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From  Day  to  Day 
Love  Lightens  the  Load 
There  is  oh.  so  little  of  love,  lad. 
And  oh,  so  great  is  the  need 
For  the  courage  to  love  the  right,  lad, 
And  strength  for  the  kindly  deed. 
For  'tis  love  that  lightens  the  load,  son, 
And  builds  new  hope  in  a  man 
(When  despair  has  engulfed  and  wrecked, 
son). 
And  tells  the  soul  that  it  can 
Bring  a  new  and  a  finer  structure 
To  stand  where  the  old  has  stood — 
And  to  us  is  given  the  chance,  lad 
To  nurture  love  as  we  should. 
So  abide  in  the  paths  of  love,  lad, 
And  leap  when  you  hear  it  call. 
For  it  brings  to  the  soul  that  peace,  lad, 
That  soothes  when  the  shadows  fall. 
And  remember  life  is  too  short,  son, 
To  give  of  our  days  to  hate, 
When  the  hearts  of  us  all  want  love,  son, 
And  welcome  its  touch,  though  late. 
So  again  I  adjure  and  pray  you, 
To  give  to  the  child  its  love, 
And  forget  not  the  lonely  neighboi-. 
Nor  Him  Who  watches  above. 
— CJTABLES  IDEN  in  Kansas  City  Star. 
We  have  received  such  a  generous  re¬ 
sponse  to  our  inquiry  about  canning  meat 
that  the  subject  has  been  covered  very 
fully,  and  the  experience  given  will  be 
of  permanent  value.  We  think  it  would 
be  wise  for  housekeepers  to  keep  all  these 
canning  articles,  where  they  can  refer  to 
them  quickly  when  the  information  is  re¬ 
quired.  Such  information  is  always 
wanted  in  a  hurry,  and  it  is  wise  to  have 
it  at  hand.  Fanners  and  their  families 
are  no  longer  content  with  the  steady 
diet  of  salt  meat  that  used  to  be  so  com¬ 
mon,  and  home  canning  provides  an  abun¬ 
dance  of  high-quality  products. 
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February  is  always  hard  on  the  birds, 
for  there  is  usually  much  ice  formation 
as  well  as  snow,  and  their  customary  sup¬ 
plies  are  covered  up  or  exhausted.  The 
small  seed-eating  birds  seem  very  fond 
of  hominy,  and  we  try  to  keep  them  sup¬ 
plied.  The  space  under  some  hemlock 
trees  makes  a  desirable  feeding  ground, 
as  it  is  sheltered,  and  the  bird  visitors 
fly  up  into  the  trees  if  disturbed.  Suet 
and  raw  eocoanut  are  very  attractive  to 
many  of  the  birds,  and  we  always  have 
plenty  of  these  cheerful  little  visitors  all 
through  the  season. 
than  any  other,  perhaps,  in  its  influence 
on  the  young.  The  lives  of  Huxley, 
Agassiz  and  S.  C.  Armstrong;  Booker 
Washington’s  “Up  from  Slavery.”  “The 
Americanization  of  Edward  Bok,”  Gren¬ 
fell's  ‘'Labrador  Doctor” — life  histories 
like  these  awaken  ideals,  revive  faith, 
and  glorify  human  nature.  And  such 
books,  read  aloud  and  talked  over  under 
the  evening  lamp,  are  never  forgotten. 
Then,  when  the  young  people  scatter — 
when  father  and  mother  are  left  to  read 
in  dual  solitude — oli.  then,  how  we  desire 
and  prize  that  other  blessed,  neglected 
accomplishment,  the  art  of  writing  good 
letters  !  It  is  almost  more  a  habit  than 
an  art— the  habit  of  sharing  the  best  of 
our  daily  lives  with  those  we  love;  a  lit¬ 
tle  news,  a  little  fun,  a  question,  an 
answer,  a  squeeze  of  the  hand,  as  if 
were.  Give-and-take  is  the  keynote  of 
good  letter  writing,  as  of  good  conversa¬ 
tion,  and  in  either  case  the  exchange 
must  be  reasonably  rapid  to  keep  the 
spark  glowing.  Chatty,  unstudied,  inti¬ 
mate  letters  from  the  boy  in  business  and 
the  girl  in  college— from  Molly  at  Belle¬ 
vue  or  Jack  in  the  Philippines — how  they 
are  pored  over,  and  kissed,  and  laid 
away  for  a  tenth  and  a  twentieth  read- 
The  Rural  Patterns 
In  ordering  alwayt  give  number  of  pattern 
and  size  desired,  sending  price  with  order 
Two  Precious  Accomplishments 
“Accomplishments,”  both  the  word  and 
the  thing,  seem  to  have  gone  out  of  fash¬ 
ion.  They  suggest  something  like  “gin¬ 
gerbread  work” — feeble,  futile  ornamen¬ 
tation  in  a  practical,  professional  age. 
No  doilbt  the  pendulum  will  swing  the 
other  way,  and  the  next  generation  may 
see  amateur  efforts  and  pretty  manners 
to  the  fore,  but  at  present  the  world  will 
none  of  them. 
There  are  two  accomplishments,  how¬ 
ever,  of  such  universal  appeal,  such  value 
as  social  current,  that  I  want  to  speak 
a  word  in  their  behalf.  Both  are  suited 
to  the  capacities  of  boys  as  well  as  of 
girls,  while  no  father  or  mother,  aunt  or 
uncle  is  too  old  to  benefit  by  and  assidu¬ 
ously  cultivate  them.  I  speak  from  inti¬ 
mate  knowledge  when  I  say  that  the 
faded,  middle-aged  mother,  whose  fingers 
have  grown  stiff  and  rheumatic,  and  who 
begins  to  feel  that  “the  children  only 
come  home  to  eat  and  sleep,”  may  still 
exercise  an  art  that  will  prove  a  potent 
magnet  and  solid  delight — namely,  the  art 
of  reading  aloud.  Reading  in  the  home, 
while  it  gives  scope  to  any  positive  tal¬ 
ent.  requires  only  those  gifts  that  most 
can  command  and  perfect  by  practice ; 
clear  enunciation,  a  pleasantly  modulated 
voice,  and  intelligent  and  sympathetic 
emphasis,  every  sentence  and  clause  con¬ 
taining  its  “key  words”  which  must  be 
properly  stressed  to  bring  out  the  writer’s 
meaning.  The  gentle  are  of  “skipping.” 
or  of  rapidly  summarizing  a  paragraph, 
is  often  of  value,  and  the  home  reader 
should  be  hospitable  to  interruptions,  for 
the  comments,  arguments  and  amplifica¬ 
tions  evoked  in  the  family  circle  are  an 
invaluable  part  of  the  program.  When 
one  is  tired,  let  someone  else  start  in 
from  an  exciting  point  and  “carry  on.” 
and  there  will  soon  be  a  family  of  good 
readers. 
“What  to  read”  is  of  course  a  ques¬ 
tion  that  no  one  can  decide  for  another, 
but  it  is  emphatically  true  that  not  every 
■book  that  is  worth  reading  is  worth  read¬ 
ing  aloud.  Choose  something  live  and 
stimulating  enough  to  bear  the  test,  then 
let  your  first  book  suggest  a  second,  and 
the  second  a  third,  for  so  impressions 
are  deepened.  Verse  usually  comes  first 
when  we  begin  reading  to  our  children 
— the  old.  delightful  English  and  Scotch 
ballads.  Macaulay’s  Lays.  Scott’s  narra¬ 
tive  poems,  Kipling,  and.  in  time,  Shakes¬ 
peare.  Adventure,  exploration  and  his¬ 
tory  are  linked  together ;  nor  should  we 
by  any  means  overlook  the  rich  field  ot 
biography  and  reminiscence,  more  potent 
21 1  Z 
2149.  Blouse  with 
kimono  sleeves,  34 
to  44  bust.  2112. 
Skirt  with  yoke  and* 
panels  in  one,  26  to 
34  waist.  The  me¬ 
dium  size  blouse 
will  require  4%  yds. 
ot  material  36,  40 
or  44  in.  wide.  The 
medium,  size  skirt 
will  require  yds. 
of  material  36  in. 
wide,  Sy2  yds.  40, 
2%  yds.  34.  Each 
20  cents. 
2038.  Dress  for 
misses  and  small 
women,  16  and  18 
years.  The  16-year 
size  will  require  3 
yds.  of  figured  ma¬ 
terial  40  or  44  in. 
tvide,  with  2  yds. 
either  width  the 
plain.  20  cents. 
ing!  And  the  regular  weekly  budget 
from  “Mother  and  Dad,”  with  its  loving 
minutise,  its  whimsical  counsel  and 
thumbnail  sketches  of  home — think  you 
this  is  not  an  anchor  to  windward  for 
Jack  or  Molly?  Roosevelt’s  letters  to 
his  children,  written  amid  the  weighty 
cares  and  incessant  activities  of  his  pub¬ 
lic  life,  must  have  been  a  revelation  of 
opportunity  to  countless  Americans. 
They  are  not  too  brilliant,  either,  to 
serve  as  a  model.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
most  of  us  cherish  a  few  letters  put 
away  somewhere,  and  if  we  will  read 
them  over  and  ask  why  they  were  kept, 
we  shall  learn  more  of  the  art  than  any 
complete  letter  writer  or  chapter  in 
rhetoric  can  tell  us. 
Soothing,  stimulating,  healing  accom¬ 
plishments — letter  writing  and  reading 
aloUd  !  DORA  READ  GOODAEE. 
The  Farm  Garden 
The  new  seed  catalogs  are  arriving,  and 
the  farmer  and  his  wife  should  begin  to 
get  busy  looking  over  their  seeds.  Of 
course,  there  were  some  left  from  last 
season,  but  don’t  depend  too  much  on 
these.  Keep  them  for  the  extras  that  are 
always  needed,  or  for  second  sowings ; 
but  be  sure  you  have  the  best  reliable 
seeds  you  can*  buy.  The  crop  will  need 
just  as  much  attention  when  Cheap,  in¬ 
ferior  seeds  are  used  as  when  from  re¬ 
liable  ones,  and  it  is  discouraging  to  tend 
a  crop  all  Summer  and  have  it  fail. 
I  would  not  know-how  to  get  a  meal  in 
Summer  without  going  to  the  garden,  and 
in  Winter  going  to  the  cellar.  On  my 
cellar  shelves  will  be  found  cans  of  to¬ 
matoes,  peas.  corn,  string  beans,  cauli¬ 
flower,  carrots  and  beets.  We  have  lots 
of  cabbage,  beets  and  carrots  besides,  and 
usually  left  in  the  ground  are  vegetable 
oysters  and  parsnips  for  Spring  use.  We 
do  not  raise  onions,  but  sell  enough  of 
something  we  have  in  surplus  to  buy 
them. 
The  farm  woman  can  make  a  nice  profit 
on  canned  vegetables,  chili  sauce,  etc., 
if  she  does  her  work  well.  I  began  by 
selling  enough  to  pay  for  all  garden  seeds 
and  ail  the  supplies  like  sugar,  spice,  etc., 
for  my  own  canning,  and  now  have  all  the 
orders  I  can  raise  surplus  for.  We  also 
have  on  our  pantry  shelves  dried  corn, 
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