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<Jht RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
February 22, 1910 
endless fascination. Something 
is there—many things, in fact 
— for every member of the 
family. 
• For mothers especially, and 
the little women, there are 
beautiful and stylish garments, 
gloves, underwear, silk stock¬ 
ings and countless other dainty 
articles, each bearing the un¬ 
mistakable mark of New \ork 
style. 
Sent FREE 
on request 
H ERE is a wonder book 
—a book in which the 
products of the whole 
world lie spread before your 
eyes. And you are led on from 
page to page by the host of 
interesting things you find. 
This catalog, which we call 
“Your Bargain Book,” is one 
vast treasure house through 
which, contentedly seated at 
your fireside, you may wander 
at vour leisure. 
Father, the young man and 
the small son are all equally 
well provided for in the matter 
of clothes and furnishings. 
Here style and good taste are 
coupled throughout with wear¬ 
ing quality. 
The very name “Bargain 
Book” is significant. Our 
prices, selling as we do directly 
to the users of our merchan¬ 
dise, are much lower than you 
will .commonly find elsewhere. 
You save money on everything 
you buy from “Your Bargain 
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Contained within its covers 
you will find pictured and de- 
'scribed personal and house¬ 
hold necessities and conveni¬ 
ences in the greatest possible 
variety. From it you may fur¬ 
nish a home complete, paper 
your walls, equip your dairy 
and paint your buildings. 
From it you may secure tools 
and implements of every kind, 
from a garden rake to the 
complete equipment of a 
modern farm 
Not for grown people only 
is this a book of wonders. For 
the youngsters, too, there is 
Remember, too, that this 
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A copy of “Your Bargain 
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asking. Simply fill out the 
coupon below with your name 
and address and mail it to us. 
The catalog will be sent to you 
at once, without charge. 
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Newark City 
ores 
THE CHARLES WILLIAM STORES 
94 Main St., Borough of Brooklyn, New York City 
Please mail my copy of “Your Bargain Book to 
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Varying Views from Different Readers 
Barbara (page 137), will be much hap¬ 
pier and can help mother and sisters 
more if she bolds her position. There 
was a great shortage of labor before the 
war; all of the boys are not coming 
back. Anyway, why has not a woman as 
good a right to be paid for her work as 
a man? In this neighborhood a maid 
who probably would do no more than 
Barbara has beeu doing, commands .$30 
a month and board. I was an only 
daughter. My mother needed me; 1 re 
mained single and staid with her. She 
died years ago, but father lived until I 
was nearly <50. Now that I am free to 
come and go I am too crippled up with 
bard work and rheumatism to avail my¬ 
self of the privilege. Experience is a 
dear teacher. I ~ 
You have hit the burning problem of 
the farm daughter. You have a. happy, 
comfortable home, but your work is unap¬ 
preciated and undervalued, as is many a 
daughter’s. You are not needed since 
there are yoimger sisters growing up and 
the farm work got on “pretty well” in 
yours’ and your brother’s absence. < )f 
course your mother missed* you, but moth¬ 
ers always miss the children who are 
away. 
This advice to women war workers is 
all right in the main, but every girl or 
woman has to apply it to her own case or 
not, as circumstances warrant. The new 
day has come for women, when a daughter 
is no longer the mere personal property of 
her father so long as she remains unmar¬ 
ried. Do you remember what Ellen’s 
uncle tells her in “The Wide, M ide 
World”: “You are my own dear little 
daughter tcho shell do e-vactly (is I tell 
her.'” There is the attitude ot many kind 
fathers of the present day. 
Besides the lack of money for personal 
needs, the lack of appreciation of her 
work or of any sacrifice her presence at 
home may cause, hurts many a home 
daughter. Where there is illness or dire 
poverty, the daughter may be kept by 
dutv, but otherwise the “laborer should be 
worthy of his hire.” Life does not con¬ 
sist entirely of work and necessary cloth¬ 
ing. You want music, for instance, and 
your mother enjoys the nice dishes all the 
more for going without them so long. 
Keep your job. Live at home and share 
the pleasant things of life with the others 
if you can. edna s. knapp. 
Referring to page 137, no doubt you 
bad an avalanche of mail and advice for 
Barbara. I cannot refrain from express 
ing my opinion, because I think she is 
a wonderful girl, more wonder she is not 
married. I would stay with the laundry 
and draw “easy money” and save it, 
which would be easy for her, considering 
she has no expensive habits, and later 
enter a business college or whatever pro¬ 
fession appeals to her. Her younger sis¬ 
ters ought to take their turn and help 
mother. In a few years Barbara will be 
helping them all again, and fit her sisters 
to a profession, and mother will have help 
in the house. V. B. 
Dear Barbara : From your description 
of your farm home many will tell you that 
you ought to be satisfied. But I know 
there isn’t anything so nice to a girl or 
woman as a poeketbook of her very own. 
I know just how you feel, and the fault 
is with your parents. Few parents, and 
it is generally one parent, the father, 
think a girl that lives at home earns any¬ 
thing or needs anything more than her 
board and clothes. And they treat the 
wife just ag they do the girls. All boys 
and girls who live on the farm should 
receive wages as soon as they are 18. 
Then they are more contented and learn 
to know the value of money. At the 
present time we own a very small farm, 
and the child left with us is a girl of 13. 
There are a number of things that my 
husband and I could not do if it were 
not for her help, so I pay her each week. 
She can do with it just as she wishes. 
She joined the Victory Girls and gave 
$o. She bought three War Savings 
Stamps, joined the Junior Red Cross, so 
you see she helped her country first, then 
she bought things that she wished. It 
is nice for you to earn money, but I do 
not feel that we women should keep a 
job away from our soldier boys. How 
would you have felt to have to leave 
home and country, shoulder a gun and 
go across the ocean, not knowing whether 
you would ever come back or not? Most 
of them, all young men, with life just 
begun. I see no reason why you and 
your sisters should stay at home and 
work for board and clothes, and no smart 
American girl would. Make a break and 
get out, and see if you and some soldier 
boy can’t get a home of your own. There 
are a lot of things that a girl can do at 
home. Raise chickens, hogs, potatoes, 
weeding, and if your father has a large 
farm learn to milk. Your father should 
be willing to pay you wages; if not or 
he cannot afford it, then go somewhere 
else. There are a lot of nice places to 
do housework and no washing. Then 
there is one thing that is needed more and 
more each year, and that is girls to help 
in families where there is sickness. Lots 
of poor people with little sick children 
with children’s diseases would be glad to 
hire you. They just can’t afford to hire 
a trained nurse, and who can? There 
are women of today that suffer and die 
at childbirth for lack of care—-just be¬ 
cause someone wants to get rich. Too 
many people of today are making money 
their god, so my advice to you is this: 
If you hear that a soldier wants your 
job,* let him have it. 
A NEW ENGLAND MOTHER. 
The “Burning Question for Women” 
on page 137 of The R. N.-Y. attracted 
my attention for two reasons. First, my 
name is Barbara also, and, second, be¬ 
cause I know something about working 
in town and in country. My advice to 
Barbara is to do both the things about 
which she asks. I have done both, and 
perhaps my experience will help her. 
For years I taught school in town and 
later worked in an office, though my home 
was several miles out in the country. 
Sometimes I walked back and forth, but 
mostly I rode a wheel, my folks taking 
me in stormy weather. I was able to do 
this from April until November or De¬ 
cember, depending upon the weather. 
Thus I lived both in town and country, 
and helped in both places. Particularly 
when I taught I had Saturdays and long 
vacations in which to help with farm 
work—that is, farmhouse work. I en¬ 
joyed both* places and had money to 
spend for the home folks and money 
t < > gave, some of which I still have. 
I have often wondered why more girls 
did not try my plan, as it worked admir¬ 
ably. In the worst weather I stayed in 
town and enjoyed that too, though it was 
always pleasant to be home over Sunday. 
If Barbara should keep her present job 
perhaps the owner of the laundry horse 
would be glad to give the animal a taste 
of grass nights by letting he rdrive it 
back and forth, or bicycles. ai - e not ex¬ 
pensive. In Summer there is much time 
to help with the work out of hours, 
though she will probably do as I did 
when I lived in both town and country— 
buy labor-saving devices for her mother 
and hire the washing done. By the way, 
most laundries make a reasonable rate 
rough dry, and she could carry it back 
and forth. That is my solution of the 
difficulty, and I know by years of exper¬ 
ience that it is both pleasant and profit¬ 
able. ANOTHER BARBARA. 
I admire Barbara’s pluck. Set your 
aim for high ideals and you will win. I 
am in favor of farmers’ daughters getting 
ways to earn money. There isn’t any 
money for the farmer’s daughter. I am 
a farmer’s wife and have one daughter. 
She and I have the income from four good 
cows. One son has the income from the 
hens, and the oldest son has half interest 
in the pigs. The farm, or father, pays 
for the living expenses. Tell father he is 
the foolish one, as the parlor organ is 
of the past, and he doesn’t want his chil¬ 
dren to live and always enjoy what he 
once enjoyed when he was a boy. Up-to- 
date farmers are the ones who show pros¬ 
perity. When mother wanted a real nice 
set of dishes, why hasn’t father planned 
to make her a Christmas or birthday pres¬ 
ent of them, long before this, and not 
wait until the children have to earn and 
buy them themselves. He enjoys all these 
up-to-date improvements in the home; 
why not get a few himself with the farm 
money, and encourage the children to stay 
on tlie farm? Tell Barbara to stay by 
her job until sbe finds something that 
pays better and is more suitable for a 
young woman. It makes a young person 
feel .so much more independent to have 
her own earnings, and it pleases father to 
listen to the nice records played on the 
victrola. He can give Barbara some 
money for records, or get some himself, 
as lie can play them, and I doubt his play¬ 
ing the family organ. L. D. L. 
Whole Wheat Bread 
Can you give me a recipe for whole 
wheat bread? w. G. w. 
Our own plan 5* to make entire wheat 
bread in tlie bread-mixer, just as we 
make ordinary white bread, using one- 
third white flour with two-thirds entire 
wheat flour. The entire wheat flour is 
very finely ground, showing no flakes of 
bran, and the bread, while light, is rather 
close intexture when no white flour is 
used. The following are standard recipes 
for entire wheat bread : 
Quick Entire Wheat Bread (Mrs. Lin¬ 
coln’s Boston Cook Book).—Put one tea¬ 
spoon of butter and half a teaspoon each 
of salt and sugar in one cup of scalded 
milk. When cool add half a cake of 
compressed yeast dissolved in one-third 
of a cup of lukewarm water. Stir in fine 
whole wheat flour till stiff enough to 
keep in shape after you stop stirring. 
Mix it well, but do not knead it. Let it 
rise to double its bulk, then knead it just 
enough to shape it into a long thin roll. 
Let it stand till double its size, then bake 
in a hot oven 30 minutes. 
Whole Wheat Bread (Marion liar- 
land’s Cook Book).—One tablespoonful 
of fat and the same of sugar. One cup 
each of boiling water and of hot, not 
boiling, milk. One yeast cake dissolved 
in half a cup of warm water. One cup 
of white flour and three cups of whole 
wheat flour, or enough to make a soft 
dough. Knead for 10 minutes; cover, 
aud let it rise till twice its original bulk. 
Make into small loaves, let rise until 
Very puffy, then bake. 
