The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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January Changes 
It is a drab afternoon. January is 
here dressed in her undergarments of 
stark trees and naked ground. She is 
being kept waiting for her snowy robe. 
If is enough to make even January look 
foolish to get all clothed ready for a 
siege of cold weather and then have the 
breeze blow from the South in the balm¬ 
iest zephyr that ever caressed a Spring 
crocus. She beings to feel like undoing 
a bud or two right here and now. We 
think she ought -to know better with the 
last half of the Winter - still to come. 
Those are our fruit buds, and we prefer 
to have them develop in the Spring as a 
normal fruit bud should. But we can 
do nothing. We stand by watching 
January as if she were our small child 
saying her first piece before an audience, 
and wondering if she will remember her 
lines. 
The mailman is overjoyed. Last year 
at this time the route was choked with 
snow, and every day’s drive lasted until 
nightfall. Today he makes his journey 
not uncomfortably in the flivver and is 
home by noon. It rained last night, a 
nice warm Spring-like rain. Today one 
feels Tike getting the shovel and digging 
for fishworms. It is that kind of dank, 
drab, weather that is supposed to‘favor 
a fisherman. The hens too, seem to feel 
an interest in the soil which is altogether 
too suggestive of scratching to suit cer¬ 
tain particular persons and their mulched 
strawberry bed. 
This is the first month of a brand new’ 
year. Marcus is celebrating his first-year 
birthday by rolling down stairs. I am 
forced to observe that Mark is possessed 
of a strength of determination often re¬ 
marked in male babies, and he is obsessed 
with this idea of climbing the front 
stairs.. Always scuttling about under 
foot is Mark these days, creeping from 
unexpected corners on hands and knees, 
head sticking up like a mud turtle’s. 
There are a pair of chairs at the bottom 
of the staircase which may at unguarded 
instants become shifted to allow his 
breadth between them and the first step. 
Ah ! The ambition is soon realized. The 
first slip is frightening, but the second 
takes Mark bump—bump—bump back 
down to the bottom where he started, and 
will start over if permitted. At one-year 
age. a child’s ambition is to climb stairs 
down which he must take some nasty 
falls before gaining the top. How use¬ 
less for us older ones to expect to execute 
our grown-up ambitions without making 
mistakes, or to expect to cherish the 
same one from 10 to 40. 
Just now Elsie thinks she wishes to 
become a musician, or to be an artist and 
do illustrations. Certainly this 10-year- 
old has a taste for fine music and she 
spend most of her spare time making 
sketches, but I shan’t be surprised or 
disappointed if both of these turn out to 
be contributory talents. Our system of 
education today insists on ignoring 
genius, tolerating it only on the clear 
evidence that it can be converted into 
enough money to make a living. Every 
talent is considered as if it stood alone, 
complete in itself. This seems to be not 
altogether true. A talent for music mani¬ 
fested in early childhood may be the 
forerunner of a capacity for engineering 
or an. interest in design merely a con¬ 
tribution of the later genius for novel 
writing. This makes it important to 
educate any talent as soon as it becomes 
apparent. But it is just as important 
not to take any given talent too seriously. 
While there are cases of arrested develop¬ 
ment due to ignoring the trend of a 
child’s ability there is the scarcely less 
serious case of the first talent being edu¬ 
cated as a means in itself. It is not 
supposed to pay to give a child music les¬ 
sons or instruction in design unless that 
child expects to set forth on a career as 
a musician or designer. Then when the 
talent fluctuates into some thing of larger 
scope the child is reproached as being 
lazy, weak-willed or contrary. Some par¬ 
ents will go so far as to forbid the ex¬ 
ercise of any other form of talent in an 
effort to concentrate on the one chosen. 
This is one of the surest ways to drive 
a child from home, or if it succeeds, to 
cause arrested development. 
This is a tremendously interesting sub¬ 
ject to me. _ A child is an unknown quan¬ 
tity. He is put into our hands perfect 
in mind and body. He is like an arrow 
pulled against a taut bow string. Our 
hands direct his course. We wish very 
much to aim surely so that some day he 
will look back and bless us for our skill 
and pains. I believe that the country 
child, is less in danger of being held back, 
misdirected, than the child in city streets. 
He may not be. able to afford instruction 
in music or design, but he has before him 
the principles of design in every leaf and 
flower, in the patterns drawn by wind 
or water. He can get the beneficial ef¬ 
fects of music from a talking machine 
record or from a mouth organ, and the 
fundamentals of drama from church or 
school plays. These are what is called 
fundamental concepts. 'When the uncon¬ 
scious child -mind becomes aware of these 
fundamental concepts of plot, of design, 
of rhythm, he is already absorbing ma¬ 
terial for the nourishing of that special 
contributory talent which is so necessary 
to perfect growth and development. The 
only result which can possibly come from 
contact with perfected art is that of get- 
ting the right taste and ideals to guide 
effort. There is no more sensible satis¬ 
fying reason for living in the country. 
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Bran muffins cooked in the Florence Oven are evenly browned alt over 
Who has to get up to start 
your kitchen fire? 
There is no labor nor dirt nor delay if you 
ha.ve the sensible kind of stove 
A STOVE that you have to 
shake is as old-fashioned 
as a car you have to crank. The 
work and the waiting to get a 
fire ready for business are work 
and time wasted. 
You can have intense heat in 
almost no time when you own a 
Florence Oil Range. Further¬ 
more, there is no 
hard work about 
it, nosoot or ashes. 
You merely touch 
a match to the 
Asbestos Kindler. 
The result is a 
clean blue flame, 
close up under the 
cooking. You can 
cook every dish 
on a Florence, from soup to 
dessert, quickly and well. 
Does not burn from a wick 
The flame is a blue gas flame. It 
is not a wick flame, such as you 
see in the ordinary oil lamp. 
The vapor from kerosene is what 
burns. The flame can be regu¬ 
lated from intense to a mere 
simmering heat. 
You burn it only when cook¬ 
ing. A turn of the wrist puts it 
out. This means both comfort 
and economy. 
Kerosene is an inexpensive 
The Florence 
Leveler 
on each leg en¬ 
ables you to set 
the stove level on 
an uneven-floor. 
fuel and it is always easy to get. 
You will be delighted with the 
economy of a Florence Range 
even if you buy one solely kn¬ 
its convenience. You will also 
find it a decided addition to the 
attractiveness of your kitchen. 
It comes in blue or white satin 
enamel, with nickel trimmings. 
Many special features 
You will appreciate the many 
refinements of the Florence— 
its strongly built metal oil- 
reservoir with the glass bull’s- 
eye; its beautiful finish; the 
leveling device for use when the 
floor is uneven. 
You can Bake food perfectly 
in the Florence portable oven. 
The “baker’s arch” and pat¬ 
ented heat-spreader distribute 
the heat evenly. 
Go to a hardware or furniture 
store and see for yourself how 
the Florence works. Examine 
it critically. If you don’t know 
the nearest Florence dealer, 
write us for his address. And 
in any case, let us mail you 
our booklet, “Get 
Rid of the ‘Cook 
Look.’ ” It is full of 
useful information 
and will be sent 
free on request. 
Florence Stove Co., Dept.620, Gardner, Mass. 
Makers of Florence Oil Ranges, Florence Ovens, 
Florence Water Heaters, and Florence Oil Heaters 
Made and Sold in Canada by McClary’s, London, Canada 
FLORENCE 
OIL RANGE 
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