RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Late Winter in Vermont 
We are having glorious weather again, 
and snow is settling. Until January 21 
we really had no Winter, and autos have 
run on the State road, and our road 
hadn’t needed plowing until recently. But 
February gave us many zero and near- 
zero nights and January 27 the mercury 
stood at 30 degrees below, but our 
thermometer was on the west end of the 
house and received the full benefit of the 
northwest wind. We like to know' the 
weather, as our children will face it on 
their three-mile ride to school. Our 
school closes now for a five or six weeks 
vacation, while the roads will be bad. 
There are indications now' that the school 
iu our district will be opened next Sep¬ 
tember, as there will be eight pupils, and 
there are six more little ones growing up 
to school age. In Vermont if there are 
seven pupils of school age iu a district 
and the parents ask for a school the 
school board must give it. When the 
school was discontinued in our district, 
after trying transportation two years 
one family left the district. That seems 
always to follow the closing of rural 
schools. He will move back if we can have 
a school. Upon hearing it spoken of I 
was surprised to see how anxious our 
boys were to have a school here, I hadn’t 
realized how tired they were of the long 
trip in all weather, thinking to myself 
that having more pupils and classmates 
they enjoyed a tow r n school better. 
These warmer days have turned our 
thoughts toward gardening. A Colorado 
friend w’rote of raking her backyard and 
planting sweet peas. Well, snow is two 
feet deep on mine yet! 
The wind is northwest tonight and 
flakes of snow are in the air but I 
planted Delphinium (it takes 42 days for 
them to germinate any way). Petunias, 
snapdragons. Verbenas, and red and 
yellow tomatoes. The yellow ones make 
such fine preserves, the boys liken them to 
plums and our Japan plums do not bear 
freely. I think w r e shall try some Euro¬ 
pean varieties. 
One hen is sitting on her nest patiently 
hoping for some eggs. I think I will 
give her nine as an experiment. The 
pride of the poultry yard just now is 
Ching Li; his ancestors were probably 
mandarins of some poultry yard on the 
Brahmapootra River. Anyway Ching is 
proud and is a Dark Brahma. He was 
bought as a day-old chick early in July, 
and December 24 he weighed 7 lb 14 oz., 
before supper, and now he is much larger. 
The Dark Brahma pullets are very hand¬ 
some, so beautifully pencilled. A New 
York butcher says he prefers Dark Bra¬ 
hma to any other fowl, yet I never saw 
any before, and do not find them entered 
in poultry contests. The Light Brahmas 
are most excellent layers, but of course 
do not lay as young as other breeds, but 
are superior layers as year-old hens. 
There are going to be new neighbors in 
many neighborhoods this Spring, and I 
hope everyone will try to make the new 
comers feel at home. A new neighbor 
told me in September that but one other 
neighbor had called on her, and she came 
in May; no pastor had called on her, nor 
members of the church. My own reason 
for not calling was chickenpox in the 
family, and as some members of the fam¬ 
ily were away, they came down with it 
three different times, and during haying 
I could not have a horse, and I do not 
drive the car. I think with a school in 
our own district we shall get fewer 
germ diseases. 
Never have I realized how much good 
reading was enjoyed as I have this 
Winter. Some boys come a mile and a 
half nearly every Sunday afternoon to 
get books and papers, and another tells 
of papers being passed on that they sit 
up till midnight to read. 
I have had three little sermons lately 
that I want to pass on. 
“There is more in our back yard than 
most of us ever know'.” Don’t you be¬ 
lieve it? One Vermonter has been pho¬ 
tographing snowflakes ever since his 
youth, but he still finds he has much to 
learn and, speaking of backyards and the 
new form of kitchen window, I wonder if 
the energy expended on talking about 
them was expended in beautifying them, 
wouldn’t some backyards be lovely? 
My second sermonette wms Charles 
Lamb’s saying, “Content, but wishing 
more,” so let us realize our blessing while 
at the same time try to make life fuller 
and happier, both for ourselves and those 
about us. 
My third, “Look pleasant, someone is 
iflways taking your picture.” Since read¬ 
ing that it flashes so often across my 
mind how would I like a picture of myself 
if I did this, or would that person like his 
picture taken now, and mind pictures are 
such lasting things. 
T.ook pleasant! 
“There was a man, though some did count 
him mad, 
For being always glad with such things 
as he had, 
But — they shook their heads — and 
smiled.” 
MOT II eh bee. 
Uncle Jack asked little Celia if she 
didn’t want him to play with her. “Oh. 
no,” she said, “we’re playing Indian, and 
you’re no use, ’cause you’re scalped al¬ 
ready.”—United Presbyterian. 
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