French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-04-05
HOW CAN WE HELP .
OURSELVES AT HOME.

! Modern inventions and discoveries
offer us relief from many of the con-
ditions we have to face, since they
provide us a way to help upon the
help of others. Since life is neither
a pipe dream nor one, sweet song for
most people, the. Columbia Record
thus refers to the blessings of cleo
tricity and the tin cam.
Electricity is the house girl of
modern times. Times was, when every
Southern home could afford two or
more servants. Today it is difficult
to get trained domestics. But cleo
tricity and the tin can are making
home work tOlerable. The Orange
burg Chamber of Commerce reports
that $4,000 empty tin cans have been
collected in that city, Some may
preach against the tin a and it's
Heterogeneous contents, but there was
never a greater labor saver for tired
housewives. And electricity is the
house girl that does in the house what
the tin can does in the kitchen in the
way of labor saving. Electricity can.
iron clothes, warm the room, curl the
hair, massage til body, operate the
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chores that wouIu not be done if the
tired housebife had the work to do,
whe nthe maid goes to her grandma's
fueral."
Well, many people are taking adj
vantage. of electricity. but there are
thousands who have not yet learned
what a great bon it is. They are do
ing Injustice, to. themselves. Many
u oT-o found ont urhof fhn tin non aon
do for them. In the story, however,
there is a lesson which we should take
home to ourselves. We ought to
learn more about what electricity can
do for us. and at the same time con-
slider the tin cal with relation to what
we can do with it and what we can do
about it.
Electricity speaks for itself, but we
venture a. few remarks about the tin
can. Canned goods in the pantry rep
resent a certain amount Of home pre-
paredness and domestic convenience.
but there is a certain amount OF can
ned economy in canned goods. We
need them, we use them and We create
a large demand for the goods, but We
should reflect that We should supply
our own demands as to all sorts OF
canned products for the. table.
That is to say that the South should
can. all the products for which there is
such a tremendous and growing de-
mand in the South. If the South were
to- can this demand it would keep mil
lions Of dollars in the South. The
South ean raise in great abundance
everything that is canned and it not
only has the great home demand to
make coming enterprises attractive
and profitable but there is an Ameri-
can wide demand and a world need
that would be open to every canning
establishment that we could erec' in
the, South.
Yesterday We got a certain amount
Of sustenance from a can of English
peas raised in New Jersey and cam
ed at Freehold, and when we bought
Freehold canned goods in Wilmington
it was with surprise. From what VIZ
have seen of it, VIC did not think tht
land on that part of the Jersey coas
would sprout peas. but it does, anC
We are actually depending on tina
Northern land to supply cur. table
right here in this fertile and wonder
! fully productive section Of North Car
olina. AS it is. we are glad to re
Freehold peas. but we ought to b
ashamed to depend on Freehold 70
what we ought to supply TO Freehold.
The probability is, however, tina
4 the South grows the peas while Frea
hold does the Gaming. Pc that as
may, it is positively absurd for tn
South to neglect to produce it's ow
table necessities and can them for win
ter use. CIR empty cans would NJ
be a reflection upon us if the good
we're put in GU roWn productive CON
munities. How long will We be til
kind of people who are fndifferer
about the duty of feeding ourselves? ?
Wilmington Star.