1014. 
THE RURAL N E W-YORKER 
«37 
Among the Gardens Along the Riviera 
(Continued from page 633.) 
in seeing pretty bouquets ground under 
feet of horse or crushed by wheels. They 
might be used to some much better pur¬ 
pose. 
That this flower industry is a great 
thing for these people along the Medi¬ 
terranean there is no doubt. Men who 
a few years ago purchased small tracts 
of land on the mountainsides for a com¬ 
paratively small sum, have done extreme¬ 
ly well financially, and their land lias 
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‘T i.o vver Girl” Going To Market. 
increased greatly in value. But one may 
well wonder if this business is not going 
to be overdone. Great quantities of flow¬ 
ers for the market are produced during 
the Winter months on the south coast 
of England, and on the Seilly and Chan¬ 
nel Islands. Only a few days ago I read 
in an English paper of tons of violets 
being destroyed in London, as a drug on 
the market. Just now prices here are 
low. and undoubtedly a very large and 
increasing production is on. Neverthe¬ 
less a great industry is established to 
the everlasting credit of these people. 
A Humble City Merchant. 
The picture shows the business sign 
of a type of small retailer of which there 
are several thousand in New York. The 
sign always reads Joe or Johnnie (often 
Jonnie) or whatever the merchant’s first 
name is. The cellar doors in the pic¬ 
ture are the entrance to Joe’s place of 
business. A basement is used because 
Home Of The $1.75 Dollar. 
the rent is cheaper ($5 to $10 per 
month > and the ice keeps better than 
above ground. It is bought from the 
large dealer’s wagon, one or two cakes at 
a time, cut into five and ten-cont pieces 
and delivered at once. Some of the re¬ 
tailers have small hand carts for de¬ 
livery and others carry it in a wood tub 
on their backs. Competition is sharp, 
many residence blocks in the vicinity of 
The R. N.-Y. office having two or three 
of these small dealers. 
The quantity of stock kept varies with 
tin* season. As cool weather approaches 
they will have at least half a cord of 
kindling and a ton each of large and small 
coal. The wood sells in five and ten- 
cent lots at the rate of about $30 per 
cord; the coal. 10 pounds for five cents; 
and ice. one-half to three-fourths cent 
per pound. 
Developing the Farm Woman. 
I find a great many useful helps on the 
women’s page, and may sometime be able 
to give some one a little help. But it is 
help I am asking for at present. I 
would like your help in this way. Is 
there anything a farmer’s wife can do to 
earn moneyV I have thought of making 
candy to sell, but I know but little about 
it. and then another idea I had was to 
make canvas gloves, such as men wear. 
Please give me some idea of how to go 
about this and how I may learn the way 
of making the candy, and if you think it 
would be profitable. MRS. E. s. 
This woman mentions two enterprises 
she had thought of taking up. All that 
we need to consider about these enter¬ 
prises is that either of them would change 
her from a producer to a manufacturer. 
The whole world is crying aloud for 
more producers. The army of the unem¬ 
ployed comes from the other ranks. 
What is the matter with this farm and 
countless other farms that fail to sup¬ 
port the family? Undeveloped resources. 
Some years ago I was sent sprawling, as 
you might say, into possession of such a 
farm and such a family. As a farmer I 
think I stood pretty near the foot of the 
class; as a financier I had one fixed prin¬ 
ciple. I must spend less than I made. I 
like to spend, so here was incentive to 
make. When I began I saw so many 
things that needed doing, while my pair 
of not very strong hands could do only a 
few of them. I saw I must have labor- 
saving helps. I wanted a bread-mixer. 
The case stood about like this: I had two 
dollars, the price of the bread-mixer; the 
price also of the warm drawers a mem¬ 
ber of the family needed. In the house 
were two undershirts so thick and heavy 
their owner would never wear them. I 
took those shirts and made them into 
drawers, which lasted their wearer three 
seasons and were enthusiastically de¬ 
clared to be the warmest and most com¬ 
fortable that person had ever worn, and 
I had my bread-mixer into the bargain 
and a lot of fun thrown in for good 
measure. One woman, laughing until the 
tears started, said: “Anyone who could 
make a pair of drawers out of a shirt de¬ 
served to succeed.” 
I found I saved 20 minutes every time 
I made bread. I might easily have 
dawdled this time away. I applied it 
to my out-of-door enterprises, the 
chickens and the garden. From this be¬ 
ginning I now have every labor-saver I 
want that I know of, save one, and that 
is under consideration. But to go back 
to my spending, I made a study of how I 
should spend. Whatever I buy is of good 
quality. For instance an aluminum wash 
basin at 50 cents is doing daily duty in 
an iron sink apparently as good as ever 
after 10 years. In provisioning the fam¬ 
ily exhaustive study has brought some 
astonishing results. I could borrow 
money at six per cent, buy the provis¬ 
ions at the new rate, sell them to the 
family at the old rate, and make a hand¬ 
some profit. 
Rome was not built in a day, neither 
was my other success—marketing the two 
money crops. It took at least two years 
to accomplish this, but for four years in 
one case and three in the other it has 
been simply a case of delivering the 
goods and cashing checks. Again, l could 
borrow money at six per cent, buy the 
money crops from the family at the old 
price, sell them at the new price, and 
make a handsome profit. These profits 
are of course my contribution to the fam¬ 
ily income. 
Once upon a time to keep the wolf 
from the door, I made gloves until I 
could get a better job. I believe in doing 
anything that is honest if obliged to, but 
as a matter of choice I would never make 
canvas gloves. My knowledge of the 
candy business is second-hand. A friend 
who tried it was glad to quit. A great 
candy manufacturer used to come to the 
sanitarium where I was in training. 
Candy eating made an invalid of him. as 
it has of many others. If this woman 
must do something, I suggest raising 
early cucumbers for one thing. I have 
never tried, but I read of starting them 
under glass in the ground. I know there 
is demand for them here. Women need 
to get out of doors more, not mew up 
sewing or making candy. c. 
System in Housecleaning. 
Spring is such a busy time for every¬ 
one ; nature itself seems to be working 
overtime to send forth the green grass 
and the beautiful flowers, and even the 
birds are on the wing, getting in readi¬ 
ness the homes in which to rear their 
young. The rush of outdoor work gets 
the good man out early, and teams and 
farming implements are busy from morn 
till night getting in the crops. The old 
saying, “one hour in the morning is 
worth two in the afternoon” seems very 
true, especially on the farm. House 
cleaning seems to be the interesting sub¬ 
ject for the housewife these nice warm 
days, and before the rush of canning and 
jellies come in our way. 
We always begin in the cellar; it is a 
good plan to carry out decayed apples, 
potatoes, or vegetables along through the 
Winter. It is much more healthful and 
it leaves less to do in the Spring. It 
is also a good plan to give the cellar wall 
a coat of whitewash, and if you do not 
have a cement floor to scrape off the 
damp earth; it will look better and seem 
sweet and clean. 
After the cellar I go to the top and 
work down. Before beginning any room 
all the boxes and drawers are gone over, 
Winter clothes sorted out and put away 
again ; paper rags sold, carpet rags looked 
over. Some do not believe in rag car¬ 
pets, but I do. and hope always to have 
one for my dining room. Where there 
are children there are usually some good 
out-grown clothes that some of your 
neighbors would be very glad of, and they 
would be out of your way. When I pack 
Winter clothes away, each article, or sev¬ 
eral if they are the same kind, are 
wrapped in papers or put in paper sacks 
and marked. They need less handling 
over when you want them in the Fall. 
If one has papering done and the fam¬ 
ily does not do the work themselves, it 
is necessary to have more than one room 
torn up at a time, but even then it can be 
done in such a way that the house does 
not seem to be topsy-turvy all over. The 
children can help in various ways, re¬ 
moving small articles of furniture, pull¬ 
ing tacks if you have carpets, and tear¬ 
ing off the old paper. 
If we have room to move our furniture 
around, a little change here or there 
helps us to feel better, „nd when the last 
finishing touch is put to our work it 
makes us feel like beginning life over 
again. mrs. r. m. Stafford. 
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