The Canton times., 1902-05-02
MISSISSIPPI MATTERS
" NOTES or PAST AND CURRENT EVENTS.
By KATE MARKHAM POWER.
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By KATE MARKHAM POWER.

acres Of ground either In cotton or
4 weeds with maybe few scraggy peach
trees standing lonesomely about No
COW In the stall, no hogs in the pen,
no cattle in the pasture, no vegetables
4 fit to eat, and as the season advances
no melons or fruits save such as they
can swap" from more thrifty neigh
ers. 1t Is such places as these that
will feel the grip Of the food trusts
most akeenly, for they must pay the
price or starve. But the man whose
garden is now adding its delicacies to
! the family table, whose storehouse con-
tains still a few delicious home-cured
hams, ETC.; whose cows, in gratitude
for careful attention, yield ample sup
/ plies of milk from which the table gets
its excellent cream and butter; whose
fruit trees are now proudly display
ing their burdens of young green
| globes, whose melons will soon open
their crimson hearts to comfort. the
family and 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
best of men need care to be.
81 While on the subject OF home and
farm products, by the way, we can
not refrain from again barking back
to our favorite theme, poultry raising,
for our Mississippi women and girls
who have the space and who are with
in reach of railroad station. 1t is a
most strange thing that SO many of our
women spend their days wishing for
more pin money, wondering how it
could be made and grieving that they
haven't any show like other girls,
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
office 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 !, am not bet
ting man." believe 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 1t is
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 be at first, and
however blessed she may be in her en-
must soon become
wearied with the monotony of her
mental and physical labors. VI ~
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 cotillion
with perfect grace, and whose accom-
make her very popular
girl, who has put her pin money into
an incubator from which che is taking
little Plymouth Rock "biddies" by the
hundred, to raise fo- market. This
was good news at that particular mo-
ment. as had just come in from two
hours tramps through Chicken Roost
Road's in search of "broilers" for an
and had found Tin Jackson)
but two chickens for sale-one about
the size of a partridge, cost me 25c.,
and the other, about ten days older,
was held for 50c, and was sold later
for another invalid at 65c. 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 10
try their skill along these lines. 1t VIII
help them and their friends also.
II is good to read of such helpful
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