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furnish the key-note of her complaint, -

“The people who lived in Shakespeare’s days
Must have found it easy to write good plays,
But now that everything has been done
I cannot think of a single one!”

Alice G. Stabler, a guest, quoted from a
diary, kept during a trip to Calif., of her
visit to an ostrich farm, which has to be enclosed
in two fences lest these unamiable
bipeds take vicious pecks at the unwary
strangers. The birds mate at 4 yrs. of age, and
are faithful to the first love for as long as
70 yrs. The female makes her nest in the
sand, scooping out a hole, and lays from
12 to 37 eggs. The male sits at night and
one hr. in the day. The largest specimen
weighed 324 lbs. and was very fierce. The
young birds are fed on alfalfa, they are
tremendous eaters, - a dozen oranges will be
swallowed whole and the fruit can be
observed making its way slowly down the
long necks of the victims of the doubtful kindness
of heart evinced by a tourist.

Elma Chandlee told us of a village in
New. Eng. where the people are so kind and
gentle to birds, there are seven different specimens
of feathered friends who will eat right out of one’s
hand fearlessly.

Fanny B. Snowden brought an acct. of
a wonderful town in Oklahoma, established
by Charles Page to benefit widows and their
children. His mother had been left with
7 little ones, and his recollections of her toil
at the wash tub to support her family
made his resolve to inaugurate this
beautiful work. After he became a rich manufacturer,
he built a number of small houses,
as well as larger dormitories, and the population
now numbers several thousand self-
supporting people. They find employment
in various factories established near. There are
care-takers for the small children while the mothers
are at work. and a resident physician is paid
by Mr. Page. Gas, rent, and fuel are free, also