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MEXICAN WOMEN AT WORK. Have Few Outside Interests and Care Nothing for Athletics. Mexican Herald. As the Moors practically controlled the commerce and education of Spain for over one hundred years, the Spaniards acquired to a great extent the same ideas held by them of the education and treatment of women. And they in their turn carried these ideas to Mexico. In fact, the Mexi can women of the upper classes were much freer under the Aztecs than they were afterwards under Spanish rule.. And until quite lately this con dition of affairs has prevailed in Mexico since its freedom from the Spanish crown. Not so many years ago when a Mex ican woman went shopping she re mained in her carriage in the street and sent her servant into the store to call one of the clerks to wait upon her. He came out and received her orders and brought the goods to her for ex amination. This peculiar. method of shopping was due to the old Mexican idea that a lady of good family should be exclusive and should shield herself from the gaze of the public and in fact from everyone except her own immediate relatives and most intimate friends. This idea has been dying hard for over a century and it is still far from being complitely buried in some parts of the republic. The Mexican woman is naturally a home lover. She has no clubs to take her away from her home, and she has few outside interests. Even when she is philanthropically inclined, which she very often is, her ideas of life tend to make her place her charitable contributions in the 'hands of sister superiors of convents or directors of charitable institutions and works for use in the cause she has at heart. The Mexican women of the middle and upper classes .have never been . athletic, at least since the Spanish conquest. This, of course, was due . to the secluded life they led. But the women of the lower classes have ever been stout and muscular, for much work of a heavy kind has al ways been their lot. On aecount of her.quieter disposition it isnprob able that, for years at least, the Mex ican woman will take the interest in athletics that is now being shown by her American sister. Another reason is that the sympathy of the .Mexican people is all against her doing so. In the Mexican schools the girl is tanight many things in the way of needlework, painti~ng, embroidering drawing and -designing, and -these later serve to fill in her peaceful, un eventful life after leaving school. To -this must be added music. For here, as in Spain and other Latin countries, most women of the middle and upper classes receive an excellent musical education. In the homes, and in their own way, the Mexican women are delightful entertainers and their knowledge of .music aids not a little in their enter taining. The piano always forms a very im-~ portant factor in the entertainment at a Mexican house. No matter how small the gathering of friends, there is always some one who can play well, and his or services are requested and always cheerfully given, for a Mexi can not only likes to help entertain his friends and his friends' friends, but he looks upon it as his duty to do so. With 'the piano also goes singing of the popular songs of the day. MYTHS ABOUT SNAKES. Good as Food, But Not as Pets, Not Hostile to Man. * "Snakes are all right as food but very unsatisfactory as pets, fo'r the reason that they have no psycholo gical nature,'' said a scientist. Dur ing a six years' residence in the West he inade a close stud'y of snakes and study unconfined and about his pre mises in numbers, he became fami liar with them. The wisdom of a serpent he pro nounces a myth, though he admits that snakes have much cunning, are wily to a degree, and perfectly under stand their power and lianitations. For example. a rattlesnake does not retreat in haste when' disturbed. Realizing that its bite ends the game, it is invariably deliberate, but if left to itself in its own good time it makes off. Other venomous snakes also recede slowly, understanding as does the rattler, that they are equal to most emergencies. Contray to the commor notion, snakes are not hostile to man. The most venoious and powerful will run from man if possible. It is only inself-defense that any poisonous snake strikes. Tha a rattlesnake rattles to give vning of its presence is a populr fanac. nt rally dno nothing of the kind. The tails of all snakes quive: when they are excited and therefor the rattler is heard when disturbed Why it has rattles on its tail no on has been able to find out. The chief difference between th ways of a poisonous snake and on of those whose bite is no more harr than the sting of a mosquito is ii the deliberate withdrawal of the on and the hasty retreat of the othe in case of danger. The large majot ity of snakes are quite harmless an< slip away with all speed at the ap proach of either a human or an ani mal, knowing that the ability to con ceal themselves is their own metho< of preservations. While not crediting snakes wit' wisdom, it is stated that in man; ways they are the reverse of stupid They are very curious, and whe: they can do so without danger t themselves, they examine an unfamil iar object with keen and repeate, attention. It is related by this scientist tha in attempting to capture a wate snake he put his foot on it and th soft ooze at the creek side but failei to hold it. To see what the snak would do, he stood perfectly still, an< in a few moments it came back and swimming slowly round and roun< his foot, examined it most carfull3 not as might be supposed by lookin at it, but by touching it at ever; point with its tongue, not once bu again and again. The quick thrusting out and draw ing in of the tongue is a snake's wa; of finding out what things about i mean. The tongue is the most in portant sense organ. It really ha very little sensation elsewhere, an those that are most poisonous can, i not restrained, or hurt, be move about with impunity. Yet those who handle and stud snakes constantly invariably hol them by the back of the neck, as cat does a kitten, and both seize an liberate them with alacrity. Befoy they are seized the rule is to kee out of striking distant which is on third the length of the snake. Making Cheap Milk and Butter. Large amounts of timothy hay ai often fed to dairy cows because it thought to be a very rich and nourisl ing foodstuff, but in experimeni made with twenty-four cows at th station last winter, it would seem the shredded stover when well made an preserved can often be used to r< place the timothy hay to advantag< As timothy hay brings from $10 t $15 a ton on the market and shredde stover is practically a waste produ< on the farm, the economy of utilis ing the latter is apparent to all. .There is another question of moi than passing interest to the dairyma and that is the balancing up of hi ration with some concentrate rich i protein. Gluten meal and cottenseet meal were fed on the basis of th content of digestible protein for thi purpose and provided the marke price is the same per pound of diges tible protein, there is little to choos between the two, except that th gluten meal was not as readily eate by the cows and it made the butter-fa soft, whereas cottonseed-meal wa readily eaten and increases the mell ing point of butter, which gives it decided advantage for feeding in sum mer. 'These results show that the prope basis of comparing foodstuffs is at cording to th% amount of digestibi protein that contain. It is thus ai parent that farmers often make th mistake of feeding wheat-bran whic We have know tne bE and have p them. THE I versible Dise r contains only twelve per cent of di 3 gestible protein, as compared with cotonseed-meal, which, when pure, a contains 37.2 per cent of digestible protein they contain. It is thus ap a wheat bran can often be boulit at a practically the same price, the farmer i who buys wheat bran pays three times 1 as much for the digestible protein e contained as the farmer who utilizes r cotton seed-mead, which, when pure, - Dean and Director Va. Ex. Station. The Netherlands of California. . The people of the east have un I doubtedly read a great deal of the fertile soil of California, its vast j wheat fields, wonderful trees, immense y orchards, the raising of two to four crops of alfalfa, and from four to five c crops of berries, but few have heard Calfornia's Netherlands which are . more wonderful than all the tales j written and published in prose and poetry about this land of never ceas t, ing wonders. r The teachers who will come to Cal e ifornia next July, to attend the Na tional Educational Association con e vention,- will have an opportunity to i see this great delta consisting of some millions of acres of the richest land j in the world, many feet below the level of the water in the adjoining rivers. Special excursions, at very, small t cost, will be arranged so that the teachers who will visit California may - have an opportunity to see this, the greatest wonderland of all, and they t will be more interested than ordinary - travelers and tourists because. they s are more observing and more apt to 1 retain the knowledge of what'they see. f- To convey but a faint idea what. & California's Netherlands really are, it may be stated that the land has y been reclaimed from the sea by d sturdy Rollanders 'who found an ex a cellent opportunity of reclaiming the richest bottom land by building dykes e and draining the sloughs in the' San p Joaquin Valley. These pioneers e started out to create a New Nether lands similar to what they had left in Holland, they ended with turning the San, Joaquin delta into the rich est ground on the face of the earth. 'e The Holland farmers reclaimed only s a few thousand acres, then the gov - ernent took up the work and re s claimed millions of acres, and the soil e proves richer and better than th'at t found in the famous delta of the Nile. d It will be a curious experirge for - the passengers traveling in a boa~ tion . one of the canals which serves the o dual purpose of draining and irriga d ting, when he looks over the side of t the steamer and finds the richest :- farming land fifteen or twenty feet below the river on which 'the vessel e floats that carries him. nf - All that fertile land was once coy s ered.with water from the bay to the n depth of many feet at high tide. - New industries have been started e in this delta and. have grown in value s giving employment to thousands of t persons. In this delta is found the -largest asparagus farms in the world. e Three thousands acres in one farm are e devoted to the raising of that vegeta a ble alone, while 6.,000 acres are de t voted to the same industry in smaller s farms. The factory in which the as -paragus is canned employs over 600 a hands, and runs day and night during - the season. The product when canned is shipped to the east and different r parts of the world. Few wvho relish -the dish have an idea that the vege e table was grown upon reclaimed land. -Just a little further down. on the e same reclaimed land thousands of 5 acres are devoted to the culture of been in the Il ~st. We have cked the Cha HATTANOOGA REVEl Plow built celery. wich has also become quite a profitable industry. The greatest dairv farm in this same Netherlands boasts of more reg istered cows than any other dairy farm in the world. One of them is the famous Juliana de Kol. the world's prize heifer. She holds the highest record in the world. In 100 days she gave milk which yielded 2S5 pounds of butter. Besides the raising of asparagus, celery and cows, this land is better than any other for the raising of on ions, potatoes, string beans and a va riety of other vegetables. It will surprise the teachers when they find a crop of string beans grow ing upon the same soil which has pro duced an abundant erop of onions during the early part of the same sea son. "The Last Days of Pompeii" ought to be among the best selling books of the hour. "The Man with the Muck Rake." is all right. The Augean stables must be cleaned. Another bum governor of a Russian province has been given fhe grand bomb degree. Danger From the Plague. There's grave danger from the plague of Coughs and Colds that are so -preva lent, unless you take Dr King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Mrs. Geo. Walls, of Forest City, Me, writes: "It's a Godsend to people living in climates where coughs and colds prevail. I find it quickly ends them. 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