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bcratory and museum, drill hall, dormi room rent, heat, light, books, laboratory ' tory, president's house, »everal resi and other fees are estimated at >125. dences for professor«, farm houses, These expenses are often reduced by He Pursues His Calling in a Scientific Way These Days and Does Not boarding house, horticultural plant receipts for labor performed on the houses, and barn, including creamery farm or elsewhere about the college. ; Leave Everything to Providence and the Weather. and dairy laboratory. The experiment There are thirty or more professors and T use/1 to bo tlie rule that when it In agriculture Includes history and gov station also has a chemical laboratory, assistants in the faculty, and in addi man wasn’t lit for anything else ernment. French ami German. English, botanical laboratory with plant house. tion to the chairs provided by the Mas-, he was considered good < no ugh to and the higher mathematics ami music, and barns. sachusetts College there are professors be a farmer; that if he hadn't brains so that our farmers of the next genera of mechanical engineering, domestic I scellent Equipment. something or other, which probably KATE CHASE SPRAGU-. enough to master military tactics or tion will not only know how to get the economy, and household science. I every une in the room or In the'ear or “On the farm 150 acres are under the intricacies of the law or medicine best and the most out of the ground, Negroes Not Received. IIE career of Katharine Chase ou the street corner, It may be, knew cultivation with a variety of field or of theology, and was utterly lack but will be able to hold their own for The Mississippi Agricultural and Ma- Sprague, to whom Secretary before, and probably nobody can crops, and the extensive college barn Ing in creative ability, then his proper genera) information and polite accom Gage has recently given a place help. Why say anything about it? It Is stocked with 100 head of cattle and chanieal College Is conducted ou the sphere of usefulness was tlie farm. plishments with the elect of any land. equipped with the most Improved agri same general plan, except that women In the treasury department, has l>een Is cold, it Is hot. it Is wet, It is dry, Ami In those days even the "gentle cultural Implements aud machinery. and negroes are not received as stu one of the strangest aud most romantic somebody has bt^iken an appointment, Where They Are Taught, man" farmer was a person of Inferior dents. Out of a total of 368 studeuts on record. She lias 111 cooked a meal: stupidity or bad College» of agriculture are main The horticultural grounds cover 100 entered last year 310 elected to take standing, and lie was made to feel bls acres, with orchards, vineyards, small known almost ev »faith somewhere has resulted in dis tained in universities, witli the aid of insignificance whenever lie came In fruit and vegetable plantations, and the agricultural course. By farm labor ery vicissitude of | comfort. There are plenty of things national funds, in Arizona, Arkansas, contact with the svperlor persons who groves of forest trees. Much attention the students may reduce their expenses life. When she was to fret about. It is simply astonishing ruled tlie State ami made or expounded < 'allfornla, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Is given to floriculture and landscape there to $100 a year. 10 her father was how much annoyance may be found In Its laws. Society spoke of him as a Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota, gardening, and the ample plant houses Over 800 students took the farming Governor of Ohio, the course of every day’s living." even Nebraska, Nevada, New “gawk,” and his sons and daughters Missouri, are well stocked with numerous varie course last year in the Kansas State and she, a mere of the simplest, if one keeps a sharp were "country bumpkins.” But nil tills York, Ohio, Tennessee, Vermont, West ties of exotics. Some eighty acres are Agricultural College, in Manhattan. girl, was the brill eye on that side of things.—Helen devoted to the work of the experiment iant head of his Hunt Jackson. station, Including numerous plat exper ' household. When iments with varieties of field and hor Decorntion Don't». ' Chase became Lin ticultural plants, fertilizers, methods Don't put a gaudy or bright-colored coln's Secretary of MB». SPKJ of culture, etc., feeding experiments the Treasury his daughter Kate took carpet in a room wlter; the furniture is with animals, soil Investigations, etc. her place as easily ns the most dull, old or of neutral tints. "TJie laboratories of the different Don't furnish a north room in blue or beautiful aud fascinating woman lu sdentine departments are well equip official life. Her wedding to Gover- any other cold color; something of a ped with apparatus for experimenta nor, then Senator, Sprague, of Rhode warm tint should be chosen. tion and demonstration and with illus Island, was an event of prominence Don't hang a heavy portiere over a trative material, such as specimens of even in tlie midst of those historic narrow door; generally speaking, hang MASSACIICSKTTS COLLEGE BARN. plants, insects, animals and machines, days. Sprague had been War Gover- ings are out of place in u small house or particularly those of importance in The college farm r____ _____ ____ nor. He had the prestige of military with small rooms. ____ _____ comprises over 300 their relation to agriculture. The li I acres, aud is well equipped with live service, he was the youngest man in Don't till the center of the room un brary of 18,000 volumes has been care stock. The State has supplemented 1 the United States Senate, and one of fully collected with reference to the the United States grants by the erec the richest men in the country. Her less there is plenty of space oil all sides; needs of an agricultural college, and tion of a number of substantial build marriage was the climax of Kate nothing offends good taste so seriously as the sense of being “cluttered up." IOWA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTL'RE AND MECHANIC ARTS. is thoroughly catalogued and managed ings, which are valued at $350,000. Chase’s career. Since then her life lias with a view to providing the students Students of l>oth sexes are admitted at been a constant struggle against ad Don't have too much of one kind of j decoration in the house; two rooms every facility for obtaining the infor 14 years of age, after passing an ex verse circumstances. Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. In has changed and is destined to still fur mation they desire to gather from amination in reading, spelling, writing, First, her husband's fortune was upon the same general pattern are ther change. Science, which Ims done Massachusetts Harvard University 1ms books. It is one of tlie most extensive arithmetic, geography, English gram swept away. Then came trouble in quite enough—an individual scheme for so mueli for tlie world nt largo, has a school of Agrleulture known as Bus and valuable collections of books on mar aud United States history. Con tlie family, and Mrs. Chase secured a each apartment is better. taken the farmer In hand mid Is invest sey Institution. Besides these, agri the science and practice of agriculture Don't forget that flowers and hand nected with the course of study here i divorce. She removed to Edgewood, ing the man mid ids works witli the cultural and mechanical colleges have to be found in this country. is industrial training in several of the the country estate of her father, Chief- some decorative plants are no more ex dignity mid standing tlmt are theirs of been organized in Alabama, Colorado, “The Instruction is given by a corps arts, to which each student is required j Justice Chase, near Washington. There pensive than much of the cheap bric- right. The masses are being made to Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Iowa, of eighteen professors and assistants, to devote at least one hour a day Kate Chase, though retired from so a-brac and imitation statues; and while realize what they have known dimly Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michi The chairs include botany, chemistry, throughout almost the entire course. ciety, still quietly entertained the most the latter will cheapen any room, the nil along, but never fully appreciated — gan, Mississippi, Montana. New Hamp agriculture, horticulture, zoology, vet Young men may have farming garden distinguished people in public life. But former will give an air of refinement that It Is the farmer who feeds them, shire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North erinary science, mental and political ing, fruit growing, woodwork, iron there was a mortgage on the hotne- and good taste to the most scantily fur and tlmt In* Is more necessary to them Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl science, English and Latin, modern work, or printing. Young women may I stead, and it was about to be foreclos- nished home. than they are to him; tlmt without vania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, language, mathematics and civil engi take cooking, sewing, printing, floricul 1 ed, when the friends of Mrs. Sprague him works giant mid small would come South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, neering. and military sclenco and tac “Talking Classes." ture, or music. Tuition is free, and and of her father satisfied the iudebt- to a stop and tlie peoples of all the and Washington. Separate institutions tics. There Is also a lecturer on farm Miss Marion Jean Craig lias found in the annual expenses of the student I ' edness, and left her tlie place unincum earth be reduced to a state of savagery of tlds sort are maintained for colored law. Tlie student is required to follow range from $100 to $200. Students teaching women the art of impromptu bered. She then determined to start and cannibalism. speech. By studying the shortcomings students In Alabama, Delaware, Flor a definitely prescribed curriculum dur are paid at the rate of 10 cents an hour out as a market gardener, raising vege of the platform wo Farmer Knows Why ida, Mississippi, North Carolina, South ing three years, and in the last year of for work. tables for the Washington market. Science Is bringing not only tlie pub- Carolina, and Virginia. Massachusetts man Miss Craig fin This has proven unsuccessful, ami now ally reduced all her 1ms the only college whose curriculum the once brilliant beauty is to take a Is wholly devoted to agriculture. Ideas on tlie subject modest clerkship in the treasury de In the universities in which courses to this triple rule of partment. In agriculture are maintained tlie gen Edward Everett When Making a New Home. eral tendency is to make this course Iliile, which is wortly Calculate in advance not only the correspond In scope and thoroughness pasting in every fem cost of building the house, but the add witli tiiose given In the other depart inine bonnet: "Have ed cost of furnishing it when finished, ments, to divide the Instruction in agri something to say. and keep within your means. But if culture among an increasing number MISS CKAIG. Say it. Stop." Hap- the error is made, don’t double it by ily this instructor of impromptu speech of specialists, and to provide buildings furnishing temporarily in the hope of is "agin” the written paper to which and apparatus ami Illustrative ma some day doing it over again. It is the average clubwoman clings like terial on a scale In keeping with those much tlie better policy to start with grim death. “Don't believe in reading in other branches. At tlie same time everything good, even if that means to papers,” is her declaration of indepen efforts are making to bring the uni be short a few pieces, for a good start dence. “This breaks the magnetic cur versity in close touch with the masses demands a good continuance; to till a rent between speaker aud listener." of farmers through special schools, house with things one doesn’t like, on farmers' institutes, nature teachings, Delighted tlie Babies of Long Ago. the plea of “temporary,” is to invite and other forms of university exten Those who believe that feeding bot years—perhaps a lifetime—of living sion work. Along witli tills is lie to a realization of the Importance deepening ami strengthening of without that keenest and most con tles for babies are the result of modern of the farmer, but the farmer himself scientific and practical researches, stant of all pleasures—beautiful home civilization are out of date. The Greek • ' ' ' to an appreciation of th<> Importance surroundings, A suggestion worth fol nurses used to carry witli them a rled on witli a view of widening of his work and of the necessity of lit CLASS SCOKING 1'IGS— IOWA STATE COLLEGE. world’s knowledge of tlie facts, laws, lowing is to concentrate the family sponge full of honey in a small pot to ting himself for it by studying nature and processes required for the im birthday and holiday gifts on the fur stop the children from crying; and in and inducing her by scientific means the course he is allowed wide latitude The Iowa State College of Agrleul nishing of a room; In a remarkably the British Museum are two Greek provement of agriculture. rather than by haphazard to yield her of choice among numerous specialties, ture and Mechanic Arts Is a flourishing short time the seemingly unattainable vases, dating from 700 B. C„ which are 1 liirty 1 holism I Farmer Students. store. Formerly file farmer could tell English ami military science being the and well attended institution. It has I is attained, and the doing of it gives a much like feeding bottles used by the you "when" without knowing "why.” The classes In agriculture in these ouly required studies.” fifteen buildings, erected by the State living Interest not only to the room it Romans subsequently. Experiment showed him that rotation schools range in enrollment from 200 For a time the college was open to at a cost of $500,000, and these include self, but to the entire home life.—Wom An Egyptian Wedding. in crop» imide Ills land produce better to IHM) students, The total enrollment When one receives an invitation to a and lust longer, but he couldn't tell is 30,000. The full course in agrleul men only, but women may now attend J a hall for women. There are besides an's Home Companion. in such dwelling houses for professors and oth wedding in Cairo, Egypt, it is an im nature's reason for It. nor explain the ture covers four years, and practical special elective courses shirtwaists Are Popular. thousand other seeming mysteries of farmers who know enough of other branches as botany, entomology, flori er employes.a creamery, barns, stables, White shirtwaists have become an Im portant event, because, Instead of be- seed houses and forcing houses. The tlie soil. Science has done and Is doing matters to make them intelligent and culture, fruit culture, market garden portant part of the summer wardrobe, ing asked for a ten minutes’ church that for him It Is experimenting for desirable citizens are lielng sent out ing and dairying. Candidates for ad- college lands, of which 120 acres have and the number, including colored ones, ceremony or a brief evening reception, him day In and day out the year from these colleges at the rate of 8.000 mission must be at least 10 years old been parked as college grounds, are IX Ml should count just as many as can be the invitation reads for three days. round, and teaching him the why and a year, or sojioo in a decide. That and are required to pass examinations acres in extent. “The farm," Mr. True afforded. Made of lawn with fine There is feasting during all this time, the wherefore. Uncle Sam Is backing they will assist wonderfully in the de In English grammar, geography. Unit says, "consists of rolling prairie, bot tucks and insertions of lace and em ami the house and streets are liberally *eleuce In this mutter, and the farmer velopment of tlie country need not be ed States history, physiology, physical tom and woodland, ami is stocked with broidery they are dainty and desirable decorated with flags aud lanterns. 1» getting the benefit without cost. Tlie doubted. Their knowledge and traln- geography, arithmetic, the metric sys good representatives of five breeds of for warm weather. Yokes of embroid To Match the Guimpe. tem. algebra (through quadratics), ge horses, six breeds of cattle, seven It is a caprice of fashion to cut off ometry and civil government. The breeds of sheep, and six breeds of hogs. ery are pretty with plain or tucked the top of the sleeve and till in the students ns a rule room in the college These animals are used In class Illus dormitories and are la.arded in clubs trations and for the various experi space with the soft, white, finely tuck or private families. Tlie expenses for ments In breeding and feeding for milk, ed India muslin, or of whatever other room rent, board, fuel, washing and meat, wool, growth, and maintenance, frfbric the chemisette Is composed. military suit for tlie college year are conducted by the experiment station as This fashion Is carried out better when estimated to range from $150 to $300. a department of tlie college. All the the bodice is all of wash goods, but Students performing labor at the col crops of the farm are grown for some still It is feasible in any case. lege are paid by the State, and there educational purpose; all the animals A Costly Handkerchief. are small endowment funds for the as are fed by rule and system, and the re Queen Margherita, of Italy, owns a sistance of needy students. The stu sults of their management reported up lace handkerchief on which three ar dents have their athletic associations on and used in glass work. Labor is tists in lace worked for twenty years. WEH >11. B I WAIST«. and glee clubs and social amusements not compulsory, but students in tlie ng- the same ns nt Harvard and Yale, and I reeultural courses are given work that lawn, which is made with the tucks When laid on your hand the weight of they nre required to attend prayers and Is parallel with their studies. Some diagonal in front and straight in the the handkerchief is not perceptible, worship in the college chapel. students pay for their board by work back, straight all around or crosswise and it is kept in a gold case not larger The Michigan State Agricultural in the mornings and evenings. There both back and front, as you like. In than an ordinary lima bean. It is val College Is the oldest in the country. It Is a practical working creamery and whatever style you make it pin your ued at $30,000. was established by an net of tlie Mich cheese factory In operation throughout faith to the white shirtwaist. Dainty Woman's Way«. igan Legislature in 1855, and for thirty tlie year. During the summer season lawn waists In pale blue and pink have Women are things of beauty and from 15,000 to 25,tMM) pounds of milk years, like the Massachusetts College, * white guimpe of tucked lawn aud lace jaws forever.—Central Illinois Demo had only an agricultural course. In are taken In daily and manufactured Insertion, which also forms the top of crat. 1800, under a materially increased in Into butter and cheese. The number the sleeve. A woman doesn't need a blotter come. a mechanical course was added, of students in 1807 was 573, including when she writes. She uses her fingers. For the IlHnds. and later a woman's course. The laws women.” LESSON IN IRRIGATION UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. When the hands are very dirty It Is —Washington Democrat. of the State prescribe that ft »hall be better to rub them thoroughly with ■ When a woman meets a mind reader, Deep Down in the Earth. a "high »emlnary of learning, in which funner learns from the bulletin« that ' Ing will enable them to get more out the graduate of the common school can The deepest hole In the earth is at cold cream ltefore washing them. Then somehow, she always shudders.—Little tire »ent out by the Department of Ag of the earth and themselves than, the commence, pursue, and finish a course Schla.tabae'n, near Ketschau. Germany. wash In warm water, using pure soap Falls Transcript. rleiilture. ami all over the land the 1 tens of thousands of other earnest and of study terminating In thorough theo It is 5..35 feet In depth and is for geo- and a nail brush, rinse in vool water Ever since Eve thought of dress, farmer»' son» and daughters are tak honest men who have taken tip home retic ami practical instruction in those logie research only. The drilling was and dry thoroughly on a «oft towel, woman has thonght of nothing else.— ing courses lu agriculture and horti steads and gone to farming without sciences and arts which bear directly begun In I nso and stopped six years Two-thirds of all women dry their Philadelphia Bulletin. culture. farm gardening and dairying, any knowledge of or preparation for upon agriculture and kindred indus later because the engineers were un hands very imperfectly, and then The woman m~st greatly to l»e en- and stock breeding and stock raising, the cultivation of the soil. trial pursuits." able with their instruments to go deep wonder why the skin Is rough, A few vied these days is she who has nat in colleger supported Jointly by the In an article In the Year Book of the drops of a good hand lotion should be er. Tlie college land, comprising HT«» Stale and Federal governments. | De|Mirtment of Agriculture ou “Some acres, is divided Into the farm of rubbed all over the hands and allowed urally curly hair.—Philadelphia Times. When a matFoffends a daughter, her Their Instruction Is practical, too, Types of American Agricultural Col- to dry in after they have been in water Bullet of Gr-at Force. acres, devoted to field crops grown mi* for the colleges have farms under cul , leges." A. C. True, i'll. I»., director of mother and all her sisters go out on a for some time, as so many housekeep A rifle of very small bore. Invented system of rotation, forty-five der a tivation ami herds and droves of cattle i the Government's experiment stations, acres of woodland pasture. 114 acres by Capt. Daudeteau of the French ar ers' hands must be so often, and al sympathetic strike.—Atchison Globe and swine, ami dairies and truck farms desertin'» the essential features of some It Is a habit with some women to set of lawns, gardens and orchards, 240 my. tires a bullet with such force that ways at night. The hands should not and orchards The instructors are men of these Institutions of learning. Of acres of forest, and 47 acres of experi It will |<enetrate a horse, from head to be exposed to cold air for some time a whole house to rights before they who are eutithsl to write. “Bachelors the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- think of taking off their hat.«.—Berlin mental fields and plats. The farm is tall, at a distance of a mile and a quar after they have been washed. of Science" after their names. They ' lege, which Is near Amherst, on a farm equipped with cattle, sheep and swine ter. (Md.) Herald. Hie Fin of fretting. know all about the soil» ami the sea of 400 acres, situated In a most beau- of the principal breed*. There are an Money and women are at the bottom There Is one sin which. It seems to sons. and what crops are adaptable | tlful part of the Connecticut river val arboretum of 150 species of trees, a Cake At English Weddings. of all a man s trouble. Usually it Is a me. Is everywhere and by everybody and what are not, and their science ley, lie «ays: The cake at English weddings is ■I- botanic garden containing 1,200 species lack of money and another woman._ goes so far as to include conditions In "In 1SS»7 the college had permanent of native and foreign hardy herbaceous ways a star feature, Usually at a underestimated, and quite too much Baltimore Herald. foreign countries ami to la* able to I endowment funds aggregating $;;<io,- plants, with some shrubs, a grass gar fashionable affair it is fully six feet overlooked in valuation of character. There may be some women who find judge from them whether corn, or 000. and Its building«, farms and equip den of 200 species of grasses and clov high and is a marvelous architectural It is the sin of fretting. It is common wheat, or lutrley. or whatever product ment were valued at atsmt $3l5,otH). ers. and a weed garden of too species structure of Icing adorned with flower» as air. as speech—so common that, un a greater joy In saving money than in less it rises above Its usual monotone, spending it, but we have not met them of the farm will lie most In demand The college buildings Include combined of the most troublesome weeds. The aud figures. we do not even observe It. Watch any —Feminine Observer. for export, and so tsvmmand the readi dormitory ami class room building, students lu agriculture are required to 1 est market and the l»">t price. They chapel an<l library, laboratory for work two and one-half hours a day on One reason why Eve went nr: Some folks are so industrious that ordinary coming together of people, ■ round as and see how many minutes It will be have reduced farming to a science, and chemistry and physic*. entomological the farm or garden. The annual aver when they haven't anything else to da »he did was because. tike any r oth<-r before somebody frets that Is. makes woman, she disdained to le her ewn are teaching It as a science. The course ' laboratory with iuscctary, botanic la- age expeuses of stuJeuts tor loard. they worry. more or less complaining statement of 1 dressmaker.- Kansas City Star. FARMER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY H