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... . . ... .. . E PROGRESSIVE FARMER; TUT6UR:!,I0NEY IN THE BANK asv Mrs. Fd Yofk ;br Mary "Yo m (14) j . ' MtmiFaim Women ) Edited by MRS. W. N. HUTT v .signed it eitj suck to that signature, as th v.-i u, III! I - n There Are Two CIa..e. of People:; XC-"11' we iat Those Who Keep lheir Money in a Bank and Those Who Do Not AMERICA My country, 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, , ; 1 . Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrim's pride, From-every mountain-side - Let freedom ring. My native country, thee, Land of the noble free, v Thy name I love; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills; My heart with rapture thrills Like that above. Letv.muslc swell the breeze, . And ring from all the trees, Sweet freedom's song; Let mortal tongues awake, - Let all that breathe partake, .Let rocks their silence break, " The sound prolong. Our fathers' God, to Thee, Author of liberty, To Thee I sing; Long may our land be bright With freedom's holy light; Protect us by. Thy might, . Great God our King. 1 ... v ' miuws us iv . nn v nn o ni t informed that while Marv VrU il 1I7EW0MEN are queer folks in really correct, the bank orefer the blood, I think," remarked John. H money " matters. We might be use the name by which the postman "Yes," said Bessie "and fruitdi divided into two classes. Some of us is most likely to know and reach us lutes i'thc Itfonger Joods." the majority perhaps; take their chick ' " Let us 'write plainly with good ink . "And takes our. thirst from us," said en,. their garden, egg and honey money never a pencil unless it be an indeli' Alice. ' . and tuck a little here' and hide a little ble one; let us begin the amounts nf "And looks and smells so delicious" there. A few pennies are taken out i money well to the left of the check lat it gives ..us) appetite for other for one thing or another, and the let us never give checks to strangers things," from Martha. , agent sometimes tempts tne rest oi it ana never sign a check until just as it Anotner tning," aaaea naitn, unie ,w wu uc iuuicu uvcr,as money; and children should have plenty of ripe The wise ones of us take the money let us always make out the stub when fruits that have not much cellulose in we earn, and keep out ten cents for writing the check, never trusting to them, because they contain bone- Maggie's hair ribbon, five cents lor memory to do -it. making material." beet seed, six cents for a- spool of When- we receive a ' check we "And stewed prunes "and other - white -thread number sixty, the four should not write, our names across the fruits are much easier to take than pennies being saved for the children's back until we want it cashed, for castor oil" said someone in the crowd. Sunday school collection, perhaps anyone can cash it after it is endors- "Next, does cooking make food twenty more for the moying pictures, ed. more "digestible?" . ' ' and then we put the rest in the bank . The bank gives us a small book "Yes," said Bessie. "It softens the where it is safe and sound. The house called. the, bank book. Each month or cellulose of even crab-apples, quinces, may burn; but it is unchanged; agents quarter or convenient time, depend- Keifer pears, ec." ; may come and agents may go, but it ing on how. frequently we go to town, "That's: correct," replied Miss Mar- remains inviolate. , . we leave it' with the bank and it re- garet, "and it also converts the gums1 Why d6 not ' more , of us put our - cords in it our money paid out, re- into a gelatinous form and the cane money in the bank? Because we are ceived interest, etc. , In an open ac- n . 1 - 1 . .vw. ..v u vuvvm udtR. HO W TO DRAW A CHECK lt0Z:.szviaes bank this Money in a safe bank is. as nearly safe as anything can be. THE WIDE-AWAKE GIRLS LEARN GOOD HOUSEKEEPING They Learn Altout Fruit and How to ; Serve ;It ; ! ;? 'HAT is the sweetest r'uit' in the world, Bessie?" asked Dan. . . - . "Fresh,;-ripe : figs - in; dry .weather," she answered." v ' t . ; "No", said.Alice,: "it's watermelons; I think." ; '. . v. "Don't you , think some cantaloupes are sweeter than either figs or water melons," questioned Edith. "Let us put it another way," said Aunt Margaret, "what fruits have the most sugar?" . ; , , . ; "I,i . know," commented ,. Martha, "raisins, dates and figs. Some raisins are about 75 per cent sugar, dates 65 per cent, and figs 62 per cent." 'What about prunes?" asked one of the children. ItvLKionC AlOT.DlPOStTtO Total ' rntnuti aw' s Here is a check. and a stub. The bank keeps us supplied with books of them. . We fill out both, but give the check away and keep the stub in the book as a record. Below are the check and stub filled out. Home and Community Suggestions for July THIS is the month, of "our anniver sary of independence. This, too, is the time to consider, what evidence we are . giving of V: our .patriotism. Waving Hags and. picnics and political speeches and children's .; recitations are splendid in' that it brings people together, but it is the perfume of the flower of patriotism and hot patriot ism itself. . . , '. ' We women, make . the nation in large measure, hand in hand with our husbands. We. read arid hear that it: is ' ihel KomeV that make the ' nation and the broad; prosperous f arms, "but it is not so." It is the women who make the moral tone within the home and the men who cultivate the fields who are true patriots. - . Away back in 1776 our fathers and . .. x, L v ' . . . . ii r j our mothers stood successfully for j,ugar mio a iora inai uocs boi.iw- jwrcu, ju piain scarcu. vvc uu not th principle 0f each person's living e. Mi s y " 4 lsL&tiJU: ' 112' 5 :a))is ptSdTfoito HtrT.Ditomo! WHttwiCtisbt PL.tMiDTmt ! lMji QJ? -JLJL. MZUnnt i ii ment so readily.' How to Serve Fruits know iust how to out money in the bank. Who are we that we should walk in a great door, go up to a "I forgot about them," she laughed, "WHAT I want to know, Miss Mar- strange man in a cage and -say, "Will orunes contain bo oef cent. ' " wow iu wuc nuui. , yuu iskc tare oi uiy uiuncy uimi x "If they are' so sweet, why don't" "How do' ybu like them served?" want.it?" even if the sign on the win- they taste sweet?" several. asked at came as a reply. dow does say "Bank"? This may once. "Oh, I want mother to have on the sound silly but any one who has yet "Because some forms of sugar do table in front of her a great Jig shin- to deposit her first money and write not taste as sweet as cane'sugar, and, ing glass bowl full of fresh coluber- her first check knows Vis not. I re- as a general rule, a large portion of ries, that look as though they still member full well my first experience, the sugar in fruit is levulose, or fruit had the dew on' them. I want her to If we have ever so little money, sugar ; but some, like apples and pine- serve them to us with a bright silver even two or three dollars, it is well to apples, contain a large amount of spoon and smile when she does it. start keeping it in the bank. To do so cane.sugar. Now this is a very good Then I want to put my own cream we go into a bank, walk up to the man thing to remember, because levulose and sugar on them. at the first cage or desk and say, "I and believing according to his own conscience. Today is a very good time to ask ourselves what our con science is toward our. own' particular corner of . the world and to celebrate . it with joy. ? ; . II The Associated Clubs of Home Eco nomics will meet at. Cornell Univer sity, Ithaca, New York, from June 27 to July 5. It is to be hoped that many of us can go from the Southern states. The program is full of inter esting material for homemakers or those doing public work. The ex- nenses are . small- alter reanw6 is more easily assimilated in certain "Suppose they" were peaches?" want to open an account here." If the fthaca the chief ones being those en bor?iltieSta,?Aicane suar" "If they were sliced, I would want bk has a-savings department, he i route j wish every woman mignt at- vvMi iresn inrns nave raosuugar, mother to serve them, too, but if it u 5ay Pcn account or savings r tend such a -mc-etjng if but once m Auntie? ,ArA fnr krAnt-focf t rmU r-,nt n Then we will probably answer "sav- t..i!.. u . : -rmonnt -uananas nave per cent, tresn find one nn mv nlat furx T .t figs 18 per cent, pineapples 13 per down." cent, and apples 12 percent." ... , And what kind of a knife to cut Cherries, lemons and cranberries it? questioned Miss Margaret, have no sugar at all, hive they? 0h, a silver knife, of coursel" "Yes,Mndeed, you are getting heat Why not a stcel knieH askcd Miss and energy for your body when you Margaret, looking at Dan. eat: these, even though the acid is un . . . . , . strons enough to hide the sugar- . "ec,au.re ?,eel k"iv", tu,rn t.fru,t cherries are 10 per cent sugar, lent- ,a"d tchan8e h '"' 1 know ons 8 per cent, and cranberries 4 per lh J I.f,.fket kmfe" cent." "What is the. hardest fruit to di- tiest?". V- "I know," piped up Billie unexpect edly, ; "it's green apples." When the merriment had subsided, Mary said, "Of course, it isn't that they are ap ples, is it, it is because they are un- "Because the citric, tartaric or malic acid unites chemically with the steel" . "Smart boy," she praised. "Now, someone tell me how she likes grapes served." w more " HA nrill 4 rr ra rufar us s 4V a ...a-. ..... fc .v.v, ua ic inspiration. proper window," where- we give name , ' jjj and address." The difference between ,... - . , ' . x,tntt a checking account and savings ac- While keeping cumbers i m brme count is that one is supposed to leave or picldtt, is well to line : the vessel her money in the bank in a savings. w,th common wild grape leaves ana account and add a little to it from, co.yjr hcm lu,tr Lh.lc,r, ffio to time to time rather than take it out with the leaves. These will help to often. Of course we can take all or kefP the pickles cool and add to tne part of it out whenever we want to,' color and taste, but one is supposed to be saving it for v n some definite thing a set of dishes. Mildew can be removed from linen Jntr th articles a . !,i . i - a! . .,KKincr well rv 1 1 ii i a lit naivi n.v ...lit. AM Aitii wViifp soat e the con- wuu y?9 Ui . 'aA tinned use of the monev. the bank ter wfi ch a coat ot tn CKiy P"--- pays four cents a year on each dollar, C?VVS rurCd 7V1 - JV. ..m ind rriA.I rro rr a .i.vyi t(a(v. i b ii iaiii now ,. - . Vnr Uttnff , t,.. 41.. with Castile or other white soap, at- - - mv, uuun. navt IliC WWII- . ' :."".rrT. " u.0."ar- rial. Lsv the article In the sun n .l""': nt& P ith rain water. If pe fruitf" ",;u Krctn grape leaves, ana .mallest amount that vn thr. .11 stain has not gone Dy me "Vou boys and girl, ought to know then the bunch., of grape, piled up Z&LOh fou,' cent', l J2 repeat the process, which is sa.d to a peat dI abort iw Wttii t.w l c. When ,ook ,arge but u be an excellent one. let ir.C aSK you some Hucjuuuj, b.iu e w vi mua i waui mem amount tin in a fw vmm ,,t, : ;r ' mru.. r- . r- Mss-d armm u Bmouni up in a, lew years when m- ;nss riarFarci. w r- . terest is paid on nterest and nrlnrl. - i fr??" . nerseu." "They sre what wc call cooling to (Concluded on page 22, this issue) pal too. Naturo provides plenty of lor the house. There is the uuc . Whether we wish to sign ourselves : Anne's lace, the Butterfly weed and a
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