1902 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
117 
Home Work. 
While so many women are stepping 
into places hitherto occupied by men, 
and doing their work, there is not suffi¬ 
cient attention paid to the daily round 
of duties that must be attended to, in 
order to make home the “dearest spot 
on earth.” Thank God there are thou¬ 
sands of women in such homes, who take 
life unquestioningly, doing “the work 
that’s nearest,” and caring for those 
who are dependent on them for comfort 
and health. But some of these very wo¬ 
men, not supersensitive either, have 
confided to me that they were made to 
feel their position, by those who were 
out in the world, and looked down on 
such labor as menial, not estimating its 
true value. Yet how much higher stand¬ 
ard is such a woman or girl than the 
college girl of my acquaintance who told 
in confidence that she went off to teach 
during the 'Summer vacation, because 
she “hated to wash dishes and didn't 
like to see Ma doing it, you know.” Poor 
“Ma”—who had saved and scraped and 
washed dishes, and wore her old clothes 
that the daughter’s wardrobe might he 
worthy of her position, then to realize 
that she has placed this college-bred 
girl beyond her reach! For Greek and 
the higher mathematics taught in luxur¬ 
ious college homes, make it real hard, 
no doubt, to come back to the dishpan. 
And what are we going to do? Look 
down the list of advertisements for help 
in the daily papers, and their name is 
legion. Discuss home topics for half an 
hour with any acquaintance or friend, 
and the domestic bugbear will come be¬ 
tween you, in nine cases out of ten. Our 
millionaires do not take hold of this 
great department of life’s needs to help 
it along; otherwise there would be col¬ 
leges built for domestic science all over 
the land, where girls can learn the best 
methods of housekeeping and be gradu¬ 
ated as from other colleges. Placed on 
a different plane it will be necessary to 
renovate and reconstruct our homes, and 
to give these intelligent graduates bet¬ 
ter accommodations and more privi¬ 
leges; we must also recognize the work 
and the workers. But before this comes 
to pass there will be a vast amount of 
prejudice to overcome, and we shall have 
to learn in many ways that after such 
intelligent culture “the servant is great¬ 
er than his lord,” unless we, ourselves, 
be taught. 
Nowhere is the cry for help greater 
than in country homes. Young men and 
girls are flocking to the city to earn a 
precarious living, and if they go back to 
the home of their childhood it is often 
with airs of superiority, and manner 
that ill accord with their position in 
life, although they are quite willing to 
share and share alike in any division 
of property worked for, and kept up by 
those who stayed on the old farm. Even 
among the French-Canadian habitants 
there is a prejudice against the younger 
generation going out to service. More 
i,nan one mother of many daughters 
among this class, has determined that 
they shall all be school teachers or 
dressmakers, and alas, there are homes 
in many a thrifty farm district where 
the girls have all left for the city to 
earn the money they cannot get at 
home. In this respect parents are to 
blame sometimes, for young people will 
value more the feeling of independence 
if they are allowed to make money by 
some home method, or paid for their 
labor, than if the father takes the pro¬ 
duce to the store, and buys the goods. It 
is all the same in the end, and is by far 
the better way to let them handle the 
money, and so learn the cost; feel free 
to give, or to practice self-denial as 
seems best to them, and so learn many 
of life’s lessons, while feeling that their 
labor is worthy of compensation. 
So many things have been told on this 
subject that a few of the sayings of 
young people telling the bald facts will 
prove more than many words. Said a 
girl of 25 years spent in helping at 
home: “I never have five cents to pay 
letter postage without asking for it.” A 
young man who had raised two calves 
told me that his father had given them 
to him, and when he had cared for them 
two years sold them, and told his son he 
could raise two more. A young girl 
who has been “nurse, seamstress, house¬ 
maid, cook’ for her father since her 
mother died, has to hide away a few 
dozen eggs now and then to purchase 
little things she requires, for “Papa never 
thinks we need money.” A young boy 
caught a swarm of bees that strayed in¬ 
to the woods. Here was a revenue; he 
studied the subject, and the next season 
was very successful, and had honey to 
sell. But when his father knew of the 
sales he borrowed the money, and for¬ 
got to return it. This is the mystery of 
many an abandoned farm, and so it will 
be till parents recognize the value of 
their children’s labor, and make them 
independent as they go along, for there 
are many side paths where money can 
be made on the farm. When horticul¬ 
tural and domestic colleges give the 
young people their proper standing and 
value, and they receive fair compensa¬ 
tion for their home labor, many of the 
difficulties now in the way will vanish 
never to return. annie l. jack. 
Knitted Wristers. 
Material required, black Saxony yarn 
or knitting silk. Cast 25 stitches on each 
of three needles, knitting one over, 
one plain, until long as desired. 
They are warmer when knitted long 
enough to turn back double. These fit 
snugly to the wrist, are extremely 
warm, and wear finely. If preferred, a 
fancy edge may be inserted, by making 
the second and next to last rows of open 
work. Put the thread over, knit two to¬ 
gether, repeat the round. Or, a row of 
small crocheted shells may be added as 
a finish. But they are less conspicuous 
when left perfectly plain. If a more 
elaborate pair is desired they may be 
made as follows: Cast 30 stitches on 
two needles, 20 on one. Knit once 
around plain, Knit one over, knit three, 
slip one, narrow, bind over the one you 
slip; knit three, over, knit one, over, 
knit three, slip, narrow, and bind as be¬ 
fore; repeat the round making one stitch 
at the end of each needle. These direc¬ 
tions make a medium size wrister; for a 
larger one add 10 extra stitches for each 
scallop. Silk wristers, if you make 
them yourself from the knitting silk, 
wear better than the wool, and are very 
pretty thougn not quite so warm. Al¬ 
ways allow more stitches for silk than 
wool. About 10 stitches more to each 
needle, in either pair, would be the right 
proportions when using silk, as it is 
finer than the wool. "Wristers are nice 
for children, and especially so for those 
whose wrists chap when playing out of 
doors in cold weather. How frequently 
you see a little fellow’s wrists chapped 
until they bleed, through a too vigorous 
acquaintance with a snow man. A nice 
warm pair of wristers would have pre¬ 
vented any unpleasant reminders of the 
friendship. sarah rodney. 
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30 
?5he 
Wheel of Fortune 
method of sending money in advance 
for a buggy may be all right but you 
have to trust to luck and the seller's 
honesty. He runs the game. 
You Need Not Gamble 
on our system. We send all ofourvehi- 
cles on 30 Days' Trial. We take all 
the chances. Send them back if not 
satisfied. Use the vehicle as much as 
you like and then decide. We are the 
pioneers in this method. Manufacturing 
every rig we offer for sale enables us to 
make this fair offer. Factory prices to 
you direct saves you 25 to 40 per cent— 
the dealers’ and jobbers’ profit. Send 
at once for free 
catalog. 
Kalamazoo Carriage & 
Harness Mfg. Co. 
( Pioneer* of the Free 
Trial Plan.) 
Station K 
Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Meat smoked in a few hours with 
KRAUSERS’ LIQUID EXTRACT OF SM0K 
Made from hickory wood. Gives fine flai 
Cleanest, cheapest; free from insects. Send 
circular. E. KKAISER A liRO., Milton, 1 
Girls 
Who 
Love 
Music 
Can secure a 
year’s or six months’ tuition with or 
without board at the New England 
Conservatory, Boston, at the expense ot 
THE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL 
For particulars address 
The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia 
Your heavy bedding and woolen blankets will soon need washing. 
The 
Syracuse Easy Washer 
will save its cost in washing them once. It leaves them soft, fleecy and clean. 
They do not shrink when washed with the EASY. They lie in the suds without 
handling, while water is forced over and through them. They are cleansed without 
friction, without wear or strain of any kind on the goods or on the operator. 
WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO . 
TRY IT, Compare it with the best you have ever known and if it don’t save 
its price in five weeks, send it back. Wash, everything in the house, wearing 
apparel, heavy bedding, grain sacks or horse blankets, then send it back if you wish. 
You won’t send it bach, because you will know its ease and economy. An article 
that saves its price several times over each year is a good investment. 
Begin saving at once. Write for full information and price. 
DODGE & 
ZUILL, 539 S. Clinton Street, Syracuse, M. Y. 
SHIP 
YOUR 
FURS 
TO 
McMillan Fur & Wool Co. 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 
WRITE FOR CIRCULARS 
Cider Machinery .—Send for catalogue to Boomer & 
Bosohert Press Co.. 118 West Water St., Syracuse,N.Y 
WHEN YOU BUY ^L 
you can get for your money. Buy a 
A a S. (’iihtom-YIadp Vehicle. We build 
\ / r* \/ a $ 38.00 Buggy and sell it for $26.95, 
V » V-A hiirh grade $60. Buggy for $43.85, 
Buggy Top $5.00, Tired Wheels $5.75, Hickory Shafts $1. 
We save you $10.00 on Rubber Tires, It will pay to write 
for FREE Vehicle and IfnrncHs CATALOGUE. 
U.S. Buggy & Cart Co., 527 8th St., Cincinnati. 0, 
California-Oregon Excursions 
Every day in the year. The Chicago, 
Union Pacific and North-Western Line 
runs through first-class Pullman and 
Tourist Sleeping Cars to points in Cali¬ 
fornia and Oregon daily. Personally 
conducted excursions from Chicago to 
San Francisco, Los Angeles and Port¬ 
land, leaving Chicago on Tuesdays and 
Thursdays. Lowest rates. Shortest time 
on the road. Finest scenery. Inquire of 
your nearest ticket agent, or write 
H. A. Gross, 461 Broadway, New York 
City. 
W. M. Burgard, 301 Main Street, Buf¬ 
falo, N. Y. 
Let’s Get Together. 
Do you want a new carriage or buggy, and do not want some dealer to 
make a big profit at your expense? Order one of our 
Split Hickory Vehicles. 
Take it from the depot; hitch to it; run it for Thirty Days, and if you 
find it the best rig on the market, pay for it. If not, send it back; we don t 
want you to keep it. How can we afford to do this? Well you see, we are 
making the best line of vehicles on the market, and are not afraid to 
to have you pass judgment on them. Full details in 
our new illustiated catalogue, which we send free. 
It also shows our fine line of harness. 
OHIO CARRIAGE MFG. CO 
Station 39, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
No. 202 
Farm Harness 
Prico 124. 
As fine m sella for 
10.00 to 38.00 more. 
29 Years Selling Direct. 
We are the largest manufac¬ 
turers of vehicles and harness 
in the world selling to 
ers, and we have been 
business in this way for 29 years. 
|WE HAVE NO AGENTS 
1 but ship anywhere for examination 
guaranteeing eaie delivery. You are out nothing if not 
‘satisfied. We make 195 styles of vehicles and 65 styles of 
harness. Our prices represent tlie cost ot material and making, plus one profit. Our 
large free catalogue shows complete line. Send for it. 
Elkhart Carriage & Harness manufacturing Co.,Elkhart, Ind. 
Beat Oak Tannod 
Leather. 
lory In every way, iwuiu u». « 
freight both ways. WE DU NOT ASK FOR ANY MONEY with order. You pay 
for it when you get it, if you are pertectly satibfied. We warrant every buggy 
for t wo years, guarantee satisfaction, and guarantee safe delivery* 
1 WE HAVE NO AGENTS. That’s Why We Save You Money. 
nP^PRIPTinN Wheels and gear all second growth hickory, all forg- 
..v,, ULOUnir I IUIi« lngs Norway iron. (Wheels any size.) Axles long 
distance. Any style Kprliig bar. Body 20, 22 or 2A in. wide, 65in. long, (Corning body if wanted),solid 
panel back with springs in back cushion and seatcushion ; trimmings tine broadcloth or whipcord (leather trim¬ 
mings $1.25 extra) ; top is lined with all wool top lining, backstays padded. Leather quarter top. We furnish side 
curtains, storm apron boot and full length brussels carpet for bottom of body. Full Nickel Mountings if wanted. 
fl!IR VPII 1 PI C PITAI flPIIC illustrates and describes the largest and most complete line of Baggies, 
«un I LulU LL UA I ALUUUl Road Wagons, Phaetons, Surreys, Sprin g Wagon s, Carts, Harness and 
Single Strap Harness 
‘‘£tn E v$11.10 
shaped breast ‘collar, 1 ^ 
io. traces, 3 in. saddle. 
225 STYLES 
of Harness to select from. 
wwii ■ kinuuh uh I HLvUVJi. ICO ad Wagons, Phaetons, burrevs, bprtng wagons, t arts, Harness and of Harness to select from. 
Hy Nets evershown in one book. IT’S EUEE. SEND Kou it. MARVIN SMITH CO., 61 N. Jefferson St., Chicago. 
