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27* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 31, 1020 
DURABLE 
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Made strongest where the wear is hardest 
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Sales Department, 88 Leonard Street, New York 
“A Kalamazoo 
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■THE RURAL HEW-YORKER .333 W. 30th »t.,HewYork City] 
FARMER JOHN OVERALLS 
3 HONEST IN EVERY WAY <f C 07 
PAIR5 FOR I**}— 
Heavy Blue Denim or blue and white stripe. You 
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Sample Pair for 83.13. Coats same pries as 
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Money refunded if not perfectly satisfactory. State 
waist and leg size and color. 
Ordar at once as sxcaptlonally low 
otlor may ba withdrawn at any tlmo 
JOHN E. BARNEY, DEPT.RN, AUGUSTA. ME. 
Famous Restaurant Combinati on 
COFFEE 
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Free within 3rd zone (300 miles) 
4th zone 37c lb.— 5th zone 39c Jg J I h 
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GILLIES COFFEE CO., 233-239 Washington St., Net* York 
Established 79 Years 
Indoor_Closet $10.85 
Havea warm,sanitary,odorless toilet 
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BENNETT HOMES (EquipmentDepf) 
455 Mala Street, N. Tonawanda, N.Y. 
THE GRIMM SUGAR MAKING UTENSILS 
HAVE STOOD THE TEST FOR OVER THIRTY YEARS. 
Some of the first evaporators sold are still in uso and producing that 
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G;°h7 GR IM M ESTATE, RUTLAND, VT. 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman 
Waiting for Spring. —Old 1919 lias 
come and pone, a*»d to most of lis he 
proved to be a very decent year. I felt 
no particular regrets at bidding him an 
affectionate farewell, for he had surely 
served his purpose on this earth, and 1920 
loomed so brightly ahead and full of in¬ 
spiration that no regrets could be spared 
for the dying old year. We have had a 
month now of the new baby one, but to 
most of us his middle and more mature 
months promise more fully yet. and in 
bleak .January it. is rather hard on the 
farm to compose your soul iu patience and 
wait to see what the coming Summer and 
Pall months will bring about. It looks 
now as if the year 1920 would be well 
worth living in. In the first place, mil¬ 
lions of women will cast their first vote 
for President, and surely no more mo¬ 
mentous happening, in a way, could he 
assured ns. Prohibition, or the next best 
thing to it, will he ju nice swing, and this 
wonderful reform is bringing untold joy 
and thankfulness to the good of our sex 
everywhere. The peace treaty will prob¬ 
ably become a reality before many moons, 
and we shall live to see the world war die 
quietly down and stretch out for^a long, a 
verv long, deathbed scene, it) is hoped. 
To be sure, there is vast unrest in the 
land, but when cue stops to consider the 
actual reforms, advances and the like 
which have taken or will take place, I 
think that American women especially 
can settle hack temporarily with a hearty 
sigh of pride and relief for the. best and 
most conscientious country iu all the globe. 
Prooblems and Perplexities. —Yes, 
indeed, if it were not for the. sugar short¬ 
age and the baffling H. C. L. and the 
scarcity of good labor on the farm and 
half a dozen regular problems and per¬ 
plexities. I imagine we women of the 
country would consider our lot quite en¬ 
durable on the whole and “far from being 
sneezed at.” As it is. many of us will 
have to continue in harness both indoors 
and out during 1920, even as we have done 
for several vears past. It is almost im¬ 
possible for* the man of the farm to ger 
hired helpers at any price in some locali¬ 
ties, and the women all know what that 
means. At our place we were luckier 
than some, as our man of the three past 
years decided to stick by for yeti another 
at an advance of $10 a month, or $~0. 
plus house, wood, two acres of land, 
plowed and cultivated for his own per¬ 
sonal use, milk, potatoes, etc. All this is 
the most we ever paid a man, and is still 
the top price iu this section; hub a good, 
loyal, hard-working, reliable helper is 
more precious thau diamonds and rubies 
these times, find it was not ours to reason 
why, but rather to try, try, and keep him 
at any legitimate wage if he only would 
continue to give us of his best. A good 
farmer, long retired, onee wisely made the 
remark that an average proprietor could 
afford to pay a man $100 a month and 
if he was such a helper as we described 
George to be. A man who rarely asks 
for a day off. who is as interested in get¬ 
ting in the crops right as the owner, who 
loves work for its own sake, and is con¬ 
scientious and loyal at all times, is worth 
paying for virtues. George will plant and 
tend his two acres of potatoes cut of 
working hours, and should make a nice 
sum on them at selling time. It certainly 
does not> pay to be stingy and small these 
days with a man. but some of them can¬ 
not stand too much kindness, and the 
farmer must know his helper in order to 
come out mutually pleased. We believe 
that we can afford to pay our man good 
wages, because he will turn around and 
double them for us, at least during the 
crop season. A poor helper is dear at 
any price, and as the canny farmer said, 
an extra good one is worth his hundred 
a mouth and findings. 
Doing Without Sugar. —As for the 
sugar shortage, good advisers tell us that 
we should not complain about it, but seize 
the opportunity to learn how to get along 
without sweetening just as much as pos¬ 
sible. Dr. Wiley of pure-food fame says 
that the Lord never intended his children 
to develop a sweet tooth, lie says that 
sugar was secreted in countless foods— 
fruits, cereals, vegetables, milk and so 
forth, but it was man and not God who 
invented sugar in all its cloying and harm¬ 
ful qualities, and the world would come 
on apace iu many ways if the sugar 
barons would only deprive us entirely of 
sugar. I imagine this is all true enough, 
but there aren’t many of us who have the 
courage of our convictions and would vol¬ 
untarily cut sugar from the bill of fare. 
Most of us realize that the eating of 
sugar is a habit, however, and nothing 
more; a cultivated taste, iu fact, as one 
learns to desire olives or grapefruit. When 
one sees how the use of sugar is actually 
abused and wasted in the average family, 
the words of Dr. Wiley come with added 
force, but. mercy, how we do miss it when 
the sugar bowl is empty and how flat 
and tasteless our meals become when sugar 
is conspicuous by its absence! The doc¬ 
tor calls our attention particularly to the 
fact that milk sugar was given no sweet 
flavor on purpose by an all-wise Creator, 
so that the babies and children would not 
recognize it, and call for it iu a more 
artificial and harmful form later on. I 
think that the piling of cereal with sugar, 
for instance, is all wrong, and the natural, 
nutty taste of the popular American 
breakfast food is thereby lost. I was 
brought up as a child to eat my morning 
cereal without sugar, and my own chil¬ 
dren have followed in my footsteps. Cof¬ 
fee and tea are tastier and far less dan¬ 
gerous if the sweetening is omitted, and 
if you boast a family who are devotees 
of the sugar-bowl and you proceed to 
“cut out” that important adjunct to their 
meals through grim necessity, you will 
immediately notice that your grocery bill 
is materially lowered, for the average 
family consumes more sugar raw on the 
table than is used in all its cooking. 
Reforms in Sweetening. —Even when 
sugar becomes plentiful and cheap again, 
if such a day ever arrives, the prudent 
housewife will remember her involuntary 
sugar reforms and continue them in full 
for the sake of her family’s health. A 
cake made with three-quarters of a cup 
of sugar instead of the regular cup can¬ 
not be told from the latter, and in a year 
the saving would be material. Sugar 
cookies, changed from week to week with 
different flavorings, such as lemon, cara¬ 
way, cocoanut, chocolate, raisins, nuts, 
jelly, almond, etc., are cheaper and go 
farther than cake frosted, or unfrosted, 
and are great favorites iu many homes 
when a favorite recipe is followed. At 
our house we alternate the cookies and 
cake week after week, and manage never 
to tire of either. The sweetening in pud¬ 
dings. custard pies and the like can be 
diminished gradually, and fruits with 
natural sugar substituted. There is rnoriy 
than one way to skin a cat, as the old 
woman said, and if we were to study 
sugar scientifically in all its uses and mis¬ 
uses we would he more inclined to listen 
to the learned gentlemen who preach of 
its insidious workings in the composite 
American stomach. We are supposed to 
be a nation of dyspeptics, and the blame 
is almost equally divided between the pop¬ 
ular American frying pan and our sweet 
tooth. It comes hard to have the latter 
pulled altogether, as happened in many 
households during the latter part of the 
old year, but I presume our bodily health 
did not suffer in the leash 
Prevailing Extravagance. — Every¬ 
body is groaning over the II. C. L., hut it 
remains that the farmer still sits at tin- 
first table, and is not dependent to much 
if any extent on the profiteers and luxury 
dispensers. We read increasingly of milt 
and factory girls and laboring men of ali 
industries spending their inflated wages 
for .$6 silk stockings, $20 hats. $15 shoes. 
$5 neckties. $12 silk shirts and goodness 
knows what other foolish empty things. 
I may as well confess that I onee used 
to be very fond of “dressing well” myself.- 
and it came hard during the earlier days 
on the farm, when my love for pretty 
clothes had to be given up for more prac¬ 
tical and necessary things. But any sen¬ 
sible and intelligent person these days 
must he well content to wear old clothes, 
if they are whole and good, rather than 
he classed with the cheap rabble who are 
putting every cent they make on their 
hacks, as savages would do in similar cir¬ 
cumstances. Tt is worthy of note that the 
women with large incomes, and well able 
to gratify their tastes in regard to luxuri¬ 
ous dressing, are usually the ones siuce 
the war who are setting a different ex¬ 
ample. Thoughtful well-to-do women of 
high station and birth are today setting 
their silly working sisters an example of 
constraint and economy iu all expendi¬ 
tures which can well be copied by every 
woman. One can usually spot a real 
“lady” these days by her plain, unnotice- 
able garb, while the girls and men with 
shallow minds and small understanding 
go clothed to rival Joseph’s' coat and 
splurge to their hearts’ content iu vulgar 
finery and expensive garments far above 
what they should afford. A day of reck¬ 
oning is coming, however, and I believe 
that for once the farmers will not be the 
ones to pay. Rather it will be the mil¬ 
lions of discontented and shifting workers 
who have no thought for the morrow or 
the certain drop in their pay envelopes in 
due time. These will he the ones who will 
rue their lack of foresight and^judgment, 
and who will turn to the farmer—hungry, 
distressed and poverty-stricken, with noth¬ 
ing to show for the dollars spent so freely 
while we worked aud saved—to he fed 
and clothed and supported until they shall 
have got on their feet. 
Changing Values. —We are told that 
if we save our dollars today, tomorrow 
they will he doubled iu value, and a 
farmer worth $10,000 today—if he has 
that amount in the hank—will be worth 
$20,000 in the future. This may be an 
extreme view of the sitution, but certain 
it is that our inflated dollar will not re¬ 
main iu the air forever, and when it 
comes down I would rather be a farmer 
with my same old farm, cattle, crops and 
nest egg than all the $20 a day union 
men and women in the world. Then will 
be the time that the thrifty farm woman 
can march down to the city and purchase 
her well-deserved and loug-waited-for suit, 
hats, shoes aud so forth. If we can get 
along with our clothing assortments of 
other years meanwhile, we are doing just 
that much to help reduce, instead of add¬ 
ing to the high cost of living. Retailers 
and wholesalers deplore this buying orgy 
on the part of the heedless classes as 
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