Iht RURAL NEW-YORKER 
703 
if we are going only a mile from home. 
The best of ears have tire troubles, and 
nothing so helps in an enforced wait as 
“something to eat." If we are going 
any distance I add sandwiches and a 
thermos of milk Or water. MRS. H. A. s. 
jlar one, with ture his carefree mother blissfully riding uannea Ham 
“ _ Last December we killed a sow for 
our year's supply of pork and lard. The 
' / t \ animal was big and fat, and hams and 
X- <T—' U_v j v * / shoulders together weighed 112 lbs. This 
-X\ $ J* Is-/'**. N. / .Spring, when we got ready to smoke the 
=a *g**£_/ jk S\ first one, we discovered they had to be 
\ jfCj k,/ \ squeezed into the jar so tight, the pickle 
- '$ Jr \ p-V' l t N , had not gotten to all the meat, and they 
\ Ty \ Jv \.j§ must all be cared for at once. Wbm I 
y )\j J M 'have a smoked ham begin to get a white 
t T / \ \ j V/ l v# mold on the outside I usually slice and 
) \Y-‘ /'.A, 1 fry P ac k a stone jar and cover with 
1 I r A its own fat, but it looked to me like a 
L ’ I LXl 1 V V J pretty big undertaking to fry all that 
\ ( ~l 7“ if’ meat, and we like it better steamed, 
\ X^' r II ll baked or boiled, so I tried canning some 
VS/-' 'V\/-> ^O. \ 1 of it, and was well pleased. It is very 
< <?J> simple. I cut it in chunks the right size 
\ / a f ^ to pack firmly into the sterilized jars. 
Y~^Z TW^ \ ( ,/ added nothing, partially sealed, put on 
/ a rack in the boiler in sufficient warm 
"'y/a. y>-✓"■- \ > "XVv / water to come up around the neck of 
y/AjJr' pjj \ \Y>-\ / the cans, cooked steadily for four hours 
'%7/y / nn \ - . / after it began boiling, then removed and 
*=£/ HLVs * s \ \ sealed. If the bones smell perfectly 
\ sweet, they may be boiled and the meat 
--—- - _ "*'■ picked off them and deviled. The rinds 
77 7 7 , Tr and some of the meat I didn’t like the 
s a pretty pillow top for outline embroidery. The looks of I rried out in the oven foe soon 
iped and tinted on tun art linen, size 18x22 inches. 100Kf ’ 01 Ve ° ,• ?, X! 1 7 11 
i to complete embroidery, costs 00 eents. grease. After extracting the fat from 
them they should be burned, because we 
at each end. on the front seat, with no wiggly baby don't want hens to get hold of so much 
it white paint to shift from one weary arm to the other, salt. 
iuse I was to Many, many times he would be asleep on My favorite way of serving canned 
make it very our return home, and would be traus- ham is to pare 10 or a dozen small pota- 
e well padded ferred to his room with no interruption toes, put them in halves in a baking dish, 
irith pink cam- to bis nap. And. apropos of taking chi 1- put a quart can of ham over them, add 
tiny ruffle fas- dreu in autos. I have one rule as unniter- water or sweet skim-milk to make enough 
white upbol- able as any of the Medes and Persians, juice, and bake, boil or steam until the 
, of course, a Never do I stir in the ear with my babies potatoes are tender. 
This served without a bag of graham crackers— even MBS. OLOVA HUSTLE. 
I'.vory rune i read or conditions in 
other places I am thankful I am where 
I am. Butter is still 35 cents a pound, 
and eggs are 21 cents a dozen, better 
than in many places, ami when 1 read 
of school conditions in other States we 
think better of Vermont. Here, if pupils 
are more than 114 miles from a school, 
they are curried at the expense of the 
town, or else the board is paid near a 
school, and all text-books, paper and pen¬ 
cils are furnished by the town. The 
problems given by the Hope Farm man, 
extracts from normal examinations, were 
readily solved by our eighth grade hoys, 
so perhaps arithmetic isn't neglected as 
badly, amT spelling contests are very 
popular. The best spellers are selected 
from each school; these are again tested 
for the best spellers from the town, then 
the county and State. Perhaps in time 
the rising generations will learn to write. 
That seems to he a lost art everywhere. 
This is the weather when boyish feet 
bring in lots of mud, but they say they 
can’t bring in enough that way. so have 
to bring it in in boxes. After warming 
and drying, seeds arc sowed. I do not 
try to start them too early or they out¬ 
grow' the window space. 
A friend divided Cineraria, Cyclamen, 
Begonia, Gloxinia, Oxalis, iceplant and 
Calceolaria seed with me. All are sown, 
but some of the dust-like seeds seemed 
pretty tiny for me to handle, but I think 
one Gloxinia is up and 20 Cinerarias. 
I sowed these fine seeds on top of the 
soil. just, bandy pressing the earth after 
sowing, covered with a damp paper and 
then a glass, but turned the paper and 
glass twice a day and aired the soil a 
few' minutes. 
There are some o’d wagon wheels I am 
going to confiscate. < >ne year I dug a round 
bed where the hens bad fr.ee access, laid 
down nn old wheel, sowed my seeds be¬ 
tween the spokes, and the hens couldn’t 
scratch them out, and the plants soon 
covered the wheel. This year I think I 
will set a stake and put a wheel ou top. 
ilion drive small stakes and carry strings 
from the stake to the wheel rim. Then 
I la tit sweet peas or cypress vine to 
cover it. 
This is the time of the year when one 
especially needs a flower bed in front of 
the kitchen window. I have decided I 
need Crocus in a round bed, then later 
rill it with bedding Petunias or Coleus, 
to give color till frost comes. There will 
be some clumps of daffodils, too, and I 
really think a bed of Hybrid Tea roses. 
Perhaps these ought to be iu front of the 
house, but 1 believe the dishes will wash 
easier if the roses arc back of the bouse. 
What kind of letters do you write? 
Not long ago I had a favor to ask of 
Laddie’s teacher. Now remember if you 
have occasion to ask a teacher to make 
any change in her program or plan you 
are asking a favor, not commanding a 
servant. I also told her we were glad 
Laddie’s report card contained such good 
marks, especially in deportment and ap¬ 
plication. The teacher assured Laddie 
'•be wasn’t used to receiving such letters, 
and even wrote and thanked me for my 
“courteous note.” I felt rebuked, for 
why hadn’t I written her a note of 
thanks before? If the teacher had done 
wrong we would all be ready to tell her. 
Why not tire reverse? 
Then, too, I read of an elderly lady 
who said her daughter wrote regularly, 
but her letters were many times filled 
with accounts of the children’s illness, 
full descriptions of symptoms and snf- 
fei ing, etc. Now the old lady said: “I 
raised my family and cared for them 
through all the childish diseases; now I 
wish she would just say 'The children 
bad the measles and are well again,’ and 
then tell me of some of the funny things 
they say and do.” 
Last year the shad trees (Juneberry) 
were iu bloom April 25, and the fisher¬ 
man’s sigu here is, when shads blow, 
suckers are running; that is, running up 
the brook to spawn. Last year Sou went 
with a party and lugged out over a hun¬ 
dred pounds of fish. We ate what we 
could fresh, and as the fisli were always 
large they were very good eating. We 
salted down a lard tub full, and have 
used them like any other white-meat ed 
salt fish. We split the fish and placed a 
layer of salt, a layer of fish, and repeat. 
Add no water; fish make their own 
brine. 
Are the women voting in town meeting 
generally? They tell me but seven or 
i i"ht voted in our town, and I was as¬ 
tonished. MOTHER UEE. 
AN UNCLEAN DECAYING TOOTH 
DECAY HAS 
BE GUN-SEE 
THE DENTIST 
AT ONCE 
THE SENSITIVE 
TOOTH 
THE ACHING 
TOOTH 
PROPER CARE PREVENT^DEOV 
Bark and Enamel 
W 7HEN you cultivate n young orchard, you take par- 
yy W ticular care not to scrape the bark oft" the trees. For 
J ^ when the bark is scratched or broken insects and plant dis- 
/Jgv. eases can enter to destroy or decay the tender tissue beneath. 
^ The enamel cf your teeth—the outer covering—protects 
the soft part in much the same way as bark protects the 
tree. Care should be taken not to damage the enamel by “scratching” or 
“scouring” it with a harsh, gritty tooth paste. The U. S. Public Health 
Service recommends using a dentifrice which is free from harsh grit. 
Cleans Teeth the Right Way 
"Washes” and Polishes— 
Doesn’t Scratch or Scour 
Colgate’s contains a specially prepared fine chalk. It has no harsh grit, no 
strong drugs or chemicals. The refreshing, delicious flavor makes tooth 
brushing a pleasure after each meal. 
More dentists recommend Colgate’s Ribbon Dental Cream 
than any other dentifrice. Since 1806 Colgate has made 
reliable products which every farm family likes. 
/ COLGATE 
y &.co. 
Farm Hoosrhold. 
Dept 42 
199 Fulton Street. 
New York, N.Y. 
Please send me samples 
of the following arti¬ 
cles 1 enclose nmount 
of stumps shown for 
each one checked. 
Face Powder.... 6c 
Baby Talc.4c 
Shaving Cream . . . <c 
Ribbon Dental Cream. 
Free 
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