V br-ratory and museum. drill hall, dormi­ [room rent, heat, light, books, laboratory ' tory, president’s house, several resi­ and other fees are estimated at $125. dences for professors, farm houses, These expenses are often reduced by He Pursues His Catlin” in a Scientific Way These Days and Does Not boarding house, horticultural plant receipts for lalior 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 und T use/1 to bo the rule that when a I in agriculture Includes history and gov­ station also has a chemical laboratory, assistants in the faculty, and In addi­ man wasn't fit for anything else ernment. French ami German. English, botanical laboratory with plant bu use tion to the chairs provided by the Mas-, he was considered good enough to and tlie higher mathematics and music, ami barns. sachusetts College there are professors be a farmer; that If he hadn't bruins so tluit our farmers of the next genera­ of mechanical engineering, domestic I xcellent Equipment. something or other, which probably KATE CHASE SPRAGUL enough to master military tactics or tion will not only know how to get tlie economy, and household science. every one in the room or In the'car or “On the farm 150 acres are under the intricacies of the law or medicine best and tlie most out of tlie ground, Negroes Not Received. HE 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 aide to hold their own for Tlie Mississippi Agricultural and Ma- Sprague, to whom Secretary before, and probably nobody can crops, and the extensive college barn ing in creative ability, then Ills proper general 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 chanical College is conducted ou tlie sphere of usefulness was the 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 been ; is cold. It Is hot. It is wet, it is dry, And In those days even the “gentle­ cultural implements and machinery. | and negroes are not received as stu­ one of the strangest aud most romantic somebody lias btyrken an appointment, At here They Are Taught. man" farmer was a person of Inferior dents. Out of a total of 368 students j on record. She has 111 „ cooked „ „ ______ a meal; _ atupldlty or bad Colleges of agriculture are main­ The horticultural grounds cover 100 entered last year 316 elected to take standing, ami he was made to feel his acres, with orchards, vineyards, small known almost ev- «faith somewhere has resulted in dis- tained in universities, with the aid of insignificance whenever he came in fruit and vegetable plantations, and the agricultural course. By farm lalior of ; eoIufort. There are plenty of things ery vicissitude i ' contact witli the superior persons who national funds, in Arizona. Arkansas, groves of forest trees. Much attention the students may reduce their expenses life. When she was I | to fret about. It is simply astonishing ruled tlie State and made or expounded California, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, is given to floriculture and landscape there to $100 a year. 16 her father was how much annoyance may be found in Its laws. Society spoke of him as n 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 Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New “gawk,” and his sons and daughters are well stockisl with numerous varie­ course last year in tlie Kansas State and she, a mere of the simplest, if one keeps a sharp were “country bumpkins.” But all 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 i household. W hen iments with varieties of Held ami hor­ Decoration Don’ts. ' Chase became Lin­ ticultural plants, fertilizers, methods Don't put a gaudy or bright-colored coln's Secretary of of culture, etc., feeding experiments the Treasury his daughter Kate took carpet in a room where the furniture is with animals, soil investigations, etc. her place as easily as 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 In scientific 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 mi event of prominence Don't hang a heavy portiere over a trative material, such as specimens of even in the midst of those historic narrow door; generally speaking, hang­ MASSA« Hl SETTS COLI.EGE BARN. plants, insects, animals ami machines, days. Sprague had been War Gover­ ings are out of place in a small house or particularly those of importance in The college farm comprises over 300 nor. He had the prestige of military witli small rooms. their relation to agriculture. The li­ acres, aud is well equipped with live service, he was the youngest man in Don’t fill 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 on 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 STA TE COLLEGE OE AGRICI LTLRE AND MECHANIC AKTS. is thoroughly catalogued and managed ings, which are valued at $350,000. Chase’s career. Since then her life has with a view to providing the students Students of both sexes are admitted at been a constant struggle against ad­ Don't have too much of one kind of every facility for obtaining the infor­ 14 years of age, after passing an ex­ verse circumstances. decoration in tlie house; two rooms has changed and Is destined to still fur­ Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming, In mation they desire to gather from First, her husband’s fortune was upon tlie same general pattern are ther change. Science, which has done Massachusetts Harvard University 1ms books. It is one of the most extensive amination in reading, spelling, writing, arithmetic, geography, English gram ­ swept away. Then came trouble in quite enough—an individual scheme for so much for the world at large, lias a school of Agriculture known as Bus­ and valuable collections of books on each apartment is better. taken the farmer in hand and is Invest­ sey Institution. Besides these, agri­ the science and practice of agriculture mar and United States history. Con­ the family, and Mrs. Chase secured a nected with the course of study here Don't forget that flowers and hand­ divorce. She removed to Edgewood, ing tlie man and his works witli the cultural and mechanical colleges have to be found in this country. is industrial training in several of the tlie country estate of her father, Chief- some decorative plants are no more ex­ dignity and standing that are theirs of been organized in Alabama, Colorado, “The instruction is given by a corps arts, to which each student is required 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, 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, to devote at least one hour a day throughout almost tlie entire course. ciety, still quietly entertained the most [ tlie 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 i 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 home­ and good taste to the most scantily fur­ and that he Is more necessary to them Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsyl­ science, English and Latin, modern work, or printing. Young women may stead. and it was about to be foreclos­ nished home. than they are to him; that without vania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, language, mathematics and civil engi­ take cooking, sewing, printing, floricul­ ed, when tlie friends of Mrs. Sprague him works gre at least Id years old been parked as college grounds, are 900 should count Just as many as can be the invitation reads for three days. round, mid tenehlng him toe why mid a year, or 80.000 in a decade. That and are required to pass examinations acres in extent. "Tlie 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 lu tlie de­ in English grammar, geography. Unit­ says, “consists of rolling prairie, bot­ tucks and insertions of lace and em­ and the house ami streets are liberally science In tills mutter, and tin* farmer velopment of the country need not be ed States history, physiology, physical tom and woodland, and is stocked witli broidery they are dainty and desirable decorated with flags and lanterns. Is getting the lieuetlt without cost. The doubted. Their knowledge and train geography, arithmetic, tlie metric sys­ good representatives of five breeds of for warm weather. Yokes of embroid­ tem, algebra (through quadratics), ge­ horses, six breeds of cattle, seven To Match the Gninipe. 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 fill in the students as a rule room in the college These animals are used in class illus­ dormitories and are boarded in clubs trations and for the various experi­ space with the soft, white, finely tuck­ or private families. Tlie expenses for ments lu breeding and feeding for milk, ed India muslin, or of whatever other room rent, board, fuel, washing and meat, wool, growth, and maintenance, fabric the chemisette is composed. military suit for tlie college year are conducted by tlie 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, mid 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 association* on and used in glass work. Labor is tists in lace worked for twenty years. SEW SHIRTWAISTS. and glee dubs and social amusements not compulsory, but students in tlie ag- tlie same as at Harvard and Yale, and recultural courses are given work that lawn, which is made witli the tucks When laid on your hand the weight of they are required to attend prayers ami is parallel with their studies. Some diagonal lu front and straight in the the handkerchief is not perceptible, worship in the college cluipel. 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 tlie mornings and evenings. There both back aud front, as you like. In than an ordinary lima bean. It is val­ College Is tlie oldest in tlie country. It Is a practical working creamery and whatever style you make it pin your ued at $36,000. was established by an act of tlie Mich­ cheese factory In operation throughout faith to the white shirtwaist. Dainty Woman1! Way., igan Legislature in 1855, and for thirty the year. During the summer season lawn waists in pale blue and pink have Women are things of beauty and years, like the Massachusetts College, from 15,000 to 25,000 pounds of milk * white gttimpe of tucked lawn and lace jaws forever—Central Illinois Demo­ had only an agricultural course. In nre taken in dally and manufactured Insertion, which also forms the top of crat. 1890, under a materially Increased in­ Into butter and cheese. The number I the sleeve. A woman doesn’t need a blotter come. a medianleal course was added, of students in 1897 was 573, including when she writes. She uses her fingers. For the Hands. and later a woman's course. Tlie laws women.” I.ESSON IN IRRIG A ITON l X1VEKS1TÏ OE WISCONSIN. When the hands are very dirty It Is —Washington Democrat. of the State prescribe that ft shall be better to rub them thoroughly with When a woman meets a mind reader, Deep Down in the Earth. a "high seminary of learning, in which farmer learns from the bulletins that Ing will enable them to get more out the graduate of the common school can The deepest hole tn the earth Is at cold cream before washing them. Then somehow, she always shudders.—Little are sent out by the Department of Ag­ of the earth and themselves than, the commence, pursue, and finish a course Sehlmjpbaeh. near Ketsehau. Germany. wash in warm water, using pure soap Falls Transcript. riculture, and all over the land the 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 x*ool water Ever since Ere thought of dress, farmers' sons and daughters are tak honest men who have taken up home­ retic and practical instruction in those logic research only. The drilling was and dry thoroughly on a soft towel, woman has thought 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 am] 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 bands very imperfectly, ami then The woman most 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 colleges HU|>|H>ited jointly by the In an article In the Year Book of the drops of a good hand lotion should be The college land, comprising 676 er. State and Federal government*. Department of Agriculture ou “Some acres, Is divided Into the farm of 230 rubbed all over the hands anil allowed urally curly hair.—Philadelphia Times. When a maiFoffends 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-nt Force. devoted to livid crops grown un ­ acres, for the colleges have farms under cill- legi-s," A. C. True. I’ll. D., director of mother nnout $315,o»io. ers. and a weed garden of loo species structure of Icing adorned w ith dowers as air, as speech—so common that, un­ a greater joy In saving money than in less It rises above Its usual monotone, spending ft. but we have not met them of the farm will I** moat In demand The college buildings Include combined of the most troublesome weedw The and figures. we do not even observe It. Watch any —Feminine Observer. for export, and so a command the reiidl- dormitory and class room building, students In agriculture are required to eat market and the l**st price. Tlwy chapel and library, laboratory for work two and one-half hours a day on One reason why Eve went around a Some folks are so industrious that ordinary coming together of people, " have rediK'ed farming to a aclenee. and chemistry aud physics, entomological the farm or garden. The annual aver­ «hen they haven't anything else to do and see bow many minutes it will be »he did was because. like any other before somebody frets—that Is, makes woman, she disdained to 1* her dwg art teaching It a* a science. The course laboratory with luscctary, botanic la- age expenses of students for Istard, they worry. more or less complaining statement of I dressmaker. Kansan City -Star. H I