Jan. 15, 1912 



price. If you had no other periodical reading for 

 your family, The Youth's Co miKitiion would be suf- 

 ficient— sufficient for keen enjoymentby every one, 

 young and old: sufficient to keep you posted on the 

 important news and events of the day; sufficient to 

 give you a mind richly stored with useful knowl- 

 edge. The new departments have become indis- 

 pensable features of the paper. The page devoted 

 to the interests of boys in school and college always 

 has an article of expert advice on athletics by some 

 one who speaks with authority, whether it is foot- 

 ball, baseball, skating, swimming, or other vigor- 

 ous pastime. The page for girls suggests useful oc- 

 cupations at home and profitable occupations in 

 the community, without forgetting that girls like 

 to be ornamental as well as useful. And there is 

 the family page, which in the course of a year fills 

 the place of a domestic encyclopedia. 



Subscribe now — to-day — while The Companion 

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THE Youth's Companion, 



144 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. 



By A. I. Root 



THE APPCO PAPER HEN," ETC. 



I am glad to see corrugated paper for tireless 

 brooders taking the place of heavy lumber, not 

 only because of the saving in transportation, but 

 the ease with which chicks, brooder, dooryard, and 

 all can be carried indoors when a cold spell comes 

 suddenly. You may recall that 1 used a market- 

 basket for a brooder because it was so easy to carry 

 the chicks indoors or into the incubator cellar 

 nights, not only to have them out of the cold but to 

 have them safe from rats and other prowlers. Well, 

 this paper hen is much better protection from the 

 cold, and a neat, tidy, and light dooryard goes 

 along (with jt. See particulars on page 13 of our 

 .Ian. 1st issue. I have already examined the " paper 

 hen," and expect to use it for my ducklings as soon 

 as I can get down here in my Florida home. 



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treats to our friends. Gleanings comes next to 

 Holy Writ with my husband. Your poultry notes 

 are a great help to us. 

 Waterford, Ct. M±is. Frank Jacques. 



WATCH THE VOTE ON THIS. 



Senator Bourne, of Oi'egon, has introduced a little 

 bill that will bear watching. Some time next year 

 this bill will be considered more seriously than it 

 is now. But it will be best to remember it all 

 along. It provides : 



That ... no hig-her postagre rate shall be charg-ed for 

 the transmission of mail entirely within the United States 

 . . . than . . . for the transmission of mail ijartly with- 

 in and partly without the United States. . . . The Post- 

 master-General is hereby authorized and required to establish 

 and enforce rules and regulations which will give the people 

 of the United States rig'hts and privileges in the use of the 

 United States mails as liberal as the United States accords to 

 the people of the most favored nation. 



It doesn't seem unreasonable, does it, that you 

 should have as good service on your own nation's 

 postal cars and in her own postofflces as that ac- 

 corded to .Japanese, British, Chinese, and Russians? 

 And yet that equality is just what the Bourne bill 

 is required to establish. The farms of the United 

 States would have parcels-post service if farmers 

 were as well treated on our own postal routes as we 

 treat foreigners. It is a shameful thing that the 

 postal service from your door to any foreign coun- 

 try should be better than it is to your nearest city 

 or town. And yet such is the case. We carry par- 

 cels for the foreigner, and refuse to do it for our 

 own citizens. Your Congressman and your Sena- 

 tors will have to vote on the Bourne bill, perhaps. 

 Watch, and see how they vote. And may be it 

 would be well to drop each of them a postcard, tell- 

 ing them that you are watching to see what is done. 

 —Farm and Fireside, Bee. 9. 



Yea, truly! Why should we not have all 

 we accord foreigners? — A. I. R. 



We have had bees only about three years, but 

 find great pleasure in caring lor them. We also 

 think our fruit is much benefited. Incidentally we 

 have enjoyed some fine honey and given many 



THE BEES HELP TO PAY THE TUITION, ETC. 



I turned to p. 370 (the baby on the squash) again 

 and again, for I love children. How I should like 

 to help you strike out the disease-breeding saloons! 

 Our towns are full of them. I have two boys, the 

 elder of whom is 21 years old. He just finished up 

 four years in college. The bees nearly paid for it 

 all. The other boy is 17, and is ready for the same 

 place. No liquor is allowed to be sold within five 

 miles of this college. The number of students for 

 1910 and 1911 was 1808. 



Cornwall, Pa., June 28. E. B. Kauffman. 



" REJOICE and be glad." 



Bless your heart, Mr. Root, do you know that you 

 are doing a lot of good in helping us along? Your 

 Home talks have some powerful suggestions for 

 every one, and your temperance talk is good too. I 

 am called " the Freak " here in this place because I 

 do not drink liquor nor use tobacco. 



It makes my heart glad to see the great temper- 

 ance movement go on. I claim that any man who 

 patronizes a saloon is a traitor to his family, and a 

 rank insult to them also. 



Pine Grove, Cal., July 10. Geo. Preston. 



[Thanks for your kind words, my good friend. 

 The next time they call you a " freak " because of 

 your principles, take comfort, remembering what 

 the Master said: " Blessed are ye when men shall 

 revile you, and persecute you, and say all manner 

 of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice ye 

 in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your re- 

 ward is great in heaven." 



TERRY AND HIS TEACHINGS— A LETTER WRITTEN 

 TO T. B. TERRY. 



Dear Mr. Terry: — One year ago this month I no- 

 ticed the advertisement of your book in ( Jleanings, 

 and renewed my subscription and procured your 

 work. I was in poor health at the time, and not 

 able to follow the usual labor of office work at the 

 age of -W years. Magnetic and massage treatment 

 were used, but I had given up the use of drugs for 

 a long time previous to this: otherwise I feel quite 

 sure I should not be writing this letter to you at 

 the present time. 



1 had previously noticed the mention of more 

 water-drinking as conducive to better health, etc., 

 and even made a memorandum in my note-book to 

 put it more in practice: but not until I read your 

 book, stating the fact so forcibly and convincingly 

 to any candid mind did I commence the water- 

 drinking in earnest, and now have done so for a 

 year. I procured as pure water as obtainable here 

 in the city — spring water at 5 cts. per gallon, com- 

 mencing with one glass the first thing on getting 

 up in the morning; another at 11, and 4 and 10 p.m. 

 Six months later 1 increased the quantity of water 

 to two glasses at 11, and 4 p.m., as a rule, but I ex- 

 ceed at times the amovint stated. I also took up 

 the meat problem at the same time, but made the 

 change slowly, as you suggested, by eating a less 

 quantity, and more of the grain; entire-wheat 

 bread, baked potatoes, Knglish walnuts, olive oil, 

 lime jiiice, and much fruit in season. During the 

 last six months I probably have not eaten more 

 than 3 lbs. of flesh of all kinds; and pork, with the 

 (exception of bacon) I have avoided for years. 



My system seems to be abundantly fed. I enjoy a 

 splendid appetite with renewed strength and 

 health, and the enjoyment of life, with only now 

 and then a slight tendency of the old state of ex- 

 istence showing up. 



To say that I am more than grateful for the in- 

 spiration and help I have received but briefly ex- 

 presses it. This kind of Christianity (if only the 

 heathen in our own communities could be con- 

 verted) would do more for the good of all than we 

 can easily imagine. 



With very mucli of our good friend A. I. Root's 

 delicate constitution to look out for, and, like him 

 in the strenuous world of the age from a young 

 man (with rather more of the hustle attached to 

 the business than the ordinary person receives), at 

 times I have to slow down (in order to get steam in 

 the boiler) to get under way again for another 

 period of activity. 



Waterbury, Ct., March 10. John K. Goodrich. 



