THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER
Thursday, January ii,
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Country Home Department
Gonduefed by Mrs. E. 0. Nall, Sanford, N. G., to whom all Matter
for this OeparlmoDt Should be Sent
There’s Many a Slip.
“I cannot see why,” said farmer
Burke,
Women should grumble about their
work;
Now my wife would in the morning
rouse.
And build the fire and milk the
cows;
And feed the horses—eleven
head—
By the time that I crawled out of
bed;
She was always at work in house or
barn.
She knit our stockings and spun the
yarn;
She didn’t visit, nor write, nor read,
She planted none of those poesy
seed.
Had children? Oh, yes, some eight
in all.
But they mostly died when they
were small.
The only one living now is Jane
Who always has an ache or pain;
She’s good for naught but to swal
low pills.
And run up druggists’ and doctors’
bills,
She doesn’t help like my wife, you
bet.”
“Why doesn’t your wife” we asked,
“help yet?”
“Oh, no,” he said, with saddened
brow, ^
“She’s in the insane asylum now.”
—Selected
Insufficient Clothing.
In my other letter I wrote about
the boys, now I am going to turn
on their sisters. It has been a
source of great annoyance to me,
how the girls and some of the older
women, too, who ought to know
better, go so thinly clad in bitter
cold weather. They did not dress
so in the old times, and I think I
can frankly say that the women of
those days could boast of better
health generally, than the present
day women. They seldom heard of
one going to the Hospital, It makes
me shudder for them, to see a
bright and happy girl clad in thin
slippers, with perhaps a lingerie
waist, and bare headed, out on a
cold day. I can’t help but think of
what is ahead of them in conse
quence of this imprudence. They
are inviting colds, pneumonia, con
sumption and a train of various ills.
Much of the fault of this condition
of insufficient clothing, to keep the
body warm is due to the mothers
for allowing ite Most girls want to
dress as their associates do, and do
not wish to appear odd. But when
^he cold days made their appear
ance this winter, as the saying goes,
“I laid the law down” to my three
The slippers, summer cloth
ing, etc., were laid away to await
warm days again, and good warm
clothing substituted.
As I watched them pass out the
gate one morning on their way to
school, (they were not bareheaded
either) the youngest, laughingly
waved at me and said, “Hurrah for
the out-of-style girls and their old
fashioned mother.”
A Mother
eggs well beaten, three cups flour,
two teaspoons baking powder, fla
vor as you choose.
For the Lunch Basket.
Cinnamon Rolls: Two cups
flour, three teaspoons baking pow
der, one-third teaspoon salt, one
tablespoon butter, two-thirds cup
milk, two tablespoons sugar, one-
half cup stoned raisins,^ chopped
fine, two tablespoons citron, chop
ped fine, one-third teaspoon cinna
mon. Mix first five ingredients as
for biscuits. Roll to one-fourth
inch thickness, brush over with
melted butter, and sprinkle with the
raisins, citron, sugar and cinnamon.
Roll like a jelly roll, cut in pieces
three-fourths inch thick, place in
buttered tins, endwise, and bake ten
minutes in a hot oven.
Currant Bread: A good receipt
calls for two pints flour, three tea
spoons baking powder, one-fourth
teaspoon salt, two cups milk, one
cup currants, one egg, one table
spoon sugar. Mix dry ingredients,
wash and dry currants, dredge with
flour. Add egg to milk and com
bine the mixtures, bake in a deep
pan one-half hour.
Four Egg Cake: One cup butter
creamed with two cups sugar, four
Revising Home Industries.
The women of Arcadia Mo., says
the Womans' Farm Journal, have
organized a branch of the Missouri
Home Development Association
and are at work reviving the almost
forgotten art of our grandmothers,
that of carpet weaving. They in
tend to locate all the looms of that
part of the state, and encourage
women to weave their own rugs
and carpets and perhaps, curtains
and portieres. There are several
women in that county who still use
the hand loom, and it is an art
which should become general again
for household as well as economic
reasons.
The house may be carpeted and
many beautiful and useful things
made from cast-off clothing, thor-
uughly cleaned, and prepared for
the loom. Then too, there are
many women who desire to earn
money but cannot leave home to
work. For these home weaving
opens an avenue of self-help which
many appreciate. These women in
Arcadia are also encouraging the
young folks of the neighborhood,
to learn wood working in its var
ious branches, and in some of the
houses are many articles of furni
ture made of the beautiful oak with
which that country abounds. How
much better, they think, to make
the needed articles from the native
material, than to buy cheap imita
tions.
Trees For School Houses.
Why not start the work of plant
ing trees around the country school-
houses which are destitute of
shade? Many school houses stand
on a bare hill with no shade trees
around them. Why not interest the
children in planting trees? It wi
make the school associations pleas
anter, for no one can deny that a
bare cheerless-looking school house
does not add to the attractiveness
of a place, when a child is not over
fond of going to school. They
would be much interested in a tree
planted by their own hands, un
awaken in them a love for liaturt
A kindly spirit of rivalry over their
own trees, in the school yard, nr
on the school grounds, would cause
the children to be careful and oh"
serving in their play and always
looking out for the welfare of their
friends’ tree, as well as their own*
Set out trees children, they
prove treasures In the years
come.
to
Mr.
Wayne County.
Editor: Wayne
Farmers’ Union met at the cou
house in Goldsboro, December 3^'
1911, and elected the following
fleers for 1912: President, J- ’
Summerlin; Vice-President, L-
Stevens; Secretary and Treasur^»
C. C. Barnes; Doorkeeper, W-
Stevens; Conductor, T. 'W- ’
Chaplain, Rev. F. J. Hood;
ganizer, L. B. Dail; Trade ^
B F. Barnes and N. S. Wolf> ^
ecutive Committee, B. F. Barnc >
J. F. Williams and T. J-
After some short cut pointed
on the good of the Union, they ^
journed to meet again January
T. W. BEST, Secretary-
Seven Springs, Jan. 2.
W. R. CRAIG. Sanforj!*North CaroHot,
Cook ’• Improved Cotton and Craig *
Seed Corn. Pure, high grade Seed from S
to planter. ^
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