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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 1, 1924 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
Geraniums 
Of all the flowers East and West 
I like geraniums the best. 
In gingham gowns they seem to dress, 
Yet lose no whit of comeliness. 
Of wholesome things they make one 
think— 
Of apples and new milk to drink, 
And pleasant neighbors met to talk 
About the porch and garden walk, 
And Joan and Darby, smiling still 
At posies on 'their window-sill. 
They are as commonplace and right 
As books and tea and candle light. 
And all about them is the scent 
Of home and comfort and content. 
Roses and romance have their place, 
Bu there’s an old friend’s honest face. 
And who would trade so good a thing 
For all the brief coquettes of Spring 
Of all the flowers East and West 
I like geraniums the best. 
—Theodosia Garrison 
in Everybody’s' Magazine. 
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We have been increasing our planting 
of ornamental shrubs, and have been try¬ 
ing to get subjects that are decorative 
even when leaves are gone. The red- 
twigged dogwood is one of these; the bark 
of the twigs is a rich crimson, very at¬ 
tractive in Winter. Another very attrac¬ 
tive shrub is Morrow’s honeysuckle, Lon- 
icera Morrowi. This has bright scarlet 
fruits, which persist for a long time, and 
make an effective contrast with the white 
fruit of the old-fashioned snowberry. The 
Japanese barberry is gay in Autumn with 
its crimson foliage, and then holds its 
red fruits for a long period. These are 
all hardy, handsome and desirable for the 
country home. Another charming shrub 
with showy fruit is the beautyberry, Cal- 
licarpa purpurea, which has masses of 
violet-purple berries that stay on till mid¬ 
winter. 
One of the old-fashioned shrubs that 
always seems appropriate for a country 
home is the sweet or strawberry shrub, 
Calycanthus floridus, with its fragrant 
chocolate-brown blossom. Another is the 
double-flowering almond, Avith showy pink 
flowers produced before the lea\ r es appear 
in May. We know one bush of this 
double almond which was planted in a 
farm dooryard in northern New Jersey at 
least fifty years ago; young plants have 
been separated from it, and it has grown 
and bloomed year after year, Avhile all the 
old farm has been turned into suburban 
lots. It .is ironclad in hardiness, and 
never fails to bloom. There is a AAdiite 
form as well as pink. 
Many people only know the climbing 
forms of honeysuckle, but there are a 
number of shrub honeysuckles of attrac¬ 
tive appearance, one of the best known 
being the Tartarian, with pink floAvers 
and neat glaucous green foliage. Lilacs 
are so varied and beautiful that they 
must always be included; not only the 
old-fashioned type, but the beautiful new 
French sorts that give a wide range of 
color. The butterfly shrub or Summer 
lilac (Buddleia) is uoav widely planted, 
but is still new to many garden lovers. 
This begins to bloom in July, bearing 
long close spikes of violet mauve flowers. 
Blooming continues until frost. This 
shrub succeeds almost everywhere and is 
of the easiest culture. All the shrubs 
named in these brief notes are familiar 
ones; there is an infinite wealth of 
beauty in this class of plants. Such 
eA'ergreens as the noble Rhododendrons 
are in a class by themselves; they and the 
A r arieties catalogued as hardy Azaleas are 
gorgeous in bloom, and make a fine back¬ 
ground for hardy lilies. There are 
many native shrubs that deserve a place 
of honor, and planting of this class adds 
to the permanent value of a home. Every 
farmer owes his family a neat dooryard, 
where vagrant hens and other livestock 
are fenced out, and where “the Avomen- 
folks” may gratify their inherent taste 
for orderly beauty. 
The hens get busy and sing about.quite 
lively; for a few warm days Ave gather 10 
or 12 eggs, then old King Winter takes 
a spurt, and maybe we gather one egg 
and maybe none. Even my feet have 
suffered frostbite, and whether it was 
while hooking on a rug or while read¬ 
ing of a night and too dilatory to re¬ 
plenish the fire, I don’t know, but one 
surely knoAVS they are frosted. I find a 
footbath in ice water about _ the only 
remedy when snow is not obtainable. A 
friend (I have not tested this myself) 
prepared an iron oven half-full of chest¬ 
nut leaves and Avater, and set the oven 
on some good live coals, and then placed 
her frosted feet in the oven and kept 
quiet until the AA-ater blubbered, but at 
last she happened to move a toe and could 
not get her feet out of the oven quick 
enough, but she said they never troubled 
her any since. One hears so many rem¬ 
edies ; I believe the best one is to keep 
your feet Avarm. if you can. 
We are to have a seven-months school, 
for Avhich Ave are A’ery grateful. Our 
bookcase shows up nicely, though as 
The Rural Patterns 
In ordering alway* give number of pattern 
and size desired, sending price with order 
1885. Slip-on dress; 
blouse with side sec¬ 
tions extending be¬ 
low hips and form¬ 
ing pockets; kimono 
sleeves, with or 
without extensions; 
for ladies and miss¬ 
es. Sizes 34, 36, 38, 
40, 42 and 44 in. 
bust. Size 38 re¬ 
quires 4t4 yds. of 
30-in. material. 20 
cents. 
2046. Girls’ dress, 
with vest front, 
notch collar and 
short kimono sleeves 
with long sleeve ex¬ 
tensions. Sizes 8, 
10, 12 and 14 years. 
Size 10 requires 2% 
yds. of 32 to 36-in. 
material. 20 cents. 
2045 
2045. Ladies’ 
blouse, Avith surplice 
front closing, point¬ 
ed collar and long 
fitted o r elbow 
length sleeves. Sizes 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 
42 in. bust. Size 38 
requires 2% yds. of 
36-in. material. 20 
cents. 
2044 
2 0 4 4. Children’s 
bloomer dress, with 
short kimono 
sleeves; scalloped 
collar and cuffs; 
gathered bloomers 
with elastic at waist 
and knees. Sizes 2, 
4 and 6 years. Size 
4 years requires 2% 
yds. of 36-in. ma¬ 
terial, with y 2 yd. 
of contrasting mate¬ 
rial for trimming. 
20 cents. 
Tennessee Notes 
Cold: zero and then some; no snow to 
protect the small grain. A hard rain and 
then the ground frozen like a rock has 
almost obliterated the Fa-11 -soavji oats,, but 
wheat i fd rye-are still clinging to life. 
yet the shelves look a bit bare. We hope 
to overcome that defect in time. 
I too advocate the district school. We 
have suffered the inconvenience of con¬ 
solidation and no school facilities until 
we just got busy and kept busy until 
Ave got a schoolhouse. They have a num¬ 
ber of consolidated schools throughout 
east Tennessee. No doubt they are sat¬ 
isfactory to those who have "access to 
them, but here they did away with the 
schoolhouse and left children in some in¬ 
stances five miles from school and no 
conveyances at all. One truck is now 
hauling pupils at a cost of $2.50 per head 
per month, the parents to pay. And even 
at the risk of being thought a chronic 
grumbler, I am going to speak out against 
the present method of teaching ehildreu 
to read before they learn the alphabet. 
Letters are, I think, the true foundation. 
No Avonder fourth grade pupils cannot 
spell or pronounce when some of the sec¬ 
ond graders do not even knoAA r the alpha¬ 
bet. It is the same jumbled-up process 
in arithmetic; problems in fractions AA-ith 
no knoAA-ledge of rules or the multiplica¬ 
tion table. I may be old-fashioned, but 
I believe in building on a solid founda¬ 
tion, and a little more study and a little 
less play in the schoolroom, at least until 
children learn to read, spell, write and 
multiply, for but very feAv aa'HI go beyond 
the eighth grade. 
We try to show our teacher every 
courtesy and consideration. She gets 
board and a room for $15 per month ; 
that leaA-es her $50 per month. No doubt 
she gets Aveary. but one cannot always 
have all things just as they Avish. 
Lee, the young^seJad, is’sufferlng agbny 
She does not dread getting supper, for it is quick and easy with the Florence Oil Range 
How much of your time 
do you spend in the kitchen? 
Quickness and comfort in cooking are two of the assets 
of the modern oil stove. There’s a third — 
N O woman wants to stay in 
the kitchen a minute longer 
than is necessary. It depends 
upon the stove whether getting 
meals is slowdrudgeryorwhether 
it is done quickly and in comfort. 
When you have a Florence Oil 
Range, you have no long wait 
for the stove to get going—there 
is no shaking to be done, no 
coal to carry, no uncertainty. 
You merely turn a lever, touch 
a match to the 
Asbestos Kindler 
and in a few mo¬ 
ments you have 
an intensely hot, 
clean blue flame. 
The fl ame is 
close up under the 
cooking. The heat 
goes into the food, 
not into the iron 
of the stove or into 
the kitchen. You 
can cook every 
dish for the biggest dinner on 
this modern range. And you 
use a Florence only when you 
need it for cooking. This means 
comfort, and it means some¬ 
thing more— 
It means economy 
Add to the quickness of a Flor¬ 
ence Oil Range and its great con¬ 
venience the fact that it cuts 
down expense, and you realize 
that there is every reason for 
your owning one of these modern 
stoves. 
The Big 
Burners 
keep the flame 
close up under the 
cooking. This 
means economy 
of fuel. 
The flame in the big burners 
is a gas flame. It is not a wick 
flame. What you burn is the 
vapor from kerosene, and kero¬ 
sene is both a cheap fuel and 
one you can always get. 
An object of beauty 
With blueor white porcelain enamel, 
ink-black frame and nickel trim¬ 
mings, the Florence Oil Range 
makes even a dingy kitchen look 
bright and modern. 
You will appreciate, once you 
examine a Florence, the many re- 
finementsof this range. An ingenious 
device on each leg makes it easy to 
set it level on an uneven floor. The 
metal reservoir is light in weight 
and non-breakable. The movable 
oven, for use on any kind of stove, 
has the “baker’s arch” and the 
patented heat-spreader, which take 
most of the guess out of baking. 
Seeing is believing 
The Florence Oil Range will quickly 
convince you, when you examine 
one critically at a hardware or fur¬ 
niture store. If you don’t know the 
- name of the nearest store where the 
Florence Stove Company, Dept. 622, Gardner, Mass. 
Makers of Florence Oil Ranges, Florence Ovens, Florence Water Fleaters, and Florence Oil Heaters 
• Made and Sold in Canada by McClary’s, London, Canada 
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