The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-17

position of horticulturist at the sta ton. resigned, to go in business, there was need of someone to take hold at once to carry on experiments and ob- servatiDns that were already under way. At first Miss Voorhees, took hold
 with no other idea than of helping | ut for a few days. But she showed such aptitude and liked the work so
 well that there seemed no need of
 haste in securing a successor to MT. Jordan. It was decided to intrust the work to Miss Voorhees, while the task of hunting for a suitable successor to Professor Jordan could be taken up without haste and with due delibera- tion
 The college farm is an important adjunct of the agricultural department | station. The work outlined for the present is the study ef fertilizers for various fruits. It is necessary to make careful and frequent inspections and report the result of each inspection with the utmost accuracy. All of this work Miss Voorhees, performs. Since | her official duties begun In August she has carried the work through harvest l time and is now attending to the care
 full investigations required during the winter months.
 T took up the work" said Miss
  | be permanent The statements that have been made that I will probably receive the official appointment are | not at all true. I have not made study of horticulture except from the practical side. and If the work of the station in horticulture were to be widened beyond what I am doing now
 It would be very different proposi- tion.
 kIo ~fy 1fo1 and practical work had been outlined
 in August and since then l have been | simply carrying 1t on. enjoy the work and shall continue at 1t as long as there is any reed of my services; | that is to say. until someone Is ap- pointed officially to the position. The work is not difficult. and to one who loves out t-of-doors and field and orchard work 1t is very attractive. In fact, first became interested in 1t as play, taking it up to help whoever was doing 1t, because I would rather do that than spend my leisure in other ways. When I was helping out had no idea that I was fitting myself | to do the work myself some day. But | l am not expecting the official appoint
 ment and I am sorry that ar impress
 sion has been created that I was candidate for it."
 | Nevertheless, 1t IS expected mat
 when the official appointment Is made
 Miss Voorhees, will be continued Gs assistant. The horticultural work of
 the season is to be extended and there
 will be more than a single officer
 can do, with tre result shat Miss Voorhees, will. in all probability, con | tinue as assistant; that Is, if she wants
 to. And because she is interested and
 enjoys 1t, the probabilities are that she
 will and will be officially on the pay
 roll of the station.
 | Mrs. Bertha Crittendon Lackaye,
 vivatious and beautiful, leader in so- Iclety, representative of aristocracy
 and of pilgrim stock, is to become a trained nurse.
 l The shimmer of the ballroom and the
 merry babble of the reception no long
 CT appeal to her. To become a useful
 woman is her aim.
 over this brilliant young matron would Why and how this change came
 over this brilliant young matron would
 make a prety bit of fiction. She was a
 trained nurse" at a masquerade party
 in the home of one of her friends in
 Washington. In a moment of more
 serious communion with herself Mrs.
 Lackaye asked herself the question:
 Why not be a real trained nurse?
 Why this hollow mockery?"
 These questions often repeated them selves to her afterward. It was as if
 a spell had been cast over her. Desire
 for society frivolities vanished and in
 their place came an earnest purpose to Accomplish something for humanity.