The Columbus journal., 1902-12-31
An Upper Study.

In city houses it is becoming quite
common to find an upstairs sitting
room or library to which the student
who wishes to read, write or study can
go and get away from the hubbub
that often characterizes the evening
reunions of q big family socially in
clined. who like to visit among them.
selves or to entertain their friends
after the business of the day Is over.
There is less need in city than in
country houses for such q den as in
the former there is ordinarily gen.
eral and uniform system of heating,
which makes their bedrooms comfort
able and available for all who desire
privacy. But one cannot always have
q library in ones bedroom and there Is
a certain fitness which appeals to
most people in having one room in the
house sacred to intellectual uses.
Though there is great need of such a
provision in many country homes, par
ticularly If the family is large. it is
seldom found, perhaps because the ap-
preparation of q room to that service
would seem a kind of trespass on the
long established custom of devoting
the second story of a dwelling to dor
mitory purposes only, yet, as already
remarked, the need is great because
the majority of country houses are
equipped with neither furnaces nor
steam heating plants, but instead are
dependent upon stove heat which is
unevenly distributed. Often the bed
rooms are only partially heated and
therefore cannot be used as sitting
rooms in the winter. Sports and
chores" generally consume the hours
of daylight which the boys and girls
have before and after school, which
means for them study in the evening:
and q suitable place should be pro-
vided for them. Literary men have
been fond of utilizing attics which
often make ideal studies. A good sup
ply Of daylight should be prime con-
sideration in locating such a place
unless it is to be used exclusively in
the evening and then the best of arti-
fetal light should be furnished. That
requirement can be easily met by pro-
yiding q student lamp, than which
no better reading lamp has ever been
made, and they are no longer very ex.
pensive. In many q country house
there is a large upper hall, and IL no
other room is available q portion of
this may be screened OF and furnished
with q table, chairs. book shelves and
other necessary or desirable fittings.
Scientific Poultry Raising in Canada.
Poultry farming in Canada is a busi-
ness that is being developed substan-
TALLY In several market branches,
notably the selling of specially plump
well dressed chickens to Canadian city
merchants and to commission mer.
chants in Great Britain, the selling Of
live chickens to firms who export
them to Great Britain. and the selling
of fresh winter eggs. There are mer-
chants in Montreal who will pay from
10 to lie q pound for fatted chickens,
and one Of them has offered to buy
100000 lbs. Of those especially fat.
tened chickens this fall, guaranteeing
to pay not less than 1Oc per pound for
each chicken. The government Of Can
ada has established a number Of fat
tening stations, and teaches the farm
er not only what Great Britain's poul.
try markets require, bu: how to make
the chickens to suit the market.-Na-
ti0nal Provisi0ner.