The Washington times., 1920-05-27

skin and knowledge. This comes
with practice, and an amateur will
nnd great assistance from the
United States Agricultural Depart
ment Bulletins on these subjects.
A young lady in Frederick county.
Nd. made sufficient money from
turkeys and geese (which appear
to be more profitable than other
kinds OF poultry TO take a course
OF music at a conservatory. Through
her fathers, farm ran stream OF
/ water. where her young goslings
hshed all day long and fattened
themselves for the city markets.
Geese. which are great foragers,
can earn. their own living in the
summer time, but II is best to give
them a hearty breakfast OF grain
each day to keep them attached to
home and prevent them from wan
dering off and becoming wild. With
Young turkeys II is important to
keep them properly housed during
rainy weather. as they are very SEN
sitive to dampness and cold.
A young woman artist in Mont
gomery county. is rivaling the out
put Of brush and pallet with her
mushroom beds. IT takes some
study and practice-and a few fall
ures-to make success OF mush-
rom culture, but when you once
know how" II Is said. is easy work.
This girl is filing standing orders
from hotels and restaurants at
$3.50 a pound. One of her neigh
bors raised twenty-five pounds OF
honey last summer from two bee
hives.
A Noise Room for Quiet People.
A certain householder possessed
a large ell-lighted back room in
her sub basement, far removed from
the stir OF the household. This was
used as a general storeroom for old
junk She conceived an idea of
making money from this room that
rivals the highest prices paid by
the most opulent of warworkers.
After renovating the room and par
TALLY furnishing it as a sitting
room. she put in two good drop
lights. and completed the furnish
ings with a piano. sewing ma
chine and a typewriter. and rents
the room by the hour to students,
professionals, etc. Two piano stu
dents, one 4 young woman in
boarding house, and a school girl
living under the roof with a nervous
invalid, each have daily practice
periods. A budding author, college
students examining for examina-
tions. school teachers with reports
to make. an accountant. young
barrister with a brief to write, come
to this quiet retreat to use the type
writer and invite their souls with
out Interruptions from family and
friends. In the evenings working
girls bring their sewing to run up
seams on the sewing machine.
. One evening last summer, while
visiting In the Berkshire Hills,
Massachusetts,, my hostess turned
her car into a side street. saying
she was going for the weeks wash.
To my surprise the house OF her
laundress proved a rather impos-
ing one, being an S-room cottage.
freshly painted, with gardens and
fences in "apple-pie" order, and
evidences Of thrift and prosperity
on every side. This is the story
Of a woman who made good" over
a washboard.
About fifteen years previous she
had started out on successful
career as a small-town dressmaker.
living with her father and mother.
On the death OF the father the
mother invested the small savings
as part payment on a new home,
and with the earnings Of the
daughter at the sewing machine
they lived very comfortably. Then
her eyesight failed and she was
compelled to give up sewing and
look around for some other means
of livelihood. AS she had acquired
some skill in pressing garments
sne decided to take up fine laundry
work, soliciting particularly the
trade OF summer boarders in the
neishborhood.
At this time an aged uncle came
to live with the family. He was
a veteran soldier with a pension.
As domestic help is always scarce
in factory and college towns-and
she lived between two of them-it
was evident the greater part OF the
actual labor would fall on herself
and her aged relatives. So she
specialized on a line OF work re-
quiring more care and skill than
physical strength. They repair and
carefully laundry only fne lingerie,
women's wear, children's garments
and fine table linen. Tho uncle calls
for and delivers the laundry at tho
hotels MRS. E b. S.
Turns Her Hand
To Various Tasks.
DEAR ELIZABETH LATTIN1ER:
I am the mother OF three dear"
children--a boy six years. a girl
two and one-half years, and a boy
twenty months old. do all Of our
sewing, even the underwear for
my husband. children and myself.
/ made myself a pretty suit, by
turning and making over a suit
that had seen three seasons wear.
I also trim my own hats.
Tho Washing is done outside
the house, but / do the ironing.
Aside from this, I have found time
to embroider some to sell. also
have made some of the pretty bead
chains, the kind you make on .
bead loom. and have sold them.