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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
new HOUSE SCHEME
London Suburb Soon to Witness
Unique Attempt.
Combine Privacy and ExcIusiveness,
So Dear TO Heart Of Every Eng
lisnn1an, With All Other
Advantages.

London-A garden village, situated
on a tableland some 300 feet above
sea level-as high as St. Paul's cathe-
drain one Of London's prettiest and
healthiest northern suburbs, and not
more than seven miles distant from
Charing Cross, is on the point of
making its successful debut as a
pioneer housing scheme. The plan
viii combine the privacy and ex-
clusiveness of home, so dear to the
heart of the average Englishman, with
all the advantages, economical and
otherwise, of cooperative housekeep-
ing.
On the beautifully wooded estate of
Brent Lodge, consisting Of "a acres,
it is proposed to build houses. allow
ing six only to the acre, which will
permit Of a fairly large garden for
each house, at rentals Of from G35
(s175) to ECO $4,000 a year, together
with three quadrangles Of flats. In
addition, large spaces will be reserved
for the tenants, who must also be
shareholders IN the enterprise. as
recreation grounds. Every house will
be fitted with an appliance for con
slant hot-water service, electric wiring
and power for vacuum cleaning, and
many other advantages and economies
viii result to the tenants.
The old mansion of Brent Lodge,
standing in a spacious center of
lawns stretching undar yvide-SDreadinp
cedars, will be preserved as a club
house, dining hall and center of gen
eral reunion" Here meals will be
served in the three big reception
rooms, opening one into the other,
from which a charming view of the
surrounding gardens and trees can
be obtained. By this means domestic
labor will be reduced to a minimum
and the servant problem satisfactorily
solved In addition to a cooperative
kitchen, there will be a cooperative
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
MA~1 O4~71
Separate Waists for Autumn,

ct is a happy bit of news to most
women that fashion is not only ap-
proving but emphasizing the vogue OF
the separate waist for autumn" says
Grace Margaret Gould in Woman's
Home Companion. THE costume
blouse will divide honors with the
shirtwaist and women the world over
will be glad. The versatility of the
separate waist, as far as usefulness
goes, is well known. and this coming
season it will add to its practical and
economical qualities an unusual meas
ure of good looks. In the guise of a
costume blouse it will lend its charm
and effectiveness to the plain tailored
suit, making it appropriate for many
varied occasions"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
EASILY MADE GIFT FOR GIRL
Blouse Case in Washable Materials to
Be Used When Travelling Just
the Thing.

An easily made gift for the girl who
likes to start her Christmas presents
early is a blouse case in washable ma
terials to be used in a trunk or suit
case when travelling.
These can be made of figured mus
Inns of a rather heavy weave, which
about now can be bought cheaply in
remnants, from wash silks, or even
from unbleached muslin, if you add a
touch of color in the trimmings.
A piece yard and half long the
full width of material makes a con-
venient size, though the case may be
larger, or small enough to hold just
two blouses, one in each pocket.
Mark the middle of length used.
Finish the ends by binding, hem
stitched hem or a plain hem EDGED
with narrow torchon, or linen lace.
For the unbleached muslin the oind-
ing can be a bright blue, pink or vio-
let madras
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
BENEFITS OF POULTRY SHOW
Or Particular Educational Valve 70 Be
ginner-Gives Fancier Chance to
See Live Birds.
Bv p H WHITE )

L
The educational value of the poul
try show to the fancier, and particu
larry to the beginner, cannot be over
estimated. A study OF the standard
or other descriptions without the op-
portunity to see live specimens could
never give the clear, concise concep-
ton OF a variety which the poultry
birds creates. Nor is this benefit
lost TO the experienced fancier, for
every opportunity which he gets to
see the birds of his competitors and to
meet and exchange ideas with his fell
low-breeders is of direct educational
value. After all, poultry breeding.
like all other livestock breeding, fol-
lows certain fashions, which are con-
stantly changing more or less slowly,
and for this reason the fancier who
never has opportunity to observe 9TH
er mems stock can scarcely expect to
keep abreast of these fashions in
birds. To the fanciers, therefore, both
old and new, the poultry show is a lib
eral education, and in some sense a
necessity.
To those not particularly familiar
with poultry and who attend the show
largely from curiosity the exhibition
has distinct educational value It
opens their eyes to the extent and
degree to which poultry breeding has
been carried, and brings a realization
Of Importance of the industry. In this
relation the show has a direct value to
the industry in arousing interest in
poultry breeding and in gaining many
new recruits.
To the plain or utility poultryman
the show has. of course, an education
al value. 1t may open his eyes to the
value of pure-bred stock as compared
with scrub or mongreI stock, though
here it would seem to fail somewhat
in its possibilities. The writer has
been informed, however, that this ed
vocational influence is felt in the in,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
NEW SKIRTS MUST BE SHORT
Trains Are Almost Obsolete, but Will
Be Worn by Some Who Refuse to
Give Them Up.

The new skirts are short, even in af-
ternoon and evening gowns of the
most formal character. Trains are
almost obsolete, but they will always
be worn to a certain extent, for some
women refuse to give them up.
Where they are used at all they are
short and narrow. The prettiest
length skirt comes just to the instep.
Few women can wear anything short
er successfully. All the skirts are
narrow and short, but no one single
type prevails. For tailored suits the
skirts are either gored or circular or
partially plated. In more preten-
tious suits of velvet, cashmere, prr-
nellie cloths, ETC., the skirt drawn into
a band at the bottom is very popu-
lar, but one still sees tunics of all
kinds over plain or plated under
skirts. In reception gowns and eve
ming dresses one material is usually
yelled with another, and the skirts are
of infinite variety of cut-The De
ineator.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20

nursery and laundry and co-opera-
tive staff of servants.
Those tenants who prefer to do
their own catering. instead of dining
out" and to keep their own servants,
will, of course, be at liberty to do so,
as entire freedom of action is one Of
the results aimed at
1t will be seen that the scheme is
not in any sense a land speculation
or a philanthropic enterprise, but a
practical effort on the part of it's
initiator and actual working secre-
tary-Mrs. Alice Melvin-to cope with
some of the difficulties that beset the
lives of people with strictly limited
means
1t is estimated that a capital Of
from 10000 to $4,000 ($350,OO0 to
S4OO O00) will be required for the
Brent Garden Village estate, but one
third of that amount will suffice for
the initial outlay. AS mentioned
above. all tenants must be share
holders and copartners in the scheme.
In this way" said Mrs. Melvin,
who told the correspondent, that
she used to think and think and
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Latest in Petticoats.

Dress underskirts are of fine muslin
or batiste. Lace is more used in
trimming than embroidery, all trim
mings being neat rather than elabor-
ate. Allover embroidery, cambria,
cluny torchon and honiton edgings
and insertions are best.
Under wash dresses, colored lawn,
chambray and batiste petticoats are
most popular. These are embroidered
in white, with white lace insertions
and colored ribbon headings.
Among novelties are white muslin
petticoats with f1ounce reaching to
the knees, embroidered in color and
bon of the same shade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
CARE OF POULTRY IN WINTER
Not Much Hard Work Required to
Keep Flock in Summer, but Differ
ent in Cold Weather.
CBv r. A WFTCH0

1t does not require much hard work
to keep a flock in good condition in
the summer, but absolute neglect will
often completely destroy the winter
egg producing qualities Of not only
the old hens but the pullets as well.
If you have not removed every win
dow in the chicken house and substf-
tuted wire netting in order to provide
perfect ventilation do so at once.
Better that the chicks roost in the
trees than they be confined in YER
min ridden building.
Body lice will worry a flock to
death, or so nearly so as to destroy its
usefulness. These can be killed but
not easily.
Persian insect powder will do the
business. 1t should be applied with a
powder spray by one person while an
other holds the fowls by the legs so
that the powder may reach every part
of the skin through the disturbed
feathers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
EGGS DURING COLD WEATHER
To Insure Laying Hens Must Be GiveF
Warm Quarters and Proper
Kind of Feed.
nv MRS @ FISHN

Provide warm, dry houses for them
to roost in. Corn should only be
given for the evening meal during
cold weather to impart warmth to the
body. All grains should De scattered
among straw or chaff to induce exer-
else Green food and fresh water
should be given daily. Glover, if cut
very fine, scalded, and fed with a
sprinkling of ground grain in the
morning, allowing the hens to eat as
much as they will, will keep the
hens in health and will not cost as
much as grain. Also give meat and
ground bone to the fowls every day.
This way of feeding is sure to give
you eggs in winter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Mrs. Murphy MuIIigan, Real ES-
tate Operator, Against 1t.
Physical Limitations Are Too Great
and They Are Almost Certain to
Lose Ideals Necessary for
Home Life.

New York.-Mrs. Agnes Murphy
Mulligan. the only woman member of
the Real Estate exchange, has an
nounced her retirement from business
after 80 years of money making. She
doesn't believe that women should go
into business Their physical limita-
lions are too great and they are al
most certain, she says, to lose the
ideals that are necessary for home life
and the upbringing Of children.
Mrs Murphy-Mulligan began to sell
real estate up in the Bronx when the
borough was little built up. Her IA
Their was William Jay Murphy. one of
the pioneers in developing the Bronx
and an active real estate man. His
daughter studied law at the New York
law school and was graduated when
she was sixteen years old. Her father
died, and the care of an invalid moth
er fell to Agnes. She took UP her ia
Tiers business where he dropped it
and became one of the best known
real estate dealers in New York city.
She was among the first women
who ever took up a business career in
this city, and in 80 years she subdi-
yided and developed large sections of
the Bronx Her husband is William
G Mulligan.
Thirty years of business she said,
has convinced me that womans
sphere is home and motherhood, not
business. I have five girls, the oldest
seventeen years. the youngest two
months, and | should consider 1t the
greatest calamity if one of them went
into business. | did it because l had
to 1t was necessary to take up my
fathers work. Perhaps l have been
more fortunate than most women in
finding chivalry among men.
AS things are today do not think
that women should be in business.
They are not satisfied with ordinary
success. They insist on going on and
making fools of themselves by want
Ing to vote and compete with men in
stead of helping men. They have a
place in the business world, but they
should not go away from home to
find ii. They can remain at home and
be partners with their husbands. The
most successful business women are
married women. Women defeat their
own ends by becoming competitors.
In so years I have seen many bust
ness women, and one thing has i'm
pressed itself on me. AS soon as
women get wrapped up in business
they forget their homes. They have
no longing for home or motherhood
Most women in business lose their
ideals A girl who maps out a bust
ness career maps out a career of IN
happiness.
The most powerful argument
against women in business is their
physical limitations. Their chances
of success are remote, because they
are not physically fit to compete with
men. That cannot be gainsaid any
more than the theory I have formed
that n woman, to be in business
must be untrue either to herself or to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
More Than Billion Passengers Car
ried Yearly by City's Trans
portation Lines.

New York.-That New York's ele-
waited, surface and underground car
lines are now handling traffic equiva-
lent to ten rides a year for every man,
woman and child in the country Is
disclosed by experts in the subway
report just issued for the last year
More than 1,000,000,000 passengers.
1t is stated, have been carried during
the last twelve months, of which the
subway accounts for more than half,
with 563,000,000
For the population of this corner
of the state this means that each one
of the 5000, 600 took about 200 rides
last year. Figuring that the average
length of each ride is two miles-a
low estimate when the long hauls to
the northern part of the city and to
Brooklyn are taken into consideration
the enormous total of 100000 600
passenger miles were travelled last
year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Opera All Niqht.

Mexico City.-"Cavaleria Rusticanan
and III Pagliacci," starting at II
o'clock at night and finishing neal
dawn, is an unusual feature of grand
opera to obtain during the first Mex.
lean grand opera season, inaugurated
the other night with the production OF
Aida"
The house for the performance has
been bought outright by the Mexican
Federal authorities, and will be thrown
open for the entertainment of repre-
sentatives of the SO foreign govern
ments present in the capital in conse-
Quence of the independence celebra.
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
CURE FOR FRUlTLESs TREE
After Stiff Dose of CaIomeI Hitherto
Sterile Plant Yields Politically
Big Results.

Lincoln, Del.-That a dose of Gallo
mel is as good for sick tree as for
a sick man is the curious doctrine
worked out by William Morrison, sta
ton agent here, who claims practical
results to prove his assertion
Morrison has a large plum tree in
front of his house. For years the tree
has borne but few plums, never over
one or two quarts. A faithful believer
in calomel for the ills of men, Nor
rison determined to try his favorite
remedy on the tree, and last fall
bored hole in the tree and into this
hole inserted spoonful of the medi-
cine and then plugged the hole I'D
tight
The result has been wonderful. for
the tree that hardly bore enough
plums to give it a name bore several
hundred quarts of fruit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
.IP}1Jg] Ut. 3 : :, TRY
.l1lHJ26I,I IN Il IS y

These bright days make work in the
poultry yard real pleasure.
Hens should not be expected to
drink ice water or eat corn out Of
snow.
When fenced away from the gar
dens and flower beds fowls do little
damage and cause scarcely any annoy
ance on a farm.
Chickens will not scratch when they
are overfedt nor when there is nc
feed in the litter. The idea is to keep
them scratching.
The material from which egg shells
are made is carbonate of lime and
there are many forms in which this
may be furnished.
Hens that are not laying these days
can coaxed sometimes by feeding
them a small amount of cut bone or
fresh meat in some form.
When it becomes necessary to wash
eggs on account of their becoming
soiled in the nest, don't use soap or
ANYTHING else but luke warm water.
The Indian Runner duck is to the
duck family what the Leghorn is to
the hen family. They are great lay
ers. but not so suitable for market
purposes.
If you keep the poultry house as
clean as the dairy house and use
equal energy and good sense in ev-
erv other branch of the business you
will make money.
Hens will not lay well or thrive
unless they have plenty of sunlight
Keep the windows clean.
The idea of perfect comfort should
predominate in every building that is
constructed for the chickens.
Always pick up the feed troughs
that are used in the pen after each
meal, and put them back against the
side of the building where they viii
not become filthy.
If you would have eggs in the win
ter try to initiate nature as much a
possible See that the fowls are con
Portable AMI that they get plenty O.
fresh air, light and exercise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
WOMEN STILL FAVOR HANSON
Americans Shopping in London Do
Not Like Way Taxis Count up
-Spois Pleasure.

London.-American women shop
ping in London this season have
brought grist to the mill of the needy
drivers Of hansoms who have been
badly hit by the popularity of the taxi
cabs. American women have discov-
cred that the hanson cab is the
cheapest vehicle in which to go shop
ping.
IT'S the women who want the
hansoms for an hour or two's shop
ping" said Strand hotel porter.
They know where they are with
a hanson; half a crown an hour is
the rate they pay. But a taxi goes
Pickering on twopences all the time.
and it makes up at least four shiIl-
ings an hour, even while it's standing
still. The women feel the pleasure of
shopping is spoilt when there is a
machine outside making them pay
for every second of it."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
NEW YORK CAR TRAVEL BIG

Thus, were one person to do all the
riding represented by this figure, he
would be able to make $4,000 trips
around the earth, 1000 round trips to
the moon or eleven complete trips to
the sun and return. Moving at the
rate of a mile minute without ever
stopping, It would however, take him
$500 years to use up this mileage. so
that if such a trip had been started
at the beginning of the Christian era
it would still be only half completed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Wise Old Piu.

New Castle, Del.-John Camether. a
farmer who serves Lis products in this
city, has a pig that performs stunts
that would put the average circus pig
to shame. To obtain apples the ami
mai walks some distance from the tree
it selects and then starts on a run
Jumps into the air, and, catching a
limb in its mouth, hangs on and
shakes down the fruit. If he is watched
he will perform the same trick several
times before he is satisfied
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Snake Poison for Epilepsy

New York.-Rattlesnake venom as
a cure for epilepsy is being tested by
New York and Philadelphia surgeons.
Preliminary reports show that the
venom has resulted in marked bene-
fit to all the patients treated.
The venom treatment was discov-
cred accidentally. as a result of a
snake bite suffered by an epileptic in
Texas.
THE venom, when given hypoder-
mically," says DR.. Ralph Spangler,
makes q profound impression on the
nervous system"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Dumb Man Protests at Ha+

London.-At the Theater ROYAL.
Dublin, during performance of THE
Dollar Princess" young man seated
in the circle behind a woman wear
ing an enormous hat attracted soma
attention Immediately after the cur.
tain rose by vigorously gesticulating
with his hands.
Finding that his dumb motions
we're of no avail the man took a card
from his pocketbook. After hastily
scribbling on it he handed it to the
young woman, who read the words
4 cannot speak a word-please re-
move your hat"
The young woman Immediately re-.
moved her hat.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
How TO Feed the EIocks,

Scratching is of more Importance
than feeding, and it is not necessary
to feed them more than twice day
as the noon meal usually satisfies the
fowls that they will not be inclined to
scratch and then exercise. The hen
that has to hustle for part of her liv
ing will be laying eggs while the over
fed hen is serenely digesting her food
and quietly waiting for her owner tc
bring more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Beer keQ Fish Story

Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Friends of Clerk
of Courts R. M. Keiser, who has re-
turned from Lake Winola, where he
was fishing, declare that he made a
phenomenal catch. Getting bite, he
pulled hard, but could not bulge his
line for some time. Then he slowly
hauled to the surface a beer key.
small bass had taken his bait and
had dashed through the bunghole of
the key In an effort to escape. Anx-
ious to get the fish, Keiser broke open
the key and was surprised to find In
it a 15-fnch pike.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
Canada Wheat Yield

Washington.-The western fields of
Canada, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta, yielded in the last season
102 100000 bushels of wheat, accord
ing to a report to this government by
Consul General John E. Jones of Win
nipeg. and is considered a good crop
in view of the light rainfalls and other
conditions. The crop was $4,000 900
bushels less than the fine crop of 1909.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20

degrees and hinge over the top with
eight-inch strap hinges. On these
frames nail seven 2x2 strips seven feet
long for roosts. Beginning at the top,
nail these Is inches apart. as indicated
at B.
Fig. A shows the end section with
the support, which is a piece of 2x3,
three feet four inches long, and the
stay brace, which is a piece 1x2, three
feet, four inches long. It also Indicates
how one side can be raised when the
floor is cleaned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20
HANDY HOPPER FOR CHICKENS
May Be Constructed of Wood or GAL
vanized Iron and Will Prevent
Birds Scattering Grain.

An economical and useful device in
the poultry yard is shown in the illus
tration.
This hopper may be made of gal
Fanized iron or of wood 1t is intend
ed to prevent hens from wasting feed
when eating, says Orange Judd Farm
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20

of equal depth leaving enough space
between to slip in the blouses with
| out crushing. These pockets can be
| sewed up as they are to be when fin
ished and the edges of the case bound
| to correspond with the hem, only
| much narrowed. Or they can be turn
ed with the hens to the outside, the
selvedges overcast together, then turn
| ed inside out evenly.
Sew a ribbon in the center of each
end of the finished case to tie it to-
gether when the pockets are folded
over. Or three ribbons can be placed,
one in the middle, another two inches
| in from the edges, on each end
To give more space for the blouses
wedged shaped pieces can be inserted
in the pockets, sewed to the selvedgea
at each side.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1910-10-20

Cotton Japanese crepon is a pretty
material in which to make dressing
gowns; the one illustrated here has
kimono sleeves, and is a loose sacque
shape and drawn il at the waist by
ribbon sash, which is loosely knot
ted at the left side of front; this
matches the binding on fronts and
sleeves