American Agriculturist, December 27 y 1924 - 
Teaching Thrift to the Child 
The Value of a Bank Account---Making Emergency Bandages 
I T requires rather a delicate distinction to 
teach children the value of money and 
avoid over-emphasizing its importance but 
I believe it is fundamentally essential that 
the growing child learn to handle and use 
it wisely, because without that knowledge 
men and women are handicapped for life. 
Our school has one custom that seems to 
me most excellent. At the beginning of 
each term every pupil is requested to bring 
all books used the previous year that are in 
good condition and that he wishes to sell. 
These are held by the faculty and sold to 
other pupils as the need arises. The sell¬ 
ing price is fixed by the teachers and is 
governed by the condition of the book and 
the price of a new book of similar kind. 
By following this plan year after year it 
is usually made possible for each pupil to 
sell discarded books for enough to almost 
if not entirely purchase those needed for 
the coming year, and obviously much ex¬ 
pense is saved. Last night my eleven-year- 
old girl came home with the money her 
teacher paid her for two of her books 
just sold and I said, “That wilk nearly, pay 
for the book you bought, won’t it?” Of 
course the new book, being more advanced, 
costs more; but the child said, “Yes, and 
I’ve sold another so that will more than 
pay for it.” 
the unpicked price. It made a liberal price 
Last summer we sold cherries for a much 
lower price when the purchaser picked 
them than when we picked them ourselves, 
•o when daughter picked for me I allowed 
for picking but it was only fair to pay her 
as well as we did other people' and she 
earned quite a bit. She said if cherries 
lasted the year around she could buy all her 
own clothes. 
She helps me with the regular housework 
free of charge of course, but while she 
knows how to do most things, I try not 
her the difference between the picked and 
to burden her with work especially while 
she is in school and when she does extra 
things like picking fruit I always pay her 
for it. She has her own bank account and 
when she goes to town, if she hasn’t been 
for sometime and has accumulated enough 
money to be worth while, she adds to the 
account, her usual (and entirely original) 
custom being to bank the even dollars and 
spend the cents. 
In common with our neighbors, we have 
always felt obliged to economize and the 
practice when kept within reason doesn't 
hurt children a bit.—Mrs. E. M. Anderson. 
- Homemade Bandages 
/ - » 
L AST summer, when little Jimmie cut 
his hand so badly with a hatchet, and 
I had to dress it every day for several 
weeks, I learned something about bandages 
that I had not known before. An occa¬ 
sional roll of sterile surgical bandage costs 
only a few cents, but when it comes to 
using a roll every day or so it soon counts 
up to an astounding sum. Now I always 
keep a plentiful supply of bandages on 
hand, and in every needed width. They 
are made of worn sheets, pillow cases, 
night dresses and tablecloths. And be¬ 
cause I am careful in making them, and 
sterilizing them, they are as good as those 
purchased at the drug store. 
The old linens are torn in the desired 
widths, and sewed together to make strips 
about 5 feet in length. In sewing the ends, 
they should be laid with one end over-lap¬ 
ping the other, and stitched fiat so there 
will be no danger of a seam bearing pres¬ 
sure on a wound or sore spot. 
A homemade bandage is a failure if it is 
not rolled tightly, as it is impossible to 
make a neat, firm dressing if the bandage 
is loosely rolled. After the length of 
bandage has been rolled as tightly as pos¬ 
sible, the end may be secured with a tiny 
safety pin. The finished roll should then 
be placed in a sterilized fruit jar, and 
placed in a hot oven for half an hour. 
Then the sterilized lid is screwed on, and 
you have a jar of sterile bandage ready 
for emergency case.—Nelle Portrey. 
Odd Moment Occupations 
Get out the old worn sweaters and 
make the best of them into caps, mittens 
or leggings for tlie children to wear 
when the cold days come. Dip in dye 
if you want them to look really new'. 
Unravel the scraps and make the little 
boy s heart glad with a new' ball. 
* * * 
Disappointed in the window draperies? 
It might have been avoided if a large 
sample had been hung in the window'. 
The color effect is often quite different 
W'hen the light shines through the ma¬ 
terial; it may make black look gray and 
dingy, and give green tone to materials 
with blue and yellow threads. 
♦ * ♦ 
Take all heavy underwear that has ac¬ 
cumulated, too worn to wear, too good 
to throw away, cut best parts into odd 
shapes and sizes, fit together, sew and 
make a comfort filling instead of buying 
cotton. From the small pieces, make iron 
holders and pot lifters. 
* * * 
Corn meal, graham, and coarse wheat 
meal not only offer a pleasant variety 
for breakfast foods, but they are cheap 
and healthful. 
* * * 
Hang the clothesline in a sunny spot. 
Sun gives the W'hite clothes a good color, 
and a fresh, sweet odor. 
* * * 
When the metal tip of a shoestring 
pulls off, roll the tip in a little glue or 
shellac. 
American Agriculturist Cross Word Puzzle Number. 4 
©amewcan agriculturist,INC 
D ID you have any trouble with the puz¬ 
zle last week? If so, the answer, print- 
id in the small diagram, will straighten 
Kit your difficulties. 
The diagram this week is not one that 
trill wreck your disposition. There axe a 
lew fairly hard words, but then, who 
(rants a puzzle too easy? On the whole, 
bis is a puzzle of moderate difficulty, and 
Aould not take a long time to solve. 
The list gives definitions of every word 
included. You remember that the words 
must completely fill the white spaces and 
that they must read both across and down, 
corresponding to the definitions. Black 
spaces mark the beginning or the end of 
words. Each number indicates the start 
of a word, either across or down and 
some are on both lists. 
ACROSS 
1 Place where farm- i 
ers keep a horse 2 
5 Tool used to tap 3 
trees . 
S What you say to * 
oxen to guide 
them 
10 Foreign noblemen 6 
12 Male of sheep 7 
14 Went fast 8 
15 Sprightly 9 
16 To grow old 11 
17 Perceive ^3 
20 Sweetheart 
22 Aeroplane “star” 10 
m t .,ar 
24 A reddish fish la 
25 Unit of money 
26 Royal Arcanum 20 
27 Initials of a fam¬ 
ous President 21 
28 One who slides 
30 To blot out; erase22 
32 United States 
23 
28 
Navy 
33 Appeal 
34 Bright color 
35 A Large tub or " 
vessel 30 
36 Bruises 31 
41 Female sheep 36 
43 Period 37 
44 Squeezes hard 
45 What makes the 33 
flivver go 39 
46 Something which 
affords great 
pleasure y; 
<7 Used to move 41 
logs on the fire- 4 2 
place 
DOWN 
Ocean 
Half a score 
Meadow 
Marsh or fen 
As<=~>''iated to- 
b 
Employ 
Period of time 
An old cloth 
Uncut hay 
Rhode Island 
Instrument to 
measure gas, etc. 
Foreign noblemen 
Pure liquid part 
of oil or fat 
The one who bets 
wrong 
Usual name for a 
dog 
Change 
Bill of fare 
Pleasant in man¬ 
ner 
Sharp reply 
Hate 
Rims 
Knack 
Black, sticky 
fluid 
Mineral Spring 
Second note of 
the scale 
Steamship Oregon 
To urge on 
Part of the verb 
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