THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



ter, regardless of persons or whereabouts; 

 and I wish bee-keepers everyivhere to feel 

 that they have only to send in items of in- 

 terest to the Review to have them meet a 

 warm welcome. My warmest thanks are 

 extended to the brother who has thus had 

 the kindness, courage and candor to speak 

 his mind — may there be more like him. 



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Mr. Arthur L. Bovden aud Miss 

 Constance M. Root were married Febru- 

 ary the first, at Medina, Ohio. Miss 

 Root, better known, through Gleanings, 

 as "blue eyes," is a daughter of Mr. .\. I. 

 Root; and Mr. Boyden was a Michigan 

 man until he went to work for the .\. I. 

 Root Co. , several years ago as the right- 

 hand-man of Mr. J. T. Calvert, the busi- 

 ness manager. He has been my com- 

 petitor at several fairs, and I know him 

 as a right royal, good hearted, worthy 

 young man. This is the second daughter 

 of Mr. Root who has been won by a 

 business manager. These young men 

 from the North who go down to Medina 

 and secure positions as business managers, 

 seem to be pretty good managers in more 

 w ays than one. I believe Bro. Root has 

 still another daughter, and I sincerely 

 hope that he may so i)rosper in business 

 as to eventually need another business 

 manager. Joking aside, I wi.sh the young 

 couple every happiness. 



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Mr. r).\ZENBAKKR writes that the 

 slightly ridged appearance of his comb 

 honey came from having the openings in 

 the .separators too large. They were 5-16 

 of an inch. This year they will be onl}- 

 1-6; and he anticipates no trouble from 

 this source. By the way, Mr. Niver says 

 in Gleanings that he saw Mr. Danzenba- 

 ker have otie section that had no pop holes 

 in the corners. I know that Mr. Danzen- 

 baker had one such section outside of his 

 ca.se at Buffalo, and it it probable that 

 that is the one Mr. Niver saw, but he had 

 a whole case full of just as nice ones as 

 the one outside. I ought to know, as I 

 bought it of him and carried it around 



and exhibited it at all the fairs, and then 

 sold if for 20 cents a potind. There were 

 no pop holes in any of the sections in the 

 case. Mr. Dazenbaker closes his letter 

 by sa)dng: "I have always considered 

 the Re\aew an excellent journal, but in 

 the last two issues it has fairly surpassed 

 it.'jelf. The frontispiece in the January 

 n umber is worth the price of the paper 

 for a year — it is a chapter in itself. ' ' 



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:NIr. M. H. Hunt once told me that he 

 could have any section completely filled 

 with comb — no pop holes — by simply 

 fastening the section in the super in 

 such a manner that the bees could pass 

 all around it, on every side. I believe 

 that the whole secret, of getting sections 

 completely filled with comb, lies in this 

 one idea — free communication between 

 and among the sections. It is the bees' 

 instinct to have passage-ways among their 

 combs. If man furnishes these passage- 

 ways the bees do not need to leave them 

 around in the corners of the sections. If 

 he does not furnish them, then the bees 

 leave holes where they can pop through. 



.SHAM, \VK I'RAISK A MAN TO HI.S FACE? 



Seems to me there is an old saying 

 about praise to the face being open dis- 

 grace; and 1 wisli to enter my protest 

 against this sentiment ; that probably 

 owes its birth to flattery. When a man 

 has worked hard and accomplished some- 

 thing that is really worthy of praise, I see 

 nothing objectionable, and there may be 

 much good, in letting him know that his 

 work is appreciated. Some people have 

 the happy faculty of bestowing praise in 

 a delicate, tactful way. in a way so "pat" 

 as to add greatly to the enjoyment; as 

 did the little boy who asked a young lady 

 if her eyes were new, and when asked 

 why, replied "because they are so bright. " 

 But even if we are not blessed with the 

 happy faculty of .saying things in a bright, 

 poetical way, that need not prevent our 

 bestowing praise and encouraging words 

 where we think tliev are deserved. We 



