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December 13, 1924 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day 
A Christmas Song 
Never we needed Thee so sore 
Since the first day began. 
O, come and knock at the world’s door, 
Small Son of God and Man ! 
And if it ope not to Thy knock 
Shrill crying in the cold, 
Break down the heart hard as a rock 
And enter and lay hold ! 
Not when they slew our young and 
marred 
The beauty smooth and clean, 
Not then, not then, our hearts were hard, 
Arid and cold and mean. 
For now the weak are down, and Hate, 
And Avarice, and Pride, 
These are the Lords within our gate, 
O Child, be not denied! 
O, not in nineteen hundred years 
We needed Thee as tonight. 
Yestereen we washed us clean with tears, 
Their scarlet washed us white. 
There is not one green spot on the earth 
Where men nor hate nor grieve. 
O Child, come to our hour of dearth 
And bid the dead heart live. 
—Katharine Tynan, in 
London Nation and Athenaeum. 
* 
At the annual convention of the Asso¬ 
ciation to Provide Proper Housing for 
Girls, one of the speakers, the Rev. Ed¬ 
ward Roberts Moore, urged a nation-wide 
movement to keep girls away from the 
great cities. He said : 
We must stem the tide of migration of 
young country girls to the city. It is all 
right to discuss remedies for meeting the 
present situation, but we must also con¬ 
sider the future. This migration is a na¬ 
tional menace. We must carry our cam¬ 
paign from the city into the country. We 
must portray to the young women and 
men on the farm the disadvantages of for¬ 
saking the farm for the city, and make 
them realize how fortunate they are on 
the farm. 
A nation-wide study of this subject by 
the National Councils of Catholic Wom¬ 
en has revealed there are many more 
young women between the ages of 15 and 
24 than there are young men of the same 
ages, and in States having large cities 
there are more girls between these ages 
living in the congested cities than in all 
the rest of the State. 
The root of the whole matter is found 
in farm economic conditions. When the 
farm girl’s industry is paid for ade¬ 
quately while she remains at home, she 
does not drift to the city, to meet the 
dangers that result from inadequate hous¬ 
ing facilities. It is not always the bright 
lights of the city that lure her awmy, but 
the hope of receiving, in actual money, a 
fair return for her energy and industry. 
* 
The United States Bureau of Educa¬ 
tion has found that the farm boy and 
farm girl are not inferior to their town 
and city cousins. Country girls, it is 
said, are even brighter than their sisters 
in urban communities. Facts involving 
20,000 high school pupils representing 
every State in the union, it was ascer¬ 
tained, show that farm children make 
better progress than other children 
through high school. This is true because 
of the unusually good progress of farm 
girls. The facts show also that fewer 
farm girls are eliminated from high 
school. 
A Pioneer Christmas in 
Oregon 
|As related to the writer by Mrs. 
Sarah Bloome.] 
“In the Spring of 1873 husband and I, 
with our three small children, sold our 
old home farm in Southern Ohio and 
emigrated to Western Oregon. No one 
will ever know what it cost me to leave 
my own people and my many close 
friends in heart anguish, and I remember 
yet, back through the misty years, the 
last time I looked upon the dear old home. 
We were leaving in father’s old buggy 
for the train that would carry us toward 
that then remote and far-away place, 
know as the Oregon country. I turned 
and waved my hand in fond farewell, 
and then a strange numbness crept over 
me and I fainted. However. I had fully 
recovered when he reached the depot, and 
I really enjoyed the long and tedious 
journey westward. 
“We landed in Portland on the sixth 
day of May, where we rested for two 
days, then we went by boat down the Co¬ 
lumbia River to St. Helens, the county- 
seat of Columbia Co., Ore. This town 
was nothing more than a trading post.at 
that time, and the principal industry was 
salmon fishing, some lumbering and hunt¬ 
ing and trapping. 
“Early in the Summer, same year, we 
took up a homestead seven miles south of 
St. Helens, in the Fern Valley, and we 
got a tent and went out to build us a 
cabin. I never can forget my first im¬ 
pression of the country. It was wild 
and grand beyond any description; the 
mighty spruce, fir, cedar and yew tow¬ 
ered 200 ft. high, and everywhere the 
grass was growing green, and wild flow¬ 
ers were blooming in profusion. A little 
river flowed serenely through the south 
half of our claim, and back about GO 
yards from this stream, on a gentle rise, 
we chose the site for our home, and near 
by we pitched our tent. 
“There was a fairly good trail already 
into this Silver River district, made by 
the market hunters, and so we had our 
duffle and supplies brought in on sleds 
drawn by draft horses. Husband was a 
great sportsman and we had brought in 
a good supply of ammunition for the old 
muzzle-loading rifle, and fishing tackle. 
I remember how we worked to get our 
tent up and things straightened out, and 
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theu we slipped down to the little river 
and began to cast for trout, and never 
had we dreamed of ever seeing such won¬ 
derful rainbow trout. Big. husky fel¬ 
lows. and they were so numerous that 
within an hour we had enough to supply 
our larder for a couple of days. How the 
two oldest children did enjoy themselves! 
It did us good to watch them romping 
about among the green fir and spruce, 
gathering wild flowers and exploring the 
nearby surroundings. 
“The morning following our arrival, 
husband took his rifle and went out for a 
hunt, and had not gone out of sight of the 
tent when he killed a deer, and we had 
our first mess of venison. We feasted 
upon trout, venison, bear meat, grouse, 
pheasant and other game birds through¬ 
out the Summer and Fall. Meanwhile 
we worked hard clearing and building 
our little home, which was a double log 
structure with four rooms; that is, we 
cut each separate room in halves, and we 
had a big roomy hall between. Winter 
came late and the first snowfall was a 
welcome sight to us. We had bountiful 
provisions laid by, and the white, fleecy 
element was a beautiful sight in the ever¬ 
green forest. 
“Husband had purchased a supply of 
beaver and other steel traps, and made 
quite a bit of money trapping during the 
Winter. I remember one morning when 
he went the rounds of his traps he found 
a very large cougar in a bear-trap, and 
he had quite a time killing the huge cat. 
At that time the cougar was a great pest 
in Western Oregon and Washington. We 
had three cows and a heifer eaten by 
cougars during the three first years of 
our ranch life. 
“We had four prosperous years, with 
good crop seasons, and the few isolated 
ranchers in the Silver River country had 
nothing to complain about in the way of 
crops. Then came a period of Summer 
droughts, followed by stormy, cold Win¬ 
ters. For three years the Summer 
droughts continued, and the snow piled 
high in the great forest. The Winter of 
1880 set in early, and with unusual se¬ 
verity. Husband had met with a very 
serious accident while working at a saw¬ 
mill, which confined him to his bed nearly 
all Winter. We had nothing much put 
up for Winter, and, in fact, no money to 
purchase with, and to put the finishing 
touch on the picture of misery, I took 
down with pneumonia along the first of 
December, and our eldest daughter, Dor- 
tha, aged 12, had to take the responsibil¬ 
ity of caring for my husband and myself 
and the two younger children, besides 
feeding what stock we had. The snow 
piled higher and higher, and Dortha had 
to keep shoveling snow off the roads to 
the barn and woodhouse. She also kept a 
road cleared down to the little river 
where she had frequently caught a few 
silverside salmon and other varieties of 
fish, but the ice had frozen over the vya- 
ter so solidly now that fishing was im¬ 
possible. 
“I well remember the morning of De¬ 
cember 23. It dawned cold and bleak, 
with dark storm clouds overcasting 'he 
sky. Snow began to fall early in the 
day, and kept falling throughout the day. 
December 24, Christmas Eve, was a com¬ 
paratively calm day and a slight thaw 
had set in. Husband was feeling better, 
and my fever had left me, but we didn’t 
have anything in our home to eat, only a 
little flour, scarcely enough to subsist 
upon for a day or so. 
“Christmas morning we awoke to find 
the early morning sun peeping over the 
low-lying hills of Washington and bath¬ 
ing the fir and spruce tops in a shower of 
liquid gold. The drops of moisture 
clinging to the twigs reflected the bright¬ 
ness, turning them into millions of spark¬ 
ling gems. Dortha went out to feed the 
stock and chickens, but presently she 
burst into the house and exclaimed with 
much excitement: 
“‘A deer, a deer! Just beyond the 
barn, feeding on'the fodder scraps.' And 
she took the big rifle down from over the 
door and sped toward the barn. ‘Be care¬ 
ful,’ I cautioned, ‘and don’t harm your¬ 
self with that gun.’ But she was gone be¬ 
fore I completed the warning. 
“In a few moments we heard the report 
of the gun and in a short time daughter 
called to me: ‘I’ve got the deer!’ and 
against 10 a. m. she had the animal 
dressed nicely and a big pot of venison 
on the stove to stew. It was a fine day, 
the bright sunshine streamed into the 
room through the window, the two small¬ 
est children were playing Christmas 
games on the floor, and Dortha was busy 
in the kitchen, when there came a rap 
on the living-room door. ‘Come right on 
in,’ called husband, and the door opened, 
and who do you suppose we beheld? It 
was brother James, whom we had not 
seen for 11 years. He lived up in Maine 
and had taken a notion to visit the Pa- 
eifice coast country, and us in particular! 
lie had coihe to San Francisco and up 
the coast on a passenger steamer to St. 
Helens. After greeting us, he went out 
and presently returned with an armload 
of groceries, and he called upon the chil¬ 
dren to lend a hand. They carried in 
boxes, packages, dolls, etc. It developed 
that when he came into St. Helens he 
had made inquiries concerning us, and 
upon learning of our misfortune, had pur¬ 
chased groceries and Christmas things, 
and hired at teamster to haul it out with 
his horse and sleigh. Never was there 
another Christmas in the Oregon Coun¬ 
try that would rival this one. 'We sat 
down to a dinner fit for a prince and 
princess. The stewed venison was a great 
treat for brother Jim, and the cakes, can¬ 
dies. fruits, etc., were relished by hus¬ 
band. myself and children. It was a 
happy and thankful family that united in 
their evening prayer in recognition of the 
blessings of that Christmas Day.” 
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