The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-10
WOMEN AS BEE KEEPERS.

wish for the benefit of many women
who are desirous of supporting them
selves, or aiding in the support of their
families, to cite them to an employment
by the aid of which many women make
money, and do it Independently and easy,
says an Atlanta lady in the Sunny South.
In this avocation I know women who have
regained lost health, and at the same time
made money in abundance. Indeed,
know women who make as much as III
teen hundred dollars per annum, and do
no work during the winter, in what 1
conceive to be the most enobling, profit
able and pleasant of all misunderstanding
of keeping bees-scientifcally. And
what more pleasant place is there than
well kept apiary where the hum of the
ever industrious workers make music In
their fight, and where vines and flowers
lend an enchantment to the scene2
Every lady who has rod of ground
should have an apiary, and more espe-
cially those who live in the suburbs of
cities, in villages and in the country,
where blooming flowers constantly exude
their sweetness which would be otherwise
lost except for the industry of these pets.
What is more fascinating than producing
comb honey in all its purity and white
ness in one pound sections for home use
or yale at home or abroad, or in rearing
Italian queens for the market where there
Is conztant demand at prices ranging
from 50 to S. each2
A colony of bees will give twenty five
queen cells weekly, which can be Matched
In little hives having frames 4x5 inches.
A queen will lay two thousand eggs daily,
from each of which queen can be reared
in twenty-one days, and if we have
enough little hives we can rear hundreds
Of queens. As is said in Roots standard
work on bees: "One hundred of these
little hives will give us ten laying queens
each day." from April to September. In
honey one thousand pounds per colony
has been reached.
What business is more beautiful than
this which as has been truthfully said is
''the poetry of labor2" Ladies who will
start with Italian bees and in proper
manner will reap success, and to all who
wish to embark in this and will write me
enclosing a stamp for reply, will cheer
fully give full particulars. Or if desired,
and the editor wishes it, I will answer in
general way through the Sunny South.
coSsT ASTIHoPLE's YELLED WOMEN.
The women of the higher classes Of
Constantinopolitan society may be seen
in the fall at the Sweet Waters of Asia,
and in the spring at the Sweet Waters of
Europe-charming open glades, where
they resort on Fridays and take the only
public promenade of the week. Brought
from the harems in carriages and caiques,
they are dressed in gala attire and
adorned with jewels. A group sitting on
the grass or walking to and fro is at once
suggestive of association in marital VOW
and subjection under one lord. I have
seen as many as fourteen together, all of
various ages, different heights and
different degrees Of attractiveness, in
licating the mood or the straits of the
a1niable man. Most of the women are
coarse of appearance. Some are exceed
ingly fair of complexion, with black,
ust7ous eyes and grace of carriage. They
relax the rigidity of NIohammedan usage
when there is no danger of detection and
loosen their wells. The yashmak, the
Egyptian style of veil, covering the face
h.om the eyes downward, is now the
fashion in Constantinople. In Damascus
che veil is dark in color and covers the
entire face, which it fully conceals. In
Constantinople many ofthe women wear
white veil drawn back and bound behind
the head. Some of them dress in Paris
Ian costume and wear dainty Turkish
CAPS. If the veil is misery to the young
and lair, it is solace to the ugly, whom
it puts on par with the attractive. We
noticed that the latter class were strict.
conforInists to the law. There is grow
ing freedom in the use of the veil which
every few years calls forth fresh order
from the palace ordering rigid observance