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New Schools for Old 
Ea-t month we referred to the new 
book with the above title recently pub¬ 
lished by E. I*. Dutton <fc Co. of New 
York. We do not hesitate to say that 
this book, by Evelyn' Dewey, is by far 
the most practical and effective work on 
improving the country school that has 
yet been written. Miss Dewey does not 
dismiss any theory—she just tells the 
story of how one very capable woman 
Mrs. Marie Turner Harvey 
took an ordinary rural school and made it 
the centre of an extraordinary community. 
A picture of this woman, Mrs. Mario 
Turner Harvey, is printed herewith. She 
takes rank as a great educator, and the 
story of what she did in that quiet rural 
community is of greater importance to 
the nation than many a Spectacular per¬ 
formance at a great university. We wish 
this book could be read in every rural 
district. Miss Dewey knows the situation 
of the farmers. She says: 
Farmers are unorganized; they produce 
not as part of an industry, or even as 
members of a group, but as individuals. 
The demand for their surplus product 
is not a demand for standardized articles, 
made for conditions that are familiar to 
the farmer, hut a general demand for 
food that conies from every part, of the 
population and every part of the country. 
Usually the markets they supply are dis¬ 
tant and unfamiliar. The lives and busi¬ 
ness methods of the people who buy their 
surplus are strange to them. There is 
probably no other form of production that, 
could continue selling to distant, un¬ 
familiar markets for any length of time. 
Without organization or knowledge of 
the conditions which it must meet. The 
farmer is already suffering from his fail¬ 
ure to take a more active part in those 
business affairs which concern him most 
intimately, and unless he wakes up to 
the possibilities of organized scientific 
farming, rural conditions will become 
much worse than they are at present. 
She knows too that our troubles will 
uot be permanently removed by “uplift¬ 
ing” influences excited from outside the 
farm or the farm community. “We hare 
got to do it ourselves.” Start right at 
home with the schoolhouse as the hub of 
the wheel of local progress. Much the 
same thought is expressed in Herbert 
Quick’s two books, “The Brown Mouse” 
and “The Fairview Idea.” In each case 
it is the district school teacher who or¬ 
ganizes the district and starts it on the 
way. 
The Brooder House vs. the Modern Hen 
People rant about the woman who 
goes off to look after politics and business 
and tnk<*< no interest in old-fashioned 
home duties and children, but the present 
day hen is not much better. There were 
several hens here that gave me trouble 
this year. First, I had two hens that 
started to sit side by side in a quiet cor¬ 
ner, under the barn. One day one was 
gone from theTiest for some time, and the 
other tried to cover all the eggs, rolling 
her neighbor’s into her nest and breaking 
several in the process. The neighbor did 
the same when her turn came. Then 
one hen used to go off all day, and only 
return at night; finally she left alto¬ 
gether. The other hen continued to sit, 
but did uot like the lonely life and the 
increased responsibility and at last gave 
up about three days before the eggs were 
ready to hatch. 
I had many broody hens of course this 
Spring, and thought 1 would have no 
difficulty in finding one or two to adopt 
some baby chicks which I had ordered, 
and which came by mail. The liens had 
heen sitting on china eggs for several 
days, but they would have nothing to do 
with young chicks, or if the chicks were 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
put under them surreptitiously so that 
they did not notice or object, they sat 
stolidly as though on eggs, and when 
moved to coops a little later they stood 
up stiffly and did not hover the poor 
little downy balls. Another cruel mother 
pecked her children, to death because they 
would not eat the day they were hatched. 
These are my sad experiences with 
modern hens, and through it all the incu¬ 
bator and brooder have been my comfort 
and ally. One must have modern'reme¬ 
dies for modern ills. When a hen leaves 
her eggs put them in the incubator, and 
when you can find no loving, gentle 
mother, take the peeping babies to the 
brooder, fence off a V-shaped sector of 
The Portable Colony Brooder House, 
heat and light and air, and give them a 
chance to grow strong. All Spring in 
the wet weather I carried bedraggled 
chicks and ducks to the brooder house to 
dry off before going back to their out-of- 
doors hen mother, besides raising chicks 
from three incubator hatches with only 
the stove for a mother. I enclose a pic¬ 
ture of the house, built from the Cornell 
plans for a portable colony brooder house 
It is the parent who is always ready to 
adopt stray chicks and make them happy 
and warm and dry, whatever kind of age 
they may be and whatever the weather. 
E. \v. 
The Home Dressmaker 
(Continued from page 1247) 
placket at the back, having a hem up the 
back, apparently buttoning all the way. 
though of course the real placket fastens 
with snap fasteners. 
Trimmings. —Blanket stitch, with 
French knots between the stitches is a 
simple but effective finish. Tt i; used to 
trim necks and armholes, belts, cuffs, etc. 
A girl’s green linen dress noted was 
trimmed with black blanket stitch, with 
white French knots between the stitches. 
Buttons were never more in use; not 
fancy buttons, but plain ones of pearl, 
horn, satin or crochet. A great many 
skirts have a row of buttons down the 
center of the buck; some have double 
rows down the sides, and on waists they 
are used everywhere except straight down 
the middle of tin* front. 
Soutache braid is enjoying high favor, 
and appears on many advance Fall models 
in worsted jjersey, tricotine and taffeta. 
It is put on in numerous ^parallel rows, 
and also the old-fashioned coral pattern. 
Beads are extremely popular as trimming 
for Georgette and crepe de chine. Many 
dresses of these materials are most elab¬ 
orately beaded with white porcelain or 
opalescent glass, the beading on tunics 
varying from about four to 24 inches in 
depth. We also s e separate designs in 
beads scattered over a tunic. Beading is 
a favored trimming for separate blouses. 
Wool embroidery holds its vogue, large 
heavy designs in wool being a frequent 
trimming on dress of knit fabrics. 
Fringe is much used ; some is so wide 
that a single width of fringe covers the 
skirt; some skirts have a double row of 
fringe like flounces. Ribbon fringe is 
also appearing. 
Coming Millinery.— Of course velvet 
hats had to appear while we were roasting 
in July, the early models having trans¬ 
parent brims. A characteristic model was 
all black, a plain sailor shape. The 
folded crown was black velvet, the brim 
shirred black maline. The only trim¬ 
ming was a border of black wheat ears, 
around the edge of the brim. There are, 
however, more black satin hats than black 
velvet, often bordered with a fold of 
maline. There is usually little trimming; 
the day of overloaded hats seems de¬ 
finitely past, though the absence of trim¬ 
ming does not make the hats any cheaper. 
Veils with solid borders are much worn, 
not flying loose, but brought around 
smoothly under the chin, and pinned in 
the back. Some are bordered with rib¬ 
bon, like mourning veils; others have an 
edge of Georgette or marquisette. One 
sees more of these veils in shades of brown 
and taupe, or dark blue, than of other 
colors, though deep violet veils are seen 
with purple hats. The taupe shades are 
usually the most becoming. Rather start¬ 
ling are some new hats in brilliant yellow 
and orange. One was deep orange panne 
velvet, a large tricorne in shape, trimmed 
at the back with a large square black 
buckle. Curved-up brims are seen in both 
large and small hats. Some of the small 
hats are trimmed with colored embroidery 
Some smart folded turbans are made of 
black velvet combined with duvetyn 
Brown was the only color in one Fifth 
Avenue window full of Fall hats, satin 
and velvet combinations leading. Felt 
hats, except in sports models, are never 
seen; they are all “made” hats. 
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