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Hope  Farm  Notes 
(Continued  from  Page  442) 
“So  I  says  to  the  woman,  says  I.  this 
house  is  fixed  up  to  suit  me.  If  you 
bring  any  new  furniture  and  fixings  in 
here  I’ll  chop  ’em  right  up.  Those  curly 
headed  women  are  hard  to  master.  They 
want  foolish  things;  but  I  got  her  con¬ 
quered  finally,  and  there  ain’t  much  more 
said.” 
I  did  not  understand  it  then  as  I  do 
now — how  this  woman  was  slowly  pining 
away  with  a  form  of  heart  disease.  Some 
men  suddenly  drop  dead  when  the  heart 
stops  working ;  ot  hers  linger  on  with  oc¬ 
casional  attacks  of  terrible  pain.  A  doc¬ 
tor  would  probably  have  pronounced  this 
woman’s  heart  in  good  working  condition, 
yet  all  the  same  she  wras  wasting  away 
like  an  imprisoned  bird.  Strange  how 
some  men  cannot  see  that  women  must 
have  some  little  share  in  beauty  and 
“pretty  things”  or  die  in  spirit.  De¬ 
prived  of  them,  they  will  waste  away  as 
rhey  will  if  deprived  of  food.  John  Mar¬ 
shall  would  rank  as  a  good  farmer  and 
good  citizen,  but  he  simply  did  not  realize 
that  his  “curly-haired  woman”  needed 
beauty  and  love  to  fill  out  her  life. 
***** 
I  was  told  that  my  “entertainment”’ 
was  successful.  The  church  was  well 
filled  and  over  $4  in  the  contribution  box. 
As  we  drove  home  John  Marshall  broke 
into  a  great  roar  of  laughter. 
“Thinking  about  that  funny  piece — that 
Dutchman  setting  that  hen.  Say,  that’s 
rich.  When  you  get  home  you  got  to  say 
that  over.”  And  he  roared  once  more. 
So  we  sat  beside  the  kitchen  stove  and 
I  repeated  the  absurd  story.  John  kept 
calling  for  more  funny  stories,  and  before 
1  realized  it  I  had  nearly  repeated  my  en¬ 
tertainment.  Finally  Sarah  spoke  up 
timidly  : 
“Won’t  you  please  say  that  one  about 
the  girl  in  the  woods?” 
"Oh,”  said  John,  “we  don’t  care  for 
that  one;”  but  I  remembered  that  I  had 
recited  part  of  Will  Carleton’s  “First  Set¬ 
tler  Story,”  and  noticed  at  the  time  how 
Sarah’s  face  had  lighted  up  as  I  went 
through  it.  She  had  nodded  her  head  as 
if  in  understanding.  You  who  have  read 
the  poem  know  that  it  tells  the  story  of 
a  young  girl  reared  under  pleasant  con¬ 
ditions,  who  married  a  pioneer.  They 
went  into  the  Michigan  forests  to  carve 
out  a  farm  and  a  home.  Here  was  an¬ 
other  woman  with  a  love  for  beauty  and 
“pretty  things”  forced  into  a  hard  and 
narrow  life  without  a  joy  or  play.  She 
broke  under  the  strain.  There  in  that 
dim  kitchen  beside  the  dying  wood  fire  I 
did  my  best  to  give  the  spirit  of  it  all. 
For  it  came  to  me  as  I  talked  that  in 
these  lines  the  poet  was  telling  the  story 
not  only  of  this  woman’s  life,  but  also  of 
thousands  of  others  who  were  slowly 
starving  for  the  love  and  beauty  which 
their  nature  craved.  Blind  men  could 
not  understand  the  things  which  mean  so 
much  in  a  woman’s  life. 
“Oh,  well  the  woman  wasn’t  fit  for  the 
job,”  was  John’s  comment  as  he  put  out 
the  cat  and  locked  the  door.  But  Sarah 
moved  her  head  gently  and  whispered: 
“It’s  the  truth.  That’s  me.  It  will 
be  my  end.”  H.  w.  c. 
(To  Be  Continued) 
Egg-eating  Hens 
My  hens  are  eating  their  eggs  just 
about  as  fast  as  they  are  laying  them, 
('an  you  tell  me  what  to  do  to  stop  them? 
New  York.  R.  H.  J. 
Yes,  this  complaint  is  as  common  as 
i  he  return  of  Spring.  The  fact  that  your 
flock  is  housed  accounts  for  it  in  large 
measure.  Turn  the  hens  loose,  watch 
them  by  gathering  the  eggs  several  times 
daily,  and  if  you  find  a  culprit,  remove 
her  from  the  flock.  There  are  other  “well- 
recommended”  remedies,  but,  as  the 
recommendation  is  about  all  that  they 
have  in  their  favor,  I  hesitate  to  describe 
them.  Egg  shells,  blown  and  stuffed  with 
red  pepper,  etc.,  china  nest  eggs  left  about 
for  the  flock  to  peck  at  and  a  little  vine¬ 
gar  added  to  the  mash  are  remedies  of 
more  or  less  good  repute.  The  last  one 
is  a  new  one  to  me,  but  has  been  sent  in 
several  times  with  attests  to  its  efficacy. 
Try  it  and  let  me  know  how  it  works, 
for  after  several  years  of  immunity  to 
this  trouble  and  the  consequent  acquire¬ 
ment  of  a  great  conceit  in  the  matter, 
some  of  my  hens  are  now  eating  eggs. 
M.  B.  D. 
Shipping  Baby  Ducks 
I  expect  to  ship  day-old  ducklings  this 
year.  Is  litter  used  in  box?  In  case 
destination  is  more  than  48  hours  off, 
what  about  feed?  I  usually  do  not  feed 
mine  until  after  48  hours.  Some  ship¬ 
pers  state  in  their  catalogues  that  con¬ 
signee  must  open  box  in  presence  of  de¬ 
livering  agent,  and  if  any  are  dead,  put 
in  a  claim  for  the  shipper.  t.  w.  b. 
New  Jersey. 
It  is  well  to  put  clover  or  Alfalfa 
chaff  in  the  bottom  of  the  box  in  which 
you  ship  ducklings.  This  will  keep  the 
little  feet  warm  and  the  birds  more  com¬ 
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them  on  a  journey  lasting  more  than  48 
hours.  It  is  well  to  open  the  package  in 
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