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THE K U L, NEW-VORKEH 
i.ebruary 20, 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day 
LIFTERS AND LEANERS. 
There are two 'kinds of people ou earth 
today; 
Just two kinds of people, no more i say; 
Not the rich and the poor, for to count 
a man’s wealth 
You must first know the state of his 
conscience and health. 
Not the humble and proud, for in life’s 
little span 
Who puts on vain airs is not counted 
a man. 
Not the happy and sad. f< •»* the swift 
flying years 
Bring each man his laughter and each 
man his tears. 
No! the two kinds of people on earth I 
mean 
Are the people who lift, and the people 
who lean. 
Wherever you go you will And the 
world’s masses 
Are always divided in just the two 
classes. 
And, oddly enough, you will find, too. I 
ween, 
There’s only one lifter to twenty who 
lean. 
In which class are you? Are you easing 
the load 
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the 
road? 
Or are you the leaner, who lets others 
bear 
Your portion of labor, and worry and 
care? —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 
* 
B UYING food in bulk does not appeal 
to the National Housewives’ League. 
A recommendation to this effect was re¬ 
cently given out by Mr. Geo. W. Perkins, 
chairman of a committee appointed by 
the Mayor of New York to investigate 
our formidable adversary, the high cost 
of living. The League says that bulk 
food tends to adulteration and unsani¬ 
tary handling, and tends to nullify the 
work done by Federal and State authori¬ 
ties in requiring proper labelling. Of 
course this criticism does not refer to 
buying in quantity, which any house¬ 
keeper with proper storage facilities may 
study to advantage. There is no ques¬ 
tion that one must pay for cartons and 
packing, but after thinking of the con¬ 
tamination bulk food may suffer from 
unclean handlers, insects, etc., any sen¬ 
sitive person will see the advantages of 
the “original package.” One must, 
however, discriminate among packages, 
and pay for quality of contents rather 
than exterior decoration, but this is an¬ 
other field in which to use intelligence 
and discrimination. 
* 
M ANY of our milk producers suggest 
an active propaganda to increase the 
consumption of milk, thereby increasing 
the demand for their product, and thus 
creating price standards that will put 
the milk business on a satisfactory basis. 
We have often thought that local milk 
retailers could increase the demand for 
cream to their own advantage. Many 
housekeepers in small towns and villages 
look on cream merely as a luxury for the 
Sunday morning coffee. Really, it is the 
most delicious form of highly nutritious 
fat, especially desirable for delicate chil¬ 
dren or invalids who are under weight. 
Furthermore, a 12-cent bottle of cream 
may be made the basis of many delicious 
desserts; it gains so much in bulk when 
whipped that it “goes farther” than one 
would imagine, and combined with rice, 
with fruit or with gelatine preparations 
it is really no more expensive than many 
ordinary pastries and puddings. Would 
it not be worth while, in many cases, to 
consider the development of the retail 
cream business? It is likely that the 
dairyman’s “women folks” would be very 
helpful in this propaganda. 
* 
T HE Children’s Bureau of the Depart¬ 
ment of Labor has issued a prelim¬ 
inary report on infant mortality in the 
United States. One very important feat¬ 
ure brought out is one familiar to all 
conscientious physicians—that babies 
artificially fed die at a higher rate than 
those nursed by the mother. In the 
earliest months of the baby’s life exclu¬ 
sive breast-feeding appears to be the only 
safe method. Only 46.6 babies per thou¬ 
sand died under one year of age when 
breast-fed for at least three months, as 
against 165.8 per thousand who died 
when fed exclusively on artificial food up 
to the age of three months. Where 
mothers were employed a large part of 
che time in heavy work babi°s died at a 
much more rapid rate. Another notice¬ 
able fact was that the deaths of babies 
investigated were in inverse proportion 
to the earnings of their fathers. Babies 
whose fathers earned less than ten dol¬ 
lars a week died at the rate of 256 per 
thousand. Those whose fathers earned 
twenty-five or more dollars a week died 
at the rate of 84 per thousand. These 
investigations refer to city babies, and 
it was found that in the poor sections of 
the city, where sanitary conditions were 
at their worst, the rate of infant mor¬ 
tality was 271 per thousand, more than 
five times that of the choice residential 
sections. As a contrast in sanitary con¬ 
ditions, it was found that in neglected 
streets where all .water had to be carried 
into the house, the infant death rate was 
108 per thousand, as against 118 per 
thousand where water was piped into the 
house. Here again we must remember 
that city, not country homes are referred 
to. Even in a farm home without mod¬ 
ern conveniences, the family may control 
conditions so far as to keep the water 
supply pure, and dispose of sewage 
wastes without their becoming a source 
of danger, but in the city the well-to-do 
may quickly suffer from disease and 
death, as the result of conditions per¬ 
mitted among helpless poverty. We hope 
the Children’s Bureau will make a study 
of infant mortality in rural communities, 
that we may know conditions there, and 
realize in this way, whether we are doing 
our best for the little ones committed to 
our care. 
The Rural Patterns. 
When ordering, give number of each 
pattern, and size desired. Price of each 
pattern 10 cents. 
6 mos. or 1 year, 2 and 4 8539 Infant’s Wrapper, 
years. One Size. 
Seen in New York Shops. 
T HE new fashions are kind enough to 
let women wear two, or even three 
underskirts, and the new silk petticoats 
have wide circular flounces. Among 
them are models with scalloped ruffles 
and also a pretty style having four rows 
of old-fashioned quilling around the cir¬ 
cular flounce. 
Covert cloths in tan. olive, sand and 
mastic shades for Spring suits and coats 
cost from $1.50 to $4.50 a yard; craven- 
ette covert cloth is $1.50 and $1.75 a 
yard, 54 inches wide. This is practical 
material for a smart separate coat. Made 
in Cossack style such a coat would be 
ver .7 satisfactory for a young girl. 
Among one-piece dresses for Spring 
wear the following ideas are noted; Gir¬ 
dles of braid, pleated cloth skirts with a 
silk yoke of different color, suspender 
and jumper effects, soutache embroidery, 
shirred girdles, circular and other wide 
skirts. There are many odd combina¬ 
tions of navy blue with tan; for exam¬ 
ple. a tan overskirt showing a navy 
blue skirt under it. or a tan yoke with a 
navy blue pleated skirt. Many wide 
skirts are trimmed with a four to eight- 
inch band or envelope hem around the 
bottom, either the same or a contrasting 
material. Some jumper waists are like 
the bodices worn by European peasants, 
tight-fitting, sleeveless, and cut down 
square in back and front, so that there 
are narrow straps over the shoulders. 
One dress seen had this jumper of plain 
dark velvet, the plain under-bodice and 
wide gathered skirt being check silk. 
The under-bodice had high neck and long 
bell sleeves trimmed with a baud of vel¬ 
vet. while a deep hem of velvet edged the 
full skirt. 
What is called a bathroom set con¬ 
sists of a bath mat with applied initial, 
two heavy Turkish towels, and two face 
cloths. One of the linen shops recently 
offered these sets in special quality for $4. 
Such a set is an attractive gift, whether 
to a housekeeper, a prospective bride, or 
a young girl collecting for her “hope 
chest." 
February is the month of house-furn¬ 
ishing sales, furniture, bedding, and sim¬ 
ilar articles being greatly reduced. 
Among bedsteads some dull brass, three- 
quarter size, are offered from $10 up. 
There are very handsome brass beds 
modeled after the old-fashioned wooden 
ones. 
A suspender dress of black and white 
silk, priced, with its accompanying crepe 
de chine blouse, at $29.50, suggested to 
the thrifty mind a good model for making 
over. The silk was in checkerboard 
blocks of black and white; there was a 
deep plain yoke, with a high waist line, 
the skirt itself being very full gored, 
with a piping down each gore, the back 
and sides being set into the yoke with 
shallow pleats. Two plain suspender 
straps went over the shoulders. The 
waist was a plain military model in 
white crepe de chine, with a high plain 
collar. A dress made in this style is be¬ 
coming to young girls who have reached 
the lanky stage of growth, while the use 
of the yoke as a means of lengthening the 
skirt is a great help in making over an 
outgrown frock. 
Sakai fibre rugs of Japanese mami- 
factuve have the silky look of the fine 
Oriental weaves, and are very handsome, 
some attractive styles being a soft wood 
brown or ran with designs of dull pea¬ 
cock blue and black. They are said to 
stand hard wear well. Rugs 5x6 feet 
were $ 6 ; 9x12 $17, and a size still 
larger $27. Mission, artstyle oi* crafts¬ 
man rugs (several different names are 
given to similar styles) are a plain 
heavy weave with a contrasting border or 
figure. They come in artistic colorings, 
and have a look of refinement not always 
procurable in inexpensive rugs; one 9 x 12 
feet costs about $14.50. 
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