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THE OOLOGIST. 



FARM FOR WOMEN ONLY. 



Fruits and Flowers to Be Grown Each 

 Month by Electricity. 



Long Island is to have an "Adamless 

 Edeu." Mme. Davidoff, a native of 

 Russia, but now a resident of Ne\'i 

 York city, is establishing an experi- 

 mental farm at Bellecrest, near North- 

 port, N. y., which will be operated by 

 women. Men will be barred from the 

 greenhouses, where fruits and flowers 

 are to be grown every month in the 

 year by the aid of electricity. While 

 similar experiments have been made 

 by this and other governments, Mme. 

 Davidoff believes her experiments will 

 prove more successful than those car- 

 ried on by the bureau of plant indus- 

 try of the department of agriculture. 



Mme. Davidoff is a writer for maga- 

 zines. She says the experiments will 

 he based ou the theory that the growth 

 of vegetable matter, whicli ceases at 

 sundown, will continue through the 

 night if proper artificial light is sup- 

 plied to stimulate the developing pow- 

 ers of plants. Fruits and flowers that 

 are grown near New York only in the 

 spring and summer months, she be- 

 lieves, can be cultivated during the 

 entire year by supplying the necessary 

 artificial heat through the electrical 

 process that will be adopted. 



"This is not intended as a money 

 making enterprise," said Mme. David- 

 off the other night. "While, of course, 

 we expect the experiments to prove 

 successful and the farm to be self sup- 

 porting, yet my object is to make it a 

 philanthropic enterprise with the view 

 ■of helping members of mj own sex as 

 well as to prove the scientific value of 

 the plan with which I have been ex- 

 perimenting for several years. There 

 is no connection between my venture 

 and the utterances of Sir Oliver Lodge, 

 the English savant, relative to the in- 

 fluence of electricity on plant life. 

 The two systems differ chiefly from 

 the fact that all of my experiments are 

 made under glass and under certain 

 conditions a static machine is used in 

 addition to dynamos." 



Active work on the farm at Belle- 

 crest win begin, she says, within one 

 month, upon the completion of the nee- 

 essarj^ buildings and the installation 

 of the electrical apparatus. 



CHURCH BUSINESS MANAGER. 



Innovation to Be Tried by Methodists 

 In Cleveland. 



The FJpAYorth Memorial Methodist 

 church in Cleveland, O., has decided to 

 try a new system of church manage- 

 ment. A b'lsiness manager has been ^ 

 appointed, who will give his entire 9 

 time and attention to the finances of 

 the church. As executive secretary he 

 will collect the benevolences, dues of 

 members, subscriptions, etc., and pay 

 all expenses. He will serve as secre- 

 tary of the standing committees of 

 the church and keep a record of their 

 business for transmission to the oflfi- 

 cial board. This, it is expected, will 

 leave the pastor free to give attention 

 to the larger plans of the work and to 

 his pulpit and pastoral duties. 



Epworth Memorial has the largest 

 membership of all the Protestant 

 churches in Cleveland. It has an ex- 

 tensive charity work and handles over 

 $35,000 in contributions every year. 

 Dr. G. K. Morris, district superintend- 

 ent, strongly commends the innova- 

 tion. "To my mind," he says, "it is 

 the ideal of church government. I ex- 

 pect to see the plan adopted in many 

 other cities " 



Jerusalem Pudding. 

 Stir into one pint cf heavy cream 

 that has been whipped stiff a half 

 package of gelatin which has been 

 soaked for a half hour in one cup cold 

 water, then dissolved over the kettle. 

 Add one-half cup pulverized sugar, 

 one-half cup boiled rice, one-quarter 

 cup chopped figs, one teaspoonful va- 

 nilla and preserved ginger and hickory 

 or almond nut meats to taste. Mold 

 and allow it to become perfectly 

 chilled. Serve in high glasses with 

 candied cocoanut balls and candied 

 ginger. Set the glasses on a plate with 

 a dolly between glass and plate. 



