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Thursday. September 30, 1909. THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER. v T tertaining ones friends. Now-a-days we have the stereoscope, the phono graph and many pleasant parlor games lO Say uuiuiub vi iuuoiv, auu cards. Air these, with kindly, cheer ful conversation, are the main ele ments of parlor atmosphere. I do not believe in barricading one's guests in the parlor, either. mvA thftm the liberty of home folks. and you will find them amusing themselves, and the news of your hospitality will go abroad in the good report of your guests. III. -Bed Room Hints. My bed rooms are kept well aired night and- day bedding sunned and aired very frequently fresh bed linen from once to twice a week. Never burn lights in a bed room; keep iignis wnere iney may do naa at an instant's notice, however. It is best not to have fires in one's bed room. Always keep drinking water nnite convenient for nights. Use t every precaution from danger of fire., Never use; quilts or comforts, as they are germ breeders; use all-woolen blankets and thin white or colored counterpanes instead. IV. Dining Room Hints. First of all, cleanliness; next, cheerfulness. .Persons cannot have indigestion and be happy. Use flow ers on the table as religiously as you do the food dainty, carefully ar ranged bouquets every day in the year. -. And when dinner is over, don't wash the dishes right away; leave the table, and go out into that porch with John until work time. Spend that little while each day entertain ing your husband. Then when he has gone to the ' field rested and cheered, go back and clean up. V. Kitchen Hints. This is where the real test comes. Here is more prose than poetry, and it takes the best efforts of all con cerned to keep order and harmony in this domain. System is tho key ; to the situation. Plan your work a day ahead- see that wood, water, and food are all at hand before you sleep. Then know at what hour you need to rise; set your alarm clock. and obey its earliest summons. In summer there is no better breakfast than coffee, fruits, melons, butter, eggs, and; cream, with good uiu-iasmuuea DuiiermiiK ana noney an the comb. All these are available, too, on a well-regulated farm. Dish-washing is an item, so pre pare for it. Have a big boiler of hot water, and an abundance of cold. plenty of clean cloths and drying towels. If you have no sink, use a ten-gallon pan or basin set into a hole to fit it, on the kitchen table Some really good soap and a willing mmd are all that is needed to make dish-washing endurabl VI. Dairy Bints. War on germs! Hot water and soap; cold water and sunshine, light and air keep it up forever. Wash the udder, wash the milk vessel, wash on, and keep a-washing, and nnsing, and drying. And especially the churn. Scald out with strong soda and water oc casionally to keep if sweet. Rub put your wire strainers often with lump salt to clean out the dried Particles of milk; then wash and dry 10 Prevent rust. The nicest receptacle for milk is stone or glass jars " with lids to fit , S'uig. Never keep milk in tins or wooden pails. ; in dressing butter be careful to thorouerhlv wnrlr nut oil tTiA' mflTr nr C3 V WWW Ml. WMW AM. V water before salting away. This pre sents butter from souring, moulding, or turning pink-spotted.. When you lja-e real stale butter put it iito a Beauty and Culture in a. Log Cabin. . : H IICTURE, IF YOU CAN, a rough log cabin far away in one of our backwoods counties. The only thing pertain ing to beauty was a lovely wisteria vine which clam bered in picturesque confusion over the doorway. Tliis same, little Tine which clung so lovingly to the shabby little porch should have given some idea of what was beyond, but; I have seen more than one look of surprise from strangers who pass ing beneath the "purple showers" would catch a (fleeting ' glimpse of the interior of this unpretentious little home. In one corner stood a bookcase which reached from floorjto ceil ing. Not a costly sectional case, with handsome, un read volumes, but rough shelves neatly covered, and here could be found most anything from "Alice in Wonderland," 'or dear old Grimm to Carlyle, Milton, Shakespeare - some did and torn from much use, some in shabby coverings, but still the reading was there, and the) showed they had been read. - The table was covered with papers and magazines while Ion the plain, whitewashed walls were such pictures as these: I Millet's "Angelus," "The Gleaners," Adam's "End of Day," Corot's ex quisite landscapes, Raphael's "Madonna," and many jothers. Some of these were "Perry" pictures, but most of them were cut from magazines, but they were before us and talked of daily. It does not take the costly paintings to teach the chil dren the beauties of art. And last, but by no means least, was the piano, a relic of by-gone days of long ago, and oyer this hung pictures (also cut , from magazines) of many great com posers. Such was my childhood's home. v Why can't the farmer lad in overalls and "sun down" be hind the plow handles quote Shakespeare, whistle "Schubert's Serenade" and appreciate it as well as some silly little ditty? Why can't the daughter, as she washes the dishes from the evening meal, look out over the western hills, see and realize the many beauties of the gorgeous sunset such as n artist could paint? - - - We were taught these tilings and we were bred tin the far backwoods, and days are better now than they were then, and there is no need of so much ignorance and roughness among the farming people. Anyway I know this, no matter what success comes to us or what good our personal family may do, we will attribute it all to the loving influences childhood in the little cabin 'neath the purple wisteria of our i MARY McLYNOH. two-gallon churning of strong salty, clean water and churn, just as, you would for fresh butter. Then take it up and dress it, and you will be sur prised to find it almost freshened. Clarke Co., Ga. SINCERE. HAVE PLENTY OP WINDOWS IN THE HOUSE. Thorough Ventilation is Essential A Stained or Painted Floor is Bet ter Than Carpets. One of the first requisites of the home healthy and happy, in a"ny place, is a house that is well venti lated. Be it large or small, there should be plenty of windows for the sunshine and fresh breezes of the day, and invigorating air during the sleeping hours. There should be a front veranda, all covered with vines and a bed of choice roses and annu als ; then a back porch where many duties may be done in comfort. The day of heavy carpets has gone by, and it is well; they harbor dust and many germs of disease. The floor painted or stained with some cheerful tint, rugs that can be easily cleaned, are preferable even to matting, for sanitary reasons. Simply furnished bed rooms with dainty muslin curtains, pictures and easy chairs are very inviting to the weary. The painted pine furniture that seems quite out of date can be made very lovely by a coat of white enamel that is easily put en, and not ex pensive. ' The sitting room is no longer crowded with all kinds of fancy work as was once the fashion; a few pret ty rugs on the stained floor, a few very choice pictures, light, easy chairs, musical instruments, a book case of standard literature and on the tables good magazines and papers; these make an ideal place for the gathering of home folks or friends. How desolate even the most elegant house is without plenty of something good to read.! Pure month lies and weeklies, (like our own Progressive Farmer (are instruc tive amd uplifting, making life over for us; they are real home mission aries. , : i 7 In the stove room there should be plenty of light agateware cooking utensils, and broad, flat pans for milk; a high chair by the table and an easy low chair in which to rest "and read while meals ae booking. The farmer and his family who at tend the instructive farmers' insti tutes of today, read instructive liter ature and keep abreast of the very best methods in field and house, have an Ideal life they do not complain that duty is drudgery, j I MARGARET. South Carolina. J j How to Succeed With Geraniums and Roses. " j There is nothing that will add to the beauty and pleasure of a home as will flowers, and plenty j of them. Have pot plants on jthe porches, roses and other hard shrubs in the yards. ' ' . . . It will soon be time to put out geranium cuttings for next year's blooms if you haven't plenty already. The sisters that have no geraniums this year can go to their friends and get cuttings from now Juntil the last of October and put them as thick as you can plant them in old tin pans and you can have plenty of nicely rooted plants to pot in the spring. Old lard buckets make nice flower pots with a few holes (made in the bottoms with a large nail, then paint or white wash them. j f If you have no pit, take two dry goods boxes one enough larger than the other to give a foot space all around between the walls when small box is put in the larger one. Take off one side of boxes part of the way, slope ends of boxes to lower side. Then put them on south side of a wall, fill in between the boxes with dirt and bank iirt on the outside. Now have an o.d quilt or some news papers tacked together for the first cover, then boards to turn the water off, and you have a pit that will keep your flowers perfectly. My plan for starting rose bushes is this: As soon as the buds become dormant, get the cuttings of sound hard wood, cut perfectly smooth with sloping cut ready for planting, then tie in little bundles and bury them two or three inches. About the 1st of March dig them out and set in rows. Keep top of ground loose and water, If dry, and most all will take root. This is also the best way to root grape vines. You must be careful not to take them out of the ground till grape vines are well budded out in the spring. ELLA GOBER. "I say, pa, what- " "Ask your mother!" "Honest, pa, this isn't a silly one this time." "Alright, this once, what is it?" "Well, if the end of the world was to come and the earth be destroyed while a man was up in an airship, where would he land when he came down?" John Bright used to tell how a barber who was cutting his hair once said to him: "You 'aye a large 'ead, sir; it is a good thing to 'ave a large 'ead, for a large 'ead means a large brain, and a large brain is the most useful thing a man can 'ave as it nourishes the roots of the air." The Argonaut. Just as Good as The Steiff la Betting to be one of the great talking points for many dealers and agents. It's a great advertisement for the artistic Steiff pi ano, but we feel sorry for the fellow who thinks he Is getting just as good when he buys the other piano. Bnytr, don't be fooled Into taking the piano said to be just as good as the 811617. Get the artistic Steiff and you will have the beat piano mad with out running any risk. Write Today. Chas. M. Stieff Manufacturer of the Artistic Stieff, Shaw, and, ' Stieff Self -player Pianos Southern Wareroom 5 West Trade St. Charlotte, N. C. O. H. WILMOTH, Manager. (Mention this paper.)
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