Feathers In Germany

As soon as she is able to run about each daughter of a Germán fariner's fauiily is presen terl with a Hnen bag uiarked with her own name, intowhieh she puts all the feathers she can piek up. Not the slighfest downybit escapes her, and the sooner the bag is filled the greater the praise she gets frotn the parents. The bag being full, it is emptied into a larger one, which hangs in the garret or elsewhere, and when thero are feathers enough they are made into pillows or bolsters or beds or cushions i'or easy chairs. We waste a great deal iu this country. Although we do not keep so many geese as Germans keep, chicken feathers are plentifully strewu about most farms and make good beds.