Vacation Clubs

There is a way in which families o: moderate means can en joy as many luxuries as can be had at the average higl priced summer hotel and have much more happiness, liberty and elbow room. It is by working on the co-oper ative plau. Dwellers inland would like the seashore for their summer vacation home. Those by the sea would like best the wooded mountain side. The flrst step would be to secure a tract of gronnd. If 100 acres can be bought, go much the better It will afford land to raise all the food for the company's cows aud horses as well as fruit and vegetables for the people, affording also space for all the eggs and poultry needed to be produced at home. If the co-operatives are not rich enough to buy so much land, then any smaller plot down to 1 0 acres will do. The land may be bought by issuing shares at $100 each, to be purchased by the members. There are hundreds of beautiful summer club house sites where land may be bought at from $40 to $50 an acre, many of them with buildings aud improve ments on them already that can be adapted to club purposes. . All the scheme cannot be worked out in one year, but it can be put into working order in two years". Tbe first year the land might be bought and paid for. The next year the buildings could be erected. It is well to leave each man's private dweiling to his om individual taste and means, whether it be a cottage or a tent. There must always be, how,ever, one central building about which the private dwellings are grouped. That is the casino. It includes under one roof the commou restaurant, spare bedrooms, laundry, bathhouses, billiard rooms, library and reading rooms of the club. This casino or clnbhouse is dow a recQgnized feature in all reflned, well to dovillage corunmnities. lts convenience and the necessity for it have been long since vindicated. Here the members meet for social intercourse. Here families may buy their food at cost rates, either eating in the casino dining room or taking ineals to their homes. It will be a rest unspeakable, this camping out in the woods or by the seashore, with all the luxuries and conveniences of city life. There would also be a common stable and vehicles and co-operative boathouses, bathing houses and sailboats. The plan bas certainly everything to recommend it for refined families who wish to have a summer home at moderate cost. Twenty families constitute a fair sized co-operative club. In order to get a fair, general idea of the locality in which the Greco-Turkish fight is taking place, take a good modern school atlas and examine carefnlly the northern frontier of Greece and the southern frontier of Turkey. Find and mark the points mentioned in the news dispatches. The fighting began on the northeast boundary of Greece. Here the Greek province of Thessaly joins the Turkish province of Macedonia. The boundary line betrween them is the Chassia mountains, and in these monntains is the Milouna pass, which the Turks captured from the Greeks almost immediately. The Turks have the advantage of position in the fighting in this locality. Macedonia is a región of rnouutains difficult to ruaren over. On the other hand, Thessaly, into which the capture of Milouna pass gave the Turks entrance, is a fruitful plain. A negro city in this country will be a cnriosity, yet that is wfaat Mr. Aloses Bentley, himsclf a colored man, proniises. He will resurrect the ancient town of Sunbury, on the Sunbury river, in south Georgia, and convert it into a settlement of negro colonists. The district is malarious, and white people do not live there, but Bentley says the miasma wil] not affect the colored people. The land . is exiremely fertile and can be bought cheap. Colored people will live in the town and run it. They will fill all the municipal offices and make all the city ordinances. Mr. Bentley desires to show the world what the negro can do toward self government, and he adds, ' 'I want to say right here that we will have no worthless negroes in our new city." There is one act of President McKinley the good taste of whicn men of all parties, Democrat and Populist as well as Republican, will approve. That is his purebase of aKentucky saddle norse, a magnificent creature, with flowing mane aud tail, as spirited as it is gentle and high bred. Kentucky is awfully slow about electing a United States senator, but there is nothing slow about her saddle horses. No Arab steeds were ever more beautiful or more intelligent than they. That conference of ministers - bless their innocent souls! - wbo iutroduced a resolution commending Queen Victoria for her total abstinence principies acted with great credit to their hearts, but it was an awfully rough compliment thry paid to their heads. Perhaps these good brethren do not believe in reading uewspapers. ' If the Greeks cannot conquer the Turks auy other way, they can botubard them with some of the Hclleuic proper names, and that will be sure to knock them over. The various congresses of mothers met with eclat and were voted a success. Nowlet us liavea mother-in-law's congress.