The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-04-04

am SOr9ly disappointed IOF IL E0dny
seems that you all have forgotten our
department-as none of you saw Jen
ME Acton have let me hear from you
this week. What car you all be doing,
that has caused you to forget to write?
If our circle did not embrace almost
every county in the State, I would not
be so much ~astonished and would at
tribute your silence to some probable
local cause, but as it is, that, of course,
is not the reason. Smallpox has ap
peared in several counties, but that
need not deter you al VT have none OF
it 10 Raleigh. Are you losing interest
in the Chat9 Can it be that I have
guessed right this time, or will you
prove to me ere another week passes
that l am again wrong. I feel like
calling the roll, but you know whether
or not you have written. Still you have
no idea of the pleasure others have
derived from your letters. Let me
hear from you.
Jennie Acton proposes a good sub
iect for discussion and I know each OF
you would like to express your opinion.
| listen for what you have to say.
Jennie seems to think that boys do
not appreciate having nice things In
their rooms I believe that she does
them an Injustice. No boy likes too
much fancy work and I never remem
Der having seen one who liked tides if
they we're pinned to the chair with
common pins for do you know that it
is almost an impossibility for him to
sit comfortably in a chair thus decor
ated 80 cure is he that the tidy will
adorn his coat instead of the chair
when he rises7 Make substantial things
for your brothers o Something
serViceable and nice. DOn't tell him
anything about what You mean to do
for him and let him become accustom
ed to one addition before you thrust
another on him. In this way you can
beauEify his room in q short while and
he will not object but learn to like the
change. l think all boys like nice
rooms after becoming accustomed TO
them. So many mothers are anxious
co help their daughters arrange things
in their rooms to enhance their beau
tv, while their sons room is neglected,
~consoling themselves with the thought
that he ia a boy and does not spend
anv time in his room" Now my dear
woman, how do you know that the
plainness of his room does not disgust
him-and the contrast between his and
his sisters rooms make him half way
believe that you all care more for her
tnan you do for hIm9 B Us think far
more than they care to express Little
attentions and kindnesses are appre
ciated by the boys even if they do not
tell you 80. Your boy is yours for
only a few years, but your girl is yours
always. Perhaps you had not though
of this, but tits all too true. Some
other woman will come between you
and claim the first place In his aHec
ton and care. May not the furnishing
!, of his room and the little attentions as
TO the proper 40 justment OF his tie al
we'll as many other expressions OF IN
, terest in his we'll being and appearance
help him to choose for his future com
panion one whom you will be proud tt
call daughter, and to whom you viii
not fear to trust his happiness9
Helpful brothers make helpful hus
+ bands. d. not raise your boy witt
the idea that home is simply a place tt
eat and sleep No girl likes a HUSBAND
of this kind. Women are often blamed
for being ''bossy" wnen if the trutl
a were known they are necessarily com
peIled to manage things or allow ever!
r thing to go to waste. Get brother t
4 help you fix your f0wers this sprlnj
and then when your labors are RI
q warded. share the blossoms with him
may give them to his sweetheart
"a what if he does9 That is his way =
II approaching them. | once heard
Il bow saw ''that if his wife could nc
q prepare a certain dish like his mothe
+ did, he would leave her." Now, l bt
n leve YOUR BOY should learn to COOK.
10 do not think that he should De exQec
,e ed to cook regularly but that he shout
"a learn to be helpful in the kltcher
Somebodv's being SICK might caus
him to have it all to do at some tin
le in life; and then he would be so gIa
that he had learned.
BOYS should learn to milk and do tt
or churn:ag. Oae of the happiest wome
I aver knew lived in the country an
five handsome boys proudly called h'
ia mother, and such good helpful boy
.hoD wero She had no cook and ga