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imes-lfmrrrai: unlratj, Tttarrb 1912. DAISY FITZHUGH AYRES' LETTER LT RY. OF WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP Matters of Interest to I'erwoiif Who liaise Cliickeii for Pleasure or Frofit Last Official Jam of the Season With Mr. Ollie James in the Melee. Composite Portrait of Messrs.

Taft and Cleveland Other Doubles Chatelaine of "Boundary Castle" Vogue of the Peplum Longworth "Weers It Southern Personals, latgkall It Be tgCU)' Jck egg i. much the largest, two duck's eggs equaling three hen's eggs. As layers they have everything off the beards. With anything like decent treatment I believe they will easily go over 250 eggs per year. Our ducks have laid over eighty eggs each in the last ninety days.

Bran and alfalfa mal make up the bulk of their feed, with a little beef scraps every other day and a small feed of whole corn at night. It portralt of the Duchess of Devonsnlrsw Upon the marvelous coiffure, the most costly miracles of millinery are poised. Her hats and her hair and her costumes are bewildering. Her jewels are fabulous. isartorially and otherwise.

Mrs. Horton is a splendor. One of her evening toileues is of cloth of gold. BOOKKEEPING? Bookkeeping offers sure and steady occupation wherever there is business. Demand for women bookkeepers now much greater than supply.

Advantages of bookkeeping as a woman's work. First signs of a budding bookkeeper. How to prepare your daughter for this profession. The salary she can earn and the positions she can get. mental makeup, doesn't it seem as though you should consider bookkeeping as a possible vocation for her? Doesn't it seem as though she would be able to earn her daily bread, if nee 1 be.

in this vocation better in som other for which she was not so fitted, or. better still, doesn't it seem though bookkeeping might serve as nr a thoro-igh course in book- ir.es gratlv. In one school arka'rly thorough instruction keeping vi i ni.rt is siven, and where all who successfully frr.T'uate are sure of beirg recom- to position: offering salaries I varying from eicht to fifteen dollars a week to begin with, the co.n of tuition I lor a six months' course, including I books anJ stationery, is about seventy-! five dollars. In many othr schools the tuition is much less, and there are various ways in evening nign schools i.i mnny of the big elites ana in liho in stt ui io such as the Young Woman i.iri:.iiaii lion tor a youni; h-uhuu instruction in bookkeeping tor lnue or no'hins in the wav of tuition es. As to salaries for full fledged bookkeepers, in the large cities a beginner gets from to $13.

working up to $15 and $J5 a week. Occasionally, a remarkably abie. woman bookkeeper earns as much as JTO or $40 a week, though, of course, ooportunilies to oarn salaries like that do not come to all remarkably able bookkeepers. What does bookkeeping lead to? This is a Question that is sometimes asked by young women when they are con sirterjP1 bookkeeping as a profession, answer Is. it may lead to executive 0j all almost endiess variety.

A bookkeeper in a denartrient store may, does, rue to a rit OW as manager or assistant man husiness. Bookkeeping is a profitable side issue for the young woman already trained in some other vocation. So if your daughter has already chosen her life work and wants to add to her practical ability and to the size of her salary, why should she not take a course in bookkeeping? The private school teacher who understands even simple viokkeeDing can often add to ner regu- inr earnincs bv keeping the books after school hours where she teaches. The who understands bookkeeping who has, perhaps, added a tfcrae months bookkeeping course to h.r husiness training can often make herseif 25 Der cent more valuable as strvction for a thoro-igh course in book- a good stepping stone for her to mount pr or assistant manager of a depart-to a more varied occupation? jment in the store, with a salary many If your daughter does fall under the tlmes as large as she earned as a book-bookkeeping type, and if you are think- keepe.r young woman who began at ing of fitting her for this profession, you the age of MXteen as beekkeeper in a would do well to keep her in school as room at $6 a week is now man-long as you conveniently can; and this of the same iancn room and is for three reasons. First, because tne ag much in a day as she got In a mere "reputation of helps a week lo wuh.

Bookkeepers in young woman in getting a position. The hospitals or other institutions young bookkeeper who holds a high sometimes r1se to better paying posi-school diploma stands a better chance tjom, ag nmnagirs or superintendents, of getting a good position than the girl twenty-dollar-a-week bookkeeper in who has no outward, visible sign of her I maU order ciothing house rose schooling. Second, because a girl of years to a fi'ty-dollar-a-week sixteen or eighteen, the age your daugh- on the adverlising end of the private secretary or an office worker, A guest at the residence of Mr. Jus-The college woman who understands tice McKnna the other day. during bookkeeping can get a variety of posi- one of Mrs.

McKenna's official Mentions, among them that of burser of a day afternoons, confidently addressed woman's college or school with short the host as "Mr. Cannon." mistaking hours and long education and a salary him for the former Speaker of the of ahoat a thousand dollars a year, or House. There Is a decided resemblance nen-v-at Corrpoti.leit.-e of The Washington. March 1. ui- WAS AT THE LAST OFFICIAL.

jam of the season, at tne House the armv and navy reception. People had been ground to a pulp in the' East Room Just al the crucial, tiivotal point where the hirnian conse-uion is some-, amn m- when 'he crowd is shaped up jnto some 5ort ot- a line preparatory to fwin-r re, eivnV It was Representative OlUe James, the ecnial. wnilpnan from Kentucky. Senator-elect from the Cue urass rii-. ito was tne st or of hope, the refuge and the salvation of despairing souis.

the biggest man on the landscape, immaculate and serene, lowering high above the panting and perspiring populace forged his way to the goal, steadily, placidly. It's a way he has. Everybody in the mob seemed to know 'Ollie." by sight, anyhow. Everybody watched Ollie eagerly. He was a human barometer.

"Oh! we'll never, never get there in this crush," wailed a mashed lady, tearful and panicky. "Don't get discouraged," reassured her husband, "don't you see OlUe James, on ahead, he's making progress. He's almost within the lines now. If Ollie James makes a hole big enough to squeeze through, it's easy enougn tor those Just behind him to get in Keep your eye on Ollie." Over the doorway of the Green Room opening into the Blue Room, Just where the presidential party always stands hangs the life-sized portrait of a corpulent blond gentleman, seated. The picture faces the mob as it oozes slowly from the pressure of the East Room, into the intermediate avenue through the Green Room.

"I don't like that portrait of President Taft," remarked a gentleman as he regarded the high hung carrvas "It doesn't do him Justice." "But It isn't President Taft. at he was informed, "it's President Cleveland." "Well, I don't care who it is." the objector returned, "it's a mighty bad picture of both, and just as much like one as the other." Senator Paynter of Kentuckv Is not Infrequently mistaken for President Taft. They are both fair and large of stature, and good to look at. A similarity of architecture, both of face and figure is often observed between President Taft and Jlr. Chief Justice White, when the two gentlemen are standing together.

Chief Justice White and Senator Heyburn are modeled along very siml- lar lines. between the two men. Oppressed by his faux pas. the visitor endeavored to relieve his mind by confession to Mrs. McKenna.

"So stupid of me," he explained, "but I called your husband 'Mr. Cannon. Mrs. McKenna Is a very delightful lady, full of feminine traits. "My husband Is twelve years younger than Mr.

Cannon." she 'hastened to explain In true wifely loyalty, a trifle cuagnnea. Mrs. John B. Henderson, quaint Uttle chatelaine of beautiful "Boundary Castle," Is one of the most progressive and original of Washington hostesses. She has Just given her annual old-fashioned dance, in honor of the members of the Congressional Club, at which the quadrille, the lanciers.

the polka, the schot-tische, the Virginia reel, ousted the two-step and the "Boston," and at which the 'turkey trot." the "grizzly bear" or the "bunny hug wouldn't have been touched with tongs. Mrs. Henderson, grsy-haired, petite and a grandmother, leads all these delightful old-time dances herself, and enthuses t'ie younger generations toward the obsolete accomplishments. Mrs. Henderson, brisk and bird-like, has been dining the debutantes thli winter, and leaving meat o.T the score card.

The little la-'y who keeps herself young with hobbies and interests, is ardent vegetarian. The dozen courses of her dinners are made up of nuts and fruits and vegetables anl cream. She fs conscientiously The beautifying and Improving of Sixteenth street, at the hear! of which "Boundary Castle" is situated, is another of Mrs if thusfasms a ijvu a ii hhe spurs Congress on in the interest of the splendid thorough- irons capanie little hand toward real estate exploiting in her favorite section. The famous little lady usually get what she is after. Mrs.

icholas Lontrworth the White House a ry stunning con-recnon of gold brocade, with 1 Louis Qtiinzc coat of feold-t pangled tulle. In Tact. Mrs. Longnorth's fancy fr-tjuently turns to coattails. Many bodices n-ith sewed -on are in her repertoire sartorial.

The i the th'nr tMs spring. Mrs. Longworth leads in pep-lums effects attached at the waist-line. The peplum Is sometimes of a different fabric from the upper story of the bodice. Mrs.

Longworth wore at a recent dinner a striking costume of emerald green bro.a.l- long, pointed tram A sash of vivid purple chiffon encircled the waist an hung at the left side to the floor, a bizarre combination of tints. Mrs. Knox, the tiny little wife of the Secretary of State, disports over a gra.rs-green satin robe, an over-drss of cloth of gold which nothing but a coquettish little apron In front, edged with broad gold lace, very "cute" in eftect. Perhaps the most and spectacular drer in Washington thi season has been Vr. Jotn Miller Hor- ton of Buffalo, charier member A date for nresident-reneral a i in 1J13.

trirfing-iooKinz Horton woman 'ith affable manners, who vourt whcrevi-r she g-s. Her masses of snow-whl'e elaborat-ly arranged. sugt One of the eights worth seeing is the fock of baby chicks on the Anglo-American Farm in Cherokee street, but m. block and a half from St. Charles avenue.

Here seteral hundred White Orpingtons are hatched weekly. The Anglo-American Farm again Is making a specialty of the chick business, and as usual, about 5 chicks are in stock. The sight which the downy little fellows present has Men attracting vieuui from far and near. The owners of the Anglo-American Farm have arranged to fhow some of the and two-weeks-old chicks in the Fhow windows of Bruce Carondelet tareet. near Union, and within a few days it is expected that this window will be attractive with the youngsters.

Another batch of the White Orpington chicks from the same farm will be on exhibition at the Central Poultry Plant, adjoining the Naval Brigade, in Camp street, near Julia. The two-week old chicks are being -old for 40 cents apiece, just double what Is akcd for the eggs. The Anglo-Arrerican Farm was amor. the first of the larger poultry plants hereabout to make a specialty of the baby ehick business, arid the success which It has won is great, fn far the owners have endeavored to sell week-cld and older in preference to the day-old chl ks. cs the nio-t dangerous period ha been passed when the youngsters a week.

Five incubator are at work hatching throughout the breeding season on the Anglo-American Farm. Besides the baby chick business, the business in stock and eggs is active. Trie birds oa the Anglo-American Farm never have failed to win at the New Orleans Poultry Show, the only one at which they are exhibited and a show at the White Orpington class is particularly t-lrong. The Anglo-American Farm is at 8 Cherokee ureet. FHOWN ON TRAIN.

On board the demonstration train, which will leave Monday to tour the and demonstrate agriculture to the farmers, there will be a lot of poultry sent by local fanciers. Of those who are 1o send some of their poultry, are: R. E. Eruce. who will put on board several ducks, pigeons and chickens, and Cartwrtght Eustls, who Is to send two White Kocks.

A meet ins of the executive committee of the Louisiana Poultry Fanciers' Association will be held Wednesday evening at o'clock at the T. M. C. A. Building.

House and Yartin. Those who have the room and can afford it should adopt the scratching th(j in conjunction with the laying anil house, as it affords the binls pcili'iunal so.ice in which to exercise vnhfii it is liesirabie to keep them Indoors in rair.y weather. In this climate lae majority of successful breeders will a tree that better results can be ontaint-1 when birds are kept out of ti.e rain niuioy runs, altlioUKh a lew w. 'I liHVe i. means of keepiug th i'nioors in bad weather say ii tie raw and a tie mud seem to ha no ill effects.

Koomv quarters are desirable at all Cues. a overcrowding is something iK.iil'rv cannot put up with. The size of -mis of breeding reiis varies from a few ieel to those which are 250 feet in b-njrih and longer when large nocKS are together. Some of the specialty breeders keep their most perfect plu-ma ged birds under a roof from the time they feather out until exhibited or sold. Tliis is done in order that the weather may not detract from the luster or cause the original plumage color to fade.

As It is known that heavy laying: affects the luster, the pullets and hen to be fchown are moved about to forestall Just such an occurrence. The ideal run. however, is one in which grass, is plentiful, and to accomplish this many have two runs in connection with each breeding pen. While one is plowed and sewed to grasp, or oats, the other is being used by the birds. When the runs are small the birds must be made to exercise, and it is here that the scratching shed is depended upon.

Either the scratching shed or the bottom of the hen house, if no scratching shed is provided, should be filled to the depth of about a foot with clean straw or other litter and the grain food raked into this to induce scratching-. follow the El pert a. Methods of feeding poultry are numerous. It may be said that no two poultrymen feed alike. ome feed but once a day.

some twice a day, and some three time a day. and all obtain Kood results. Since hopper feeding cam into vogue, there are many who have resorted to the system of keeping a dry mash before their birds at all times, and feeding them a grain ration once a day. Then there are some v. ho keep the dry mash exposed at all times and feed mixed grain three times a day.

Some feed large quantities of meat, while others feed it only when they can get it conveniently and at fowls in Inclosures devoid of grass, and feed green food irregularly with apparently good results. It is. however, the experts at the experiment station that after all get the best results, and those who are about to utait iu wish poultry had beat communicate with them and learn and adopt their methods of feeding. These experts have put to shame most of the old-timers. The COO-egg hen is no longer a "phenomen" to them, many of their birds laying many more than this number of eggs In a single day.

While the men conducting the experiments with poultry at the experiment stations have been increasing the egg yield, they also lave been successful, by judicious lusting and selection of breeders, to Increase the vitality as well as the exhibition points in their flocks. rut naths. Examine your birds for lice every two weeks. Turn them over and examine that section of the fluff about tbe vent. Examine In this way two or three birds in each pen.

It often happens that eomo birds will be extremely lousy, mhile others will he found comparatively -free of lice. This is due to ihe fact that some birds do rot dust themselves, end therefore mut be dinted by hand. The male birds are less ltkely to bathe themselves than the bens, end attention be given them when this is found to he the case. If the house do not afford a convenient place for a dust box. arrange one in the srti if feasible.

It is best that some kind of a raia slijeld should be placed over it. but a dust box in the yard without a covering to shed r.tiu is butler than none. In the event that woul or oilier clean ashes rre not hand, ptocvire some light soil or street dust if necessary, and place this in the dust boxes with a mixture of lice powder. Mnrk nod Thir MtiHe. There ate three varieties of the In-iliaii tinker chirks, the American jmml.ir.i.

fiwu ami lmc. the "ark pen-ciiod. Kn'rit and the White Burner It i ilnimed bv some breeders Cat the dark penciled are the only vhite-epg laying strain, but it happens to come to my knowledge that they vary. too. in that respect, oue of my neighbors has some of the penciled, n-d they are and half lavers of white and tinted The tinting 1.a to ri with Ce flavor of ttie ccr.

They are all alike. For table use they cannot be told front hen's egss. We use them, and I can't tell the difference After they are cooked except that the For The Times-TVmocrat. fT EVERT Bl INESS UNDER taKing everything from a college to a five-and-ten-cent store a bookkeeper is needed. Whether times are dull or lively, no mat- i ter how methods of business vary, there must always be bookkeepers and accountants.

So. although book- keeping is not one of the professions that at present draws large numbers of women recruits, it is nevertheless one that offers as sure and as steady occupation in all parts of the country, in season and out of season, as any that a woman might choose. Every profession has its ups and downs times when the supply of work-i ers Is below the demand, and times I when, for one reason or another, it exceeds the demand. Just at present there not nearly enough women bookkeepers to fill the demands for them by the business world that is. I women bookkeepers who are trained and competent In their profession.

Many of the large business schools complain that I young women who want to go into 1 o.T'ce work take up typewriting and stenography and leave bookkeeping al-' most entirely to their male competitors. I In one of the most noted New York business schools this state of affairs is particularly marked. Of a class of a dozen bookkeepers only two or three are girl while the classes of stenographers and typewriters have barely two men to a dozen women. The result is that all of the many calls that come to 1 1. 1 for TMrnmain Wrfwilr lrTy vu- not be filled.

"It is not only that fewer young women are studying bookkeeping," said the principal of this school, "but not Infrequently they drop bookkeeping after a few weeks' effort and go off Into stenography and typewriting, simply be- cause bookkeeping requires little snore application at the outset. In almost every edition of your favorite large city newspaper you will undoubtedly discover, if you take the trouble to look, advertisements for women bookkeepers. Commercial employment agencies also offer many opportunities to the train -d woman bookkeeper. The fact is that at present there Is a demand for a goodly number of trained women accountants who know the principles of modern financial methods, and the young woman who is naturally quick at figures, who sees the signs of the times and studies bookkeeping. Is quite sure to reap a comfortable reward In the way of Immediate employment and sure income.

It has often been said, and no doubt truly, that the realm of figures and accounts is more distinctly man's than woman's: but at the same time, there are many business men of wide experience who prefer women bookkeepers and who always employ them in preference to men. This preference is to be found in some of the large department stores and life insurance companies, where small of women bookkeepers carry on the task of account keeping wih as much precision, accuracy, speed, and general satisfaction as men Could possibly do it. The observant parent ought to be able to note the first budding sign of a corning bookkeeper at an early period of lis daughter's development- Hisrh marks in arithmetic, good penmanship, stick-to-itiveness, and general neatness and accjrpcy are the traits that mark the bookkeeper. If these traits are predominant in your daughter's twenty-five chicks. Keep t.iem shut la for a few days until they become wonted.

Have fresh water, charcoal, and have grit always on hand. Be sure there is pler.ty of shade where they can escape the hot sun. Give them unlimited range. Have houses face the south, and roof, sides and back covered with a good roofing paper. Thus drafts are avoided.

Keep the water on the shady side of the house. Clean the house once a week and put in a fresh supply of bedding. As soon as they can be distinguished, separate the from the females, putting them in houses by themselves. Keep! the c.iickens growing, and when it is tirre to put them into winter quarters they will stand the rigors of a severe climate and produce results, whether in the eg basket or in the showroom. Chi'-keiis raised in this manner under mother hens, assisted by Mother Nature, attain a vigor, constitution and development that are not excelled by anv artificial method.

A. J. STMOXDS. Poultry Bnalneas fr Women. The next few years will see a large nv mber of women leaving office and ccir.tir to make their living by raising and dealing in thoroughbred poultry, and they will find t.iey will be making just as much, if not more, money and are much belter physically and are In-difendrnt.

The poultry business l. particularly adapted to women and appeal to her nature above any other pursuits. All the little deails that must be carefully attended to give her no concern whatever, for a woman's life Is up of details, and while there are oisat-reeable things connected with the work, the pleasure is so much greater that the disagreeable is forgotten. There appeared an article in a recent uue of our local paper giving a picture and an account of a young lady stenographer who was giving up a position to start in the pouitrv business, and the nut lew years w.il see thousands of women doing the same thing. Someone had given this young lady a half-dozen fine chickens and she had such success wiih them that the possibilities of the business were forced upon her notice and she was so convinced of the success of the venture thai she was willing to give up a position that she must have FULL DRESS SUITS PRINCE TLTLD9 OPECA AND SILK HATS FOR.

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for Weekly FsTEoesta, is generally thought that ducks must have water to swim in, but not so with the runner. A vessel deep enough for them to immerse their heads in is -all that Is needed. They are a highland duck as it were. This feature and being able to stand clAse confinement make of them a fine proposition for the city breeder and fancier. Three times as many ducks can be successfully kept on the same space as chickens.

They are never troubled with mites, lice, sore head or scaly leg. More ducks can be In a house than chickens. They do not need a perch, nor scratching material. A bunch of straw in the back of the house for them to sleep on and lay their eggs is all that is needed. The house gets fouled quicker than hen houses.

That is the only difference that I can see. They are a rather small duck, the mature duck weighing four pounds, the drake four and one-haif pounds. They are great eaters, will consume quantities of any kind of green stuff, snd when eggs are wanted in numbers a little animal food in the shape of scraps or raw beef turns the trick. They grow very fast, ducklings frequently weighing three to three and one-half pounds at ten weeks. They usunlly begin to lay at five months old.

and at six months the whole flock is turning out the eggs. In contrast to chickens, the flock does not have to be renewed frequently, the ducks continuing to lay for four or five years. I have never known of a Runner getting broody. They have to be hatched in a irachine or with a hen. They are very easy to raise, but must not get wet while young, say for the first two or three weeks.

They cannot stand a chilling. Once wet and chilled, the duck ia dead In spring and summer they can be handled easier, but must have shade. Our ducks are very quiet. One would never know they were on the place until they get hungry, and then you better believe they let you know about it. If allowed to forage, they will nick ud the greater part of their living.

In confinement they will give more eggs for a given amount of feed than any hen that ever scratched up a worm. They win eai anyintng a hen will eat. Try some of the Runners. A sttinr of eggs will give you a start. After the ducks are rrown thev or.

trouble than any other bird, and the beauty of it fs that, with enouch of teed, there are fresh eggs for breakfast every morning. They are usually laid "-iween minmght and daybreak Mrs. E. W. Trautman.

Bone- TU-nrh mi breeder and exhibitor of standard fawn and white Indian Runner ducks. Hint to IleKlanem. Among the most Important things da: should be Impressed upon the beginner In the poultry business is the r. ecess.it of keeping his birds busy by feeding th grain food in deep litter, keeping grit or gravel, oyster shell, medicated charcoal and fresh water before the bird? at all times; avoiding overcrowding, feeding a balanced ration, housing the birds In sanitary open-front houses and reading up on all matters excepting medicine. Sickness is almost Invariably brought about by inattention to d-tails which most every one who has ever rals.d poultry should know how to remedy.

Lack of exercise and overcrowding are the two factors responsible for most of the novices' troubles. As the novice in the poultry business Is continually haunted by the fear of disease creeping Into hi flock, he is prone to devote his spare time to the study of medicine when his horse-sense In the poultry yard Is what is needed. When the birds are free from lice and get enough exercise fthey will usually be found profitable. If they are droopy, do not run for a quack medicine book, but lo for lice, see If the grit box is full, that the litter is of sufficient depth and that cracks have not been overlooked in the roosting quarters. aira May.

At this season of the year hundreds of people are preparing to hatch out their chickens. Among them are many novices who have no definite idea how to raise chickens except what they have gathered from poultry papers. The purpose of this article Is to state a method that Is practical, and one that has been In operation by a successful poultryman for fifteen years. This method will deal with Nature's way of rearing chickens by mother hens. When setting bens, do not set more than ten together In the same pen.

If broody hens are purchased or taken from separate flocks, never set them in the same pen. as they will break many eggs fighting. Nests may be made Toy adding fine hay chaff to the depth of two inches: upon this add a layer of coarser chaff. Put several nest eggs In the nest under the cover of darkness, and place the broody hen upon them. If boxes are used, have them not less than twenty inches square and not over a foot In height.

Fill them nearly full of earth, shake down well and proceed as above stated. Do not place tfce eggs you wish to hatch under the hen until she proven herself true by three days' service on the nest eggs. Food should always be on hand. The sitter should be frequently dusted with lice powder to free her of vermin before the chicks hatch. The eggs should re tested and the infertile ones removed.

If a number of eggs from several nests are tested, usual enough are removed so as to leave one nest empty, snd this can be supplied with fresh eggs. With car snd good judgment, economy in the matter of setting hens can be practiced. With good treatment a hen can be st i fcr six weeks without Injury. When the chicks commence to hatch they should not be fed or remoed from the nest for twenty-four hours. Each hen should be given a coop by herclf with not over twelve hi.

kens. Iry goods boxes can be used as a coop, covered with roofing paper, or better still a coop made of boards with a shingled roof lasts much longer and is more durable. If head lice arpear on the chicks, rub lard en their Feed the chicks regularly, at least five times daily. Indian meal, mixf-d with skimmed milk, or most any chick feed on the market, is good during the first four to six week. Change the water twice or three times daily in hot wather.

Grit should always be placed here thev can And 1t The hen ran be confined to the coon until she wears her brood. The chi. ks should never be confined, but allowtd their freedom. A board should tie in front of every ctvp, and here i feed and water should be t-iacd. Nev.r overfeed, but feed all the chicks pick up.

Never leave dough or mash to sour or mold. Bt the time the chicks ar six or eight weeks old they have been weaned. Now thev should be removed to eclony houses, built five or six fert square, with shed roof tour to five feet in the rear. The front sioui.i be open. Cover it with wire netting.

Cover the floor with meadow hay to the depth of a foot. In a house of this sue put bordered with Russian sable. There 1 a bIue brocads embossed In gold and pia roses. There it a white satin and silver from Worth. Mrs.

Horton gives a party to the pages gracef.jj rival can(jidata. Mrs. William Cutr.mings Story, wore a gown of cloth of gold and big black hat, at a reception in her honor given by Mrs. Merwin. to the D.

A. R. and the U. D. C.

at Confederate Memorial Home. Mrs. Drury Conway Ludlow was one of the hostesses. Mrs. William Cummings Story was guest at the banquet at the Hotel Raleigh, given by the Southern Society of Washington.

Senator Bailey. Senator John Sharp Williams, Senator Fletcher, the British ambassador. Mr. Ransdell. Senator Thornton, were among the speakers.

In the company were Senator Thornton. Representative and Mr. Joseph E. Ransdell, Representative Garland Dupre. Gen.

Albert S. Estoplnal and wife. Mrs. C. IX Merwin of New Orleans, Representative and Mrs.

Robert C. Wlckliffe of St. FrancUvilla. Mrs. II.

H. lassie, formerly Mis Gertrude Caffery of Louisiana, was the guest of Mrs. Champ Clark on Wednesday. Mrs. Glassie will receive Saturdays In April at her beautiful home at Chevy Chase.

Senator Thornton. Senator Foster. Senator and Mrs. John Sha-p Williams were guests at the army and navy reception at the White House. Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Denfgre were guests at the dinner given by. In. Hunt Slater to the Russian tmbai and his wife. Mr.

H. C. Long of New Orle-' Is spending several days ta Wasfcigton at the Ebbitt House. Miss Lilian Chenavett of Holty Springs took part in the entertainment. "An Evening in the Old South." given by the Robert E.

Lee Chapter IT. D. for the benefit of tha Confederate Memorial Home. MiHa Bettie Cooke of Lou is villi. sister-in-la of Representative Robert C.

Wickliffe. is visiting her sister. Mm. Walker Hancock, in New Orleans. Col.

John A. Cotter of New Orleans supervising Inspector of steam vessels, has been in Washington at the Raleigh-Mrs. Lamar, wife of Mr. ftistlea Lamar, and the wife of Sena or Fletcher of Florida, received the Georgia and Florida delegations and many other Southerners at the headquarters of the Southern Industrial Educational Association. Senator (In prospect) Joseph E.

Ransdell of Louisiana spoke on Sunday at the first open public meeting of the newly organised catnoiic tonnH League, which Is connected with the Apostolic Mission House. Mrs. Lawrence R. Qutrollo. formerty of New Orleans, president of the National Order of the Children of the Revolution, has been elected a delegate to the D.

A. R. congress In April, from her chapter, the "Potomac" Chapter of Washington. Mrs. Qulrollo Is on of the fflceri or the Southern Relief Society.

She received with Mi Heth. the president of the Southern Relief Society, at a tern this week. Mrs. I'rury Conway Ludlow assisted Mrs. Heth also.

DAISY riTZHCOH ATKES. Sees Advantages Trading in New Orleans That the quick service between New Orleans and the Central American States and the consequent rapia delivery of freight at destination will overbalance the former advantage which made Latin-Americans trade with Europe. Is the opinion of Julia Loewenthal of Guatemala City, one of the foremost merchants of that country. Mr. Loewenthal is at the Monteleone Hotel, and has been making a thorough esamlna-tlon of the New Orleans market with a view to reporting conditions to brother merchants of Guatemala.

He Is the senior partner of Loewenthal A Co. of Guatemala City, and his firm has been buying Its supplies and manufactured goods almost exclusively from bouses In Italy. France, Spain, Germany and Great Britain. Mr. Loewenthal had a conference wit fi Lewis Goldstein, chairman of the foreign trade department of the Merchants ami Manufacturers' Bureau of the Progressive Union, and stated that in the future his firm would make alliances with Jobbing and manufacturing houses in New Orleans.

He said that for years he had been buying tis hats from Italy and gloves and other goods In the various European countries, but there had always been delays in the Importations. He had come to the conclusion that the advantages of making quick duplication of capital were greater than tho benefits of long-time credits and the cheaper prices of European goods. He. therefore. believd that his house and others would deal with New Orleans.

Mr. Goldstein said that this wa a most Important development in the work of the foreign trade bureau, and that the Mercuric, the illustrated monthly publication of the bureau, had been a marked factor in bringing to L.tin-American merchant' attention the advantages of trading in New Orleaaa. "Marry la a- a. strafe Arrested. Jeffersonville, March 2.

Keen competition between local magistrate who empioy runners to meet eloping couples from Kentucky, caused an altercation v'rfiay wnl- tn th arre.it of Magistrate Oscar L. Hay. Hay he knocked Thomas McCor-mlck down when McCormlck. runner for a rival magistral. useJ Hay's telephone to for a wMm.

Hay wu fined in the Mayor's Court. Cat 4rarly A spit la tea f'nnr. Newton. March 2. Because a cat In 'he boirehoM of Louis Andrews here, could not control its curiosity, four occupants of the haue Were ran dred ui, conscious by escaping gas last a n.l wr.ri rvtvl i Intittifiiiin ihnvxl C3t which ha-i betn left to sleep the kitchen, turned on the gas In th ki'ch-n range.

The cat suffered ae 111 effects from th gas. THE SECOND HEALTHIEST SPOT XMUKX PIRE AIR ARTESIAN WATER PIHYATE EAT3S EtlL EQY SERVICE STEA'I BEAT EIICHilC EIGHTS ALL OUTSIDE ter would probably De graauateu troraj- high school, is quite young enough to undertake a bookkeeping course or to start in as a professional bookkeeper And the third reason is that in general the more education a young business woman has the better able she will be to undertake any kind of work she may have to do. Few ambitious young women are nowadays kept from being bookkeep- ers oecause inej nave nut uyvt tunity to learn the rudiments, for classes ia business methods, of one sort or another, are legion. Perhaps the best way to study for this profession Is In a regular business school. One ad vantage of several of the big city schools Is that individual instruction is given and the young woman, willing and able to study diligently and intelligently, can take the course in a much shorter time than she whose ambition is limited.

In one school where the sys tern of individual Instruction has taken the place of the old-time clesa met ho i of instruction, where the course is usually covered in six months, an unusual ly able young woman was allowed to cover a thorough course in bookkeeping in six weeks. In the large business fchooU the following subjects are usually iaclrde-1 i.i the course of instruction: rraet'er! bookkeeping, business arithmetic, rapi 1 calculation, banking business metbo-ls, business penmanship, grammar, business practice, "office duties." spelling, and commercial law. The cost of in- spent quite a sum of money in order to qualify herself to fill, to enter the nonlu-v business for which she nai spent no money in order lo prepare herself. The preparatory school for successful poultry keeping consists of patience, perseverance and expedience, and mostly experience. More valuable even than capital Is experience with the fowls, their ways, their needs, their characteristic, the feed, the housing, the mat insr for best results.

Incubating, brood- inS, and the most fascinating of all, raising the baby chicks, One of the greatest advantages of the poultry business for women is the fact that she does not have to leave her home in order lo make the business a success; in fact, the closer she stays at home and watches her flock the better success she will have, for the business comes to her through the medium of good advertising. When I say experience is more Important than capital, I do not mean that capital is not necessary: but if I were Just starting in the business, or was advising a beginner, I would say start with the idea that you will keep only as many fowls as you could support if you did not take in a dollar the f-rst year. Then the next year and each year after you will make money, provided you use the knowledge and experience gained the first year. Every business man knows that he must epend money In order to make money this is true In poultrydom. One must make a reputation both for the fowls he keeps and for himself, for one customer treated "square." or even indulged, will give you better advertising than some newspapers, and that is saying a great uesl.

"Hail to the ooultry business" ill be the slocan of many women in tne future as more and morj of the fairer sex wake un to a realization of the pos- sibilities of the humble and long-suffering hen and profit thereby. Mrs. J. 15-Rogerson, Memphis, Tenn. Sunshine is a life-giving tonic to chickens: tiey can hardly get too much of it.

We cannot make the sun shine, tout we car arrange the brooders and houses so as to give the chickens and fowls some benefit of it. It Is a mistake to allow the deformed and puny chicks to live and undertake to raise them. For once try disposing of all these runts and cripples rieht on the start and see if you don't have a better anfl more even lot of chickens than you ever raised before. I think there would, be less trouble from bowel aumcnis ammg cnicns 11 mis manT-r i selection was carried out promptly and a I' St YV ruition of Daid treasurer of a large ducational or charitable organization. with whole or part time work.

MARY MARSHALL. (Copyright. 1V12. by Mary Marshall.) Xexl week Miss Marshall will describe laboratory work as a possible vocation for vnnr daughter. The data for this.

and all the other articles in the series, hern slathered at first nana rrom authoritative sources. VITAL STATISTICS. The following were recorded at the City Eoard of Health yesterday: BIRTHS. Mrs. Kart E.

Dube. a boy. Mrs. Fred J. Adams, a AVilliam Elaine, a boy.

Mrs. Daniel Hart, a boy. Mrs. Ernest Meichr, a boy. Mrs.

Walter A. Celbes, a boy. Mrs. Walter Evans, a boy. Mrs.

I.ouis Tognonl. a boy. Mrs. August G. Gadmer, a boy.

Mrs. Laurence F. Pas-pit, a boy. Mrs. John M.

O'Connor, a girl. Mrs. Louis A. Clchorn. a girl.

Mrs. Claud D. Wilkers, a girl. Mrs. John ZuareMa, a girl.

Mrs. Joseph C. Montgomery, a girl. Mrs. Thomas Martin, a girl.

MARRIAGES. Antonio Carollo and Miss Anne Bologna. Albert F. Lavigne and Miss Rosa McKee. Adam Rogers and Miss Elizabeth Montgomery.

B-rnceley Charles and Miss Ada Johnson. Merle M. Lyncls and Miss rhillipina Erown Burgess pnd Mrs. Mary McKay. DEATHS.

Francis D. Piot, 7 years. Charity Hospital. Mrs. (Widow) May Moynagh, 72 yfars.

Harvey, La. Patrick Holden, 73 years. Charity Hospital. Mrs (Widow) George M. Terry, 59 years, Chart res.

Sister Mar' F. Eroaster. II years, Convent of the Holy Family. Leonardie C. Thompson, 33 years, 4922 Earor.ne.

Mrs. (Widow) Katherine Heckler. 75 years. German Protfstant Home, Joseph Roach, 53 years, 2SZZ laga- zine. Charles Winde.

II years. St. Charles parish Cornelius James, 19 years. Parish Prison. Joseph B.

Dalrd, six mouths, 522 Frenchmen. Dorothy Courtney, 5 years, 2137 isoniat. Dominick Pallmlsano, 3 years, 7126 Cohn. James G. Lynch.

44 years, 1134 St. Charles. A 14(2 fOTKilT'll RF.LEAEO. Commissioner of Public Works George Smith hj pil fi, t'ltir .1 i-ai. co nDjnv uv i ninr J.

ihnlw, he inspected the asphalt sioaer Smith also aotit.rd th c.iih,-m I th3t ih" 'ai-t ianre contract for th 1 1 vv "i v. fv i r-t a v-r, l- 'I wiil expire March 23. and the rituluhic pavement of Oann'eel strt-et fr'm Periston to Foucter. will expiri Marrh 1 thoroughly as soon as the hatch comes rvem-nt ot avenue, from St. regent of the Buffalo Chanter of There is a great call for small farms ltl(1 Asphalt Paving tiona organizalion, boating a mem-for noultrv: poultry supply house re- It'orrsanv.

from it. contract bershlp of 63. Mrs. ITorton I ran ill. THE PINES' COWMGTOW, Ik mh a tea, eterv where; licnba'or i manufacturers are rrena red for the larr- est trade ever.

In fart, everything I points to many ventures in the poultry business this year. Have you cleaned up around the hen I yard yet? This should be done every spring. If te run is not plowed the ground should b- t'irned over. A lot of rubbi.h. board, old worn out farm- Ing lying around the poultry house looks bad.

Give the gra a chance to grow or clear the way for a plow to break up the sod. If there are anv holes In the i ground where the chickens run. such as i pos-t hols. f.ll them up with dirt or i straw. If a small chi-Wen falls In he will never rt mi'.

All tin cans snd everything tha wi'l hold water should be picked up. as tiv are a means of causing disease. V. M. Couch.

PER 14 TK4 DKAT HERE MOAD Superintendent J. M. Gwlnn and As-itCDt Pnperintendent Nicholas Bluer, who are In Ft. Louis th-j rreting of the department of superintendents of the National Educational Association, will return to-morrow anJ rcb.s their duties hc tj. nr- i HUNTING GOLF FISHING TEN MS BOATING CROQUET S-HCLt PUTTING CKLLN NEW iiCTEL TWO It'll ft HHlE I KO'f r- 2V04-4CBE CAKE fUS: lo I ISE Of oil (.11.

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