This work of tomato growing has become very popular with girls, and at present there are thousands of them, each growing her one-tenth acre of tomatoes as well as other vegetables, and each possessing and using a home canning outfit.

One of these girls writes: "My sister and I joined the Tomato Club because we wished to go to school, and had finished the grades in the school near our home in the country. We thought we would grow the tomatoes along with along with some other vegetables,

ON THE WAY TO THE CANNING PICNIC

can, and sell them-planning to take the money, rent two rooms near the high school, and keep house on a small scale in order to go to school this winter." A later letter from her stated that the two had canned seven hundred thirty number three cans, and that they would be off to the high school in a few days. The seven hundred thirty cans at ten cents apiece, brought seventy-three dollars. This was sufficient to pay for rent of rooms, books, school incidental fees, and other expenses. So much for industry and ambition.

Another girl-one who had been in the habit of working in a cotton factory during her school

vacation became interested in the Tomato Club work. She planted her one-tenth acre in tomatoes and cared for them during odd hours. She made eight hundred hundred twenty-three cans of tomatoes. At ten cents each these tomatoes realized for her, eighty-two dollars and thirty cents. It cost her fifteen dollars to grow the crop, leaving her a profit of sixty-seven dollars and thirty cents. During the three months vacation she could have made only sixty dollars, working

In other words she made a clear profit of ninetythree dollars and sixty cents from one tenth of an acre of southern soil. This is at the rate of nine hundred thirty-six dollars per acre clear profit.

In one southern county during the year 1912,

four hundred thousand thousand cans of tomatoes, fruits, and other vegetables were put up as a result of the work of the Tomato Club. Merchants in the leading business towns reported that they bought all their canned goods from these girls and found them most satisfactory. The money which the merchants paid for these products went back into the homes of the farms, the four hundred thousand cans returning to the farmers' families forty thousand dollars.

A SONG OF THE SIMPLER THINGS

O, sing me a song of the Simpler Things—
Of the lives that love and laugh.

I'm tired of War and the Song of Sweat
That tells but the Bitter Half.

The earth is strong and the world is well'Tis the singer that's all awry.

The sun is up and will never go down
Till the stars are in the sky.

O, sing me a song of the manly man
Who knows his burden's his own,
The man who laughs in the rain or shine
While he swings his hoe alone.

It isn't the Thing That's Done To Us
That burns like a red-hot brand-

It's the Thing We Do or Leave Undone
Because we don't understand.

O, sing me a song of the fruits and flowers— The tints of the peach and rose,

Or the blush that blows on the virgin cheek Of the Fairest Thing that grows.