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r I li It . ‘ ii li i i [Thursday, April 18, 1912. Country Home Department. Conducted by Mrs. E. D. Nall. Sanford, N. C., to Whom all Mat ter for this Department Should be Sent. WE’VE ALWAYS BEEN PROVIDED FOR. “Good wife what are you singing for? You know we’ve lost the hay, And what we’ll do with horse and kye is more than I can say: While like as not with storm and rain we’ll lose both corn and wheat.’’ She looked up with a pleasant face, and answered low and sweet: “There is a Heart, there is a Hand, we feel, hut cannot see; We’ve always been provided for, and we shall always be.” He turned around with a sudden gloom. She said: “Love, be at rest; You cut the grass, worked soon and late, you did your very best; That was your work, and you’ve naught at all to do with wind and rain; And do not doubt hut you will reap rich fields of golden grain; For there’s a Heart, and there’s a Hand, we feel but cannot see; We’ve always been provided for, and we shall always be.” “That’s like a woman’s reasoning— we must because we must.” She softly said; “I reason not; I only work and trust; The harvest may redeem the day— keep heart whate’er betide; When one door shuts, I’ve always seen another open wide. There is a Heart, there is a Hand, we feel, but cannot see; We’ve always been provided for, and we shall always be.” He kissed the calm and trustful face; gone was his restless pain; She heard him with a cheeful step go whistling down the lane. And went about her household tasks full of a glad content. Singing to time her busy hands, as to and fro she went; “There is a Heart, there Is a Hand, we feel, hut cannot see; We’ve always been provided for, and we shall always be.” Days come and go—’twas Christmas- tide, and the great fire burned clear. The farmer said; “Dear wife, it’s been a good and happy year; The fruit was gain, the surplus corn has bought the hay you know.” She lifted her smiling face and said: “I told you so! For there’s a Heart, and there’s a Hand, we feel, but cannot see; We’ve always been provided for, and we shall always be.” —Selected. A PLEA FOR THE CHILDREN. I am going to talk to the mothers In this letter about the children God has given you. Children who will either bless or curse you in your old age. I feel the great responsibility resting on me as a parent, and some times I wonder if I should live to be old, I will look back on the days when I was training my little ones,— the plastic Impressionable days of childhood, with regret in my heart and remorse in my conscience. If I do I shall count my life a failure. Happy and blessed, yes, thrice bless ed, are the old couples who have reared families of boys and girls whom the world is made better by them living in it; boys and girls whom they are proud of, and who arise up and call them blessed. Now, busy mothers with little ones around your knee, just stop long enough to cast a glance ahead and take in your children in the picture of your old age I have drawn above ,and then— shall 1 draw a mental picture of a re verse nature, of disobedient, unduti- ful, dishonorable children and a tur bulent, unhappy, miserable old age? I trust that this will not be my lot, nor yours. But while we have them unspotted from the world, let it be our first duty and highest endeavor to keep them so, and so train them so far as lies in our power, that when they go out from us in the world, they may be able to resist the various temptations which they may have to encounter, and always stand for the right, as a result of their early home training. Some mothers will work until they are worn out in mind and body that their children maty be as well dressed as their neighbors’ children. Embroider, sew, and sew and sew, till nerves are so on edge, that should a dear little one, for whom you are toiling that their body may appear well, come to your door with a bouquet of fragrant wild flowers for you to admire and to ask you questions about them you would impatiently say to them; “Oh, go away children; I am in such a hurry to flnish this dress.” Perhaps they have been out under the grape arbor (taking good care to stay out of your way) reading and discussing the pictures in a book and decide to go in just a minute to ask mother something they are in doubt about, and meet with the same impatient answer. Mother, the little body is not suffering for finery; it would be better off without so much of it; but the little mind is grasping for knowl edge and the little heart is starving for love. Lay some of that needless work aside and live a part of each day with your children; go on a stroll with them and talk to them of the budding trees, the grass springing up, the brook singing its song of joy that winter has loosened its cold grip and the birds building their nests and the little songsters that soon will add to the joy of living by their merry songs. Teach them to love the birds and they will not disturb the nests or the little ones, but learn to know one bird from another and something of their traits. Show them how to plant flowers and care for them and they will be sure to love them. Let them be your companions and thereby take an interest in what you are doing and feel an interest in it by helping you. Let them feel even when tiny tots that they have something to do in the household tasks, but make that little task more of a pleasure than a burden. Train ing the little ones is such an import ant duty. Won’t some of the moth ers tell us of their methods on this subject which is so near every moth er’s heart?—Country Woman. DO YOU KNOW? That— During the warm days of early spring your children will probably eat oatmeal wafers when they can not be prevailed upon to eat the por ridge itself? Beat two eggs lightly, adding a small cupful of sugar, 0113 tablespoonful of melted butter, a pinch of salt and sufficient oatmeal to form a very stiff batter; drop by the spoonful on a greased baking sheet, having them some distance from each other, as they will spread like pilot biscuit; bake in a moderafe oven until crisp and brown. * 41 an attractive basket containing six glasses of assorted jellies. The glass es were daintily wrapped in white crepe paper and the basket had been treated to a coat of white enamel paint, while the handles were tied to gether with a bow of white ribbon through which was thrust a tiny spray of artificial orange blossoms. It was a lovely gift, and is offered as a suggestion to those who feel that an expensive wedding present is quite beyond their resources. * * * When one wishes to use only a few drops of lemon juice, the most eco nomical way is to pierce one end with a silver fork and express by gentle pressure as much as is needed. This opening closes up and the lemon will be the same as if unopened. If, however, half a lemon is called for, place the remaining half, cut side down upon a small saucer, covering with a cup to exclude the air and the lemon will keep moist and good for some time. « * * in new places and so prolonging the life of the cloth materially. * * * In these days of hygienic living it is well for the housewife to realize that all paper bags are made from a compound of rags, lime, glue ana similar substances, mixed with chem icals and acids. When dry, these can do no harm; but if allowed to become damp, a paper-bag is unfit to touch any article of food. It is not a woman’s place to care for the pigs and poultry, to chop wood or milk cows, when there is a strong, healthy man around. Keep ing a home in good order is enough for any woman. If the wild growth on your farm is profuse and your tomatoes and melon vines run to leaf, your soil is rich in nitrogen. If you are troubled with ants, eith er large or small, a few drops of pa regoric placed in a small basin of wa ter will attract all the near-by ants. Use a shallow basin and you will be surprised at the number your “ant trap” will catch. * * * If a small uncorked bottle of kero sene oil is placed inside the case of a clock its daily evaporation will oil the works, and tend to keep it in bet ter running order, thereby avoiding a bill for repairs. * * Butter and sugar to be creamed for cake or hard sauce can quickly be reduced to the right consistency by the aid of a warden potato mjash- er. Warm the mix-bowl before put ting in the ingredients and you will be surprised how soon they will be come a light, creamy mass with half the usual labor. Table cloths are found, as a rule, always begin to show wear at the folds, as the cloth is invariably fold ed in the same creases; this is over come by occasionally cutting off a tiny piece from each end and rehem ming; the creases in future coming Sow a few radish seeds in the rows of beets, parsnips and carrots. The radishes will come up quickly mark the rows and the weeds may be kept down. ^ As a general rule, the depth to plant should be four times the diam eter of the seeds. Potash makes firm tuber, bulb and fiber. ■^aSHnWar- Stop Pests From Stealing: Chlcksl Feed your chicks Macnair’s Chicken Powder with their food. It kills rats, hawks, foxes and minks if they eat your chickens. Best remedy for Cholera, Gapes, Roup, Sorehead, Indigestion and leg weak ness. Gape worm cannot exist when this rem^y is used. Keeps hens fr®* from vermin. Send us fSc. in stamps and your dealers name for a sample package. W. H. Macnalr Chicken Powder Co.» Norfolk, Va. Dept. P. Best Fertilizers for the Farmer On the Cotton plantations you will find some planters making on® to two bales of Cotton per acre. If you ask them what fertilizers they use, you will find that the majority of the most prosperous farmers use Virginia-Carolina Fertilizers. In the spring, thousanijJs of tobacco planters in the Southern Tobacco Belts use Virginia-Carolina High-Grade Fertilizers Later they receive the highest cash prices for their big yields of cellent leaf. . Hundreds of thousands of cotton and com growers, planters of : vegetables, fruit, peanuts, grain and sugar cane use Virginia-Car®** Fertilizers and make big money. t* Write for a free copy of our 1912 FARMERS' YEAR BOOK* will tell you of wonderful crop yields and how to get them. SALES OFFICES One of the most appreciated wed ding presents of a recent bride was Richmond, Va. Norfolk, Va. Atlanta, Ga. Savannah, Ga. Columbia, S. C. Durham, N. C. Alexandria, Va. Charleston, S. C. Baltimore, Md. Columbus, Ga. Montgomery, Ala, Memphis, Tenn. Shreveport, La. Winston-Salem, N. C.
The Carolina Union Farmer (Charlotte, N.C.)
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