Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1893-12-22
woMAN's WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS.
A Connecticut Woman Makes Both PouI.
try and Vegetables Pay.

n Connecticut woman Makes Both Poul.
try and Vegetables Pay.
This is how Mrs. Bower, a poultry
raiser of Connecticut, manages both
chickens and rhubarb plants: 81 set rhu-
barb q short distance from my hem
houses, placing the coops with young
chickens near the plants. AS the hills
have been mulched during the winter,
they are ready to start early in spring
and May the leaves are as large as a
common palm leaf fan and shelter the
chicks. We begin pulling for market
continuing till July 10, when from nine
hills we had taken last season 234 pounds,
which we sold for s.. 90, nearly 20 cents a
hill, besides what we used in the family
and gave to neighbors. After cutting
we took up three hills, making six out
each, setting them in good, rich soil, and
before frost came each new hill was
nearly as large as the original. / am
also extending a palmetto asparagus bed
to the vicinity Of my henhouses. This
makes a paradise for hens when the
leaves and branches are grown. They
are planted so deep that the roots are
not disturbed, and I run the cultivator
during summer once in two weeks be-
tween the rows. The hens do the hoe
ing and are glad Of the privilege. The
scratching does good to both asparagus
and rhubarb, while the plants of both
afford good protection for young chick
ems from the rays Of the SUM-"
The chosen flower Of the Pro Re Nata
club Of Washington is the white chrys-
anthemum. Leading ladies, socially
and intellectually. in the Capital City be-
long to this club, and one Of its cardinal
principles is to discuss any question, no
matter what, that concerns the human
race. Pro Re Nata Is thus one of the
bravest clubs Of women in existence,
AT the recent anniversary meeting at
the beautiful residence of its president,
Mrs. Lucia E. Blount, "The Oaks"
Washington, Por Re Nata defined her
position as follows, 1.-The truths we least
wish to hear are those which 1t is most
to our interest to learn" Every woman
ought to make this her doctrine also.
A few years ago Miss Mary Timber
man Of Keokuk, Ia, studied elocution.
oughly. Tall, graceful and with a
strong, rich voice, she was q marked
success artistically. But she was not
known to fame, and paying engagements
came in slowly. Mary Timberman could
not afford to wait. She found oppor-
tunity to get an engagement on the reg
ular theatrical stage and accepted il at
once. 1t was a humble place at first,
but she did not refuse il because il was
not upon the top round of the ladder.
She has worked and studied conscien-
tiously from that day to this, neglecting
no opportunity to improve herself in her
profession. She has never been without
an engagement from the first year on
and is steadily climbing up the ladder.
This year she is the woman villain in tho
"Power of Gold" company, and lovely
villain she is too.
Thanksgiving day was finally estab-
lished as general holiday through the
exertion of a woman-Mrs. Sarah Jo- |
sepha Hale, the Philadelphia editor. |
Mrs. Hale agitated the subject in her |
writings constantly during the darkest
period of the late war. Then, after she
had manufactured public sentiment in
favor of Thanksgiving day, she went to
President Lincoln and begged him TO is |
sue a proclamation for the observance of |
the last Thursday in November, 1854, as
the Thanksgiving holiday. President |
Lincoln granted her petition and uttered
the proclamation, and so the day has
stood--the last Thursday in November
ever since.
Many of the flowers that supply the
New York markets are raised hundred |
miles away from the city, being shipped
TO dealers by express. When the Their
mometer is at zero, the floriculturist |
wraps the blossoms and plants in cotton |
wool and puts them into a close covered
wagon which is warmed by an oil lamp
or stove and drives to the railway sta
ton. There they are transferred to
car also thoroughly warmed, thence
carried to their destination.
Mrs. Lille Mahon Siegfried, besides
ballad music on her own ac-
count, is the manager of series Of high
ly successful Sunday evening concerts in
New York city.
1t is always pleasure and an inspira-
ton to follow the career of a woman
who cannot be downed.
Mrs. Charlotte G. Holt has been for
many years inspector for the Woman's
Protective agency of Chicago This
agency is much engaged in securing
wages to women when employers try to
cheat them out of it. Mrs. Holt found
that she could do little without the serv-
ices of lawyer. This meant an ex-
pense the agency could not afford. So
Mrs. Holt herself determined to study
law and attend to court cases for the
friendless women. She did so and has
lately passed an excellent examination
and been admitted to the Chicago bar.
Women are more agreeable to have
around than men, because they do not
A ouartar of a capfrrv moo an Epolish