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May 4, 1918 
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WOMAN AND HOME 
malnutrition among the children of Amer- telephone. 
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From Day to Day 
Pour Out Your Gold 
The great gray transports sail very 
quietly, 
Nobody seems to know just when they 
sail— 
But soniotim(‘s you can see one dropping 
down the late tide 
With one little yellow light upon the 
stern rail. 
Sacrifice and hardship, heartbreak and 
loneliness— 
Is that what they mean to us, the gray 
boats in the night, 
f’arrying in silence the men we send so 
willingly. 
Carrying the boys we love across the 
sea to fight? 
No! a thousand times, No! We have no 
time for weeping— 
Blood and tears are only part of what 
we have to give; 
We must keep them sailing, the great gray 
transports. 
Keep them sailing over, if Freedom is 
to live! 
—Elizabeth Porter WyckofF, 
in the New York Tribune. 
Regarding farm work by "ft’ornen in 
Great Britain, Lady Reading, wife of 
the British Ambassador to Washington, 
made the following statement in a recent 
interview: 
The farmerettes have done wonders. 
The farm work being done by women is 
not only vit \1 to food production, but also 
commercially profitable. Women are em¬ 
ployed on farms and by farmers by the 
thousands, (juite apart from the hundreds 
who are managing their own c.states and 
doing part of the work. I think that ex¬ 
cept for the heaviest occupations, such as 
plowing, farming is essentially women’s 
work. Truck gardening, sheep and cattle 
raising, poultry farming and dairy work 
are branches in 'which my own friends 
have been particularly successful. The 
most difficult problem in employing wom¬ 
en power on large estates, which no doubt 
vou will experience here, is that of hous- 
ing. 
We have heard of several cases where 
newly drafted men at training camps be¬ 
came lemiss in duty, or even endeavored 
to desert, as the direct result of com¬ 
plaining and depressing letters from home. 
Complaints of loneliness, sickness or pov¬ 
erty, often real enough, but sometimes 
quite uncalled for, made the men they 
were written to so discouraged that they 
were ready to take the risks involved in 
shirking duty, or even actual desertion. 
When we consider the courage and devo¬ 
tion shown by women in the Allied coun¬ 
tries, who are bravely bearing burdens, 
bereavements and deprivations to which 
our women are yet strangers, we ought 
to stiffen our moral backbone, and resolve 
that nothing we say or do shall tend to 
weaken the morale of our fighting men. 
Cheerful home letters have a powerful 
influence. Why write to the boy in camp 
that little Willie looks as though he was 
sickening for something catching, that 
you don’t feel very well yourself, and 
that the price of groceries is something 
awful? Aren’t there things he really 
wants to know more than that? An 
ancient Chinese proverb says: “The 
duck’s legs are short, the stork’s legs are 
long; we cannot, by thinking about it, 
make the duck’s legs long nor the stork’s 
legs short, therefore, why worry?” Since 
the distant soldier cannot prevent Willie’s 
mumps or the grocer’s charges, why throw 
the burden on him, when he himself is 
fighting against loneliness in a new en¬ 
vironment? Make him remember home as 
the most cheerful spot on earth, and to 
him, at least, keep on smiling. 
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TriE Children’s Bureau of the United 
States Department of Labor has issued a 
bulletin on “Milk, the Indispensable Food 
for Children,” by Dr. Dorothy Reed Men¬ 
denhall. It is a very strong statement of 
the absolute need of clean, fresh cows’ 
milk for all children. Dr. Mendenhall 
says “The curtailing of food by the 
adult population is not a serious matter, 
and may even be beneficial. The average 
child today does not have enough of the 
right sort of food, and cannot have its 
food cut down nor the important articles 
of its diet replaced by questionable sub¬ 
stitutes without grave danger of increas¬ 
ing malnutrition in our child popula¬ 
tion.” She says further: “Intellectual 
and moral abnormality are largely influ- 
intellectual and moral deterioration.” 
This bulletin makes an urgent plea for 
the nursing of the infant by the mother, 
followed by abundance of cow’s milk after 
weaning. The infant mortality is always 
highest among children artificially fed. 
A Farm Housewife and Her Live Stock 
With a gloomy outlook from the farm 
wife’s viewpoint, in regard to poultry and 
turkey production, my advice is : Go slow; 
raise sufficient for home use and a sur¬ 
plus of later ones to sell, but keep off all 
you can after the market begins to sag. 
Chickens and eggs consumed at home 
will save other eatables, and keeping them 
off the market will prevent a deluge, un¬ 
til the market is stabilized and the pro¬ 
ducer is allowed something like cost of 
production; that is all we ask. 
I have found more profit in pigs than 
poultry. I sold a calf; $6 of the money 
I invested in two pigs. These I fed sw-eet 
milk and table scraps six weeks. I sold 
them for $12..’>0; bought a larger pig for 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
9577. Boy’s Suit, 2 
to C years. I’rice 10 
cents. 
9302. House Gown, 
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42 or 44 l)ust. Price 
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9040. Blouse with 
'J'unic, 34 to 42 bust. 
9593. 3'wo - piece 
Skirt, 24 to 34 
waist. Price 15 
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951v). I'anoy Blouse, 
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9523. Skirt with 
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cents. 
$6.50. She was covered with lice and 
hidebound. I washed her with strong 
soapsuds and rubbed lier every day with 
a corncob; I fed her regularly three 
•times a day, corn bread, sweet milk, po¬ 
tatoes, scraps, bits of meat scrap, beans, 
wheat bran, lettuce, cabbage; in fact, just 
anything. Grow? Well, I have been of¬ 
fered $25 for her, but she is to farrow, 
and if she does well will be kept for a 
family brood sow. I think it cheaper to 
raise pigs than pay $8 and $10 for little 
fellows. 
I raise turkeys, too. Sometimes it is 
a failure and sometimes a success, but if 
time w’as money they cost just about 50 
cents per pound, outside of the feed hill. 
The first two months call for constant 
care. The young poults must be kept out 
of the dew; if a rain comes they must be 
housed. A turkey hen is just as apt to 
sit in a wash as on a knoll. I lost one 
whole brood once because I could not find 
them, and after the rain I heard the 
mother “Put, put,” and, behold, there 
were 20-odd young turkeys drifted up 
against the fence. Feel bad? Oh, yes; 
then I could weep over a dead turkey as 
readily as over some great calamity now, 
but their loss always meant and does yet, 
two hens to lay again. When they set 
will give these under the 'chicken bens 
to one turkey hen, and set the other 
eggs under the remaining hen and chick¬ 
en hens. I will only have the two hens 
with turkeys. The first feed I give is a 
hard-boiled egg, shell and egg crushed 
fine. I usually feed wheat bread soaked 
in sweet milk. This year I will start 
th on dry corn bread with sweet milk 
to drink. Meat skins boiled tender, cut 
fine with scissors, dandelions cut fine, 
ekabber cheese sprinkled with black pep¬ 
per, a bit of boiled potato, etc., are all 
fed, as they grow older. Crushed corn 
scalded and allowed to stand an hour or 
two, never long enough to sour, is good. 
Dry feet, warm sunshine and no lice, with 
plenty of exercise, spells success with tur¬ 
keys. 
We can only go it blind and do our 
best, trusting in a higher power to in¬ 
tervene between the oppressor and op¬ 
pressed, and bring order out of chaos and 
success out of ruin. MRS. n. B. P. 
Seen in New York Shops 
Soldiers’ camp boxes, each containing 
two khaki-colored handkerchiefs, one 
sleeping cap, one trench mirror, one 
French phrase book, and one American 
flag, were recently offered at a special 
sale for 68 cents. 
Women’s kitchen overalls in solid col¬ 
ors of chambray or percale in stripes and 
checks, are 94 cents. Garden and fac¬ 
tory overalls, in plain dark blue or tan, 
or stripes of blue and white, tan and 
white, or tan and black, are $1.89. 
An attractive newicorset waist for chil¬ 
dren buttons in front, so that children 
can button the garment themselves, and 
has reinforced bands across the back, and 
in front of the shoulders, so as to relieve 
the pull of the garters and give support to 
the back. It comes in sizes two to 12 
years, price 69 cents. 
Among sports hats are sailor shapes in 
I)ineapple straw, rough and in a variety 
of colors, includiug khaki, cherry, black 
and sand. They are trimmed with a plain 
grosgrain band, and cost $2.79 up. There 
are some pretty inexpensive wide-brimmed 
sports hats in rather coarse Leghorn, and 
also China Milan, trimmed with gros¬ 
grain bands, that are quite inexpensive. 
Among curtain materials are Scotch 
madra.s, ecru with designs in pink, blue, 
green or gold, for 45 and 50 cents a yard; 
white and ecru Scotch madras, 35 and 
50 cents; lace cloth (voile) in ivory 
white, 35 to 60 cents; net, in white, 
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