-- '
of a Hubbard squash, the yellow-pink of a wild
rose or the gray-blue of a delphinium—such are
tne nues to nve wan aim t«j"j .
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From "Aunt Gertrude" in Ohio came the lovely old quilt TO|
shown above and called, "The Drunkard's Path." The quaint,
blue and white calico and the exquisite quilting closely spaced ^1
always cause comment. That pattern, along with The
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Flower
Basket, and Melon Patch (both illustrated at the left) the Double
¦ Irish Chain, Grandmother's Patchwork and others are found in our
new Quilt Book IV, just off the press.
For a chair seat or footstool cover, make a needlepoint piece like one
of these pictured. The floral design is already worked in wool in colors
similar to those shown. All you have to do is to fill in the canvas background
with yarn—dark green, light green, brown, black, taupe or red.
It is always nice to have a small piece of knitting to work on at club
meeting. The triangle scarf , cuffs and belt are quickly made and most unusual, i nese were in
chartreuse-green and brown, but you can make your own color combination.
Gay vivid sparkling contrasts are used in such pieces as the "weskit" shown above. It is knitted
of black wool yarn and edged in red, yellow and blue, with flowers, buttons and tassels repeating
those colors.
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