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New-York tribune., 1902-06-29

woman who takes up duck farming would probably
be contented with much less
Duck farming does not call for any great outlay
of money. y dry. well ventilated she'd with plenty
of litter on the floor. will answer for housing the
ducks II only their feet protected from the
cold, ducks do not need a warm house. which is
one advantage they have over chickens Their
food differs at different times should be always
in the form of a mash. Boiled potatoes and tur-
nips. bran. cornmeal beef scraps and fish ara
standard articles in their dietary but the corn
should never he fed whole, and fish must not be
fed to ducks that being fattened for market
as the least bit will impart a fishy taste 10 the
meat.
Ducks are early risers. They like their first
meal apout O'Clock In the morning, and while
they are eating it. i'll an outside yard it is good
time to gather the eggs. Ducks always Law their
eggs during the night or early in the morning and
have way of using the same nest that is ex-
tremely convenient to the farmer who has a large
baking or the weeks wash to attack. After this
breakfast they all day.
Water does not play the important role in duck
farming that it once did. The most successful
farmers now maintain that young ducks should not
be allowed water to swim in until they are feath-
cred out; and that ducks that intended for
market should have only enough to wash in-never
enough TO dive and frolic in. Hard lines isn't IL?
fattenng process It is the duty Of the Modern
duck to eat rest and grow fat until the age of
market. 0''''peu -
ing in an extensive and permanent way will need
incubator and brooder. that she can raise her
duckltngs In independence of the seasons.
Duck farmers who make success of 1t will be
tempted TO enlarge their business to include goose
farming Geese are more profitable than either
ducks or chickens. but you cannot raise them In
such quantities There Is always a marked for
geese. and the feathers alone item worth
eSnsdering =, You cannot raise geese you do
chickens ana dueks-on an acre lot. They must
have a pasture to roam over. and when they have
nibbled the grass down close the ground they
need 10 pe moved to another pasture. They thrive
well IL they never go swimming
Goose farmers often set common hens to hatch
goose eggs. while they keep the geese for laying
Four eggs are all hen manage 1t takes
thirty DAYS TO hatch them The hen will
meekiy ana decorously. but when the young
break through the she'll and she sees a green little
creature with long wide bill saluting her she takes
it for freak of nature and OFF comes its headi
Not many hens will adopt the goslinSs they have
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
PERPLEMNG SITUATIONS.

Life is full of small but perplexing situations that
tact in order TO avoid committing annoying
blurder One of these predicaments is suddenly to
meet some old friends and realize that you know
absolutely nothing whatever about their lives since
you last met. OF course 1t would never do to
be.ray ignorance but what has happened to them
during the long interval Of separation you have
not the slightest idea
1t viii be readily seen. therefore that to manage
q conversation that will seem full Of cordial in
ferest and at the same time to avoid personal
Enquiries that might prove embarrassing, is no
easy task.
'I came out of it beautifully with my old
schoolmate Molly A. remarked middle aged
matron. complacently, after of these unex-
rected rencontres. Il found out that she had a
husband living two married daughters and a
younger at college, all without showing in the
least that had never kept track of her since they
moved to St Louis
Poor dear Anna commented the other woman
efterward, ''she is just as tGctleSs ever saw
at once that i had completely gone out of her
world. that she trying TO lind out in
laundering fashion about my belongings, L just
made Il easy for her Il was quite amusing TO
see how she swallowed the bait and talked as if
she had KEEP: herself informed about me during
all these years
abroad should be careful about their remarks. Il
saw Ethel c. with Herman Smith Madison
ave. so that affair is still going 1 seei' said
an American woman who had just returned from
Europe after q couple OF years absence
The woman 10 whom she was talking laughed.
s'Yes, it is going on. as you say, she answered.
ssThey have been married time
"I am ssying these absurd things all the timer
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
WOMEN TENEMENTDOCTORs
BOARD OF HEALTH APPOINTS THEM
FOR FIRST TIME-A DAY
SPENT WITH ONE.

Please, ma'am are you the doctor lady?"
''I am" said the summer corps physician oi 'iie
Board of Health. ,
Well please ma'am the lady the fourth
floor front wants the doctor lady to her paov
T. vas ueazened white little scrap of a baby,
a wan and suffering mite OF humanity tha' the
doctor lady found in the fourth hoor 1fo'' nc
lay silent his small cradle. almost TOO weak 10
breathe the flies crawling distressingy IN ana OUT
of his open mouth The Board OF Health uoe'
apDlied her stethoscope his bony little chese'
and felt the pulse In his clamlike little Wrst' 1hei
she wrote a prescription, gave some orders ana
went away.
The scourge of the tenement houses is summer
con,nlaint" said the doctor to The Tribune re-
porter who accompanied her 1T sweeps through
the tenement region every summer ike a deVout-
Ing pestilence, and the poor little babies die on
like spatters before It, It is to prevent this awful
of human life II POSSIBLE that the suinilei
| corps is appointed
Her words received speedy illustration In the
fifth floor, back where another tenement house
mother sat with another sick little boy in her
arms.
i've lost five boys before him, doctor. dear.
| but rather hopeessly.
And yet she will give him watermelon and fried
pork eat groaned the doctor when she reached
| the hall.
Half this awful infant mortality comes from
| the atrocious things they will give their babies to
| eat. Come along onto the roof. We might as well
go down stairs UP"
They made their way the roof, where the doc
tor LADY, explained this little method of easing
her work. AS she goes from one house to another
| in the block she climbs to the top of the first
| house. then crosses the roof and works down the
next house, and to the end of the block.
On one occasion she struck fence the dividing
line between two roofs and then her wrath was
great AS she had been climbing stairs steadily
since o'clock that morning, and it was then nearly
| II o'clock she down for few minutes, thought
| fully rubbing her ankles, which were not yet
hardened to her summers task.
They all have t-o same tale to tell she said.
"Three four. five, six, seven children lost Is the
] rule in tenement house families. The swarms of
children that you in the tenement regions
scarcely one-ffth of those that are born There
are four or five chances to against the life of
every baby born III the sums. And most of them
go during the second summer. That second sum-
,ner stalks like the shadow of death through the
tenements. If the baby passes through this trying
| time II generally has a constitution of iron and
1 the stomach OF ostrich. 1t seems great waste
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5sees se it mnS anS
poor o9 bsf tls
ted Dd S dssies nStes how IHe absolute
in the tenement house I've seen as h WorEns yns oVer
dying child and yet she spoke of my ma man N Queer
same tone Of % unques6oadg fo,Ind n ny sum work
and in other cities that the lower tie tae nbi ha ex
ercses in the outer world absolute is ms
dominance in his own home IL b Teay y seaseeptibie
to feminine influence In the lowest grade on ten
Spsns Tns woman nonSe6 has my ny anthorisy mah fe
the a last call cIr9 Of Haired ,as daK little girl
'ns where is her medeine? demanded the DOCTOR
Mhy Sas ie' didn't d have time to go and the msa
cine replied the woman sbs smgoshy Sad an un
eaeant fsce the st one during the
day M sae sae heTe hna said he
going don't get the infead edisns ne o and
'Oh, certainly, doctor!' replied the woman IN d
DO You think she will do it?" asked the reporter
they passed out, after the doctor had scoueu d
NY: Probably not replied the doctor: You run
to ee3 medcne If have scared her enough
she believes the child is going to hsaH dle sne
into {h the house fn tanner 9s
parents to take it the hospital or do anything
"But Why Should She refuse to get the medcine?'
Sometimes it is viciousness sometimes It rs is
eS M oeor 1T S hss housa
are just like other classes of society there are an
kinds of people among them Some are as 5000 as
gold others not good at all once t9id d
woman that if she did not get certain medicine
her child would certainly die She replied than sne
very poor, and that If she got the mediclie
and the child then died she would not have ave eltnsr 6
baby or money while if she did not get the leol-
cine and the child died she would at least nave
saved the money was unable TO make ra any In il :,
preston upon her fatalistic philosophy Inc next
morning when reached the house there was ctaps S
on the door, and inside little white coffin stood
on a bier. and the room was full OF HoWers ana
candles The child had been insured for SO They
drew the money Immediately on its death; @ "a ai.g ~
spent every cent on the funeral There was NOT not -
under ground The funeral is the chet social rune
ton of the tenement, and not To make Suitaoie
display at this time is to lose caste.
The Board of Health has for the hrst time & a2-
noinfed women on it's summer corps this year.
Eve believe that women physicians will prove spess
ciaIy suited to the work, says Dr. Bense head o.
that branch of the work. 1T is really a kind or
settlement work, and the humanitarian side OF IL
Eve women physicians have been appointed
DR. Katherine Guy. Or. Isabel CHURCH; Dr. Sarah
T Baker DR. Louise Eaton and Dr. Sidonia weiss.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
DICK FARMING FOR WOMEN
WOMAN RECOMMENDS 1T AS LUCRA-
TIVE OCCUPATION.

.sDuck farming possesses so many attracuons DIS
q rnonev making pursuit that it is singular more
,yor,an do not adopt it, said woman the other
dav "As the struggle for existence grows sharper
o,d each wear sees more and more women forced
into the necessity of earning money, the question
Of what occupation to turn to forces itself upon
the would-be worker. If one Is young ana Tree "
90 bther and yon in search of employment, or IL
one has trade craft at her hnser TIPS IL Is
counarativeIy easy; but many a woman Woulu
literally rather starve than leave her nome 10 go
out IN work and such a experiences no little
dif5cutv sometimes in hitting the right thing
.eyVhen the woman who lives by the sea or IN the
country is obliged work her fancy at once turns
IN taking boarders. But there great many
conditions of life under which city boarders are
not feasible. Duck farming is one of the pleasant
alternatives. great advantage is that 1t enables
a woman in the suburbs or country TO add TO the
family income without sacrificing her home. and
to utilize what is often unmarketable-lard There
is money in it, for, besides the flesh of the birds.
there are the eggs and the soft feathers, and the
sale of breeding fowls TO other farmers
The work is interesting and varied and does
not call for greater strength endurance than the
average woman can ordinarily command. On the
other hand IL is a slow business to start One
successful farmer says. L had to wait year be-
fore my farm began to pay Yet another says
that the person who has only 500 to invest and
cannot afford to wait year for her first returns
had better not so into the business at all But he
is a man who has made a speciality Of breeding,
sometimes having as many twelve thousand
young hand at time. and the average
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
GRACE THROUGH WORK.
FINE CARRIAGE OF CARIBBEAN WOMEN
SAID TO BE DUE TO THEIR
ARDUOUS LARORS.

There are no more graceful women in the world
than the creoles, mulattoeS, OF the CarioDeaH
Islands. They carry heavy burdens. toll IN the
fields and in the arrowroot and sugar mills attend
TO their household duties and raise large faHi'es
yet through it all happy and cheerful as the
women of any other cline.
One of their employments is to keep the military
roads and the streets of the cities in repair 1hey
may be seen all along the twenty-five mile govern
ment road from Kingston to Georgetown, IN 81
Vincent digging out the bitches, filling the ruts
washed out by the torrents that pour down the
steep hiIlsides and performing the menial part Oh
bridge building and fencing against floods Usually
they work company with men, who. sad to say
devote themselves more assiduousy TO poSslnS imam
to helping along the work
The group in the accompanying photograph was
found by Tribune reporter repairing the Streets
of Georgetown. Two men accompanied them, each
armed, like the women, with hoe. They were en-
gagged in opening the cutters, which had been filled
with ashes to a depth of twenty inches by the
ERUPTION Of Souffriere. AS they came within hear
ing one of the women asked the help Of the men
in a particularly arduous bit Of digging.
I'm no woman dig out place like that was
the lordly reply.
In the fields the men plough, but the women plant
and hoe. When it TO harvesting the cane
the women WELD the machete in as large numbers
as the men, and their reward for their toli from
sunrise to sunset is from threepence to slxpence
day. the latter only in rare cases in the MINIS
the more experienced operators only receive SIX
pence a day. When Saturday tmarket day. comes
these women of st. Vincent array themselves IN
their best and whtest attire and set out for either
GEORGETOWN or Kingston afoot. Their lords ana
masters go with them but if there is a burden 10
carry and there always is at least an empty tray
the woman carries it. while the man steps Jauhuiy
along, twrling a bamboo stick and looking ana
acting much like the typical dude. The woman
whose apparel is scrupulousiy clean. her tray
poised on her bare head her skirt tucked up under
the belt or girde side OF it, reaching only 10
the knee her feet free from hosiery and shoes, ana
her shapely arms naked to half way above the
elbows is a picture of graceful movement Her
stride long but not masculine. 1t Is astonishing
how rapidly she moves without seeming TO hurry.
She keeps pace with team of mules without ap-
parent fatigue and chats gayly with whoever cares
talk she glides along
The old women in all these islands are inveterate
traders Their little outdoor shops are feature
of West Indian lfe and they besiege ships IN their
bumboats and the traveller even in the hotels
with all sorts of fruits, nuts and fancy work
Some of their most beautiful wares are made OF
humping beans and seeds of tropical plants ana
shrubs. Bread. cakes and fruits are retailed In
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29

of human life, doesn't it? So many people preach
the gospel OF larger families, and yet can't
preserve half that born. What is the reason?
Ignorance and poverty. OF course, you know we
treat only the families that unable pay
doctor. They very poor, just this side of
charity most of them. The majority of the
women do we'll they can l believe. They
have nothing do with, conveniences. no facili-
ties. They buy the cheapest food they have no
advantages or opportunities to learn anything and
not an extra cent to spend. In that first house.
for instance. there are five children and the par
ents-seven of them-and the man earns s. a week.
The house dirty, as you probably made note
of. There things heaped about in corners In
a way that was not very tidy. But what do you
think you would do with five children and sick
baby on IS a week.?
On the way downstairs in the next house, the
doctor called to see another sick boy. This young
ster had prospered under the ministrations of the
doctor lady" He sitting up in his high chair.
and when the doctor applied her stethoscope he
fbe tubes With his two small hands His hands
being held, the doctor satisfied herself as to the
cheerfully that he would be quite himself in
:And now will you look at Nellie please, doc
tori" said the mother.
Nellie lay the lounge apparently in a half
stupid condition. After an examination the doctor
her IN IN danger id Of tb
Il knew she had cold, and I've been giving her
The doctor gave directions and prescriptions and
said that she would be able to tell the next morn
ing whether the child should go to the hospital or
not
You don't look very well yourself, Mrs. Blank
she said to the mother In parting.
Il had sleep for week with Johnny, and
last night Nellie began, said the mother, patient
ly I'm that dead for sleep that I'm like drunk
en- person walking around, But if only wasn't
worrying so for fear it is her fits coming back.
wouldn't mind"
We'll. you know Mrs. Blank said the DOCTOR
that told you there was no chance to Nellie
unless she could be sent to institution where
epileptcs treated"
Il know" said the poor mother. 'but my man
won't leave her be put away When l speak of IL
he says, II you put her away, you can go, too
the fits to leave her then
Poor thing said the doctor. in the hall "She
does as well as she knows how. But Kerosene,
It's wonder she hasn't killed the child. And the
epilepsy to leave her when sne's seven years old!
That's sample of the queer superstitions you
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29

unwittingly Matched, so foster mothers have TO be
found for them.
After a week Of housing and a diet of bread and
water the little things are ready to be turned out
into a cold world. And then the laborS and per-
pIexities of their hen mother begin. for the
are off hustling after every spear of grass and
clover blossom Their mother keeps calling to
them, but they do not care a snap of their fingers
for her; so, fussy and nervous. she has to wabble
after them Her business is to keep them warm
nights and to warm them in the daytime if they
get chilled.
In their infancy ducks and geese are pretty
things. A farmer who has watched the tiny bills
chip the shells the yellow fluff balls struggle
and splutter of their prison house, and has
tenderly fed the small, ever hungry mouths out Of
her hand. will regret to see her pets growing up
into adults For early maturity brings death.
When nine or ten weeks old they weigh from ten
twelve pounds. and it is time to market them.
The only feature about this business that does
not commend itself to the woman farmer is the
killing. yet this be done easily and without
great suffering to the victim. If a womanS nerves
sensitive to permit of her doing 1t herself.
man could be hired regularly for the purpose II IS
best not to intrust such a matter to boy Pick
ing should begin Immediately after life is out Of
the bird, being taken of the feathers, as they
will pay for the dressing
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
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"Inexperience."-Y right in thinking that
even amusements for baby require careful selec-
ton. Miss Wheeler, superintendent Of the New
York Babies Hospital says that infants under
year should be carefully protected from
ment the brain is growing rapidly and is likely
| be injured by stimulation. Among the amuse-
dancing up and down. toys. rattles, and in fact
all the things that most mothers regard as abso-
lutely necessary to keep the baby quiet.
If from the first the Infant is left to supply his
own amusement. it will be greatly to his advan-
tage.
To eat, sleep, cry little and be let alone are
all that the new born babe needs, all physicians
agree. Soon he Will begin to see things and find
amusement in looking about the room or following
moving objects with his eyes. After a while he
VIII ind endless fun in playing with his rosy fin
gers and toes, and when in normal health can
afnuSe himself at all waking times. If the mother
or nurse or older sister insists upon suppIying him
with other entertainment. weak little brain
taxed. - i'S
Many babies i'll with nervous prostration, 5"
said a specialist lately, land entirely as result
of the unwisdom of adults in playing with them
when they should be left alone. A ball or bright
picture VIII satisfy child for long time IL left
TO himself. but usually somebody takes him up the
moment he cries. and trots him until his little
stomach is almost turned over or tosses him lIntiJ
his head sWims. AT first he does like it. but
later he becomes accustomed to IL and dema nds
it-and it is very bad for him.
''One of the worst possible things is the romn
with the father to which most babies subjected
just before they go to bed. He argues that he
has other time see the ba BY but thar
The play makes him restless and excited and is
certain TO spoil his sleep.
New-York tribune., 1902-06-29
SOME WAYS OF THE WORLD
This CITYrS LACK OF ACCoMMoDA-
TIoNs FOR TRANSIENT WOMEN
4 CHARM OF MANNER

att is not generally known that any unprotected
woman who, through unforeseen accident such
as might easily occur in travelling missing
train should find herself alone in NewYork at
night would be placed in a serious predicament,'
said a matron- .It is a strange but actual fact
that she would not be admitted to any hotel al
though obviously a gentlewoman. and perfectly
able TO pay her way. That a masculine stranger
should be able without any trouble to find COM
Portable accommodation anywhere, and a respect
al bic woman be refused shelter seems almost in
credible, but until the much talked of womans
hote. becomes an actual fact it is literally true
that a woman who might be obliged 10 stay unex-
pectediy overnight in New-York would not have
a place to lay her head If she Were i'll she might
be taken TO the hospital. and doubtless there are
charitable organizations that would give her shell
ter but to acquire the right to board and lodg-
ing in an ordinary way would be impossible. That
a delicately nurtured young girl of good social
position should have to face such state of affairs
if she found herself accidentally alone in New
York passes belief. An incident which occurred
last summer might happen to any woman similarly
placed. The victim Miss X, whose family
had closed their house for the summer. and were
spending the season on the eoass OF Maine s7. She
and found through some mistake on reaching New
York thai she had missed the last connection for
the night Being young woman of an indie
pendent turn of mind, and after wiring her peo-
pie that she had been detained she got her dinner
comfortably at the railway restaurant. and then
haa attended and given luncheon parties in the
winter. To her dismay and onsternation, how
that unaccornpanled women were admitted
There were several n,en standing about the office;
and sat down in the parlor to consider the situa-
ton She remembered have heard before
that admitted TO hotels in New
York if they alone and she decided that she
would not expose herself q second refusal; but
go somewhere was a necessity Her first
thought of their empty house, but the
keys in the charge Of burglar proof So
csefy, that impossible. All her friends
little seamstress that the family employed,
and whose address she remembered-the one
person in all the whole city that a popular
New orx girl. with hosts OF friends and belong
ing 10 a well known wealthy family, could think
OF refuge. So once more taking cab she
drove the dressnakers. who received her with
kindness and wonder, and gave up her room
TO her fer the night IF any told me- said the
girl afterward in narrating her experiences. that
II my New-York could possibly be treated
as pariah and outcast. would never have
belle