1798 
RURAL NEW.YORKER 
November 27, 1020 
‘HANES”—the national nameplate 
on underwear is an unfailing guide! 
Read Hanes Guarantee: 
“We guarantee Hanes Underwear 
absolutely—every thread, stitch 
and button. We guarantee to re¬ 
turn your money or give you a 
new garment if any seam breaks ." 
_ ELASTIC KNIT 
Underwear 
B UY “Hanes” winter un¬ 
derwear for men on 
the strict business basis 
of the most unusual qual¬ 
ity, comfort and service 
ever sold at the price!. 
Every garment bearing the 
“Hanes” national nameplate re¬ 
turns in wear and in absolute satis¬ 
faction far more than you pay for 
it. Our guarantee is your safe¬ 
guard. It proves our faith in 
“Hanes”! 
“ TJANES” underwear is made 
** in heavy weight and me¬ 
dium weight Union Suits and 
heavy weight Shirts and Draw¬ 
ers. The new medium weight 
Union Suit carrying the yellow 
label, meets the demand of men 
who prefer a medium weight 
union suit. It is made of full 
combed yarn and silk trimmed. 
“Hanes” for Boys 
This extra-value underwear duplicates 
the men’s Union Suits in all important 
features with added ileeciness. 
Made in sizes 20 to 34, covering ages 2 
to 16 years. Two to four year old sizes 
have drop seat. Four desirable colors. 
See “Hanes” Underwear at 
your dealer’s. If be cannot sup¬ 
ply you, write us immediately. 
P. H. Hanes Knitting Co., Winston-Salem, N. C. 
Next Summer — You’ll want to wear Hanes Nainsook Union Suits! 
Carbola 
Paints 
and 
Disinfects 
Dries 
White 
' 5 Car b ola-Clean” Buildings 
means that walls and other surfaces offer no harboring places to contagious disease, lice, 
and mites. It means sunny-sweet interiors—light and wholesomeness. It means 
healthier and more vigorous cows, hogs and hens. It means fewer losses through death, 
fewer non-producers, fewer low-producers. It means a better profit on your invest¬ 
ment—more money in your pocket. 
ASLQOLA 
lB 
"U\* DVvnticVwft 'NWrtt VaW 
a snow-white paint combined with a uermicide many times stronger than pure carbolic acid. Is the standard 
of sanitation on thousands of the best kept farms, large and small, and at leading agricultural colleges and 
experiment stations. 
Carbola helps prevent the start and spread of contagious diseases that affect herd or flock — glanders, 
contagious abortion, roup, white diarrhoea, canker, etc.—and kills lice, mites, fly eggs, etc., besides greatly 
increasing the light and general evidence of cleanliness. Carbola—which is mixed with water and read v for 
use in less than five minutes—gives you quickly a paint and disinfectant to apply in one operation instead 
of two, saving time, labor, and money. There is no straining or waiting, and ro clogging of sprayer cs 
there is with whitewash. No peeling or flaking. The smooth-flowing paint-and-disinfectant gives an even, 
surface and puts wholesomencss into every crack and crevice to stay there. Carbola does not spoil if left 
standing—may be mixed today and used any time—another advantage. 
Use Carbola Instead of Whitewash and Disinfectants 
to paint sunshine and health into stables, poultry houses, hog pens, cellars, kennels, rabbit hutches, cream¬ 
eries, outbuildings, garages, etc. Apply with brush or sprayer to wood, stone, brick, cement or other sur¬ 
faces or over whitewash. A gallon (a pound of the powder) covers 200 square feet. Use it also as a lice 
powder, for which it also is unexcelled. 
Your hardware, paint, drag, or seed dealer has Carbola or can get it. If not, order 
direct—prompt shipment by parcel post or express. Satisfaction, or money back. 
10 lbs. <10 gals.) $1.25 and postage. 20 lbs. (20 gals.) $2.50 delivered, 50 lbs. (50 gals.) $5.00 delivered. 
Add 25% for Texaa and Rocky Mountain States 
Trial package and interesting booklet 30c postpaid 
CARBOLA CHEMICAL CO., Inc., Dept. R , 7 East 42d Street, New York 
The Thoughts of a Plain Farm Woman 
“The world is so full of a number of 
things 
I’m sure we should all be as happy as 
kings,” 
sings cheerful Robert Louis Stevenson, 
and surely this little rhyme holds good 
during November on the average farm. 
This month will find the Fall and Winter 
sewing all done, and each member of the 
family ready for whatever the latter may 
have in store for us, at least, so far as 
clothes are concerned. 
Made-over Garments. — Four lively, 
growing children mean many houx-s of 
flying needles, not to speak of the man 
of the house, who wears out his things so 
fast from hard work. The children’s 
grandmother mostly does their sewing and 
mending, and they are pretty lucky to 
have such a competent workwoman to 
keep them whole. Old coats of good wool 
have made stylish little school and best 
cloaks for Ann and the two younger boys, 
while all pieces left over go into knicker¬ 
bockers for the little lads. One boy still 
wears rompers, and discarded but good 
cotton dresses of ours go into these. Last 
year’s underwear is reseated for the 
children, and the legs and bodies length¬ 
ened from pieces. Ilems are let down, 
old material combined with contrasting; 
mittens knit from good raveled wool 
which has not seen much wear—and all 
are ready and waiting for the snappy 
weather which has now arrived in ear¬ 
nest. It is a good game at our house to 
see how many and how attractive little 
wearables we can evolve from what we 
have on hand, without buying the ex¬ 
pensive new, which today is neither apt 
to be worth while nor particularly pretty. 
I think that children can wear made- 
overs, if they are becomingly fixed, with¬ 
out detriment to their pride or self- 
respect, and the children who have the 
discarded clothes of friends given them 
are fortunate, indeed. When I was a 
child I have many relatives who gave my 
mother their pretty things for making 
over, and as a consequence my youthful 
garments were much better and nicer 
than those I otherwise would have worn, 
had my mother’s purse had to furnish my 
wardrobe alone. My children also are 
lucky in having outgrown clothes passed 
on to them, and all sensible mothers are 
thankful for such welcome gifts. By and 
by, when older and bigger in every way, 
the youngsters will be unable to wear 
made-overs and the like, and I imagine 
they will see a difference in both quantity 
and quality of their bran-new “store” 
things. There are lots “wusser” happen¬ 
ings in this busy, selfish old world than 
to wear warm woolens - and cottons remod- 
edel by mother into strong, attractive 
garments costing not a penny but the 
hours given so freely for a good cause. 
Donation Day. — Election Day was 
our near-by city hospital’s Donation 
Day, and as I am local almoner, I was 
asked to see that out town did its share, 
if so minded, toward supplying the big 
cellar with several tons of Winter fruits 
and vegetables, all money received to go 
toward a new X-ray machine, costing 
.around $2,000. So I asked four other 
farm women to help out in their various 
parts of the township, each soliciting her 
own territory, and as a result we took 
down a bumper gift crop of everything 
eatable to the fine new hospital. Hardly 
a farmer who was anproaehed hut will¬ 
ingly gave us a bushel of potatoes, or of 
apples, or of squashes, turnips, or onions. 
We also got a large quantity of delicious 
canned fruit and jelly, and $13 in money. 
The women who helped in this town so 
graciously are very busy farmers’ wives 
with families, hut they got out and put 
the thing across nevertheless. There is 
an old saying that if you want a thing 
well done, get a really busy person to 
do it. 
a member of the family, can be amply paid 
for her time and trouble, if one prefers 
the home way. 
Maternity Posts. —To be sick in our 
local hospital for two weeks costs at least 
$150, if a private room and special nurse 
are engaged. This includes the doctor’s 
two visits at time of confinement, and the 
nurse’s board. Of course, a ward case is 
less, but I am not familiar with the terms. 
For several months this Summer and 
I all obstetrical cases were obliged to fur¬ 
nish their own nurses at our hospital 
owing to the acute shortage of nurses 
everywhere. Even surgical cases had no 
special care whatever, and could not buy 
any at any price, owing to the conditions 
and therefore home would be far better 
whenever possible. Before I am confined 
1 always get everything ready for the af¬ 
fair. down to the last detail. I know 
\vfv>re everything is at a moment’s notice 
and nothing has to be rushed together at 
the last minute.' I always use the larg¬ 
est. prettiest room in the house, asi one 
is a long time convalescing, and see that 
it is fixed with a!l_ conveniences possible. 
I pay my nurse $.!;> a week, and endeavor 
by every means at my command to make 
things agreeable for her. She has at 
least every other afternoon off, nurses of 
today refusing any more to remain 24 
hours on a case, even if one should be so 
tyrannical as to demand it. If such duty 
is required, one is expected to have a 
nurse for day and another for night duty 
il . , though appallingly expensive, very 
sick people cannot be choosers, and tliev 
are probably better off than if a tired 
constantly worn-out nurse had the entire 
responsibility. When my little Elsie was 
born in July, the doctor received $32 for 
two calls and the nurse $70 for two weeks. 
VVe also had to pay her transportation 
from a instance. Medicines and inoi- 
dentals brought the whole up to $115 
which is probably as reasonable as con¬ 
finement can be done today with the aid 
of experts. A practical nurse, if she is 
really practical and up to date, is just 
as good as a trained one. hut in our lo- 
cality the good and practical is asking and 
getting $25 a week, with hours off. It 
simply can t be done cheaply any more. 
h. s. k. w. 
When you write advertisers mention The R. N.-Y. and you’ll get a 
quick reply and a “square deal.” See guarantee editorial page. 
Hospital Care. —There has been much 
talk in The R. N.-Y. of late, speaking of 
hospitals, on the question as to whether 
it is best to enter one for confinement or 
to remain at home. I am not fitted to 
discuss the matter authoritatively, as I 
have always chosen to have my babies in 
my own home, and shall continue to so 
long as the stork visits us. I haven’t 
one thing against any hospital; my work¬ 
ing for ore proves that, and in the case 
where the outcome is in doubt, it would 
he foolish and risky to keep away from 
the best of modern facilities, which, of 
course, can only be had at the good hos¬ 
pital. But as for myself, I am so con¬ 
stituted that I should die of homesick¬ 
ness if I were to take myself off hag and 
baggage from my family, and I also pre¬ 
fer to stay at home in order to help 
“quell the riot” occasioned by the lively 
youngsters before mentioned. Of course, 
this is not an ideal condition for a con¬ 
valescing and naturally nervous mother, 
but I should he imagining all sorts of 
things happening at home; on the 
other hand, if confined in the hospital 
walls, so I certainly choose home and 
family. The mother who does not wish 
to worry over her ordinary responsibili¬ 
ties, as several in these pages said, would 
surely do well to get completely away 
from them, where nothing can annoy. 
At the same time the baby and mother 
in the house, with the trained nurse, 
means much extra work for the substitute 
housekeeper: hut the latter, if she is not 
A Thanksgiving Dinner Down on the 
Farm 
No doubt the Thanksgiving dinner that 
would appeal to most of us would be the 
plain, sumptuous feast served in the old 
home down on the farm when we were 
young, when the boys and girls were all 
at home together. With father seated 
f 1 ! t-he head of the table and mother at 
the other end, we ate to our heart’s con- 
tent of the stuffed chicken or turkey, can- 
died potatoes, mince and pumpkin pies, 
home-canned fruits, jellies, etc. There were 
none of the fancy, frilled dishes of today; 
just well-prepared, simple things, but 
how good ! Almost everything was home¬ 
grown; sugar, coffee, tea, spices for 
flavoring, and raising for making the 
mincemeat were bought, hut the flour, 
meal, potatoes, pumpkins, turnips, pars 
nips and all fruits, both canned and 
fresh, were raised on the farm ; nuts were 
ro< ! r0ln the woods, and it cost very 
little outside the planning and cooking to 
serve 3 kanksgiving or Christmas dinner 
in those days. A revival of our parents’ 
plan of a simple, yet bountiful, meal for 
the family, and guests as well, would be 
hailed by many with gladness. Here is 
a menu relished by our family, who are 
only plain, simple farm People: 
. There isn’t always a turkey; the cost 
is too much unless raised on the farm, but 
one or more fat hens fill the place well. 
Dress and cook, whole, in enough water 
to cover until tender. When done there 
should be four quarts of broth. For 
dressing with one lien use one pint each 
of corn and wheat bread crumbs. Mix 
together and pour on one quart of chicken 
broth; season to taste with sage, pepper 
and, if liked, one large onion minced fine, 
also blitter size of egg. Mix well, put 
inside and around chicken and it is ready 
for oven. This may all he done the day 
before, and will be ready for placing in 
oven, one hour before serving. Use a 
granite pan for roasting, and if desired 
place small sausages all around pan on 
top of dressing. 
For the candied potatoes select small¬ 
sized sweet potatoes, or quarter the large 
ones, pare and steam until tender, place 
in pan and sprinkle well with sugar, dot 
with butter and bake, a uiee brown. Add 
half a cup of cream just before removing 
from oven. 
Baked parsnips.—Scrape and cook in 
very little water until tender us many 
parsnips as desired, place in pan and lay 
on top some thin slices of pork; set in 
oven until brown. 
Roast Spareribs.—Cut thick part of 
one or more sides of ribs into two-inch 
pieces; dredge with flour, snrinkle with 
pepper and place in roasting pan. cover 
with boiling water and bake for one hour. 
To make the mincemeat for pies we 
use the lean part from head and jowl of 
the hog killed two weeks before Thanks¬ 
giving. with tart apples, pared and quar¬ 
tered, 4 lbs. of the meat. 7 lbs. of apples, 
2 lbs. of stoned raisins, 4 lbs. sugar. Cook 
meat until tender, remove hone and chop 
(Continued on page 1809) 
