1914. 
THK RURAL NEW-YORKER 
777 
. — :m£:: the common question — \ 
| THE HIRED MAN’S CHILDREN i 
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The Parents to Blame. 
I N so many advertisements for help we 
read “no children.” If one has been 
about the world very much, and mingled 
with all classes, the question why the 
children are not wanted by those who 
hire is very soon answered. It is not al¬ 
ways the fault of the child, but more 
often the parents. They are not brought 
UP to obey, neither are they taught the 
rights of others, or not to meddle with 
what does not belong to them. Again, 
what they do at home why not away 
from home? An instance comes to mind 
which happened some years ago. A sis¬ 
ter-in-law and little daughter of some 
three years were spending the day with 
us on the farm. While preparing dinner 
I beard the piano keys making strange 
sounds. As the mother knew I never 
allowed small children to touch the piano, 
and she was sewing in the room I waited 
a moment, but the sound continued, and 
going to the door I found the child walk¬ 
ing on the keyboard. I told her to get 
right off and never to do it again. “Mam¬ 
ma lets me walk on hers,” she said. 
“Never mind if she does, you cannot 
walk on mine,” I replied, and she never 
did. Who was to blame? The mother 
without question. We hired a man and 
wife one time, the wife to assist with 
housework. They had a little baby boy 
six or eight months old. Before ar¬ 
rangements could be made for accommo¬ 
dating them they slept in the spare bed¬ 
room. It was a small room, and I 
thought the room upstairs was large and 
more pleasant. It was not finished, but 
was a very comfortable room in Summer. 
After moving, up to the garret, they 
called it, the woman did not seem to care 
to do more than she was obliged to; her 
baby took very much more time to look 
after, wash for. etc., in fact she did not 
begin to pay for her board. Sometimes 
she would leave him on the bed, and read 
or go out of doors for her own amuse¬ 
ment. the baby crying at the top of his 
voice. The man was a good worker, and 
they needed the wages badly, but we dis¬ 
charged her, he staid a while after, then 
left. 
When in New York State, some years 
ago. a friend wished us to go into a fine 
house as caretakers until the owner could 
occupy it some months later. “I want 
no children to mar the house.” My hus¬ 
band made the remark that his father had 
a large family, but they were brought up 
not to injure, break or hurt iu any way 
the house or surroundings, but it is one 
case in a hundred where they are so 
taught. The bump of destructiveness is 
very large in some children. A young 
girl called here with her parents a few 
days ago. She never had been here be¬ 
fore but she tried to see into every room, 
even the pantry door was tried, but her 
mother spoke to her not to open it. I 
have seen little children pound the win¬ 
dows with whatever was handy without 
a word from the mother—it was not their 
house. In a nutshell the answer is, teach 
the children to mind, be respect'd, and 
not injure property, and the “no children” 
advertisement will not appea-. 
MRS. FREDERICK C. JOHNSON. 
Children Not Well Trained. 
This question of children other than 
our own constantly about us, 1 1 not a 
simple one, so much depends on cir¬ 
cumstances. For instance, a man who 
owns a farm has more authority over 
lawless children than a woman would 
have. If he loves children, has true dig¬ 
nity. and has even poorly brought-up 
children ou his farm, he can control them 
to a certain extent, which a woman c.ould 
not so well do. Thus, he might be able 
to manage without being too much an¬ 
noyed by children, even if the parents 
themselves were ignorant or unreason¬ 
able. or both, and the children unbridled. 
Taking the average run of help, we find 
very often parents utterly unfit to bring 
up children, who thus become a nuisance, 
being destructive and not being old 
enough to work, finding pleasure in many 
ways which are not agreeable to the 
farm owner, such as swarming over barns 
and storehouses, and penetrating even 
into the storerooms where goods are 
stored, appropriating what they fancy, 
painting black stripes on a red barn, 
possessing the orchard, biting great ap¬ 
ples and then throwing them on the 
ground, driving nails in the window cas¬ 
ings, and whittling them, etc. All these 
things have happened here, and we have 
been very free from annoyance compared 
with those who have had more children 
about. No objection is made to a peace¬ 
able, law-abiding pair of parents, with 
children who are early taught that the 
house, yard and garden which they oc¬ 
cupy is sacred to them, and the house, 
yard and garden which we occupy is 
sacred to us. The reason, then. why. as 
a general thing. I fight shy of children 
belonging to hired help on the farm, is 
not that I do not love children even 
fairly well brought up. but because I 
have the same objection to having a 
horde of unbridled children over whom I 
have no control, romping over my home, 
that you would have to riding behind a 
team of lively horses with the reins 
dragging on the ground. You could man¬ 
age the team, even if lively, if you had 
the reins, but you object to being at 
their mercy. e. e. d. 
Turkey Raising For Women. 
I PROMISED I would give an article 
on turkey raising. \Ye certainly 
have had a fine article on page 426, 
March 14 issue. I agree with Mrs. 
The Head Of The Flock. 
Grover when she says, get good stock. 
It is essential to successful turkey raising. 
What most I am to say is to urge wom¬ 
en and girls who are ou a farm, and 
would lilce to earn i. little “pin money,” 
to try turkey raising. You certainly 
would be surprised how much you can 
earn in this way as a side line. It is 
not necessary to give all your time. Tur¬ 
keys always bring a good price at 
Thanksgiving time. The markets never 
have too many good large fat turkeys. 
It is a fascinating business; you do 
not know how interested you may be¬ 
come in turkey raising. They are intel¬ 
ligent birds, and learn to come to your 
call. You can work up a good business 
as a fancier if you would but try. Get 
the best stock you can find, raise some 
choice birds, and see how quickly you 
can dispose of them at a good price. I 
would not have you think it an easy 
business, for there is work in any good 
business, and a certain expense to be 
met. 
A young woman said to me recently: 
“Would you advise me to go into the 
business largely?” Said I: “By all 
means no. Get a good trio of turkeys, 
and see what you can do before you go 
into it extensively.” 
When I commenced my father gave me 
two Bronze hens. They laid 26 eggs 
and hatched every one. One little poult 
died when but a day old; the 25 I 
raised to full-grown birds. I dressed and 
shipped them to the Boston market, and 
they netted me $44.85 at a very low 
price at that time. I can say I felt 
very proud of my two turkeys. Of 
course they must be fed, but any farm 
ought to furnish the wife or daughter 
feed for her turkeys. Again, there are 
people who think a turkey the worst 
thing that could come upon the premises, 
but that is where they are mistaken, for 
they destroy innumerable numbers of in¬ 
sects, such as grasshoppers, crickets, 
bugs, grubs, and I have seen them eat 
small snakes. They certainly are a bene¬ 
fit to the farmer in that way. Turkeys 
are not as hard to raise as one may 
imagine. As Mrs. Grover said, everyone 
has individual methods of caring for 
them. I hope someone who reads this 
article may at least try luck at turkey 
raising. mrs. e. j. ryder. 
Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
Good Meals For Eaby. 
A LLOW me to put a plea for the baby 
of last year as the warm weather 
is coming on. We often hear about the 
difficulties of the baby’s second Summer, 
while as a matter of course they are less 
than those of the first Summer neces¬ 
sarily, the popular opinion probably ris¬ 
ing from the fact that many people seem 
to think the little stomach has grown or 
advanced during the previous Winter 
from baby to adult capacity. Nearly 
everyone is fairly careful what baby gets 
to eat the first year, but by the second 
year they think nothing ever did kill him, 
and now he can eat pork and cabbage. 
Naturally the little stomach revolts and 
we have a very sick baby. Now. when 
you have a very tasty vegetable soup, 
don’t, in common mercy, divide with the 
baby; far better give him one vegetable 
at a time, and we would know better 
than to do that, but in a soup almost 
anything looks harmless and we don’t 
think. Broths, if not too highly sea¬ 
soned ; cakes and cookies made with 
cream, custards, bread puddings, eggs, 
both raw and cooked, rice, and a great 
variety in the same line furnish so many 
safe foods that there is little excuse for 
subjecting baby to the pain and danger 
of improper foods. Of course these things 
must be adapted to the individual child. 
The highly recommended fruit juices, for 
instance, don’t agree with our baby at 
all. 
Another source of danger is the fre¬ 
quent changes in temperature. We are 
busy house cleaning, gardening, etc., and 
often fail to notice the change till baby 
gets chilled, especially when the 
first warm days come, and we enjoy them 
so much. M. 
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HOME COMFORT 
N EARLY all the farm papers have 
been printing the wife’s side of the 
home improvement topic. Somehow I 
became imbued with the idea that I was 
being mistreated, and not having the 
many labor lighteners that I ought to 
have. But I couldn’t make myself be¬ 
lieve that it was necessary for me to re¬ 
sort to rebellion and adroit schemes in 
order to get them. My husband did not. 
I felt sure, require that kind of treat¬ 
ment to make him do the right thing. 
One evening I mentioned my ideas to 
him. lie heard me out and then he went 
and got his account books and showed 
me plainly just what hard work and skil¬ 
ful planning had done in making both 
ends meet and lap just a little over, the 
past year. He said, and I know it is 
the truth, that the improvements placed 
ou the farm and its buildings were just 
as much for my interest as for his, we 
being comrades and partners; that they 
meant larger profits and that those profits 
would permit, in time, of my having all 
the many modern improvements that I 
craved. Meanwhile, he would help me 
as much as possible with the hardest 
work. It seems, to me, that this most 
common problem ought to be met by 
wives with a spirit of tolerance and good 
will. I do not believe that many farm 
men deliberately refuse to furnish such 
conveniences to their women folks. When 
they do. then no one can blame the wives 
from resorting to almost any tactics ne¬ 
cessary to secure them. But. to my mind, 
the average farm husband likes modern 
improvements as much as his wife does, 
and is ready to furnish them if finan¬ 
cially able without being compelled by 
strikes and undignified conspiracies. 
MARY E. GARDNER. 
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