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July 3, 1920 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Swallows 
These are the aeroplanes of God, 
The swift patrols of Spring 
That dart among the realms lint rod 
On cleft and daring wing. 
They bring His presence and Ills power 
So near the homes of men 
That even in her anguished hour 
The world may laugh for leaf and flower 
And life and light again. 
Not these, not these are sealed and signed 
To answer blow with blow; 
They war with but the wintry wind 
And the late-lying snow. 
No shadow of their wings shall wake 
The grief of new-turned sod. 
And shallow grave and rough-hewn stake, 
They fly but for the Summer's sake 
And for the praise of God. 
—will H. ogilvie in Westminster Ga¬ 
zette. 
* 
The Russell Sage Foundation has been 
making a survey of the public schools of 
the United States and its dependencies, as 
to school attendance, training, progress, 
teachers’ salaries, building funds, etc. 
The 4S States and four Territories show, 
on these counts, an average efficiency of 
only 52 per cent. Eastern pride will re¬ 
ceive a slight shock in finding Montana 
at the head of the list, though but 75.S 
per cent effective. California is next, 
71.2 per cent; Arizona third, while New 
York is thirteenth on the list. 59.4 per 
cent effective. There are many States 
that fall far below this. New Jersey 
leads all the Eastern States, and ranks 
fourth, while Massachusetts is but two 
places ahead of New York. Politics, 
child labor and lack of State er terprise 
are given as the large factors affecting 
our schools for the worse. Twc it.v dif¬ 
ferent States have started a “stay-in 
school” campaign, to be followed by a 
“back-to-school” drive, and this is ex¬ 
pected to improve attendance in many 
localities. The high wages that have been 
paid to boys and to unskilled labor have 
been quite detrimental to interest in school 
Many boys whose parents wished to send 
them to high school have urged the ex¬ 
ample of companions who leave grammar 
school to get $14 or $18 a week. If the 
father is one of those whose salary re¬ 
mains the same, while less educated men 
are getting enormous increases in wages, 
the boy is very likely to think education 
of little value.. It will be a lasting mis¬ 
fortune for the whole nation if great ma¬ 
terial prosperity is to coincide with a 
lack of interest in education. 
# 
Some of our trends who are interested 
in old handicrafts ask whether there is 
any Moravian embroidery now in exist¬ 
ence. This was the work of Moravian 
women who were among early settlors in 
Pennsylvania, and it is quite possible that 
some of it may be found among the cher¬ 
ished heirlooms of families, descended from 
Moravian colonists. Perhaps some of our 
readers can give information on this sub¬ 
ject. We understand that the work was 
done in satin-stitcli. flowers, trees and 
landscape designs. Among articles dec¬ 
orated with this embroidery were pocket- 
books. and we arc told that they always 
had the owner’s name embroidered on one 
side in brown silk, the lettering being 
script. Elaborate hand-woven towels were 
also embroidered in this way. We .should 
be interested in descriptions of such 
embroidery, which has its place in his¬ 
toric records of women’s handicrafts in 
America. 
* 
We have been asked what plants or 
vines can be grown around the porch to 
repel flies or mosquitoes. So far as we 
know, such properties cannot- be credited 
to any plant ordiuarily grown. It may 
be that some plants are less agreeable to 
these insects than others, and we know 
that the essential oils distilled from cer¬ 
tain plants are offensive to them, but 
there is little hope of keeping these [tests 
away by repellent planting. An oriental 
variety of the sweet basil, botanically 
Oeiraum viride, is credited in Japan with 
repelling mosquitoes, but experiments 
made by the Bureau of Plant Industry at 
Washington showed it to be wholly inef¬ 
fective. Destruction of breeding places 
and thorough screening remain the most 
practical measures for controlling these 
pests. Cellar and attic should be as care¬ 
fully screened as the remainder of the 
house. Where a roof is in imperfect con- 
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dition, it is customary to put a pail or 
other vessel in the attic where it will 
catch any drip from a leak. If such ves¬ 
sels are not emptied after every rain they 
are very likely to form a breeding place 
for mosquitoes during the Summer 
months. The household wonders how the 
marauders came through ihe screens, 
when really they were bred inside the 
holise. 
Entertaining a Book Club 
We have a book club (27 members) 
composed of farmers’ wives and daugh¬ 
ters of the community. It is my turn to 
entertain, and I write you for some ways 
of entertainment for an indoor meeting 
during the “social hour. A\ e have had 
raostlv games, quotations, poems, etc. 
B. s. 
One long-established library club has 
one invariable feature at its annual meet¬ 
ing. Each member is asked to “be a 
book”; that is, to represent some book 
title. Everyone tries to guess the titles, 
and there is some little prize for the one 
who guesses the greatest number. As an 
example, one guest carried a little Easter 
basket containing two fluffy chicks—“The 
The Rural Patterns 
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and size desired, sending price with order 
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suit, S to 1C years. 
The medium size will 
require 314 yds. of 
material 27 iu. wide, 
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The medium size will 
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Newcomes.” A string of family pho¬ 
tographs was “Mine Own People”; a 
flashlight without a battery. “The Light 
That Failed”; a salt shaker, “The 
Psalter”; little portraits mounted upon a 
card, of such notables as Washington, 
Julius Caesar. Roosevelt. Columbus. Apollo, 
etc., represented “Hymns (Iliins) An¬ 
cient and Modern,” and a group of pic¬ 
tures from an implement catalogue, 
“Many Inventions.” It is surprising how 
many amusing ideas are brought out in 
this way. 
Instead of ordinary games, why not a 
progressive salmagundi party? For this 
you have a different game at eat h table 
of four players, and a definite time, usu¬ 
ally five or ten minutes, devoted to the 
game. When time is up, the director 
blows a whistle and the two players who 
are ahead move to next table, while the 
two others remain and try again. Among 
games suitable for this are tiddlywinks, 
jack-straws, small puzzles, sewing buttons 
on a strip of cloth, filling beans into a 
small bottle with the handle of a teaspoon, 
etc. In the latter case every time a beau 
is dropped from tlic spoon handle the 
player must empty all the beans out of 
the bottle and begin afresh, the winner 
being the one who has the most beans in 
the bottle when the whistle blows, nick¬ 
ing on peanuts from a pile with a hatpin 
and putting them in h bowl is another 
game which sounds much easier than it 
really is. All these simple, perhaps even 
childish, games are rendered more and 
more amusing by the time limit and the 
progression from table to table. 
One little feature that is often, very 
amusing is to have a number of slips of 
paper on which the names of people fa¬ 
mous in historv. fiction or current news 
are written. slip # pinned on each 
person’s hack without the wearer seeing 
it. and she must: then guess who it is by 
asking questions of the other players, 
though she must not ask the actual name, 
merely ask questions that will give a 
cine. Thus one player who was told she 
ought to wash her hands found she was 
Lady Macbeth, while_another generally 
avoided was Kaiser Wilhelm. 
Notes from Oklahoma 
Our school term closed 10 days ago. and 
after the short vacation the Summer, or , 
teachers’ term opened yesterday with an 
attendance of more than 1,000 students 
from all parts of this and many other 
States. Tahlequah has a fine school sys¬ 
tem. its institutions consisting of two pub¬ 
lic schools for whites, one for negroes, the 
Northeastern State Normal, with a two- 
year college course: also a training school 
anuex. for the grades. The Normal build¬ 
ing has a beautiful campus of 40 acres of 
picturesque groves, nice buildings and a 
well-kept lawn. The Normal building is 
a fine old brick structure used by the 
Indians as a female seminary before 
Statehood. , 
Tahlequah is a picturesque Indian 
town, having beeu the capital of the Cher¬ 
okee Nation ever since the red men came 
from the East and settled in what was 
then known as Indian Territory, but is 
now Oklahoma. The red men loved the 
woods, and many ot the old homes are 
practically hidden by the original forest 
trees, great spreading elms, walnuts, hick- 
ories. oaks and wild grapevines. Qinte a 
few Indians still live iu the town, though 
the whites gained supremacy two decades 
ago. The town is built right among the 
hills, and many fine springs furnish a 
never-failing water supply, though the 
city supply comes from the Illinois River, 
three miles away. Few Indians like to 
work, but prefer to hunt, fish and gather 
berries, wild onions and suchlike to sell. 
Almost before the snow is gone the In¬ 
dian women go out on the river and rake 
away the leaves and gathei* wild onions, 
clean them and tie in neat bunches and 
peddle them among the town people. Some 
gather wild greens for sale. When huckle¬ 
berries are ripe these Indian women and 
children go far off in the hills and gather 
hundreds of gallons of berries and carry 
them into town to sell. Some go in wag¬ 
ons and camp several days. These ber¬ 
ries always find a ready sale, and are the 
means of bringing dollars to women and 
children. These Indians, as a rule, are 
good neighbors, and once tlieiv friendship 
is gained they prove the best of friends, 
always willing to lend any aid possible. 
Ten days ago was annual Decoration 
Day at our rural cemetery. We have not 
missed being present since these services 
were begun 10 years ago. Since moving 
from the farm to town the distance to the 
cemetery was increased from three to 15 
miles, hut a car solved the problem, so 
that wo were aide to leave home at eight 
and he with our friends a little more than 
an hour later. This Decoration Day is 
the yearly coming together for a vast 
number of farm people for miles around ; 
in fact, we have many friends whom we 
seldom meet except on this day. Much of 
| the time is given to jollity by some of the 
younger folk, blit to us older ones it is a 
solemn, peaceful coming together for the 
purpose of strewing flowers and giving 
sacred thoughts to loved ones gone before. 
Never until this year has our immediate 
family been directly interested in the mat¬ 
ter. for we had not even a distant relative 
sleeping there. We always went with a 
basket of flowers and strewed them on 
the graves of friends, or perhaps on neg¬ 
lected graves, but now there is a dear l’t- 
tle grave, where a darling little grandson 
sleeps, and we feel that it would be almost 
criminal to neglect this duty. 
On the night of May 2. at nine o’clock, 
a terrible eyclong visited our neighboring 
village of Peggs. Okla.. and never before, 
perhaps, has the auger of the clouds 
brought such distress. suffering_ and loss 
to a quiet little town. Of 250 inhab¬ 
itants. 59 were killed and more than one 
hundred wounded, many seriously. The 
town was litrally swept away, only a few 
small buildings being left standing. A 
visit to the scene was one never to be for¬ 
gotten : people dead, dying and injured 
scattered everywhere: mothers killed with 
their babes in their arms. Almost every 
work animal in the village killed, sows, 
hogs and chickens lying about: wreckage 
from what were lovely homes strewn over 
fields which had been planted to crops; 
fences gone, everything except the bare 
earth, which was strewn with all sorts of 
debris. Help was rushed to the scene 
from surrounding towns, and everything 
possible done to alleviate the suffering. 
The wounded are being cared for at the 
different hospitals of surrounding towns, 
while thousands of dollars have beeu do¬ 
nated to the sufferers, yet they are prac¬ 
tically ruined for years to come. Twelve 
in one family were killed: another family 
of four were all killed. Never before has 
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