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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



Hints for the Hiiisband and Wile. 



Dear Mrs. Green: — Your suggestion is 

 certainly admirable, and a reply to it so 

 important that I yield to your request by 

 stating the facts as delicately as consistent 

 with a proper appreciation of the subject. 

 Yes, I am not unmindful of the silent suf- 

 fering of many wives from the unreason- 

 able exactions of — I was about to say — 

 beastial husbands! But what the remedy ? 

 Ignorance of physical results to both man 

 and wife is largely responsible for this 

 legalized kind of brutality, and diet is the 

 next most important factor. 



If men would only be taught to curb their 

 passions, what peace would follow ! How 

 much more amiable they would be, and 

 how sweet the disposition of wife and chil- 

 dren. Where now discord reigns, mutual 

 joys might be supreme ! 



Aside from a manly determination to 

 subdue a perverted appetite to reasonable 

 bounds, the importance of projier hygienic 

 living is next in line of consideration. But, 

 there, again, you touch a man in a tender 

 spot— his stomach ! The idea of limiting 

 meat to once per week (or better still, not 

 at all), would at first astound him with a 

 sense of oppression little short of madness. 

 But such is the practical fact. And why 

 not ? Do not others in the world work 

 much harder, and live a more hardy, happier 

 life who never even tldnk of meat ? 



Meat is no more essential than intoxicants. 

 Both are excitants in various degrees, and 

 because of this fact both tend to lower 

 human sensibilities. A diet of fresh vege- 

 tables and fruits tends in the very opposite 

 direction— they more effectually nourish 

 the system and exalt the mind to a higher 

 plain of living. Meat stimulates, and thus 

 develops latent disturbances of mind and 

 body within us. Fruits and vegetables 

 cool the blood, and give the body and mind 

 greater vigor of thought and action. Oh, if 

 these simple rules of living were steadfastly 

 adhered to, how much brighter this world 

 would be, and how little business for the 

 divorce courts ! 



Honey a,s Foo«l iin<l IVIedicint; is 



just the thing to help sell honey, as it shows 

 the various ways in which honey may be 

 used as a food and as a medicine. Try 100 

 copies of it, and see what good 'sales- 

 men " they are. 8ee the second page of last 

 number of the Bee Journal for description 

 and prices. 



^i'" Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper with business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart wlthou 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



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Bees Booming Yet. 



I had 25 colonies on May 1, 1894, 

 and I have 53 now. I secured 395 

 pounds of comb honey and 4,000 pounds 

 of extracted. Bees are booming yet. 

 Henry Stauk. 



Pulclver, Wis., Sept. 10. 



Booming on Alfalfa. 



Our bees have done excellent work 

 this season, and the way they are bring- 

 ing in the alfalfa clover honey to-day 

 (Sept. 13th) would make glad the heart 

 of any apiarist. Our alfalfa bloom will 

 last about three weeks yet, during which 

 time our bees will advance their season's 

 record wonderfully. F. M. Weiland. 



Fowler, Colo., Sept. 13. 



Had Pleasant Calls. 



I cannot keep it a secret any longer. 

 I have had a very pleasant call from 

 Ernest Root and " Blue Eyes." This 

 place is quite a summer resort, and Miss 

 Root was here for a few days, getting 

 the lake breeze, with her aunt, Mrs. 

 Gardner, whose family was here from 

 Manistee. Ernest's was, it seemed to 

 me, a flying visit. We wanted him at 

 least one whole day. 



But we shall not forget their short 

 and very pleasant call, and hope the 

 next one will be a longer one. Now, 

 Bro. York, it's your turn. 



Walter Harmer. 



Onekama, Mich. Sept. 11. 



[Thank you, Bro. Harmer, for your 

 very kind invitation. But the Bee Jour- 

 nal requires our attention so constantly 

 that it is next to an impossibility to go 

 anywhere. We want to go to St. Joseph, 

 Mo., next month, however. Some day 



