904 
^he RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 20, 1918 
“Where’s Mother?” 
Mother is the Hub in the Wheel 
this latest unpleasantness is over, whether 
a slacker with his money or his muscle, 
will be considered an outcast from good 
society, and, thank the Lord, we have 
very few of either kind here. 
Sumner Co., Kan. son. king. 
Just Wanted to Know. —^As I sat in 
my room writing this morning I beard a 
boyish voice say, “WLere mamma?” 
“Hush,” said elder sister, “she’s in her 
room writing, and she does not want to be 
bothered,” “Well, I don’t guess I’ll both¬ 
er her,” he answers, and rushes in like a 
whirlwind. 
“What did you want, Don?” I ask. 
“Oh, I just wanted to know where you 
were,” he answered carelessly, as he 
tossed himself down by baby, who was 
lying on a pallet cooing and gurgling, 
while biting her pink toes. I go on writ¬ 
ing and presently tw. more pairs of bare 
feet cross the porch. 
Anotiieu Demand. —’’Where’s mam¬ 
ma?” they both ask in a breath, of uncle, 
who is reading. “In her room,” he ans¬ 
wers, and in rush True ard “Fatty,” who 
have been to take the cows to pasture. 
“What do you want?” I niay again. “Oh. 
just wanted to know where you were,” 
is the answer; and they begin to talk to 
baby also, and she, feeling her impor¬ 
tance, laughs ar.'l crows and kicks and be- 
.stows her sweet smiles on all of tl em. 
The Third Interruption. —^Again the 
door is pushed open and little boy sticks 
his head innde. “Mamma,” he calls. 
“All right, sonn„ ' what is it?” “I just 
wanted to know where you wa:,” and 
he, too, joins the admiring group around 
baby. The racket grows too l.erce, so I 
toll them all to “hit the h:K 2 ;r True 
takes baby in his arms, and they go troop¬ 
ing out. 
The Dig Boy. —^Now, I think I can 
write, so I proceed.. I have finished a 
pa^o when I hear again the familiar 
que.y, “Where’s mamn'ia?” and in comes 
“my big boy” of fifteen. “What’s your 
desire, son?” I ask. “Oh, nothing; only 
I wanted to know where you were.” After 
telling me Avhere he is going to plow, he 
goes to kis" baby, whom he has not seen 
this morning. 
Fathe? Comes. —I go on and am seal- 
'.g my letters when a man’s voice says: 
'■ Where’s your mamma?” I look up as he 
enters, “Die' vou wans ^.nythin" hubby?” 
A ray “Nc nothing particular; just 
wr.nte: tfi Know where you were.” He 
seats hiri.‘.cM lu ^ yockcr and chats a few 
mon ents sbou' the crope, the weather and 
the ’lowing* as IS me wh-t I think about 
some of tb. fair ing operations—^for we 
are ' ert in the truest sense of the 
word—..i. Fm just as much interested 
an thrfiui.'ii' as be. Then he gees to build 
fence. 1* ’Iwar'^s thus; just as soon as 
they enter le house they must know 
where I r.u ind all mothers have the 
same experieiio-. .! thin’:. 
Facing Loss..-—i shudder to think that 
comt day the boy.? A’. 3 girls will all drift 
away and no one ‘•'ft hut father to 
cal’ foT “mamma.” V3\ ' know by obser¬ 
vation that very few -'o; - _i-s cyer live 'o 
old age .and keep any ^ f tL kiddies ’ tili 
the end, so I have faced tfris Or ' the time 
they were little tots. I know ii’t some 
day they must go out tc do thei: wk in 
the world, ant' It is better ' - 
God’s plan, and “He doeth^ all ■ ye 
well.” and my oart is to train them 
to be good and true, and when they - 
go He -will give me strength to meet 
bravely. I have many things planned fo. 
the time when the children no longer need 
me. In all my plans father figures, for S' 
have no conception of a life without him 
somehow I cannot^ think I will ever be 
called on to give him u". I have always 
felt that I’d go through the sunset gates 
a ver^v short time before him. and I know 
when” he comes the first question he asks 
will he “Where’s mamma?” In this life 
rve have been all in all to each other. 
“Over there” it will be the same. I am 
sure. But I am not going till I am called. 
I love this old earth, and life looks good 
to me now. 
Keighrorly Contrast. — Sometimes 
(for a moment) I am inclined to envy 
my neighbor just over the way. Tier 
house is always spick and span. She 
never has to rush, she has plenty of 
money, and a “car.” She never has any 
anxious thoughts as to Winter wardrobes 
or food supplies, while my house often 
look as though a cyclone had struck it; a 
hat here, a shoe thei-e, an overshoe under 
the stove, perhaps where its owmer placed 
it to dry and forgot it; a coat in the hall 
and a cap in the best rocker, etc., and I 
must often rush and hurry to get the 
whole troop started off to school. Money 
is scarce and oars an nnthought-of lux¬ 
ury ; and oftentimes I find myself wondei*- 
ing how I’ll get the money for the boy’s 
Winter coats and shoes, and whether I 
shall ever be able to can, jam, jelly and 
preserve “stuff” enough to^ do iis. But 
then my neighbor has no big noisy hoys, 
no helpful girl; and in the twilight she 
knows not the joy of singing a wee, cuddly 
darling to sleep. One kiss from mj sweet 
baby is worth all the gold in Golconda. I 
wouldn’t exchange place with my neighbor 
if I could, and I know .she w’ould not with 
me. In the spot where God has placed 
us is a work for us to do, and I have my 
place, you yours; maybe you live in a 
mansion, and have riches at your com¬ 
mand. I live in a bungalow in the moun¬ 
tainous section of lovely old East Ten¬ 
nessee. I w'ouldn’t exchange with you 
though, for your man.sion wouldn’t fit me, 
nor my bungalow you. 
CoMPEN.SATiONS. —We are apt to think 
the “other fellow’s” job easy, and maybe 
at the same time he is envying ns, for 
that is human nature. The garden is 
coming on nicely, the days grow warmer, 
the showers fall frequently, the flowers 
are blooming, the birds singing, ju.st as 
though sorrow and sadness were never 
known, and it is better so, for they help 
us to forget for a few brief moments the 
horror of the war “over there,” though 
there are those who think the whole Avorld 
should stand sGll and nature herself take 
a vacation ‘1 the war’s over”; people 
who go about with long faces predicting 
all sorts of calamities and giving every¬ 
one they meet the “shivers.” and what’s 
the use; v^e’d just as well predict some¬ 
thing cheerful, and our friends will be 
far bettor pleased with us if we do. Onr 
predictions either way don’t count for 
much, but let’s be glad it’s no worse. li. 
What a Plain Country Woman Thinks 
(Continued from page 900) 
Xirofusion. We live far simpler than I 
would have once thought possible and 
very, very much more cheaply. When one 
is able to do this at the present prices re¬ 
ceived and given for everything, it is well 
worth the thought and effort to bring 
Disph jhig the Badge of Honor 
about. I have no patience with the com- 
plaiuers and pessimists. It is lots more 
fun tc try hard to beat the game squarely, 
and who wants to be a grouch or quitter? 
Not me, HELEN S. K. WILCOX. 
An OH Friend from Kansas and His Big 
Woodpile 
Continued from page 903) 
gatdo. e and cattle range co what 
now ??-■ one ©f the finest wheat and 
/fifalfa. 40 . ti'ies in the world, good old 
5 mne? tJo,, having in one year 
’■'e g world':' record on wheat. 
? also raiSi' great deal of kafir 
eoi... jifis e>v .’’'Ut this has never 
been of a fruit country, although 
^3 **1 'ias 9 fsdat prospect for what 
Sipplt *- a for our two families. 
I haVji .''artlv vetirei- from farming, but 
believ® K. ?^o-r.’s advice, as 
1 retired -"f* the i^hi instead of to the 
nearest towi to rusf out, nr. as I some¬ 
times say, Tr!" C see a gronn of retired 
farmers on a ‘treet corner, caJ the cor¬ 
ner Bedemptioii U'Ynei, the comer where 
the retired farmcTt and oiiers lueet to 
redeem the couuti.i’. For myself I could 
not imagine a muCi* worse punishment 
than to have to ytaj • ■ :own th« remain¬ 
der of my days, now With this 
labor shortage, e-ery ni#.!} t^ho can do 
even a little is ae’ded on ‘rhr farm to do 
his bit. If we are not able take hold 
of the big end cl tue log and dr the hard 
lifting, we can at 'ea.^t do as Josh Bil¬ 
lings once said, take hold of tne little 
end and do the gniuting, and it v.'iU all 
help. So many of our husky I'ci-mer 
boys have heard their country’s CPll ihat 
we are going to be woefully short-handed 
for this big harvest, but we will make .'A 
some way; we always have, and a slacker 
of any kind iu Kansas from now on until 
Farm Women’s Experience Club 
Next Christmas. —The last week in 
.Tune on a farm seems a busy time to be 
thinking of making presents for next 
Christmas, and still with these particular 
gifts, it is now or never. I refer to pre¬ 
served wild strawberries. I am trying 
to get a few pint jars of this delicious 
fruit for friends who live in the city, but 
whose memories of childhood include the 
liauntingly delicate aroma of wild straw¬ 
berries on the sunny slopes of the old 
pasture. But with three small children 
to care for, time for berrying is limited. 
Home-made Celebrations. —Somehow 
the thoughts of Fourth of July, Labor 
Day or circus-day trips to town mean 
almost anything but a holiday or a rest 
to a woman who must get the babies 
all ready alid then drag them about in 
the heat and the crowds all day. So I 
welcome plans for celebrating these days 
at home, or by an automobile trip and 
picnic dinner away from the hot streets 
where the celebration is most strenuous. 
(.)ur Fourth this year was spent at 
home—some town friends were here to a 
I)icnic dinner, and the men went fishing in, 
the morning to get pickerel for our chow¬ 
der. Of course we shall miss the parade, 
but time enough for that when the chil¬ 
dren are larger. 
The Children’s Clotiies. — Little 
children have so many vastly more im¬ 
portant things to think of every day 
than keeping clothes clean that it seems 
we ought to make their play clothes as 
sturdy and serv-iceable as can be. My 
little ones wear colored gingham drawers 
cut after the pattern called diaper draw¬ 
ers, without any crotch seams. Their 
petticoats are Gertrude style, buttoning 
on the shoulder and fashioned of stout 
seersucker. Dres.ses I make mostly in 
kimono style, with a belt and envelope 
bottom (like envelope chemise) for my 
little boy, and _ various plain trimmings 
for the little ail,’ such as neck frill of 
material, middy lacings and eyelets, or 
simple smocking. 
_ Burning Rubbish. —At honsecleaning 
time I make a rigid examination of 
“stored-away” articles and whatever 
seems useless or in the way is consigned 
to a big bonfire we make on the plowed 
ground, somewhere. Then about every 
week through the year I have a “.spell” 
of_ going through the house picking np 
things which would better be burned than 
saved. It makes housework simpler. 
MRS. 3. ll. B. 
Some War Recipes 
H should like to “pass on ' clicse origina. 
war recipes, if you care to print them. 
They are not quite so toothsome as when 
made of white flour, df r;re eaten ana 
called good by my family, whose “sweet 
tooth” has been on short rations for a few 
months. These recipes are for the maple 
Si gar country. 
Maple Chocolate Cake.—One cup pail 
mai)le sugar (not necessarily of best 
quality), two tablespoons cocoa, one 
beaten egg, one-half cup milk, boil and 
stir until it is somewhat thickened. While 
boiling hot add small piece butter equal 
to tablespoonful if melted. Cool some¬ 
what, add one-half cup milk, one teaspoon 
soda, pinch of salt, barley flour t thicken, 
being careful to add only a sma'-' quantity 
at a time, as it absorbs 'moisture so 
rapidly. This is especially nice with 
whipped cream frosting. 
War Cake.—One cup thick maple mo¬ 
lasses, boiled with one-half cup sugar, 
one-half cup hot water, about two table¬ 
spoons cottolene, raisins, spice, etc. Cool, 
and add one-half teaspoon soda, one tea¬ 
spoon cream tartar, one beaten eg,i;, two 
cups barley flour, wheat flour for re¬ 
mainder to make rather stiff dough. Bake 
in slow oven. This will keep .some weeks; 
is better than when new. 
Maple Chocolate Frosting.—Two cups 
maple sugar, two tablespoons cocoa, one 
cup cream. Boil to soft ball stage. Beat 
and partially cool before frosting cake. 
A^rmout. A. 
Proportions of Wheat Equivalents 
Please i^rint the following for the 
benefit of those old-fashioned folks who 
like to use familiar recipes but do not 
undeirtand the successful use of wheat 
substiLutes in old rules. “It is not cup 
for cup. but weighty for weight that must 
be the standard in substituting other 
cereals if ■ white floiu*. Weight for weight 
thee flOv..s and brans absorb the same 
amcuct ot moisture and require the same 
mea:.iure of baking powder as wheat flour.” 
Our home ervericnce hears this out. A 
cup of wheat flour, siftefl and measured 
lightly, equals four ounces in weight. 
AA’lieat equivaleut.s—One cur of wheat 
flour (four ounces) equals: Barley flour, 
one and one-third cups; corn flour, one 
cup; fine cornmeal, one cup; coarse corn- 
meal, four-fifths cup; buckwheat, four- 
fifths cup; rice flour, four-fifths cup; 
hominy gi-its, four-fifths cup; rolled oats 
(ground), two-thirds cup. 
I keep hearing of genuine failures on 
the part of women who were splendid 
cooks before we began Hooverizing. Per¬ 
haps this will help to prevent trouble. 
EDNA S. KNAPP. 
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