The Winchester news. [volume] (Winchester, Ky.) 1908-19??, 1909-01-08
WOMEN GARDENERS.
Unique Institution Started Abroad by
American Women.

American Women.
Two American women are conduct
ing what is described as "a village
Utopia" in England. One of them,
AIRS. Victoria Woodruff Martin, has
enjoyed intermittent celebrity for a
good many years The other is Mrs.
Martins daughter, Miss Zula Maud
Woodruff.
The village is near Norton Park, the
estate which Mrs. Martin inherited
from her second husband several
years ago. 1t is called Bredon's Nor
ton and until recently was a tumble
down, decaying agricultural village
managed in the old, inefficient style
and quite cut off from the outer
world
The two Americans improved the
village. had a fight withTthe education
authorities, which resulted in a COM
piste reorganization of the school, and
finally restored the old manor house
and opened it as a woman's agricul-
furai club.
A pamphlet describing the club and
ms objects gives this outline of the
eonditions of membership:
members staying at the club will
be able to take lessons in gardening,
dairy or poultry work or bee keeping
s1or long or short periods.
members who have trained at any
% the existing colleges can live at the
Hiub and rent small plots, from half an
acre upward, which will enable them
10 make a start in market gardening
with very little outlay.
"a horticultural school is carried on
In connection with the club. The
supervision, will live in separate houses.
Members may attend the higher
courses at Cheltenham Ladies' college.
members who live in the village or
immediate neighborhood may obtain
Ill meals at the club at a very moder-
ate price. This is an important item,
As gentlewomen are often deferred
from settling in the country on ac-
count of the great difficulty Of getting
any one to do the necessary cooking
and homework. By being able to OBJ
tain their meals they are more or less
1ndependent of the servant question
and manage very well with occasional
help"
The various fees charged the club
members are all moderate, says Town
saad Country, and the cost Of living
and learning depends in every case
szpon the members earning capacity.
10 the girl of small means, say 5000
q year, the club aims to open the door
70 a life full Of interest, pleasant work,
health and ample recreation.
The house is a beautiful stone Eliz-
abethan manor house, with the date
1SB5 over its stone gateway. The
country is charming, and the young
women members of the club, which
already is self supporting, have for
their use motor launch on the Avon
and other facilities for bathing and
boating. They have a good library in
the mansion and a spacious music
room where they give concerts and
other entertainments.
Counting Postal Cards.
OF the many interesting machines
employed by the government in its
daily work there may be mentioned
those used for counting and tying
postal cards into small bundles. These
machines are capable of counting 5OO,- /
900 cards in ten hours and wrapping
and tying them in packages of twen-
y-five each. In this operation the pa
per is pulled off a drum by two long
singers which emerge from below, and |
another finger dips in a vat of mu-
cfiage and applies itself to the wrap I
Ping paper in precisely the right spot
Other parts of the machine Irvine the
paper round the pack of cards, and
then thumb presses over the spot
wherein the mucilage has been ap-
piled. whereupon the package is
thrown on carrying belt ready for
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Journal.