THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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Hope Farm Notes 
Thanksgiving. —“The man from Mis¬ 
souri'’ has gone into history as a char¬ 
acter making a diligent search for clear 
and accurate information. Here comes a 
man from that State with one Thanksgiv¬ 
ing suggestion: 
Will you ask the Hope Farm man to let up 
on apples, as it makes our mouths water 
every time we read his letters? Apples are 
five cents apiece down here in this part of 
the country. The late frost killed all our 
fruit and early plants. We can t have as 
much as pumpkin pies; killed all our pump¬ 
kins. I had one apple in my orchard about 
the size of a walnut with the hull off. I 
have watched it the same as if it was a 
lump of gold, and then the wind blew it off. 
I think hominy is going to be scarce, and 
sausage, as our corn crop is very short. And 
our friend keeps talking about baked apples ! 
It sets us to thinking. k. b. d. 
What I like about this man is that he 
is evidently cheerful under affliction. It 
must be hard to be deprived of apples in 
an apple country. I did not realize that 
in talking about our blessing of a good 
apple crop we made the trouble of those 
who have none seem heavier. I would 
like to send this man some of our Bald¬ 
wins and Greenings if he were not so far 
away. He is cheerful and patient be¬ 
cause he knows that this shortage of ap¬ 
ples and sausage cannot last forever. 
There are other years and more liberal 
times to come, and they will be all the 
better if he can carry the true memory of 
his present affliction along with him. 
Several people have sent me new ways 
of cooking apples and making apple pie, 
but if the telling will affect people as it 
would this man we would better let them 
go for a season. Maybe our friend is 
enough of a philosopher to enjoy one of 
these “appleless apple pies” we heard 
about last year. 
But this letter brings up three things 
that are good to think about at Thanks¬ 
giving time. Most of us are much better 
off than we think we are. We take our 
abundance of apples as a matter of course. 
This western man never realized the 
value of such abundance until his crop 
came down to one small apple which the 
wind harvested! We get in the habit of 
putting a commonplace value on our 
blessings, while we magnify our troubles. 
We class home and shelter and friends 
and love and the ability to work as mere¬ 
ly our due, and not as blessings beyond 
price. The only way to estimate them is 
to lose them and become a homeless wan¬ 
derer or a hopeless invalid. Then we 
would know that the things which we 
accept as a matter of course are really 
so valuable that no human money stan¬ 
dard can properly value them. Last Sun¬ 
day Mother and I rode about the country 
until long after dark, trying to learn 
about a homeless and dying colored wom¬ 
an. She has consumption, and is without 
home or friends. There being no place 
where people would take her the authori¬ 
ties put her in jail. Even the poorhouse 
refused her. There is a “home for in¬ 
curables” near us, but they were crowded 
full. As one woman put it, all the poor 
thing wanted was “to go to Heaven” if 
she could, but passage even through the 
poorhouse was denied her. We went to 
see the county judge about it, and you 
should have heard some of the things he 
told about people who are willing to de¬ 
prive others of a home! I thought of all 
this that night when at last we turned 
the corner and saw the lights of home. 
The little girls had supper ready, and the 
children were all reading as we drove up. 
It takes such things to make a fellow 
realize the true value of home and health. 
What became of the sick woman? Oh, 
they didn’t want her in this country, so 
they sent her to Virginia where she has 
some relatives! None of us can know 
what there is ahead of us. Better make 
the most of your home and health now, 
and carry some of it along with you. 
Another thing that this letter suggests 
is the power of imagination and faith. 
Some people talk too much about the 
good things which have fallen to them. I 
have known people to brag or boast about 
their good fortune—making a foolish dis¬ 
play of it both by word and expendi¬ 
ture. They do not stop to realize how 
this starts envy or worse in the hearts of 
others. Young people have been discour¬ 
aged and others have been urged to 
meanness or dishonesty by the example 
set by those who are more fortunate. One 
may well be thankful if he can realize 
the true significance of his blessings. Tt 
ought to humble any man to see that 
power and wealth blow through his life 
about as the wind blows through a tree 
or against my windmill. If you have 
home or power or wealth you must know 
that you can hold them at best only for a 
term of years. You must also see that 
God did not give them to you because you 
are better or more worthy than 
others. You have them in the form of an 
obligation to see if you are worthy of 
them—not if they are worthy of you! 
The third thing I want to speak about 
is hope! Our Missouri friend may be 
without apples and pumpkins and saus¬ 
age, but he is cheerful. Better times are 
ahead—that’s one thing that he can un¬ 
derstand without being “shown.” Let 
frost, fire or flood fall upon his farm, 
yet he knows that while the sun shines 
and the seasons swing he will be given 
the power to make up for the loss and 
gain his own once more. As I write the 
rain is falling again, and the farm is a 
bed of mud. The corn is unhusked and 
the stalks, which are to save our hay, are 
soaked. Yet the sun will shine again. 
I speak of this as it applies to crops 
and the smaller tilings of life, but it runs 
all through the great problem of existence. 
Life is full of compensations. A man 
may be denied physical strength and may 
feel that the curse has fallen upon him. 
Loss of friends or fortune may come to 
him like a blight, and apparently ruin his 
life. Yet the lives of men through cen¬ 
turies have shown that under these af¬ 
flictions they broadened out and grew 
into truer power and nobler service to 
the world. Hope and what lies behind it 
form one of the truest forces of life. 
On New Year’s Day 1 take account of 
stock and try to see what the year has 
meant in dollars and cents. At Thanks¬ 
giving T find myself taking another sort 
of account—what has the year brought 
that we can be truly thankful for. At 
such times I think of the thousands of 
friends who go on with us from week to 
week. Some of them live in lonely places 
where toil and care are daily companions. 
At night, when the rain is at the window, 
these friends must think of some boy or 
girl who has gone away from home out 
into the world. Perhaps there stands at 
the door the ugly, unfed figure of debt or 
mortgage, or perhaps sickness lurks 
within. Some of them know that were they 
only free from the fetters of hard condi¬ 
tions they could rise to unmeasured 
power of usefulness. There are others 
who live in comfortable places enjoying 
the fruits of a thrifty life. There may be 
no break in the home circle, and no fear 
of debt or disaster. These words will 
go to all—the young, the old, the sick, 
the well, the poor, the well-to-do, the 
hopeless and the hopeful, the strong of 
character and those who are tempted. On 
Thanksgiving Day we will not think of 
our troubles, but be thankful that hope 
and love, with all that they may accom¬ 
plish are still the ruling forces of the 
world. We want you to feel that the 
Hope Farm folks know and understand. 
Two Kinds of Food. —Here comes a 
Massachusetts man after information: 
You advised in your paper trying “baked 
cabbage and cheese.” We want to know how 
to do it. That is, how to prepare it and 
how long to bake. I’lease explain. 
e. J. s. 
That’s what I get by trying to speak 
for the cook. You can boil an entire 
cabbage until it is quite tender, then bake 
until brown. A few minutes before it 
is done sift grated cheese over it. About 
half of our family like it with a little 
milk or cream. I take it plain and plenty. 
Give me a good appetite and I could be 
nearly as thankful over baked cabbage 
(and baked apples) as over baked turkey. 
I hope I don’t cause watering at the 
mouth in anyone who cannot get hold of 
cabbage! A friend of mine back from 
Paris tells of a dinner his family had, 
one entire course being a cauliflower 
cooked in this way. So the Hope Farm¬ 
ers live in true Parisian style. . . . 
The other sort of food is mental. As I 
glance up from my writing I see in the 
next room my family gathered around the 
lamp listening while Mother reads aloud. 
These little faces express varied emotion 
as the reading goes on. I have bought a 
set of books entitled “The Children’s 
Hour.” This is about the best collection 
of really good literature for children I 
have yet seen. All the good old favor¬ 
ites like “The Dog of Flanders,” selec¬ 
tions from “Gulliver’s Travels” and 
“King of the Golden River” are there, 
side by side with history and modern 
literature. Our folks will have a great 
time with these books this Winter. 
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