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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



flow they are prepared to carry out this 

 outline. A detailed statement of the 

 methods to be followed will be sent, and, 

 for the sake of uniformity it is urged 

 that they be followed closely. As a 

 small recognition of the work envolved, 

 the name of the donor will be published 

 with the description of the sample when 

 the results are published. 



Respectfully, 



E. F. Phillips, 



In charge of Apiculture. 



Washington, D. C. 



Don't be Careless of Your Personal 

 Appearance. 



Perhaps this subject is out of place in 

 a bee journal, but successful bee keeping 

 will not tolerate slovenliness; and the 

 man who is careless of his personal ap- 

 pearance is quite likely to be careless in 

 other respects. In this connection it is 

 well to remember that the mind and body 

 act and react one upon the other. Tak- 

 ing a bath, putting on clean clothes, 

 having a "clean shave," and otherwise 

 "slicking up," will put a decidedly differ- 

 ent tone into the mind. The man who 

 goes to his work appropriately dressed, 

 neat and clean, "well-groomed," as the 

 saying goes, meets his fellows in a far 

 different frame of mind than the man 

 with a "slobbered" vest, unshaven chin, 

 and long, tousled hair. 



A man may neglect his personal ap- 

 pearance so long that he actually does 

 not realize how "slouchy" he looks. In 

 fact, I have seen men who, it seemed to 

 me, took an actual pride in their slovenli- 

 ness. They would sneer and pooh, pooh, 

 at any attempts at sprucing up, as some- 

 thing beneath them; as something only 

 for dandies. 



I think that women are more careful 

 than men in regard to their personal ap- 

 pearance, particularly if expecting visi- 

 tors, or going out of their home— other- 

 wise, not. I have seen every man, 

 woman and child in a neighborhood rush 

 to a fire without any preliminaries in the 



way of a toilet, and some of the women 

 didn't have much to brag of in the way 

 of personal appearance— in fact, the men 

 were really ahead of them in this respect. 



There is an old saying about dressing 

 according to the work to be done. Cer- 

 tainly. No sensible man would think of 

 such a thing as putting on his best 

 clothes to dig in a ditch, or to clean out a 

 cistern, or put up a stove pipe; but, 

 honestly, I have seen the driver of a coal 

 wagon that was really more neatly 

 dressed (for the work he had to do) and 

 looked more tidy and wholesome, than 

 some clerks behind a counter. The most 

 neatly dressed man at his work that I 

 remember to have seen was a bee keeper, 

 dressed in white duck from top to toe. 

 And this confirms the theory that the 

 man who is particular in one respect is 

 likely to be so in another, for this bee 

 keeper was one of the most neat and 

 exact of any that I ever knew. Of 

 course, no sensible man would attempt 

 to be dandified; to give his whole mind to 

 his toilet as did the dude to the tying of 

 his cravat, but there is a happy mean. 

 There is not often any excuse for a man 

 to wear something that would bring the 

 blush of shame to the cheek of any 

 respectable scarecrow. For instance, 

 more than once have I seen some man 

 wear an old hat soaked through and 

 through and actually gummy with 

 perspiration and dust, the rim hangihg 

 down all around like the eaves to some 

 country railroad station, the only redeem- 

 ing feature being the ventilation afforded 

 by the holes in the top. I doubt if any 

 man ever clung to such a head covering 

 from motives of economy. He simply 

 doesn't realize, or doesn't care, how he 

 looks. 



We owe it to our family and our friends 

 to look just as well as we can. 1 sup- 

 pose that I love my wife just as well if 

 she isn't "fixed up" all of the time; at the 

 same time I must confess that it affords 

 me pleasure to see her well dressed, with 

 her hair tastefully arranged. On the 

 other hand, it often gives me a sort of 



