HOME AXD FLOWEES 



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Get out iu the sunshine, dearest : 



There is time for that, be sure — 

 If you'll only let the flowers 



And the birds your steps allure. 

 Go out in the sunshine, dearest — 



And bring it back with you : 

 Don't sit in the gloom, when His lilies bloom. 



And His bending skies are blue. 



—ILargaret E. Sangster. 



Note.— If the readers of Home and Flow- 

 ers had a margin of an hour a day how would 

 they spend it ? It would please us to have them 

 send their answers to this question to ^:he de- 

 partment of The Wen-Ordered Household in 

 care of Home axd Flowers. 



LETTERS FROM OUR READERS 



It is a different problem irJien a woman does 

 all the irorTc. 



"I find that many of the women who are most 

 actively interested along these lines are the 

 women of means — women who keep two cr 

 more maids, and who have no idea of what work 

 really means, and who undoubtedly have not 

 taken the trouble to find out. Their talk is to 

 the woman who has a sink with hot and cold 

 water, gas range, electricity, the washing sent 

 out, the butcher and grocer at the door, church 

 and school a few blocks away, a library near, 

 companions, and society. The woman who gets 

 up at four o'clock in the morning, helps with 

 the milking, gets breakfast, gets the children 

 and their lunches ready for school — perhaps two 

 miles away — pumps and carries her wash-water, 

 perhaps digs the potatoes for dinner, and does 

 thousands of other things, which two-thirds of 

 the farmers' wives are compelled to do, who has 

 comparatively no society other than the few she 

 meets at her neighbor's funeral, the neighbor 

 who comes in to help at threshing time, or the 

 other fortunates who are allowed to go to town 

 on the stormy days when it is too disagreeable 

 for horses or men to work, are overlooked." 



An appreciation of the beautiful relieves 

 monotony. 



'T think farmers and farmers' wives do not 

 often enough allow themselves any intellectual 

 life or pleasure. The study of these lessons 

 has been a great stimulus to us — not only a 

 help in a practical way, but a change from man- 

 ual drudgery to thinking, which alone is a relief 

 and relaxation. Then farmers and their wives 

 do not see the beauty around them of hill and 

 valley, sunrise and sunset. When I said to a 

 neighbor's wife one day last summer that the 

 great hill on our farm, in view from the door, 

 was a constant pleasure to me in its ever chang- 



i Concluded on page io.) 



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