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American Agriculturist comes fifty-two 
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And in addition we send direct to you, 
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dip into often and read aloud to the whole 
family at least once a year. 
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- American Agriculturist, December 6, 1924 
The Boy Who Is No Longer a Baby 
Valuable Hints on the f( Difficult Age”—Time Savers and Money Makers 
H OW hard it is to remember not to 
caress or otherwise baby that 
adolescent boy! And how he does resent 
any forgetfulness in the matter! A wise 
mother, one who wishes to stay close to 
her son figuratively, will in public at 
least, do just the opposite. No loving re¬ 
arrangement of necktie, no maternal 
pulling or patting of coat collar and most 
certainly, no petting. He keenly feels his 
new independence and instantly rebels at 
any infringement of it. That does not 
mean that he loves his mother and family 
any the less, however, and my own son, 
though he is desperately afraid of any 
public demonstration, is still very affec¬ 
tionate at home, and even more thought¬ 
ful than formerly. 
It takes grit, self-control and foresight 
for a mother to stand aside after eight or 
ten years of absolute guidance and au¬ 
thority to let the youngster try his wings. 
Some unfortunate women never do learn 
to do it and on them hangs the responsi¬ 
bility for the time-worn jokes and jibes 
about “mother-in-laws.” It is only one 
of the many lessons of motherhood, this 
matter of curbing one’s anxieties and 
forebodings, in order not to make a baby 
of one’s son. I remember a mistake of 
my own, whereby I won a (from a boy’s 
point of view) just rebuke. Finding him, 
with a friend, consuming chocolates be¬ 
fore dinner, I inquired the source and was 
duly informed that “Richard stood 
treat.” Thoughtlessly I rejoined, “But 
you know you shouldn’t eat candy before 
meals.” I received a black look and the 
whispered admonition, “That’s no way to 
talk when a fellow treats you.” I realized 
I had sinned in the matter of etiquette and 
said no more on the subject, then. 
It Takes Self-Control 
Sometimes I think self-control is more 
necessary in a mother, when dealing with 
boys than girls. Their point of view is so 
different from a woman’s. To this day I 
breathe asmothered sigh of relief, when my 
son, now thirteen, comes home after a 
long ride on his bike with the boys and my 
heart still skips a beat when he regales me 
with thrilling (ales of double ripper 
coasting escapades. I smile and appear 
deeply interested, however, knowing well 
that it would not take much wet-blanket¬ 
ing to stop the daily flow of confidences 
which are the secret of my hold on him. 
Likewise I go easy in my corrections of 
his “goshes,” “darn,” “gees,” and so on, 
even though they seem verily to compose 
his entire conversation, realizing that they 
might so easily be worse. 
I believe all these little things are in 
preparation for the great test, when my 
son will find another woman to take first 
place in his life and I do not dare fail in 
the preliminaries, lest I prove not equal 
to the final trial. If I can keep the place 
I now hold, as friend and adviser, if I can 
always be to him a sure source of sym¬ 
pathy and understanding, I know I can 
be big enough to take his wife, when she 
comes along, into my heart, too. With 
this in mind, I try to curb my habit of 
babying my boy, even mentally, expect¬ 
ing thereby to win his everlasting respect 
added to his love. To me that will be 
worth any self-denial.— Esther Hull 
Doolittle. 
Use the Newspapers 
W HAT a vastly greater number of 
newspapers go into farm homes 
than did several years ago! I well re¬ 
member when one weekly newspaper was 
all that nearly every home afforded, aside 
from perhaps one religious journal. 
We had never torn up one of the farm 
papers or religious magazines, for there 
are so many who can ill afford the price 
of them. Many of the youngsters are 
very much interested in these periodicals 
and as far as possible we aid them in sup¬ 
plying their needs in those directions. 
But there are the numerous dailies and 
county weeklies that, once read, will aid 
the housewives in their daily round of 
duties. Use paper to remove the grease 
on dishes, then burn the paper. You will 
find your soap bill far less and your dish¬ 
water more free from grease. Then, too, 
the “kink” in the sink drain pipes is much 
less likely to clog with accumulations of 
the grease, thus lessening plumbers’ bills 
and we all know what they are. 
Recently I was in a home where the 
sink drain pipe had been clogged up with 
grease accumulations and the housewife 
said: “I must use more soap.” 
I said, “Before you use soap, scrape all 
the dishes and pans, then use newspapers 
to wipe off this mass of grease.” 
“Oh!” said my friend, “I sell all the old 
newspapers.” 
“Yes,” said I, “for ten cents a hundred 
pounds, and they are worth far more than 
that for grease absorbers and kindling 
wood. We do not sell them, we use them 
and to a most profitable end.”— Clarice 
Raymond. 
Earning a Little 
M RS. X., who lives in the country, 
on an R. F. D. Route, and has a 
power washer, makes a little pocket mon¬ 
ey washing for some people who live in a 
city 40 miles away. 
A friend wrote her that she was paying 
Three Useful Patterns 
No. 1942, an apron 
that is life insurance for 
your dresses. It comes in 
sizes 36, 40, 42, 44 and 48 
inches bust measure. Size 
36 requires 2% yards of 
36 inch material. 
Price, 12c. 
No. 2125, a one piece 
dress for girls. Takes only 
1% yards of male rial with 
If, yard contrasting, in the 
8 year size. It comes in 
sizes 2, 4 , 0, 8, 10 and 12 
years. Price, 12c. 
No. 2201 is becoming to 
the growing girl. It comes in 
sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 - 
Size 8 takes 2'-% yards of 
36 inch material. 
Price, 12c. 
To order: write name and address, 
pattern numbers and sizes clearly and 
send with correct amount in stamps to 
Pattern Department, American Agricul¬ 
turist, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York 
City. 
$3.00 a week to get her washing done for 
herself and husband. Mrs. X. wrote that 
she would do it for $1.00, and she does; 
and it costs the city woman $1.00 plus 
the parcel post, which amounts to from 
18 to 28 cents a week. 
The parcel post rate in the first zone 
(50 miles) is nine cents for five pounds and 
fourteen cents for ten pounds; and these 
washings always weigh somewhere from 
five to ten pounds. 
Mrs. X. discovered that with her power 
washer she could do three washings a 
week and not overtax herself. The parcel 
post brings them to her very {loor and 
carries them away again in one of these 
canvas covered suit cases, with a double 
address slip, that seem to be made ex¬ 
pressly for this business. 
She contents herself with doing three, 
although she has more offered her than 
she can possibly do. — Mary S. Hitch- 
cook. 
Seals for Health 
T HIS is the 1924 Christmas Seal—one 
should adorn every envelope or bundle 
you mail during the holiday season. 
These penny seals, the happy thought 
of the National Tuberculosis Association, 
have been sold since 1907 and have liter¬ 
ally cured or prevented hundreds of 
cases of tuberculosis. For the combined 
pennies have totalled nearly $30,000,000 
in 17 years and the death rate from the 
white plague lias been cut in half. 
There are still thousands of lives need¬ 
lessly lost because of ignorance or neglect, 
so the little green and white and red 
stamp must go on spreading its holiday 
message. It still helps to support more 
than 600 hospitals and sanitoria, and at 
least 10,000 public health nurses who are 
detecting the disease in schools and homes 
and helping mothers to avert the threat¬ 
ened illness or care for stricken children. 
American Agriculturist readers are 
never slow in supporting a worthy cause. 
We know of no case where a penny goes 
farther than in buying a Christmas Seal. 
If you in your turn want help or advice 
from the society back of the anti-tuber¬ 
culosis campaign, it is yours for the ask¬ 
ing. Write to the National Tuberculosis 
Association, 370 Seventh Avenue, New 
York City. _ 
The Exchange Corner 
I N many sections there is a scarcity of 
winter apples, but a fair yield of the 
earlier varieties. It will be possible to 
have baked apples this winter, however, 
as they are easily canned. They are 
cored and baked as for immediate use, 
then packed in the jars and the syrup in 
the pan poured over them. There will not 
be sufficient to fill the jars, so a rich 
syrup should be used—the same as that 
prepared for other canning. Fill to over¬ 
flowing, seal lightly and process in water 
about fifteen minutes and complete the 
sealing.— Mrs. George Gray. 
* * * 
Moths may be kept out of a piano by 
hanging a little bag of muslin filled with 
camphor gum on a tack placed near the 
top of the piano on the inside.—L. M 
Thornton. 
* * * 
Dip each slice of bacon in cold sweet 
milk and then put in hot skillet. A 
cheaper grade of meat will taste as sweet 
as the most expensive and both bacon and 
gravy will be nice and brown.— L. M. 
Thornton. 
* * * 
Put your cheese through your fine food 
chopper disc and you can use every scrap 
for macaroni.—I. A. Brown 
