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ff;r Vr.i VG, ft i 13 "&. l"!l 10 V The Commoner. VOLUME 6, NUMBER 23 k- s. v k-,:. ' 'H'nk-'; ;. r. r'j.'Ba; .Vf J -'1 I f I i v 'T I MS "1"' , T !! , 1)1 " If ' vv ii ii i r , The Human Tie "Spealc tenderly, for ho is doad," we say; "With gracious hand smooth all his roughened past, And fullest measure of reward fore cast, Forgetting naught that -gloried his brief day." Yet, when the brother who, along our way Prone with his burdens, heart-worn in the strife Falters before us, how we search his life, Censure, and sternly punish while we may! ' Oh, weary are the paths of earth, and hard ! And living hearts alone are ours to guard. At least, begrudge not to the sore dis traught The reverent silence of our pitying thought. Liife, too, is sacred; and he best for gives Who says, "Ho errs, but," tenderly "he lives." Mary Mapes Dodge. women who edit and write for the ag ricultural press are farm women, do ing, or having done themselves, all kinds of farm work, and showing by their hopeful, helpful, cheerful ways or meeting and overcoming difficulties, that they are anything but whining, complaining women. This is to you like any other day. Rose-dawn, white moon, and even ing lit with stars, And in high heaven, a glimpse of - x golden bars Set tlown.for those who shall go home that way. To me, this Is a day so set apart By memory and by sorrow that I sit With eyes tear-brimm-ed at the mere uiougnt ot it And all' the loneliness it brought my heart! Margaret E. Sangster. Our Social Chat In a recent number of an agricul tural journal, the statement was made by the editor of its woman's page, through an alleged interview with a farm woman (of twenty-five years ex perience as such), that the farm wife is not fit to conduct the pages which are set apart for the discussion of her interests; that life on a farm makes a woman narrow-minded and envious of her village sister, and, while she whines about the hardships she has to undergo she really has a delight- bnM6??7111?0' and onIy whines frm' habit; that she gathers from this leis ure only envy, jealousy and grudging, ness toward her village sister. She quotes, also that farm life unfits a woman for mental work, or for impart tag to others the knowledge which her experience as such has brought The article shows so plainly the writer's erroneous conception of what the farm and the farm wife really are, that it merely emphasises the fact that such departments really do need the services of women who "know how because they have done it," and who' can speak the helpful word, from act ua experience, to those w ho, Tavtag to th ? fr S1Vhlg rob1 so to the "woman editor" for hoi n and comfort and sympathy. Most of ttie m0LDANDWBLI'TK1RD REMEDY wind oollo nnaiathe bwfSoSLdr toll,,,0J,r tfwonty.flYocentsa bottl" tomtar for diarrhoea. ' Farm wives have little cause to envy their village sisters. They live an immeasurably higher life among the beauties and riches of nature than can be found elsewhere. True, they may not spend their few leisure hours running from house to house, retail ing gossip of a more or less harmful nature, or by brooding over the fact that somebody else has a few more be longings than they have; but, as to intelligence, and a sound common sense way of showing it, the farm woman will compare favorably with the women of other classes, and, in many instances, is the superior of the seemingly more favored one. We hear a great deal about the men whom the world delights to honor and who have fought "their way up through difficulties under which the city and village boy have fallen, as having sprung from the farm. The farm wives are the mothers of such men, and it is conceded that the son is, in mo3t instances, like the mother who bore. him, and who has trained him up to a grand, masterful man hood. God bless the toiling, cheerful, though too often overburdened farm wives. They have little cause to envy the less-favored village sister. "By their fruits ye shall know them." On a Salary of $10 a Week The Boston Woman's Journal says; "Dinlomnpt rorMfvIncr flmf 4-v.. ients are qualified to 'keep house for husbands receiving $10 per -week were given recently to several young wom en at Chicago Commons. The grad uates, ail of whom are to be married soon, were members of a class In economical housekeeping and cooking. The graduates offered theses in the way of exhibits of breakfasts, lunch eons and dinners that were attractive had cost little, and were palatable! Each dish bore a card indicating its cost. A breakfast was shown that was prepared at an expense of 19 cents and would suffice for four persons! Dinners ranged somewhat more ex pensive, one consisting of meat, two vegetables, ,a salad and a pudding for four, being rated at 40 cents. Preserving Eggs Recardlner the "wnfQP.(rioBc.n .,n. of preserving eggs, a writer in Farm and Fireside says: "In my first trials of the new water-glass method of pre serving eggs, the eggs kept for many months so perfectly preserved that they could be served soft-boiled (a most critical test), and could not be distinguished in flavor from a new-laid fffi ,St ,wInter our eggs preserved in liquid glass in the same manner were good enough for all purposes of baking and cooking, but we could not use them (nr f lonof i,. i l ., l - . . -vwuu mu lust I1UU of them) for the table, especially soft boiled, as they had a decidedly 'off' taste. This shows that we do not yet know all about this method, and we will have to continue experimenting for awhile. It seems safe to say, how ever, that the method is valuable. Buy a pint of liquid glass (water glass, silicate of soda), dilute it with nine pints of boiled and cooled water and put it into an earthen crock that can be kept covered. Into this liquid drop the eggs as freshly laid and gath ered from day to day; keep in a cel lar or a cool, dark room." v Handling the Baby Children, like other young animals, should be handled as little as possible in hot weather. Even in the arm3 of the mother, there is an- irritating dis comfort from the added warmth, and wnen allowed to sleep in such con tact, the effect is positively injurious. Dress the little body according to the day's temperature, and spread a shawl or quilt on the ground or floor, screen it from flies and other teasing insects, and let it roll, toss and tumble to suit its little limbs. If it goe,s to sleep, let its rest be undis turbed; it will awaken refreshed, rosy and good-natured, ready for ita dinner and another romp. A child of any age should better sleep by itself, with in reach of the mother's hand. Both mother and child will sleep better for thiB separation during the night. Vegetable Foods Nuts are the vegetable analogues of meat, egga and milk. They present the choicest and most concentrated nutriment of all food substances; they also contain a large proportion of al bumin and fats, most nuts containing fifty per cent or more of an" absolute ly pure and easily-digested fat and half as must proteids or albumin. A pound. of nuts contains nearly as much proteid as a nound and n. lmif nf Uanf. steak. Albumin and fat are the two most essential food substances the most necessary elements for building fat and blood. Nuts supply these ele ments in more abundant quantity than do meats, and in a more nourish ing form. Nuts possess all the quali ties necessary to satisfy the normal palate, but unfortunately, in a. raw state they are hard to digest. They may be easily prepared in such a man ner as to render them easily digest ible bringing out the flavors and wholesome properties they contain. Nuts can be. eaten and digested by people who have sound digestion and good teeth, but they should be emul sified by thorough mastication. Many of the nut oils and butters are made from unwholesome mater ials, the, rancidity of which is de stroyed by chemicals. One should be careful to get that put up by a reliable uuuimujr. jujx. blights and drouths; wo deal wi'h trees and plants, with fruits and flow ers and vegetable life generally with animals and soils; with rocks and water courses. What we want taught to our children is not merely the geography of India, or even Indiana but we want them to acquire a knowl'. edge of things under their feet and en every hand of them. They should be taught a knowledge of the soils and chemistry; a knowledge of waters and minerals; entomology, botany zo ology, and the like are all farm studies and if our young folks can have a start in these they can learn much for thenr selves, and can get a living off the land, and will also be so much at home on the soil that you can not in duce them to leave it. Our country schools Bhould .stand in gardens, and time each day should be given to study of other things than books. They should be given tracttanl lerannR in plant life, and instructed as to help, ful or injurious insects, and as to chemical action in the soil. The trol ley car, the telephone, and the rural delivery are all very well, and we should lack none of them; but they, alone, with no instruction tending to make our children know and love the soil on which they are reared will bo but so many calls to them to leave the farm and get to the fountain head from which these wonders flow. The chil dren must be taught to know the farm, in order to love" it." Bleaching Fluid Many times, at "special sales," or at reduced prices, one may obtain for a little money a really good piece of goods the only fault 'of which is that it is shop-worn, faded in streaks, or of an unsaleable color, and it will pay to get it, bleach, color -to suit, or wear it white. A good bleach for cotton or linen goods is made as follows: Take one can of potash and dissolve in two gallons of water; add five cents worth of salts of 'tartar, two table spoonfuls of refined borax and one pint of ammonia. Put into jugs or bottles and keep corked. Use a coffee-cupful of the fluid to a boiler two thirds full of water, and boil the goods until white. Rinse well to free from the dye and bleaching fluid. Faded cottons may be ripped apart, washed and bleached and if not wanted white, may be dyed' the desired color with some one or more of the ten-cent pack age dyes. For the thrifty, economical housewife, the bleach and dye will save many dollars by utilizing faded materials, or those of undesirable color. Nuts and Celery Salads. One cup ful of English walnut meats; put in a pan add one slice of onion, a small blade of mace, one-half bay leaf; pour over this one large cupful of boiling water and boil about ten minutes or until the walnut meats will blanch easily; drain and dry in a towel and cut meats into small pieces; mix this with finely chopped celery and mayon naise dressing. Serve on lettuce leaves. Mrs. C. "What Shall We Teach?" A speaker at a Farmers' Institute said recently: "American education was never in tended for the agriculturist, it grew out of European education and took its shape from old, medevial notions. It put geography, grammar and arith metic to the front, just as a little high er up It placed Latin, Greek and rheto ric. The agriculturist has to deal with something the.se studies do not touch, we are consumed with bugs and Cooling the House Some of the hottest weather of the year is yet to come; usually Septem ber is a very warm month in many parts of the country. If one has a hydrant and a hose, the temperature may oe greatly reduced by a thorough wetting of the walls of the house, the grounds, and the porch floors; the floors will soon dry off. All windows and doors should be left open, where it is safe to do so, through the night. The house should be opened up very early in the morning, and "left open until seven or eight o'clock, when, if there are shutters, they should be "bowed" to exclude the light; if no shutters, the blinds should be drawn down on the sunny side of the house. "Dark and cool, Is Nature's rule." Wherever one lives, there must be cleanliness, if one would have com fort; a dirty, disorderly house always looks hot and unwholesome, and in such quarters, flies abound, screens or no screens. A bare floor, or one hav- BETTER THAN SPANKING Spanking does not euro children of bod wottlnjr. If it did thoro would bo fow children that would do It. Tli or o is a constitutional cause for this. Airs. M.Summers, Box 118, Notro Dam o, Ind., will send her homo treatment to any mother. Sho asks no monoy. Wrlto her today if your children trouble you in this way. Don't blame the child The chancoo aro It can'tholplt " 71 f