For the Women 
Folks 
Dear Friends: 
The past year has indeed been 
a strenuous one for us women folks. 
I have spent all the time I possi- 
bly could working in the Red Cross 
rooms besides knitting at home for 
my own boy and the other soldier 
boys "over there," and writing to 
them in order to help keep them 
cheered up and in fighting trim. 
But in spite of this additional work, 
I have found opportunity to spend 
an hour or so each day in my gar- 
den which gave me plenty of out- 
door exercise and made my other 
work much less strenuous. Fortunately, I did not have to put 
up as many strawberries this past year as usual because I had al- 
most enough berries left over from last year to supply our family 
another season. This is one of the splendid features of strawber- 
ries. When properly put up, they will keep almost indefinitely. 
I am showing on the opposite page, my own strawberry garden, also 
some of my strawberry dainties. Don't they look tempting? In all my experi- 
ence in housekeeping, I never have found anything that quite takes the place of 
strawberries. We serve them in some way practically every day throughout 
the year. Before the everbearers came, the season for fresh strawberries was 
altogether too short, but we now have fresh strawberries from June to Novem- 
ber with the exception of a short period in July. 
I have my own strawberry garden because it gives me strawberries just when 
I want them. For shortcake or strawberries and cream, I prefer the berries extra- 
ripe, but for preserves and canning, they are better if picked before they become 
over-ripe. 
My strawberry garden not only gives me better berries than I can buy, but 
it also saves me at least $150.00 a year, and during these times when the cost of 
living is so extremely high, this is a big saving. 
The strawberry not only is the most delicious and most profitable of all 
fruits, but leading dietitians say it is the most healthful because it contains the 
very elements which are necessary for blood building. 
I also raise my own chickens and vegetables, and have a most beautiful 
flower garden, and I become more enthusiastic over the work each year because 
of the recreation, also the big saving on the grocery bill it affords; but best of all, 
because I know that everything we have on our table is strictly fresh. 
Strawberries, vegetables and flowers add cheer to the home, delight the 
children, and keep the older members of the family young. 
We should produce all the vegetables and fruit we possibly can so as to save 
the wheat and meat for our soldier boys. In this way we women folks can be- 
come a most important help to our nation. 
In all sincerity, I urge you to try growing your own strawberries just one year 
and compare the quality of the berries you pick fresh from your own vines with 
those you buy at the stores. This difference, together with the big saving in dollars, 
will make you just as enthusiastic over your strawberry garden as I am over mine. 
Hoping that every woman who reads this may have the same success with 
her garden that I have had with mine, 
and thereby help in bringing our boys 
back to us, safe and victorious, I am, -t,^ (? v^^"— — 
Sincerely yours, //t/)ya^, /sZ^-^4--2^^- 
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