1902 
From Another Point of View. 
The scarcity of farm help has been 
much written about and there must be 
two sides to the question. The readers 
of The R. N.-Y. are probably people who 
employ help and to them I want to say: 
What inducements do you offer to a man 
or woman to engage to work for you as 
hired man or hired girl? You want a 
person strong in limb and mentally 
sound; that person can command at 
least a third more pay without board at 
many other lines of work, in which 
shorter hours and an independence can 
be enjoyed, that no hired man or girl 
can possibly feel. People will always 
say that the board, lodging and washing 
are part pay, and will estimate it at the 
price they would ask regular boarders, 
but look at the accommodations most 
“hands” get! I have seen much of farm 
life, and I have never seen the hired man 
or girl given the place in the family that 
would tend to make that place attrac¬ 
tive. To be sure they may eat at the 
table with the family, but their favorite 
dishes are not cooked, nor are such as 
“agree” with them provided. If ailing 
no special cookery, as gruels or broths 
are expected; in fact, I fail to find the 
farmer’s home which is a home to the 
hired help who is at all disabled through 
accident or disease. The help are often 
obliged to eat cold lunches while the 
woman of the house is away; they are 
not expected to have company at meals, 
and to entertain them in the kitchen if 
they have such inconvenient things as 
visitors. They both, men and women, 
are given small back bedrooms too cold 
in Winter and “under the eaves” in 
Summer, with the oldest furniture and 
bedding in the house. Is this the way 
“the boarder” is treated? No, I’ve been 
a country school ma’am myself, and I 
knew my board was not bringing in the 
real worth to those families that the 
hired man or the hired girl was and yet 
how different was the treatment I al¬ 
ways got. Then does “their pay amount 
to as much in the long run” as if they 
worked a certain number of hours a day, 
received cash and went to their own 
homes and associated with people of 
similar tastes, even if the extra wages 
have to pay for food and lodging such 
as they prefer? 
Provided the man or woman you want 
has worked for you a year at the usual 
price, how much can he or she save? I 
would as soon pay for the clothes of a 
shipping clerk in a mercantile house as 
buy the clothing suitable for the rough 
cold work on a farm, and barb wire, pro¬ 
jecting nails, and no careful mother or 
wife to do the washing and mending. 
Why, men alive, it costs to buy felt 
boots, mittens and overalls and you 
yourself want him to have changes so he 
can get out among others for recreation, 
and best clothes cost, too? How much 
can a man save anyway towards getting 
a start for himself, and that is the kind 
of man you want, surely? Just so with 
the "girl”; she must dress suitably for 
her work and have several changes, and 
must also have going-out clotnes, and if 
she helps her folks at home or is saving 
towards a fitting out of her own, please 
tell me where she is able to save so 
much as I hear about? You may sing 
“Home, sweet home,” but I think I 
prefer to keep my girls in my home with 
me, and let them get work in some other 
way rather than to have them in your 
kitchen at the dictate of perhaps a ner¬ 
vous sickly woman and spoiled children, 
jumping up from the table while food 
is fresh and warm, working most of her 
Sundays, seeing extra work at thrash¬ 
ing or harvest time, at fruit-canning 
time, when company comes, in house¬ 
cleaning time or when the children get 
the measles. These things are never 
mentioned when a girl is engaged, but 
they come on with certain regularity 
to the girl whose “feet are tired enough 
to drop off.” People wonder why girls 
prefer to work in a store or factory, but 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
871 
I notice their girls get the same idea 
and “refuse to be anybody’s hired girl” 
and parents try to give them an educa¬ 
tion that fits them for pleasanter and 
easier work. Is the life so attractive 
that our bright American boys and girls 
are foolish in not choosing it? To me it 
is no wonder at all, for are we not all 
asking of everything: “What is there 
in it, anyway?”_ J. J. o. 
A Doll’s Bedstead. 
I should like to tell the little boys 
who read The R. N.-Y. how to make doll 
bedsteads for their little sisters. I am 
only eight years old, and I made one, 
and it is a good one. I took a box two 
feet long, a foot wide and a foot deep, 
and cut the sides down to three inches, 
and one end down to six Inches. I took 
strips an inch wide and nailed them up 
and down the head and foot boards and 
let them stick down about four inches 
for legs, as shown in Fig. 354. I painted 
it a light yellow. 
ATtLINO H. SAUNDERS. 
Dressing Little Girls. 
The love of dainty and becoming 
clothing is a mark of refinement, and is 
inherent in most little girls. This trait 
in children should pot be condemned, 
but guided in the proper direction. Our 
clothing has much to do with the opin¬ 
ion people form of us, and while ex¬ 
travagance is not commendable, care¬ 
lessness in this matter leads to even 
worse results. Dresses for school wear 
need not be expensive, for fine materials 
and trimmings are not in good taste, and 
a healthy school girl would soon ruin 
them. She will need two or three 
woolen dresses and half a dozen white 
or light-colored aprons to keep her neat 
and clean. These aprons should be made 
by different patterns so she will not tire 
of them, and trimmed with lace or em¬ 
broidery. Let them be as nice as you 
like, for they will last a long time and 
can be washed when they need it. In 
making the dresses the prudent mother 
plans to lengthen them so they will not 
be outgrown. Many a good garment has 
been cast aside because this has been 
neglected, and it soon becomes too small 
for the wearer. Plain full skirts- are 
tucked or deeply hemmed. Gored skirts 
are often ruffled, and all that is neces 5 - 
sary when you wish to lengthen them 
Is to piece them out at the bottom and 
move the rufile down. Plain sleeves 
may be hemmed at the bottom or pieced 
out, and the piecing covered with some 
kind of trimming, while those made with 
full upper portions gathered into cuffs, 
are lengthened by replacing the old cuffs 
with deeper ones. New dresses may 
be made of remnants, or if the mother 
has the knack of making clothes over 
the best parts of some she has cast 
aside may be used. A package of Dia¬ 
mond dye is a great help in making 
dresses over, for it will freshen the 
goods and make it bright and pretty. 
These dyes are easy to use, and the col¬ 
ors produced by them are permanent. 
School dresses should be quite plain, for 
an apron will not fit well if the dress is 
trimmed with ruffles. Tight-fitting 
MOTHERS.—Be sure to use“Mrs.Wins- 
Jow’s Soothing Syrup” for your children 
while Teething. It is the Best.— Adv. 
waists or those made with a yoke of any 
shape desired with the lower portion 
gathered and joined to it, are pretty. 
The trimming may consist of braid put 
on around the edge of the yoke, collar 
and sleeves. elsie gray. 
The Household Congress. 
Cookxno Game. —How many cooks 
know just how to prepare game, such as 
rabbits, squirrels, etc? I have not found 
any In this neighborhood. My mother, 
when she had this class of meat, always 
prepared it in this way: Put a good 
handful of salt into cold water (I add a 
pinch of saleratus also), let stand a cou¬ 
ple of hours, drain the water off, wash 
in fresh cold water, put it in kettle, pour 
hot water on and let boil, adding salt 
and half a dozen whole cloves. When 
tender take the meat out carefully, lay 
on a plate and when the water has all 
run off fry in good butter or roast in 
oven, laying butter in small pieces over 
different parts. I am sure that will 
make any man good-natured if he cares 
for game at all. I trim off as much fat 
as I can before cooking, as the fat usual¬ 
ly smells the strongest. anna b. 
Cooking Apples. —While you are call¬ 
ing attention to the Apple Consumers' 
League would it not be well to give a 
little advice or a few recipes for cooking 
or preparing the apple for the table? I 
believe very many otherwise good cooks 
think “any old apple” is good enough 
for sauce cooked in “any old dish.” 1 
believe no better fruit grows in the 
Northern States than the apple, and it 
should have the same care and dainti¬ 
ness used in its preparation for food 
that is given other fruits. Make a syrup 
of sugar and a very little water; while 
it is heating pare, quarter and core the 
best apples obtainable at the time, and 
when the syrup boils drop the apples in 
it, having enough syrup to cover the 
fruit well. Make it in a porcelain-lined 
or graniteware kettle and keep it cov¬ 
ered while boiling; remove from the fire 
just as soon as the apples are cooked 
clear. Use the same amount of sugar as 
for a like quantity of peaches, and do 
ilot put through a colander or use any 
spice or lemon to flavor it any more 
than you would with peaches. Spitzen- 
bergs. Northern Spy or Greenings may 
be canned by this rule, and be found as 
delicious as peaches. A flavorless half- 
wilted apple will not make good sauce 
or pies, unless it be mince pie. 
MRS. w. h. c. 
Even children drink Grain-O 
because they like it and the doc¬ 
tors say it is good for them. Why 
not ? It contains all of the nourish¬ 
ment of the pure grain and none 
of the poisons of coffee. 
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A 2 million increase 
In the past two yearB the sale of “Ball-Band” goods increased over two 
millions. Honesty, quality and fair prices made this increase possible. 
Knit Boots, Socks, Rubber 
Boots, Shoes, and /trctics 
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Do You Want a Shot Gun? 
If you do you want a good one, but you need not pay fancy prices for it. 
There is none better made than the Stevens. No. 1 has top snap, low rebounding 
hammer, special “electro steel’’choke bored 
for nitro powder, walnut stock, rubber butt 
plate case-hardened frame. Forearm attached 
to barrel, and fitted with metal joint. Price, 
$5.50, or with a year's subscription to The 
R. N.-iT., $6.25. No. 2, in addition to No. 1, has automatic shell ejector, checked 
pistol grip and forearm. Price, $6.50, or 
with one year’s subscription to The R. N.-YL, 
$7.25. These guns are 12, 16 or 20-gage, 28, 
30 and 32-inch barrel, and weigh about 6}<J 
pounds. We will send No. 1 free for a club 
10 new subscriptions; or No. 2 for a club of 12. 
No hoy or man need be without a good shot gun, when he can get one on these 
terms. A few hours’ time among his neighbors will do it. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, New York. 
Best of all BLOOD PUtUFIERS is 
JAYNE’S ALTERATIVE. It cures Scrofula. 
