40 The Bulletin. 



Let every household into which Good Housekeeping goes have all of these 

 poisons segregated and properly marked. Have the list of poisons and their 

 simple antidotes pasted in plain view, and know where an oxygen inhaler and 

 pulmotor can be secured promptly in case of emergency. By these wise pre- 

 cautions many lives may be saved. 



The Country Home. 



MISS CARRIE HUDGINS. 



The word home carries with it music and melody if it is a home in the 

 finer sense. Houses on every hand are waiting to be made into homes, and 

 it is the woman in the home who makes it what it is; so let us be up and 

 doing. 



A casual glance at the home and refinement and cleanliness should be our 

 first and lasting impression. No work requires more system and order than 

 the home, to accomplish the desired end; many steps are wasted because no 

 specific plans are made. Eliminate from the home the useless bric-a-brac of 

 years ago. They are no good and mean lots of work if they are kept clean, 

 for they are great dust-catchers. 



Floors are one of the greatest problems of housekeeping and rightly so, if 

 there is a large family to look after and scouring to be done once or twice a 

 week. Stained floors with a top dressing of floor oil seems to be the cheapest 

 and most satisfactory floor dressing. A floor oiled once or twice a year will 

 protect the stain and keep down the dust. 



How the whole family dread spring cleaning. Let's try to do this work in 

 a more systematic way; not have the whole house torn up for a week, and 

 everything out of its place. A better plan is to clean one room at the time, 

 and put it in order before attempting another. Carpets should be taken up, 

 well cleaned and aired before replacing. 



In buying furniture care should be taken, for the appearance of the room 

 and the amount of labor required to keep it in order depend much on the 

 selection. Plain furniture is much prettier and more easily kept than the 

 many scrolled designs. The parlor in many homes is the most uncomfort- 

 able room in it; especially so if it is one of the closed up kind, where fresh 

 air and sunshine are rarely permitted. Don't be afraid of sunshine and air 

 even if they do fade the carpet and wall paper. It is one of God's greatest 

 blessings to us; so let it in. 



Look out for an air of comfort for the living room; here is where the 

 family come together for rest and recreation, and if it is not found here it 

 will be sought at other places. The children obtain their lasting impressions 

 of the home and begin to lay plans for another home perhaps in the far 

 future. 



The yard requires taste and skill as much so as the inner furnishings of 

 the house. Every yard can't have a beautiful lawn laid off symmetrically 

 with the shrubbery clumped here and there; however, every one can be clean 

 with no rubbish around; flowers may adorn it with little or no expense. 



In the country home is found the opportunity for children to be trained in 

 every line of home-making. After all, the most attractive part of the home 

 is the family who live in it. 



The children, as Cornelius once said, are the most precious jewels, and in 

 them lie the possibilities of mankind. Not for one moment can we afford to 

 neglect this training for anything else. Just how old the child should be 

 when this training should begin depends on the child. Few of us begin early 

 enough. When the little one climbs up in the chair and wants to help wash 

 dishes, or insists on sweeping the floor, often we are tempted to say, "Run 

 along, you will break the dishes, or make more trash than you clean up." 

 Right there the mistake is made, for if we continue to push them off they 

 will cease to come and offer a helping hand, but will be content to go along 

 and let mother do the work. 



How proud mothers are of their domestic girls, and fathers of their sons 



