Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1909-12-02
The Farm Homes Needs
BY MRS. s. GOLDSMITH, Acme


boys and girls Of today are cleaner
and sweeter and healthier for the
bath room % long foolshly coasid-
cred. q luxury OF the town, Both hpss
band and wife should consider the
planning Of the house, but give the
wife the casting vote. She lives In
| the house. You have been but an
onlooker in Venice while she, from as
ksscIatlon, knDws how things should
liz Id her domain. She will want the
bath room and You will arrange TIE
water supply either from the windmill
the upstairs soft water cistern, or the
diahal clstefnt with a threeways force
pump throwing water to the bath
,EroCM tank, the kitchen sink or the
range. The latter plan is easiest to
arrange and preferable II there Is
,tplenty Of vIeOr at the pump handle,
A are practicable. All dirt from ex-
cavatlons on the house lot should be
removed. Such dirt is poisonous TO-
plant life and will make your lawn
Hook like the desert of Sahara with
cement walks.
In furnishings incline to plain dur
able things. A sanitary couch with
in sight OF hte kitchen range has
saved more lives and more loves than
the most celebrated female tonic.
Methods Of heating and lighting
need not be discussed here only have
plenty Of heat, plenty Of fresh air and
sunshine, remembering that a dust
crevice is a germ home and the sun
less sleeping room is the second
mother OF the great white plague.
Through a long day Of drizzling
Train heard the occasional hoarse
peep Of stray chicken. Towards
night / located it under bunch Of
dripping grass. Its scant feathering
was soaked through. With eyes
closed II stood on my toes, weaving
beck and forth, giving faint cries for
help. / slipped one warm hand IN
der 1t, the other over. 1t snuggled
down with one rejoicing peep, Mother.
There was shrek of pain-I pressed
my hands closer, the little limbs
Strengthened and stiffened. With Its
last contenetd peep. Home, it was dead
with warmth and a caress had CIV
en- It Home and Mother.
Dear Mother let US keep the night
fire glowing and the night lamp
bright and the table well filled with
books and papers and games. Fill
the house with music, rejoicing that
1.-THE cradle song carries farther than
the we'll deserved curtain lecture.
Build the brooding mother spirit In
to the home. Within the memory OF
Tia very few, our pralrles trembled to
1.-THE hoof-beats Of unnumbered buffa-
10, The race Of men is almost extinct
to whom the coming of the buffalo
meant meat, shelter and wealth. Not
teepee marks the path of the red
Imam. Only broken lines Of hard
pounded trail, the walIows and a few
rings mark the annual migration OF
the buffalo and their methods OF
housekeeping. love to think Of the
family at night after the weary day
on the trall--the calves and the I'M
wary young things in the center, the
COWS facing the dangers from without,
all asleep in peace, while the sire
paced through the long night watches
the ring, the magic circle protecting
his home. .
, Build the father spirit Of strength
and protection into the home. More
} results depend upon the home spirit
than upon what we call the home-lts
eIbeams and rafters, It's. flocks and
/ Eherds. A factory may extend over
' acres or miles, 1t may be equipped
i with the latest and most intricate ma
! ehinery, Its engines slistehing, III
: employees clad in unsullied garments
r but the world judges the factory up
: on its output. So, in our homes, We
I shali stand or fall by the output, the
I lresult Of our home Influences. TheI
dEcorae to us, the children, pure ant
Einnoceht, how do they leave u.s.
through BY our methods our granarieI
a are bursting with yellow grain
a through we may truly say: THE cat
altle on thousand hills are mine" ye
: when the cry goes up from our lips
n 20 Abs0Dom, my son, my son." VI
! have failed. The home we built wa
I only house. Somewhere we mad
4 q mistake.