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American Agriculturist, December 27 , 1924 
“Leave It To The Ladies’ Aid” 
to you, 
in many 
YV/ELL, wliv not? Haven't they been 
VV the minister’s mainstay through un¬ 
counted years? Perhaps in the days of the 
apostolic church there was no Ladies’ Aid, 
but beyond possible doubt, there was some 
faithful little band of women, to put 
shoulder to the wheel, and help however, 
whenever and wherever needed. 
So when it comes to providing clothing 
so that the destitute little Smiths can come 
decently clad to Sunday school, or sending 
a barrel to the Reverend Brown and fam¬ 
ily far on the frontier, or raising money 
to get a new carpet to replace the one 
that s a disgrace ’ why “leave it to the 
Ladies’ Aid!” 
hirst, a word in confidence 
Madame President. It is easier 
cases, to do work yourself than to get 
others to do it, but yet the really' success¬ 
ful organization is one in which the in¬ 
dividual members feel a keen sense of re¬ 
sponsibility regarding the work. So even 
if you do have to prod along the indifferent, 
it’s really worth while. 
lou’re going to raise money for a new 
Church carpet? Well, instead or asking “how 
much will you give?” get some High 
School boy or girl to make a plan of the 
space to be careted and then marked it off 
into square feet. Figure the price of each 
square foot, and then ask the folk to buy 
a square of carpet, writing the name upon 
the portion that they buy. That is some¬ 
thing definite and wifi bring results that a 
subscription list would not. Follow the 
same plan if walls are to be painted or 
floors laid. 
vT uggestions For Group And Individual Monejg Raising 
they always can depeud on you to put it 
through.”—Elsie Duncan Yale. 
Efforts 
Contributions By The Calendar 
“Will you give a penny a day for the 
church building fund?”. Now nobody is 
going to refuse you that! They’d "feel 
luce a piker! But if you enlist every mem¬ 
ber in the Calendar plan contributing a cent 
a day, you’ll be surprised at the result. 
Briefly this is the plan: 
The president of the Aid represents the 
^ ear. She appoints twelve assistants, the 
Months. Under each “Month” are four 
W eeks. Each “Week ’ secures seven sub¬ 
scribers of a cent a day, and collects from 
them every month. Then the “Week” 
turns in the money to the lady representing 
the “Manth” over her, and the “Months” 
return the collections to the president, the 
“Year.” The success of this plan is that 
there is a definite system for the collection 
of the pennies. In all sincerity persons 
may pledge a cent a day, and mean to drop 
it in an envelope, but forget it.^ But when 
the “Week” calls for it in person, it will 
surely be on hand. 
An enterprising ,Ladies’ Aid solicited 
from the congregation old newspapers and 
magazines, storing them in a shed. When 
a goodly quantity had been assembled waste 
dealers in a nearby town sent their truck 
and O joy! There came a check for $70! 
Sold in quantity this way, a much better 
price was secured than by small lots to 
traveling junk men. 
Commissions On Sales Add Up 
Another Aid has taken a magazine 
agency, and the congregation dutifully 
takes out its subscriptions or renewals 
through the energetic ladies. Food sales, 
held i a grocery, have been a source of 
profit to many societies. 
Give a little play and charge admission. 
No, not the young folks, we mean You! 
Why, surely you could. There are number 
of little plays especially suited for Ladies’ 
Aids. You’ll have jolly times at the re¬ 
hearsals and you’ll find that your families 
will joyously turn out in full array to see 
“Mother in a play.” (See the list of suit¬ 
able material, given below.) 
“Leave it to the Ladies’ Aid?” Of 
course! Folks always have and always 
will, for you dear, loyal tireless souls, 
Plays Suitable For Ladies’ Aid Societies 
How The Story Grew. 11 .ladies 
A Business Meeting. 11. ladies 
Our Church Fair ... 12 ladies 
Women of the Bible. 21 ladies 
How the Club was Formed.. 18 ladies 
A Mothers’ Meeting. 10.ladies 
The Peak Sisters. 10 ladies 
A Gentle Jury. 12 ladies 
The Sweet Family. 8 ladies 
Those Husbands of Ours .... 7 ladies 
.30 cents 
These may be obtained from Eldridge 
Entertainment House, Franklin, Ohio or 
Walter Baker Co., 5 Hamilton Place, 
Boston, Mass. The price being twenty- 
five cents except when noted. 
next year, and is getting out attractive 
labels for her jars. She has been using the 
pine glass fruit jars and in each one she 
drops some whole cloves and a few of the 
tiny “red hot” peppers, which gives them 
a very attractive appearance.— Mrs. R. G. 
Armstrong. 
Home-Made Baking Powder 
Money in Pickles 
me, 
All in the Preparation 
The cucumbers were soaked over night 
in a solution of salt and alum water. She 
uses the prepared spices, tied loosely in a 
cloth, one package to Yz gal. of vinegar, 
which she boils for twenty minutes. She 
then drops in the cucumbers and allows 
them to boil five minutes, actually cooking 
in the flavor, which lingers so pleasantly, 
then packs them firmly in well sterilized 
fruit jars, pours the boiling vinegar over 
them and seals while hot. 
“Why don’t you establish a market for 
them?” I asked. She objected that there 
were so many kinds of pickles on the mar¬ 
ket. 
“Not like 3 r ours,” I told her, and as she 
was getting a dinner for some city ac¬ 
quaintances, I suggested that she serve 
pickles and give each guest a small jar to 
take home. She got an order from 'each of 
those and from that her business grew. 
Last year she put about half of her garden 
in cucumbers, this year she used about the 
space of half a city block. She uses only 
the very small kind, selects them herself, 
with especial care given to uniformity of 
size. She expects to double her output 
“Somewhere I have seen a recipe for home¬ 
made baking: powder. I would like very much 
to have it again and would appreciate it if you 
would tell me what proportions to use.”—M rs. 
1. W., N. Y. 
E MERSON said that the world would 
make a beaten pathway to the door of 
a man who produced a superior article, 
and I believe he mentioned mouse-traps. 
But my story is of a woman who produced 
a superior article, and it was pickles. And 
along with some enterprise and initiative 
it began a lucrative little business, which I 
feel proud of because I discovered her and 
helped start her on her way. 
During a period of convalescence when 
I had gulped down beef tea and weak tea 
until my stomach was like a floating island, 
and one member after another of my fam¬ 
ily barred every eatable thing that I de¬ 
sired, a little neighbor came over with a 
covered tray which aroused some happy 
expectations. 
“I have some very nice chocolate cake,” 
she said, and my spirit went down to zero. 
Then she uncovered the tray. It was love¬ 
ly to look at, but the very thought of eat¬ 
ing chocolate cake put all my inner tubes 
revolting. 
“But, Oh”—I told her, “If you’d just 
slip me one of those pickles!” 
“I’ll have to ask some one first,” she 
said, leaving the room. But she failed to 
put the dish cut of reach and never in my 
life did I taste anything so delicious as 
those little, green, forbidden things. Nor 
did they retard my recovery, but they lin¬ 
gered in my mind. A sour cucumber never 
appealed to me, but there was something 
hauntingly persistent about the flavor of 
those pickles that I did not think was 
due to an unnatural appetite or a fevered 
imagination. As soon as I was able to get 
about, I went over to see her, and tried 
them again. ✓ They measured up to my 
first estimate. 
“It’s all in the spicing,” she told 
“The flavor is cooked in.” 
the materials, use 42/5 ounces of cream 
of tartar, 2 ounces of soda ana 1 ounce of 
corn starch. Sift the ingredients together 
several times to make sure that they are 
thoroughly mixed. Keep in tightly covered 
tin cans and use in same proportions as 
other baking powders, that is, about I 
level teaspoonful to each cup of flour in 
baking. 
^ Economy V/ith Apples 
’HE farmer can feed successfully cull 
apples to almost any animal except 
milk cows. Although our apple crop is not 
large, as a housewife I can economize by 
the use of the apple. First, I can the 
earlier varieties, both with and without 
sugar. I dry them by picking, slicing and 
placing in a peach basket which I suspend 
in an inverted barrel over a pan of sul¬ 
phured coals. In the morning I place them 
on screens or plates and dry where it is 
warm. The cores and peelings are used 
for making apple jelly and as a foundation 
for many other kinds of jelly. They can 
be made into^cider, which is an excellent 
unfermented drink, and fermented is our 
essential vinegar. I also boil it down when 
sweet to use in mincemeat. Of all farm 
products, I believe I can use the apple 
most successfully to economize. 
—Mrs. LI. L. C. 
Roasted Venison 
\ 
OPREAD meat liberally with fresh 
butter, dredge with flour and put on 
rack 
in roaster. Add three slices of 
onion, a sliced carrot, three stalks of 
celery; cut in pieces and a seasoning of 
salt and pepper. Serve with a sauce made 
from the liquor in the bottom of pan.—• 
L. M. Thornton. 
More Recommended Filin': 
THE SIDE SHOW OF LIFE—Tho ro¬ 
mance of a homely clown in a French 
circus, who rises to the rank of a brigadier 
general in the World War but at its close 
was obliged to revert to his former calling 
for a livelihood. Pathos and delicate senti¬ 
ment. From the novel, "The Mountebank,” 
by William J. Locke. (Paramount, 8 reels.) 
SINNERS IN HEAVEN—A prim English 
girl and an aviator, the sole survivor of 
an airplane wreck, are marooned on an 
island In the Indian Ocean; they perform 
a marriage ceremony as best they can, but 
complications ensue after they are rescued 
and brought back to England. (Paramount, 
7 reels.) 
hs THE WARRENS OF VIRGINIA—The 
romance of a Southern girl and a man In 
the Northern Army, with effective Civil 
War background. (Fox, 7 reels.) 
J WELCOME STRANGER—How a Jew in 
a hostile small town, through straight 
dealing and public service, becomes finally 
its honored leading citizen. (Producers 
Distributing, 7 reels.) 
hs WOLVES OF Th'e NIGHT—A West¬ 
ern with William Farnum in one of his 
rugged characterizations. (Reissue.) (Fox, 
7 reels.) 
J YOLANDA—A glittering, fascinating pic¬ 
ture of medieval times, with the Princess 
Mary of Burgandy, otherwise "Yolanda” 
(played by Marion Davies), in love with 
A LTLIOUGH it is perfectly possible to 
mat 
make baking powder at home, -one 
must be very accurate in measuring and 
very thorough in mixing to secure good re¬ 
sults. Most baking powders are a mixture 
of cream of tartar and soda, with enough 
corn starch to keep the ingredients from 
collecting moisture and losing their 
strength. The proportions are as follows: 
If you measure the materials, use 2 >2 
cups of cream of tartar, 1 cup of baking 
soda, Yz cup of corn starch. If you- weigh 
Three Seasonable Patterns 
THE SIREN OF SEVILLE is the Inter¬ 
esting story of a famous Spanish matador 
and his sweethearts, with good Spanish at¬ 
mosphere and excellent acting by Priscilla 
Dean. (Producers Distributing, 7 reels.) 
TESS OF THE D’URBERVI LLES — The 
tragic romance of a beautiful English vil¬ 
lage girl who, in the hands of fate, tastes 
in alternation the extremes of misery and 
happiness. From the novel by Thomas 
Hardy. (Metro-Goldwyn, 8 reels.) 
hs TROUPING WITH ELLEN—A strug¬ 
gling chorus girl finds that success on the 
stage does not come easily to one who tries 
to lead a quiet and decorous life, but she 
also finds friends who see her through her 
troubles. (Producers Distributing, 7 reels.) 
A FTER the holiday 
rush is over, most 
women start in on their 
own neglected zvardrobes 
and usually need to give 
first attention to the 
problem of underclothes. 
No. 2200 is an ideal cos¬ 
tume slip, suitable for 
dark silk, lingette, 
zv kite longcloth or al¬ 
most any material you 
zvish. It may be en¬ 
hanced by a touch of 
embroidery and made 
zoith round or square 
neck. No. 2200 cuts in 
sices 16 years, 36, 38, 
40, 42, 44 and 46 in¬ 
ches bust measure. Pat¬ 
tern 12c. Hot iron 
transfer No. 709 in blue 
cnly, 15c. 
2200 
Lmt70D. 
Have you had ah un¬ 
expected invitation to a 
party during the holv- 
daysf Here is a dia¬ 
gram dress for a soft 
silk which zvill just 
meet the need. It may 
be beaded or embroid¬ 
ered if you have a little 
more time to put on it, 
but is so gracefully cut 
that it is very pretty 
when entirely untrim¬ 
med. No. 2253 cuts in 
sices 16 years, 36, 38, 
40, 42 and 44 inches 
bust measure. Price 12 c. 
Hot iron transfer No. 
710 ( blue and ycllozv) 
15c, 
This cunning little 
bloomer frock may be 
made with long or short 
sleeves. It is pretty and 
comfortable in a plaid 
woolen material or soft 
challis. No. 2166 cuts 
in sices 2, 4, 6 and 8 
years. Sice 8 requires 
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 Agriculturist, 461 
Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
Prince Miximilian but bartered off by her 
father for reasons of state to the idiot son 
of Louis XI. Beautiful scenes, marvelous 
costuming, fine acting and absorbing plot 
interwoven with some authentic history, 
(Metro-Goldwyn, 10 reels.) 
When gravy does not brown, try a 
tablespoonful -of coffee, it will not taste 
and you will have immediate results.— 
Ida A. Brown. 
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