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THE RUHAL 
NEW-YORKER 
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Getting a Pretty Yard. 
HERE is no doubt that farmers, as 
a rule, are more indifferent to the 
beauty of the grounds about their homes 
than they would be if they understood 
two things; first, that an actual cash 
value, by no means inconsiderable, is add¬ 
ed to their property by pretty surround¬ 
ings, and, second, that their “women 
folks” would be much happier and bet¬ 
ter contented to remain on the farm, if 
they had flowers and green grass. Any¬ 
thing that tends to depress a woman on 
a farm, reacts on her husband and fam¬ 
ily, and the converse is true. The above 
is for the men. Now for the women. 
Men on the farm have become accus¬ 
tomed to women perennially scolding be¬ 
cause they do not have pretty yards. 
Scolding? Well, the Bible says, “He 
that is often reproved hardeneth his 
neck.” Profane writers have remarked 
that “the longer you keep an egg or a 
man in hot water, the harder they be¬ 
come.” Did you ever notice that cer¬ 
tain “must haves” always come some 
way or other? Make your beautiful 
yard a “must have,” and stick to it like 
grim death, never letting go for a day, 
and you will get it. You need not ex¬ 
pect to get it easily. Me cannot change 
okl traditions quickly. A good many dif¬ 
ferent strings may have to be pulled be¬ 
fore you get what you want. A little 
psychology is not amiss here—a reali¬ 
zation that you must approach a mind in 
a certain way to produce certain reac¬ 
tions. The first thing is, never lose pa; 
tience, and never speak crossly about 
this, no matter how much you may scold 
about other things. Remember the fable 
of the sun and the wind, who tried to 
see which could make the traveller throw 
aside his mantle, and how the wind tore 
with all its force, which only made the 
traveller cling the more tightly to his 
cloak, while the sun shone on him and 
melted it off him in a few minutes. The 
following ways have been tried by dif¬ 
ferent women with more or less success. 
1. Cutting out all fancy cooking and 
giving only the plainest kind of food, 
which fortunately is nourishing, so one 
need not feel one is starving a man if 
he gets beans and corn bread instead 
of lemon pie and doughnuts. When 
asked for a different fare, say it is 
“extra work but you will trade your 
time for the time of a man in the yard.” 
2. Getting a woman in the house and 
letting “him” pay for her while you go 
out and do the work yourself. You can 
do it. O, yes, you can. Helen Albee tells 
how, in her “Hardy Plants for Cottage 
Gardens,” which it would pay you to 
get. None of you can have as discourag¬ 
ing an outlook as she had, and she con¬ 
quered and tells how she did it. 
3. Stop helping to milk. Let the 
chickens go, and let “him” buy eggs or 
go without. Don’t raise any more tur¬ 
keys. Milking is a man’s work and you 
don’t get paid a man’s wages for doing 
it. If you did, you could hire a man to 
make the flower gardens. Turkeys and 
chickens will do if you can make money 
enough on them to hire a man for the 
yard. Otherwise “cut them out” if you 
want a garden more than anything else. 
4. Advertise for a man who under¬ 
stands and loves work in a garden but 
who is confined to office work in a city 
and state that he can have board and 
room in the country for his services in 
that line. It is astonishing how glad 
these office and indoor men are to have a 
chance to get outdoor and country vaca¬ 
tions without having it cost them any¬ 
thing. The expense of living in a city 
on a salary none too large, leaves them 
little cash for outings. 
5. If you can teach anything advertise 
to exchange lessons for work. Some¬ 
times you can get a foreigner who wishes 
to learn the language and who would 
gladly work three months for the sake 
of thoroughly mastering English cor¬ 
rectly. 
6. The chances are, if you are like most 
farmers’ wives, that you are boarding 
hired men and doing a lot of extra work 
for them. This should be recognized and 
paid for, either in work on your yard. 
or in money, so that you can hire the 
work. Strike on doing something for 
nothing and claim your right to have 
those cheerful God-given, beauties, the 
happy flowers, all about you as you stay 
in the one spot to which farmers’ wives, 
more than other women are confined. 
Stick to it that if you are nailed to one 
spot, you must have that spot beautiful. 
ELLEN EAMES DE GRAFF. 
Southern Outdoor Flowers for the 
New York Trade. 
E are often asked for advice as to 
hardy flowers that may be grown 
outdoors in the South for the New York 
flower trade. We cannot suggest that 
there is any great fortune in this work, 
but the trade offers possibilities, and may 
"The Triple Entente. 
in time develop like the flower-growing in 
the south of France. A recent query in 
the Florists’ Review asked what jonquils. 
Narcissi and peonies should be grown for 
this trade in Western Kentucky, and how 
they should be packed. The following ad¬ 
vice was given by F. P>., in the Review: 
As to the most profitable varieties of 
Narcissi and jonquils to grow outdoors 
for the wholesale cut flower market, there 
is only one true jonquil that would prob¬ 
ably prove profitable; that is, the cam- 
pernelle, variety Odorus rugulosus. There 
seem to be two varieties of this sent out 
from Holland, the true Rugulosus being 
much larger than the other and grown on 
longer stems. The first cost of the bulbs 
is slight and they increase more rapidly 
in this country than any other Narcissus 
of which I know. 
Of the trumpet daffodils. Emperor, Em¬ 
press and Sir Watkin are the three varie¬ 
ties that will prove the most profitable, 
all things considered. Emperor and Sir 
Watkin are rather better, possibly, than 
Empress, because of color, and also be¬ 
cause Empress is more subject to disease. 
As soon as Glory of Leiden can be bought 
as low as $3 or $4 per hundred, it should 
prove the most profitable of all, for it 
seems to be robust and certainly produces 
a much larger and finer flower than any 
of the others. 
When there is a demand for the light, 
airy varieties, or for extra early ones. 
Narcissus incomparabilis Stella, Leedsii 
type. Duchess of Brabant and Mrs. Lang¬ 
try are profitable. Barrii conspicuus can 
be bought cheaply, blooms freely, and usu¬ 
ally finds a ready sale, though none of this 
latter class brings as high a price in most 
markets as the trumpet daffodils. Of the 
Poeticns narcissi, N. poeticus oruatus and 
King Edward VII. are the most profita¬ 
ble. The latter variety is high priced, 
but. where the market will pay for extra 
quality, is worth the difference. 
It is difficult to name the four best 
peonies, but undoubtedly P. festiva max¬ 
ima and Queen Victoria in white, Felix 
Orousse and Francois Ortegat in red. are 
as good as any. There are many good 
pinks of about equal value; P. edulis su- 
perba and Rosea superba are the two va¬ 
rieties that are perhaps most widely 
grown, though Modesto Guerin is better 
than the latter. 
Shippers here, in northern Tennessee, 
usually do not ship in baskets, but iu 
good, clean boxes, well lined with paper. 
The blooms are carefullv packed and held 
in place by means of wooden cleats, nailed 
over the steins iu such a way as to hold 
them down firmly and yet not bruise them. 
Generally these cleats are put In over 
every layer of blooms. 
The Stuttering Child. —Dr. Smiley 
Blanton of Wisconsin University, in an 
article on speech defects, says: 
“It is one of the unfortunate things 
that stammering and stuttering are con¬ 
sidered funny. It would be less perpet¬ 
ually the material for jokes were it better 
known what a great percent, of this 
trouble is thus caused by imitation. 
Sometimes a stuttering child will start a 
whole school. We should use our influ¬ 
ence to prevent characters on the stage 
from simulating stuttering as a means of 
getting a laugh. Severe injuries or surgi¬ 
cal operations or great fright may induce 
it. < )nc case is on record where a boy 
was chased by a Vicious hog; ill another 
instance frogs were placed in a child’s bed 
ns a practical joke, frightening him so 
that he became a stutterer. It is essen¬ 
tially a disease of childhood and it is then 
that the cure is easiest. A few may out¬ 
grow the disease, but most untreated cases 
last on into adult life. As soon as the 
disease begins the child should ne exam¬ 
ined by a competent physician or nerve 
specialist if possible and any abnormal 
physical condition treated, and the child 
then placed in the charge of a trained 
teacher who has had experience in teach¬ 
ing stutterers. The treatment consists 
mostly in carefully re-educating the 
child’s speech mechanism. With some the 
cure requires only a few weeks, others 
much longer. All cases can be cured or 
greatly helped.” 
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Grasshoppers As Food.— Last year 
one of the farm papers startled the 
chicken world with the story of the 
woman who “put up” several barrels of 
dried grasshoppers as hen food. Now 
comes President ,T. H. Waters of the 
Kansas Agricultural College: “Dried 
grasshoppers are used as food in the 
Philippine Islands. Three thousand tons 
of grasshoppers were marketed in M an¬ 
il;) in a year. Some good and tempting 
dishes are prepared from them. There is 
a grasshopper plague every 10 years in 
the Philippines, and the problem of com¬ 
bating the grasshoppers in a warm cli¬ 
mate like the Philippines is more diffi¬ 
cult than in countries where cold weather 
serves as a check. There are many acres 
of unsettled country which serve as 
breeding places for the grasshoppers. 
The method used in capturing the grass¬ 
hoppers is to organize a drive. A large 
shallow tank is constructed which has 
wings of galvanized iron. The tank is 
filled with kerosene. The natives then 
start the drive three or four miles away 
and close in gradually, driving the grass¬ 
hoppers before them into the tank. The 
grasshoppers are then dried and sent to 
market.” 
Homes For Women. —Years ago it 
was common to find in every farm home 
middle-aged women doing part of the 
work of the household for the sake of 
a home, or at least very small wages. 
They were treated well and looked after 
the household wants as faithfully as 
though It were their own home. Since 
coming back to the old farm to live we 
find very few of these helpers, but we 
believe there are in cities or larger towns 
many women who would be happy and 
contented in such situations; a place 
where they could have comfortable rooms, 
good food and light work, light compared 
to the old days when cheese was made 
in nearly every farmhouse. This subject 
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