What the Past Has Taught Us 
.EAR FRIENDS: 
Since my last visit with you, 
conditions for which we all so long 
had prayed and yearned, have been real- 
ized. The world has been made a safer 
and better place in which to live. Most 
of our boys have returned, and while I rejoice 
over the safe return of our own soldier son, 
yet I mourn deeply for you whose loved 
ones — to many your all — never are to re- 
turn. The chord of human sympathy re- 
sponds to you in its highest degree, and your 
only comfort can be that their sacrifice was 
not in vain. In true reverence to them, it now 
becomes our sacred duty to encourage and 
maintain only those conditions which eventu- 
ally will insure lasting world-wide peace, 
happiness and prosperity. If we are to 
accomplish this, however, we must not 
dwell too much in the past. The future is 
to be reckoned with, and we should cheer- 
fully and earnestly meet the obstacles of 
each succeeding day with a determination to be of the highest service to humanity. 
The past has taught us many valuable lessons. We have learned self-sacrifice, 
the necessity of saving, the value of true economy, and we have experienced as 
never before, that real happiness which comes through serving others. We also 
have realized the importance of highly productive fields and gardens. A hungry 
world must be fed else true peace and happiness cannot long be maintained. 
It therefore becomes the duty of every woman, regardless of circumstances, 
to increase the productiveness of her back yard or garden, producing not only 
sufficient for her own family's requirements, but a surplus to help in supplying the 
world's urgent demand for more food. 
My own little garden produced more fruit and vegetables last year than ever 
before and it is my determination to make it still more productive, if possible, this 
year. Besides fully supplying our own family and my two married daughters with 
strawberries and small fruits, my cash receipts from the surplus amounted to more 
than $100 last year, and the amount of fruit we used in our own families was con- 
siderabls, because we are all very fond of strawberries and serve them in some 
manner practically every meal. 
I now find it much easier to put up strawberries for winter than it was a few 
years ago because the everbearers enable for me to do my canning and preserving 
during the cool weather of September and October. This is a decided advantage. 
My Strawberry Dainties shown on Page 26 are only a few of the many delicious 
and appetizing ways in which strawberries may ba prepared. In order that you 
may enjoy these and many others, I have given recipes for thirty strawberry dain- 
ties in "The Key to Strawberry Profits," as described on Page 6. 
In addition to the cash profit and many other advantages my garden affords, 
I find healthful recreation and pleasure in the work which cannot be measured in 
dollars and cents, and if you will accept my advice and plant one of these profitable 
gardens this spring, I am sure that when it begins fruiting, like many others, you 
will say I have been of real service to you. 
I receive numerous letters of appreciation right along and I can't tell you how 
I enjoy reading them and how happy it makes me to feel that I have been the 
means of getting so many women interested in strawberry growing, and to know of 
their wonderful success in this healthful, delightful and profitable work. 
If we are to profit by what the past has 
taught us, we must take advantage of every ''T /v' . - ^ 
opportunityinprovidingfor the future. Let //Pi/iL^ c-. / .Z-C^a^^C&y 
us then, as wives and mothers, be loyal and / 
f-\ithful to our task. Sincerely yours, 
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