American Agriculturist, May 26,1923 
461 
Children’s Clothes Should Suit Them 
Fashion and Cookery Hints—Help the League Milk Survey 
T he mother who makes her children’s 
clothes has the satisfaction of hav¬ 
ing them wear longer than any she 
could buy readymade, while she also 
often hears the neighbors comment on 
how prettily the children are dressed. 
American Agriculturist children’s 
styles are planned for the farm woman 
who doesn’t want to 
fall behind her city 
sister in having at¬ 
tractive clothes for 
her children, yet who 
has to remember ex¬ 
pense and wearing 
quality. The fashion 
editor is always glad 
to have mothers write 
her for advice about 
their own clothes or 
those for the children 
and will gladly sug¬ 
gest designs, colors 
and materials. En¬ 
close a stamped, self- 
addressed envelope for 
the reply. 
Long-waisted styles are most becom¬ 
ing to the little girl and while No. 1649 
is suitable for all little girls, it is 
especially good for the one who is per¬ 
haps abittoo 
plump. The sleeves 
are cut in one with 
the back and side 
front, so it is very 
easy to make. The 
front panel extends 
into a tie-sash. Only 
1% yards of 36- 
inch are necessary 
for the 4 year size. 
No. 1649 comes 
in sizes 4, 6, 8, and 
10 years. Price, 12c. 
T r a n s,f e r 622 in 
blue, .12c. 
The most impor¬ 
tant thing in a little 
boy’s life is play 
and so one of the most important 
things to have for him is a good play 
suit. And here it is! You could use 
denim, chambray, madras or any dur¬ 
able wash material for 
this suit. No. 1681 cuts 
in sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 
years. For 'size 4 only 
1% , yards of 36-inch 
material is needed. 
Price 12c. stamps. 
Then for the slim 
girl. No. 1736 gives a 
fluffy, soft effect which 
is very becoming. The 
delicate ruffles and lace 
or embroidery inserts 
make this frock suitable 
for parties and Sunday 
wear. If you embroider 
it, use transfer, 631, 
which is 12c. extra. 
Pattern 1736 comes in 
sizes 3, 10, 12, and 14 years. For an 
8 year size 1% yards of 36-inch ma¬ 
terial is required. Price 12c. stamps. 
To Order: Write all information 
clearly, enclose stamps for correct 
amount, mail to the Fashion Depart¬ 
ment, American Agriculturist, 461 
Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
If you add 10c., a copy of our new- 
summer catalogue, brimful of pretty 
and practical 'suggestions will be added 
to your order. It is worth many times 
the cost and we advise you not to be 
without a copy. 
or to the vegetable cellar, according to 
the season, and choose a plentiful sup¬ 
ply for the day’s use. Root vegetables 
are at once thoroughly washed and 
placed in a wire drainer. With the 
vegetables at hand and clean, I find 
double the uses for them that I did 
when each variety must be separately 
brought from garden or cellar as 
needed. 
Clean Many at a Time 
Another great convenience in the use 
of root vegetables consists in cleaning 
a quantity at one time. When a basket 
of potatoes are dug, carry them at once 
to an outdoor faucet or pump and 
thoroughly wash them all. A wire 
basket or rack is fine for draining them. 
During winter I have a basketful 
brought from the cellar at one time, and 
wash them all in the same way. It 
certainly is a joy when they are needed 
in a hurry to find them clean and ready 
for use. Other roots may be handled 
in the same way, though in smaller 
amounts. 
An excellent way to clean root veg¬ 
etables is to dampen a very coarse sack, 
pour in the roots and shake them about 
vigorously. When poured out into 
water it will be found that this saves a 
great amount of work with the cleaning 
brush. Turn the sack inside out, rinse 
and dry. 
Another short-cut in the use of veg¬ 
etables consists in cooking enough at 
one time for several servings. This 
does not mean a monotonous diet, either. 
Beets may be buttered at the first serv¬ 
ing, pickled for the next day and what 
are left after this used in a vegetable 
salad on the third. Left-over corn, cut 
from the cob may be creamed, or used 
in fritters or croquettes. 
USE MORE VEGETABLES 
ALICE MARGARET ASHTON 
“What’s the use of our making a 
garden?” the man-of-the-house fre¬ 
quently grumbled. “We never eat what 
We I’aise.” 
“I know we ought to use more veg¬ 
etables,” I always was forced to admit. 
“But so often a meal is prepared in a 
hurry and there isn’t time to gather 
and prepare them. Getting vegetables 
from the garden and washing the root 
varieties is messy too, especially after 
Fve donned a clean dress or white 
shoes.” 
Neighboring housewives admitted that 
they had much the same experience. I 
resolved to find a remedy. 
Early in the day I go to the garden 
HANGING UP A RECORD 
Touring the last year, the 
American Agriculturist fash¬ 
ion depai’tment sold more than 
24,000 patterns. 
That means that from our 120,- 
000 readers an average of one in 
five used our pattern service. 
We believe that this is an ex¬ 
ceptional record. We are trying 
to show up-to-date, smart styles, 
which yet can easily be made by 
the home dressmaker. We believe 
that it is just as easy to make a 
pretty dress as an ugly one—and 
much easier to wear it, whether 
for work or play! 
Home-dressmaking has not al¬ 
ways been as easy as it is now. 
Think of the days of whalebones, 
gored skirts, infinite ruffles and 
clumsy heavy materials! The farm 
woman is mercifully freed from 
the old style of tightly fitted, un¬ 
comfortable clothing. Present 
styles seem just made for her and 
she is short-sighted if she does 
not take advantage of them to 
provide herself with suitable, be¬ 
coming dresses at small cost. 
Even the children can help 
nowadays, and high-school girls 
everywhere are making their own 
clothes from the first step to the 
last. The ready-mades can never 
equal home sewing for personal¬ 
ity, good materials and careful 
work. We are proud of the large 
number of readers who do their 
oAvn dressmaking and welcome 
others who are just beginning to 
see its possibilities into our big 
A. A. sewing circle. 
the work is thoroughly under way the 
list will include Tioga, Ontario, Tomp¬ 
kins, Orleans, Jefferson, Delaware, 
Wyoming, Niagara, Otsego and War¬ 
ren counties. 
Cooperating in the work of the sur¬ 
vey are the State Federation of Home 
•Bureaus, the Extension Service of 
Cornell, and the State Department of 
Education. The returns will be tabu¬ 
lated after the work is completed, 
which should be about June 15. 
In the classrooms the children will be 
called upon to answer a few simple 
questions about their food habits, while 
the parents are asked for somewhat 
more detailed information. 
The facts thus gathered will be of 
the utmost service to the Home Bu¬ 
reaus and the college in planning ex¬ 
tension work and will also be widely 
used by the State Department of Edu¬ 
cation through its health service. The 
counties chosen, partly for geographi¬ 
cal reasons, were also selected b^ecause 
they are representative of the entire 
State. Several are large dairy centers, 
while others combine city population 
with country. 
So if the white and buff cards come 
around in your locality, fill them out 
as carefully as possible and help the 
good work along! 
MILK SURVEY UNDER WAY 
How much milk does your family 
drink? 
You had better begin to calculate 
now if you haven’t an exact idea, for a 
nutritional study is planned for several 
up-State counties, and both school chil¬ 
dren and adults are being called upon 
for information on their use of dairy 
products. 
Miss Laura C. Cauble, director of 
nutrition of the Dairymen’s League, 
has already visited some of the counties 
where the survey has started. When 
OUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOR 
A Story for the Children 
My dear Boys and Girls; This little story 
about Mrs. Robin is true; it happened exactly 
as I am telling it to you. 
On the west side of our house is a 
lovely old crab apple tree, not of much 
use so far as the apples are concerned, 
but worth a fortune when it is one 
great bouquet of blossoms, with honey 
bees by the hundred buzzing about in 
it, and, too, it is very useful as a home 
for the birds. 
One year a very clever Mrs. Robin 
chose a forked limb in it for her home. 
When first we saw her—or heard her, 
for there was no joke about the noise 
she was making—she was flying against 
Junior’s window, on the side of the 
house by the tree, beating her little 
body against it, pecking loudly and per¬ 
sistently at the glass. We decided that 
she wanted to come into the room to 
build, and, of course, there was no doing 
anything with 12-year-old Junior about 
not letting her, so we opened the win¬ 
dow. But that was not what she wanted 
at all. What do you suppose she did 
want? 
By the window was a table on which 
was about everything that a boy usu¬ 
ally owns, including a bunch of string. 
Mrs. Robin had seen it through the 
glass, and being a conquering sort of 
robin, decided she must have it. She 
flew in and about the room, paying no 
attention to us—but we were very, very 
still—and alighted on the table, pulled 
out a strand of string, and away she 
flew! After that for many days she 
came regularly for string. When the 
window was closed, she picked at it and 
scolded, until someone opened it, after 
which she would help herself and be off 
to her nest-building. 
With the string she mixed mud and 
grass, making a substantial structure. 
Then one day from the window we saw 
in it five blue green eggs, and then five 
baby birds, squirmish looking things at 
first, but later quite respectable in their 
reddish brown shirt fronts, spotted with 
black. Mother Robin sported a black 
cap and a gay red vest. 
Mr. Robin was quite a help with the 
babies, bringing food and watching the 
home while Mother Robin went away 
for occasional exercise. Many, many 
times a day he would call to her, 
“Cheerily, cheerup—cheerup—cheerily 
—cheerily,cheerupi”-— Elizabeth Hoag. 
Dear Household Editor:—I have re¬ 
ceived your two recipes on soap mak¬ 
ing. I have tried one recipe thus far, 
and a very good soap resulted. I think 
it is even better for laundry use than 
soap that I have purchased at a store. 
Thank you very-kindly for your help. 
I surely will know where to write if I 
have any trouble.— Mrs, Alexander 
Carlo, New York. 
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