November  18,  1016, 
“  Yessir !  Mis’  Ilolcolmb,  we  eert'nly 
had  a  job  to  lick  them  New  York  milk 
peddlers — but  we  done  it ! 
on  you'll  find  me  in  the  thick  of  the 
fight — minus  coat  and  vest,  and  with  my 
shirt  sleeves  rolled  up  above  my  elbows 
— up  to  the  moment  this  thing  is  settled, 
and  settled  right. 
“  'Rut  first  off,’  he  sez,  ‘we’ll  attend  to 
the  thing  nearest  at  hand.  I’m  going  to 
‘“llit  the  nail  on  the  head  the  first  appoint  a  committee  from  among  the 
clip!’  sez  paw.  'This  is  the  preacher  mcu  of  °,lr  church  to  set  this  family  on 
down  to  our  church.  Mr.  Gardner,  shake  ^s  financial  feet.  Not  to  take  the  whole 
hands  with  Mr.  Wieniuwski.  Whilst  the  burden  from  them,  yon  understand,  but 
preacher  is  gettin’  acquainted  with  your  ^0  put  them  where  they  can  help  thern- 
fa Daily,  Mr.  Wieniawski,  I  want  to  talk  Selves. 
with  you  a  little  on  this  milk  question.  **  ‘Next,  I'm  going  to  persuade  Mrs. 
You  prob’l.v  know  the  way  into  the  house  Gardner  to  get  the  ladies  to  appoint  a 
better’n  I  do,  so  lead  on,  MaoDuff.’  committee — preferably  with  Mrs.  Ezra 
“The  house  wa’nt  quite  as  bad  inside  Earlow  as  chairman  for  the  purpose  of 
as  it  was  out — when  we  told  maw  she  relieving  Mrs.  Wieniawski  and  her  chil- 
said  she’d  a  knowed  that  'thout  bein’  ^l'eu  *n  present  necessity.  There 
told — seoin’  as  they  was  a  woman  in  it —  ***  t°  he  at  least  one  family  in  this 
and  they  was  in  a  bad  way.  Maw’ll  tell  section  with  genuine  cause  for  Thanlcs- 
you  all  about  it.  As  soon  as  we  got  the  giving,  this  year, 
preacher  interduced  we  went  back  to  the  Ihen  well  branch  out  a  little  and  ’ 
barn  with  Pete.  ‘“That’s  enough  for  tonight,  Elder,’ 
“Say !  Mis’  Ilolcolmb,  what  you  s' pose  maw.  As  a  chairman  in  prospective, 
lie  was  a  doin’?  Sure  as  you  live,  he  ^  now  declare  this  meeting  adjourned, 
was  a  scaldin’  oat  chaff  in  a  barrel  and  subject  to  call.  I  suspect  that,  k  your 
mixin’  meal  with  it  to  feed  to  his  cows,  'y * a^  ^10  other  end  of  that  telephone 
Paw  sez  its  no  wonder  them  fellers  ^ine-  Well  help  all  we  can;  and  in  the 
squeeze  out  a  dime  where  we  don’t  git  meantime,  the  watchword  will  be:  ‘The 
a  nickel.  tbilk  of  human  kindness — let’s  save  a 
“Well,  paw  pumped  him  dry.  ’S  near's  l^tle  of  it  for  home  use.’” 
I  can  recollect,  they  bought  that  farm  - - 
for  .$2,000,  paid  half  down  and  give  a 
mortgage  for  the  other  half.  That  didn’t  ^  Farmer’s  Wife  on  the  “  Milk  Strike” 
Some  Fun  and  a  Lot  of  Cream 
Bust  Days  at  Home. — There  may 
have  boon  busy  days  for  Commissioner 
j  !  |l  _ .  , .  . | —  Dillon  and  the  League  leaders  lately  but 
,■  ,  j  -  there  have  been  busy  days  also  for  the 
IIS/ ' » '  JSk  yli  fHI  |  j-.V'Vr  farmer’s  wife,  on  tlic  other  end  of  the 
'jj  1  milk  strike.  From  every  farm  Inside  the 
T  y  y  ^  n  V  strike  area  there  has  been  a  grand  rush 
^  1.^  j  j  to  the  village  to  buy  milkpans  and  tbe 
j  r'y&ty,  I  poor  old  churns  still  in  existence  since 
y  if  I.  j\  y  jf  V~~  farmers  “went  out”  of  butter  making 
/  /  V  M  f  ’  hove  been  putting  in  more  hours  of  labor 
/  U  '  ffyjmft  /  1  #  a  ^UU1  would  he  approved  by  Presl- 
i  \\  ILL [  *  I  «  dent  Wilson.  The  woman  who  had  a 
j  j  \\  /M churn  in  such  a  state  of  repair  that  it 
|  /  "  could  be  used  was  very  popular  with  her 
j  i  'Ll  nt  friends,  and  it  has  been  passed  from  one 
// _  y  '  *  ’  to  another  as  fast  as  circumstances  would 
,  admit.  In  our  neighborhood,  one  fnrm- 
nyEHr  er’s  wife  had  a  churn  minus  a  dusher, 
MUgB  but  a  neighbor  unearthed  a  dasher  from 
Ww  the  attic,  and  they  joined  forces. 
Emergency  Milk-setting. — Also  the 
modern  dairy  farm  has  no  place  to  “set” 
"!>  |  pans  of  milk,  even  after  the  paus  are  se- 
-  —  ■■■  ■  1  cured,  which  was  not  always  easily  done, 
thick  of  the  fight  ”  as  the  supply  iu  most  localities  was  not 
equal  to  the  demand.  All  the  former 
leave  ’em  nothin’  to  buy  stock  and  tools  conveniences  of  milk  rooms,  milk  racks 
with;  so  they  went  in  debt  for  ’em.  or  shelves,  had  been  done  a  why  with 
They’d  bin  workin’  fum  12  to  18  hours  y°ars  a£°-  the  women  having  to  contrive 
a  day — Summer  and  Winter,  Sundays  some  uoiv  arrangements  to  meet  this  sud- 
iind  holidays— for  three  years,  and  they  dc‘n  change  in  the  situation.  They  found 
still  owed  $800  on  the  place.  He  was  Plunks,  shelves  and  old  boards,  and  ar- 
nvful  discouraged.  lie  said  if  he  could  ranged  them  in  divers  ways  on  boxes 
jn’ly  raise  enough  to  take  ’em  to  a  city  ai|d  sawhorses  and  chairs  in  any  place 
tier’d  skip  out  and  let  the  hide  go  with  fl'°°  from  dust  and  germs.  Even  the  par- 
the  taller— them  ain’t  his  exact  words,  lor  and  the  spare  bedrooms  were  desc¬ 
ent  that’s  what  he  meant.  Serin’  as  the  crated  by  the  rows  of  milkpans.  The 
;ows  wa’nt  the  ou’y  things  that  lived  rural  telephone  lines,  never  idle  long  at 
nostly  on  chaff,  I  don’t  blame  him  any.  a  tia,e<  liare  boon  busier  than  ever,  for 
“The  preacher  never  laughed  once  all  not  every  farmer’s  wife  of  today  knew 
:he  way  home,  and  paw  never  cracked  ll0W  to  make  butter  and  those  who  did 
i  joke.  Finely  Sheldon  and  Edith  no-  had  t0  £>ve  expert  advice  early  and  often, 
iced  it — they'd  went  on  and  seen  about  ^’irE  Funny  Siiie.  But  notwith stand- 
die  young  stock— and  Edie  ast  ’em  inS  the  extra  work  and  the  financial  wor- 
vhat  they’d  had  for  dinner— she  was  ry  the  milk  strike  has  made  a  lot  of  fun 
mro  they  had  the  dispepsy.  for  farm  folk.  For  instance,  the  news- 
“Muw*  telephoned  Mrs.  Gardner  she  paper  accounts  of  masked  men  pouring 
vas  gi'iu’  to  keep  him  for  supper.  After  ®ut  milk  from  held-up  wagons  and  fear- 
mikin’  and  chores  and  supper,  we  all  somo  tal(fS  of  milk  and  blood  mingling 
vent  into  the  parlor,  and  the  preacher  together  on  hitherto  peaceful  country 
n i bosomed  hisself.  lie  didn’t  zactly  highways,  were  much  enjoyed  by  those 
iwear,  Mis’  Ilolcolmb,  lmt  he  come  aw-  who  knew  the  absurdity  of  the  stories  and 
ill  close  to  it  sometimes;  ami  1  wish  theil*  probable  origin. 
■ou  could  a  heard  it  all  the  way  he  The  Luxury  of  Cream.  The  idea  of 
0]d  it xnaw’ll  tell  you.  making  up  a  few  crocks  of  butter  was 
“  ‘Sister  Barlow,’  be  sez,  when  he  got  a  leasing  one  to  most  of  the  women  too, 
li rough,  ‘your  husbaud  and  Henry  are  f°1’  the  amount  of  butter,  at  35  to  40 
iglit,  and  you  and  I— especially  I—  cents  a  pound,  that  an  ordinary  family 
,ave  been  sill  wrong.  We  have  been  eals  is  au  itcm  calculated  to  cause  gray 
nilking  the  country  for  the  city  too  long,  hairs  young.  Or  it  may  have  been  in 
t  is  now  high  time  to  skim  off  a  little  many  cases  a  pleasing  idea  to  stop  for  a 
ream  for  our  own  babies.  It  is  also  time  raising  milk  at  a  loss  to  sell  and 
ime  to  put  an  end  to  such  human  slavery  eating  oleomargarine  at  home.  And  bow 
s  I  have  uncovered  today.  From  now  (Continued  on  page  1455) 
The  Milk  of  Human  Kindness 
A  Story  of  the  “Milk  Strike” 
By  Harry  Ayres 
Paw  sez  we 
aiu’t  through  yet,  though,  by  a  long  shot. 
He  sez  they  aiu’t  goin’  to  lay  down  and 
stick  up  all  four  feet  jist  a  cause  we  __ 
won  the  first  round — we  got  to  keep 
org’nized  and  stay  awake,  or  they’ll  git  gez 
back  at  us,  yet.  •  a  j, 
“Yessum,  we’re  glad  it's  over,  too —  cooj; 
only  it  ain’t.  Paw  told  the  preacher — he  i  ha 
sez,  ‘Well,  Elder,  you  can  resorcin  your  fraD] 
job  o’  shepherdin’  the  sheep  and  I  cau  calls 
pitch  iu  and  do  my  Fall  plowin’,  and  wc  ting 
can  all  come  up  to  the  house  of  the  Lord  It’s 
with  grateful  hearts,  this  Thanksgivin’ ;  — tin 
but  all  the  same,  it  want  hurt  us  none  gotoi 
to  keep  our  powder  dry.’  bean 
“Ohw  he  took  it  all  right.  He  sez  “  ‘ 
there’s  a  mistake  somewberCs — Paw’s  tivc 
first  name  orter  bin  Bob  and  his  second  itive 
Burdette.  Anyway,  ’twus  Paw  brung  cotto 
him  round  to  our  way  o’  thinkin’.  too  p 
“No’m.  lie  was  on  the  other  side  ’til  to  m 
Paw  took  him  up  to  see  them  Polacks  coinf 
up  on  Vinegar  Hill.  aroui 
“Well,  it  was  this  way :  after  he  other 
preached  that  sermon  on  ‘But  I  say  unto  “A 
you,  that  ye  resist  not  evil,’  and  got  Maw  luck  ; 
and  you  and  all  the  rest  o’  the  wimmen  dimu 
eryin’  over  them  poor  babies  and  sick  perta 
folks  down  to  the  city,  Paw  didn’t  know  squ;u 
what  to  do.  He  was  in  this  fight  clear  I  fr 
up  to  his  ears,  ’n  he  alleys  pulls  better  wa'n' 
when  him  ’n  Maw’s  hitched  together,  from 
Anyway,  I  bet  he  thinks  as  much  o’  ba¬ 
bies  as  she  does — yon  orter  see  him  carry 
on  about  Henry  and  Em’Iy’s  baby. 
You’d  think  it  was  the  on’y  one  they 
ever  was !  So  he  kept  right  on  tellin’ 
evor'body  to  s't  tight  and  stick  to  the 
League  .and  kep’  outer  Maw’s  way  as 
much  as  he  could. 
“Finely,  one  time  when  him  and  Hen¬ 
ry  was  talkin’  it  over  durin’  milkin’,  j 
Henry  sez  he  bet  they’s  as  much  need  o’  / 
the  milk  o’  human  kindness  up  here  as  Vi 
they  is  in  the  cities — on’y  you  don’t  hear 
so  much  about  it.  ‘He’s  finer’n  silk’,  _ i 
he  sez,  ‘and  I  think  a  hull  lot  of  him ; 
but  they’s  one  or  two  things  he  don’t 
know  yit.  I  w’sli  I  bad  him  up  to  Pete 
Wieniawski’s — I  bet  he’d  change  his 
tune.’ 
“  ‘Yes,’  Paw  sez,  ‘he  certainly  is  one 
fine  man  ;  but  he  never  knowed  what  it 
was  to  grub  in  the  dirt  and  tote  a  mort¬ 
gage  around  on  his  back.  Mebbe — h’m, 
well,  we'll  see  what  we  do  see.’ 
“  ’T’want  many  days  ’fore  the  preach¬ 
er  was  to  our  house,  and  Maw,  she  didn’t  k— . 
lose  no  time  gittin’  him  started  about  the 
dear  little  babies  and  the  poor  sick  folks 
down  to  New  York.  Course  you  know  meat 
I’m  arouud  all  the  time  sense  they  closed  “SI 
the  school  account  o’  this  iufant-ile  pal-  us  me 
allasis.  so  they  aiu’t  much  goin’  on  that  paw  1 
I  don’t  know  about..  They  soon  had  paw  choke 
up  a  tree,  and  1  didn’t  see  how  he  was  or  tli 
ever  goin’  to  get  down  agin.  lie  squii'm-  rumiii 
ed  around  awhile,  aud  finely  he  sez,  him ! 
‘Say,  Eldt%  not  to  change  the  subject —  “W 
I  got  to  take  a  trip  up  to  Vinegar  Ilill  to  poor, 
see  about  some  young  stock  I  got  in  pas-  was  tl 
ture  up  there.  S’posc  you  stay  to  din-  roof  r 
ner  and  go  along?  I’ll  phone  Sheldon  nothir 
to  see  if  lie  want  take  us  lip  in  his  car.  the  u 
You  and  mother,  here,  can  stand  me  on  had  a 
my  head  in  two  minutes  when  it  comes  the  ar 
to  the  abstract  of  the  city — I  got  a  no-  not  q 
tion  I  can  return  the  compliment  if  I  learn 
can  get  you  within  sbootin’  distance  of  way 
the  concrete  of  tbe  country.  What  say?’  milk,. 
“  ‘I  can’t  go,’  sez  maw.  to  dea 
“Leinme  go,  paw,’  I  sez.  “Tli 
“  ‘Yes,  let  him  go,’  maw  sez — ‘I  got  a  see  hi 
ironin’  to  do  tills?  afternoon.  That  hies-  fam’ly 
sed  baby  ain’t  got  a  thing  to  wear,  and  t’ank 
I  ain’t  goin’  to  let  Eni’ly  do  no  sich  work  cold ; 
yet  a  while.  I  cau't  have  him  arouud  she  a 
under  my  feet,  aud  I  don’t  want  him  most 
traipsin’  all  through  the  woods  after  boy  d 
pa’tridges  this  damp  weather.  Men  folks  middle 
is  past  me,  anyway,  What  pleasure  “  * \\ 
