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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



body to get as much fresh air as possible, 

 and arrange things in the home so that fre- 

 quent baths can be taken with as little trou- 

 ble as possible. If the sun baths can not be 

 taken on week days, or if it is next to im- 

 possible to get out in the sunshine during 

 week days, I would endeavor to get as much 

 sunshine as I could on Sunday. Compara- 

 tively few people are required to work 7 

 days in the week. In fact, all kinds of busi- 

 ness should be so arranged as to permit every 

 employee to give reasonable consideration 

 to the matter of preserving health. Your 

 version of my old favorite text has a lot of 

 truth in it; and if your employer is a godly 

 man he will surely see about the ' ' things to 

 be added." One of them is a reserve man 

 who can take your place during emergencies. 

 If there is no such man about the establish- 

 ment, urge upon your employer the need of 

 having somebody to take instructions in view 

 of sickness and death that are likely to oc- 

 cur to anybody. 



You ask which, in my opinion, is most im- 

 portant of the things we have been talking 

 about. In my case it is the after-dinner nap. 

 In fact, I suffered for years from a sort of 

 nervous prostration before I found out that 

 a nap of fifteen or twenty minutes would 

 cure it every time. When one feels that 

 his health is giving way along the lines I 

 have suggested, he can usually make some 

 arrangenient with his employer, especially if 

 he is a valuable hand, so the matter can be 

 arranged to the satisfaction of both parties; 

 and it often will not be any more expensive 

 or difficult than to drop off entirely and pay 

 a doctor's bill besides. There is quite a 

 movement in the large cities at this very 

 time for only eight or nine hours a day. 



I often eat my dinner, and get my nap be- 

 sides, inside of an hour. An hour and a 

 quarter is better, however, and an hour and 

 a half gives me all the time I could ask for. 

 The sun baths, air baths, and pure air can 

 generally be managed with less trouble than 

 the half-hour's sleep after dinner. 



Mr. Eckard handed us Ihe following, say- 

 ing he would like to have it put before our 

 employees. It is taken from the Technical 

 World for August. 



HORSE SENSE. 



If you work for a man, in heaven's name work for 

 him. 



If he pays you wages that supply you your bread and 

 butter, work for him, speak well of him, think well of 

 him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he rep- 

 resents. 



I think if I worked for a man, I would work for him. 

 I would not work for him a part of his time, but all of 

 his time. I would give an undivided service or none. 



If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a 

 pound of cleverness. 



If you must vilify, condemn, and eternally disparage, 

 why, resign your position: and when you are outside, 

 damn to your heart's content. But, I pray you, so long 

 as you are a part of an institution, do not condemn it. 

 Not that you will injure the institution — not that — but 

 when you disparage the concern of which you are a 

 part you disparage yourself. 



And don't forget — "1 forgot! " won't do in business. 

 Elbert Hubbard. 



The sermon given in this issue in Our Homes was 

 preached in the Medina Congregational Church, Oct. 22, 

 1905. The subject was, " The Relations of the Home to 

 the Public Schools." 



THE WRIGHT BROTHERS' FLYING-MACHINE TO 

 date; flying 24 miles IN 38 MINUTES. 



Our readers' attention is called to the ar- 

 ticles in regard to the Wright Brothers' fly- 

 ing-machine in our issues for Jan. 1 and 15, 

 1905; also to the italics on page 1202 in our 

 last issue. I have now permission to give 

 you some further particulars. A great num- 

 ber of long flights were made during the 

 past summer. Along late in the fall the ma- 

 chine made 24 miles, and was up in the air 

 38 minutes; and as this flying was all done 

 in a circle, the speed was not as great as it 

 might have been in a straight line. The rea- 

 son why they have made no longer flights, 

 say from one city to another, is because 

 they are following the policy they adopted 

 in the beginning, of working slowly and safe- 

 ly. This longest flight did not extend much 

 outside of the inclosure I have described, 

 where the building is located for storing the 

 machine. For several reasons it is quite de- 

 sirable that the apparatus should be put back 

 in the house built for it, after every flight; 

 and if they ventured very far away from 

 where it is located there might be difficulty 

 in getting it over fences or along highways. 

 In making these circles of about one mile 

 in circumference they did not choose to go 

 higher than perhaps 75 or 100 feet from the 

 ground. In order to test the machine fuily 

 in case of accident the engine was shut off 

 repeatedly while under full speed, and at a 

 considerable height from the ground. There 

 is no diflSculty at all in alighting on any 

 tolerably smooth fleld (that is, a field toler- 

 ably clear of trees, bushes, stumps, etc.) 

 without accident to the machine or operator: 

 in fact, they can strike ground at a speed of 

 40 miles an hour without injury. They even 

 consider it safer to alight at a pretty fair 

 speed than to drop straight down without 

 speed. The reason why they stopped at the 

 end of 38 minutes was because their reser- 

 voir of gasoline held only enough for that 

 length of time; but as they carried along 

 about 40 lbs. of cast iron for ballast, the ma- 

 chine is amply capable of carrying gasoline 

 enough for an hour or perhaps two or three 

 hours. As nearly as 1 could find out, the 

 amount of gasoline required to run it is but lit- 

 tle if any greater than is required for a two- 

 passenger automobile. You see it is easier 

 work sliding on the air than traveling over 

 our best macadamized roads. 



No one at the present time knows just 

 what the outcome is going to be of this new 

 achievement in the line of air navigation. I 

 hope the friends who write me in regard to 

 the matter will bear in mind that this appa- 

 ratus has no balloon nor gas-bag of any sort. 

 It can be started at any time almost as easi- 

 ly and as quickly as you start an automobile. 

 I am not at Hberty to answer questions in 

 regard to its construction more than I have 

 given already, so there will be no use of 

 writing me in regard to it. Until now they 

 have endeavored to keep the matter from 

 being mentioned in the papers as much as 

 possible. These workers in this new field 

 have not desired publicity. 



