44 The Bulletin. 



Conditions are different in every home, therefore the woman herself must 

 study these conditions and solve her own problems the best she can. Let 

 her have ever before her the one thought — save steps. Children are great 

 step-savers for mother; the exercise and training is good for them. Not hard 

 work for the little ones, but they enjoy seeing "who can pick up mamma's 

 thread first," or "who can bring a spoon from the dining-room the quickest." 

 A large waiter is also a great help, almost an entire meal can be carried to 

 the table at one trip, or all of the dishes brought in from the dining-room 

 when ordinarily one goes back and forth a number of times. Take the 

 waiter to the pantry and while resting a minute on the meat box make a 

 calculation of all the things needed in preparing the meal and, piling them 

 on the waiter, carry them all to the kitchen at one time. Now rest again, 

 this time in the kitchen rocking chair, and calculate how many steps you 

 have saved. A small table can be placed close to the kitchen stove on the 

 left-hand side and on it kept a jar of lard, some sugar, salt, pepper, a knife, 

 fork, spoon, stove-lifter, etc.; this keeps one from going back and forth 

 across the room to the kitchen table. Again, a wheelbarrow may be used to 

 advantage in hauling stove-wood, one trip bringing enough to last a whole 

 day. Or taken to the garden for vegetables, often this saves a half-dozen 

 journeys. By all means, have the garden near the back of the house. I 

 know I have, in days gone by, walked hundreds of miles to a garden off from 

 the house out of reach of the chickens. 



There are other ways, at a small expense, the housewife may save herself 

 an untold amount of labor. A kitchen sink at a cost of from three to five 

 dollars will be worth its weight in gold. A fireless cooker, an oil stove, 

 linoleum on the kitchen fioor, and where it can be done, a convenient water 

 supply could be had in most of our homes if the housewife started in with 

 the determination to have them. 



As a parting word let me say, save your feet. Every woman will say her 

 feet are more tired than anywhere else when night comes. Then she should 

 sit down and work whenever it is possible; and in the winter, if the kitchen 

 stove is the only chance to warm them, put a warm brick under each foot as 

 she peals the potatoes, wipes the dishes, or picks the chicken. 



Factors That Will Enter Largely Into the Betterment of North Carolina 



Agriculture. 



A. L. FRENCH. 



Every thinking citizen of North Carolina realizes the importance of our 

 premier industry — agriculture. From the west line of Cherokee County to 

 where the waters of Old Ocean beat upon the thin strip of land at the lower 

 end of Currituck, that divide them from those of Albemarle Sound, men and 

 women are found busily engaged in winning a living, and something for a 

 rainy day, from the soil. 



These men and women are our leading citizens; for they are engaged in 

 the most important industry of ours, or any other State. And the young 

 men and women that are, in the next generation, to take up and carry on 

 the work of their fathers and mothers on the land are the most important 

 factors that will enter into the betterment of the State's agriculture. 



How important then that the training of these young lives be along lines 

 that will enable them to dignify the work of their fathers and improve upon 

 it to the degree that the increase of the world's population demands. 



This training the writer believes should be the work first of the fathers 

 and mothers on the farm. They should be trained from their infancy in the 

 need for a better care of the soil and its more economical handling. Then 

 as they arrive at school age the State should, while training them to develop 

 their minds, strive to keep ever before them the principles that their parents 

 have planted and tended before they were given into the State's keeping. 



