The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-05-03

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pies oil milk from which the table gets
It's excellent cream and butter; whose
irult trees are now proudly display.
ing their burdens of young green
globes, whose melons will soon open
their crimson hearts to comfort the
FAMILY n friends in sultry summer
days, whose poultry, thanks to care
and attention, are almost worth their
weight In coin Of the realm"-that
man can snap his fingers at the beef
trusts and sugar trusts and butter
trusts and egg trusts and all the other
trusts save and excepting his firm
trust (backed up by works., in the
kindness of the soil he tills and in the
sure fruits of his labor. 1t is such
trust as this that makes a man as
healthy and wealthy and wise" as the
pest OF men need care to be.
While on the subject OF home and
farm products, by the way, we can
not refrain from again barking back
to our fayorite theme, poultry raising.
for our Mississippi women and girls
VINO have the space and who are with.
In reach of a railroad station. 1t is 4
most strange thing that so many of our
women spend their days wishing for
more pin money, wondering how il
could be made and g~rieving that they
haven't any show like other girk
especially girls in town" Why, take
two Mississippi girls of equal intelli-
gence, health, strength and energy. Let
one go to some business college and
then settle down to work as stenog-
rapher, bookkeeper or at some other
ONCE work in town, and let the other
spend half as much time. money
thought and practice in the work of
poultry raising and at the end of three
years let the two girls get together and
compare notes on their experience and
their work. While I am not a bet
ting man" l believe l can safely wager
ten to one that the girl who has spent
her money in comfortable provision
for her selected stock, and has given
much of her time to the outdoor work
land those who know claim that it is a
delightful work and always interest
ing) of poultry raising will find that
she is many times richer in dollars. in
strength, health-even in youth-and
that she has had much more time for
reading and for other pleasures and
diversions than has the girl whose
work lies within four walls, and how
ever interesting it may he at first. and
however blessed she may be in her en-
ployer-who must soon become
wearied with the monotony OF her
mental and physical labors.
Only yesterday l heard of a bright.
charming young girl who is thoroughly
at home in the best literature of to-day
and yesterday, who can lead a cotillion
with perfect grace, and whose accom-
plishments make her a very popular
girl, who has put her pin money into
an incubator from which she is taking
little Plymouth Rock "biddies@ by the
hundred, to raise for market. This
was good new at that particular mo-
ment, as had just come in from a two
hours tramps through Chicken Roost
Road" in search of "broilers" for an
and had found lin Jackson)
two chickens for sale-one about
size of a partridge, cost me 25c..
and the other, about ten days older,
was held for Soc, and was sold later
another invalid at Csc. Eggs
brought 35c. per dozen in Jackson until
The spring was well advanced. So there
Is, after all, a little %selfishness mixed
with our great desire for our girls to
.ry their skill along these lines. 1t will
lelp them and their friends also.
Vicksburg, Jackson and Meridian will
ong hold the early May day of 1902 in
memory as the season brigh-
by the presence of many thou
sand guests, all gathered to pay the
ribute Of their loyal Southern hearts
o n whom the South has crowned
With her affections, and who has, with
40 ." SiOoh hahuo, pure utdTl anu d
mind carved his name at the
cry height Of Fame's column--the be-
owed Admiral, Winfield Scott Schley.
70 prove his appreciation of the
enthusiastic support of his
and its generous affection for
i'm, the Admiral and his wife accepted
lady an invitation from Memphis,
nd for several days they have been
njoying the hospitality of the great
'ennessee city. 1t will be remembered
hat the Mississippi Legislature, while
n session, invited the Great Man of
to visit the State and the
lists of this week are in response to
hat official invitation. The distin-
guests, while in Jackson, en-
Dyed the genuine Southern hospitality
f the Executive Mansion, charmingly
ispensed by Gov. Longino and his
rife, as gracious a chatelaine as
yer presided In this historic mansion.
Everything possible was done by the
tiles which were honored by the pres
nee of the sallor-hero, and we hope
believe that the memory of this
tile holiday time in the Sunny South
serve to brighten many q coming