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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 1. 



Dallas, during thft fair; but professional duties 

 k-ept him. and nothing was done. 



Now. who will volunteer to take up this 

 matter with me next season? and how many 

 would be willing to throw in a dollar to have 

 this all tried 18 miles out in the ocean, so that 

 answers to such puzzling questjons could be 

 answered beyond a doubt? 



Beeville, Tex. 



[Here is $;j.00 from Gleanings.— Ed.] 



SOME KINDLY HINTS TO YOUNG WOMEN. 



ESPECIAI-I,Y THOSE WHO ARE AMBITIOUS TO 



LEAVE THE COUNTKY AND FIND A 



PLACE IN THE CITY. 



Bu Mrs. N. L. Stow. 



Mr. Root:—l was very much interested in 

 Rev. W. T. Elsing's letter in Nov. 1st Glean- 

 ings, particularly as I know his sister, who is 

 a resident of this city, and who, years ago, was 

 for awhile a member of my own family. lam 

 sure he is well fitted to lend a helping hand, 

 and give an encouraging word, to all who are 

 struggling for better things. I would take his 

 last paragraph, and, with a slight change, 

 would say, " My advice to all young women is, 

 to let well enough alone. If you have a rich 

 uncle or good friend who will give you assist- 

 ance, well and good; if not, stay at home and 

 learn to take care of bees," if you have not 

 something better. I do wish I could impress the 

 truth on the hearts of all young girls, of the 

 fearful risk they run in coming to a great city, 

 ■alone and unprotected. It is pitiful. It is 

 wicked to allow it; and yet they are coming 

 every day. I am acquainted with the work- 

 ings of that helping hand in Chicago that is 

 watching for and taking hold of such if possi- 

 ble, and starting them right, or looking for 

 them and pulling them out of the mire, if they 

 have fallen, and setting them on their feet 

 again, or sending them back to the home they 

 never should have so ignoranily left. It is 

 called the Anchorage Mission, and a wonderful 

 work it is doing. Near my own home there Is 

 an institution for the rescue of homeless and 

 helpless girls— the Illinois Industrial School for 

 Girls. My husband has conducted a Sunday- 

 school for them for over fourteen years, so we 

 know much of what life is for friendless girls; 

 and, knowing it, I would plead that parents do 

 not let their daughters go from home to earn 

 their own living— at least, not to cities ; for 

 where one may succeed, many more wear out 

 their lives trying to make both ends meet, or, 

 worse still, blindly fall into the trap of the evil 

 one. Girls of to-day are restless and ambitious; 



rightly or wrongly so, as you will, women are 

 becoming more and more independent; you can 

 not help it any more than you can stop the 

 march of reform in all the phases of life; 

 but you may lead and guide them aright. If 

 you are a bee-keeper you can get your daugh- 

 ters interested in your work, and have them 

 help you, and be very sure to give them their 

 pay or their share of the profits, the sarfie as 

 you would any one else. Let them have peri- 

 odicals, and encourage their little ambitions, 

 and you will, together with them, be lifted up 

 into something better. Surely farmers who are 

 spending their lives trying to make something 

 grow should see to it that their own lives, and 

 those of their families be not dwarfed. 



How many parents fail to pluck the fruits of 

 peace and joy from their family life because 

 they have neglected to prune and train and de- 

 velop the growing minds given into their 

 charge! Surely life is more than living, and 

 he who lives the larger life lives most. 



Evanston, III., Nov. 30. 



or Hail if?^ 



Friend Er7iest:—ln your illustration of Dec. 

 1, page iiOS, providing, as I think is the case, the 

 tenons are square, 

 or nearly so, I 

 can't see why the 

 lowest nail in 

 the '• right way" 

 wouldn't split the 

 wood just as 

 quickly as the nail 

 in the "wrong 

 way." You surely 

 will admit that the 

 nail in the wrong way will hold far better. As 

 you may have guessed, I made those hives, and 

 I can't think thoy are so awful bad. 

 Chicago, III., Dec. 5. C. C. Miller, Jr. 



The following is the reply: 

 Reverting to the cut on page 908 of Glean- 

 ings, of the right and wrong way of nailing, I 

 would say that tht' lowest nail of the former 

 should not have shown. The cut as now repro- 

 duced is as it should be. You will readily see 

 that the other nails put in the " right way" can 

 not split, because each tenon is held on each 

 side by its neiglibors. No. I can not quite ad- 

 mit that the nails put in the "wrong way 

 would hold far better," for the very reason that 

 the two boards are not held together by the 

 drawing power of the nails. All nails, es- 

 pecially cut nails, and cement-coatpd wire 

 nails, such as we use, have considerable draw- 

 ing power, as you may know, and the strength 

 of the corner depends largely upon how tightly 

 the tenons are drawn into their places. You 

 may drive the dovetailed corners as tightly as 

 you can; but without the hugging power of the 

 nails driven through the tenon into the end of 



