HUti' ROOSEVELT
KILLED A LION.
Ex-President Describes Exploit
In Detail.
HE BROKE THE BEAST'S BACK
Three Well Directed Shots Required to
Dispose of the Animal, Which Was on
Point of Charging the Hunter—Lady
Pease an Interested Spectator of En
counter.
How Colonel Itoosevelt killed one of
his first lions is told by the former
president himself in an article entitled
"African Game Trails," written for the
November Scribner's. Here is the ex
perience of the distinguished sports
man from his own pen:
"At this moment my black sais.
Simba, came running up to me and
took hold of the bridle. He had seen
the chase from the line of march and
had cut across to join me. There was
no other sais, or grin bearer, anywhere
near, and his action was plucky, for
he was the only man afoot, with the
lion at bay. Lady Pease had also
ridden up and was an Interested spec
tator only some fifty yards behind me.
How Roosevelt Planned.
"Now, an elderly man with a varied
past, which includes rheumatism, does
not vault lightly into the saddle, as his
sons, for instance, can, and 1 bad al
ready made up my mind that in the
event of the lion's charging it would
be wise for me to trust to straight
powder rather than to try to scramble
Into the saddle and get under way in
time. The arrival of my two com
panions settled matters. I was not
sure of the speed of Lady Pease's
horse, and Simba was on foot, and it
was of course out of the question for
me to leave him. So I said, 'Good.
Simba; now we'll see this thing
through,' and gentle mannered Simba
smiled a shy appreciation of my tone,
though he could not understand the
words.
"The Lion Turned Toward Us."
"I still could not see the lion when I
knelt, but he was now standing up,
looking first at ono group of horses
and then at the other, his tall lashing
to and fro, his head held low aud his
Hps dropped over his mouth in pecul
iar fashion, while his harsh aud sav
age growling rolled thunderously over
the plain. Seeing Simba and me on
foot, lie turned toward us, his tail lash
ing quicker and quicker.
"Besting my elbow on Simba's bent
shoulder. 1 took steady aim and press
ed the trigger. The bullet went ill be
tween the neck aud shoulder, and the
lion fell over on his side, one fore leg
in the air. He recovered in a moment
and stood up, evidently very sick, and
once more faced me, growling hoarse
Jy. I think he was on the eve of charg
ing. 1 fired again at once, aud this
bullet broke his back just behind the
shoulders, and with the next I killed
him outright after we had gathered
round him."
Kills Leopard Barehanded.
"My friend Carl Akely of Chicago ac
tually killed barehanded a leopard
which sprang on him. He had already
wounded the beast twice, crippling it
in one front and one hind paw, where
upon it charged, followed him as lie
tried to dodge the charge and struck
him full just as he turned. It bit him
in one arm, biting again and again as
it worked up the arm from the wrist
to the elbow, but Akely threw it. hold
ing its throat with the other hand and
flinging its body to oue side.
"It luckily fell on its side with its
two wounded legs uppermost, so that 1
It would not tear him. He fell for
ward with it and crushed in its chest
with his knees until he distinctly felt
one of Its ribs crack. This, said Ake
ly, was the first moment when he felt
he might conquer. Itedoubling his ef
forts, with knees and hand he actu
ally choked and crushed the life out of
it, although his arm was badly bitten."
THE LATEST FROM PARIS.
Mme. Noria's New Gown Bags at the
Knees, but Not at ths Ankles.
Arriving in New York from Paris,
Mme. Noria. a singer, wore the most
extraordinary suit which has yet been
brought over this year and shows
which way the i'arisian fashions are
blowing. It is a very tight fitting chif
fon velvet which bags at the knees
and is very tight around the ankles.
In fact, it is impossible for Mme. Noria
to take very long steps while she wears
this gown, it is trimmed only wltn
round Spanish buttons, also of black.
To top it oir she wore a smart turban
of white fox and carried a white fox
muff aril stole. Mine. Noria's appear
ance on the dock was almost a sensa
tion.
The Crisis.
"Now. Tommy, you must go and
wash yourself."
"Ma. if yon keep on at this wasliln'
business you'll queer me whole vaca
tion."—Century Magazine.
Men's lives are as thoroughly blend
ed with each other as the air tbev
breathe.- Eliot
Explained.
"You say the defeudant pulled the
plaintiff's hair. Now. how could the
defendant, who is an unusually short
man. reach the plaintiff's hair, the
plaintiff being fully six feet tall?"
"Why. you see, your honor, the
plaintiff was hutting him at the time."
—Cleveland I'lain Dealer.
Evidently a Connoisseur.
"Rllggins is a connoisseur In cigars."
"He must be. Otherwise he might
make an occasional mistake and give
away a good one."—Washington Star.
A bold onset is half the battle-Gari
baldi.
1 here is no grace In a benefit that
sticks to the fingers.—Seneca.
HER SCJEI*
He Proved to Be Even Good
Enough For a Husband.
By CLARISSA MACKIE.
[Copyright, liio9, by Associated Literary
l'ress.]
Olida walked down the green aisle
ef waving corn. The long green
leaves flickered high over her sunny
head, and the sound of the wind
sweeping through the ten acre corn
field was like the roaring swell of the
ocean in her ears.
Now and then she tore a plump ear
from the juicy stali;s and thrust it in
her splint basket. She did this leisure
ly, for it was yet early morning, and
there were hours before dinner, and
she loved to walk in the corn.
The rustle of the leaves drowned all
other sounds, aud thus it was that she
came suddenly upon a man crouching
on the ground before her. As her pink
skirts came into his range of vision he
leaped to his feet and stood, half turn
ed for flight.
The girl grew white with sudden
fear and in her turn made as if to run
away. The man's face lost its strained
intensity and relaxed for an instant.
She saw that he was young ami good
looking and that he was afraid of
I something.
"What do you want? Why are you
here?"
"They're after me," he said grimly.
! "Who?"
i"The constables."
1 "What have you done?" She did not
, shrink away from him as he expected
she might do.
"Nothing at ail—if you will believe
ine! The Laurelton* railroad station
was robbed last night, and it seemed
necessary to arrest some one on sus
; piciot). As a matter of fact, I'm one
of the faculty of the Moreton school,
and I'm taking a walking tour through
| New England.
"I submitted to arrest, but on my
■ way to the lockup my gorge rose at
| the thought of the unnecessary igno
minjMo 1 upon me, s.. I broke
J
4 11
"I THOtTOHT TOP MIGHT TAKK IT DOWN
AND FCT ON TUB CLOTHES "
away and lost myself in this field. 1
suppose they will get me in the end.
for I am dog tired now."
She lifted her troubled eyes to his
| and read truth in their steady brown
depths.
Something black came into view
among the stalks and then disap
peared. For an instant she started
[and then laughed. Involuntarily the
Granger's face relaxed into a smile.
"They will trace you by your clothes
your appearance?" she asked quickly.
He glanced down at his plain gray
• lot lies and nodded assent.
"Come with me." She led the way
through the corn, and he followed her.
s.artiug back with a muttered ejacula
tion as a black coat sleeve came into
view.
"It's nothing—it's only one of the
scarecrows in the corn," she reassured
him. "I thought you might take it
down and put on the clothes—they're
black—and the hat is different. They're
all clean. You see, they've been out
in the rain and"— She hesitated.
"That's a glorious idea of yours," he
said gratefully. He pulled the man of
straw from the post and tore away
[ the tattered garments.
"Now"— he said, but she bad rustled
away toward her basket, and he heard
her plucking juicy ears in the distance.
When he came toward her with his
gray clothes on his arm he forgave her
the smile that lurked about her red
lips.
"The truly great are modest," he
said, looking quizzically at the torn
and shrunken garments that were dis
tributed more or less effectively over
his large frame. "And now how shall
I thank you?"
"liy making good your escape," she
said quickly. "We don't want to make
a failure of It now. (live me your
gray clothes. There—l'll put them in
the* bottom ol my basket, and some
day when it's all over you may come
for them. Now follow this row down
to the open field. Cross that to the
orchard, and in one corner among the
apple trees there is the shod where we
sort apples for market. In the loft
overhead there is clean straw where
you can sleep till night, when it will
be safe for you togo on. Good by!"
In an instant she was gone and he
was alone in the rustling corn. He
heard the distant shout of a man's
voice and another voice in reply. Then
he turned and went swiftly down the
green alley toward the orchard.
• ••••««
November winds were whistling
through the lifeless stalks now gath
ered into great shocks over the stubbly
field. Alida walked slowly over the
brown earth, drinking In the tang of
the coming frost and the zest of the
dying year.
Suddenly she came upon the place
where she had met the lleoiug stranger
whom she had aided in the midsum
mer. She looked at the fantastic fig
ure perched on a shock of corn, and
her lips parted in a joyous laugh.
"It is you—you have come back?"
Bhe asked.
'1 he scant-row man grinned happily.
I came back for my clothes," he ad
mitted.
Alida flushed under the brown of her
cheek. "They are in the bouse. 1 told
mother about you. We have been ex-
peeling you to come back."
"1 am glad of that," he said simply.
••Yon saw the papers after 1 escaped?
You know that 1 spoke the truth to
you that day. They captured the real
criminal." lie regardel her steadily. 1
"I read all about it, and we were
very glad."
"Thank you. And 1 hope you
not annoyed that day you met the eon
stable and his men." lie was standing
beside her, looking down at her sweet
face with a certain earnestness in bia
own that had never been there before, j
"Yes; I met them and told them I
had seen one man and that he looked
like a scarecrow." She laughed and
added mischievously, "The constable
said that couldn't be the man because i
he was looking for a dude."
They laughed in unison as the stran- j
ger picked up a suit case and prepared
to follow Alida toward the farmhouse, i
When they were in sight of the com- '
fortable dwelling the man stopped and ;
looked wistfully at the girl beside him.
"Do you know, I rather hate to part
with these 'scarecrow garments.' They
have served me more than one good
turu."
"More than one?" repeated Alida. fal- \
tering.
"More than one," with an enigmatic
smile. "So with your permission 1 shall
carry them away with me, that once in
awhile 1 may come back and play the
scarecrow as I did this morning."
"Wo shall not need a scarecrow until
next May. when the corn is up, but
you might come and practice."
And so it happened that when the
following August came and the rustling
corn formed arching green alleys Alida
and the scarecrow man walked togeth
er in the cornlield.
"And you do not object to having a
scarecrow for a husband?" he was say
ing tenderly, her hand lost in his grasp.
"No, indeed!" blushed Alida happily.
Died at Eighty-eight, as She t J redic;ec!.
Prophesying early in life that slt>* <
would live to see her eighty-eighth I
birthday. Mrs. .luila 11. Hancock of j
Brockton. Mass.. died a few days ago
on the day she had previously set for j
her death. Infirmities of age are gi-rn ,
as the cause. She gave no particular \
reason for her prediction, although she !
seemed imbued with the belief thai her I
prophecy would come true.
Small axes fell great trees - German |
Proverb
He Wasn't Glad.
Steve Long is noted for attending to |
his own business and saying very little j
about it. One morning an iquisitive
neighbor met him returning from the i
woods with his gun over h'S shoulder.
"Hello, Steve! Where hev ye been—
a-shootin'?"
"Yep."
"What ye been a-sbootin'?"
"Dog." '
"Yer dog? My! Was he mad':"
"Waal, he didn't look so danged well i
pleased."—Everybody's Magazine.
The Blind Leading the Blind.
Neither Mabel nor Willie has quite i
mastered the intricacies of English
pronunciation, but each delights in
correcting the other's mistakes. East j
Sunday, while the family was at din
ner, Mabel said:
"Please pass the dravy."
Willie saw his chance and quicklj
exclaimed:
"Well. Mabel! If I touldn't say I
dravy I'd say drease." Woman's
llome Companion.
Pretty Ancient.
"Billinger has some very ancient airs
in his new comic opera."
"Ancient! Say. I'll bet he has gone
back tor some of them to the time*
when the morning stars sang togeth
er!"—Cleveland i'lain Dealer.
A Double Job
"Tell me—ah—are you a—er—ab-a
good, careful, excellent cook and n
er—a very superior laundress?"
"Ab-h h! Wot d'ye take tne fer—
twins?"—Harper's Weekly.
Inconsistent.
"Your pictures are Inconsistent."
"Why?"
"You illustrate this hobo joke with a
wnsh drawing."—Kansas City Times.
Winter finds out what summer lays
up.—Anderson.
Tomorrow's Breakfast—
Have it Shot from Guns
Surprise your folks tomorrow morn- simple purpose of blasting the starch
ing with a dish of Puffed \\ heat or granules to pieces.
I uffeu kite. g ut t f ie resu i t |j s cr i sp) gigantic
I hen let them pass judgment. grains, made four times as porous as
Go back to the old foods if your bread,
folks think them better. But we The result is unbroken, nut-like
know that you won't go back. grains, ready to melt in the mouth.
Foods that the children like.
These are curious foods, but not They are liked so well that seven
mat eto>e < urious. Ihe object was tejen million dishes were consumed
to ma et em digestible. j ast mont h. Now it is your turn to
They are exploded by steam for the try them.
Puffed Wheat —10c Puffed Rice —15c
I liesc are the foods invented by Prof. An- Then the guns are unsealed, and the steam
derson, and this is his curious process: explodes. Instantly every starch granule is
The whole wheat or rice kernels are put into blast ° d int ° 3 myfiad Particlcs
sealed guns. Then the guns are revolved for kernels of grain are expanded eight
sixty minutes in a heat of 550 degrees times. \et the coats are unbroken, the shapes
. , are unaltered. We have simply the magnified
1 nat tierce heat turns the moisture in the grain.
gra.n to steam, and the pressure becomes trc- Gnc packaße wi „ te „ , , ,
mcndous - light in them. Order it now. P
18!
Made only by The Quaker Oats Company
MBS. BEL"" 3
OIK i'i 1«
She Combines Siiura;.it3 Pro
moting With Liieramre.
STORIES OF CHiLO LIFE.
fhe Volume Records Doings of Mrs.
Belmont's Own Children French
Artist the Illustrator—Disposal of
the Profits.
I-
Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont, the New
York society woman who lias joined
the woman's suffrage movement, das
i written it story liook for c hildren
; which is almost ready for I lie publlsb
-1 er's hands, and If it were not for the
I great demands made upon her time
by suffrage work the set of tales would
have been among this year's holiday
offerings.
As a story writer Mrs. Belmont ap
pears lu a new guise, for lew if any
of her inost Intimate friends have had
the slightest inkling of this sift. The
book was begun several months ago
and has boon written for her own
pleasure and for the entertainment of
her grandchildren, the two sous of
the Duchess of Marlborough.
The stories have pleased this audi
ence of two, the youthful Marquis of
Rlanford and Lord Ivor Spencer
Chun hill, both of whom have listened
eagerly to the recital of stirring tales
of the two heroes and one heroine who
are the principal characters In the
| book. It was her grandchildren's ab
! sorbed interest in these stories, which
they have clamored for ever since they
j were old enough to listen to stories,
that suggested the Idea of collecting
the tales and presenting them in book
form for others to read, for. Mrs. Rel
i motit explained, "if these tales ot
j other children give pleasure to my
: grandchildren might they not Inter
i est and entertain others?"
Stories of the Vanderbilts.
The charm of this little volume Is
i that they are all true stories, being a
faithful chronicle of the doings of Mrs.
Belmont's own children when they
were growing up, so that when the
sons of the Duchess of Marlborough 1
listen to these stories of the pranks
and the childish plays of the two
heroes and the heroine in the book
i they are really hearing about their
| own mother and their two uncles. Mr. j
| \V. K, Vanderbilt, Jr., and Mr. Harold
' Sterling Vanderbilt.
; The book will be handsomely illus
trated, Mrs. Belmont says, she herself
! having arranged personally with a well
| known French artist to make the
! drawings, and it will be a ' olume of
unusual beauty as well as of unusual
interest.
It has not been decided by the au
thor to what purpose the funds from
the sale of the book will be placed, but
It would not be at all surprising if
they were devoted to the cause of wo-,
man suffrage, in which Mrs. Belmont
is interested.
Where Nature Cooks the Food.
In certain parts of .New Zealand both !
native and white women use the natti-j
ral hot springs to do their cooking. In !
the Rotorua region, it matters not!
whether the cook wishes to roast a i
piece of meat, boil potatoes or steam j
pudding, all she has to do Is to step !
out of doors and place the cooking
utensil in a steam hole. The cover is i
then put on.and a piece of coarse!
sacking over the whole completes the I
operation. In a short time dinner Is I
ready. At Whakarewarewa the entire j
earth just beneath the surface is a 1
mass of boiling springs. Millions or >
gallons of hot water hiss and steam,!
sending vapors skyward in great white
clouds. Strike the ground almost any
where with a stick and the hole thus
formed tills with hot water Hot wa -
ter for baths, the week's washing mid j
for the ordinary purposes or the Mouse j
hold Is always on hand.
AN ESKIMO CHURCH.
The Sealskin Sweatbox Finally Went
to the Dogs.
The missionary sent to the States for
a magic lantern and the necessary
slides. Thirteen months later they
reached him.
Everything in Batlin Laud dates
from that ever memorable magic lan
tern exhibition. From ;MJO miles around
the expei-taut Eskimos came In behiud
their dog t»ams to participate in the
wonderful event. The sealskin church !
was filled to overflowing. The specta- !
tors were packed as closely as sardines j
in a tin. The scent of sperm oil aud '
blubber and sweat soaked furs min
gled in the air. Although the ther
mometer outside registered 40 degrees
below zero, the perspiration poured in
streams down the faces of the enthusi
astic audience. And when the strag
gliug list of arctic explorers who have
touched at Cumberland sound have
long since been forgotten the recol
lection of that magic lantern show
will linger in the minds of the Eskimo
from Meta Incognita toCoekbum l.and.
Rut a few uights later a sad fate
befell the sealskin church. It was
eaten up by a pack of hungry Eskimo '
dogs. These savage creatures, starved |
almost to death, made a raid on the j
edifice during a blinding snowstorm, j
Managing to get on top of the roof,
they soon tore holes in the sealskiu
covering, aud. in spite of the exertions
of the missionary and his entire con
gregation. they actually rati away with
the greater portiou of the frozen skin,
which, at t\ safe distance, they pro
ceeded to devour—Everybody's Maga
zine.
Lingering Superstitions.
"Will a lucky gentlewoman give an
unlucky one a tiny mascot to bring
luck?" runs an advertisement in an
English paper. Here was a poor soul
—for If there is a creature on the face
of the earth whose fate calls for pity
if is a gentlewoman who Is down
keeping in her poverty some of that
superstition or faith, whatever it may
be called, which is the only thing that
keeps misforuue from crushing the
sufferer. If only she could get the
right charm she might Induce fate to
look kindly on her! People call this
a practical age, but evidences of su
perstition continue to appear. A law
suit not long ago revealed the fact that
an astrologer kept a motorcar and had
a fine house, etc., all of which eamo
out of the proceeds of a zodiacal mag
azine.
As Exemplified.
Having given his order twenty min
utes before and seeing no indications
that his dinner was ready, the man
with the sparse whiskers beckoned to
a waiter.
"My friend," he said, "perhaps I
have made a mistake. Is this a pay as
you enter restaurant?"
"No, sir." responded the young man
in the white apron, yawning. "This Is
a dinner cooked while you wait res
taurant."
Thereupon he resumed his dreamy,
contemplative attitude, and the man
with the sparse whiskers waited some
more.—Chicago Tribune.
A Failure.
"There isn't enough analogy in the
English language." proclaimed the
[ bright young student. "If we say
I 'male and female' to distinguish sex.
I why not say 'lion and felion' too?"
"Wouldn't distinguish." replied the
practical professor, "considering both
are felines."-Baltimore American.
Her Very Picture.
Fie irhapsodicallyi—l adore every
thing that is grand, exquisite, super
eminent. I love the peerless, the so
rene, the perfect In life. She (blushing
coyl.vi—Oh, how can 1 refuse
you when you put it so beautifully?
Our Neighbor.
What is meant by our neighbor we
cannot doubt, it is every one with
whom we are brought into conta<-i.
whosoever it lie, whom we have any
mentis of helping. Deau Stanley.
The Awakener.
Romantic (iiri—Oh. George, what a
sweet (lieuin is love.' Cynical Bus
Driver— M yes, ami matrimony is the
alarm dock - nitrated Bits.
TO SAVE THE CADE'
Conference to Be Held to Con
sider Ways and Maans.
CAUSES OF HIGH MORTALITY.
Most Blame Placed on Congestion Un
der Unfavorable Conditions as to
Light and Ail—lmproved Tenements
May Be Solution of Problem.
Apropos of the appalling mortality
among the babies not only in onr own
land, but throughout the civilized
world, no single factor can be pointed
out as the primary cause of this blot
on our modern civilization. The prob
lem and the possibility of its preven
tion are to be considered at a special
conference arranged by the American
Academy of Medicine, to be held at
New Haven, Conn., Nov. 11 and 12.
What are regarded as contributory
causes can be gathered from some of
the subjects mentioned in the an
nouncement for the meeting. Four ave
nues for the introduction of preventive
measures are indicated by the titles of
the sessions—medical, philanthropic.
Institutional and educational. Practi
cally all causes suggested under these
headings are summarized in the four
mentioned in the section on medical
prevention—congenital debility, unsuit
able nourishment, improper care and
communicable or infectious diseases.
When it is recalled that the men who
are In the thick of the fight against
the heedless and unnecessary waste of
baby life assert (hat the present in
fant death rate could be cut In half
by the enactment and rigid enforce
ment of laws requiring the adequate
Inspection of the sources of the milk
supply, coupled with the sanitary In
spection of tenements, the accurate reg
istration of births and the Instruction
of the mothers by visiting nurses or
other properly accredited representa
tives of the local boards of health, it
Is readily seen that two very grave
sources of danger are to be found in
the quality of the nourishment fed to
babies and the conditions of the homes
themselves. Serious as the problem of
a pure milk supply Is, It Is much less
difficult of solution than the more com
plicated one of housing conditions.
Overcrowding a Prime Cause.
One hundred years ago three and
one-third per cent of the population
of the United States lived in the cities.
Today thirty-three and one-third per
cent <>f our 53,000,000 people are
crowded into tlie cities. Overcrowd
ing. the congestion of population in
slum districts, the herding together of
the great unassimiiated mass of Immi
grants in inadequate and insanitary
quarters, the selfishness of property
owners, the apathy of municipal gov
ernments in dealing with situations
which require drastic measures, all
contribute to make this one of the
most complex as well as one of the
most disheartening factors in the big
problem of the prevention of Infant
mortality. According to a recent re
port. there are 300,000 absolutely dark
bedrooms in the city of New York
alone, where humankind, old us well
as young, are supposed to live and
move and have their being.
That congestion of population with
in a given area would not necessarily
mean the absence of hygienic condi
tions was pointed out recently tn 11
paper by Dr. Stowell of New York,
visiting physician to the New York
City Children's hospital and schools
As instances of congestion under fa
vorable and under unfavorable condi
tiotis he contrasted tlie largest apart
ment hotel in New York —the AnsoDia
which houses 1.2*12 persons to the
acre, with the notorious Chrystie
street tenement block, in which
I.2HU persons are housed in a single
acre. The hotel covers a total area of
1.(1 acres of ground, and houses 2,000
persons in 2.500 rooms. As there are
sixteen Inhabitable floors, tlie total
area amounts to about twenty-six
acres, and all of the rooms are open
to the outside, admitting the sovereign
preventives of disease, light and air.
In the seven years since the place
was opened not one of the 400 em
ployees has become a victim of tu
berculosis. The tenement block, on the
other hand, has been a veritable breed
ing ground for that disease.
"Garden Cities" Established.
As u meuus of decreasing the over
whelming mortality iu congested in
dustrial centers the "garden city.''
like that at Bourneville. near Birming
ham, England, is being esrablistied in
some parts of Great Britain and in our
own country. Tile removal of the
manufacturing plant which employs
very large numbers of individuals to
some suburban district and the erec
tion of cottages witli gardens attach
ed for the workers and their families,
the establishment >f schools aud «itlier
features of city life and the develop
ment of the property along community
liues with the agreement that all inter
est over 5 per cent on the investment
shall be devoted to public improve
ments are features of this plan.
Obvious ditliculties make the applic:w
tlon of the plan ou a general scale im
practicable. and the improved tene
ment offers a more feasible solution of
the problem for the majority of cities.
The registration of slum property is
advocated by some English Investiga
tors as a means of weeding out the
nndesirable and insanitary tenement
house. Owners of slum property are
not particularly sensitive, as a rule, to
their responsibility as their brothers'
keepers. But nobody can tell what the
future may have iu store.
The Architecture of Madeira.
We saw no suggestion' of modern
architecture or European innovation,
no blot anywhere except a single mo
torcar. Without knowing anything
on the subject X should say that the
architecture of Madeira Is a mixture
of Spanish and Moorish, like that of
Mexico, only It Is better than any
thing in Mexico. From the ship the
stucco, tile roofed city is flawless, and
as we steam away and night comes
down and lights break out and become
a jeweled necklace along the water's
edge our one regret is that we are
leaving It all behind. - Albert Blgelow
Paine iu Outing Magazine.
NATION TO TEACH
HOUSEKEEPING
Government Plans to Teach Do
mestic Science to Women.
TO AID THE FARMERS' WIVES
Department of Agriculture Has the
Project Under Way, and Details of
the Movement Are Already Decided
On—"Farmers' Institutes For Wo
men" Is the Slogan.
Convinced that the countrywoman ia
not getting: the necessary training b*
the way to manage a home anil be
cause of the tact that instruction In
domestic science is for the most part
eontined to students in towns anil cities
the department of agriculture has tak
en up seriously the question of how to
train the women of the rural districts
to do their work and manage their
homes.
The individual brought up in the
country may suspect that the farmer's
wife knows more about running a horns
properly than her sister in the city, but
the department of agriculture doesn't
feel that way about it. It finds a great
need for instructing the farmers' wives
and daughters in domestic science and
purposes to ruake a beginning through
farmers' institutes for women.
Results of Ignorance In Home.
According to a report 011 the subject
by John Hamilton, farmers' institute
specialist of the department of agricul
ture, comparatively little is being done
in training women and girls who live
in the country in domestic science or
the management of the home. The
rural schools do little, and other op
portunities are few. Ignorance in the
home of the proper way to manage it.
Mr. Hamilton points out, means food
improperly prepared and sanitary con
ditions neglected. Moreover, the selec
tion and cooking of food and the keep
ing of tilings clean are not all the items
in the duties of the countrywoman
Other problems exist, such as those
connected with the rearing and educa
tion of children, the clothing of the
family and the social, intellectual and
J aesthetic improvement of the housewife
• herself.
Radical Change In Methods.
According to the census of liHX),.
thorp were 117,244.145 women anil girls*
in this country. About 35 per cent, or
over 13,00..),000, lived in the rural dis
tricts. Mr. Hamilton says that to reaea
this great multitude with even limited
educational facilities for the study o£
domestic science and household art
will require, as Mr. Hamilton views it,
a radical change in the methods here
tofore pursued. The introduction of
the study of domestic science and
household art into the rural schools,
the high schools and the normal
schools is only a part of the work that
will be required.
"Winter schools for adult women
will have to be organized." says ilr
Hamilton. "Movable schools in large
numbers will have to be sent out; suit
able demonstration schemes will need
to be devised: expert advisers to visit
countrywomeu will have lo be em
ployed, aud publications adapted to
the capacity and needs of rural house
wives will have to be introduced iutti
tlieir homes."
Institutes For Women.
Fanners" Institutes heretofore haw
been largely conducted for men.llxt x
women attended, ihey have had to con
sider the same subjects as the men. as
a rule. But now the movement lor
distinct farmers' institutes for women
is rapidly gro> ing. and it is considered
by the department the best agency a'
present to increase the countrywom
an's kuowled oof domestic science
I.ast year 731! meetings for country
women were !ield by the farmers' in
stitute directors in the several states.
The work in such instftuies is far from
perfect, but It is in the right direction.
As in the case of many other things,
other more progressive nations in such
matters are far ahead of the Uniied.
States, though the American tlnds 1'
hard to realize It. Austria. Belgium.
Sweden. Norway. Denmark. Swifter
land. France and the tiermaii state-,
have for many years been conducting
schools of domestic seience and holii'v
economics specially adapted to com.-v
try people ai d also courses of study 111
these subjects ill fixed institutions in
towns and cities.
Cent Fine by Judge Landis.
Judge K. V. I.andis. who fined the
Standard oil company .$20,240,000. has.
fined .lobn Rower of Koekford. 111.. I
cent. Bower had sent a threatening
letter to his brother-in-law, who is al
leged to have misused members of his
family. The judge apparently sympa
thized with Bower and told him that
if he had said to the relative what he
had written to him it would have been
«11 riirltt
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A. irl. Oil A I>l #
TIN SHOP
for all kind of Tin Roofing*
Spoutlne ind Conoral
Job Work,
Stoves. Heators. R«n«M,
Furnac»«, oto-
PRICES TOE LOWEST!
QIiILITY THE BEST*
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JOHN HlXSOtf
NO. U» E. FEONT BT.