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American Agriculturist, December 22, 1923 
Men 
W anted 
to Sell 
American 
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V7DU can earn $40 
-*■ to $60 a week tak¬ 
ing new and renewal 
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ican Agriculturist. 
Some of our Regular 
Salesmen make from 
$75 to $100 every week. 
Experience is not 
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lieve the American 
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best farm paper in your 
State and can tell folks 
what you believe, you 
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nights. Either man, 
however, has a place in 
the organization if he 
makes good. 
Farmers who can get 
away and young men 
who have worked on 
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with experience in sell¬ 
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tions of considerable 
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you make in accord¬ 
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E. C. Weatherby 
Circulation Manager 
Ithaca, N. Y. 
Join Your Home Bureau for 1924! 
Mrs. Grace A. Powell Interprets Its Meaning 1 to the Busy Farm Woman 
W HAT is the real meaning of the words 
“Home Bureau”? 
To the onlooker, perhaps, simply instruction 
in household management, the making of 
clothing, help in learning to care for the chil¬ 
dren and for oneself, still another meeting 
to attend. 
But scattered over thirty-five counties of 
New York State there are more than 33,000 
women to whom “Home Bureau” means more 
than this, and New Jersey, too, has an army 
of women enlisted under its banner. 
Business changes brought to a suburb of New 
York City a woman of fine background and 
real brilliancy, the mother of four children. 
After the new routine became established, she 
looked about her. Her neighbors were women 
whose interest were the theater and the card- 
table. The newcomer w T as a New Englander, 
born to culture and the love of books, and her 
life for a time was given to caring for the 
children and bravely forgetting self. 
With the advent of the county Home Bureau 
came a change. Little by little, things worth 
while were given to the one women’s club the 
town boasted. Leaders developed from among 
the ranks of “Bridge” devotees. 
The town is not yet a model but it is changed. 
Best of all, a lonely woman has found work to 
do, real work for community betterment, and 
feels herself no longer “a square peg in a round 
hole.” 
A Girl Who Dreamed 
A young girl grew up in a little country town 
and attended the school, an old-time academy, 
where she learned a little mathematics, a little 
science, a little Latin, just enough to make her 
long for more. Not far away was a great 
university, the ultimate goal of all her girlish 
dreams. When at sixteen she graduated, they 
told her—no, she told them on the commence¬ 
ment platform—that all opportunity lay 
before her, just within reach. But when she 
came to look her future in the face she found 
on one hand the longing'for college, on the 
other a widowed mother and no money. So 
with a heart that ached and with tears of 
which the mother never knew, she turned away 
from all her dreams and went to work. 
In those days, there was only teaching for a 
girl, and she taught for years. She loved her 
work, and when the mother left her and she 
was free to live her own life, the time for college 
seemed past. 
After a while she married and when her little 
children came, the mother’s happiest thought, 
as she looked at their little faces, was an echo 
from:days gone by—“They can go to college!” 
Some Dreams, at Least, Come True 
Then came the war and all its stress and 
endless activities for the women of the land. 
Then came the Home Bureau. The other 
phases of University Extension work had some¬ 
how passed her by, but the Home Bureau grew 
to be an enthusiasm. As the work and the 
workers grew in vision and in numbers, it 
seemed that a great university had reached out 
and with tender fingers touched a waiting 
woman. When after a while the conferences 
at the college came, one woman saw with 
misty e^es the spires and towers of Cornwell. 
She had come at last to college and as time 
went on, there came to her the friends, the 
pleasure, much of the learning which she had 
given up in youth. 
So, to lonely women, to women who in their 
girlhood days have “ dreamed dreams and seen 
visions,” to mothers of little children who need 
the wider vision of life, to all who long To serve 
the words “Home Bureau” mean also “Oppor¬ 
tunity.”— Grace A. Powell. 
FOR VERY LITTLE CHILDREN 
ITY and country alike are faced with the 
problem of the child of school age who does 
not wish to continue his or her education long 
enough to get from it any real benefit in after 
life. This, perhaps, is partly the fault of the 
schools which do not often make a special 
effort to hold the growing boy or girl, and in 
many cases it is also the fault of the parents 
who do not take the trouble to show their 
children just what education will mean to 
them in after life. 
No one wants children sent to school too 
early and forced beyond the mental capacity 
of their years, but we are just beginning to 
realize that even the very young children are 
constantly learning by observation and that 
if we do not guide them, they may learn habits 
of carelessness and selfishness. It is for this 
reason that kindergartens have come into be¬ 
ing. They mold character by giving the 
children amusing and helpful occupation. 
During the past year several of our states 
have taken forward steps in making kinder¬ 
garten training possible for the small children. 
Illinois and Mexico have just passed progres¬ 
sive laws providing that interested citizens 
may obtain kindergartens by petition. The 
women of California were recently influential 
in having enacted a similar law which put that 
state first in its provision for kindergartens 
for young children. Anyone who is interested 
in obtaining one in the neighborhood, or who, 
because of distance or the small number of 
children, wishes to give individual instruction 
in the home, may obtain further information 
upon request from the National Kindergarten 
Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York, 
N. Y. _ 
AN UNUSUAL GUEST DAY 
F the Guest Day Committee of your club 
is searching for an unusual plan try this one: 
A club in our neighborhood sent out invita¬ 
tions for a reception and picture display. 
The entire art display from the extension de- 
A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION 
N this page we are very happy to 
have Mrs. Grace A. Powell, the 
new president of the State Federa¬ 
tion of Home Bureaus, describe in 
her vivid, readable fashion, the 
meaning of the organization in which 
she has been such a notable member. 
Although Mrs. Powell does not 
mention it, the thoughtful reader 
will see that, like many things in 
this world, The Home Bureau mem¬ 
ber gets from the organization in 
proportion as she gives herself to it. 
Mrs. Powell is as good an example 
as one could find of this truism, for 
to her local branch she has given, as 
a member, whole-souled enthusiasm, 
patience and energy, and the high 
office she now holds will enlist the 
same qualities in larger measure. 
It would be a good New Year’s 
resolution for all members to take— 
that they will expect to think more 
of what they will give to their home 
bureau and less of what they will get. 
And to those who do not belong to 
this great movement, we commend as 
an ideal resolution that they join 
at once! 
partment of the State University, which is 
always available for Club work, was used. 
Also several art shops in nearby cities loaned 
extensive collections, with the understanding 
that orders for pictures would be taken from 
anyone wishing to purchase. These were all 
hung upon the walls of two large rooms at the 
home of one of the Club members. They 
were hung in groups according to the age and 
school of the artists, from the early Italian 
Masters down to the present day. Club 
members who were familiar with the pictures, 
gave interesting information about each 
picture and its painter, as they pointed them 
out to the guests. Mtisic during the afternoon 
added to the entertainment. ' 
When the guests had completed the round 
of the picture gallery as they called it, they 
were invited into the dining-room which was 
gay in club colors carried out in the candles, 
shades and flowers. Light refreshments were 
served. A small print of one of the large 
pictures, rolled and tied in club colors was laid 
at each plate for a favor. 
To residents of small towns, or the country 
where there are no public libraries, art galleries 
or museums, this afternoon was a real treat. 
It brought to their very doors something they 
could never see any place except in our large 
cities, with the added advantage of the expla¬ 
nation of each picture. One guest said to me 
as she left: 
“I never fail to visit the Metropolitan Mu¬ 
seum when in New York and have seen time 
and time again, the originals of many of these 
prints, but they never meant to me what they 
do now. Your added explanation has given 
me so much that when I next see the pictures, 
they’ll be old friends instead of passing 
acquaintances.”— Lucille Ward. 
A DISTINCTIVE TOUCH FOR 
STAIRWAYS 
HEN building or re-modeling a home of 
two-stories let the housewife see to it 
that all newel-posts of the stairs are made flat- 
topped. This serves two purposes: 
Small articles to be carried upstairs or 
down may be placed upon these—especially 
at a back stair—awaiting a trip, thus saving 
many unnecessary steps. 
Besides, the flat tops afford decorative 
possibilities. A low vase of ferns or a drooping 
plant at the foot or at the turn of a front stair¬ 
way is most effective. Many ferns, like the 
sprengeri, need but little sun, and the long 
fronds over the side of a banister give a beauti¬ 
ful touch of green at an unlooked for spot. — 
Lee McCrae. 
What One Subscriber Thinks 
I want to tell you how very much I admire 
your patterns. They’re quite the neatest 
and most practical I’ve ever seen—and the 
kind of dresses that anyone can wear. 
I am very fond of your book. It’s so 
friendly and gives one the impression that one 
is having a personal chat with one’s friends. 
I sincerely wish you all the luck in the world! — 
Mrs. A. L. H. 
THE LITTLE GIRL, THE MEDIUM ONE AND BIG SISTER 
I? 2 7* 
T ONG-WAISTED, with a 
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14 years. It takes, for the 8 year 
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with 34 yard contrasting. Price 
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A STYLE that is simple bu 
very becoming to the growing 
girl is No. 1840, which has the ad¬ 
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mornings. No. 1840 comes in 
sizes 8 , 10, 12 and 14 years. 
Size 8 takes 234 yards 36-inch 
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Price 12 c. 
r T 1 HE college girl or the busy home-maker will like this two-material dress. No. 1933 is cleverly 
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and send to Pattern Department, American Agriculturist, 461 Fourth Avenue, 
New York City. Add 10c if you wish our Winter Fashion Book, with both dress 
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