C*Ac RURAL NEW-YORKER 
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the house kept in perfect order. Being in 
very moderate circumstances, and ,anxious 
to get up in the world, the wife and moth¬ 
er took her place in the field beside her 
husband, housework and children being 
looked after early in the morning and at 
the noon hour. When their income was 
from selling wood the wife did her part 
in the woods, helping to saw and prepare 
the wood for hauling. Then truck farming 
made them money, and it wae her part to 
do a great deal of the work of cultivating, 
gathering and preparing the vegetables 
for market. When they moved to town in 
order that the children might have better 
educational advantages, this brave little 
woman took up weaving as a means of 
helping along, and made many dollars 
which went to help clothe the children and 
keep them in school. Now they are back 
on the farm, and last season, after .‘!0 
years “in the harness,” she was still do¬ 
ing her part, and more, too. With no help 
whatever in the house she had canned 
fruit, rai.sed chickens, done the housework • 
for four and helped with the field work; 
had helped put up several tons of hay, 
made garden, helped dig a large crop of 
peanuts, and it was after a hard day’s 
work digging and storing the crop of 
sweet potatoes that our conversation drift- 
a peaceful, prosperous home life out of 
what, in many cases,* might have resulted 
in confusion and unhappiness for her and 
her children. lily reed York. 
Women Harvesters in North Dakota 
The United States Employment Service 
Bulletin states that women composed 
nearly 70 per cent of the workers who 
shocked grain in the harvest fields round 
Fargo, N. Dak., this Autumn. Local co¬ 
operation to achieve this war service was 
brought about through the local pflice of 
the United States Employment Service. 
Owing to the scarcity of agricultural 
labor in the community the various "farm 
labor reserves” enlisted in Fargo by the 
Employment Service were called out to 
ehock a great deal of the grain. In the 
neighborhood of 2,000 of these volun¬ 
teers were regularly employed throughout 
the harvest season. 
At the close of a most successful har¬ 
vest the local employment service office, 
the Fargo Rotary Club and the Fargo 
Commercial Club decided that a parade 
to commemorate the event was decidedly 
in order. The Universal Film Company 
showed immediate interest in this and 
Deaign for Conventional Insertion in Filet Crochet 
ed to the question of what we really con¬ 
sidered as "the wife’s part” of the work, 
and she told me the above words. I 
could only agree with her. 
Her house is still “spick and span.” The 
children are educated, and the older ones 
have good, lucrative positions, but not 
one of them realizes at what price their 
success came. They fail to appreciate 
their mother as they should. Her years 
of faithful, patient .service have failed to 
bring the right reward, as she told me 
that while each of her children was earn¬ 
ing more actual money in one month than 
she had ever been able to save in a whole 
year, not one of them had ever offered her 
a .single dime from their earnings in re¬ 
turn for all she had so willingly done for 
them. They had never remembered “moth¬ 
er” with a new dress, a box of candy or a 
household help at Christmas time nor on 
birthdaj'6. Yet this brave, self-sacrificing 
w'oman was still bravely doing all that 
was pos.sible for her to do for the uplift¬ 
ing and educating of her children. 
The Sabbath was not observed in that 
home; Sunday was merely a “catch-up” 
day for the wife, and the Sabbath that I 
spent in the home she darned socks, baked 
bread and gave the house a general going 
over, besides cooking .some delicacies for 
the family which her w'ork outside would 
not permit her preparing through the 
week. This dear woman had been a 
church-goer before marriage, and soon 
after coming West had, during a revival, 
associated herself with the church of her 
choice. An unexpected bitter protest 
came from the husband, who was bitterly 
opposed to church worship. The wife un¬ 
derstood the price of peace in the home 
and quietly “gave in.” From that day 
she has never heard a sermon preached 
nor attended Sabbath school. Neither 
does the “man of the house” feel that his 
family should mix and mingle with “just 
common folks.” hence her life has lacked 
that congeniality brought about by com¬ 
munity gatherings and neighborly visiting 
which does so much to dispel the lone¬ 
some, monotonous side of farm women 
everywhere. The reading table in that 
home contained nothing whatever except 
school books and the one county paper. 
Naturally the lack of reading matter tends 
to a somewhat narrow inindedness regard¬ 
ing current events, yet the children have 
associates in school, and in this way she 
manages to keep, in a limited w'ay, in 
touch with the happenings of the outside 
world. 
Browen down? Old, ugly and wretch¬ 
ed? Not in the least. Any mechanical 
machine would have been so. Yet this 
dear, self-sacrificing wife and mother does 
not seem so much the worse for wear and 
tear, and although nearing the half cen¬ 
tury mark, her features compare favor¬ 
ably wuth many younger wminen who have 
taken life much easier than she. Regular 
habits, plenty of well-prepared, nourish¬ 
ing food, limited hours in the field, meet¬ 
ing her work bravely, being able to adapt 
herself to seemingly unpleasant yet un- 
preventable surroundings, as well as at¬ 
tention to personal appearance, have all 
been factors in helping this woman to re¬ 
tain many of the charms of youth and 
ovei’come a seemingly strong inherited 
tendency to tubei-culosis. Through her 
ability to surrender to rather unenviable 
conditions she has .also been able to bring 
sent repre.sentatives to film the event. 
On the day set the various groups who 
had performed yeoman service in the 
harvest fields marched through Fargo, 
business suspending for the event. It 
was then that a tally by the marshals re¬ 
vealed the interesting fact that almost 
70 per cent of the emergency farm work¬ 
ers were women. The feminine “shock 
troops” were all dressed in the ordinary 
working clothes in which they had per¬ 
formed service in the fields. "The moving 
pictures taken ‘ at the parade were re¬ 
leased in Minneapolis, St. Paul iMid Du¬ 
luth during the week of the Minnesota 
State Fair and are now running in other 
Northwestern cities, arousing widespread 
interest. 
Conventional Lace 
Chain 37. (Ch. 2, miss 2, d. c. into 
next, will be called one space, for brevity. 
Every .3 d. c. will be called one block) 
First Row—1 d. c. into 7th st. from the 
needle, 1 space. 1 block, 8 spaces. Turn. 
Second Row—8 spaces, 1 block, 2 
spaces. Turn. 
Third Row—2 spaces, 1 block, 1 space, 
5 blocks, 2 spaces. Turn. 
Fourth Row—2 spaces, 1 block, 3 
spaces, 1 block, 1 space, 1 block, 2 spaces. 
Turn. 
Fifth Row—2 spaces, 5 blocks, 1 space, 
1 block, 2 spaces. Turn. 
Sixth Row—5 spaces, 1 block, 5 spaces. 
Turn. 
Seventh Row—Same as sixth. 
Eighth Row—Same as sixth. 
Ninth Row—2 spaces, o blocks, 1 space, 
1 block, 2 spaces. Turn. 
Tenth Row—2 spaces, 1 block. 3 spaces, 
1 block, 1 space, 1 block, 2 spaces. Turn. 
Eleventh Row—Same as third. 
Twelfth Row—Same as second. 
Thirteenth Row—Same as first. 
Fourteenth Row^—Same as twelfth. 
Fifteenth Row—2 spaces, 4 blocks, 5 
spaces. Turn. 
Sixteenth Row—5 spaces, 1 block, 5 
spaces. Turn. 
Seventeenth Row—Same as sixteenth. 
Eighteenth Row—5 spaces, 4 blocks, 2 
spaces. Turn. » 
Nineteenth Row—2 spaces, 1 block, 8 
spaces. Turn. 
Repeat from the first row for the length 
de.sired. ei.izaretii m’sparran. 
Sassafras Tea 
Boil chips from the root of the sa.s.sa- 
fnts tree, usiag only the bark. Boil for 
1.0 minutes, insing one-half cup of chips 
for two quarts of water. Fool, strain and 
serve with cracked ice and sugar. This 
is a “made-in-America” product, does not 
produce w’akefulness, and is free to farm¬ 
ers. Many boys on the farm earn a bit 
of change by selling the.se chips from the 
root of this aromatic tree. It should be 
more widely known and used. 
MRS. C. C. M. 
Bran Bread. —One loaf in deep broad 
pan. Two cups bran, two cups white 
flour or entire wheat, one-half teaspoon 
salt: mix all thoroughly. One cup mo¬ 
lasses; mix again. Then add milk and 
two teaspoons baking soda in hot water, 
making a .soft batter. Allow to stand 
about 10 minutes. Bake about one hour. 
B. B. s. 
“Sorry, but Dan’s got my 
last pair of Lambertville 
Four Buckle Arctics ” 
“I may be able to get you some of 
the other Lambertville Footwear 
but no more Four Buckle Arctics 
or Short Boots can be had now. 
The Government’s taking practi¬ 
cally the entire output. If you run 
into an odd pair in any store, buy 
’em quick. 
*T know it’s hard for you fellows 
who are used to Lambertvilles to 
wear any thing else. But remember 
it’s hard for me too. No others sell 
so quickly or bring me the same 
good will. Well, we’ll all have to 
grin and bear it till the Govern¬ 
ment’s demands grow less. Then, 
believe me, I’ll have all the Lam¬ 
bertvilles you want.” 
If your dealer happens to have a pair of 
Lambertville Four Buckle Arctics or Boots 
of your size, buy them on sight. If he 
hasn’t, don’t blame him. And don’t blame 
us. War orders must come first and for 
the time being we are powerless to supply 
our trade. 
Your dealer wants to sell these goods just 
as much as yoii want to buy them. He 
knows they mean good business for him ' 
and satisfaction for you. He’ll have a full 
line just as soon as we can give them to 
him and that will be as soon as this big 
Government demand lets up. 
In the meantime make your old Lam¬ 
bertvilles go as far as possible. If you are 
forced to buy an inferior make, remember 
that your sacrifice is only temporary, for 
we promise to put your old reliable 
Lambertvilles back on the market at the 
earliest possible opportunity. 
LAMBERTVILLE RUBBER COMPANY 
Lambertville, New Jersey 
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