Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1901-03-07

sent him here to study carefully and report
on the character and habits of the Ameri
can hen.
1t seems that the hens of Germany
cackle about nothing most of the time an6
as consequence the country is threatened
with an egg famine The count travelled
extensively through the farming regions o.
New York and New Jersey and carried
home several scores of the finest American
hens obtainable with the confident expecta-
ton of being abe to improve the native
stock
The count should have visited Bellows
Falls and taken the emperor a sample can
of Lacto and a cook book and thus enabled
that monarch to snap his fingers at the
German hen
The Daughters of the American Revo'u
ton held convention in Washington re-
Gently and proved themselves to be pos
sessed of the martial spirit of rs in the
course of the proceedings
Mrs Daniel Manning. who was presid-
ing, ordered Mrs Donald Mclean, one Of
the presidential candidates, out of stage
box, and half the delegates Kissed, while
the other half applauded. Delegations, in
structed to vote for one woman, voted for
another because the latter "dressed so ex-
quisitely and received so beautifully"
When one lady rose to make an explana-
ton, another exclaimed: "Oh, will you
shut up? Don't talk so much" The
characters, and above all the clothes, of the
candidates for office were severely criti-
cised, and the general trickery was de-
clared by a Daughter in high social posi-
ton to be humiliating and undignifed.
Men were present in large number, sat
in boxes and lined the walls of the gal
leries. They took the iveliest interest in
the whole performance and claim to have
seen some electioneering manoeuvres that
made ward politics appear in comparison
as innocent as game of checkers.
The Rev. DIR. Warren of New York in
a recent address to stage folks and their
friends said: eve have today to complain
of stage that presents plays which are
uneducative or rather sensational and it
is this which leads over Jealous and So
called reformers to make the great mistake
of condemning the stage in general -
He went on to show that community
has the kind of entertainments and attrac-
tons which it is willing to patronize and
that the good peop'e who resolutely stay
away from everything but some home
talent affair which their particular
society may happen to get up, and
leave the entertainment business entirely in
the hands of those who care only for sensa-
tional things, are to blame for whatever
standard may exist.
If town has fair share of intellectual
and musical people and yet has very few
first-class lectures and concerts, and per-
haps none at all, there is evidently no dis
position on the part of such peop'e to
patronize even good things, while holding
themselves virtuously aloof from sensation
al performances
They sometimes give expression to the
opinion that they "stand for more by
never attending the theatre, apparently
without considering that they might stand
for great deal more if they would give
such support and encouragement to the
theatre that it could present plays so up
lifting in thought, aims and purposes as to
be beneficial even for them to witness
This ''holier-than- thou" attitude never
accomplished great deal of good in the
world, and while it is all very nice to live
on high plain and pose as an example
for less fortunately endowed mortals to
emulate, it is eminently more practical to
come down off your attitude once in awhile
and by encouraging the introduction of
things that are good, for things that are
evil, do what you can towards purifying
the atmosphere in which others live, and
move and have their being.