THE RURAI^ NEW-YORKER 
137 
1915. 
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fl The Woman and the Wandering Hen || 
(Continued from page 135) 
.. 
The hen brought off 10 healthy turkeys, 
out of a possible 11. The mother hen had 
the run of the premises and daily led her 
brood far off into the bushes in all con¬ 
ditions of weather, and succeeded in rais¬ 
ing nine turkeys to full maturity. I be¬ 
lieve this is above the average where 
they furnish hotel accommodations for 
the little turks with hot and cold water 
and electric lights in every room. I have 
nothing more to say. Draw your own 
conclusions. 
P. S.—I thought all along I was for¬ 
getting something, and I have just now 
thought what it is. If I remember right 
it was about the first of April when the 
last one of the wandering hens disap¬ 
peared, and Bodwell was saying to the 
men in the mill, when out of earshot of 
Mrs. Bodwell, that he was glad to get rid 
of the pesky hens, and he reckons now 
he wouldn’t hear anything more about 
building a henhouse, but along the latter 
part of the month one of the lost hens 
was seen coming down the tote road one 
afternoon followed by a brood of 12 lively 
chickens. A day or two later another 
lien did the same stunt, and likewise 
every day or two the same scene was re¬ 
peated, and if T remember right, the 
least number of chicks that any hen re¬ 
ported, was 10. I was at the mill a few 
days after the last one showed up, and I 
observed Bodwell in the back yard board¬ 
ing up a chicken house with Mrs. B. 
standing by bossing the job. c. w. S. 
A Strange, New Business. 
Selling Human Blood.— In a city 
hospital three women lay at the point of 
death. Nothing but a supply of new 
blood could save them or put them into 
a condition to stand the needed opera¬ 
tion. In order to obtain this new blood 
the doctors advertised for people who 
were willing to supply it. As a result 
more than 100 men, most of them driven 
by poverty, offered themselves for the 
purpose. Out of this number, only two 
were found with blood suitable for the 
operations, most of the others being in 
poor condition as the result of exposure 
and lack of proper food. The two men 
who were selected each gave a pint of 
his blood; this was transfused into the 
veins of the three patients with such 
success that they revived and were able 
to stand the operations. Investigation of 
these cases has shown that there are men 
in New York City who make a profession 
of selling their blood for these operations. 
They are people naturally of good health 
with an abundant supply of healthy red 
blood in their veins, and it appears that 
blood for this use must be of a peculiar 
quality, and out of seven pure-blooded 
persons, only one may possess the quality 
needed for this work. Formerly when 
such blood was needed advertisements 
were placed in the papers and in every 
such case, there were dozens or even 
hundreds of applications. The majority 
of them came from men who were out of I 
work, with families to support, and they 
stood ready to give the last drop in their 
veins in order to earn a little money for 
the support of their wife and children. 
Some pathetic stories are told of the 
sorrows of some of these men when they 
found that through exposure or lack of 
food they could not give what was needed. 
These advertisements are not now usually 
needed, as there has been developed a col¬ 
ony of 50 or 00 people who make a busi¬ 
ness of supplying blood for this purpose. 
They are all of a remarkable healthy type 
arid are known as such to the physicians. 
They receive all the way from $15 to [ 
$100. depending largely upon the ability ! 
of the patient to pay them. It is even j 
said that some of these people are of good 
family and very well-to-do. They may 
be called philanthropists, as they stand 
ready to give a supply out of pure charity j 
and good will. It sometimes happens 
that a wealthy man will give up a supply 
of blood in this way for the purpose of 
saving the life of some poor man or woman 
who cannot be revived in any other way. 
“ Songs that Live.” 
B Y no means least in value among the 
country life conferences which are 
now annually held are those in which 
home-making and child training are made 
the subjects of study. For several years 
many of those who have attended the 
exercises of “Farmers’ Week” at the 
State Agricultural College at Ithaca, N. 
Y., have enjoyed listening to Mrs. Rose 
Morgan as she discussed the place which 
music holds and should hold in the de¬ 
velopment of character in the home. It is 
safe to say that comparatively few, even 
among the thoughtful in her audiences, 
have ever fully appreciated the influence 
which the songs and instrumental music 
of the home exert upon those growing up 
there, and it has become Mrs. Morgan’s 
mission to open the eyes of parents and 
teachers to the wonderful possibilities for 
good, or for evil, that exist in the songs of 
the people, and to help to cultivate in 
American homes the ability to discrimin¬ 
ate between the good and the bad, and to 
choose the former. 
With the title, “Songs That Live,” 
Bulletin No. T7 has been issued as part 
of the Cornell Reading Course, these 
bulletins being free to all in the State 
who send for them. A few sentences 
quoted from the bulletin will give some 
idea of its character, and will, we hope, 
induce many to send for it. 
“Probably there is no form of early 
home influence more enduring than the 
home song, and its power is continuous 
in proportion to the place that it occu¬ 
pied in that early home influence. The 
home song, therefore, should be funda¬ 
mentally a thing of tenth. It should not 
be woven from the tinsel of fancy and 
sentimentality, but it should be composed 
of words and melody that are coined from 
the heart’s pure gold. Such a song lives. 
We believe the song to be a character 
making force. We believe that there are 
better songs for the country school, the 
Grange, and the occasional country life 
program than are ordinarily used in 
them. We believe that there are better 
hymns for the country church and Sun¬ 
day School services. We believe that the 
home is the natural center of that power 
for good which we rest in song, and that 
there are better songs for it than the 
average home of to-day provides.” 
A feature of the bulletin that will bo 
highly appreciated by those who have it is 
a collection of 10 of the best American 
songs, ranging from a negro ballad of the 
South to a Christmas carol by Phillips 
Brooks. Both words and music of the 
songs are given. M. b. d. 
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