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terest, to educate the second child.
It is a wonderful record that of
these children not one has failed of
this trust, and each boy or girl in
turn has* regarded the loan as a se
rious obligation and with all possible
earnestness has turned it back into
the household treasury to be used
over and over again. Just now the
last of the eight children, a daughter,
is in her senior year at a State nor
mal college, and the father told me
not long since that with the gradua
tion of the daughter that each mem
ber of the family would have had a
four year's college course and that
the original capital had been repaid
as an emergency fund for the father
and mother.
How Some Parents Managed.
I have in mind another family of
ten children who were educated much
in the same fashion. As the older
members completed their college
courses and became earners, they im
mediately assumed the education of a
younger member of the family. It
is interesting to hear an older broth
er or sister speak of his special
charge whom he has educated as "my
child." One of the pathetic and sig
nificant features of this method in
this family is that the youngest son
who has had no such responsibility is
the least promising of the entire
hi uuy.
1 have in mind a mother who was
interested in tho education of her
daughters, and who in her early mar
ried life learned the art of preserv
ing hams. Each year one or two au
itnnls were set apart for her educa
tion fund. These animals received
special attention from tho wife and
produced unusuully fine meat. As a
result, when tho eldest daughter was
ready for college the money for her
education was available. Now this
daughter is a successful teacher and
is paying for tho education of a
younger sister.
Tick A Good School.
1 hnvo known parents who wished
to shift responsibility to excuse their
lack of interest in this matter of a
college education for their children
by saying that college training was
impracticable, that it educated the
child out of his sphere, aad away
from the home. This frequently so
happens; but that is because suffici
ent attention was not given tq the
selection of tho college, and tho boy
or girl had not the correct attitude
toward life. This defoct I should say
rests largely with the parents.
Some one has aptly Bald "college
does not make fools. It develops
them. It does not make bright men.
It develops them. A fool will turn
out a fool whether he goos to college
or not. Me may turn out a differ
ent sort of one, though."
The Unsanitary I>IkIi-1Ur.
I was glad to see the question of
the dish-cloth taken up in a recent
issue. I wlsla to give you a chapter
on tho same subject. The treatment
the dish-cloth receives in some homes
Is appalling. I wonder the old rag
does not retaliate nnd kill the whole
household, and some of the neigh
bors ns well. I know families where
a "tea towel" is an unknown quan
tity.
I can give, for instance, one
family which consists of father and
mother, and six children. Two little
girls, about six and eight years old,
do most of the dish washing. They
use about a quart of water in n small
basin; tho dishes are all washed
through this water, with a little old
rag, black as the stove, and dried,
without rinsing, by another little old
rag of the same complexion. After
the kettles and all are washed, the
name water, or what Is left of It, is
turnod Into the churn to "clean” it,
01 and tho dish-rags are hung up for
the next time, and when taken down,
I have seen bugs fall from them and
scamper away. In many cases the
second rag is not used at all, the one
rag doing all honors. This work is
all done on the same table and same
oil cloth where the bread is prepared
and the meals are taken. The ven
tilation of this house is in compari
son with the work above mentioned.
Yet they are intelligent, Christian
people. The health of this family is
always poor. Is it any wonder? I
could mention many more such cases,
but one will suffice.
BERTHA P. McCALMONT.
Bathing Without a Bath Room.
We, who are not so fortunate as
to have a bath room, have a very
good substitute in the following
method, which has the advantage of
not taking gallons and gallons of
water, yet using a fresh supply con
stantly.
First, place a large wash tub in
a convenient room,—in winter the
kitchen can be utilized while still
warm after cooking a meal. Have
ready a pitcher of hot water and one
of cold, soap and towels near and a
basin or bowl on a table right by the
side of the tub. Fill the basin, step
in the tub and you are ready to be
gin. Ab the water from the basin is
used, let it run down into the tub
and replenish from the pitchers.
When the upper portion of the body
has been bathed, dry by rubbing
briskly, clothe to prevent chill, and
drawing up a chair to the side of the
tub seat yourself and bathe and dry
the feet. This can be accomplished
in a few minutes—a complete and
refreshing bath. Try it.
MRS. JAMES H. HENLEY.
Tiki Much Hot Bread.
People of the South consume too
much hot bread. They have the
Idea that light bread is “too weak,”
as one woman said. She says she
makes light bread for Sunday, when
they are not working, but thinks men
can't work on it. Evidently bread is
not the staff of life.
BERTHA P. McCALMONT.
Wash All Fruits and Vegetables.
I consider the washing of fruits
and vegetables, especially those that
are to be eaten raw, of the greatest
importance at all times of the year,
and especially during the summer.
Every head of lettuce, every radish,
every apple and pear and berry that
we buy at the market carries in
from the field millions and millions
of microbes up its surface. The
green apple, which has come into
unenviable notoriety because of the
colic it is supposed to give the
youngster who eats it, is really not
as guilty as generally believed. The
microbes on the skin of the apple In
all probability cause the trouble. As
thu human frame does not need so
much fuel to maintain heat during
the summer time as during the cold
er months, It Is only reasonable to
reduce the amount of the food taken
into the stomach.—Dr. Harvey W
Wiley.
Some Cheap and Serviceable Carpets
and Rugs.
The unnecessary work of scrub
bing floors can be avoided by using a
good coat of paint, or japalac, which
adds much to the appearance of a
room and can be easily cleaned and
brightened by rubbing over with ker
osene oil.
Very serviceable carpets can be
made of a good quality of blue de
nim and these are very pretty in a
room papered in light blue. A good
imitation of ingrain carpeting can be
made of the material from which tow
sacks are made. It is called Dundee
bagging and costs about 7 cents a
yard. When tacking it down, put
several plies of paper under it. Then
take some Diamond or Putnam dye
and make it any color desired. Use
a package to about a gallon of boil
ing water, or enough dye to make
the desired shade, and apply while
hot, with any kind of brush or mop.
With a little care it can be made
very pretty by dyeing it a light color
and when dry stenciling it with some
pretty design in a darker shade. It
can be made in stripes, squares or
diamonds of different colors by mark-i
ing it off first with a pencil and using
strips of wood or pasteboard to keep
the dye from running over the mark
and letting one color dry before ap
plying another.
To make pretty rugs, cut the bag
ging in strips two inches wide and
ravel from either side, leaving three
or four threads in the middle through
which to sew; take a piece of cloth
the size you wish your rug to be,
sew the strips on it half an inch
apart, and dye some pretty color. One
dyed in green resembles a bed of
moss. A heavier rug can be made
by sewing the strips on double or
closer together.
mrs. h. p. mcpherson.
A Bargain.
A little boy had got into the habit
of saying “Darn/' of which his
mother naturally did not approve.
“Dear,” she said to the little boy,
“here Is ten cents; it is yours if you
will promise me not to say ‘Darn’
again.”
“All right, mother,” he said as he
took the money, “ I promise.”
As he lovingly fingered the money
a hopeful look came into his eyes,
and he said: “Say, mother, I know
a word that’s worth fifty cents.”—
Ladies’ Home Journal.
A Real Hustler.
Lady (to applicant)—Yes, I ad
vertised for a matd-of-all work. Are
you an early riser?
Applicant—Indade, an Oi am,
mum. At me lasht place OI was up
an’ had breakfast ready an’ the
dishes washed an’ put away an’ all
the beds made before anybody else
in the house was up.—Success Maga
zine.
FIVE THINGS TO DO IN AUGUST
1. Arrange for occasional family outings as the pres
sure from farm work becomes lighter.
2. Get the boy who is at home for his vacation inter
ested in farm matters.
3. Teach the girl who is home from school the princi
ples of housekeeping.
4. Arrange that the boys and girls shall have some
lime for visits to friends, and for friends to visit them.
5. Remember that your boys and girls are the best as
sets of the farm and deserve the best you are able to give
them.
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chance to make big money during your spare time
—here is the business which you can enter with- i
out monoy or oxporloneom
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Never before has such a big money-making oppor
tunity been offered to you to become the representa
tive of a business where a large share of the profit is
yours without the investment of one cent of capital.
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$17.50
Steel Range
Six eight-inch lids.
Fifteen gallon reservoir.
Top warming closet.
Asbestos lined flues.
With care will last a life
time. Shipped from factory
to you.
Send $17.50.
Frank E. Smith Comp’y,
Meridian, Miss.
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That’s So! Hired hands are
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rat LOW DOWN STEEL
WHEELS will help to take
their place. Then, too, the
sun don't affect a steel wheel
like it does the best of hired
help. More brain and less
muscle nowadays. Cata
logue free to you.
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Box 65, Havana, 111.