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Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks 
(Continued from page 544) 
They do not use milking machines, and 
each cow has a milk rating, the men get¬ 
ting so much a cow for milking instead of 
being paid by the hour. The average is 
around 6c a cow. but for some as high as 
20c is paid. The Parson has vivid recol¬ 
lections of cows in that old stable on the 
hills of Vermont that it was easily worth 
$20 to milk. There was a cow named 
Tin. Tin was short for Tiny, because she 
was such a small cow. It might better 
have been applied to the amount of millc 
she gave. It could have been also applied 
to the price the milk brought, for when 
the 1’arson left the old farm we were get¬ 
ting 13c per pound for butter, or about 
1.2c a quart for milk. There was really 
a wonderful bottle-washing machine here. 
As it cost $10,000 it ought to lie worth, 
something. They get 35c a quart for milk 
in New York City—sending it in by 
1 ruck. 
I’.rsv Times Ahead. —The Parson ex¬ 
pects to go down into New Jersey for 
about 10 days the beginning of the mid¬ 
dle of June. lie is to be at the school 
for ministers arid their wives at the State 
College in New Brunswick the week be¬ 
ginning June 10, and then in some State 
camps for about four days more. lie 
hopes lo see again the good friends he has 
made in New Jersey. There was a fine 
family at the last place he spoke, with 
seven children present. They read The 
It. N.-Y. (like most farmers down ihat 
way) and they wanted the Parson and his 
whole family to come and put up at their 
house for a visit next Summer. They 
really meant it. too. The house has If 
rooms. Such a cheerful, hardworking 
man and wife. How the Parson would 
like to visit them. The last week in 
March the Parson is out in Pennsylvania, 
in Luzerne County, around Wilkes-Barre, 
lie always asks at the meetings for those 
who read The It. N.-Y. and tries to have 
a word with each one of our big family 
present. This trip is under the direc¬ 
tion of the Farm Bureau in that county. 
Next week the Parson speaks to tlie 
Men's Club of Trinity Church, Boston. 
The old saying is “When a preacher goes 
into the country he better take his best 
sermon, hut when lie goes to the city he 
will need his best coat.” The Parson 
guesses he might as well take along botli 
when he goes up 1<> Boston. 
Money Mad. —The Parson was at a 
banquet down in New Haven the other 
night. Tie fell to talking with one of the 
men afterwards. ‘Won would be sur¬ 
prised if you knew how much money these 
men were making.” lie said. “I tell you. 
business for mine. I don’t care so much 
for an education for my boy, except in the 
way of business. Look at my brother, 
now. He is head proofreader over 14 
men for a newspaper in Boston.” The 
Parson inquired the paper. “But that is 
probably the cleanest, best paper put out 
in the country, among dailies.” remarked 
tlie Parson. “I don’t care for that,” lie 
went on ; “to think he can never get be¬ 
yond $75 a week. Why, the car I ride 
in costs fully live times what his ear 
cost.” Isn’t that awful! To think that 
this man is content to ride around in a 
nice little closed-in Ford, when lie should 
aspire for nothing but a great four-wheel 
brake straight eight Packard! No mat¬ 
ter how much good he is doing; no matter 
if his work is known and appreciated by 
hundreds of thousands of readers, as long 
as he cannot drive a great, showy, expen¬ 
sive, np-to-tlie-minute car, his own broth- 
or holds him up to pity, if not to scorn. 
In such money-mad times do we live. 
Jumping Toothache. —Will a Sunday 
school cure the jumping toothache? That 
is the question. The Parson had headed 
down country last Sunday for a Sunday 
school session, lie pulled up at a house 
where there is a large family of children. 
The father came out to the buggy. One 
boy couldn’t go—he had a terrible tooth¬ 
ache. The father had been trying to pull 
the tooth with a pair of pliers, but with 
no success. One boy came out and said 
his brother had jumping toothache. The 
Parson well remembers how his own tooth 
always stopped aching before he got to 
the dentist’s door, so lie asked the father 
if the boy could go if he wanted to. “Of 
course he can go if he wants to. But how 
can he go with a terrible toothache?” 
“Go and tell him he can go,” said the 
Parson. Well, sir, it couldn’t have been 
live minutes before the boy came round 
ilie corner of the house on a run. and as 
chipper as a grig. He mounted the back 
of the express wagon. Perhaps the 
thought of the popcorn and cocoa and all- 
hots and rolls tucked away under the seat 
helped to keep that tooth from doing any 
more jumping the rest of the afternoon. 
Even the prayer books and hymnals and 
Sunday school lesson couldn’t bring it 
back again. 
One-room School. —The picture on 
page 544. shows where four of rhe Par¬ 
son’s country children go to school. They 
walk over a lonely road for two miles. It 
is about all up hill one way, and down 
hill the other. Those two sleds the Par¬ 
son took down for Christmas—given by a 
class of his divinity students, have made 
a wonderful difference in the length of 
those two miles. Little Billy. Sawmill 
Billy’s boy, is just at the right of the 
right-hand door of the sehoolhouse. He 
is 16 and only a little boy. As the Par¬ 
son writes a great pot of beans is boiling 
away on the stove. It is Saturday fore¬ 
noon. Little Billy will sit beside the 
Parson at the long table down in the old 
church tomorrow and we will have a turn 
at those beans together. 
More About “Mother’s Day” 
In response to the article, page 312. 
“Mother’s Day Any Day.” by Mrs. Helen 
S. K. Willcox, allow me to state what I 
think of Mrs. Willcox and her day's 
work. 
Her very first paragraph gives one a 
very good idea of her system in bringing 
up her children. It certainly wouldn’t 
have been necessary ro be up with Jimmy, 
if she had used a little judgment in giv¬ 
ing him his supper. A gentle, but firm 
"No.” when lie had eaien enough, would 
have saved her a wakeful night, and 
Jimmy a very uncomfortable one. 
If the children had been trained from 
ihe time they first appeared at the table, 
by the time ihey were as old as Tim, they 
would know how to use a napkin. And 
Marion, if she were mine, would use a 
spoon for her oatmeal, regardless of her 
“naughty little head.” It is a good deal 
easier to teach children to eat properly 
when they first begin to feed themselves, 
than it is to let them eat any way they 
please until they are older and then try 
to break them of all the naughty habits of 
eating that they have formed. When a 
child is about a year old, and occasion¬ 
ally gets a dish of mashed potatoes, it is 
the most natural thing for him to stick 
his lingers into the dish. This is none 
too early to start his training, by im¬ 
pressing on his mind that his fingers 
must he left out of the dish. This is no 
great task, as I know from experience. 
After a child is three years old, there is 
no reason why lie or she cannot ear 
properly in any public place, or at the 
table with any guest, no matter how im¬ 
portant. I have a boy, now five years 
old. When he was just a little past 
two, we lived in a city, and always ate 
our Sunday supper at a hotel. We al¬ 
ways took him with us, and he sat in a 
high chair at the table, and ate and be¬ 
haved as well as any grown-up present. 
I have never been ashamed to take him 
any place 1 went. On a recent trip to 
New York, we ate in the diner on the 
train, and I couldn't see hut what hr 
knew how to act. even to using the finger 
bowl when we finished our meal. "It’s 
all in a child’s early training.” 
What a time she does have putting 
up lunches. If life wasn’t so short, .I’d 
take time to pity her. If she had only 
taught her children, when they were 
younger, (or would begin now) to pick 
up their own mess, it would not be neces¬ 
sary to spend so much time picking up 
waste paper and straightening up gener¬ 
ally. I don’t know how ohl her girls are, 
but they could be trained to straighten 
up their own room, and make up their 
own beds, in which case she would have 
had time to change her dress before Mrs. 
Myers’ arrival. I heartily agree with 
Mrs. Myers, that bread-making is a poor 
excuse for staying at home. No doubt 
she felt like A real martyr when making 
the statement about her children having 
homemade bread as long as they were 
with her. It would he different if one 
couldn’t buy good bread. But these days 
baker’s bread is almost preferable to 
homemade bread, as the quality runs uni¬ 
form. and there- isn’t the chance of a 
batch being poor every now and then. As 
for Jimmy, he would be better off if be ate 
baker’s bread, even if be scornfully re¬ 
fused it at first, and pined a little; 
chances are he wouldn’t quite pine away, 
and he would avoid the stomach-ache. 
And poor Tim! Yes, do let him eat 
more cake than he should because he 
happens to be fond of it, even if it ruins 
his digestion, in which case it won’t mat¬ 
ter whether his wife is a good cake maker 
or not. Her main trouble seems to be 
“eats.” With the children coming home 
from school at about 4:30, it would seem 
as though a cookie and a glass of milk 
would tide them over, without eating a 
meal then, and a hearty supper two hours 
later. 
I note that after supper they have a 
family reunion. But where is she during 
the reunion? In the kitchen — doing 
dishes, straightening the kitchen, setting 
bread, fixing the fire, peeling a pun of 
apples, etc. Why not let the girls and 
boys take turns doing the dishes? It has 
never hurt any boy to know how. Elimi¬ 
nate the bread setting by buying baker’s 
bread; set a dish of apples on the living- 
room table, with several fruit knives, and 
let each one peel bis own apples or eat 
them as they are, the peels make good 
roughage. This would give her at least 
an extra hour after supper. 
She mentions at least half a dozen 
things that her family “loves.” Jimmy 
loves homemade bread ; Tim loves cake; 
Alice loves fruit; Grant loves to be 
babied ; they all love peeled apples. But 
not once does she mention their love for 
one another, or for mother. It seems to 
be her policy to make them love all the 
material comforts of life and take it for 
granted that mother will see that they are 
provided. She is evidently laboring un¬ 
der the delusion that when the children 
grow up they will think of mother as a 
ministering angel, but I am afraid she 
is in for a very sad disillusion, as in¬ 
stead of teaching them to be thoughtful 
and considerate of others, and helping 
mother, and making her comfortable, and 
loving her, she is letting them grow up 
to be selfish and inconsiderate young 
(Continued on page 550) 
