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When it stretched 
more than 5 times 
its length —we knew that 
we had added longer wear 
Twice! Three times! Four— five times its length 
and more, a strip of rubber cut from a “ U. S.” 
Boot will stretch without breaking! 
Here’s why every length of the five means extra wear: 
Every step you take your boots bend and wrinkle. 
Thousands of times each day—the same strains in the 
same spots. 
It’s these strains that make ordinary rubber crack 
% 
Into “U. S.” Boots is put rub¬ 
ber as live as an elastic band. 
Rubber that has the flexibility to 
stand constant bending. Rubber 
that stays strong and pliable— 
that resists strain and prevents 
breaking. 
Anchored in this solid rubber is 
layer on layer of tough fabric re¬ 
inforcements. In the places where 
the hard strains come there are 
from seven to eleven separate 
plies of rubber and fabric in 
“U. S.” Boots. 
Reinforcements that give rugged 
strength — rubber that stays tough and resisting — 
these are the reasons why “U. S.” Boots mean longer 
wear and better service. 
Ask for “ U. S.” Boots. If you’ve never worn them 
before, now is the time to begin. Thousands of farmers 
all over the country are wearing them today. 
and break. 
Ply on ply of fabric and 
rubber are built into the 
walls of the “U.S.” Boot . 
Here at the instep where 
heavy strains come are 
8 separate layers . 
Other “U. S.” Rubber Footwear 
You’ll find every type of rubber footwear in the big “U. S.” 
line. There’s the “U. S.” Walrus, the famous all-rubber over¬ 
shoe—the “U. S.” lace Bootee, a rubber workshoe for spring 
and fall—“U. S.” Arctics and Rubbers—all styles and sizes 
for the whole family. Look for the “ U. S.” trade mark when¬ 
ever you buy—the honor mark of the largest rubber organiza¬ 
tion in the world. 
United States Rubber Company 
American Agriculturist, February 9 ( j 
For My Family’s Healt] 
How I Set About To Improve It 
By A FARMER’S WIFE 
M ARY came 
home from 
school all excited. There had been a 
visitor there, the county nurse the 
teacher had called her, who had measured 
and weighed all the children. They were 
all, with the exception of a neighbor’s boy, 
too thin and far underweight. Then she 
asked thein what they ate for breakfast 
and supper, and what they had brought 
with them in their pails for lunch. How 
much milk did they drink? Tommy was 
the only one who drank that. She found 
that Mary was ten pounds underweight, 
Johnny eight, and little Max six and a 
half. She said it was so wrong to sell all 
the cream and not fatten up the children 
on good rich milk. Each of them shoul 1 
have at least a quart a day, and it shoul 1 
not be skimmed 
milk ? ; ther. They 
should eat eggs, 
but not fried, spin¬ 
ach, carrots and 
other things like 
that. Because 
they were not 
getting the right 
foods and were 
really undernour¬ 
ished, they might 
easily become very 
sick. 
Now that I 
stopped to think 
of it, I had for a 
long time noticed 
that the children 
were thin, but I 
had thought they 
were probably 
growing too fast. 
Their father’s 
folks and mine 
were all thin and 
I thought it only 
natural that our children should be thin, 
too. They all had been acting more 
peevish this spring than usual, and were 
finicky about what they ate. Indeed, 
they didn’t have any appetite at all, but 
I just thought it was spring fever. How¬ 
ever, the words of that nurse set me to 
thinking and made me look at my 
children differently. 
weight was vitan, 
These vitamins q 
be had by eating large amounts of bm 
eggs, milk, fresh vegetables, and ft, 
oatmeal and cracked wheat, and «-| 
wheat bread. We should eat as niucl 
possible of these foods as there wag 
danger of getting too many vita® 
Also, I was to lock up the frying pant 
frying the food makes it hard to di« 
Instead, I was to boil, stew or bake 
meat, and cut down on the amount 
pork I used. Then I should be sun 
use the water in which the vegefi 
were cooked, as this contained the las 
part of the vitamins. I should seel 
each one of the children drink a quar 
milk a day, and, until their weight 
where it should be, a cup of cream ei 
day would ® 
A quart a day keeps the doctor away 
Are Square Meals Square? 
m 
I thought I had been a good mother 
and had done my duty by my family 
when I had seen that they had warm 
clothes and a warm house, and had given 
them what I thought three square meals 
a day. But—were they square? I remem¬ 
bered seeing articles in the magazines 
on how to feed and bring up children. 
But, by the time I had finished tending 
to my chickens, cooking three big meals a 
day, and cleaning up after each one, as 
well as after the milking and separating, 
doing the washing, ironing, and mending, 
I was too tired to pay any attention to 
them. If I did have a few minutes I 
w r ould read a story that seemed, from the 
pictures, to have a happy ending, or else 
I would pick out a new crochet pattern 
that might look nice on a petticoat for 
Mary. 
Then I thought of Mrs. Lewis, in town, 
how they said she fed her children. It 
had always seemed foolish to me to be so 
particular about what to feed children. 
My mother had given us anything that 
was on the table, and, when I had a 
family of my own, I thought that was the 
proper thing to do. But Mrs. Lewis’s 
children didn’t have any trouble when 
they were teething, had no summer com¬ 
plaint like the rest of the children around 
here, and didn't have colds all winter 
either. 
So, when I took my butter and eggs 
into town on Saturday, I went up to see 
Mrs. Lewis. She was real interested in 
the children, and said she was only too 
glad to give me all the help she could. 
She told me that what my children 
needed to bring up their appetites, put 
color into their cheeks, and bring up their 
them gain fas 
Everybody in 
family was to 
an orange 
tomato (it « 
be fresh or cam 
daily, and als 
quart of 
for each child] 
a pint for 
grown-ups, all 
portion of |j 
vegetables i 
butter, a litl 
meat, and a if 
of well-cooked 
meal, wheateu 
cracked win 
Plenty of frest 
in their room! 
they slept i 
also make 
healthier 
stronger. 
The w hi| 
family was j 
to be surprised with very different e 
than those they had been having, li 
our old system we had always had, 
breakfast, fried potatoes and fried 
pork, bread, butter, and coffee, and si 
times pancakes, for it seemed the i 
needed this hearty meal to start thel 
out right. The children never seemel 
have any appetite for breakfast ami 
often getting up late and running oi 
school without anything. Mrs. L 
said it was very important they sin 
have a good breakfast and take tint 
eat it, and that their school work as 
as their health would be better, 
lunch it had been my habit to give! 
thick sandwiches with left-over nieaf 
jelly in them, a piece of pie, and an i 
if we had any. Then when they cl 
home from school there were cookie! 
nibble on, which would surely take: 
their appetites from supper, Mrs. L| 
said. For supper we usually had 
fried meat and potatoes, very 
vegetables, except corn and baked bej 
as the family did not seem to carej 
vegetables, then pie, bread, butter,, 
and sometimes hot biscuits. 
For the Children's Good 
Now everything was going to| 
changed, for I was determined to 
my family back to health. Henry n< 
grumbled when it was for the child! 
good, and he said to go ahead and try 
new ideas. I thought these new 
might be good for him, too, as his stoijj 
attacks seemed to be getting morel 
quent and he did not sleep as well 
used to. 
I had saved up some money, froiiil 
butter and eggs, to buy a new rug [ 
some furniture for the parlor, for | 
things were getting pretty shabby, 
these would have to wait, as J "1 
probably need this money for fruit! 
the children, and that was more iu| 
tant than new furniture. Mr. Jones! 
storekeeper, thought I made a mi$j 
when I wanted a whole box of oranj 
oranges being seen formerly at our 1 
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