The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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Bringing Up a Son 
Ask 10 women what special quality they 
most desire :n their sons, or what par¬ 
ticular virtues they would inculcate, and 
see if at least nine of them do not mention 
those qualities and virtues in which the 
fathers of these sons appear to he de¬ 
ficient. Now, 1 have no son, and my hus¬ 
band has no faults, so let me pose as the 
tenth woman and toll a few things which 
1 would have taught, my sons had I had 
any. The deepest, and most lasting im¬ 
pressions are made on the human mind 
and character during the first seven years. 
Habits of thinking and living formed then 
are not easily broken, so from the begin¬ 
ning my son should practice or have prac¬ 
ticed upon him all things that tend to the 
upbuilding of the physical body toward the 
attainment of perfect health. The work 
of tin' health ciusade in the schools em¬ 
braces most of the essentials, including, 
as it docs, proper bathing, correct diet, 
regular movement of the bowels, care of 
the teeth, ventilation of sleeping rooms, 
and all those things which today are a 
matter of course to most of us : luit the 
schools cannot reach the child early 
enough. 1 would have all these estab¬ 
lished habits before the child enters 
school, and I would try to have him 
realize that care of his own body was nut 
alone for his own benefit, but for others 
and knew how to take care of himself. 
Many a wife can guess the life his wife 
led during the following six weeks while 
he was laid up. They tell tis of the un¬ 
complaining courage of our sick and 
wounded soldiers, but I wonder if tbev 
had been at home with their own women 
folks, if they wouldn’t have groaned and 
whimpered and demanded the constant 
attention that their daddies seem to when 
they are sick! 
I know another genial and apparently 
considerate husband who scorns his wife’s 
and children's suggestions about the use 
of the toothbrush. At three different 
times during the last 10 years the wife 
has planned some little addition to home 
comfort in the way of repairs or labor- 
saving device, and each time just before 
it. was accomplished the loving husband 
and father finds his teeth in such con¬ 
dition that they cannot be neglected with 
comfort to himself, so a dentist’s bill takes 
all which the wife had planned to use for 
something which would have added to the 
pleasure of all. 
There are other men who neglect their 
bodily health in other ways, even to the 
point of fatality. I do not advocate mak¬ 
ing a mollycoddle of a boy (or a girl, 
either 1. but there is a thing called cum- 
monsense, and what do you think of a 
man who neglects the proper care uf his 
health to such an extent that he is either 
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as well. If he was habitually considerate 
of bis mother's comfort I think be would 
be so of bis wife’s. 1 would want him to 
realize that it was easier for him to wash 
the dirt thoroughly off his hands than for 
me to scrub it off the towel. More than 
one woman has complained that the men 
of her family barely dabble in the water, 
softening the dirt to a nice gooey mud. 
then rub it off on the towel. If Mrs. 
Henry's husband doesn't do that, then 
she lias one more nice thing to recoi'd 
about her good man. 
1 am quite sure that if 1 were a man 
and had no hair on my bead over three 
inches long. I would wash it often enough 
so that my laundress need not wear out 
the pillow-slips as well as her own hack 
and temper months before their time. It 
is also far easier to take off rubbers or 
clean one’s shoes before “tracking into the 
house" than it is for the housekeeper to 
scrub floors or clean rugs. 
So many of our country boys, along 
with a certain class of town hoys, are so 
accustomed to seeing the women of the 
household do heavy work of all sorts that 
they have not developed in them the in¬ 
stincts of courtesy, not to say chivalry, 
which once were counted as virtues. 1 
believe they are yet in the hearts of most 
women, and deep in the trio self of the 
modern self-sufficient girl. Anyway. I still 
cling to my memory of how I planned to 
teach the son whom I never had—"never 
let a woman do anything that you can do 
for her," Memory is still vivid of the 
Summer day. when I, a girl of It!, went to 
next-door neighbor for a pail of water 
because our pump was being icpaired. < >n 
my return 1 passed our hammock, wherein 
reclined our guest from the city, a youth 
of IS or 20. lie looked up as 1 passed, 
and inquired: "Is it heavy?" hut mad' 
no offer of assistance. The "calling down” 
iie got from his couitl.v-manncred and 
punctilious uncle, who happened to wit¬ 
ness the episode from inside the house, 
was one that many a young man deserves, 
and would do well to profit by. 
These, however, are mere superficial 
matters, compared to one other thing I 
would tench my son. That is the absolute 
importance of his safeguarding bis own 
health, especially the solemn obligation he 
is under to keep himself well when he as¬ 
sumes the care of a family. Not far from 
us is a man who came hot and tired from 
the field and threw himself down on the 
rain-soaked ground to rest and cool off. 
When his wife warned him of the danger 
and reminded him of what the loss would 
he if he became ill at that busy time, he 
advised her that he was no tender flower 
incapacitated and his wife must support 
him. or to the still greater extent that she 
is left to fight alone to win through for 
herself and children. Isn't he a slacker? 
G. T. S 
Quick Salt Rising Bread 
. husband and I much prefer salt 
rising bread to yeast bread, but the extra 
daytime hours required by the salt ris¬ 
ing has sometimes been irksome, so 1 
recently decided that 1 would see if I 
could not combine the methods of the 
yeast hreadmaking with those of tin' salt 
rising, and thus hasten the bread a bit. 
1 lie results were so satisfactory that I 
am sending my new method to you, for I 
fancy there are many housewives who 
like to get their kitchen work off hand 
early in the morning, especially in Sum¬ 
mer. just the season when yeast bread 
is most likely to disagree with delicate 
digestions. 
During the morning of the day before 
yon wish to bake, boil oue large or two 
small potatoes, cutting so they will boil 
in one pint of water. When done, drain, 
mash fine with a fork. Return the \va- 
ter, add one teaspoon salt, two teaspoons 
ginger, one-eighth teaspoon soda, one 
tablespoon sugar, one-half cup cornuiml. 
Stir well. Let stand, covered, in warm 
place, about six hours. Do not become 
alarmed at dark color it turns. In even¬ 
ing add one cup flour. Stir .smooth, 
cover, and let stand in warm place till 
morning, about 12 or Iff hours. In morn¬ 
ing add one cup warm water, one tea¬ 
spoon salt, one* tablespoon sugar, enough 
Hour to make soft dough. Turu onto 
floured hoard, knead lightly, place in con¬ 
tainer large enough to allow to rise—I 
use gallon milk crock—cover, keep warm 
until light, about l'i hours. Turn onto 
floured hoard (it will usually require a 
litr'e more flour worked into’ itl. knead 
lightly, divide into four loaves, knead 
each loaf lightly a few minutes, place in 
greased pans, grease top of loaves, cover, 
keep warm until puffy light, about one 
hour. Bake one hour in moderate oven. 
It makes a beautifully white, fine¬ 
grained bread, with a delicious crust, 
keeps moist like yeast bread, and is ab¬ 
solutely devoid of any unpleasant odor 
or taste. When doing my last baking I 
watched the clock, and the following is 
the exact time it required: Starter set. 
10 a. m.: sponge made. 4 p. m.: bread 
mixed and in crock. 5 a. m. next morn¬ 
ing: loaves in pan, 0:30; into oven. 
7 :ff0: out of oven, 8:30; a beautiful gold¬ 
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