The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1899-12-29

| the peace of the campus is invaded.
! At present the students are off on the
! holiday vacation.
Educated Farmers Want Work.
/ The short course in agriculture is
attendance of 249 students, sixteen
! states besides Wisconsin being repre-
sented. The number are distributed
as follows: Wisconsin, 1S9; Illinois,
: Sc; Iowa, 8; Ohio, 2; New York, 2;
! Michigan, 2; Maryland, Vermont. Col
! orado, Massachusetts, New Jersey,
! Minnesota, California, Pennsylvania,
| Tennessee, Indiana and Nebraska have
! one each.
The students are mature young men,
; who have had considerable experience
i'll various agricultural lines before
coming to the college. The majority
OF the young men return to their own
or their parents farms at the close of
the term, but a goOdly number accept
+ positions on dairy, stock, or general
farms in order to secure sufficient
funds to carry them through the re-
mainder of the courses.
Since the close of the last term,
March 5, no less than 200 calls have
been received at the office for students
+ who have taken the short course in
agriculture. One hundred and Two
calls were filled.
Immigrant Bohemians to the Woods.
An interesting group of immigrants
were on the train from MuscOda to
! Madison recently. They were Bohem-
; ians. The father and oldest brotherhad
gone ahead to Barron county, near
Haugen Station, and built house and
barn on eighty acres Of land, which
they hope to clear. The train party
going to join them consisted of the
mother, who wore a shawl over her
head and looked foreign, as the first
generation Of these people do to the
day Of their death, however, long they
live in America, and seven Of the chill
dren. Among them were two sets of
twins. The children ranged of assert
ed sizes, from 3 years old to the old
est sister of about II. She was an
unusually pretty girl, of the full, dark
type of southern Europe and her
watchful care of the younger children
was beautiful.
Each child in this Bohemian group
took care of the ones smaller than
himself. They were well dressed,
neat and clean. All the girls were
sweet and some Of them positively
beautiful. In freight car ahead was
an older boy in charge of the stock
three COWS and two calves; three
horses and five pigs, and the house,
hold furniture. The family were 60
ing north to dig out the pine stumps
and work out their destiny. In thirty
or forty years those boys will be men,
The likelihood is that of the eleven
children some Of them will do some
thing in the world worth the telling
They landed in Madison at midnight
and had to cross the city before 1
o'clock to catch train on the North
western road Some of. the passengers
pitied them, but not [. For all the
next day the children could lie stretched
out in youthful innocence and freedom
from care and win back their rest. 1t
is not trials and tribulations that this
happily. loving company were under
going that taxes sympathy. 1t is
where worry takes the sceptre from
work and where body and soul are
straining to keep an artificial pace.
Where ambition and passion and envy
clog and rasp. Happy Bohemians.
With few desires and those easily sup
piled.
Children and Their Tonsits.
A 6-year-Old child died in Grant
county recently while her physicians
We're operating upon her tOnSils. She
was under the effects of chloroform.
One can't help wondering if such OPP
erations should not be performed by
city doctors, who do them frequently
and acquire the requisite skill. The
removal Of tonSils is regarded as
simple thing. \ recent paper by a
Milwaukee expert reported his expert
ence with over 200 cases Of this one
operation, all performed within three
years. He reported no losses. En-
larged tOnSils and the frequent ac-
companying adenoid growth blocks the
breathing in children. It shuts off
the supply Of pure air and sometimes
makes them thin and takes the life
out Of them. It may interfere with
their hearing and result in an arrested
mental development. It is surprising
how a puny, understood child suffer
ing from this cause will grow and bud
out when the growth is removed and a
full supply of air rushes into the lungs.
Children, especially older ones, some
times consent to have the operation
performed without an2eSthetic but it
is given with ease by skilfull attend
ant.
And here the cleverness of the ply
stefan is displayed. Some Of the
matter-Of-fGct ones quickly clap a
porcelain cup over the mouth and
nose. which cannot be pleasant, while
one doctor l know-gruff enough Ordi-
narily-let's the child put its head on
the mothers shoulder as if to go to
sleep while he deftly from behind
waves handkerchief dipped in chloro-
form over the head of the innocent
and has him under before he knows
what is uD.
Child Birth Made Easy.
A veteran dentist, speaking Of the
much-mooted dangers of anaesthetics
Oh people with weak hearts, quotes
high medical talent as saying that in
some cases the shock from q sudden
and severe operation without aneas-
thetic is more to. be dreaded than the
effect Of the anaesthetic itself. Mother
hood is the condition that most praises
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