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• ISBN: 0840775970
• ISBN: 9780840775979
• ISBN: 0883659689
• ISBN: 9780883659687
• Physical Description: 315 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: Nashville, Tenn. : T. Nelson, [1991]
• Copyright: ©1991

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A great many interesting things. Hard winter -- Friday night literary -- On chickens and hawks -- Times and things -- When Grandma pioneered -- Make a new beginning -- Having a family motto -- First frost -- Our fair and our fancy -- Chasing thistledown -- What became of the time we saved? -- Just a question of tact -- Old dash churn -- Christmas when I was sixteen.

A new day for women. Shorter hours for the farm home manager -- A woman's power and the vote -- Woman's place -- Two heads are better than one -- Women's work? -- Women's duty at the polls -- Daily tasks are not small things -- Thoughts on the role of women and divorce -- Home beauty parlor -- What women can add to politics -- This and that--a neighborly visit with Laura -- New day for women.

Give me just one logical reason. Five dollar prize for women -- Dear farm women -- Why should I stay? ; Church and school privileges -- Here's hope deferred -- Pioneering on an Ozark farm -- Whom will you marry?.

Have you seen any faires lately? Fairies still appear to those with seeing eyes -- Where sunshine fairies go -- Naughty four o'clocks -- Fairy dew drop -- When sunshine fairies rest -- Fairies in the sunshine -- Lesson from an Irish fable.

Her husbands partner. Let's visit Mrs. Wilder -- Our little place in the Ozarks -- When is a settler and old settler? -- March of progress -- My dream house -- How to furnish a home -- Rocky Ridge farm -- We revel in water! -- My apple orchard -- Heirs of the ages.

If we would but open our eyes. Creative chemistry of life -- Light we throw -- A few minutes with a poet -- Success -- Good neighbors -- A constant friend -- What would you do? -- Opportunity -- To stand by ourselves -- Challenges -- An autumn day.

Nothing new under the sun. Sweet Williams -- Findleys strive for an education -- "A spirit of sadness over it all" -- Classed as illiterates -- Our next president -- Our brains--and providence -- Home -- Man of the place -- Kind hearts -- Wanton destruction of trees -- Be true to yourself -- Love of home -- Far in the future -- Great woods have been destroyed -- Income and expenses -- Compensations.

Surley worth the effort. Administer advice in small doses -- Keeping friends -- We always pay for the "need" -- Learning something new -- Hidden cost of getting what we want -- Early training counts -- Don't call on the government all of the time -- Pies and poetry -- Simplify, simplify -- Think for yourself -- Blessings of the year.

The garden of our lives. I don't now what the world is coming to -- Make your garden! -- Parable of wild fruit -- Are you your children's confidant? -- Kinfolks or mere reelations? -- Troubles grow as we talk about them -- We keep right on eating -- Keep journeying on -- Getting the worst of it -- Source of improvement -- A man's word is all he has -- Helping hand of helpfulness -- Growing older.

The greatness and goodness of God. Everyday implications of the golden rule -- Thanks for benefits bestowed -- Thanks for the harvest -- Harvest of the soul -- A dog's a dog for a' that -- Let us be just -- Do the right thing always -- Armor of a smile -- Laura and Mary quarrel at Thanksgiving -- Not so bad off -- Swearing -- Honor and duty -- If we only understood -- Things that matter -- Mother -- "Mother passed away".

The rush of work. Tired to death with work -- Going after the cows -- Mrs. Jones takes the rest cure -- Let's not depend on experts -- When proverbs quarrel -- Farmers--need more wives? -- Does it pay to be idle? -- Join 'don't worry' club -- A fool and his son are soon parted -- A day off now and then -- About work -- When the blues descend -- Life is an adventure.

The war, the terrible. Each in his place -- Left out and pushed about -- War, the terrible -- Getting down to first causes -- Are we too busy? -- Make every minute count -- A wish for the present -- Glory! what days in which to live! -- Our code of honor -- When the war ended -- Peace on earth.

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