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Quick Detachable Wheels 
Instantly removable for 
straddling rows of corn, 
sugar beets, etc. 
one pocketbook, and that if? the man’s, 
in thousands of homes in this and other 
countries, until it is no wonder married 
women have learned conservation. I’ll 
wager a batch of cookies, postage paid 
anywhere in the U. S. A., that if married 
women were given a stated sum of real 
money every week or every month as the 
income came in, in five years ther. would 
be a wide difference in the homes in 
comforts, and in wisdom of the use of 
money. Come, sister readers of The R. 
N.-Y., tell us how many of you who have 
husbands who will own up that you earn 
any more than board and clothes, no 
matter what you do? Mine won’t, and 
I am now doing the work for nine, and 
have done it for three years. G. B. A. 
A Child Feeding Problem 
(Continued from page 801) 
faith in them. You can lead a horse to 
water, but you cannot make him drink. 
My plan would be to try to get some little 
girl to come and play dolls with her, and 
get her a set of little dishes, also a low 
table to suit the little chair. If you have 
to be the little girl yourself, count it not 
lost time, as this play will draw her 
nearer to you than anything else you 
could do. Now, in playing, she will need 
food, and children need sweets, so fur¬ 
nish a little sweet chocolate, and dates and 
raisins are very nourishing; only put a 
few on the little plate. Above all, have a 
little pitcher and tumbler so she can pour 
her milk herself as she needs it, and the 
pitcher may pour orangeade sometimes, 
no telling. Now, when you bake your 
cookies, make a little man and use cur¬ 
rants or cloves for eyes, and allow her to 
take the leavings from your pies and 
make one all her own. Do not be sur- 
prised if she should go and hide in the 
corner when she tastes it. The fact that 
she only takes her bottle at night shows 
me she is very sensitive, and, of course, 
nervous. We had quite a time with one 
of our little girls, who did not see why 
she should be obliged to eat bread, since 
she did not like it. Y/e put a .small piece 
on her plate with the meat and potatoes, 
which she was vei-y fond of, and said 
nothing, only it was understood she got 
no dessert if she ate no bread, and if she 
ate half of the bread she got half the pie 
or pudding. We had to be patient and 
persevere. I rally, it took years to teach 
her to eat a whole slice of bread. Graham 
bread she could not eat at all, and it was 
impossible for her to eat eggs. Now she 
has little girls of her own, and is more 
capable of understanding their little pecu¬ 
liarities. 
Children vei*y seldom like vegetables; 
they learn to eat many foods as they grow 
older and see other children eat. What 
is one man's meat is another man’s poison. 
In regard to the bottle at three years, I 
would accidentally break it and forget to 
get anothei-, as it is very bad for a child 
to suck half the night; makes the lower 
jaw protrude, and the child is in no con¬ 
dition for breakfast. If she will run out 
and watch the old hen scratch for her 
little chickens she will have more fresh 
aix-, and, consequently, appetite. 
No matter how many children we have 
we find we cannot handle them all alike. 
Some would grow stubborn and deceitful 
if whipped, and learn to hate. Each child 
must be treated as an individual. I found 
it so with mine, and others have said the 
same. You can catch more flies with 
sugar than you can with vinegar. If a 
child is taken at three years, someone had 
the first and best chance, but do not be 
discouraged, as love will surely win her, 
and the sunshine of your smile will cause 
her to respond like the i-osebud to the 
beautiful sunshine. As you cast your 
bread upon the water it will return to 
you after many days. Your little wild 
i-ose will bloom, and your life will be the 
richer for all the care and prayer. 
AGXES T. BASSETT. 
Frame for Iceless Icebox 
Shelves, as shown in the pictures, are 
made of solid wood or strips of metal. 
These shelves are adjustable and rest on 
side braces as shown. A bread-baking 
pan 14xl(> in. is placed on the top, and 
the frame rests in a pan 17x18 in. The 
woodwork, the shelves and the pans are 
given two coats of white paint, and in 
addition at least one coat of white 
enamel. After preparing the frame, a 
cover of canton flannel, burlap or duck 
is made to fit tin* frame, as shown in cut 
below. The cover is buttoned around the 
top of the frame and down the side, 
using buggy hooks or large headed tacks 
and eyelets. The bottom of the cover 
extends down into the lower pan. Four 
double strips, which taper to eight or 10 
An Iceless Refrigerator 
A shortage of ice this Summer will 
drive people to all sorts of plans for 
cooling the food. During the last, few 
years considerable has been said about 
the iceless refrigerator, and this year we 
have many calls for a description of that 
device. The pictures here shown are 
taken from Farmers’ Bulletin No. 027, 
issued by the Department of Agriculture. 
The first picture shows how this re¬ 
frigerator is made. A wooden frame is 
first prepax-ed, the dimensions being 
42x10x14 in. This is covered with a wire 
screen, selecting if possible the type 
known as rustless. The-door is made so 
that it will fit closely, and mounted on 
brass hinges. The bottom is made solid, 
but the wire screen is put at the top. 
kept wet, and the evapoi-ation of this 
water from the cloth removed heat from 
the jug. and thus lowered its tempera¬ 
ture. Thus when the pan at the top of 
this refrigerator is filled with water, this 
moisture is drawn up by capillary at¬ 
traction through the wicks and saturates 
the cover. It is best to dampen the cover 
to begin with by dipping it in water or 
sprinkling it. Naturally the rate of evap¬ 
oration increases the cooling process. The 
refrigerator is best put in a shady place 
in a strong breeze, but where the air is 
naturally warm and dry. In a damp 
place the refrigerator will not work so 
well, since there is not a thorough evapo¬ 
ration. In some cases the iceless refrig¬ 
erator is placed so that the breeze from 
an electric fan plays over it, and this 
will increase the evaporation somewhat. 
The plan is very simple and easily worked 
out, and when handled properly it really 
gives considerable help in keeping the 
food cool. 
Women and Conservation 
I have seen no comment on H. A. S.’s 
article on page 533, regarding women’s 
expenditures, and I am wondering if all 
the women ax-e too disgusted to say any¬ 
thing. I am like the little boy, four 
years old, who asked his mother if she 
wasn’t going to make his older brother 
sprout a bushel of potatoes. She said: 
"No; I offered to pay him to do it, and 
he doesn’t want to.” The little fellow says : 
"I’ll ’prout those ’tatoes myself.” and he 
did. I’ll comment on it myself. Can 
II. A. S. tell me how many of those 
women have a pocketbook of their own? 
He only speaks of the husbands, and 
that is the whole trouble. There is only 
Iceless Icebox Complete 
in. in width are sewed to the upper part 
of the cover. These strips serve the pur¬ 
pose of wicks that dip over into the 
upper pan. The dimensions here given 
make a convenient size, but the refriger¬ 
ator can be made larger or smaller as 
desired. 
The principle upon which this device 
operates is an old one, and depends upon 
the evaporation of water. When water 
is (“hanged from a liquid to a vapor, heat 
is produced, this heat being taken from 
the inside of the refrigerator, and thereby 
lowering the temperature of the inside 
and its contents. For many yeai-s the 
inhabitants of India used this principle 
for cooling water in jugs or bottles. The 
water was put in the jug and cloth wound 
uround it on the outside. This cloth wits 
Culti-Pack Your Growing Crops 
When the soil around your plants is badly crusted or 
lumpy the Culti-Packer will make it fine and mellow 
and restore good growing conditions. 
In dry seasons C^ulti—^Packing the throw¬ 
ing crops will firm the soil about the 
roots and at the same time stir and 
mulch the surface thus giving the plants 
the benefit of all the moisture stored in 
the soil. 
still breaking crusts, crushing lumps, 
and firming the soil close up to the 
plants. 
The Culti-Packer can be used on wheat 
and oats until it begins to joint. On 
corn, sugar beets and other row crops 
the Quick Detachable Wheels can be 
removed in less than five minutes per¬ 
mitting the straddling of the rows and 
Culti-Packers For Sale By Your Local Dealer 
Be Sure It’s Marked “Culti-Packer” 
The Dunham Company, Berea, Cleveland Ohio 
This is only one of many uses for the 
Culti-Packer—use it before and after 
seeding and on growing crops. It cuts 
the work of seed bed preparation, crush¬ 
ing the lumps, firming out air spaces 
and mulching the surface in one oper¬ 
ation. On wheat ground it has actual¬ 
ly paid for itself out of the extra crop 
seemed on ten acres. 
The Ice Shortage 
