New-York tribune., 1903-01-02

People do travel with such funny bundles on the
East Sidei' chuckled young woman, who does
not confine her Summing to the pieties or Lent
'One evening just before Christmas. was rioing
on one of these ridiculous, pokey little horsecars
when woman got in carrying two live fowls in
one hand and a small alarm clock in the other
She had scarcely seated herself between a man
with middle aged Christmas tree and lad with
a wonan's wire form, such they use to display
in shop wndows when the r09yef gefed s4e 4b
attention of the other passengers upon MN ana ms
off on the same wonan's lap. 1t didn't give
little perfunctory call like some clocks but kept
UP a protracted. insistent racket that would nave
walked the dead, and threw the carload Of Pd people
nq ts dPyeq of ed Sshtm n his @ long
to look around, and see that MS car hke he the
pected to See the other fowl lay egg but all she
did to roost in the Christmas tree.
T., E,rgiand LADY Cranbourne is making val
liant fight In behalf of the new laid egg and the
woriId-be consumer thereof. She has started an
egg exchange egg bureau, the object nelns 10
organize poultry farming, so that consumers can
have the warrant of respectable society Tor the
fresh laid character of country eggs the So
ciety's trade mark is rose. and the historic sym
out out under the societys guarantee If this humble
but useful idea develops into success: Lazy Jran d
table ducks. fowls and turkeys, which are TO oe
gaTet on te Egg Consumers League has office
in London. and twenty county depots
Dress reform principles are bound to assert them
selves from time to time. but the unsightly outnts
seen lately in Germany resulted in the arrest OF
the Uearers The agitators must needs obtain the
services Of an artist, and even at that the ldeay
hea11tifu NAV not always be achieved in heavier
materials for it is only in the soft clingng FABRIC
of evening dress that natural grace is posslole 10
disguise a good figure and make a bad one worse
&c about all that is ever achieved by the oresS
reformers-
The idea of a free bed in animal hospital
where horses dogs or cats could be treated free
of expense to their owners has been put forth by
q phvsician at such a hospital. 1t is a wonder SO
canital an idea never occurred to any one before
Such an endowment would undoubtedly do a vast
amount Of good The same animal doctor says tnat
the income of 81 600 would support a free dog ped
would probably 70 100 SICK or injured
dogs in a year A bequest of S2G would Stabllsn
q free bed for horses, and would probably peneNI
of them annually
Girls who enter Packer Institute from the puphc
schools are lacking in inventive power. according to
Or Rack1ls president of that institution He says
tbev 90 exactly what they are told 10 40 Out
cannot seem to originate anything. 1t may De
caused he thinks by many examinations quite
.notber stratum of society seems TO feel the same
sort of paralysis for Miss Williams, of the college
Settlement in Rivington-st, in her annual report
ooronlains that the large classes necessltate SO
o,Inb eaif-renression the part OF the pupls tnt
II takes a long time after scnool Is over A"' tA
| children to get out OF the haoit OF IT.