The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1913-04-03

teacher in a school for girls; she has re
tanned her active interests in all educa-
tional matters, and her home in Denver
is looked upon as something of cultur-
al center. She has a daughter now at
tending preparatory school. Mrs. Rob
lnson took no part in the effort to secure
her nomination, continlng her campaign
to few public statements in which she
epitomized her views, incidentally declar-
ing concerted motherhood to be prime
need in legislation.
HOW TO START CHICKEN RAISING ON A
SMALL SCALE.
In the April Woman's Home Compan-
ion contributor writing practical sug-
gestive article, entitled "Chickens in the
Back Y ard, says in part:
Zone of the best ways for a beginner
to begin is by buying flock of day-old
chicks, for which he should pay 10 to 20
cents each. If he is stocking his 8x3
foot house he had better buy 80 chicks.
A few will die, though the loss should be
small; about one half will be cockerels
and should be fried early in the fall;
while the flock should thus sft down to
dozen healthy, contented pullets ready
to deliver the first home grown eggs
early in October. To do this, of course.
the chicks should be Matched sometime
in March.
1.-The very minimum of land on which
to set up in the fascinating sport of
poultry growing is 144 square feet. This
would be occupied by house SxS feet
and we'll fenced yard 8x10 feet. More
land is highly desirable, though not alb.
solutely necessary.
Backyard poultry culture seems to
originate usually in mercenary motives.
When eggs go above fifty cents dozen,
as they do with remarkable frequency,
families of moderate means must curtail
their use. Immediately it seems as
though hens fed on table scraps could do
the work cheaper and easier at home,
and presently there is little square shed
In the back yard, and some feet of fenc-
ing. Yet other and possibly finer mo-
tives may be touched by the poultry
ambition. The outdoor life is worth
something. 1t is better to be pottering
about the chicken coop than to be sitting
in the front room smoking or in the par
lor playing bridge. Live animals are
pets and personal friends to those who
nurse them and they draw out many
dInldDle human quantities.
''For the educatio of children nothing
can be better than such gentle, though
eXacting, occupation as feeding the hens,
and looking after the chicks. Children,
of course, ought to be brought up in the
country. on farms if possible, but where
these very desirable conditions fail,
back-lot poultry culture offers a fairlsh
substitute.
DO NOT FAT TOO MUCH IF YOU ARE GET
TING NEAR MIDDLE AGE.
In the April Woman's Home Compan-
ion appears an interesting article entitl-
ed "a Healthy Mind in a Healthy Body"
Following is an extract:
cit is a well established fact that the
majority of people eat too much. They
take more food, especially with under
exercise, than the body can ass:miate,
and the result is superfluous fatty de-
posts. This is especially true around
middle age, when the body is no longer
growing, and hence does not require the
amount of food it required when the
process of growth as we'll as OF waste
was going on. The result is the taking
on OF supert1uous flesh, the tendency to
exercise still less, degeneration of the
heart muscles, hence impaired breathing,
which deprives the body of one of It's
greatest sources of strength and energy
"An abundance of pure air with full
deep breathing, and especially out-of-
door air, is one of the first essentials. of
sound health and of unimpaired vitality.
1t this can be combined with adequate
daily exercise in the open, whether it
takes the form of work or of play, and if
he 40,
walking. so that it is done regularly and
with the right spirit and purpose back Of
tan alert and purposeful mind-so
much the better.
'Sleep is natures great restorer-one
of the great rebuilders of both mind and
tody. When we rob them of their re-
quired amount, we ere thereby contract
ing bills that will present themselves for
settlement sooner or later, but without
fail. 1t may seem for while that no
account is being kept-but believe me,
it is.
THE BRAvEsT THING TnIs WOMAN EVER
The American Magazine has been Of
fering prizes for letters entitled 1.-The
Bravest Thing | Ever Did," Following
is part Of letter published in the April
number which won first prize:
Il guess the bravest thing | ever did
was to have the skin grated from my
left limb to the arm of friend who had
been severely burned by the explosion of
gasolene iron.
''She was taken to hospital and had
had skin grated from her husband,
daughter and friends four different times.
Sat the time of which l write she had
been in the hospital four months, and
they needed to graft skin once more.
Her husband was just recovering from
an attack of typhoid fever, so his skin
was not available this time; they were
going to graft from her daughter the
second time, but they still needed an
other.
cit was hard to find anyone who felt
they could lay off a week from their
work on account of lameness, even though
they were willing, but felt so sorry for
Mrs. H. that volunteered.
''They tried to persuade me that some
one else who was stronger might be
more able. but we couldn't find that
someone, and the doctor said he must
have the skin that afternoon at four, SO
at three-thirty l took the car for the
hospital.
''The nurse first took me in the oper-