The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-24

M NE Birmingham woman is mak- N y ing good living raising rab-
 bits in her little back yard over in Norwood. Now what do you think of that?
 She steps from her kitchen out into the narrow space allotted to the rabbits. where $50 of the pretty little fluffy woolly things peep out from their cozy habitations "scrunchng" up their cute little noses (you know how rabbits do) and backing up their tall, slender, pointed little ears-"scared looking, you know'-but really gentle as 'Mary's Lit tie Lamb" of historic fame
 The name of the nice lady who owns and operates the Norwood rabbitry is Mrs. Shipman. Her husband, who is the party of the second part" in this novel scheme of rabbit raising is mem ber of the firm which is incorporated under the name of "W. J. and A. A. shipman," which sounds like the Will liamsons of Best Seller" fame.
 What Mrs Shipman doesn't know about rabbits MT. Shipman does. She can tell you everything about all her nice little rabbit family of $50 almost 'the four hundred'D from how long they sleep to how much they eat, and it is just the most interesting and entertain ing thing in the world to visit the Nor wood Rabbitry and enjoy "a personally conducted tour of the premises with the Shipmans.
 Clean, spic and span, sanitary ana thoroughly up-to- date, the Norwood Rao- bitry is conducted on a scientific scale' an adjoining flower garden, where old fashioned petunias and verbenas and Cape Jassamines and violets abound makes an attractive boundary line. looked about to find some fuchias and sweet eiysium and bleeding hearts and heliotropes, because those lovely old fashionel flowers seem to belong to the same generation and set in society thai Mrs. Shipman's little nosegay of flowers does. But-well, any way, on the way to the little flower garden you pass here and there a brood of newly matched chicks, the most adorable looking little fiossy Easter-time yellow and black chicks with a big old sassy looking hen 'strutting about feeling as proud as a peacock of the 15 little newly matched family!
 I entirely forgot to tell you that on the back porch-before you ever get to the kitchen stepsithere's a family of per fectly good white mice, all enjoying themselves just as. innocent of the fact that they are being raised" for 'medl- ; cinal purposes or whatever it is-an5 way, in case of an epidemic they would be used for ''inoculation'' and that sort of thing-little, wee, tiny bitsy things | family of them-had just arrived few l hours before my visit to the NorWooo Rabbitry (something arrives there | nearly every hour, it seems to mel and | they were just as big as little minutes l while the snow white coat of "Mothei White Mice" showed if they took aftel 1 her" they'd be just too lovely and i'm I maculate for words-these nice little boy
 and girl mice.
 "Old Polly Parrot" dressed up in th'
 gayest and most fascinating sort of "gla6
 rags sits perched up high in the olt oak tree and, like Alexander Selkirk, + Monarch of All He Surveys (Only. don't think it's that sort of parrot because it talks so much and l guess
 it's only "lady" parrots that behave tha
 way) Anyway, the rabbits and the l chicks and the white mice and things al seem to like it and Madame Polly mus be a good linguist ana must know nov
 to speak many languages besides Enghsi