48 The Bulletin. 



The cooking of nutritions foods for our tired husbands, sons and helpful 

 daughters is an accomplishment equal in value to the knowledge of the fine- 

 arts. Nourishing diet fed to our boys and girls helps to mould character for 

 greater things. 



The making of beautiful preserves, jellies, palatable jam, and pungent 

 pickles, and the canning of vegetables, help to add to the spending money 

 account. Fossibly our town and city friends would buy from us rather than 

 the foreign canners. 



The kitchen apron made of "white homespun" is a badge of honor to the 

 poorest country woman, to the woman of the city, who rules in the highest 

 educational meetings or leads in the most fashionable circles. 



The person who dislikes the sign of toil is weak morally and intellectually. 

 The humblest calling affords room for expansion. 



Every woman should try to excel in something. Be authority on some sub- 

 ject, try to reach the topmost round of the ladder. Every woman has a 

 favorite recipe, and when husband or children, possibly guest, compliment 

 the dish, a tender chord is touched. 



In this day of improved roads and netted telephone systems, we can add 

 weekly to our bank accounts. It is just as necessary to know how to sell 

 our produce as it is to make it. The most essential feature is special cus- 

 tomers, the next the manner in which we deliver our products. Attractive,, 

 clean, neat and fresh packages necessarily bring a better price than carelessly 

 handled packages. 



We must cater to the tastes of our customers, not put too much salt in the 

 butter, nor too much pepper in the. sausage, and the many little peculiar 

 tastes we learn by dealing with people for years. 



When we think of the fruits of the orchard, the vegetables of the garden, 

 with the pure milk and butter from the dairy, the fresh eggs, tender broilers, 

 juicy roasters from the poultry yard, we cannot be cut off from anything we 

 wish to have. 



So many of the people of my county do not own their homes. As the 

 country woman sees her bank account grow, her husband must necessarily 

 be accumulating too; then the desire for a few acres of land is so strong that 

 soon a real home of their own is % bought, then the insatiable desire to own the 

 adjoining acre is too strong to resist ; a good investment for a woman is a 

 good horse and comfortable buggy. To the woman who owns her acres and 

 lives in her colonial residence, the bank account is just as necessary as to the 

 woman of the few acres and the three-roomed house. 



A herd of fawn-colored Jerseys grazing on the pasture makes the planta- 

 tion more attractive, the sheep adding delicious lamb to the spring menu, the 

 goats for the little ones to drive, all increase the spending money of the 

 planter's wife. The prize-winning chickens, the quacking ducks, the noisy 

 guineas, warning the hostess of the approaching guest; the downy geese, 

 which are the faithful guardians of the night; the fattening turkeys gobbling 

 for Thanksgiving, the varicolored pea fowls, screaming in the highest trees, 

 all lend an aristocratic air to the model home, and by the prizes won, the 

 feathers produced and the pounds of delicious meats produced may all be 

 made to add to our individual bank account. 



My personal experience with spending money comes from the care of two 

 good cows. I think I can safely say a woman who is near enough to town to 

 sell her milk and butter can realize one hundred dollars clear profit a year 

 from each cow. 



What occupation is more health-giving than to go out with your boys early 

 in the morning and speak a few cheerful words with them as they bring the 

 milk that will be turned into dollars? 



There is so much satisfaction in being called over the 'phone and asked for 

 butter by your customer, whom you have held for. years. 



