American Agriculturist, November 8, 1924 
When You Have a Child in School 
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Suggestions for the Mother of the Family—Clothes, Recipes and Short Cuts 
T HE initials P. T. A., which often 
fall glibly from the lips of mothers 
who have children of school age, do not 
always meay much to those who hear them, 
particularly if there are no children in 
the family. But they stand for a very 
decided influence in the life of the school 
children and the little groups which they 
represent are growing in number every 
year. 
P. T. A. stands for Parent-Teacher 
Associations. Instead of working against 
each other or mefely ignoring each other, 
the two influences of the home and the 
school are being linked up through these 
groups. The mothers get together with 
the teachers and stand behind them in 
the working out of the educational pro¬ 
gram and also in helping with some activ¬ 
ities which may be very useful and yet 
just a little outside the ability of the 
teacher to handle. , 
One of the most important services 
launched by the Parent-Teacher Associa¬ 
tion in rural districts is the help in putting 
in hot lunches. Some have provided 
oil stoves, others have a rotating system 
by which each mother gives one or two 
days a month to help prepare the lunch 
and others pay a small sum to have 
somebody do the work of preparing the 
daily hot dish all through a school season. 
Parents Help Make School Model 
But this is by no means all the lines 
of service open to the Parent-Teacher 
Associations. In some schools better 
pictures are being provided for the re¬ 
ception room. Others have secured home 
demonstration agents to talk at stated 
thues to the classes. Others have cooper¬ 
ated in getting playground equipment 
and keeping it in order. 
One of the best reports on the Parent- 
Teacher Association has come in from 
Missouri. In Boone County there is 
a rural school which is a model for all 
the others in the vicinity. Miss Allie 
Crews, the teacher, says, "The reason 
my school is so good is because it has an 
active, wide-awake, hustling parent- 
teacher association. All I have to do is 
to tell the mothers of something I think 
ought to be furnished and lo! in a short 
time we have it. 1 hey have given us 
‘Comfy’ rugs for the little tots, books 
for the older boys and girls, subscribed 
to the ‘Youth’s Companion’ for the 
school, bought a victrola with just the 
records we need, among them being Walter 
Camp’s ‘Daily Dozen,’ which-the chil¬ 
dren like to use in bad weather, and now 
they are working in our playground. 
I do not wish to teach ip a school without 
a parent-teacher association. 
tile younger Children and the girls. You 
may even provide for gardens where the 
children could experiment with seeds 
and planting. 
But Do What You Can—Now! 
But don’t let your drawing discourage 
you. It sometimes takes years for a 
dream to come to pass and then, too, you 
A. A. PATTERN SERVICE 
School Frock 
for a Girl 
A pretty one-piece dress 
for girls is No. 2175, 
xohich also may he used to 
make over last winter s 
school frock, grown too 
small. It exits in sizes 
i, 6, 8, 10, 12 and li 
years. Size 8 takes 1 
yards of 32-inch material 
with % yard contrasting. 
Price, 12c. 
Add a pretty touch of 
embroidery with hot iron 
transfer pattern No. 709 
(blue and yellow ), 15c 
extra. 
Do you—do any of the women of your 
neighborhood know your schoolhouse 
intimately? Do you know the bad 
lighting of the schoolroom? The cramped 
playground conditions? The dinginess 
of the lunchroom? 
You will find the teacher eager to help 
you in your efforts to find the most urgent 
needs. Installing the school lunch will 
bring many improvements in its train, 
such as the plentiful supply of water and 
the cheerful decoration of the room. 
The medical examination of the children 
may show that there should be more and 
better toilet facilities in the school. 
You mothers of the pupils in your 
school district can make your children s 
other home the beautiful place it should 
be for their development. 
Books to read: 1. “American Schoolhouses,” by 
Fletcher B. Dresslar, can be secured from the Superin¬ 
tendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, 
Washington, D. C., 75c the copy. 
2. “A School Health Program,” by Grace T. Hallock, 
published by the Child Health Organization of America, 
370 Seventh Avenue, New York City, 15c the copy, $14 
a hundred. 
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217,5 
Emb-706 
Add 10c for the Fall and Winter catalogue. 
Do You Know Your Children’s 
Other Home? 
JEAN HENRY 
of the 
Child Health Organization 
W HAT is a schoolhouse anyway? 
It is your boy’s or your girl’s 
other home. In it your children live 
five or six precious hours each day- 
hours of intense growth and development. 
You cannot afford to stint your child 
of his supply of air and sunlight. You 
cannot afford to place him in the midst 
of unsanitary conditions. You cannot 
afford to give him less than the full 
equipment for his use in studying, in 
playing, in working. 
Next to planning her own house and its 
garden, every woman likes to plan a 
school. Take a pencil in your hand and a 
piece of paper. Here you have the library 
and assembly room that could be used for 
entertainments by the whole community. 
You plan classrooms with large windows 
and thorough ventilation. You have a 
furnace, thoroughly insulated for the 
economical heating of the school. \ou 
plan the toilet rooms to be light and 
easily cleaned. You provide for a large 
play yard that could be divided into 
space for the older boys for their sports, 
Party Frock 
for the 
Young Lady 
You always need one 
dressy frock,for evening 
wear and any girl or 
woman would find this 
long-wa isted, full-skirled 
model very becoming. 
The skirt, gathered with 
a straight lower edge, is 
suitable for lace flounc¬ 
ing. No. 2215 cuts in 
sizes 3! h 36, 38, \0 and 
1)2 inches bust measure. 
Size 36 requires 3% 
yards of 36-inch mate¬ 
rial. Price, 12c. 
Add 10c [for the Fall and Winter catalogue. 
Every day 
Suit for Junior 
Make this little suit of 
slip-on blouse and straight 
trousers in non-crushable 
linen, cambray or a light 
woolen material. No. 
2192 cuts in sizes 2, J, 6, 
S and 10 years, size h 
taking 1 Yi yards of 36-inch 
material, 14 yard con¬ 
trasting and yi yards 
lining. Price, 12c. 
more 
ibast 
Buns and Fancy Bread 
DON’T know why buns and rusks 
should be called fancy breads. When 
one has the dough on hand, they are 
almost as simple as loaves. 
Cut off about enough bread dough to 
make one loaf, roll lightly into a sheet 
one-half inch thick, spread with melted 
butter and sugar creamed together, roll 
up like jelly roll, moisten the edges and 
pinch firmly together. Begin at one end 
and cut into inch slices. Place in a bak¬ 
ing tin like biscuits, let rise, and bake to 
a delicate brown in a hot oven. 
Hot Cross Buns — Cream J4 cup butter 
with Yi cup sugar, stir in gradually 1 cup 
boiling milk. When cool add a well- 
soaked yeast cake, 1 cup new milk and 
flour to make rather thin batter. Keep 
warm 3 hours, add 4 well-beaten eggs, 
and flour to make a soft dough. When 
very light form into buns, let rise, cut 
across in the center with a sharp knife, 
brush over lightly with a little milk and 
bake in a moderate oven. 
Rusks —To about a pound of bread 
dough ready for loaves, add 1 cup sugar 
and 1 well-beaten egg creamed together. 
The dough should be in a dish and the 
mixing may be done by cutting in the 
filling with a knife as one mixes lard with 
flour for pie crust. When well mixed, 
add flour enough to knead, form into 
rusks, place together rather closely in 
the pan and let rise very light. Bake to 
a rich brown. 
The same dough is delicious formed 
into balls, left to rise till the bulk is 
doubled and fried in deep fat like dough¬ 
nuts. Roll in sugar and serve with hot 
coffee and nice cream.— Mrs. E. M. 
Anderson. 
For the “Exchange Corner” 
T RY putting in some either fresh or 
canned raspberries with your apple 
jelly while it is cooking, before straining. 
A most delicious flavor is the result. 
Advocated by 
Medic,al Authorities 
Toast promotes mastication and thereby 
aids digestion of bread, “the staff of 
life.” What could make a better 
breakfast than delicious, brown, crispy, 
piping hot toast. Medical authorities 
advocate it not only for the delicate in 
health, but for all. Now you can have toast 
every morning and for every meal, the equal 
of which you never before have tasted. 
Sterno has solved the problem. Sterno 
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It has hundreds of uses. Indoors or 
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life, you can enjoy its comforts, whether 
you are a traveler, farmer, doctor, 
teacher, nurse, office or shop worker, etc. 
GIVEN FREE 
TO ORDER: Write name, address, pattern 
numbers and sizes carefully, enclose correct 
remittance in stamps and send to Pattern 
Department, American Agriculturist, 461 
Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
will probably need the help of a com¬ 
petent architect who -can save money 
and trouble when it comes to actual 
planning and construction. In the 
meantime a pail of whitewash, paint for 
the walls, the placing of a new window 
here and there in the old schoolhouse, a 
guaranteed supply of plenty of water for 
the school,—all these will help to give 
your children the proper conditions. 
To make “Lazy Pickles” select the 
fairest of the Siberian crabs, those with 
stems preferred. Wash well and rub off 
the blow ends. Put a layer in a jar or 
other suitable dish for baking, fitting 
them in and sprinkle sugar (brown pre¬ 
ferred) , fill in the crevices with it and 
sprinkle spices — cinnamon I like best — 
over the layer and proceed w ith the layers 
till the dish is full, then cover and bake 
until tender. They may be kept in any 
dish or can while covered with their own 
juice. Try them—they are excellent! 
* * * 
Try canning some pie plant with 
blackberries, a third or a quarter quant ity 
of the former. Thin out the seeds some. 
—Mrs. J. B. A. 
TOASTER 
with this 
25 c 
Stove 
or with _ , 
6 cans of f* 
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