The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1916-09-01
The BUILDING OF The RUPEES.
The New House on the Plains. A Family of
Workers

me old granary where the combined
wheat and alfalfa seed crop was
stored last fall still stood ready to
receive the 1915 crop. The old house
implanted and SCARED had been rob-
bed of the bricks in the chimney so
close had they considered the ex-
pense and the materials that could
be used in the new house.
Out of the Old
The old house was to be moved
to the stable yard and made into
a granary, and the old granary down
in the field moved up to form part
of the stable. The house is on an
eminence commanding a fine view
of the country for miles, and a new
woven wire fence not only encloses
the yard but extends around the
whole farm. He isn't going to risk
having his stock annoy the neigh
bors. The chickens are going to be
fenced out of the yard and garden.
Consideration is being given to the
question of how they could have a
house warming that friends and
neighbors would enjoy and yet not
disturb too much the moving in and
the gathering of the harvest that
keeps them on the jump. Everybody
about the place was justly proud of
the new house. They were already
planning to have scrapers and mats
at each door, and every member of
the family was to turn a new leaf
and form the habit of cleaning his
or her feet carefully at the door. The
floors in the old house had never
been so good that dirt and sand on
them would hurt them, but the habit,
long formed, of walking in with dirty
shoes is soon to be broken if pos
sible, and pride in the new floors will
prompt it. The plan called for
screens on every door and window
as soon as the house is inclosed so
the flies could never collect on the
new walls and wood work.
Into the New
Mrs. Rupe is a member of the
Domestic Science club of Springfield,
the greatest social factor in the COM
munity, and she has long regretted
that her house was too small to en-
terrain the club. Now she becomes
the matron of the best house in the
community, and will ask her sister
club members to aid her with ideas
as to how to best preserve and use
it: 1t is a long step from pioneer
ing in a prairie schooner, a construc-
ton camp and a rude shack on the
claim, to selecting suitable furniture
and d~raperies, rugs, carpets and
for a modern house. 1t is a
long step from swabbing out the lit
ter that accumulates from burning
brush in the kitchen stove, to
for a smooth floor that has
been oiled and painted to preserve
the finish. 1t is a big task for child
rem who have grown uD in a camp
and a shack, to adjust themselves to
neatness and order of a we'll ar
"aneed home. 1t will be quite diff
ferent on a cold stormy wash day
to go into the basement and draw
hot and cold water from the faucets
and be able to do the washing and
out the clothes within the base
nent, when one has been accustomed
20 carry water from the well heat it
On the cook stove, do all the work
IN a little kitchen and hang the
out in the wind, caring for
little tots all the while, The child
ZEN at the Rupe home are not diff
.erent from those in other homes in
point of activity, for while we were
around on a pile of lumber
n the evening shadows, one of the
was mauling a tiny kitten
around, using its tail for a hadle
md lambasting the earth with it.
Then again the kitten was picked
Up by the eyebrows and it's little
classy eyes looked appealingly thru
Tits that fit the eyes badly. 1t took
vi of it's mauling as if that were a
'art of life and had to be borne.
IN the day two of the Riddles
been discovered in the front
ard with a kitten held up by the
leels and they We're trying to skin
t as rabbits are generally skinned,
nd in cat language it was objecting
tut trying all the while to stand it.
)ne of the ambitious childen carried
he baby up the ladder to the second
tory and would have tried bringing
t down but Papa Rupe discovered
he rash act and ran up the ladder
o get 1t. There was an abundant
upply of fried chicken for supper,
nd one of the girls tore a little
ranch from a tree and switched the
les away from the table while the
dults ate; then the children ate at
he second table, and after that, one
t the girls mounted a pony and went
o hunt the cows. They were liable
o be found in any direction, and
fter it was time for her to be back
hey considered whether to send an
Their n of the children in another
ERECTION to look for cows or to wait.
hey decided to wait, and finally the
hole bunch came in sight, and the
tile herd was driven into the potato
ellar for the night. .
A Beautiful Character
AS the shadows turned to dusk it
'as observed that the eldest daughter
ad not returned from Aberdeen {
here she had gone that day with a
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