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Jh* RURAL NEW-YORKER 
February 2 , 1924 
The Opportunity 
for You to Save Money 
Ward’s new complete catalogue for Spring and Summer is now ready, 
and one free copy may just as well be yours. 
The opportunity for Saving is at your door. It is for you to give the 
answer. Will you, too, save money this Season on everything you buy? 
How Ward’s Low Prices Are Made 
Over 100 expert buyers have been at work for months finding and mak¬ 
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family this great opportunity for saving. 
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Ward’s is a money-saving house. We make low prices. But there is one 
thing always to remember when comparing prices. We sell only merchan¬ 
dise of “ Ward Quality.” 
We sell only the kind of merchandise that will give you satisfaction 
—that will stand inspection and use. We do not sell “ cheap ” goods. We 
sell good goods cheap. At Ward’s we never sacrifice quality to make a 
low price. 
And that has stood as our governing policy for fifty-one years. 
Everything for the Home, the Farm 
and the Family 
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woman’s and young woman’s needs and 
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homes have been made beautiful, comfort¬ 
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home furnishing. Here in this catalogue you 
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FOR THE FARM: ^ r e me k r n 3 °need^ 
We have studied them for over half a cen¬ 
tury. And so we can say to everyone on the 
farm that at Ward’s everything for the 
farm is intelligently chosen with practical 
knowledge of its use. Fencing, hardware, 
roofing, tillage tools, tires and everything 
for the automobile—of reliable quality is 
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farm to another. The first of January is 
moving time in our State, and I have 
never been able to understand why, but 
almost all of our tenant farmers change 
places every year, which is a very bad 
practice, for moving, even only a short 
distance, is always a costly proposition. 
Often the children must change schools, 
old friends are missed and new ones must 
be got acquainted with, the new surround¬ 
ings must become accustomed to, and it 
often happens that one leaves better land, 
a better house, better schools and better 
neighbors than they find. Land rents on 
shares, third of grain crops and fourth 
of cotton being given as rent. Land sells 
so cheap and on such liberal terms that 
any enterprising farmer could own his 
home, yet at least half of our rural pop¬ 
ulation are tenant farmers. However, 
State officials are urging home buying, 
and are offering every aid possible to 
would-be buyers. mbs. lillie York. 
Tennessee Notes 
New Year’s greeting to one and all. 
Many changes to many people since the 
year just gone came in with its spotless 
pages and cheery promises. While we 
have lost some near and dear our own 
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family circle remains unbroken, and that 
is something to be very grateful for. If 
one could only keep all the good resolu¬ 
tions made today, what a grand old world 
this would become! 
Christmas passed off very quietly in 
our own home; a small tree, a few nuts, 
candy and oranges, with a few homely 
gifts. Some waiting children gave Santa 
Claus some very frightened looks and fair 
promises. The twins were too scared to 
talk or eat until he departed. 
We reorganized our Sunday school last 
Sunday. Our average attendance the 
past year has been 38, our average con¬ 
tribution 23 cents. We are to have a 
seven-months school the present session. 
The turkeys were sold December 27tli 
for 20c per lb. and the next day our mer¬ 
chant received orders to buy at 28c per 
lb., but everyone had let them go, so, as 
usual, the dealers made good. One crop 
of tobacco brought 19c on an average. 
Another, 20c, and one small crop yet to 
sell. Up to the holidays there had been 
4,206,406 lbs. of tobacco sold on the 
Greenville market. And, according to 
warehouse figures, at an average of 23c 
per lb.. Tobacco has been a great finan¬ 
cial aid to the farmers of Green and 
Washington counties. If they will only 
be cautious, and not bank too heavily, 
one and two acres to the farm would 
mean just as much cash as five or ten 
acres. Some few are already depending 
on tobacco to buy their beans, flour, corn, 
etc., and a general following of that plan 
will spell hard times. 
A cotton gin under way of construction 
at Greenville is going to cause some to 
try cotton, but if others have no better 
success with cotton than I have with a 
few rows in the garden, they would better 
stick to corn and beans. 
December was a warm month, with un¬ 
usual rainy weather. Charlie, the eldest 
lad, sent me a gasoline lamp for a Christ¬ 
mas present. And though I’m just a wee 
bit scared of it. I surely enjoy its, soft 
light, and tell them I’ve only one fault; 
it shows up every speet of dirt! Paul, 
not to be outdone, spent some of his hard- 
earned money to send me a fountain pen. 
Dear hearts, while one is glad it chokes 
them up a bit. and one wants them home 
for Christmas! 
Lee, the youngest lad, is a bit of a car¬ 
penter, and is laying a floor in the back 
room, of matched oak. The cost is a bit 
more than matting, but I am sure it will 
outwear the matting. 
I like to change the old furniture 
around, but Mr. P. wants them always 
in the same place. This floor has been 
looked forward to for years. Next we 
want a wainscoting and wall-board, but 
that depends on rugs. I have taken a 
two-weeks’ vacation, just at home, from 
rugs; next week I will be in the harness 
again. 
Last Sunday we needed no fire, today 
one freezes with the best of fires—zero, 
and then some. What a time wrapping, 
carrying and trying to protect things 
from danger! The outdoor cellar—not 
the best—is kept below or above the 
freezing point by filling iron kettles with 
hickory coals and setting them around the 
earthen floor, and covering securely. 
Just now, one of the Sunday school boys 
came for a book. I was lucky enough to 
find one that he had not read. One and 
all hav? surely enjoyed the kindness of 
Mr. D. in supplying us with so many 
good books, magazines, etc. When the 
ability and the desire to help go hand in 
hand, it is unknown how far the wave 
on life’s ocean will extend. We have 
a small library started at our school- 
house, (he bookcase ordered, and I hope 
we will be able to add to its contents 
every year, though if it is as big a task 
to keep in touch with library books as 
it is with those of private ownership, 
the shelves will soon be empty. People 
who would think it a great crime to bor¬ 
row money or sugar and never pay ir 
back, will never give the second thought 
to a borrowed book, yet books are our 
best friends. They never talk back, 
never tattle, always stay in their place if 
pat there, cheer us when we’re lonely, 
make us glad when we are sad, and will 
abide with us until death if the bor¬ 
rower will bring them back. 
Yesterday was a heavy day: ironing, 
churning, baking, and a comfort top 
joined together. The squares were nine 
diamonds of woolen material joined; 
coats, etc., ripped apart, sponged, pressed 
and cut in squares. I use the machine, so 
it is an easy matter to prepare a top 
after the squares are pieced. Unbleached 
sheeting colored makes the most durable 
lining and outing flannel the warmest. 
Boys are very destructive animals in bed, 
especially when they get into a playful 
scuffle, or one decides to cool the other’s 
back, then the very stoutest material will 
hardly stand the strain. Anyway, what 
are mothers for if not to make good warm 
covers, sew on buttons, mend garments, 
wash them, help with lessons. And above 
all, cook and now and then make a batch 
of candy—if of nothing but molasses— 
and help to hunt caps and coats and help 
out in a game if one is lacking, and to 
manage some way, no odds what’s to do 
or needed! The day when small boys’ 
v aited and always got the neck of the 
poultry is past; now it’s mother. Yet 
she occupies the place by choice, no odds 
how she may grumble. Her greatest joy 
is in self-sacrifice for those she loves 
better than all the world besides. 
In picking up the odds and ends, sort¬ 
ing out for rugs, quilts and wearing ap¬ 
parel, I have contrived some good service¬ 
able dresses from women’s coats of soft 
material, by turning and cleanses and 
us’ng some of the linings for trimming, 
adding a few rows of bright yarns, they 
surely please the eye of the young folks, 
and are very warm. Sweaters worn be¬ 
yond repair are raveled out for rags. 
The New Year found us all in good 
health. A contrast to the year gone when 
two were not able to be up. And while 
many dreams have been unrealized, and 
many desires are yet stars of hope in the 
future, they leave us something to strive 
for, work for, and look forward too. 
They tell me there was once an old lady 
who took to her bed to die, because, she 
said, “There was nothing more for her 
to learn.” A little girl came in to bor¬ 
row a coal of fire. There was nothing 
handy to carry the fire on. The child 
covered her hand with cold ashes and 
laid the coal on top of the ashes and run. 
“There,” said the old lady, “is something 
new to learn, so I will get up and live 
awhile longer.” mbs. d. b. p. 
Canning Baked Apple Sauce 
'Will you tell the housekeepers when 
they can apple sauce to try baking it in¬ 
stead of boiling? Prepare the apples 
just the same, put them in a large pan, 
put in what sugar they need and a little 
water, cover and bake until apples are 
a pretty red. Then put in can and seal; 
it is so much nicer. Better do all you 
can this year, for there are so many 
apples, that it is likely we shall not have 
many next year. M. L. v. 
