The Country Life Commission appointed by President Roosevelt found many unfavorable conditions prevalent in the open country, and gave them wide publicity in its report. This report is not an indictment of country life, hut a candid statement of some of the handicaps to the development of the innate power of rural social institutions. The…

OUTLOOK FOR FAMILY CLOTHING AND TEXTILES

The clothing budget deserves especially careful consideration this coming year. The homemaker will have to use skill to balance her purchases of garments for which prices are lower against purchases of those for which prices have increased.

Cotton yard goods, sheets, and pillowcases probably will…

The every day life of the bulk of the people of this country is not news. So there would be no point to any statement of country life at its best if there had not been previously so generally entertained a conception of country life that is woefully one-sided. With the popular conception in mind and a conviction it was misrepresentative, the author…