The Athena press., March 06, 1908, Image 2

Woman's Enrmr.
"It li not the work that tires you at
all; It Is the way you do It," Bald a
wise counselor to a discouraged and
broken-down school teacher.
The word fits the case of many a
woman who Is not a school teacher.
The farmer's wife who does the whole
week's work In her -Imagination after
he goes to bed Sunday night; the
bookkeeper who in her dreams adds
columns of Azures to bring out an ob
stinate balance; the school girl who
grows hot and cold In anticipation or
an examination: the dressmaker who
never forgets her apprehension lest her
customer shall not he pleased all
these and a score of other kinds of
women need to learn the lesson of the
value of the mind at ease.
A conscientious, worrying wife of a
Maine farmer hurried to the hen house
one Icy day with a pan of food. She
slipped and fell and a broken hip
stopped the quick footstep and dulled
the keen vision for "things which must
be done." For three months the pa
tient lay In bed, alone many hours of
each day, thinking over her life and
habits and resiHmsibllities her suc
cesses and her failure. When she
could hobble to. a wheeled chair, she
was a different creature from the anx
ious, nervous woman who had been
forced to submit to Imprisonment.
A perspective of the months and
years of life, a new conviction that
peace of mind is more important than
pies and cakes, a sense of proportion
which included herself and the claims
of her own nature as well as the appe
tites of her hungry family and the
profits of the farm, had revealed them
selves to her In the long days of en
forced Inactivity.
"My broken hip saved my life and
my soul, too, I guess," the grateful
woman used to sny, with the smile of
one who had found that the worst ene
my of good work Is worry. Youth's
Companion.
A Modern Meditation.
Idle not; for Idleness is the mother
of all sins.
Neither dawdle nor dilly-dally; for
the dawdler groweth weary and aecom
plisheth naught
Delay not, nor postpone; for more
crimes are due to postponement than
to deliberate intention.
Hesitate not an hour In perform
ing thy tasks ; for the only way to get
a thing done Is to do It now.
Glower not, nor grouch; for It Is a
fearful crime to make other people un
happy. Never Indulge thyself in despair ; for
there Is no surer way to miss all the
good things that are coming to you.
Neither Indulge in vain retrospec
tion ; for what Is done is done forever,
and the only wise thing Is to forget It.
Blame not thyself nor any other per
son too much; for there are laws
stronger than any of us that govern th
universe.
Mako hope and Industry thy lyibtts ;
for by these two practices shall a mnn
reach the highest place even content
ment Dreaaed In Their Beat.
The little coat on the standing figure
Is made of bright red cloth, trimmed
with black brntd and straps of the
cloth, finished with gilt buttons. It Is
cut with a very full flare in the skirt.
The dress Is navy blue cashmere, trim
med with parallel crimson silk folds,
with stitches between thorn done In
blue saddler's silk. The gulmpe Is
white ehnllle, trimmed with navy blue
soutache.
The Girl In Gold.
One of the colors which the girl lu
her first Benson has taken up more en
thusiastically than any other this year
Is yellow. Buttercup, daffodil, old-gold
and the soft tones of crocus yellow are
all Included In her colony card, and
these, when softened with veilings of
cream nlnon or lace, nre taking the
place even of the all-white gown when
the Import ceremony of the debut Itself
Is over.
Abumt tk fcyebrow.
Many children possess beautiful
heads of hair, which Is often allowed
to hang loosely over their faces, with
out being couflued In any way. This
may certainly show the hair off to the
best advantage, but quite bides the
beat points of the child's face and often
U the cause of scanty eyebrows a dis
JJgurement which will be more notlce-
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able when the child is grown up. The
growth of scanty elebrows can, how
ever, be encouraged by brushing light
ly with a soft brush, and this also
tends to make them arched, but ou no
account should they be clipped to In
sure their thickness. Clipping the eye
lashes to promote their growth is also
a practice that should be abolished, as
If the child should move while they are
being clipped it may result In injury to
the eyesight.
The Greek coiffure is much In evi
dence with opera costumes.
Fancy color effects in shoes for day
wear are gaining in popularity.
Banana brown and cinnamon form a
favored combination of coloring' in
many costumes.
Some of the winter muffs are made
of tippet pieces, laid on flatly and hang
ing like a flap.
Patent leather shoes -are being worn
this season, decorated with little folded
bows of leather.
A trig little red English morocco bag
Is fitted with folding opera glasse3,
powder puff, and mirror.
An applied cloak tuck, three Inches
wide, furnishes a tunic effect on many
of the long-cloth skirts.
For handsome gowns matrons are
wearing black or dark, rich colored
silks, brocaded In velvet.
Lovely are the evening bags of white
Irish crochet, lined with white silk and
mounted In gold frames.
A new fad Is the evening cloak of
the same color of the gown, especially
to wear at little theater and restaurant
functions.
One of the most striking gowns seeu
at a receut wedding was of bottle green
satin trimmed with green lace and yel
low panne.
A chic departure In theater waists Is
the separate waist In chiffon, generally
black, and worn over a pale colored or
white foundation.
When the Frenchwoman wants her
decollete gown for restaurant or thea
ter wear she adds a transparent
gulmpe of white tulle and a tiny cra
vat of fur,
Tlie return of the tight skirt Is per
haps the harbinger of tight sleeves and
waists that have beeu banished so long,
to say nothing of the waistline and its
natural position.
The new sleeve, called the "step lad
der," Is an outgrowth of the kimono
sleeve, and consists of a succession of
deep folds, one over the other, narrow
ing lu as they reach below the cIImiw.
Married Women aa Breadwinner.
Twenty-seven thousand women In
New York support their husbands, ac
cording to Sirs. Frederick Nathan, a
leader In the movemeut for women's
suffrage In New York. Mrs. Nathan
does not cither approve or disapprove
of a woman making a living for ber
spouse, but makes her statement as
one of fact. Women who support their
husbands, she says, are not la any one
class, but are found In all classes, from
that of the woman who scrubs floors to
that of the woman who marries a tltlt.
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That a woman can be a wage earner
and at the same time care for her home
is possible, Mrs. Nathan says, and
there are many cases In which It is
eminently satisfactory to have a man
and his wife both wage earners. Mrs.
Nathan gives the following two as the
principal reasons why married women
nre wage earners: "Men waste so
much money in smoking, gambling and
drinking that they have none left for
family expenses. Many women have
minds superior to their husbands and
can earn more. In that case It Is the
woman's plain duty and should be her
pleasure to earn whatever her talents
will bring."
Ilnaband Breaker,
The ingenuity of the modern woman
has discovered a new method of earn'
lug a competence.
She breaks husbands.
There have been women who made
their living at breaking horses, but not
until very lately did some emancipated
feminine genius go In for husband
breaking.
Ingenious woman!
For a 'moderate fee she is prepared
to make a lengthened stay, and grad
unlly mold the newly-married husband
according to the pattern that his wife
requires. Since Adam was driven from
Paradise It Is doubtful If man has ever
felt the effects of the fall so severely
as he does at this moment !
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett is an
enthusiastic gardener and her country
home In Kent, England, is noted for Its
rose garden, where in summer she does
much of her brilliant writing.
Dr. Mary Merrlt Crawford has been
appointed house physician In the Will
iamsburg hospital, Brooklyn, having
won In a competitive examination over
thirty-four men. She Is but 23 years
old.
A widow living in the Brightllngsea
almshouses, England, receutly celebrat
ed her ninetieth birthday by Inviting
two old sweethearts to tea. One of
them was 90 and the other 93 years
of age.
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Lawrence,
of Hucknall Torkard, Notts, claim to
be the oldest married couple in Eng
land. On May day they will have been
married seventy-two years. Mr. Law
rence Is 02 and his wife 91.
An aged beggar woman, known
among her neighbors as "Old Mother
Snuff," was lately found dead In her
house In Tarls. The place was searched
and the search revealed $1.1.800 In bank
notes and $4,000 in gold hidden lu a
mattress.
Queen Victoria hnd twenty-one grand
daughters, and of this number only
four remain single. They are Princess
Victoria of England, Princess Beatrice
of Saxe-Coburg. Princess Patricia of
Connaught, and Princess Victoria of
SoWeswig-IIolstein.
Teach Children Care ot Clothe. '
Tench children to fold their hair
ribbons and put under weight on dress
er every night The neater ppearancs
pays for the effort
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rpt la Dangeroaa Ith After Re
moval of Poison Fans;.
Another common misconception
which Is apt to lead to serious acci
dents Is the belief that a rattler Is ren
dered perfectly harmless, so that it
can be handled with Impunity, by the
removal of its poison fangs. These
fangs, two In number, are situated In
the npper Jaw and lie flat, except when
the serpent strikes, when they become
erect and the closing of the Jaws com
presses the poison glands and injects
the venom through minute openings la
them. In striking Its prey (for what
ever charm the serpent may employ to
get Its victim within easy reach, it re
lies upon the venom to give the coup
de grace), these fangs may often be
broken, and nature has provided a full
supply of reserve weapons, which He
dormant In the gums, and which within
two weeks will develop and replace the
'njured fang.
An acquaintance who returned from
a hunting trip with twenty-five full
grown rattlers in a box kept them In
his office for two months, confined be
hind a coarse-meshed wire screen. He
handled them most carelessly, as be
had extracted the poison fangs, but
when shown that each of them had de
veloped a perfect pair of new ones
there was a sudden rise In the local
snake mortality. One was preserved
and sent to the Bronx Zoo, where it
shortly afterward gave birth to a large
litter of young ones, which could easily
have crawled through the screen be
hind which the mother had been kept
As each of them possessed the poison
apparatus In full commission and was
without the power to rattle, they would
have been even more dangerous than
idult snakes.
Professional snakehandlers are often
ignorant of this power to quickly re
place fangs possessed by rattlers, and
this ignorance, says Outing, led to a
serious accident to one of them at Bos
tock's, at Coney Island, last year. He
was badly bitten and narrowly escaped
death, his recovery being attributed to
the generous amount of whisky which
was immediately administered to him,
which illustrates another mistaken
idea. It Is a pity to shatter a pleasant
illusion, but alcohol, except In very
small doses, is harmful rather than
beneficial as an antidote to snake-bite
poison.
As a matter of fact, although the
symptoms of rattlesnake poisoning are
most painful and alarming, an adult
rarely dies from the bite of the varie
ty common in the North. The diamond
backs of the South attain a much larger
size, and consequently inject more ven
om, and their bite is proportionately
more dangerous.
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The young woman beside whom Mrs.
Lamson seated herself with a Jounce
smiled at the newcomer, but had no
time to speak. "My land," said Mrs.
Lamson, "If I wnn't thankful when I
saw you as I came into this carl
Thinks I, 'At least I'll have Ave min
utes' peace' that's all the time I ride
in this car before I make my next
change.
"It's perfectly ridiculous having to
change, anyway, Just to ride a few
blocks. But goodness me ! I've forgot
my transfer, and I couldn't walk the
distance, so I ought not to complain.
My ankles won't bear me up on the side
walks since I took on all this extra
heft
"The reason I was so glad to see
you of course I'm always glad is be
cause I've been riding with that Dobbs
woman and I declare I never heard
such a talker in all my days 1 I couldn't
get In a word edgewise. And if she
said anything, 'twouldn't be so bad, but
she doesn Just maunders on about
the weather and her rheumatism.
"Now we all know the weather Isn't
anything we can help ; we've Just got to
bear it, however bad 'tis, and, as I tell
Joslah, we've had a trial of our pa
tience this year if ever we had. No
spring, and then Jumping right Into
heat when we were all unprepared.
And rain I Well, there's no use dwell
tng on it, as I say.
"And when you come to rheumatism,
it was real cheeky for her to tell me
her symptoms that's what 'twas !
anybody that's endured what I have
right in my own family! I wish you
could see Joslab's knuckles. I tell him
I don't see what he will do If they keep
on. And he has it so in the back of
his neck and his elbows. I've rubbed
him and rubbed him till I've been about
dead. And do you know, day before 1
yesterday I had a sharp pajn shoot
right through my elbow, and t said to
myself Mercy, this Is where I change !
Good-by, dearl I'm really rested, just
riding this little way with you. Good
by !"
Royal Fanning.
On their way to Paris recently, King
Haakon and Queen Maud, of Norway,
passed through Copenhagen. They
were received at the railway station
by King Frederick, King Haakon's
father. A courtier who was present
ells what the monarchs said.
"Well, Haakon," said King Freder
ick, "how do you like being a klngl"
"I would ralfcer ask you," retorted
Haakon. "I've been a king longer
than vou."
This was quite true. .Frederick of
Denmark succeeded to the: throne upon
the death of his father, King Christian,
on January 29, 1906, but Haakon was
elected king of Norway by the Storth
ing oa November 18, 1903. -
We never see our way clear to pay
eight dollars for an umbrella, either.
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Vain of Co-Operattlon.
Sir Horace Plunkett, member of the
British house of parliament, who has
been in this country recently, said In
an address to agricultural students
that there was "not a single county,
not a parish, in Ireland where the
farmers are not completely revolution
izing the entire business of farming by
introducing co-operative methods." And
It might be added that there is scarce
ly a farming district in the United
States where more benefits canont be
realized by a closer co-operation of the
farmers. The farmers are understand
ing each other better each year and
are coming closer together in all mat
ters which pertain to their mutual in
terests, but there are still greater possi
bilities ahead. Describing the 900 co
operative organizations of peasants in
Ireland which be was instrumental In
establishing for the purpose of compe
tition with commercial industries, forc
ing out middlemen, compelling rail
roads to 'provide better facilities, and
dictating more favorable legislation to
parliament, done : "The first thing was
to introduce a system of agricultural
education which extended Into every
branch of the Industry, teaching the
farmer, for Instance, to purchase every
thing he requires, Implements and ma
chinery, of the very best quality. They
combined to consign In bulk and dis
tribute their goods In the market They
combined to raise working capital for
their operations. They combined to
own breeding animals. They did just
what you are doing here, brought sci
ence Into farming by getting it into the
schools. They had the same system of
instruction and experimentation sup
plied by your government"
New Variety of Tobacco.
A new variety of tobacco, valuable
for cigar wrapping, was first raised In
Connecticut from seed brought from
Florida and which
originally came
from Sumatra. Af
ter very careful and
satisfactory tests
results have proved
beyond a doubt the
value of. this vari
ety for growing
commercially, to
gether with the fact
that the seed comes
the plant. true to type year
after year when saved under bog. The
name Uncle Sam Sumatra was given
to this variety. It is a cigar wrapper
variety of tobacco and adapted for
growing under shade In the cigar wrap
per producing regions. The plants
reach an average height of about eight
feet at the time of maturity, and they
bear an average of about twenty-six
leaves before topping. The cured leaves
will average about
sixteen Inches In
width by twenty
Inches In length, al
though the size varies
according to field and
cultural conditions.
The yield of the crops
of this variety Is high,
being as much as
1,000 pounds of cured the leaf.
tobacco to the acre under favorable
conditions. The percentage of the best
grades of wrapper In these crops Is
correspondingly high. Exchange.
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Valno of Beet Sugar Prodncta.
Some idea of the magnitude of the
beet sugar industry in the United
States can be given by estimating the
value of the beets sold by the growers
to the factories and of the refined
sugar placed on the market by the fac
tories last year.
If we assume that the average price
paid for beets in 1900 was $5 per ton,
the total value of the 4,230,112 tons of
beets harvested is $21,180,500. If we
estimate the value of. the sugar at 4Vi
cents per pound, the 967,224,000 pounds
of sugar manufactured were worth
$43,525,080. Probably the assumed
prices both for beets and for sugar may
be a trifle below those actually receiv
ed, but these figures are sufficiently
accurate to indicate the magnitude of
the Industry.
Ripening Green Tomntoea.
Often when frost comes there are
many tomatoes on the vines that are
nearly full grown, but that have not
yet ripened enough to send to market
I have picked such tomatoes and put
them In a cool, dark place to ripen
slowly and Bent them to market when
the supply had run low and prices run
high, says a writer in New England
Homestead. But for home use a bet
ter way is to pick the smaller ones
from the vines and then hang up the
branch in the cellar,' darkening the
windows and keeping the place cool.
They will ripen slowly, and one may
Indulge In ripe tomatoes In January,
when those grown in a hothouse and
not as large or any better flavor are
selling at 25 cents a pound or more
Try It
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Wintering Cabbage.
One ot the simplest ways of keeping
cabbage Is to store In an orchard or
some sheltered place, often alongside
a fence which has beeu made tight -hiw-r.
a liberal use of straw. The cabba
ore stored with their stems on and are
placed head down and as close together
as possible. Two or three tiers are
often made, the -heads of the second
tier being placed between, stems of the
lower, and sojon, the plies being made
of any width and length desired. The
whole is covered with leaves, salt grass
hay or straw and a little soil, rails,
brush or litter. Small unsalable heads
when stored In this way in November
will continue to develop during winter
and frequently sell as well as any in
February. Small quantities may be
stored by plowing out two or three f ur? .
rows ten or twelve Inches deep on a
well drained site and placing the beads
with their stems up as close together
as possible. Some prefer to lay them
but one or two thick, while others will
pile them up two to two and a half
feet high, bringing them to a point
The pile Is then covered with straw,
salt grass hay or a thin layer of straw
and then several Inches of soil. They
are stored before freezing, and when
the soil covering them is frozen it may
be covered with strawy manure or any
other litter to keep the soil frozen un
til the cabbages are needed for sale.
An Electric Incubator. .
Electricity has been applied to incu
bation by Otto Schultz, ah electrician
of Strassburg, and Is the result of three
years of experimentation. The appara
tus Is made for 50, 100 or 200 eggs, and
Is designed to obviate the difficulties
connected with the ordinary form of
Incubator. The manipulation of the ap?
paratus Is very simple, and Its mainte
nance depends only upon an uninter
rupted supply of electricity.
An automatic attachment keeps tb
temperature within one-tenth of a de
gree of the normal temperature of in
cubation. The degree of saturation of
the air is kept in the same manner.
Under ordinary conditions, ninety
chickens can be counted on out of 100
eggs Incubated. The quantity of elec
tlclty required is very small, for an In
cubator holding fifty eggs, ten to twen
ty watts being sufficient, depending
upon the temperature of the outer air.
For raising the chickens after they
are hatched, an electric "mother" has
been devised. The upper part Is de
voted to the freshly hatched chickens,
while the lower part Is arranged so
that the chicks can run around on the
ground and at the same time find heat
and protection when they desire. The
electric Incubator has already jprovea
very successful. "V'
Test Seeda at Home.
The Department of Agriculture In
order to aid farmers to determine for
themselves without much trouble the
germination value of seeds has Issued
a short bulletin on the subject A very
simple apparatus for sprouting seeds
is described. It consists of a shallow
basis In which Is placed a small flat of
porous clay. The seeds, after having
been soaked, are laid between two
sheets of moist blotting paper or flan
nel. A pane of glass covers the dish,
which should be kept In a temperature
of about 70 degrees. Atmosphere of
an ordinary living room is suitable if
the apparatus Is left near, a stove at
night. Several kinds of seeds may be
tested at once at a trifling cost The
bulletin cautions the farmer against
extremes of heat or moisture..
Fert liter Teauta with Corn.
Fertilizer tests with corn In Virginia
show clearly that plowing under green
leguminous crops Is a highly beneficial
practice and that where this Is fol
lowed only moderate amounts of fertil
ity will be necessary to give Increased
yields. When vegetable matter is lack
ing, however, heavy applications of fer
tilizer seem advisable. Andrew M.
Soule.
Farm Gleaning.
There is no standard for Judging thb
guinea fowl. They should, however, be
of uniform shape, great activity and
reasonably good producers of eggs.
Their entire egg crop is produced in
summer. .:
Bitter cream comes from keeping
cream too long from cows that have
been milked since early last spring.' It
is best to churn every few days, even
thouhg there Is only a small churning
on hand.
In setting out the new fruit trees be
sure and leave plenty of space between
them. You must make allowance for
the growth of the years. Crowded trees
interfere with one another and have
their fruit bearing possibilities checked.
The potato storeroom must be dark,
cool, well ventilated and dry. There
should be a double floor beneath where
large quantities sre piled together.
There should also be opportunities for
ventlation at the walls, and at inter
vals through the pile.
A good jcondition powder, to be fed la
limited quantities to the brood sow, is
composed of a teaspoonful each of cop
peras, sulphur and a half cupful of oil
meat Give once each day for each sow
weighing 250 pounds. It is needless to
say that all tonics should be given only
"raen the animal Is out of condition. .