. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mar. 16, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 169 •was approved, and the list of words %yith simplified spelling- adopted for use in all publications of the National Educa- tional Association, is as follows : Program for prog-ramme; tho for though ; altho for although ; thoro for thorough ; thorofarc for thoroughfare ; thru for through ; thruout for throughout; catalog for cata- logue ; prolog for prologue : dccalog for decalogue ; demagog for demagogue ; pedagog for pedagogue. You are invited to extend notice of this action, and to join in securing the general


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Mar. 16, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 169 •was approved, and the list of words %yith simplified spelling- adopted for use in all publications of the National Educa- tional Association, is as follows : Program for prog-ramme; tho for though ; altho for although ; thoro for thorough ; thorofarc for thoroughfare ; thru for through ; thruout for throughout; catalog for cata- logue ; prolog for prologue : dccalog for decalogue ; demagog for demagogue ; pedagog for pedagogue. You are invited to extend notice of this action, and to join in securing the general adoption of the suggested amendments. We believe that we have always used program for pro- gramme in the Bee Journal, and catalog for catalogue, so there will be only about a half dozen more words that will require our attention, in order to be up with the National Educational Association. Next week we hope to begin on them, and trust that our readers will help on the good work all they can by also adopting the simplified spelling in their correspondence. It's a grand thing to be leaders in wise reforms, and we hope that bee-keepers will be in this one from start to finish. How Much Honey at a Heal ?—"Stenog," the new department editor of Gleanings, "touches us up "in this style on the subject of how much honey one can eat at a meal: " It seems that Mr. York doubted whether three persons ever ate a pound of comb honey at one sitting. Mr. Murry says two often eat that ; Certainly—why not ? Evi- dently Mr. York can't hear honey as well as some of us human bruins can. I can eat half a pound of good clover honey at one meal any day, with impunity (or milk without the impunity). But I never eat on a wager, nor to show what I can do. I eat to live, and stop when I have ; This leaves one in confusing uncertainty as to the real honey capacity of "; Does he mean he abvays stops when he has had enough, and that half a


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