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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



June, 1917 



temperance that seems to be coming, even 

 if it does come largely thru the exciting 

 times of war ; and may G-od hasten the time 

 when the number of people who are " hun- 

 gering and thirsting after righteousness " 

 in this great wide world shall wake up and 

 bestir themselves to the opportunities that 

 are now offered. If you cannot do any 

 better, go out and make garden, when you 

 lay down this Home paper, so as to " feed 

 the hungry." 



Just one more thing that this terrible war 

 is doing for humanity as perhaps nothing 

 else could do. It is getting the nations of 

 the earth better acquainted and more in 

 touch with each other than anything that 

 has ever trans^Dired since the world began 

 —that is, if I am making no mistake. The 

 children of the whole wide world are learn- 

 ing more geography than ever before. 

 Even heathen lands, or what we were wont 

 to call heathen lands, are catching on to 

 the great achievements of science, art, and 

 literature. In the matter of transportation 

 and communication the world is being trans- 

 formed ; and last, but by no means least, 

 the gospel of Christ Jesus is permeating 

 everywhere, notwithstanding what the pow- 

 ers of evil are in like manner doing. This 

 same Y. M. C. A. we have been talking 

 about in this Home paper is getting every- 

 where, as I have explained; and may God 

 be praised for the good men who are not 

 even professing Christians for the way in 

 which they are coming forward Avith their 



hundreds and thousands; and I am not sure 

 but there has been one contribution of a 

 million dollars to help the Y. M. C. A. ex- 

 tend its helping hand to every child of hu- 

 manity, no matter who nor on what spot 

 they are located. 



" WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR f" 



In Stray Straws in our April issue Dr. 

 Miller asks for the outcome of my trouble 

 with the express company as given in Our 

 Homes for March. Why, bless your heart, 

 doctor, I supposed the outcome was suffi- 

 ciently evident as I left it. When I began 

 to recognize the fact that express compan- 

 ies are neighbors, like everybody else with 

 whom I have dealt, I asked myself the ques- 

 tion, " What would Jesus do were he in the 

 chicken business, under the circumstances?" 

 The answer was so plain that I felt asham- 

 ed to think of making out a bill for dam- 

 ages for a couple of chickens, especially 

 when I started them otf in that very pretty 

 but flimsy crate made more for a pretty 

 exhibition at fairs than to stand a shipment 

 of over a thousand miles by express. No 

 doubt the express companies have their 

 faults like the rest of humanity. But is it 

 not likely true that a lot of us are also 

 faulty in handing them our stuff poorly pre- 

 pared for a long distance? ''Thou shalt love 

 thy neighbor as thyself." Would it not 

 help matters if we could all exercise a little 

 more charity for even the exjDress and rail- 

 road companies? 



HEALTH NOTES 



OLEOMARGARINE AND REAL BUTTER. 



My article on page 301 calls forth con- 

 siderable protest, principally because, as I 

 understand it, the clipping I gave did not 

 make mention of the fact that the tax on 

 oleo was only when it was colored so as to 

 imitate butter; and I shall have to confess 

 that, when I prepared the article for print, 

 I did not know that this tax of ten cents a 

 pound was only on the colored article, and 

 that the tax was laid in order to prevent 

 fraud. The only point made was that a 

 very good substitute for butter could be 

 made from the oil from peanuts, cotton seed, 

 etc., or at least it was largely from these 

 sources, and that the butter we had been 

 buying, supposed to be so made, was very 

 good and wholesome. Perhaps I should 

 add right here that after a more extensive 

 use of this margarine, as they call it, both 



Mrs. Root and myself decided to pay a little 

 more for real butter. If the two kinds are 

 just alike, the white and the j^ellow, I should 

 certainly take the white at the lower price. 

 In the advice to the women in regard to 

 boycotting butter and using oleo there was 

 no mention of there being two kinds of oleo 

 — 'the colored and uncolored. To sum it up, 

 I do not see why there can be any reason in 

 the world against using oleo at a lower price 

 providing it is of a different color and is 

 never sold to deceive people and make them 

 think it is pure butter. And I do not just 

 now see why anybody should complain of a 

 ten-cent tax or even a higher one while an 

 attempt is made to palm it off on an unsus- 

 pecting and hungi-y public for real butter. 

 I believe we have had some recent reports 

 from the Government, to the effect that 

 cows' butter has more nutritive value tlinn 



