The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1911-02-03
CHICAGO NEWS LETTER.

UTlUhUU MCW0 L[uCn.
Chicago, February Efforts to
conserve tie soil fertility of illinois
which committee of the bankers as
ISOLATION of Illinois has. undertaken as
result of the earnings of the state uni
versity that depletion was going on al
most unchecked, has a big future
stake. according to Ur. j. Paul GoOde,
of Chicago, who has asserted that if
the soil is conserved the Mississippi
valley will have a population of 200.-
900, 900 to 800. 900. 900 before the CEN
fury ends. Wisconsin took the lead in
efforts to prevent soil impoverishment
and now the states of Wisconsin, Illi-
nois, Minnesota and Michigan will
unite in the efforts in a common cause.
DR.. Cyril w. Hopkins, dean of the
state agricultural school, warned the
bankers when in convention that some
thing must be done soon in soil restor-
alton. Not only is that to be done.
but the committee. of which w. G.
Edens. IF Chicago, is secretary. also
has recommended efforts to inspire the
children of farmers with a new re-
spect. interest and love for farm
work. The committees first report in
cludes this declaration: I'VE feel
that system of schools supported by
public expense, can better justify it
self by the further Incorporation of
agricultural and vocational education
in its curriculum; that the country
schools in particular can be made
much more helpful lin the matter of
agricultural education and in increas-
ing the interest of the children in that
greatest and must necessary of all pre-
LESSONS. the profession of agriculture.
and to this extent at least. we gladly
endorse the report of the Educational
Commission of this state"
Red-headed girls are preferred for
walters in Chicago. at least one cafe
manager gives them preference. be-
cause. he says. they attract patronage.
He is the manager of one of the res
taurant concerns which has lunch
counters scattered all over the down.
town district, and ought to know what
he is taking about. ''Red-haired girls
| find are pleasing to customers-they
like to look upon head of flaming
hair while they eat" he said. "A
restaurant with none but red-headed
girls would become ia nous. People
would come blocks to dine there.
Girl walters with blond and black hair
are looking up lotions to dye it red.
and some of them are thinking of
wigs. Other restaurants have decided
preferences either for colored walters
or foreigners of a specified nationality,
h,,k <bo hoy h.r
most of the downtown cafes the color
altogether in the majority.
The crowded tenements of Chicago
costs the city millions of dollars each
year through the resulting inefficiency,
dependency, inebriety. juvenile delin-
quency, crime and mortality in dias-
eases. according to Charles b. Ball,
chief sanitary inspector of Chicago.
Il have found room so dark that one
could not distinguish, the presence of
preson three feet away" he said.
land women work in those rooms. In
one kitchen | found a woman at work
where it was necessary to keep
lamp lighted to enable her to see what
she was doing" ::Avaricious landlords
are charged with responsibility for the
conditions and an effort has been made
to enlist business men in a general
movement to improve the housing in
the poorer districts of the town as
years ago they were improved in New
York. The effect of tenement life on
the future citizens was cited by Prof.
James H TUFTS, who said: 1.-The chill
dren pass six hours of the day in the
sch Dol room. bnt, in the remaining IL
hours they work Or sleep in darkened
rooms. Easements or novels. and they
play in places unfit for them. Con
idtions are no less than frightful yet it
would appear that the public, in
Chicago is satisfied if the SCHOOL, rooms
are kept clean and ventilated.
An income of 81. 900 a year is enough
to support man and his wife, and
enable them to save $500, according to
Harlow N. Higginbotham, of Chicago.
w no made fortune as a partner of
Marshall Field. This is the way he
figures it: 1T costs a person for food
just about "a cents a day." he said,
land | can prove it costs no more to
live Coday than it did three or four
years ago. Now, 365 days at the
figure mentioned gives US $3.50 for
the cost of food for one person for a
year. provided one does not waste it,
or throw it away. A man and his wife
do not need a servant. and an apart
ment quite large enough for two people
and with room to spare. will cost say
S24.O0 month. Then add light and
gas and believe two people could live
economically and save $500 wear
Here is what one woman did on Sc
week: After series of years that
woman had in the bank the sum of
So. 7l5.Sl. and moreover had helped her
brother to the extent of $500. rhus on
an income of $3l2 year. she had asv-
ed $3.272.4l. had maintained herself
I'd been 70 the hospital once and paid
q doctUr's bill. l started to work
for Marshall Field after the war for
$1,000. which the next year was raised
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