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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
November 29, 1919 
First Aid 
in Spraying 
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Dried Apple Dolls 
A new art, developed by a young girl 
at Knoxville, Tenn., is the making of 
dried apple dolls. Miss Millions had 
often been interested by the quaint types 
seen among mountaineers who came to 
town to trade, and had endeavored to 
sketch or model in clay some of their 
striking characteristics. She was never 
fully satisfied with these efforts, but one 
Winter evening, when engaged in pre¬ 
paring apples for drying, she noticed, in 
a partially dried apple, a quaint resem- 
quilts. They are a characteristic example 
of Miss Millions’s art, and a souvenir of 
a passing generation. 
Society of Pennsylvania Farm Women 
What was said about the meeting on 
the Hope Farm lawn has a familiar ring. 
I want to describe a society which is per¬ 
forming a most valuable service here, 
viz., “The Society of Pennsylvania Farm 
Women.” Membership is strictly limited 
to women who actually live on farms; 
there is a branch in our section, of which 
my wife is chairman. Meetings are held 
© Press Illustrating Service 
The Dried Apple Doll Artist at Work 
blance to an old mountain woman. She 
gave the apple a cut here and there, to 
complete the features, and found she had, 
in the dried and withered apple, a strik¬ 
ing imitation of an old mountain 
woman. After various experiments, she 
succeeded in treating the dried apples 
with a preservative process, so that they 
were protected from decay. The apple 
heads are placed upon bodies manufac¬ 
tured from wood and cloth, and the doll 
is dressed in a costume copied from the 
living model, with such accessories as 
pipe, basket and knitting to complete the 
fortnightly at the homes of different mem¬ 
bers, a different member entertaining 
them each time, and extremely practical 
talks, practically illustrated as you de¬ 
scribe those at your meeting, are given on 
a wide variety of subjects, the job of se¬ 
curing competent speakers being usually 
put up to the County Agent of the Farm 
Bureau, although occasionally by special 
invitation some speaker is asked directly 
by the women. It is in one way a sort 
of preparation of farm women for the 
vote, as matters of rural school reform 
and improvement are given special prom¬ 
inence. Many men attend these meet¬ 
ings. The sort of things we have to con¬ 
tend with in school matters is illustrated 
© Press lllus.rating Service 
11 urve Hatches and His Wife in Dried Apples 
resemblance. Miss Millions’s dolls are so 
clever in presentation of real characters 
that, though many have imitated her, no 
one has quite succeeded in giving the 
same touch. 
These dolls recall some of the clever 
little figures made in New England, with 
liickorynut heads auu clothing of corn 
husks. Some of these figures are beauti¬ 
fully made and very daiutily dressed. 
In the accompanying pictures one shows 
Miss Millions at work costuming one of 
her quaint little figures, with some others 
finished and ready to leave her. The 
other picture shows Ilarve Ilawkes and 
his “old woman,” “Sary Ann.” lie 
raises “taters and milons,” while she 
spends most of her spare time patching 
here: My wife solicited an elderly wom¬ 
an to join the farm women; on being 
asked what the object of the society was, 
the answer given laid prominence on the 
school program and the various health 
crusades in rural schools which are being 
backed by this society. “Well,” said the 
woman, “my children are all grown, so 
all this would not be of any benefit to 
me.” 
My actual observation of this society 
and its work leads me to believe that it is 
one of the best things ever devised for 
rural social progress, and that it should 
be extended to every State. Its effect m 
merely bringing farm women together at 
stated times is of enough importance to 
justify the existence of the society. B. 
