Saturday, August 18. 1917 - ' (19) 89S
OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
Address Letter to "The Young Peopled Department ".The ProgreMire Farmer
TWO SCHOOL PROBLEMS
SULYfcU
(Boys' f 1 Prize Letter)
I IVE five and one-half miles from a state
J lllgh school and on account of the distance
ami "the condition of the roads, it is all but
impossible to drive to and from school during
tlu- cold wet winter months, yet paying
l,oard eight months of the year when foqd
etulfs are at the present prices is a problem'
v-cl! worth considering.
This is how three cousins and I solved the
two p'ob,en13 mentioned above;
In the fall , of 1915 we procured a four-
r.n house from a friend. This house was
-fourths of a mile from the school. We
burnished it with the things necessary for
our comfort and convenience-which we- took
from our homes. There were two boys and
two girls, cousins, except a brother and a sis
ter. We carried all the food that we used
from our homes except a few little things'
which we did not raise on the farm. The
girls did our cooking and- my "Pal" and I
cut wood, made fires, etc.
The plan was not only pleasant but we
found that the expense (outside of what we
carried from our homes) was almost unno
ticeable. We kept an account1 of every item'
that we had to buy and at the end of the
school wo found that the expense had; been
lees than $1.25 for each of us per month.
Abbottsburg, N. C. " J. C. EVANS.
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three-
Hanging Baskets for the Porch
"AM a country girl and I am glad of It. I
- love the pleasures, fun and work of the
farm. I delight especially in trying to im
prove our home and will tell you how I im
proved our porch with forty cents; a mighty
little cost, this seems, but we have gotten
dollars worth of good from it.
Early in the spring I invested 40 cents In
four wire swinging baskets at ten cents
each at the ten-cent store I then took the
baskets, together with my little brother and
sister, to the woods and gathered the pret
tiest, greenest moss I could find. This I used
to line my baskets, and the nice green side
faced the world bravely through the wire op
enings, turning the dirt inside. I then filled
the baskets with common wood ferns, and
they are still living too! Of course I keep
them well watered and maybe I shall have
to change them before the summer Is over.
Next year I hope to have the baskets
planted in wandering Jew, or something that
grows downward.
MATTIE SUE WAFPORD.
Laurens, S. C.
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WANTS TO BE SOLDIER OR
RED CROSS. NURSE
(Gilts' 1 Prize' Letter)
WE TAKE The Progressive Farmer, and I
like to read "Pollyanna" and the Young
Teople's page. We live in' the country ten
miles from town. We are on the Jackson
Highway.
My little sister has e Shetland pony and
she loves to ride him but I think I like
books better. I don't like horses but I like
to ride a bicycle.
I am interested in the war and-1 like to
. read about it. I'd enlist in one second if I
were a boy I'd like to be a Red Cross
nurse if I couldn't be a soldier. There are a
lot of terrible things about the war livihg
in trenches, the poisonous gases and the
shells, but all the same I wouldn't mind,
for
"How can a man die better
Than facing fearful odds
For the ashes of his fathers
And the temples of his-gods?" '
That's mighty fine' sentiment and I certainly
do admire Horatius.
We have lots of fun in summer. My sis
ter and I both have gardens of our own.
Hers is better than mine though. Next year
I am going to have a large one. One thing
that we enjoy is our' trapeze. We have a
see-saw, a swing and horizontal bar. We
can do lots of tricks on the bar. Father has
eome great big cement 'troughs for the
horses and a running well. We have been
going in bathing. It's not deep enough to
really swim in, but it's lots of fun.
Crawford, Miss. CATHERINE COCKE.
Stegall Family Reunion
AM 12; years: old and live in the Black
Belt of Alabama. Have just returned from
a visit to Pontotoc, Miss., where I spent a
month, visiting my father's people. While
there I attended a Stegall family reunion. It
embraced all the1 connections that it was
possible to assemble together on the 14th
of July, when we had. a nicely arranged pro
gram and an address by Representative Bill
Stegall. He gave an account of the settling
of" the Stegall family in Mississippi 75 years
ago when the country was inhabited by In
dians. They had some good friends among
the Indians and lived and farmed peacefully
together as long as the Indians stayed there.
All that were relatives of ' Jeremiah Stegall
were registered, and 205 names were en
rolled. I came home well pleased with my
trip1 and the fine country they live in. I
had lots of nice car rides, and enjoyed every
hour I was there. Will be ready to start to
school in September to do a good year's
work. LOUISE . STEGALL.
Emelle, Alabama.
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A Canning Club Experience.
t'N THE soring of 1914 we organized a club
1 in the southern end of Jefferson County.
We had six members but only three of U3
ont reports to our County Agent at the close
of the year. Each of us had one-tenth acre
in tomatoes.
I gathered 2957 pounds from my plat. I
used a great maiy at home sold. $6.85 worth,
of fresh tomatoes, canned 135 No. 3 tin cans,
74 quarts,, in glass, one gallon Chili sauce,
one gallon tomate. preserves, four gallons
chow chow and four gallons tomato pickle.
When I made my report I didn't expect any
Prize at all, but to my surprise won four
Prizes: Two canning outfits (one $20 the
other $10), a check for one dollar and a
Blue Ribbon.
The next year my yield was about the
eame as the year before but I didn't can
very many tomatoes because I had a ready
Market 'or them at home.
1 once thought I wouldn't send In a re
Port because some of the other girls. had got
ten better results than Ik but papa- begged
to send one. I did, and recelveTit check
for $4.50, a subscription to the Ledger and a
scholarship to Montevallo the next summer.
La8t year I joined the club again and my
"op was almost destroyed by the- heavy
rains of June and July. I was- almost dis
couraged but sent my report and history of
y work anyway. I also sent an exhibit to
the Alabama State Fair at Birmingham on
which I won $48 in money and" several rib
bons.
Valentine Day at Our School
WOULD like to tell you young people
about the pleasant time we had at our
school on St. Valentine's day. A while be
fore Valentine Day we prepared for a Val
entine postomce. The way we did this was
to get a large cardboard box and cut a slit
in one end of it. Then it was placed on the
teacher's desk. " i
Then we set to work with great eager
ness preparing the valentines. One hour of
each day was devoted to this. We worked
hard at it, and when the day came we had
a large collection of valentines, some comic,
some sentimental.
e selected our postmaster, and he dis
tributed the valentines among us. It was
lots of fun.
Afterward we rendered the program we
had prepared for the .occasion, and every
one enjoyed it. Then our teacher treated us
with cake and candy. She said she Intend
ed to keep the many valentines she received
as mementoes of our happy days spent to
gether. We do not take The Progressive Farmer,
but I get it from a friend every week, and
greatly enjoy reading it. I find many help
ful suggestions among its pages.
SUSIE B. TURNER.
Greenville, Ark., Rt. 3.
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When
To Keep You Guessing
EAD these riddles aloud to the family,
withholding the answers, and see how
many can answer them:
' When is butter like-Irish children?
it is made into little pats.
If all the money in the world was divided
' equally, what would each person get? An
equal share. .....
What la the difference' between a life' of
leisure and a life of idleness ? They are the
same thing, only different titles.
What word of one syllable, if you take two
letters from it, becomes a word of two sylla
bles? Plague; ague.
Why Is a young lady like a sheaf of
wheat? First she is cradled, then thrashed,
and finally she becomes the flour of the family.
TRAINING FOR "PUNCH"
An English youngster was asked to give a
definition of a lie.
"It's a Hun truth, sir," he answered.
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