The National tribune., 1910-04-07

this country. and that there is no reason
for this except that we are too lazy to
DO IT, IL seems our farmers really do
not know the A 3 C about potato
raising and haven't taken the trouble to
inform themselves. Where they only
get some 80 or 90 bushels from an acre,
Europeans get 200. Lord Roseberry,
England's great radical, has a farm on
! which he raises 1000 bushels of po-
tatoes to the acre. Think of it. and
! we only raise mean little so or 90!
| Mr.. Grubb will soon make a trip across
the water, his expense paid by the Gov
ernment. to find out the secret of the
Dig potato crops abroad. There is no
better potato raised anywhere in the
world than that grown in Maine. why
are not some of those deserted farms
taken and put to the raising of this all
| important vegetable? At present we
import some 10000. 900 bushels a year
from Europe, so Mr.. Grubb says.
The high cost of living has forced
many women into hard thinking, and in
some cases into decisive action as we'll
We read in the papers short time ago
| or a number of wealthy women start
| ing produce stores in their city, obtain
| ing their produce direct from the farm
ers and selling at the lowest possible
| figure. Just how this has worked out
we cannot say. Now we read that
some of the most prominent and
wealthy women of San Francisco, tired
! of paying such exhorbitant prices to
| the florists for orchids and roses have
| formed corporation to raise these
flowers for the market themselves. The
company has capital of SIS, 900, and
Is headed by one of the leaders in San
francisco society. An excellent way to
avoid the high prices is not to pay them,
and the only way to accomplish this is
to do without those things you cannot
produce yourself. 1t is quite surprising
to see how many girls all over the coun-
try are looking at the matter in this
| hight Take the question OF hats. for in
stance. Girls who have previously paid
anywhere from SO to $40 for a hat
| (and in many instances a great deal
| more) have Joined classes in millinery
connected with the Y. w. G. A., or some
other institution in the city where they
live, and are now able to make their
| own Creations for about S5 less Even
| girls who can well afford to pay the $40,
or even the $50 and over which many
hats cost, are doing this, for they real
iZe that rare indeed is the hat worth
any $40, when you come down to its
! real intrinsic value. In Milwaukee, we
are told, the city has taken up this
question of hat-making, and that any
woman can now get a nice. pretty one
for 81. The work Is done by the Girls
Trade School. and if the enterprise
proves successful, dressmaking will be
treated in the same way. Apropos of
hats, French priest in Paris has Just |
declared that no woman wearing a large |
hat shall enter his church. Worship
ers are prevented from witnessing the |
ceremonies on account of them, he SAYS |
and the house of God is no place for |
them, anyway. Which is perfectly true, |
and the only wonder Is that the clergy /
nf this CnIIDtrU have no.
same.
In few weeks It is expected will be |
completed the most wonderful railway |
the world has ever known. 1t hasi
taken 80 years to build this, and cost |
millions of dollars. 1t crosses the South |
American Republic of Argentina, its
capital, Buenos Aires. being at one ter
minus, and Valparaiso, in Chilli, at the
other. Between the two lie the great |
Andes, and the engineering feats which |
have been performed in order to carry |
the trains over this giant wall of rock |
fill us with absolute awe. One of these !
is a spiral tunnel, the like of which has |
never been known before, and which |
cost over s1.00e.000 to bore. Another
in a string of 118 bridges which extend |
over 80 miles. At another point the |
track is taken over a wide ravine on |
huge rock which makes it a natural |
bridge. For hundreds of miles this line |
runs along above the clouds, thru a |
region of perpetual snow and ice. at |
one place at hight of II, 800 feet |
Snowsheds all along this portion protect |
the trains FROM the frequent avalanche |
While in various parts of the world |
travellers are carried along great nights
with wonderful mountain scenery all |
around them, nothing equal to this rail-
way has ever before been at the dis
pOSal of man, and it is presumed that
as many as are able to do so will make
the journey as soon as possible.
And apropos of railroad travel, Swift
zerland has just done a good thing. The
Swiss Federal Railroad, in consideration
of the discomfort, if not absolute suffer-
ing, endured by most invalids when
travelling, have ordered that four cars,
each costing S12. 500, shall be fitted out
especially for the accommodation of
this class. The center of each car will
be set aside for sick people, and the
remaining space divided UP into differ
ent rooms. There will be an operating
room, for cases requiring immediate at
tention (and many life has probably Il
been lost for the lack of this), COM
plete pharmacy besides rooms for doc
tors, nurses, and the friends of the
travelling invalids. Every possible con-
triVance for the comfort of the delicate
and suffering will be found on these
cars. While nothing of this kind has
DetH uOTle III CDlS COuHlEyy our
aire class have been able to travel with
''alI the comforts of home" so to speak,
for some time. A rather remarkable
train of this sort recently left California
bearing Andrew Carnegie, Mrs. Russell ;
Sage, Edwin Gould and other million
aires. There was a special sleeper for !
the servants of these, an extra car for
automobiles. besides an extra refriger- (
ator-car well stacked with good things
Who can say that the hen has no
sense after reading this story? In the I
rural districts of Connecticut mail car i
rier the other day. just starting on his {
route, stopped at a farmhouse. A hen I
ran out, settled herself comfortably l.
among the mail bags and proceeded to I
lay an egg. The carrier came along,
saw the egg. poeketed it, and drove on (
Looking back a moment he noticed the |
hen following him, but paid no atten- |
ton to her, and continued in the dis |
charge of his duty. But when half an
hour or mora later he perceived that
Mrs. Hen was still kicking up the dust
in his rear. and read in her small eyes
a fixed determination to keep it up till t
justice be done, tho she might be fore q
ed to run her legs off in consequence, "
the case became somewhat serious Be- '
ing an honest carrier, and not wishing '
to deprive the farmer of hen as we'll as