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Show ' THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSVILLE. UTAH Some people make a dreadful fgsa about the poor moulting hen, while this moulting process Is just as natu-ra- l as It is for a hen to live and breathe and no more critical than the laying stunt, provided the hens are fed enough to keep up the waste of the body, and at the same time manufacture the new feathers, says the Field and Farm. The sooner the feathers are grown the sooner the eggs will come and to hurry them along as ast-s possible Jhhfowisshould be fed liberally. Give them all the mash they will eat and a good feeding of grain at night. To many folks It looks like throw-!naway' money to practice heavy feeding w hlle no eggs are coming Tut this Is one of the, secretsof getting winter eggs. The moulting season is the most critical period in the life of a hen. Growth of new feathers Is a heavy strain on vitality. As the hen is fed on the average ranch it requires from two to four months to recover from the effects of it By giving the necessary materials with which to make the feathers so that a hen will not have to take them from the tissues of her body, she will be ready for work as soon as she has her new plumage and often before. Pullets should be handled In the same way. They are not yet fully developed and will not begin to lay until the amount of food tthey consume is enough to support growth with a surplus to go Into something else. -f- . g Jv HAT has become of the White SECURE PROFIT FROM DUCKS Eggs Can Be Sold at High Prices and There le Always Good Demand for Their Feathers. A nice flock, of ducks increases the profits on the farm every year. The eggs can be sold in the spring at good prices, for setting,- and there Is always a good sale for feathers. They are much less trouble than chickens or turkeys because they seldom die from any kind of disease Bucks will always take care of themselves after they have been hatched a short time. As soon as the ducks are large enough to eat, sprinklfl thick curd In their boxes. Shallow vessels should be used for watering A good plan .is to fill a flat pan - -- score, 13 House brides? There have been twelve of them. Miss Jessie Woodrow Wilson will be No. 13. But she feels no superstitious alarm on that being the luckiest of numbers In the, Wilson family. It is Interesting to consider the fact that three of the round dozen of White House brides, Including the first one, Lucy Payne, and the last one, Alice Roosevelt, married congressmen. Also that Della Lewis and Nellie Grant, became the wives of foreigners. Only one president Mr. Cleveland, was married in the White House, although another, Mr. Tyler, took to himself a spouse during his term of office. In earlier days White House weddings were always celebrated in the circular room, the state department oval in shape, which Is now called the blue room. But of late years Washington society has expanded to such an extent, numerically speaking, that, with perhaps 1,000 guests to be invited, the east room Is uons too larga for the staging of so important a spectacle as a marriage in the White House. At the wedding of Alioe Roosevelt which occurred Feb. 17, 1906, the east room was almost' to, uncomfortably crowded N The bridal pair were wed on a raised platform before an extemporized altar. "The ceremony was'--' performed by the Rt. Rev. Henry T. Satterlee, bishop of Washington, and breakfast for sixty persons was served In thestate dining room, a buffet lunch for the other guests being furnished In the green room. Nick Longworth, at that time a member of from Cincinnati, is exceedingly popular. He can do amusing things witn'lhe piano, Is a baseball player and has other accomplishments. At the date of his marriage ho was nearly forty. Though not rich, he will eventually inherit a considerable fortune from his mother. H,is wife has spent most of her time since her. marriage In Washington, where she Is a leader of the young married womens set She has no children. There was s gap of nearly twenty years beChat of Frances tween the Roosevelt wedding-anFolsom, vyho was married in the White House June 2, 1886, to President Cleveland. She was only twenty years old at the time andwas the daughter of..Mr, Cleveland! former law partner. On this occasion the ceremony was and the blue room was plenty big enough for the bri&tl party and a small number of invited guests. When her husband died, five years ago, Mrs, Cleveland "was left' verywetloff. In addition, congress voted her the customary 5,000 a year as the pension pf a president's widow. A few months ago she was married to Thomas J. Preston. When Rutherford B. Hayes was colonel of tho of Third Ohio Volunteers the lieutenant-colone- l the regiment was Russell Hastings. Whence it came about that Colonel Hastings, In later years, made the acquaintance of Emily Platt a niece ef President Hayes. Miss Platt was a member of the White House family through the Hayes administration. being regarded almost as a daughter. When she became engaged to Colonel Hastings It was arranged that she should be married in the White House, and the ceremony was performed thereon June 19.-- 187i. at 7 oclock In the It was wholly a family affair. -evening. Four years earlier" took place the wedding of Nellie Grant, the third daughter of a president to be married in the White House. On this occasion the spectacle was staged In the east room, then used for the purpose for the first time. The date was May 21 74, and the bridegroom was Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris, an Englishman. Ellen .Wrens hall Grant was a handsome girl of eighteen, with brown hair and eyes, rosy cheeks and a plump figure. Sartoris, who was the sondf a member ' oFparliimeat and was said to have an income of $60,000 a year, met her for the first time on a steamer coming back from Europe. Tbe wooing was rapid, but General Grant' disapdid not give his consent proved of the match and fur more than year.There are plenty of people living today who - Trio of Colored Rouen Ducks. eon--gre- nearly full of pebbles, and poor In water. They wUl drink la the little pools between the pebbles and be kept from getting too wet After they are three to four weeks old water will not hurt them. The Peklns, Rouen a - and Indian Runners are the three --most popular breeds, the latter being a perfect egg machine, but small In size. The Peking lay well and are excellent table ducks, making a very desirable mar ket duck. . They weigh: Adult drakes, 8 pounds; young drakes, 7; ducks, 7. and young ducks, 6. In all then ere ten varieties of standard bred - ducks: HEAD - -- - - LOUSE ATTACKS CHICKS - a. C. SMITH. Profeeeor ef Poettrv Husbandry, University Farm, St. Paul. (By - , --- Hmnj The head louse attacks young chicks generally before they are feathered out and la first found on the bead with Its claws or feeden sunk into the skin of the bead. As they become jnore numerous, they attack the throat and neck as well. The remedy is simple, but It takes a little time. Each chick must have Its head greased w'th lard, cottonseed oU or "live olL You will hive to look close-X.to see these Insects.-Th- ey are very destructive to chickens and must be controlled' or exterminated If the chick la to be healthy. Setting a Turkey. In nearly all cases It will be best te allow the turkey hen to hatch out her ; second laying of eggs.1 The weather is usually warm and settled, and aha 111 raise them with very little tro ble. , - Singer Is Layer. The singing hen Is the layer and U there la not song among your flock something la wrong and you should bnino&iaiely ascertain what It la hd it d semi-privat- Poulterer Must Look Closely for Irv JyrlQUi tittle Insects in Order toGet Healthy Birds. . first-cla- -- 1 e ss ss V n n?jvvrj raJoTr czozjjl wus&Ttnr. & smiled at nn-- s tlie summer sky sss fair. Ami busy people hurried here and there, The bundle which had fallen at her feel 1 picked up gallantly, there In the street. And save it to her with a courtly air. Klie Adams, a graduate of liar vard. notoriously hot tempered and Inheriting the ao rogance of his grandfather, after whom he was named. At that time a young man named llollon, from Philadelphia. waa employed la the White House In a secretarial He had a very capacity. pretty sister" named "Mary, and John Adams fell In love with her flnally obtaining the consent of bis parents to their marriage, notwithstanding some opposition to start with. The ceremony was performed In the circular room, and there was dancing afterward, the presAUC? ident and his wife taking part In the Virginia reel. well remember the popular exciteme'nf caused fey It has been said of the Monroes that they made - this international It was'estl mated marriage. that the wedding presents represented 'h- value , fewer friends In Washington than any presiden.They were very exof more than $100,000. V . tial family before or since. Mr. Monroe once reso formal clusive and that Certainly no marriage ever started out with a who called at the to near see fused a relative fairer outlook. But unfortunately the prospect waa not attired House White because visitor the was not realized. Sartoris, who was an Idler, like ln,the small cldthes appropriate to full dress. - many Englishmen of his class, did not make a Mrs. Hay, the eldest daughter, would net visit satisfactory husband, and Mra. Sartoris was wives of the diplomats because they did not the eventually compelled to divorce him. Her son, call first upon her: Thus it came about that named Algernon after bis father, recently married when the youngest daughter, Marla Hester Mona French girl, Cecils Moufflard, and is now residroe, married her, cousin, 'Samuel Laurence In France. Two daughters are married. ing then secretary to th president nobody A little over a year ago Mr. Sartoris having waa the at wedding ekeept tnemWi of the faml-- . meanwhile died Mrs. Sartoris took a second huslies of bride and bridegroom. It took place the band. Frank Hatch Jones, being married to him" room at noon on March 9, 1820, In circular the on July 4, 1912, at Cobourg, Canada. and the clergyman, the Rev.Dr. Hawley of St. On the evening of Jan. 21. 112, Elizabeth Tyler, John's fehurch, wore knee breeches with silver third daughter of President Tyler, then a girl of buckles on his low shoes. eighteen, was married In the blue room of the The couple spent their tummeni st Dak. Hill, White House to William Waller, a member of Loudon county. Vs. They lived In New 'York congress from Wllllamsbrug, Va. In winter. Monroe died In the New It Is not possible In all Instances to trace the York house while on n visit .to his daughter subsequent history of the White House brides, some of whom. Indeed, such as those of the Jack They had three children, two of them boys. son administration, were persons of ho promt- "Marts Monroe Qouverneur died at Oak Hill at neece apart from the fact that they were married the age of forty-ninand was burled tberer In the White House. Anns Todd of Philadelphia was married st ths Soon after this marriage Mra. Tyler died, and White House In 1812 to John G. Jackson, a mem.within a short time the widowed president took ber xf congress fronT Virgin la and a grgjiduncls to himself a second wife, whose name was Julia of 8tonewsll Jackson. Gardiner. 8he was a Nsw York girl History Is unfortunately silent In regard to subReturning from abroad with her father," Miss sequent events la the life ct Anns Todd, but it QardLner. visited Washington and mstPresldent' that she went to Virginia with her husTyler. band and lived there tbe rest of her life. Soon afterward President Tyler became enDolly Madison had two sisters. One of them, gaged to Miss Gardiner, and they were married In Anna, became the wife of Congressman Cutta of New York, the bridal party returning immediately falne. The other and younger sister, Lucy, was , to the White House, where the wedding at fifteen years of age to George Steptoe .married reception, ' ' was held. Washington, a nephew of tho Father of Ills Mr. Tyler wae fifty-siand his bride only Country. He died and she went to live with the twenty. John Quincy Adams, then In congress Madlsona. and a bitter enemy of the president, spoke of tho All of which merely leads np to the fact that marriage as a "union of January and May. on the evening of March 11, 1811, Lucy, the Young Mrs. Tyler did the honors of the White widow aforementioned, waa married at the White House for eight months, until the closp of the adHouse to a Kentucky widower named Todd, who ministration. ; Then ahe and her husband went was an associate Justice of the Supreme court to their Virginia hoffie. where they lived seven-s was the first White House. wedding This teen years.- - Wheu Mr. Tyler died his widow took celebrated with all the eclat possible In those her children to her mother's home st Carletoo comparatively simple days. Hill. Staten Island, and there spent the rest of It will be noticed that only four of.the twelve her life. White House brides have been daughters of When Van Buren was president Dolly Madison Presidents. The first of these was Maria ,' ....was still the leader of Washington soctety.' and It " the second Elizabeth' Tyler, the third Nellie was she who Introduced to him the beautiful AnGrant and tho fourth Alice Roosevelt Jessie gelica Singleton, daughter of a distinguished Woodrow Wilson will bo the fifth. South Carolina family. Mias Singleton became a frequent guest at the White House, nnd the HARO TO REALIZE. president's son. Major Abram Van Buren, fell In love with her. He married her In November, "We quickly accept conditions aa they are. Its 1833, at her home In South Carolina, but the wed- hard to reaUce that a man aver had , . ding reception waa held at the White Houso, hair. where young Mrs. Vsn Buren Immediately took "Thats true." charge of affairs as mistress of the establishment "Yet some of them not only had hair, but long, the president being a widower. crinkly cnrla. Andrew Jackson waa remarkably devoid of rela- tivea. Perhaps It was on this acount and because A DILEMMA. he waa fond of young people. that be made ao much of his wifes relations. 'Two of the latter T suppose Mrs. Smith Is much distressed were married In the White House at is request .about her husband's death.' during hi! administration. A third young woman "I dont know about that. He was so mean who enjoyed the came distinction was Della Lewis and cranky that In one way. It la a relief. But of Nashville, the daughter of an Intimate friend then black la ao horribly unbecoming to her. -of the president -' - The second marriage at the White House durTHE B08S SPEAKS. ing the Jackson regime was thht of Mary Easton, another Tennessee girl, who waa a niece of Mrt. "Young man, eald the boss. . "I like to see - Jackson. In this Instance the bridegroom was you arrive In the morning feeling fresh. Lnclen B. Polk, likewise of Tennessee. The pair "Yes, sir. . went to live at Columbia, Tenn., where they spent But Jet- It end there. You have a habit oil the rest of their live very happily. keeping your freshness up all dsviL. EllzabethMsrtlaws a velatlve of H ri.Jnck-- ' sou. - She wss married In the White House to a NOTHING 8ER10US. young clerk, Lewis Randolph, a son of Martha Jefferson Randolph, who wss the eldest dsugbter "Wss I full when you' saw me last night? of Thomas Jefferson. "I wouldnt like to say that. This takes us back as fsr the administration "Come 'ou. What was I doing?" or John Quincy Adams, who had three eons. The - "Well, you wire challenging a lamppost to handsomest of the three brothers wss Joha race." 7 - It waa not much to do, I am aware; We neer had chanced to meet before, and neer Attain or otherwise by c hence meet. may She smiled at me, She knew nausht of the ills I had to bear, Hor of the trlumpha which .hoped- - to sharer"" If ahe had keen, sweet, J any, twenty-fou- and r I mlKht have aald thing she would still repeat. But ahe waa not, and ao I didn't care; . She smiled at me. MERE OPINION. , Some men claim that It Is Just aa noble to get rich by spending less aa by earning more, but It la generally pretty hard for them to make their wives believe It - There are people In this world who Insist on thinking that the man who' has the gout is merely trying to show off. self-mad- e -- Gou-verneu- r, It has come to pass that people are nut awed by a man merely because be has e safe In hie office. - .. J The author of 20 historical novels may not know enough to fill a book. Not all eyes are the mirrors of Some are merely the red windows that Indicate tbe presence of - sohs. -- vice. e Somehow e hian always has a ring 'doubt or twp when a woman aya, 1 want you to understand that I lln-g- . e I - .. '' x and-wa- Mon-roe- , bald-heade- d ..... -- , j- 13111. .If - . -- - , l am a lady!' , Disgusting Inquisitiveness. "How long did you hold publlo of- fice? Four years was And your salary. I believe, $4,000 a year? "V "Yes. "1 cant figure out bow you went In with nothing, and retired with $100,-JGO- ." "Its queer how many people are bothering over that matter just as you are. 1 cant understand why It la that men waste ao much time trying to figure on thlnga that are none of their business. Sometimes I am ao disgusted with my fellow citizens because .of their Inquisitive ways that I am almost tempteU V go far from here and never come, back again. i Thoughtful. "Ponsonby la ono of tho moat thoughtful men 1 over know. Ho never leaps Jefqre he lookt. VVhen he was, married he had both si carriage and in ambulance waiting at the door. "Why did he have the ambulance? "Both bo and his bride were very popular, and there was, of course, no telling what their loving friends might to to them. Lonely Father. Mother has sooe to the mountains. Sister has sons to the sea; Father works oa In the office For mother and sister and me. Im to star six weeks at srandpaa. Far from the town and tha noise; f Here- - I have ocean of pleasure With Uncle Johns two little boys C Last 'night I heard grandpa complaining. He said alth a pitiful sigh That he couldnt help envying father; Since then Ive been wondering why. ! They Left Nothing. "And wh&L" asked tha bereaved ady. "were my husband's hist "word?" lie didnt say anny lasht wurrude, maam, repired Pat "Afther tbe doctors go t lh rough wid him on the oper ltln table he hadnt aven a wurrud , left In him. poor souL" - -- Argument Many a lawyer wko argument In court ili lag at home? -- f-- pua tp a tt k tzz ! n |