Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-07-02

NY especial story is for the young
woman who lives in the country, and
who has an opportunity to get at ber-
ries and small fruits; perhaps lives on a
farm where they are raised, or may be,
with work and care. The woman [ am
going to tell her of lives on a pretty lit
tie "home farm" Of a few acres, just
outside the busy city of Pawtucket, in
Rhode Island, and not far from PrOvi-
dence. She had been a bookkeeper in
one of the Pawtucket mills, at a large
salary, and had married and settled
down on the home farm. Accustomed
as she was to a busy life, and, above all,
to being the mistress Of a pocketbook
Of her own, she soon found herself
missing it, and wishing that she
the the woman oman NV With the asara aees
chips" she found her vocation quite by
accident. Her mother had been a nota-
BILE New England housewife, whose
cooking, and, above all, whose pickle
and preserve-making were famous in
the n~eighborhood. Her daughter had
inherited this peculiar ability, and was
as proud of her store closet as her
mother had been before her. 1t hap
making a special kind Of pickle, which
was liked by all the friends who had
the good fortune to taste it, one of her
neighbors came in to call. She began
comment upon the pickles, bewailing
her own ill-luck in making them, and
ended by saying how she did wish that
it was possible to obtain some. 1t was
at that instant the money-making idea
came into Mrs. Thornton's head.
81 will make some for YOU" she
said.
"Tou.' replied her friend.
eyes; why not? You want pickles, [
want occupation" b
And so the thing was settled, and SO
soon as others heard that she was will
ing to undertake the work they came to
her with orders, and she found plenty
of picking to do. Then came requests
for catSupS, sauces and rel1SheS, and d
filled those orders.
Her neighborhood success set her to
thinking seriously, and during the
winter she laid her plans. She saw
friends in Providence and took orders
for ~iellies, preserves, pickles and things
of like nature, and She made arrange
ments with the Woman's Exchange to
send her any orders they might get, and
also to take what she might have to
spare on sale at their rooms. As soon
as the spring opened she began her
work. She looked after her strawberry
beds and her raspberry and blackberry
vines. She looked to see that her fruit
trees were in condition. She tended
her cucumber vines and her tomato
plants. Her garden had come to mean
something more than merely the APP
pendage to the family comfort; it was to
be the basis of supplies for the new
business.
All summer she worked; as the fruit
ripened she ''put it up" The straw
berries, most delicate of all fruits, she
picked herself, hulling as she picked, so
that they need be handled but the once,
and taking great care that they should
not be crushed. Currants she allowed
others to pick for her, and so with the
harder fruits that would not be harmed
by the handling. She used the greatest
care in making her %jellies and her pre-
serves, and the results were most salts
factory. From the time the first fruit
ripened until the last pickles were made
in the early autumn, she was constantly
employed. It proved to be a remuner-
alive employment. The second year her
business increased, and now she has all
she can do. She might enlarge it, but
she does not care to undertake to do any
more than she can do herself, as
she fears that if any one I'M
dortOOk II WIN n0r Cn0 re-
suits would be less satisfactory
than they are. Like a sensible woman,
she concludes that enough is as good as
more, and she makes sufficient money
during the busy months to keep her all
the year through, and let her do what
she likes in the way of improvement Of
her place, Of journeying about in her
leisure season, and of having many
things in the way Of luxury that other
wise she would have to go without. To
be sure, with her the work was not a
real necessity; but the result would have
been the same fit had been. She had,
too, the advantage of owning the place,
but there are other women who have
the same advantage. There is many a
woman living in the country who, al
though not the owner of a farm, has a
garden spot which she might devote to
the growth of small fruits, and turn
these into money by making the pre-
serves and %jellies that will find a ready
market at good prices.-SaUie Joy White
in VIDE AWake.
Curing Wind-Galls.
These common blemishes in other
wise sound horses car sometimes be
abated, but not always. An Illinois
veterinarian writes to the Chicago In
ter-Ocean that literally there is no cure