The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 7

1 e o ) That New Farm Home North Dakota Woman Has Plans for a Convenient House DITOR Nonpartisan Leader: The let- i | ters and the invitation of the editor to Mrs. Jessup of Nebraska wishes us to give her plans for a handy kitchen or house. I do not know how big a house she intends to build, but I like an eight-room house with full basement. This drawing shows the main floor plan. Entering the back porch I would have a Jaundry room to the left, then entering the house would be a door with upper part glass, opening into a small washroom, with a sink on the right and = LAINILIIV, " Greund floor plan. shelves and hooks for everyday garments on the left. Above the sink have a small cupboard for surplus soap and toilet articles, also a mirror. Go- ing forward is a door going down cellar. To the right is an open doorway to the kitchen. The location of stove, cabinet and cupboard are shown in the drawing. The cupboard should be high enough for three or four shelves, with hooks under the shelves for cups, etc. The kitchen table should be mounted on castors and have an alumi- hum or porcelain top. A smail cupboard right above the reservoir on the stove in which to keep salt, pepper and kettle covers helps save many steps. Then the inbuilt dish cupboard near the stove, with glass doors opening both ways, helps save steps going way around the door. The stairway goes up to the second floor from the dining room and the sitting room is reached through double doors from the dining room. - From the washroom a swinging door leads to the bedroom on the left. The c.hlmney goes up through the bedroom and next to it.is a little closet con- taining an indoor chemical toilet, the pipes being run into the chimney. I prefer it in the bedroom . bécause in case of sickness of small children it seems to be the handiest place in the house. From the door to the other corner have an inbuilt closet with a shelf on top on which to put comforters and things not needed every day. Screw hooks into the shelf on which to hang clothes and you will aiways be able to see what you have there. In the bottom have a long drawer for shoes and hats and they will not get dusty. In the other corner have a small cothes chute from upstairs in which to keep dirty clothes. This may be inbuilt also to save space. Have a little door towards the top in the bedroom to put dirty clothes in from downstairs and they will always be out of sxght. A door from the bedroom to sitting room is Very convenient. The back porch, on the side where the bedroom is, is the handiest place for washing clothes, I believe. A kerosene stove to heat the wash water saves carrying the clothes in and out of the kitchen. A small door into the clothes chute enables one to take the clothes out @nd sort them right in the wash- send more gave me the writing fever. . room. The back porch should be screened in sum- mer and closed up with . windows in winter. The upstairs may be made into three bedrooms and the fourth may be used as a bathroom and have a long inbuilt closet to store winter “clothes in summer, and vice versa. If any of the readers have a plan that is s handier please let us hear from you as I am looking for- ward to 2 new house, too, and these are my plans. Are any of the Leader readers living in a house built of cement Btocks? If so, are they damp and cold in winter? A BUSY FARMER'S WIFE., Slope, N. D. A TALE OF TWO FARMERS Farmer Joe was as jolly as jolly could be, he borrowed no troubles nor worried, not he. If twas cloudy today ’twould be clearer tomorrow; life was too short to be wasted in sorrow. If the weather was bad and his crops wouldnt grow, “’Twill be better tomorrow,” said good Farmer Joe. If the bugs were too plenty and ate up his grain, “Very well, then,” said Joe, “we’ll plant it again.” It was different quite with Sam, a close neighbor; he grumbled at play and he grumbled at labor. "Twas too hot or too cold, too wet or too dry. Noth- ing ever went right, whatever he'd try. His pigs all got mangy, his hens wouldn’t lay, he spent his time boosting the old I. V. A.; his wife couldn’t please him in getting his dinner, in short, Farmer Sam was a wretched- old sinner. You can guess without trouble the end of this tale —while Sam spent his time letting wail after wail, Farmer Joe laughed and worked and did his work well, and wore proudly the badge of the good N. P. L. Powers Lake, N. D. MRS. J. E. STONE. Is a Woman a Citizen? Marriage Still Governs Citizenghip, Miss Schwartz Points Out ww] EAR Editor and Farm Sisters: A ¢| Happy New Year to one and all, you readers of the good old Leader! As this new year is dawning the hope looms large that some day the women of America will have equal rights with men, but the fight is only half won. There are many things yet to fight for. One is the citizenship of women. A woman born here by marrying a foreigner forfeits her citizenship, while on the other hand a foreign woman can marry a citizen of this country and thereby become a full- fledged citizen. Is that just and fair? @ Our place has always been pointed out to us as the home. I believe it is, but need home be just four walls ? Should there be no windows or doors looking upon the outside world? Can we not work better by taking interest in things around us? I believe the American woman is just as intel- ligent and farseeing as the American man. I be- lieve she will study the candidate and what he stands for before casting her ballot and will surely vote in the interest of her home and the betterment of the country. And I believe that the farm women of America can have a large share of this work. After many months of careful study I found one /| way out of this dilemma and that was to join hands -’ with the Nonpartlsans The only way this could be done was to join the Auxxhary, which I did, and later we organized the first clubs in anesota The farm women take a great interest in the League and women’s clubs. They want to push the good work along and not be left behind their city sisters. Will not some others tell us what they think of the citizenship of the American woman? Eagle Bend, Minn. TENA SCHWARTZ. A Story for Children and “Grown-Ups’ BY MARY O’NEILL - VERY one knows and loves the story of Cinderella, that is why we will not tell all of it—but we know that the children will enjoy this picture il- lustrating one of the parts of the fairy tale not so commonly given in the English versions. Do you remember when Cinder- ella was told that she could not. go to -the ball? She was in the kitchen getting dinner and her sis- ters came down to tell her all about how wonder- ful the. ball would be. Then when Cinderella very white ones; the soft, gentle, gray ones and all the - others! Cinderella showed them the peas and Lel}tils all scattered in the ashes and asked thei: elp. £ “Put the good into the pot, Hide the bad within your crop!” she said, and they set to work. Do you see what a good tlme they are having ? It is not really like work, for them, working together at a common task. You can see they are flying in one by one; soon they will be coming and talking together and in a short minute they will all accomplish what Cinder- " The doves help Cinderella with her work. wistfully said, “I wish I could go, too!” the sisters tossed the peas and lentils she had prepared into the ashes on the hearth and said: “When you have separated all the peas and len- tils from the ashes you may go.” Then they laughed and swished out of the kitchen. They knew she could never finish that task in time to go. She had only a few hours! But Cinderella, thinking of the little doves that came to her window every morning to eat the crumbs she scattered for them, - ran to the door calling to-the doves. Oh, and they came flying in, all of them, the pretty, shining, PAGE SEVEN. ¥ v ella, working alone, could not finish in days and days. I always like to think that it was because Cinderella did not lose her temper but stopped to think of a way to solve her difficulties that helped t6 make it pleasant and happy wherever she was and made the doves so willing and glad to help her —working together accomplished it. Sometimes we- - human beings, children and grown-ups, forget that by working together we can accomplish tasks that seem insurmountable. That is why it is good for us occasionally to retell the old folk tales and learn from them the wisdom of co-operating.