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THE FLAT HALL.
IN lnkful Now. MIR. Fiatdweiler Is, That
He Didn't Put In a Hall Trolley.

AT first" said Mr.. Flatdweller, -our
long hall was. IL not exactly discouraging
to us. at least little disappointing Stand
al either end and look along il and il looked
like section of tho subway tunnel. long
and dark except for light spaces here
and there like you see in the subway at
the stations. these light spots in our hall
showing where the doorways OF rooms
opened on 10 IT,
AT first we thought we'd install a
trolley line here. single track auto
matte trolley line with chair on wheels
running on II instead of car. a chair
that the instant you sat down in il would
carry you through the hall from one end
Of II TO the other, just sort OF whisk you
through il. so you'd linger as briefly in
IL and see as little Of it as possible; but
happily we were not hasty about this
and now we are very glad We weren't.
because now we've got this hall fixed up
in such a manner that instead OF being
dispiriting il 10 a pleasure TO us, showing
how easily these long. blank, tunnel
like fiat halls can be positively trans
formed with proper treatment
As you come in at the entrance door
at one end Of our hall now you find the
umbrella holder, an elegant and capacious
brass can. We chose a brass umbrella
holder because We thought that its me-
tallic surface would reflect light il any
gleam Of the same should find its way 10
that end OF the hall, and IL does that,
and 80 il is glittering success in deoora-
tive way az we'll as being highly useful
practically.
Then In the first long section OF wall
on that side Of the hall from which open
the doors into the bedrooms you find now
our new hat rack. Now. there's a piece
Of furniture that we're proud Of. It's
one Of the kind you hang on the wall;
We didn't dare put in stand up rack
for fear people would stumble over it,
but it's grand hat rack with massive
frame Of golden oak. a spacious mirror
OF bevelled plate and about million hat
hooks-a grand and imposing hat rack
Our brass umbrella can is unique and in
some respects II may be more striking, but
our new hat rack is easily the dominant
feature Of the hall.
Passing on now toward the north
In the next wall section between doors,
beyond the hat rack, you come TO the
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! place the queen at the entrance and
leave her to do the rest An hour or 70
later they will he found busily at work
making themselves comfortable in their
home. This method does away with
handling the bees and Of course removes
all danger of being stung
-In May / place extra hive bodies one at
a time. between the brood body and the
lid OF the hive. These extra bodies con
tain twenty-four little wooden fra mes
with thin sheets Of beeswaN foundation in
them. This the bees draw out and fill
with honey.
when this extra body is about half full
| slip another under 1t 30 that the bees
having to pass through IL to complete
their work in the upper boxes will be in
duced TO continue their work in this once
the first forms are completed. In ex-
oeptionally fine years | have had colonies
fill five OF these extra hives and the honey
would all be good.
AS each Of the twenty-four divisions
into which these extra bodies are divided
contains one pound OF honey when it is He'd
you may make your own calculations about
the amount of honey TO be expected from
a well kept colony OF bees. As soon as the
cells are sealed 10 is best TO remove the
extra hive, for II il IL left the bees crawl
ing back and forth over the white comb
will soon discolor il.
BeSlues tlle spring money WDlCn DpRlTs
In May and as a rule ends in July. there Is
usually late or fall flow of honey during
August and the first part Of September.
This is as "a rule darker in color but think
richer in flavor. II Is not 80 salable as the
lighter colored honey. and for that reason
| keep IL for home consumption. There
is always enough to give our table a boun-
tiful supply. besides some to sell 10 the
neighbors and the country stores at re-
duoed price.
When the hives are opened In the
spring IL any are short Of food / supply
sugar and water syrup until the fruit
blossoms make extra feeding unneces-
sary. IL IL for these fruit blossoms that
put on the first extra hive.
"Once in while on opening hives
in the spring have found that the queen
has died. The only thing to do is TO
write TO breeder and get one TO take
her place as soon az possible. She must
be1ntroduced in the way have described,
and after that things go on as if nothing
had happened.
Instead Of finding my bees 4 trouble
some as chickens have found them
very much less troubl. d almost no
expense once they are we'll hived They
forage for their food. and as none of our
near neighbors keeps bees they have
their range without rivals.
AT first one or two OF our neighbors
did complain Of the bees bothering their
fruit when 1t was put out TO dry or when
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they We're canning. That was settled
by little diplomacy. Every season
] make II point to present each OF them
with Il share of our late honey. Where
anybody is i'll or has u failing appetite
| am always ready TO contribute form
or so Of honey As bee while gathering
honey ne er stinRs unless il IL attacked
OF course W. neve' have complaints
on that score,
No. bees have not superseded chickens
on our farm. We still raise as much
poultry as We can handle. but / do not
find that they interfere with each other
in the slightest. As / look at il bees
take up a material that would otherwise
he wasted. Think of the sweetness
in our fields that would all go to waste
II 1t were not for the bees.
A II that ] have to do is to furnish
the bees with a house and keep them
from freezing in the winter, All the assist
ance ! get in handling the bees and the
honey is from my hired girl and the
two hired men. Even IL there was not
a bee on the place we would still have the
same amount of hired help
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the mass of Turkish women cannot
read or write even their own language,
for they. like the majority of their men,
up to the present, have had no system Of
education. The secluded life they lead
acts on their Intelligence. Not being
educated themselves they have not cared
To educate their children and Conse-
quenty it will be some time before the
ordinary women can dispense with the
services Of the public letter writer who
Is often nothing but an impostor.
Seated inside u Turkish cafe or in some
queer little unexpected nook under
the shadow Of great mosque this im-
portaut parsonage every day receives
his clients, and equipped with pen and
inkhorn he writes, after the custom Of
his ancestors, upon his hand. thus re-
quiring no table for his business A
couple of veiled figures approach. One,
throwing up her veil timidly presents
a letter and some such conversation as
this passes
From whom?" asks the writer, seated
while the women stand humbly before
this superior being
Our husband, Ehendi
Most beloved of our wives" begins
the fellow, Il am well. | wish you are
well. The weather il well The cattle
are well ." Here paising a mo-
ment and studying the paper closely. he in
quires, What is your husbands name?'
-Almoon. Effendi-
-Ah. yes Almoon. Your husbands
writer does not form his characters
we'll"
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from Turk and Christian. more especially
from the former. who is accustomed TO
take no notice of the ordinary shapeless
bunch OF black silk
Many young Turks are willing that their
women should drop the veil and dress
more after the fashion Of Europeans, but
Others and perhaps wiser men, shake their
heads and do not agree to the proposition
that their women should go abroad un-
veiIed, thinking no doubt IL would tend
to produce that freedom between the
sexes which prevails in other countries
but has hitherto been impossible here.
There are certain identical articles Of
dress without which until recently no
Turkish woman would venture outside
her door; the yashmak. or veil for cover
ing the face, which can be thrown back or
lowered to leave the eyes free; the ferije.
generally Of rich black silk, vouminous
armless mantle completely ooncealing
the wearers figure; gaudy colored or
ringed stockings. pair OF overshoes and
a painted parssol for all occasions. wet
or fine, sun or shower
At first glance each woman resembles
agines that as sheep are known only TO the
shepherd and his dog, 50 the Turkish
woman once outside her close shuttered
dwelling is known only to her husband
children or maid On closer inspection
however, you discover that there is diff
ference among them. 1t may be in the
quality OF the ferijc; trick in lifting the
skirt. in walking or carrying the head; u
peculiar taste in stockings, or some CO.
quetry about the waist-but the difference
is marked.
During the winter. when streets are
covered with snow and slush, you may go
for days and sec no black veiled figure on
the streets Of Pera, but ON a fine day some
small shopping expedition tempts them
out, Never appearing alone and seldom
with her husband. the Turkish woman is
sometimes followed by n servant walk
ing pace OF two behind with veil thrown
back. at other times friend accompanies
her similarly dressed. Az they cross a
dirty road you may get glimpse of n
short pink flannel petticoat and flannel
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BEBS OF THE FARMERS WIFE
CONNECTICJT WOMAN FINDS
THEY PAY As 4 SIDE LINE.
One Hundred Hives which suppl, ss
Worth OF Honey n Year Almost No
Expense and No More Trouble
Than Chickens Getting start.

Bee keeping is my side line" said the
wife OF a Connecticut farmer and from
her smile the reporter guessed that her
venture was a success. Il have hun
dred hives and count on making S. a hive
every season. Sometimes ] make few
oents more and other years a few cents
less, but IS is a good average.
1T was about fourteen years ago that
7 caught the bee fever. ! went for "A
visit TO some relatives over in Pennsyl-
vania. Such honey as they had on their
tablet When ! found that they raised
Il and the wife Of the farmer declared that
bees were no more trouble than chickens.
! made up my mind to have at least six
or seven hives at home for the sake Of
raising my own honey
As soon as ] got back home | set out
on q bee hunt. Nobody near us had
any hives to SELL but learned Of man
come distance in the country who had
q dozen hives TO dispose or
aHis hives were the old fashioned kind
and had been handled By his wife who
had died fifteen years before. They were
falling to pieces, and how the man hired
TO haul them got them home without
being stung to death is a mystery
1.-THE first thing was TO get the bees
INTO new hives, and in my ignorance
I imagined that would end my trouble
Il did, in a measure, though for long
time after was never without swelled
face. and almost every member OF the
family was In the same condition
by reading and questioning learned
sbout Italian queens-how much more
gentle they we're than the wild kind that
Il was evident had bought To most
beginners In bee keeping this introducing
Of new queens seems a dangerous under
taking. but the truth is that IL properly
done il is far from being so.
.The first thing is 10 get the best Italian
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queens from reliable bee breeders They
are usually sent through the mails and
with me have invariably arrived in good
condition, The colony to which they are
TO be introduced should he made queen
less for three days. so that they will miss
their old ruler
AT the end of three days the little queen
cage containing the new queen aud her
attendants should be hung between two
frames Of brood combs The bees in the
hive attack the sweet stuff that has sur
rounded the new queen and by the time
they have disposed of il she has become
so impregnated with the odor Of the
colony that they accept her, il not with
JOY at least without attempting 10 de-
stroy her II she should be released in
the hive without this precaution they
would recognize from her scent that she
was "A stranger and kin her
A day or SO later the cage will be found
empty and may be safely remov ed. as her
ma jesty will have no longer any need Of
IT, 1t will only require few weeks for
the hybrid workels 10 die of from old
children Of the new queen. In my case
these were beautiful golden colored
worker which il was a pleasure TO handle
because OF their genteness as compared
with those | had bought Of the farmer
and struggled with 80 long.
When | was beginning u II mean during
the first five years Of my experience as
bee keeper. had great difficulty in get
ting new colonies into the hives To begin
with, they would always swarm at the
most inconvenient moment and for fear
they would get away ] had TO put down
everything and attend to them Now
they swarm when they please and wait
until | am ready TO present them with
their new house.
This change is accomplished by the
simple method Of clipping the wings of
every queen in my yard, When this is
done the bees swarm when they feel in
clined TO set up housek eeping for them
selves. but their queen being unable TO
Join them they do not fly very far.
When swarm is reported wait until
II is convenient, then go out with my
glasses on and looking about in the grass
soon discover her ma jesty fioundering
about in her efforts to join her devoted
subjects. ! pick her up, have the hive
from which the new swarm has come
moved To another spot and set an empty
hive in its place
BY and 10y the new swarm, missing
their queen. will return in search Of her
and enter the hive placed 10 receive them.
When good part Of them have gone in
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exhibiting the Turkish woman's most
enviable inheritance. il perhaps her
greatest charm, the wonderfully wistful.
gazellehke eyes. Then lighting up their
cigarettes they laugh and chatter to-
gether about the mornings experience
1t probably never occurring to them TO
he dissatisfied with their scribe.
Here in Constantinople you cannot help
noticing that a few better class women
are feeling their way in regard TO dress,
but like all pioneers they suffer for their
cause II the customary heavy black
veil is thinner, il the hair has an appear
ance Of being pufied out beneath its
covering. if the rich silk mantle is cut to
Show the slender form or more mature
curves of its wearer, she is Immediately
an object Of much attention and remark
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ette blouse underneath the rich silk bro
cede, but often they forgot to raise their
skirts, leaving them trailing several inches
in the mud.
/ 1t is the old negro woman who never
/ forgets 10 show that she possesses legs.
With her ebony face partially covered by
tho yashmak hor Colored ferije drawn
vol rbout her knees. showing pair OF
I extraordinarily brilliant stockings, she
sails along the street, and though the day
Is cold end damp she wiolds her pointed
pere.sol IS adroitly IA any European CO.
quette, rolling her eyes.
Beside the other women oi the Levant.
pale. gross looking creatures Of Jewish.
Greek or Armenian blood. whose every
curve is exaggerated from lack OF exer-
else, overeating and desire to initiate
their sisters Of the West, the average
Turkish woman il doll. But among
these veiled women are many Europeans
whose nationality is successfully hidden
by yashmak and ferije. yet their strong
influence il felt and seen to-day in the
Young Turk movement
One such woman, an American, know
ing nothing Of the real life In Turkey and
imagining the title OF -Effendi" to be
something more imposing that just plain
MIR. - accepted the hand Of Turk whom
she met in her country. Though living
here now with her husband and conform
ing to the strict Turkish rules, she has
probably often regretted and envied the
freedom she surrendered.
As summer approaches the sombre
black ferije is changed for another OF
gayer hue and the women go out OF doors
more. When the days grow long and
warm many are the little EXCURSIONS
which are made TO the sweet waters OF
Europe Of the Turkish women 8
favorite outings.
Little parties with an attendant go up
in caioues, a peculiar Turkish boat like a
large canoe, or in close curtalned ounaIo
carts drawn by two Of these slow moving,
unwieldy beasts. A spot which holds SIM
greater attractions for them not 50 far
from home is Turkish cemetery.
Here with no fear of interruption from
any disturbing male element. in one OF the
many old graveyards on the Bosporus or
Golden Horn, they throw back their wells
TO smoke and chatter and laugh like
schoolgirls out for holiday. or perhaps
il there il an artist among them she tries
TO reproduce what she sees a scene whose
magnificence holds one spellbound.
Then as the sun and their attendant
warn them they must hurry home --
for no Turkish woman may stay out
after dusk-they mount their respective
chariots and return whence they came;
passing out Of the sunlight down narrow
streets they are lost to view in their close
shuttered wooden houses.
Large and small, the houses stand
generally untouched since the day they
were built: some fall to pieces for need OF
paint; others, whose walls on one side have
sunk lower and lower, have an air OF
tipsy insecurity. In such dwellings as
these the average Turkish woman-the
yelled chapeless bundle Of the street pee
has been content to pass her days in work
or idleness; but the quickening influence
Of education is already felt and perhaps
will one day bring her into life.
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hall gas fixture. a simple but sufficient
gas bracket with a glass globe on IL.
the light from which throws gentle flood
of radiance over nearby If not distant
objects. What better could one want
here than that gas bracket?
Still holding your way north and
looking along the same side, in the
next section Of the hall you come to our
telephone box. securely fastened to the
wall and admirably furnishing that
section and not far beyond the tele-
phone you come to closet that opens
on the hall and whose stout oaken door
frame and door help still further to break
the monotony.
Beyond this closet there is still con-
siderable space of blank wall, but you
can hurry past that. and you really don't
notice il much after so much variety.
Then you come to the parlor door.
Really. could you find anything
further removed from monotony than
the spectacle that that hall now presents?
Umbrella can, hat rack, gas fixture. tele-
phone box, closet door; any monotony'
in that?
But then we realized that all these
things were on one side OF the hall; the
other side remains blank wall. stretch
ing away interminably. but We broke
up the monotony there very easily and
speedily,
We hung up along that wall few
pictures. taking care to place them op-
posite the bedroom doors, so that when
those doors were opened you could see
the pictures and then we did not put
down on the floor n hall or stair carpet
to run away in neunbroken monotonous
stretch to a point in the far distance,
but We bought hall runners Of slightly
different patterns and colors and OF
different lengths and laid them down with
little breaks between, and so got variety
on the floor.
There you have our long hall as
IL Is to-day. not like a long. dull sec
ton OF subway tunnel that you want to
get through as quickly as you can but
a pleasant place Of infinite variety; and
we shall never cease to be thankful that
We didn't yield TO impulse when We first
came in, and install a hall trolley
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Satisfied with the contents Of her letter
the woman pays two mttoikS 1.-TWO cents
and departs with her companion,
Some time later they return with another
note and similar questions and answers
pass between them; but when a few weeks
later they appear before him again the
intelligent rascal recognizes them and
Immediately begins To read
MY beloved wife. hope you are well.
am"
-Effendi." the woman interrupts him
gently. this letter ! think is from my
sister"
"Ah, you should have told me so
As the women go home on the street
car taking their seats in its harem
(or women's compartment they raise
their wells with henna stained fingers,
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Disraeli Among the Lords.

II VV TVF " 'HTHIIWE EIFT WUlfWI.
Disraeli was a past master OF the art OF
hattery, but his audacity carried him out Of
danger Soon after his elevation 10 the
House OF Lords he was asked by brother
peer how he felt in his new surroundings.
oh, don't ask me. he Eroaned; dead and
Then remembering that his questio oner
temning. he added. 'and in the realms OF
the blestl-
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TURKEYS SECLUDED WOMEN
SOME SIGNS OF REBELLION
AGAINST THE VEIL.

\ Besinning OF Efforts to spread Educa-
tisn AmonE the Women OF Turkey
-Young Turks Divided on the Sub
JoctIAfe Of the Turkish Woman.
CoNsTANTINoPLE, Jen. sO.-In Con-
stsntinoplo the other dey before room
ful OF Engiish end American women.
= young Turkish woman living in STAN
boul was asked TO say something about
her fellow oountrywomen. No nervous
ness was exhibited by the small black
robed figure that rose to speak to such
an audience for tho first time.
With yashmak (veiD thrown back.
there being only those Of her own sex
present t-royealing a girls pale. delicate
looking oval face. whose fascination lay
In tho large hazel eyes end expressive
mouth. she spoke without hesitation
10 tho purest English. her low toned
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are original and he gets them OF
in a manner really funny. Watson
seems to be the favorite so far
as comedy goes. Mareena, Ma
varro & Mareena give excellent
demonstrations in equilibristic
and athletic work, Mareena doing
sensational and hazardous hand
jump. Mora Browning, the girl
with the diamond heels, is clever.
She seemed to aspire for a home
and was offered two while doing
her part yesterday afternoon.
Lightning Hopper in a series OF
comic and artistic cartoonists was
much appreciated. Don Leonos
Happy Youngsters in a musical
comedietta entitled Examination
Day" is we'll staged and highly en-
tertaining.
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lo15THE sAhESWQMAN

Many buyers and head sales
women receive from $25 to $40 a
week. Women with executive abil-
ity, keen judgment of goods and
news and progressive ideas are
certain of liberal rewards.
Probably four fifths of the sales
girls marry, and most of them do
well. As rule they are character
istically attractive and show un-
usual taste in toilet. They have
been in a position to observe the
smartest fancies of good dressers
and they are quick in copying and
adapting.
Saleswomen who become wives
are. usually neat and Industrious.
Their occupation has had ten
dency to make them so. They are
also generally tactful and wise in
overlooking the little shortcomings
of husband.
The lot of the saleswoman is
now much better than formerly.
Every ,year the tendency Of bust
ness firms to pay more attention
to the physical and mental welfare
of employees increases.
This tendency is felt strongest
in ,he better class of department
store. Employers provide rest
rooms and restaurants. The laws
of several states require employ
ers to furnish stools to girls be-
hind counters.
In some of the big stores the
management hires detectives to
protect their attractive salesgirls
from annoyance from the mash
ers" as they start for home at
night.
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AUDITORIUM

Miss Shirley in the title role o!
Sunday at the Auditorium last
night was the central and an at
tractive figure in one of the pref,
test little romantic plays the com.
pany has offered. Sunday" has a
pretty plot and more human in.
terest than usually is found in a
play. In the first act Howard
Foster as Lively, one of the four
foster fathers of Sunday, had the
audience in tears through his ex-
ceptionally strong acting in a
beautiful scene. George McQuar,
RE as Colonel Brinthorpe, the
English gentleman who falls in
love with Sunday, was at his best,
and in the last two acts especial
ly displayed talent. Jack Amory
and Laura Adams played dignified
roles in a fitting manner, while
Byron Loucks as the villain, Ar
thur Brinthorpe, had one of the
best roles which has ever fallen
his lot. Miss Cleveland as a nun
appeared only in the first act.