1238 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Flowers 
Oh. I love all gardens, but I chiefly love 
Not the wide estates that stretch o’er 
hill and moor. 
But the little, humble, struggling gar¬ 
dens of 
The very poor! 
Oh, beautiful are acres set with hedge. 
And arbors where the rose vine clam¬ 
bering comes, 
But dearer flowers grow on some window 
ledge 
In the slums! 
And children are God's flowers, heaven¬ 
sent— 
But oh. my heart sees all unreconciled. 
Pale-blooming in some airless tenemeut, 
A little child. 
—anciixjsa, in New York Tribune. 
* 
The United States Department of Ag¬ 
riculture has issued a Farmers’ Bulletin 
on “Operating a Home Heating Plant.” 
This will be of value to the many farmers 
who have installed a central heating 
system in place of stoves. The bulletin 
names the following requirements as nec¬ 
essary for efficient and satisfactory heat¬ 
ing: 
That the chimney flue be of proper size 
and in the proper place; that the proper 
heating equipment be installed correctly ; 
that the plant be understood thoroughly 
and operated so that it gives the most 
heat from the fuel consumed: that the 
house be constructed so that the heat is 
held in ; that the air be kept moist, and 
that enough fresh air be admitted either 
continuously or from time to time to avoid 
the discomfort or unliealthful conditions 
due to accumulation of carbonic acid gas. 
In selecting fuel, the bulletin suggests 
that different kinds and sizes of coal 
should be tried out. 
“The best and highest-priced heater 
improperly installed may give less satis¬ 
faction than the poorest and cheapest put 
in correctly.” says the bulletin. For this 
reason, a man known to understand his 
business should install the plant. In se¬ 
lecting the furnace, consult owners of 
homes who have had experience in operat¬ 
ing furnaces of different types. 
* 
Practically all heating plants have 
four dampers, says the bulletin. A draft 
in the door of the ash pit is opened to 
admit air through the fire, which causes 
it to burn rapidly. A check damper lo¬ 
cated in the smoke pipe is opened to ad¬ 
mit cold air into the flue, thus interfer¬ 
ing with the draft and retarding the burn¬ 
ing of fuel in the heater. The damper lo¬ 
cated in the feed door is used for the same 
purpose. Through it cold air is admit¬ 
ted directly over the fire, and if opened 
wide it acts as a check. When regulated 
properly it admits just sufficient air to 
supnlement that admitted through the 
draft damper, and causes more perfect 
combustion of the fuel. The smoke pipe 
damper is located between the furnace 
and the check draft, and can be used to 
control the draft above the fuel in windy 
weather or at night. 
The operator is reminded that ashes 
should not be permitted to accumulate 
in the ash pit, as this retards the draft, 
and the heat causes the grate bars to 
warp. In mild weather, coal can be 
saved by permitting an accumulation of 
ashes in the grate, and ordinarily the fire 
will only need shaking down once or twice 
a day, unless very cold. Shaking should 
always be stopped as soon as live sparks 
begin to fall in the ash pit. Many wom¬ 
en accustomed to stoves have a feeling 
that the management of a furnace is be¬ 
yond them. They think superior mechan¬ 
ical ability is necessary. The fact is 
that any woman who can run a kitchen 
range can run a furnace. Naturally she 
must study construction and require¬ 
ments, just as she would study the details 
of a new range. Every effort is made by 
the manufacturers to secure efficiency 
with the greatest simplicity of construc¬ 
tion and operation. 
* 
It is economy to seal the cracks about 
doors and windows with weather strips, 
and. where the weather is unusually cold, 
storm sash is recommended. With a wind 
velocity of 15 miles an hour a crack three 
thirty-seconds of an inch, which is much 
Iht RURAL 
less than the average for doors and win¬ 
dows, permits the passage of about 1*4 
cubic feet of air a minute for every linear 
foot. An ordinary double sash window 
(36 in. wide and 72 in. high) would thus 
admit 30 cubic feet of air a minute. In 
a room 10 ft. wide by 20 ft. long, having 
two windows of this kind, there would 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering always give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
NEW-YORKER 
October 15, 1921 
2096A—Sleeveless dress with separate 
guirnpe, Hi and 18 years. 9404. Cape with 
vest, one size. The 10-year size sleeve¬ 
less dress will require 3 yds. of material 
32, 30 or 44 in. wide, with 1% yds. 30 or 
40 for the blouse. Width at the lower 
edge, 1% yds. The cape will require 0% 
yds. of material 30 in wide, 0 yds. 44, 
4% yds. 54. Each 20 cents. 
9940. Girls’ dress, 8 to 14 years. The 
medium size will require 2% yds. of ma¬ 
terial 30 in. wide, 2% yds. 44. 20 cents. 
in a house already built, first cost may be 
greatly increased by peculiarity of con¬ 
struction. In one case under observation 
where steam heat was put in an old-fash¬ 
ioned stone house, a practical builder, fa¬ 
miliar with the construction of the house, 
was employed to draw a i>lan of the heat¬ 
ing, carefully thought out. This plan 
guided the steamfitters, and the builders’ 
fee was more than saved in the economy 
of installation. Where a farmer plans to 
install a heating plant with home labor, 
it would often save trouble and perhaps 
lessened efficiency to have a plan made in 
this way. We think, too, that the women 
of the household should have something 
to say about the plans, since domestic 
convenience comes within their province. 
Bottled Tomato Soup 
e always bottle our tomato soup 
when putting up tomatoes, but instead of 
leaving the pulp plain I always season it 
with salt, sugar, pepper, a little ground 
mustard and a very little ground cinna¬ 
mon. It is then ready to use as soon as 
opened and heated. Usually it needs to 
have a little water added, as I cook it 
well before sealing. It may be served 
plain, as a cream of tomato soup, used 
as a sauce or for seasoning baked beans, 
etc. The secret of seasoning is to put in 
just enough spice to make it good without 
making the flavor pronounced. A sweet 
or hot pepper may be cooked in the soup 
if liked. A favorite Winter dish with us 
is to heat the soup to boiling, then break 
into it as many fresh eggs as needed, and 
let them poach. When done, lift to pieces 
of toast and serve both soup and eggs 
immediately. Pint or quart grape juice or 
syrup bottles can be obtained without cost 
at restaurants and confectioners’. 
RUTH IV. GORDOX. 
be required approximately 80 per cent 
more heat units to heat properly than if 
the entrance of the air was controlled and 
a complete change allowed once every 
hour. 
* 
Heating systems must be selected with 
a view to convenience as well as efficiency 
and economy. When putting central heat 
Tennessee Notes 
During the early part of the Summer 
we were baked and parched for rain. Au¬ 
gust brought us one hard washing rain 
after another, and wound up on the 25th 
with a hailstorm that cut up things in 
general. Sweet potatoe vines have a leaf 
here and there, corn blades look like shoe¬ 
strings. lots of stalks are cut off. or 
knocked fiat; cabbage heads beaten to a 
pulp on top. tomatoes the same; buck¬ 
wheat thrashed in the field, and bunch 
beans slathered. Pumpkins in the stogm 
center are being used up; I made 11 gal¬ 
lons of pumpkin butter last week, which 
is. not at all slighted on the table. I 
sliced about 20 gallons of pumpkins after 
peeling, filled up a brass kettle, added 
about one gallon of water and started the 
fire. I began to stir as soon as pumpkin 
sank down a bit, and added remainder of 
pumpkin as the kettle would contain 
space. When pumpkin was cooked fine 
and rather dry I added two gallons of 
sugar, cooked two hours, then added four 
tablespoons of spice and cinnamon bark, 
beat fine, and mixed, boiled a few min¬ 
utes and canned in glass jars. This 
made six gallons. Onr next run was just 
five. I intend to make again, if we can 
find pumpkins where the hail has not 
been so plentiful. 
You may perhaps find it. hard to be¬ 
lieve. but we gathered hailstones that had 
fallen on the 25th of August on the 29th. 
and made ice cream! To be sure, we 
found them in .the drifts in some wood¬ 
land where the water had washed the 
green leaves over the ice and preserved 
the stones. Still, it was a queer freak 
for such hot weather. 
Camp meeting, with its yearly gather¬ 
ing of thousands, has come and gone. 
While some familiar faces were missing, 
schoolmates whom we never see elsewhere, 
so no wonder we are anxious to attend, 
at least, one day. Then September 10 
was another red letter day; a big singing 
convention, three counties combined, made 
a number of classes. We could not find 
space in the church; too hot to breathe, 
but sometimes we could catch some of the 
songs through open windows. Yet I do 
not think I ever spent such a pleasant 
day: everyone so sociable, and all seemed 
to be overjoyed to meet one another; in 
fact. I talked until I have scarcely rested 
vet. I met Mrs. Addie Hall, a writer for 
The R. N.-Y., for the first time, and 
found her a pleasant-faced, sociable, hard¬ 
working farm wife and mother, like so 
many more of us. 
For the past week I have been house 
hunting, a place to “shack” and send the 
children to school. It is the first time I 
have ever attempted anything of the kind. 
Only those who are in the same fix can 
realize how dreadful it is to divide the 
family and leave some to do for them¬ 
selves. and take the others and go. but it 
seems worse yet to allow the children to 
grow up in ignorance. As it is, I say 
“We will, we will succeed!” And here 
has come an offer of a teakettle and some 
spare pans, from another source tables, 
etc.; yet dishes, towels, spoons; in fact, 
it’s just like beginning to keep bouse 
anew, only there are to be two houses, all 
to be looked out for. Meanwhile there 
are four dollars and two dimes in • my 
pooketbook. one rug out for sale. a tufted 
bedspread finished, and leisure time to 
make more. “Where there’s a will there’s 
a way.” I hope so, and I hope that it 
will not be as dismal a proceeding as 
some few Job’s comforters prophecy. 
MRS. D. B. p. 
ASPIRIN 
Name “Bayer” on Genuine 
Beware! Unless you see the name 
“Bayer" on package or on tablets you 
are not getting genuine Aspirin pre¬ 
scribed by physicians for twenty-one 
years and proved safe by millions. Take 
Aspirin only as told in the Bayer pack¬ 
age for Colds, Headache, Neuralgia, 
Rheumatism, Earache, Toothache, Lum¬ 
bago, and for Pain. Handy tin boxes of 
twelve Bayer Tablets of Aspirin cost few 
cents. Druggists also sell larger pack¬ 
ages. Aspirin is the trade mark, of 
Bayer Manufacture of Monoaceticacid- 
ester of Salicylicacid. 
TELL TOMORROW’S 
DAVID WHITE, 
White’s Weather Prophet fore- \\T .1 
casts the weather 8 to 24 hoOrs VV I fl ^1* 
tn advance. Not a toy but 
a scientifically construc¬ 
ted instrument working automatically. Hand¬ 
some, reliable and everlasting. 
An Ideal Present 
Made doubly interesting by the little figures of 
Hansel and Crete! and the Witch, who come 
and out to tell you what the 
weather will be. Size 6j£x 
l'A\ fully guaranteed. Post¬ 
paid to any address in U S. 
or Canada on receipt of 
Agent a Wanted. 
Depl 114,419 E. W»ler St., Milwaukee, Wi^ 
■‘VII, WMV Wine III 
$ 1.25 
SPECI A L 
Combination Offer 
200 
5 Gillies’ A-RE-CO. -s * 
lbs. COFFEE I 5 
Bean or Ground 
^_Sample Mixed 
lbs. TEA 
Buy direct from wholesaler and save 10c on every pound 
SENT PARCEL POST PREPAID ON RECEIPT OF YOHR 
CHECK. MONEY ORDER OR CASH 
Satisfaction Guaranteed or Money Back 
GILLIES COFFEE COMPANY, 233-239 Washington St. 
Established 81 Years New York City 
Girls! Girls!! 
Save Your Hair 
With Cuticura 
Soap and Ointment to clear Dandruff and itching:, 26c. 
each. Samples free of Cutlenra, Dept. U,M»ld.n.Mn». 
TURKISH TOWELS 
DIRECT FROM THE MILL 
We will send you Po-tpnld foe $2.00 one special 
bundle of Assorted Towels, Retail value $2.50. 
MONKY BACK IF DISSATISFIED. 
STERLING TEXTILE MILLS Clinton. Mass. 
.Send postal for our other mail order offers. 
ELITE OIL 
A high-grade, perfect kerosene, 
in steel barrels. Made fromPure 
Henna. Crude. Just the thing 
lor lamps, incubators, tractors, 
stoves, etc. Safe and pure. 
DERRICK OIL CO. 
Titusville, Penna. 
Illuminating and Lubricating Oils 
P. of H. FLOUR -PURE BRAN 
BUY DIRECT IN 20-TON CARS OR MORE 
Friendly to Organized Farmers. 
CONSUMERS MILLING CO., Minneapolis 
iuuimiiin 
Da a 
MOMS® 
imimmiR 
| The Farmer | 
| His Own Builder | 
= By H. ARMSTRONG ROBERTS = 
!E A P™? 1 ’ 03 . 1 ar, d handy book of all kinds ~ 
ZI of building information from concrete to S 
= carpentry. PRICE $1.50 = 
“ For sale by — 
I THE RURAL NEW-YORKER | 
— 333 West 30th Street, New York 5 
3l|||I||J||||||||||||||||||||||||||'|||!!n'!-'v~ 
