WOMEN FARMERS.
THRV HAVE THFIR OWM TiAMD
ASI 10 TIIKIR OWN WORK.
The linnil Ik nlven Away One
Hundred Families it. Work
on the Rnvcnswoml Farm
on liOtig Island.
TV MEKTCAX traveler on the
European Continent are of
JQl ton greatly shocked by see
(C ing women working in the
fields along with the men, and come
home congratulating themselves that
they live in a country where such
things cannot be; but now, writes
Miriam Dudley in the New York re
corder, there are women farmer in
America; and so far from feeling it a
hardship, they are as happy as chil
dren over their work.
On the Ravenswood farm in Long
Inland City, tinder the management of
the Annotation for Improving the Con
dition of the Poor, men, women and
children all work in the fields to
gether. Five women have farms of
their own, and do almost all the work
themselves.
These farms are the result of an ex
periment made last year by the Mayor
of Detroit, in which he attempted to
convert to the use of the idle poor the
lands lying in and around the city
The plan succeeded so well that a
dozen committees visited Detroit dur
ing the summer to investigate and re
port on the work, and this year simi
lar experiments are being tried in
New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Jlos
ton, Buffalo, Toledo, St. Paul. Minne
apolis and other cities. In New York
the A. I. C. I undertook the work,
and 300 acres of land in Long Island
City were placed at its disposal by
Mr. William Steinway. The use of
other lots was also given, bnt as yet
only forty-eight acres in Lotg Island
City have beon placed under cultiva-
CCTTtSO POTATOES FOR BRED.
tion. The money for seed, fertilizers
and other expenses was supplied by
Mr. Fulton Catting. The work is in
charge of a superintendent, Mr. J. W.
Ejelgaard, and instruction is given to
any who may be in need of it. A
quarter of an acre is given to each
person, and there is also a co-operative
farm.
About 100 families are at work on
tho Ravenswood farm, nearly all liv-
HAFPY
ing in New York, and going over to
Long Island once or twice a week, or
oftener if necessary. They are noti
fied by postal when the lots need
cultivation. Often a man brings bis
wife aud family jutit for an outing.
One paterfamilias has built a little
playhouse for Lis progeny, about three
feet by two und just as high as the
feuoe whioh forms one side of it ; and
in this edifice six ohildren, from three
months up to twelve years, shelter
themselves from the sun while their
father and mother are hoeing the po
tatoes or gathering the vegetables.
The lot next to this one is worked
by a woman, Mrs. Adolf Boldengerd,
whose two little children, while she
works, play in a little tent that she
luukes by bending down the branoh.es
of a tree, and spreading a shawl over
them. Mrs. Boldengerd oan't speak
English, but by means of her little
girl and the limited amount of Ger
man at my disposal, I managed to
make ber understand that I wantod to
know bow aha liked farming, as com
paled with tther oeoupationa by
A
whioh she had attempted to earn
money.
"Ob, bciser!" she answered, her
face brightening with a smile that was
as "wide" aa Trilby', if not so beau
tiful. "Vi.d besser'l"
Mrs, Holdengerd is often at work at
five o'clock in the morning, and, of
course, has all her housework to do,
besides her farming. Her hnsband
works on the co-operative farm.
The other four women who have
fatms are Mrs. Doecel, Mrs. Peterson,
Mrs. Cornelius, and a bright little
Swiss woman who raises bigger cab
bages than any one else, and won't let
her name be put in the paper. She
secured her success by burning the
rubbish on her lot, and using the
ashes as a fertilizer, a method era
ployed in Switzerland, she says. She
lias tried a great many ways of earn
ing her living, baa been a cook, a
laundress and a dressmaker, but pre
fers farming to all, and says she hasn't
been as well for years as she is this
summer.
Mrs. Peterson does all the work of
her quarter acre herself, ftnd is at
home washing on Monday, Tuesday
ami Wednesday besides, and yet she
says she never before felt so well as
she does. now. Mrs. Petersou's hus
band started the farm, but got some
thing else to do soon after, and his
wife undertook the work and was very
glad to do so.
Mm. Doecel has a little more than
W0MF.X FARMERS AT WOHK.
the usual quarter-acre, and has no
help except a little from Let husband,
who haa been ill and can't do much.
She herself has some kind of an en
gagement in a atore, and has to get a
day oft' when she wants to attend to
her farm, but she keeps it iu first
class order, nevertheless. Like most
of the other female agriculturists she
learned the art in Knrope. One of
her children, a little girl of four, is
just out of a hospital, aud enjoys the
sunshine and dirt immensely.
Aside from these women who have
farms of their own, there are more
than a dozen who work with their hus
bands, makinar about twenty-five in
all, and Mr. Kjelgaard says they are,
without exception, the best farmers ou
the place. He attributes this partly
to the care of all growing things that
seems to be innate in most femiuine
breasts. To these women of the tene
ments the fresh air and sunshine are
like heaveu. They care for their cab
bages as tenderly as the geranium in
the window at home, and a potato
blossom is as beautiful to them aa a
rose. Many of them dip the work un
der great disadvantages, aud the
euergy'aud perseverance they display
is something wonderlul. Cue woman
is often seed weeding with her baby in
her arm, aud others carry their ohil
dren all the way from the ferry to the
farm, a distance of more than half a
mile. The man who has made most
money out of his farm owes all his suc
cess to his wife, as she has peddled and
found a market for his products. He
FAMILY.
doea farm work, Mr. Kjelgard says,
but his wife is his business manager.
The effect of the experiment on all
the tenants, both male and female, haa
been benefioial in the extreme, men
tally aa well as unanoially, and it is
certain that the work will be con
tinued next year on a muoti larger
scale. One gentleman intends to de
vote some laud in Northern New York
to the purpose, and will give the lota
outright to the tenants. The work is
attracting the widest attention, and
letters about it are continually being
reoeived, not only from all over Amer
ica, bnt from Europe as well.
Barristers Desert Historic Haunts.
Barristers are deserting the Inns of
Courts. In the Inner and Middle
Temple fifty or sixty sets of chambers
are marked as yaoant, whereas ten
years ago vacant chambers were al
most unknown. The reason given la
high rent. Cheaper and better room
oan be had outside the Temple.
Louvviua uouner-itournai.
SWM"
A MOSHKT 01 KINOUS.
Would Mot Only t'se Toots, but Could
Make Them.
I' anv being could lay claim to the
title of "Tho Missing Link." that
being, animal, man-brute, call him
what yon will, says a writer
in the Sketch, was indubitably Con
sul, for certainly he was the moit
extraordinary specimen ever brought
within the ken of civilization. Of the
chimpanzee species he varied so much
from the ordinary anthropopithecus
troglodyte that his exaot scientillo no
menclature is a matter of doubt. Ccr
tainly he displayed an amount of in
telligence, a development of brain
power, far in excesa of that possessed
by any mere animal, and, as far aa one
is able to judge, approximating to the
mental caliber of primitive man mail
before be had the power of articulate
speech, and when the art of tool-making
was as yet unknown.
Consul could not only use tools lint
make them, and of his own initiative;
his observation, adaptability and rea
soning powers being such that, when
he keenly felt the want of an imple
ment for a specific purpose, he set to
work to construct one, bis principal
efforts in this direction being devoted
to the labrication of keys, in order to
get out of his cage. Those he fash
ioned out of teaspoons, splinters of
wood, or any odd trifles.
Consul had received a certain
amount of "elementary education" in
his native home, Central Africa, where
he lived some time at a trading sta
tion, being named after the British
Consul. He was eventually shipped to
Englaud and placed in the Zoological
Oardeus, Manchester, iu .Tuue, 18011.
Here be could be seen ou any tine
day, promenadiug the gardens in be-
CONSUg. IK RKCElVIIfd OOSTHMK.
coming costume and taking the live
liest interest in his surroundings. He
quickly became thoroughly at home,
his remarkable amiability, fondness
for fun, his love of ohildren, and his
attachment to human beings gener
ally, making him a oonspiouons favor
ite. He soon learned to take his
meals with propriety, use his servi
ette, pass his plate tor more food,
pour out his own tea or uncork his
bottle of lemonade, All his glass and
drink with decorum, and otherwise
qualify himself for what he dearly
loved invitations to dine out.
Like other gifted persons among his
bimanous brethren, Consul's constitu
tion was somewhat frail, and thus it
happened that in October, 1S!H, he
succumbed to disease.
fclood Templars' Supreme Uuler.
Dr. D. H. Mann, of Brooklyn, was
re-elected by the International Su
preme Lodge of Oood Templars, at lU
. DB. D. H. MANN,
session in Boston, as Supreme Templar
ol the order. Home idea of the arda
ous duties Dr. Mann has to discharge
may be gathered from the fact that he
rulea over 660,605 members in 13,690
lodges,
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FASHION FANCIES.
ii k a ihh f.ssk an 1 or m a m km ts
for tuk hair.
Suggestion as to the Most K.fleetlve
War or frflng the Latter
Dainty Aeeessnrles to
a Costume.
HKADD.sr.-' VI thst pic
ttired iietevil.,wlil"'.i is com -posed
chiefly of two big
d bows, supplemented by Mer
cury wings, a bunch of violets am) a
stiff aiqrette, are what have made side
combs fasliiouahle. Though these tiny
ornament are becoming to many of
their wearers, they should not bo used
unless the bsir is very pretty. If the
locks are not handsome of themselves
let the forehead bo made a point of
display, and don't attract attentiou
from it and to the hair by jeweled or
elaborate combs. This is for the same
reason that riugs should not be put
on an ugly hand to call attention to
its lack of beauty and perhaps divert
atteutiou from a pretty wrist or arm.
Side combs and other ornaments are
not worn for their own display, but
for added emphasis to a personal
beauty. If the hair is pretty and the
head is well shaped, then you can wear
almost as many ornaments in the hair
as the little .lap maiden. One may,
for instance, hold down the side locks
frocks fop. ciiildhf.x.
Two pretty wraps for little girls are shown in the sketch. The
first one is made iu tan-colored serge, with a wide collar aud flaring
cuffs, edged in scallops with browu soutache braid. The hat is a simple
arrangement of an embroidered frill for the brim, with a jaunty bow
of wide ribbon ou the crown. The seooud figure shows a coat for a larger
girl. It is made of blue-stone cashmere, and trimmed with pointed ecru
lace outlining a yoke front and back. Blue velvet ribbon conceals the
joining of the sleeves, and is tied in dainty bows at tho top of the shoulders.
by side combs ; a tall, square comb
may back the big coil at the top of the
head ; a sort of fillet may bind the
brows, a richly jeweled oruament
rising at the partiug ifi Diana-like
fashion, aud then one or two jeweled
pins may be thrust through where the
effect will be the best and most striking.
Maybe the efiect may be a little bar
baric if considered as display of orna
ments, but when considered as an em
phasis for the beauty of a gracefully
carried head, a wealth of wall smoothed
tress and the lift of a lovely ueck, that
is quite another matter. You might
add still another comb if you can find
room.
Returning to the dress that appears
iu the picture beneath the meutioued
headdress, know, first, that it is of
blue wash silk and uutrimmed as to
skirt. The blouse waist is baggy clear
across the front instead of only in the
center, and its fullness iu the baok is
plaited in at the waist. The square
yoke is finished across the front with
a twisted roll of blue velvet ribbon,
from which two ends hang down on
the left side. A fancy collar oru-
DAINTT BRADDBE8S.
mented with buo kles finishes the neck,
and below this there is a rioh Anne of
Austria oollar of guipure.
The pretty oollorettes and ooffs now
so muob in vogue are likely to be
come still more popular. With the aid
of these dressy little novelties, even a
lost season's gown can be made pre
sentable, and the groat variety of them
makes the average girl long for at
least a dozen sets of each pattern.
The English collarettes are rather
plain and built on solid principles
square yoke with high collars and ruf-
fles of embroidery are chiefly what sre
used. - Some have parallel strips of
embroidery running np and down,
with flue tuck in between A1' are
ft Hf fl
A TARIS COJ.LAn.
cut square, with not a suspicion of a
point or a curve. On the slim, long
necked, long-waisted Knglish maidens
these, no doubt, look very pretty, but
the French ones are more to the taste
of the Amoriuan girls. These French
"yokes" are extremely fancy and
elaborate. Butter colored lace forms
the priuoipal trimming for many of
these, and yards upon yards of it are
used very effectively. Insertion is
usod either across from shoulder to
shoulder in parallel liues or up and
down ; frills, many and of great full
ness are around the edge and the col
lar is finished with turn over points.
The cuffo that accompany this pretty
yoke are longer than the ordinary and
are turned at the upper part in points
that match the collar. Others are
made alter the popular sailor collar
pattern, some of Swiss, or lawn,
trimmed with narrow lace rutUes.
Grass liueu is much used in making
theiu little affairs, which the Freuoli
so optly term "creations." One pretty
model of this material had the double
sailor collars aud double culls hem
stitched. Another has a double hem
stitched ruflte around the edge of a
star shaped collarette.
A quaintly flowered organdis is
made after the style of a Marie An
tiouette fichu,' aud is trimmed with
frills of the same. Fichus of mous
seline de soie are also strictly in good
taste, and are effective trimming for
any kind of gown. Chiffon fronts in
various colorings with laoe insertion,
aud ribbon garniture are very dressy;
in fact, all these little vanities are
part of the wardrobe of every well
dressed girl.
tootweab roR otmxaj.
There is very much in the selection
of footwer that people wno indulge
in outings do not realize. Thin, fine
shoes are very hard to walk iu, and
when one is going about for the most
part on plank walks and then on
ground that may possibly be damp, a
heavy sole is much easier for the feet
and safer as to health. The fashion of
carrying fancy parasols aud wearing
delicate and perishable garments on
such occasion is not at all to be com
mended. In the first place, suoh
things are inappropriate ; in the sec
ond, they are extravagtut, and that,
in the light of commou sense, is not
many removos from sinful. People
who have money to spare can put it to
much better uvo than to waste it in
the purchase nud wearing of things
that are destroyed as soon as they are
exposed to the elements.
8IMM.B AND STVUSB.
A simple aud stylish costume is
make of blue oashmere and silk. The
plain skirt of oashmere has a band of
silk at the hem and two narrow bands
above it. The waist is plain, and
there is a yoke of net laoe over blue
silk, the yoke edged with a trimming
of silk like the skirt. Tuo full sleuviis
are ot silk, and there is a stook oollar,
with a large bow at the back ot the
neck.
The Uertuan Bundesrath will put In
foroa severe measures ot cattle quar
antine agiQt all infected countries.
FOR VETERAN SOLDIERS.
.
EX-CONFEDERATES PARADE.
They Will Make a Great Display at the
O. A. R Encampment.
A (nature ot the O. A. tl encampment at
t.outsvllls In Reptsmber will be a parade of
5,000 Confederate veterans, with Oeo. Hlmon
Bolivar Buckner as grand marshal. The pa
rade will bs reviewed by Osn. t.awler and the
other oflloers ot the O. A. It. But for ths ob-
leotlon of some ol the U. A. ft. veterans, ths
the ex-Confederate! would Join In the mam
moth pnrailft, but for (ear ot giving ollnnta
they will mariih separately Id nil ol the
men who accomplished their surrender.
I apt. John II. I .earners. Isle ol the "Orphan
brigade" hns received responses from every
blvonan In the Houth that (hcv will each send
a large delnvntlon to show their conquerors
that though defeated, they are no less patri
otic than those la whose honor they will pass
In review.
rr.Nio!t ieuisio:is.
Assistant Hecretarv Reynolds has rendered
three decisions In pension appeal cases. In
the first hi) holds thst while me Commissioner
ol Pensions Is forbidden br law to suspend
payment ol a pension pending proceeding
to annul or reduce II. nevertheless. In casa
such pension is annulief , all unpaid pension
appaieutly accrued at the data ot annulment
Decomes Illegal and must not be pafd.
In the second esse, the Heoretnrv holds
that the law forbidding the Commissioner to
reduce pensions without 80 days' notice dons
not apply to cases sated upon betors Its pas
sage.
In the third cms it is held that as the aot
penslonlug the children of a soldier, who are
under HI years of nice.expresaly provides that
the pension shall begin from the dais of filing
ths application for the pension, a olaimant
who was over 16 years old when the ant was
passed has no claim for pension at all.
We're Coming,
A soldier's ronly to Col. Watlsrson's Invita
tion to the Niillonal Encampment to meet
at Louisville, Ky.
(si i. a. HsnnM, 1st lows civ., rsw stbit
roan, low
We hare beard your friendly greeting,
And we're coming down to meet you,
Not In answor to the challenge you gave la
slxty-onei
Now our hearts In union-beating,
Every smiling Hp repeating:
Ood bleess lbs glorious Union our gallant
- sons hava won.
chorus:
Tee, ws're coming down to Dixie,
To the land of orauge blossoms,
Where onoe we beard tbe deadly oaaaoa's
roar.
But we come In peaoe and goodness,
For lovo has oenquered madness,
And ws'll greet you at your hospitable door.
Not as Johnny Reba and Yank ess,
Are we coming to this meeting,
But ss oomradee who have tested saob other's
valorous might:
Blue and Uray forever settled
Errors past power of repeating,
By relegating Hlavery to oblivion's endless
night.
Chorus: Yes, we're coming-, eta.
Now old aiory wave abovs as,
In splendor far outvying
It proudest claim to homage sre fateful slzty
onsg While North and South la friendship
Seem only to be trying
To show whose greatest loyally to eountry
bs been won.
Chorus: Yes, we're aomlng, eta.
Meut, C ol. George A. Purrlogton, of tho
3d Cav., was last week placed on the retired
list of ths Army on aooount of disability.
Col. Purrington was born In Ohio, and ap
pointed to the army as Captain ol ths 9th
Ohio Cav. He was In the volunteer servles
frntii ISA! tn ISA1 rhAn h . a n ......
out as a Lieutenant-Colonel. lie was brn-
veuea loree iimne tor gsiiani services la the
battles of the Wilderness, Wlnohsster and
Cedar Creek. Ths retirement ot the offlosr
promotes Maj. tl M. Whltesldes to tb Lleu-tenant-Colonel,
7ik Cav.; Capt. J. E. Now
taa to be Major. 7th Cav. ; Lieut. L. & Mc
cormick to bt Captain, 7th Cav., and Hejond
Lieut. H. P. Vestal of Ihs 6th Cav., to be first
I.lsteuaat ot the 7th Cav.
Ths fleet of siogle-turrstsd monitors that
tor a decade have beea in keeping near Rich
mond, will be taken to Philadelphia as soon
aa they can be n.sse seaworthy enough to get
them there, and lbs James River tourists will
hereafter miss one of the most unique snenas
ot tb river trip. For tbe Isst ao years tboy
havs been in soak, as It were, la tb muddy
water ot tbis blstorlo stream. They are all
single-turret monltars, built on tk model of
the waspish craft whioh foaght the memor
able duel with the Confederate Ironalau
Marrlmao, la Hampton Roads, aad set tho
fashion far tb armor-protected navies of the
world. Tb monitor fleet, originally numb
ering 13 vessels, were placed In James River
to protect them from tb deteriorating e (foots
of salt water.
Th silly story that tb color line woald be
drawn in entertaining th (. A. It In Louls
vltl having obtained some currenoy and
oausad soma apprehension among O. A. It.
fiosts Director General Milllken haa written n
etter pronouncing the story maliciously false
Courier-Journal.
Didn't tmlerntund lUnking.
Not muoy day uo a stout, motherly
old woman presented herself nt oue ot
the toller's windows lu tho First Na
tional Bunk, and, making a confidant ol
the dapper young man behind the wire
screen, said:
"Me bye, .Taiiiency, In In throuble aud
Ol waut to Hind him some niom.-y."
Tho sympathetic teller expressed
deep Interest In the afflicted parent's
woea and kindly nuked wuut sort ol
trouble "Jaweaey" had got himself lata
"Wld due coppers, ov coorse," ths.
mother answered, unhesiutlugly,
"They hava him lu the culuboose, aa
they do."
"And whore la what city Ls he?"
asked the teller.
"In Ny Yorlck."
"Well, then. I think the best thing to
do Is to gut a Now York draft," said ths
teller.
Instantly tho send old woman's man
ner changed. She stepped backward a
pneo, placed her hand on her hips and
looked detlauce ut the trfllur as sun
blurted out:
"Young man, don't git gay wld me)
I'm not here fur foollu' and I've got no
time to go to Ny Yorlck!"
She wits pacified by d!ut of much
persuasion, end luduced to purchase a
New York draft In Chicago, nud It li
to be presumed that "Jaiuusey" has got
out of "throublo."
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