Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1896 — Women’s Pet Economies. [ARTICLE]

Women’s Pet Economies.

One of the wealthiest women of this city will only permit a certain limited number of potatoes to be used in her Ifousc' weekly. She has a large establishment and her entertainments have the appearance of lavishness, but the potatoes are always counted and j>ortioned out. Another woman whose annual income exceeds her expenditure by many thousands considers that meat once a day is sufficient. Her dinners are always of the best, but the two other meals that are served daily in her house would hardly sustain the average person for the exertion of a brisk walk. The wife of a wealthy New York business man shivers through every winter because slie cannot overcome the feeling that a grate fire is an unnecessary extravaganice; and still another, who is in comfortable circuinstances, has on several occasions contracted colds that have threatened to end her career by going out on foot in evening dress because she considered a cab a luxury that could be dispensed with.—N. Y. Journal. Orbit Oil fills the bill eold by Judson H. Perkiss. E. A. Aldrich has some desirable half-acre lots for sale, also some town property for sale or trade for small farm. 39-2-mp. Judson H. Perkins sells the Osborne Binders. None better. See his sample opposite Hemphill’s Blacksmith Shop.

a “*BillN” yisitsJThonjpson’s Ranch. Having business on the ranch on Friday, the sth, I rode up with Mr. S. P.y'Thompson • We entered the ranch on the north and the first thing that attracted my attention was his System of drainage, I found large clean open ditches for the main outlets, with a network -of deep laid tile as laterals. The. water in the ditches run on an average of about-4 feet frojn the surface, leaving the surface entirely free from water. The ranch contained between 3,000 and 4,000 acres divided into 12 farms, each one nameci, the number of acres in each farm, and on each farm is a new modern 1| story dwelling house. Also a large barn, corn cribs, outbuildings, orchards, wells etc. 'The names and acres of the various farms are: Linn Grove 240 acres, Forest, 320, Brook 300, Fairview 300, Willow Dell 360, Saratoga 320, Prairie 320, Woodlawn 320, Oakdale 200, Parr 200, Home G4O, and Forester 240 acres. The amount in cultivation to each farm seemed to run from 100 to 200 acres and tbe crops con sists of corn, oats, rye and potatoes. A more promising, prospect I have never seen in any country. Mr. Thompson seems to have reduced everything down to a perfect system and has first class farmers on each farm. All seem to agree among themselves and to have great respect for their landlord. Mr. Thompson" has many peculiar ideas and practices among which is the awarding of a premium of 8100 for each baby born on the ranch. I suggested that the price be S2OO for males, and SIOO for females. Sima says emphatically: “No sir,l It is SIOO a baby, without regard to race, colpr or preconceived political opinions. I will conclude by saying that to those that may have the pleasure of seeing Thompson’s ranch 5 years hence will see one of the finest, if not the best farms in the county.

BILL N.