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Letters  from  the  Ozarks 
It  is  Christmas  Day  in  the  Ozarks.  To 
l  you  who  do  not  know  the  Ozarks  will 
come  a  picture  of  white  peaks,  cedars 
loaded  with  snow,  scintillating  vestments 
upon  every  spear  of  grass  and  weed  and 
shrub,  frozen  streams.  But  thm  is  what 
I  see:  a  rolling  landscape,  bur  never  a 
peak ;  a  flock  of  sheep  grazing  upon  a 
very  bare  wheatfield ;  hens  contentedly 
talking  about  the  dooryard ;  birds  flitting 
through  the  golden  sunshine  of  a  mellow 
afternoon. 
This  morning  a  bevy  of  15  quail  came 
marching  across  the  lawn.  They  kept 
their  spacing  almost  as  accurately  as  real 
soldiers,  and  every  minute  or  two  halted 
and  stood  motionless,  reconnoitering.  A 
few  days  ago  I  looked  from  the  kitchen 
window  and  beheld  a  crimson  lily  upon  a 
Che.  ry  tree.  To  be  sure,  I  know  red 
lilies  do  not  bloom  on  cherry  trees  in 
December,  but  there  it  was,  for  Mr.  Bed 
Bird  was  taking  a  siesta.  I  hope  he  may 
follow  in  the  flight  of  some  of  his  an¬ 
cestors  who  used  to  come  and  sit  upon  the 
snowball  bush  just  outside  the  window. 
Mr.  Jay  came  calling  a  few  days  ago.  and 
I  saw  a  bluebird  upon  my  walk  this 
morning.  Some  Winters  the  jays  are 
here  so  nearly  all  the  time  that  I  think 
they  have  no  Southern  residence,  and 
some  years  we  are  more  favored  by  the 
reds  than  we  have  been  this  season.  On 
very  rare  occasions  a  flock  of  cedar  birds 
swirl  into  the  fruitful  cedar  tree  for  a 
feast  of  berries. 
What  a  source  of  delight  the  birds  are 
(barring  the  robin  in  cherry  time).  We 
have  a  mocking  bird,  or  a  line  of  them, 
that  to  me  is  one  of  the  assets  of  a  farm 
which  in  most  ways  is  a  liability.  One 
Summer  one  of  them  donated  a  grand 
opera  season,  coming  every  evening  just 
about  dusk  to  sing  from  a  tree  by  the 
garden  fence.  The  brown  thrasher,  too, 
is  almost  the  equal  of  the  mocker,  and  a 
family  of  them  nests  each  year  in  the 
syringa.  And,  by  the  way,  that  syringa 
is  another  asset.  I  have  never  measured 
it.  but  I  think  the  center  sprays  must  be 
12  or  15  ft.  high,  and  it  covers  a  space 
fully  20  ft.  across. 
We  had  nothing  extra  for  dinner  to¬ 
day  ;  our  systems  seemed  to  forbid  a  rich 
meal,  and  we  had  no  wish  for  anything 
in  the  way  of  a  company  dinner.  We  are 
five,  but  one  of  us  in  New  Orleans  dwells 
and  two  are  gone  to  heaven.  Two  of  the 
beloved  have  joined  the  “silent  company” 
since  last  Christmas,  and  there  are  only 
two  left  in  the  little  farm  home. 
Year  before  last  there  was  a  little  boy 
who  had  elected  to  make  a  pro¬ 
longed  visit.  Wle  found  a  lovely  little 
cedar  in  the  woods  and  brought  it  home 
for  his  tree.  I  bought  “The  Wonderful 
Wizard  of  Oz,”  a  knife,  a  checkerboard 
and  modeling  day,  besides  the  regular 
“fixing,”  but  he  was  not  merry  because 
there  was  nothing  that  he  called  a  toy. 
lie  did  not  complain,  but  his  demeanor 
registered  disappointment.  Should  I  ever 
have  another  boy  to  buy  for  I  shall  get 
him  several  cheap  toys,  rather  than  a  few 
better  things.  ' 
The  little  boy  wrote  me  a  letter  of  one 
paragraph  not  long  ago,  which  had  to  do 
with  the  destroying  of  his  clubhouse  by  a 
rival  club,  and  the  retaliation.  With  his 
letter  came  a  wail  from  his  lonely  mother 
because  of  her  sons’  preference  for -games 
which  feature  ruffians  and  desperadoes. 
(I  use  the  plural  there  advisedly.  There 
are  two  sons.)  I  laughed  aloud  at  the 
letter — the  son’s  letter — and  I  wrote  her 
that  the  trouble  was  not  with  her  boys, 
but  with  her.  I  am  only  four  years 
younger  than  she,  but  I  can  remember 
when  we  doted  on  playing  jail  and  break¬ 
ing  imaginary  laws  in  order  to  be  ar¬ 
rested.  I  do  wonder  why  being- a  mother 
should  cause  her  to  forget ! 
This  is  “The  Band  of  the  Big  Red  Ap¬ 
ple  and  Mild  Winters.”  That  was  a 
slogan  almost  30  years  ago,  and  occa¬ 
sionally  one  sees  it  yet.  The  mildness 
has  mostly  prevailed  this  Winter.  There 
have  been  several  short  cold  periods  with 
herd  freezing,  but  not  one  flake  of  snow. 
We  have  these  sudden  skids  from  mild¬ 
ness  to  several  below  freezing  several 
times  in  each  Winter,  but  for  only  a  few 
days  together.  A  week  after  such  de¬ 
fection  the  maple  buds  may  be  swelling 
in  balmy,  Spring-like  air.  These  sudden 
and  severe  drops  after  January  spell 
fruit  disaster.  Sometimes  one  comes 
after  garden  is  growing  nicely.  In  the 
Spring  of  1921  we  had  a  freeze  after  the 
rhubarb  was  large  enough  to  eat.  I  went 
out  at  dusk  and  pulled  a  dishpan  full. 
Two  days  later  we  could  scarcely  find 
where 'it  stood,  so  complete  was  the  job 
of  the  Frost  King. 
But  last  year  we  escaped.  A  recent 
report  in  a  local  paper  that  there  are 
90,000  barrels  of  apples  in  storage  in  this 
section  is  good  evidence.  Strawberries 
and  peaches  were  good  also.  In  fact, 
every  variety  of  fruit,  trees,  vines  or 
canes,  bore  abundantly. 
The  big  price  for  strawberries  two  and 
three  years  ago  resulted  in  a  greatly  in¬ 
creased  acreage.  Almost  every  station 
along  the  ’Frisco  in  Southwest  Missouri 
and  Northwest  Arkansas  ships  some  ber¬ 
ries,  but  this  year  the  price  descended 
almost  like  the  mercury  in  April  of  1921. 
Snrcoxie,  Mo.,  50  miles  away,  was  the 
champion  strawberry  shipping  point  20 
years  ago.  Now  its  fame  rests  on  its 
peony  fields. 
We  raise  a  little  bit  of  many  things 
in  this  part  of  the  State,  and  almost 
every  farm  does  something  in  a  small  way 
with  Vve  stock.  A  fov  calves,  or  hogs, 
or  sheep,  and  some  milk  cows,  wi.h  chick¬ 
ens,  supplement  the  other  farm  activities. 
RURAL  NEW-YORKER 
When  the  creamery  was  built  it  was  a 
skimming  station.  Now  almost  every 
farm  has  its  own  separator,  even  if  there 
are  only  three  or  four  cows. 
I  have  been  watching  The  R.  N.-Y.  for 
months  to  see  if  anyone  from  the  Ozarks 
would  “speak  out  in  meetin’,”  but  no  one 
did,  so  I  decided  to  emulate  the  little  red 
hen  and  say  "I  will.”  aunt  ozie. 
The  Homemaker’s  Workshop 
Most  of  us,  when  we  were  children, 
begged  Santa  for  a  “really,  truly”  dolls’ 
house,  or  else  we  tried  to  make  and  fur¬ 
nish  one  ourselves.  My  own  dolls’  house 
was  a  wonderful  abode,  evolved  from 
pasteboard  shoe  boxes  and  filled  with  fur¬ 
niture  which  always  lopped  at  the  sides; 
but  the  deficiencies  were  of  small  impor¬ 
tance  to  me,  compared  with  the  solid 
comfort  I  found  in  constructing  and  fur¬ 
nishing  the  house  according  to  my  taste. 
Every  woman  enjoys  furnishing  a 
home.  'We  understand  this  branch  of 
homemaking  much  better  than  we  used  to, 
for  clutter  and  stuffiness  are  gving  way  to 
usefulness  and  really  artistic  arrange¬ 
ment.  But  it  sometimes  happens  that 
our  kitchens  do  not  get  quite  the  atten¬ 
tion  that  is  given  to  other  rooms  in  our 
homes.  When  we  consider  that  the  home¬ 
maker  must  spend  a  large  portion  of  her 
time  in  the  kitchen,  and  that  much  of  the 
atmosphere  of  the  home  depends  upon 
whether  she  is  constantly  fagged  or 
whether  she  enjoys  her  work,  we  are  will¬ 
ing  to  concede  that  the  kitchen  is  a  very 
important  room. 
And  now’  let’s  check  up  our  kitchens  to 
find  where  we  may  improve  them  for  our 
comfort.  First  of  all,  there  is  the  finish 
of  the  walls.  An  all-white  kitchen  sounds 
enchanting,  but  the  enchantment  some¬ 
how  fades  when  we  find  how  easily  the 
white  shows  dirt.  Some  neutral  tone 
will  be  more  satisfactory  for  the  walls. 
Ugbt  yellow  or  buff  are  particularly 
cheerful,  and  are  comfortable  to  the  eyes. 
The  woodwork  may  be  oiled  or  painted  a 
shade  or  two  darker  than  the  walls.  In¬ 
laid  linoleum  wears  excellently  on  floors, 
and,  whatever  the  kitchen  floor,  any 
cracks  should  be  promptly  filled.  Cracks 
are  strength  wasters  when  it  comes 
sweeping  time.  Windows  should  be  so 
screened  that  they  can  be  let  down  from 
the  .top  to  allow  heat  and  odors  to  pass 
out  at  the  same  time  they  are  raised  from 
the  bottom  to  admit  fresh  air.  A  kitchen 
light  should  not  be  placed  so  one  must 
work  in  one’s  own  shadow  at  lamp-light¬ 
ing  time.  Side  lamps  with  reflectors,  or 
small  side  shelves  upon  which  to  place 
lamps,  are  preferable  to  a  central  lamp. 
Equipment  should  be  grouped  rather 
closely  together  to  save  s'teps  and  time. 
The  best  location  for  a  stove  seems  to  be 
somewhat  near  the  dining  room  door.  A 
shelf  or  table  between  the  stove  and  this 
door  is  very  convenient  for  holding  food 
while  the  finishing  touches  are  being  put 
on  just  before  serving.  At  the  left  of 
the  stove  it  is  well  to  place  the  kitchen 
cabinet  or  work  table,  and  do  you  know 
that  a  zinc  or  porcelain  cover  for  the  top, 
and  a  rack  over  the  top  from  which  to 
hang  spoons,  measuring  cups,  an  egg- 
beater  and  a  pancake  knife,  will  glorify 
an  ordinary  kitchen  table?  The  cross¬ 
piece  of  the  rack  may  be  a  shelf  upon 
which  to  place  basins  and  bowls  or  salt 
and  spice  containers.  Or  if  there  is  no 
rack  above  the  table,  and  shelves  are  used 
to  hold  the  cooking  utensils,  it  will  be 
found  that  narrow  shelves  placed  as  close¬ 
ly  together  as  practical,  save  the  clutter 
always  to  be  found  on  wide  ones.  Sinks 
should  have  shelves  on  both  sides,  at  the 
height  of  the  top  of  the  sink.  Temporary 
shelves  of  galvanized  iron  tacked  on  wood 
are  far  better  than  none  at  all.  Special 
emphasis  must  be  placed  on  the  height  of 
work  tables  and  sinks.  If  they  are  so  low 
that  one  must  constantly  bend  over  them, 
see  that  they  are  raised.  Round  shoul¬ 
ders  and  backaches  caused  from  too  much 
bending  while  working  makes  one  look, 
feel  and  act  old. 
The  placing  of  small  utensils  is  impor¬ 
tant  as  a  factor  in  time  and  strength  sav¬ 
ing.  Near  the  stove  needs  to  be  kept  the 
iron  frying  pan,  the  toaster,  some  cloth 
“holders,”  kettle  covers,  the  potato  ricer, 
matches,  a  ladle,  a  steel  knife  and  fork, 
and  a  small  clock.  On  the  stove  shelf  or 
near  the  stove  have  salt,  pepper  and  pap¬ 
rika  shakers.  In  shallow  drawers  near 
the  work  'table  keep  wax  paper  and  brown 
paper  for  lining  pans,  squares  of  cheese¬ 
cloth  for  straining  soups  and  jellies,  nar¬ 
row  strips  of  cheesecloth  or  old  cotton 
cloth  to  bind  around  fruit  pies  to  pre- 
ven  the  juice  from  running  out.  Also 
keep  wrapping  paper  and  twine,  a  pair  of 
scissors,  a  pincushion  full  of  common  and 
safety  pins,  and  a  large  needle,  a  spool 
of  coarse  thread  and  a  thimble,  conveni¬ 
ently  near. 
The  utensils  needed  at  the  sink  are  a 
dishpan  of  the  right  size  for  the  sink 
and  amount  of  dishes  one  has  to  wash,  a 
wire  drainer,  a  dish  mop.  scraper  or  tin¬ 
sel  dishcloth,  ordinary  dishcloths  and  tow¬ 
els.  sink  brush  and  scraper,  soap  shaker 
and  cleaning  soaps  and  powders.  For  the 
washing  and  preparing  of  vegetables  there 
must  also  be  placed  by  the  sink  a  veg¬ 
etable  brush,  vegetable  knife,  etc. 
Some  place  should  be  provided  where 
cook  books  may  be  kept  clean,  and  bills 
checked.  A  pad  and  pencil  hung  by  the 
work  table  is  convenient  for  jotting  down 
needed  supplies.  A  kitchen  stool  saves 
one  from  much  weariness,  provided  it  is 
comfortable  and  of  the  right  height,  and 
if  there  are  several  rows  of  open  shelves, 
window  shades  may  be  fastened  at  the  top 
and  lowered  when  rbe  kiteheen  is  not  in 
use.  ELSIE  A.  WILLCOX. 
Does  Your  Child  Eat  Everything? 
“Johnnie  simply  will  not  eat  vege¬ 
tables”  and  “Mary  just  does  not  like 
canned  fruits!”  What  a  familiar  sound 
those  words  have,  for  whenever  a  group 
of  mothers  are  gathered  together,  some 
mother  is  sure  to  utter  words  such  as 
those  as  her  testimony  in  feeding  chil¬ 
dren. 
Obviously  it  is  a  condition  to  be,  avoid¬ 
ed,  for  if  a  child  gets  enough  food  ma¬ 
terials  needed  by  the  body,  he  must  eat 
a  balanced  diet.  If  the  mother  work  to 
the  end  that  she  sets  a  balanced  diet  be¬ 
fore  her  family,  her  work  is  not  yet  done 
if  the  children  “pick”  the  particular 
foods  they  have  an  idea  they  like. 
My  children  do  eat  everything — the 
little  boy  because  he  likes  everything, 
and  the  girl  because  mother  insists  upon 
it.  The  difference  between  their  appe¬ 
tites  I  attribute  to  early  feeding,  in  a 
large  degree. 
When  the  little  girl  was  a  baby,  baby 
doctors  did  not  suggest  vegetables  for  the 
baby  of  one  year,  but  when  my  little  boy, 
now  3 y-2  years,  was  a  year  old.  he  was 
having  creamed  carrots,  vegetable  soups, 
potato  cooked  in  beef  broth,  and  gradually 
all  vegetables  were  added  to  his  diet. 
Now  at  3 x/-2  years  he  calmly  eats  what  is 
set  before  him,  and  his  food  each  day  con¬ 
tains  well-cooked  vegetables  and  one  raw 
one  (in  order  that  he  may  get  the  vita- 
mine  contained  in  the  raw  vegetables)  if 
I  can  possibly  get  it.  Of  course,  he  drinks 
at  least  a  pint  of  milk  each  day — habit. 
And  he  has  one  or  two  eggs  each  day. 
His  digestion  is  perfect.  His  tongue  is 
clean  and  pink,  and  his  bowels  are  per¬ 
fectly  regular — habit  also. 
It  has  not  been  so  difficult  to  get  him  to 
eat  what  is  set  before  him  as  it  has  the 
little  girl— 8)4  years.  They  were  ffoth 
breast-fed  babies,  and  at  nine  months  had 
a  perfect  beginning  for  solid  foods. 
Daughter  was  weaned  on  cereals,  toast, 
eggs,  milk  and  the  like,  and  I  did  not 
include  vegetables  in  her  diet  to  any  ex¬ 
tent  until  she  was  two  years  old.  Then 
she  preferred  the  cereals,  and  I  presume 
I  did,  as  all  mothers  do,  followed  the  line 
of  least  resistance  to  a  greater  or  less 
extent,  and  the  child  did  not  get  the  veg¬ 
etables  she  needed. 
A  couple  *cf  years  ago  I  began  telling 
her  of  the  food  needs  of  the  body,  and 
impressing  upon  her  the  fact  that  she 
must  eat  more  of  vegetables  if  she  wanted 
to  nourish  the  body  properly.  Gradually 
I  have  overcome  her  seeming  dislike  for 
a  number  of  foods — peas,  string  beans 
and  lettuce — but  still  mother  must  have  a 
watchful  eye  upon  the  child’s  food.  She 
well  understands  now  that  she  is  to  cat 
her  serving  of  whatever  vegetable  is  set 
before  her.  Usually  there  is  the  ques¬ 
tioning  look  sent  in  mother’s  direction — 
and  well  she  understands  the  look  that 
is  telegraphed  back. 
There  are  a  number  of  things  I  have 
found  helpful  in  having  the  children  eat 
a  variety  of  foods.  First,  there  should 
be  no  piecing  between  meals.  The  last 
half-hour  before  meal  time  is  sometimes 
hard  to  get  through,  but  “piecing”  be¬ 
tween  meals  does  impair  the  good  appetite 
that  a  child  should  have  three  times  a 
day.  If  candy  or  cookies  are  given  to  the 
children,  have  them  save  them  until  meal 
time.  I  have  no  quarrel  with  candy  at 
meal  time,  but  it  surely  is  ruinous  to  a 
child’s  appetite  when  eaten  between 
meals. 
Just  recently  I  heard  a  school  superin¬ 
tendent,  in  whose  school  57  per  cent  of 
the  children  were  underweight,  remark 
that  he  was  confident  one  cause  for  the 
large  number  of  underweight  children 
was  the  immense  amount  of  cheap  candy 
eaten  at  recesses  and  at  noons.  If  a 
child  brings  a  good,  healthy  appetite  to 
the  table,  be  is  more  apt  to  eat  what  is 
set  before  him.  The  children  must  get 
out-of-door  exercise  at  all  times  of  the 
year  as  a  help  to  appetites.  If  the  weather 
does  not  permit  getting  out  of  doors,  let 
them  ride  the  kiddie  car  and  run  on  the 
porch  for  half  an  hour.  The  barn  floor 
can  here  be  utilized  to  good  avantage.  A 
half-hour  of  romping  on  a  bunch  of  straw 
or  hay  will  make  rosy  cheeks — and  appe¬ 
tites.  By  all'  means,  have  suitable  cloth¬ 
ing  for  all  seasons  of  the  year,  and  see 
that  the  children  get  out  at  least  a  half- 
hour  in  the  morning  and  another  half- 
hour  in  the  afternoon. 
Too  much  stress  cannot  be  placed  upon 
emptying  the  bowels  regularly.  This  is 
largely  a  matter  of  habit.  If  trained  from 
babyhood  to  do  this,  there  will  rarely  be 
any  trouble.  Above  all  things,  do  not 
acquire  the  castor-oil  habit.  Once  it  is 
formed,  it  is  hard  to  break.  If  plenty 
of  fruit  and  vegetables  are  used,  ther“ 
will  rarely  be  any  trouble,  but  if  there  is, 
use  oranges  as  medicine.  I  have  never 
resorted  to  castor  oil.  but  I  have  bought 
oranges  by  the  dozen.  Prune  juice  is 
good,  though  I  have  found  oranges  a  bet¬ 
ter  cathartic  for  the  children. 
My  little  girl  was  prone  to  fall  a  pound 
or  so  underweight.  She  was  very  anxious 
to  be  normal  weight,  and  when  I  ex¬ 
plained  to  her  that  foods,  in  right 
amounts  and  rightly  balanced,  were  one 
of  the  main  factors  in  keeping  her  normal 
weight,  she  was  quite  eager  to  eat  what 
mother  thought  she  needed.  In  truth, 
right  food  habits  are  as  important  as  any 
childhood  habits,  for  a  future  life  of 
health  depends  upon  them.  And  the 
mother  must  teach  the  child  the  impor¬ 
tance  of  right  food  habits-,  and  give  him 
a  firm  foundation  for  later  life.  Every¬ 
thing  else  depends  upon  that,  for  without 
health  life  itself  is  a  mockery. 
MRS.  MAY  II.  MUMAW. 
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