Putnam patriot., 1909-07-16
 WOODSTOCK

The Misses Williams from Glaston- bury have been entertained atOserlook Manse the past week.
 Miss Brooker and a friend spent Thursday of last week in town. Mrs. Bingham has recently been Miss Brookef's guest at her cottage at the Willimantic camp ground.
 William r. Eddy of Brooklyn, N. V ., and his daughter, Miss Elsie Eddy, were al Deacon Chandler's on Sunday. A very sweetly rendered solo by Miss Eddy added much to the interest of the morning service at the First church
 Mrs. Pierpon1 Foster is entertaining her sister and husband, Mir and Mrs. Davis.
 Mrs. Grace Holt Reed with her two children. is making ten days visit al Roseland Cottage.
 The family of F. J. Williamson are at William Gallupss for the month of July.
 Mrs. ]. N Greene is the guest of her brother al alLeyside.
 Clarence M Bowen and family are spending several weeks at the Pacific coast.
 Henry Holt has recently visited at his Woodstock home.
 X party of teachers are summering at Miss Gordon's 's house.
 his sons family
 Several chiidren's parties last week made merry times for the little people.
 The following item from The current number ot "Human Life, will inter- est the people of Woodstock where Ms. McMillan, the daughter of Rev George Webber, b. D., spent several summers in her girlhood days The article is headed, Mrs Wna. Aorthup MeMillap-An American Girl Who is Hostess Of the Roosevelt Expedition.
 The best known American woman in the entire African continent is M rs- William Northup MeMillan, the wife o< the St. Louis millionaire, whose de- termination 10 adopt the life ef an East African farmer was so great a shock to society few years ago. Long befese ex- x-President Roosevelt announc~ ed his intentions Of accepting the Me- Millanis invitation to hunt ofef their vast estates at Aairobi. this charming America girl had made a name for herself in several widely diversified fields o< endeavor. As an authoress she has won remarkable distinction, her books and magazine articles on AL rican life being regarded as standard works on that subject. As an explorer she has displayed degree of genius and daring that have earned for her the approval of several scientific soeie- ties, while her courage and ability as a crack shot and hnntfess of big game have made many a celebrated sports man sit up and take notice.
 In addition tO all this, Mrs. McMii- Ian has both the time aud the inciina- ton to play the parf of hostess to per- lection. For several years the famous Ju-Ja Farm has been noted for it's whole-sOuled hospitality, and never a season passes that scores of American and English visitors t0 the Dark Con- tinent are not entertained al this unique estate.
 And unique it is, in more ways than one. Although its twenty thousand acres are situated in the heart of the African wilderness, being more than thirty-fiye miles from Nairobi, the nearest large town, the visitor finds .on his arrival, thai he is to be entertained at 6 thoroughly up-to-date country es- tate. The farmhouse, which, in feali- ", is a fireproof mansion constructed almost entirely Of asbestos and steel, Is as convenient and comfortable an abode as i. is possible for the modern builder to design. In fact it was de- signed and actually constructed in England and brought to East Africa in sections.
 The house itself sits in an immense compound that reminds one Of the stoc X ades Of olden times Within its walls, besides the house, there are ice making and electric power plants, big building fitted luxarionsly for Turkish baths, large office structure from which the business affairs of The estate are conducted in most business ike manner, bachelors mess elGo, quarters for the married men eu1 pioy- ed on the estates, warehouses. store houses, granaries. etc, 10 say nothing of stables and cGrrals in which The livestock. the milch cows, goats, don keys, mules, and ponies, for which