The nonpartisan leader. [volume], November 29, 1917, Image 8

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EAR Alice: I greatly enjoy
your letters, and although I
do not always answer them
one by one it is not from lack
of appreciation. We always
have plenty of work to do out here on
the farm. In fact we have so much
work that we have to cut down on
thinking. I wish I could sit down and
write you about things as they seem
to me, but right now I should be on my
way to the creamery. We have cream
day three times a week, and I gener
ally have to take one horse and haul
the cream to town.
Town, did I say? Well, no not a
town as you think of it, but the store
and garage and creamery and elevator.
When I got your letter telling what a
hardship it is to have to shop in three
stores before you buy your suit—Alice,
I wished for a few- minutes that I had
to undergo that hardship. Now, don't
misunderstand me. I am sure that
they multiply good things in the cities
and waste resources, time, energy and
everything, while in the country these
good things are lacking. That is, as
you suggest, the bad part of the sys
tem, and I fully agree with you that it
ought to be changed.
MARGARET LONGS
FOR CITY STORES
But, Alice, that realization is just In
my head. I really would enjoy the
necessity of going through three big
city department stores and picking out
the things I need. You know out here
in the country nothing seems pleasant
er to us than the chance to go to the
city and see the fine things we would
like to buy for ourselves and our chil
dren, even when we know we can't
buy very many of them. Comparing
the clepartment stores with the country
stores that we have to patronize, their
brilliance and endless profusion of
things make the home store seem un
interesting. And yet it is no fault of
the local merchant. He keeps up his
stock of goods wonderfully well for
the patronage he gets. He doesn't
waste any money on decorations and
he's not getting rich, but he does give
us a chance to buy most of the things
we need. When I compare prices of
similar articles In the city stores with
prices I have to pay out here I feel
like patting the local merchant on the
back for his generosity. It's a fact
Alice, that we can buy many articles
right here at home lots cheaper than
city people can buy them—and that
emphasizes a point in your letter.
Perhaps the higher cost of some arti
cles in the city is because of the waste
ful methods you spoke of. Where they
have three or four complete stores with
complete business organizations, forces
of clerks and all and every one making
its profits, it must be a.bigger drain
on the people who buy than if they
were condensed into one. I suppose if
MOTHER'S SUNDAY TASK
The "funnies" take the place of the children's old time story book, and their in
terest in them is just as absorbing.
PAUE EIGHT
Margaret Replies to Alice Letters
Giving Country Woman's Viewpoint
cities would cut out duplication and
make everything available under one
roof, that would lower prices and peo
ple who get tired running from one
store to another (it doesn't seem to me
ever would) could shop more effi
ciently.
Just now I'm thinking of Christmas
shopping and Christmas money. We
always do what we can to make It a
happy time for the children. I'm to get
the cream check the first week in
December. That means the check for
three deliveries of cream, and that will
help make out my Christmas money.'
And that reminds me—did you notice
that the Nonpartisan Leader has start
ed, a Christmas prize contest for farm
women? I'm going to get part of that
prize money too for my Christmas ex
penses. The farm women are to
answer the question, "What does" the
Nonpartisan league mean to you?"
What the women say will surely bo
"interesting reading" for the next few
weeks. Are you eligible to compete as
a farm woman? Well, I am and I cer
tainly am going to tell them what the
League means to me!
For one thing it has meant two or
three good old rousing picnics where
we farmer folks got together and found
out that we were all in the same boat
You know what country picnics are—
getting up early doing all the chores,
T'~
The Prize Contest
The Leader is getting a tremendous response in its farm
women's prize-letter contest. Although announced only & week
ago/scores of farm women- have already entered letters. Arfew
good ones have been received, but not so many that the field is
not still a wide-open one, with every chance for women who have
not yet entered the contest to win one of the Christmas-present
prizes.
The conditions are these: The subject is, "What does the
Nonpartisan League mean to you?" No letter of over 500 words
on this subject will be considered, and the prizes perhaps will go
to writers of shorter letters. Any farfa woman may enter the
contest. Letters must be in the hands of the Woman's Page
editor on or before Thursday, December 13.
The prizes are: $10 for the best letter, $7.50 for the next
best $5 for the third best $3 for the fourth and $1 each will be
paid for an unlimited number of good letters which do not get
any of the four first prizes, but which are worthy of printing in
the Leader. The prizes will be sent winners in time for Christmas.
Nobody connected with the Leader or related to anybody
connected with the Leader is eligible. The woman's editor and
the entire Leader staff will be the judges. Letters must be plain
ly written, on one side of the paper, and we can not undertake
to correspond with anybody about the contest or return letters not
awarded prizes. Win fame and some Christmas money by getting
into the contest at once. We will try to announce the winners in
the December 20 issue of the Leader.
feeding the chickens, making sure that
none of the calves could get to the
cows while we were gone, pouring out
two or three dishes of water so the
chickens wouldn't dry up while we
were away—and then getting home
late at night with the rest of the day's
work to do. But say, we certainly were
glad to do it. We never missed one
such chance.
Yes, all in the same boat and no one
to-row the boat but ourselves. We
women are hit even a little harder than
the men. They think their, ^problems
are bigger because they are connected
with "business," but they"axen't a bit
more important. Now we are going to
get a chance to tell. something about
it, and what the League means by way
of helping us. .. -i .• i.
MRS. BROWN ENTERS
WOMEN'S CONTEST
What would you think of a guessing
contest as a feature of some farmer's
club meeting or a Red Cross party, and
give local prizes for the best answer
to the question? I've a notion to get
up something of that kind myself and
then grab all the best ideas and work
them into my letter. If there were 20
women guests present there would be
20 different answers to "What does the
League mean to me?" and they surely
would contain some good ideas.
I also have some ideas of my own.
But I am going to keep them to myself
for I don't want anyone to win that
Christmas money away from me by
using my own answer. Mrs. Brown
came in yesterday with a copy, of the
paper saying she was going to write
an answer to the question arid that hep
letter would read something like this:
"What d.oes the Nonpartisan league
mean to me?
"It means my husband has traveled
around the township 10 times as much
as he ever did before (organizing and
helping the organizer) and has left me
to get the chores done with the help
of Fred and Mary.
"It means that Fred has done almost
nothing at the chores because he has
been fixing up a debate on the merits
of 'public versus profiteer ownership.'
"It means Mary won't budge- from
the time she gets the Leader out of the
mail box until she has read all the big
type, and the funny column and
studied out all the cartoons.
"It means the substitution of 'let Ma
do it' in our household."
Now Mrs. Brown was. foolish to let
me in on her secret, because maybe I'll
decide to use some of her ideas but
laying all joking aside, the women ot
this township are taking an Interest,
and the letters they are going to write
will make a book worth reading.
Fred, has actually stopped work on
that debate and" brought old Dan and
the buggy around to the front gate
with the cream can, in front of the
seat, and so now you may imagine me
driving off five miles to town—to earn
part of niy Christmas money.
-"i- u- Jo* ii SV-t '•'-VrA'
MARGARET.