The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-17
POULTRY FARMS
THE latest FAD.
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Women Guido Men in Chicken
Raising-S25o for Prize
Fowl.
ATTACKS CHURCH FAIRS
Society Women Flock to See
Athletes and Make Them
Marriage Officers.
ATTACKS CHURCH
ny THE COUNTESS or DLANKsHrRE.

ny THE COUNTESS or BLANISsHIRE.
LONDON, May 16.-There is one field
In which the women OF England are
forging, II they have not already. to |
the front. and that Is poultry keeping.
The best poultry keepers in the country
to-day are ackno wledged to be women,
and the farmers in the various country
sections are almost ashamed to admit |
IL
First, poultry keeping among WON
en- became like many other things Eng
lishwomen interested themselves In, al
fad, but the members OF the weaker
sex became SO successful that large
number OF them adopted 1t as busi-
ness.
We have now our women gardeners.
women farmers, besides women poultry
keepers. Scores OF the latter are now
fully established. and making a good
thing of 1t: and. to be candid in the
matter, poultry are never better looked
after than when under the care oil
ladies'. especially Just at this season
of the year, when there are so many
broody hens and young chickens to
attend to. The ladies' have the happy
knack and natural patience that inI
the little details the men lack, and
handle tho chickens as they should do,
noting their wants In manner that
has actually excited the jealousy OF
men who have watched their female
rivals at work
One Of the largest poultry farms in
this country is run by woman In
Worcestershire. It was started a few
years ago in quite small way, and
now tho owner exports birds all over
the world. The farm is entirely run by
women.
1ncubators and foster mothers play
an important part on this farm. AS
| many as 5000 chickens can be Matched
off at one time, while special feature
! Is made Of breeding birds for exhibit
ton purposes. It may surprise many
! of my American readers to hear that
the proprietress has sold prize birds
| for as much as $3.50 each, sittings OF
eggs for one guinea, and day old chicks
two guineas apiece.
After Church Fairs.
| In the Monthly Magazine the Rev
Frank Holt makes a bitter attack on
bazaars. and the clergy has arraved
Itself against Rev. Holt without ex
ception.
The article, called "a Religious
swindle,," says:
"A swtndle is a cheating or a fraud.
No truer and better definition can we
have of bazaars and fancy fairs for
religious purposes. What are these IL
not religious swindles? They rob God
and swindle man.
Great energy follows the decision
4 to have bazaar. Workers. male and
| female. set to with Will, and for the
next few months nothing Is talked of
but the forthcoming bazaar, and
church life Is transformed and de-
| graded Into a. number of committees
| for the provision of concert-halls.
card-rooms. Kitchens, cafes-chantants,
and entertainment bureaux. All Is
under the ever-ready patronage of
Bacchus, Cupid and the Goddess Of
/ ReveIs.
What wonder II the church repels
the very man It seeks to win, the
| thoughtful and deeply earnest! Real
living interest in religion is not quick
ened by such doings; 1t is killed !; the
church Is not strengthened. but en-
feebled by such worldly and silly
antics, these respectable frauds, these
religious swndles.
Bazaar promoting is rightly &C
cused of taking the bread out of the
mouth of people, and 1t has been as
serted that many of the goods sent to
bazaars are procured by begging from
Matchmaking shopkeepers."
A New Fad.
A new attraction has lately been pro-
vided at west-end place of entertain
! ment for the women of the Smart Set.
/ whose jaded appetites are always ready