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Formerly BRIERLEY, KEENE CO. 
51 Wooster Street New York 
Protection for Mothers 
Progress of the Sheppard- Towner A ct 
W HAT has happened to the Shep- 
pard-Towner Act? Readers of 
the American Agriculturist will 
remember that we strongly urged the 
passage of this measure, which provided 
state aid for mothers and babies. 
The New York League of Woman 
Voters, which bent every effort to put the 
bill across, recently reported to its mem¬ 
bers on some of the ways in which the 
appropriation is being used for the safe¬ 
guarding of our mothers and children. 
The causes of infant mortality fall into 
two groups. The first, relating to natal 
and pre-natal causes, has not been mate¬ 
rially reduced since records have been 
available. Forty-five per cent of the 
deaths of infants is due to these causes 
and occur in the first year. The second 
group due to gastro-enteric, respiratory 
and epidemic causes,- has been greatly 
reduced in the last fifteen years. 
The Sheppard-Towner appropriation 
is being largely devoted to matters which 
pertain to the first group. The following 
are some of the methods of reaching this 
situation already being carried out: 
Through mothers’ clubs, public health 
nurses and doctors are teaching mothers 
how to take care of themselves through¬ 
out pregnancy. 
Public health nurses are being trained 
in this special field of teaching expectant 
mothers. The first class graduated six¬ 
teen. There will be two hundred in the 
second and many more are registered. 
Cut the Baby Death Rate 
Nurses are being provided for counties 
where the baby death rate is high, the 
state paying one-half the salary. 
The state is helping to pay for ob¬ 
stetricians in health centers and such 
centers are being opened for short periods 
by the State Board of Health as demon¬ 
strations, with the idea that later the 
counties will take over the work. Con¬ 
sulting women obstetricians are being 
sent to various centers for regular talks 
with patients, mid-wives and practical 
nurses. 
This act makes it possible to “help 
those who help themselves.” Nothing 
is forced on a community or an individual, 
but those who really wish to benefit by 
the constant progress, in matters relating 
to the welfare of mothers and babies, 
may now do so. 
SOMETHING ABOUT SPICES 
O UR grandmothers believed in plain 
foods, and taught us that spices 
were injurious, but that sentiment has 
somewhat changed and cooks to-day 
advocate a moderate use of flavorings 
and spices in the preparation of our meals. 
Spices are obtained from the plant- 
world. Sometimes the undeveloped bud 
is used; in other plants the leaves; again, 
the bark is needed. The nutmeg is the 
kernel of a fruit, and ginger is the root 
of a plant. 
There are spice-gatherers in all parts 
of the world collecting materials for us, 
and much romance as well as history is 
connected with this work. 
It is quite a study to learn to use the 
right spices in our cooking, but a few 
general rules may safely be given. 
Sage is considered necessary in dress¬ 
ings with goose, duck, pork and other 
rich meats. 
Everybody kiiows that horse radish 
and fried onions should be served with 
fried liver. 
For meats, stews and soups, there is 
a long list to select from: cardamon, 
celery-seed, cayenne-pepper, mace, bay 
leaves, thyme and savory, besides garlic 
and onions. 
Try the new spices! Paprika “wins its 
way.” It makes a salad look attractive. 
Caraway seed, anise, ginger, ground 
cinnamon and cloves are used in different 
ways in cookies, and cakes, while these 
very same tilings are used in pickles. 
except that the cloves are whole, and the 
cinnamon is in the bark.— Mrs. Sarah 
L. Cook. 
GRANNY’S GREENS 
T HOUGH we of the younger genera¬ 
tion use greens mostly in salads, 
Grandma often served “a good dish of 
greens” as a fine hot vegetable. So here 
are a few of the old-time recipes that you 
may like. And we are sure Grandma 
and Grandpa will enjoy them too. 
Turnip Greens—Parboil turnip greens, 
pour off the water and add fresh. Add 
pieces of bacon and boil. Chop the meat 
and greens well together. When half 
done, add as many small turnips as 
equal half the greens. Add salt and pep¬ 
per to taste and sugar, if liked. Cook 
until done, then serve hot. 
Greens Southern Style—Carefully pick 
and wash mustard greens through sev¬ 
eral waters, put into a cooking vessel 
with a generous portion of bacon and boil, 
using as little water as possible. For the 
dumplings, make them the usual way, 
using corn meal, salt and cold water. 
Mold them into flat cakes and place on 
top of the greens. Cook until done. 
Salt to taste. 
Baked Greens—Take \ z /i cups greens, 
drained and chopped fine. Add J4 cup 
bread crumbs; one beaten egg and 34 
cup grated cheese; one tablespoon vine¬ 
gar; one teaspoon salt and 34 teaspoon 
pepper. Pour into a well greased baking 
dish and bake thirty minutes. Serve 
with tomato sauce.— Pauline Carmen. 
TRIBUTE TO PIONEER 
MOTHERS 
IV/TOTHERS of the frontier, pioneering 
women, receive a beautiful tribute 
from Herbert Quick in his novel, “The 
Hawkeye.” 
“The mothers of the frontiers: They 
felt the oncoming of another day for their 
children. No life was so laborious, no 
situation so unpropitious, no poverty so 
deep that they did not through a divine 
gift of prophecy see beyond the gloom a 
better day for their children. In the 
smoky overheated kitchens, struggling to 
feed the ‘gangs’ of harvesters and 
thrashers, as they washed and mopped 
and baked and brewed and spun and wove 
and knit and boiled soap and mended and 
cut and basted and sewed and strained 
milk and skimmed cream and churned 
and worked over butter, catching now 
and then an opportunity to read while 
rocking a child to sleep, drinking in once 
in a while a bit of poetry from the sky or 
the cloud or the flower; they were haloed 
like suns of progress for their families 
and for their nation, as they worked and 
planned and assumed for themselves a 
higher and higher culture of its sort— 
all for their children. We build monu¬ 
ments in the public square for the soldiers 
of our wars; but where is the monument 
for the women who made possible so 
much of the good which is represented by 
the public square itself? Unless it is a 
monument not made ■with hands, in our 
hearts and souls, none can ever exist 
which can be in any way adequate.” 
DO YOU KNOW THAT— 
One woman has found that sassafras 
bark kept in the package with dried fruit 
is effective in keeping away insects. 
* * * * 
A sweet apple in the cookie jar will 
keep the cookies in a moist condition 
and prevent drying out. 
* * * 
Discarded safety razor blades are fine 
for ripping and for scraping spots of paint 
off the window panes. 
* * * 
Fresh wall paper of a yellow tone in 
the north rooms will bring spring right 
indoors. 
American Agriculturist, March 1,1924 
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