Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1898-05-11
ATHENS.
H. j. Hastings spent Friday in Weston.

Fl. j. Hastings spent Friday in Weston.
Nal Bemis has employment at the soap
stone quarry at Perkinsville.
Lester Ball has been quite sick the past
week, caused by severe attack of bleeding
at the nose.
Fremont Edwards and wife of Bellows
Falls spent last week with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Oaks.
Curtis M. Ball of Springfield was in town
Wednesday and Thursday last week calling
on old friends and acquaintance.
Alonzo Thomas of Dover has bought of j.
M. Powers the farm known as the "Farr
place."
News has been received of the enlistment
at Montpelier of Harold W. Smith, youngest
son of George Smith of this town.
All the schools in town began last week.
District No. l is taught by Miss Grace
Thayer of Townshend, No. 2 by Rev. M. H.
Smith of Athens, and No. by Miss Beulah
Potter of Townshend.
the entertainment given by Mr.. Powers
and Miss Cudworth Friday evening was very
interesting, the description of the places
next to seeing them oneself. They also
had on exhibition quite variety of souvenirs
which were fine. A good delegation from
Brookline and a few from Cambridgeport
joined with us in the pleasures of the evening.
NUT-FED ORPHANS.
Under this head the Cape Times, published
in Cape Town, South Africa. gives in a re-
cent issue an account of the orphanage con-
Quoted near Plumstead by W. C. Walston,
son of j. G. Walston of Athens.
Mr.. Walston and his wife went to South
Africa about two years ago to take charge of
this home for destitute children, which has
been run under the auspices of the Seventh
Day Adventists since 1894. The peculiar
way in which the home is managed attracted
m DIV 10
Times to send representative to Plumstead
to look the matter up.
He found 26 children in the home, from
only five OF whom any payment was received,
the rest OF the expenses being met by contri-
buttons from the friends of the institution.
The home, so far as the admission of the
children is concerned, is conducted entirely
| upon unsectarian lines, the plan being to
| take as many of the most destitute cases as
! can be provided for. Both boys and girls are
| received and are given the comforts OF a
good home and facilities for an education in
the common branches. For this latter pur-
| pose an excellent schoolroom is provided on
| the premises.
The managers are strict vegetarians. No
tea or coffee is used, and the food is princi-
pally grains, fruits and nuts. They have
machine for extracting the free fats from
nuts, which take the place of butter and lard.
Only two meals day are allowed except for
very young children, who are fed in the GUS
tomary way. Breakfast is at 80 and dinner
at 1.3O, which is the last meal for the day.
After the stomach is once used to this man.
ner of living, no annoyance it is claimed is
caused by the infrequency of the repasts, and
no overpowering desire is experienced to eat
between meals.
| Mr.. Walston's daughter, who was educat-
ed at Battle Creek and went out to join her
parents some months ago, has charge of the
educational department of the home.
| Upon this Investigation il was decided by
Cape Town people that Mr.. Walston under
| stood the proper management of children and
that his nut-fed orphans would compare
favorably with other children whose thsse
meals day are reinforced by endless slice:
of bread and molasses.