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flEARST’S SUNDAY AMERICAN, ATLANTA, HA., SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1013.
5 CL
Electric Egg Splendid Tonic
Hen Cackles T wo Whole Days
TIGHT BUT RIGHT.
OLD CHIP, FOR IT
Fanciers Find Fancy Feed Fruitless,
Current Stimulates Laying.
PASADENA, April 19.—Hear ye,
poulterers! No more need to feed
chickens fancy and expensive food
to induce the laying of mammoth
eggs, if you will take the advice of
David Boice, assistant manager of
the Hotel Green, who says the real
secret of success in the egg busi
ness lies in the proper construction
of the hen's nest.
Don’t force Biddy, says Boice,
to nest on a handful of straw or
excelsior, but run a network of
minute electric wires through the
nest. Let a gentle current of elec
tricity permeate the nest when the
hen is laying. This, maintains
this ex-scientiflc poulterer, results
in mammoth eggs and eggs of
wonderful nutritive and rejuven
ating qualities.
But, be careful and not shock
or electrocute the hen, for it was
by this means that Boice failed
in the chicken business. Eight
years ago he had a farm near
Kansas City and the Boice Elec
tric Egg was a by-word for miles
around. One day Boice left his
farm in charge of a hired hand,
whose knowledge of electricity was
exceedingly small.
200 Victims Perish.
No sooner had the owner started
away than the hived hand, acting
on the theory if a little electricity
helped, a full charge would work
wonders, threw' the hen house
switch wide open.
The theory worked astoundingly.
Nearly two hundred hens were
electrocuted in their beds. The
few that escaped the death cur
rent hobbled about in maimed and
shattered condition. When night
fall came the few survivors put
for the tall timber when the glow
of the incandescents of a near by
village brought a reminder of elec
tricity.
“Really,” said Boice at the Ho
tel Green this afternoon, ‘‘the
electric egg is a wonderful product.
Not only is it of ostrich size, but
it has rejuvenating qualities such
as the managers of the spring or
Ponce De Leon never thought of
claiming. Dr. Osier’s theory is ob
solete if electric eggs are used.
“Must Be Delicate.”
“As the egg is treated to a gen
tle electric current while the hen is
laying, it retains a certain amount
of this electricity. The greatest
care must be used In applying the
current for an evercharge of cur
rent is fatal to the hen, or it at
least so unnerves the bird that even
the sight of a lightning bug will
throw her into a nervous chill.
“Heavy wires should not be
used in lining the nest. A network
of very attenuated wires should be
woven into the other material form
ing the nest. Don't let the hen
know of these wires, for chickens
are exceedingly sensitive and hate
to be imposed on. If the hen be
came aware that you were taking
an unfair advantage of her by us
ing electricity to crowd her for
more work, her feelings would be
hurt.
“I have ne.ver abandoned my idea
that the electric egg is one of the
greatest discoveries of the age, but
1 never have been able to raise
sufficient capital to install a proper-
electric plant in fome big poultry
yard. No, I have never patented
my idea, but it Is impossible for any
one to steal it us the secret lies
In the proper way to apply the cur
rent. That was the great trouble
with my hired man; he djd not
apply the current judiciously.”
Hen Cackles Two Days.
HOLLYWOOD, April 19.—Every
hen in Hollywood is trying to win
the large egg content, and the poul
try yard rivalry Is keen.
Yesterday a Rhode Island Red.
belonging to Frank E. Wolfe, 1839
North Mariposa Avenue, started
cackling at 9 a. m.. and kept it up
until dark. About 7 o’clock, as
Mr. Wolfe entered the hen house,
he discovered the cause of his prize
hen’s Joyful mood, for In the nest
was a 11-Inch egg. At daylight this
morning the hen resumed her cack
ling again.
Good News for Billy Smith.
POMONA. April 19.—B. A. An
cuiss relates a strange but appar
ently true hen story. Last week,
says Mr. Ancuiss, one of his Mi
norca hens devoured a rubber tire.
Two days later the hen laid a rub
ber egg, solid, large and round. Mr.
Ancuiss declares he will endeavor to
propagate a new breed of hens—
the kind that will lay baseballs. He
expects to sell the balls to the op
position teams, so they'll knock
“fowl” balls. Anyway, that's what
he says.
Pomona After Record.
POMONA, April 19.—The hens of
Pomona are now thoroughly
aroused. If other hens about South
ern California wish to question the
fact that local hens can lay the big
gest and the best eggs in the coun
try by attempting to equal their
record, there is going to be a keen
light—and to the finish.
Said Pomona hens to-day added
another department to the contest
and if this one can be duplicated
they are going to miss their guess.
Three weeks ago George Field, liv
ing at 260 East Fifth Avenue, set
thirteen eggs undr a large Plymouth
Rock biddy. As the eggs were from
a good breed of stock he has been
particularly careful of them and
has watched the setting from day
to»day. In the meantime the fight
among the hens of Southern 'Cali
fornia for the “big” egg record, de
veloped.
Whether or not the biddy heard of
the contest is not definitely knjjwn.
The fact remains, however, that this
noon when Mr. Field went to his
hen house he was rendered speech
less with amazement to find the
biddy strutting proudly about the
chicken yard with fourteen fluffy
chicks tagging at her heels. In other
words, the faithful mother had suc
ceeded in getting fourteen chickens
from thirteen eggs, even defying
the proverbial “13.”
As Mr. Field is positive that last
night there were just thirteen eggs
under the hen the supposition is
that the hen heard of the rivalry
which has sprung up and succeeded
in hatching a pair of twins from one
of the eggs which was unusually
large.
Another strange feature of the
twins is that one of them is jet
black, while the other is yellow.
Atlanta’s 2,500 Poor Children Are in Dire Need
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Logan Tells Why You Should Help Bear Burden
Sartorial Splendor of Peachtree
Parader Is Perfect Reflection
From Fountain of Fashion.
PADLESS COAT ALL THE RAGE
Everybody’s Wearing ’Em, Even
the Prince of Wales, and the
Young Fellow Capitulates.
Atlanta and the Whole U. S.
Seem to Be Chewing Gum
m chewing in the United States
ars to be a general habit, as it
d take quite a few gum chewers
e up what is manufactured. More
30,000.000 sticks of gum is the
al output of American factorial
liis stuff is made of chicle, which
s from a gum tree in the tropics
} the sapota, the importation of
™ into the United States figuring
2,000,000 a year, and here in At-
the habit is as popular a** in any
of the country.
unish explorers found the Indians
lis hemisphere chewing gum in
ifteenth century, but it was 1876
e gum chewing became a habit
ig the nations, so at least the
makers «y.
or to 1888 chicle sold for from i
cents a pound. Now it is selling
Vi a pound. The chicle tree is
enous to northern South Ameri-
countries, Central America and
Mexican States.
e operation of gathering chicle
Lireparing it for market is similar
at employed in the maple sugar
,try Throughout the rainy sea-
anil while the sap in up, the tap
is done. The outfit consists of
ng more than a piece of rope and
ichete. By means of this rope,
h Is fastened about the waist and
ed around the tree, the gatherer
is enabled to hold any desired posU
tion and wield the machete in cutting
the incisions.
Great care must be exercised, as
excessive bleeding of sap will cause
the rapid decay of the tree. It Is pos
sible for one man to gather properly
from 10 to 15 pounds of sap a day, for
which he Is paid, in most cases,
contract price of from 10 to 15 cents a
pound.
In pome instances trees have been
tapped for 25 years, where great care
has been taken, although after that
time they produced only from one-
half pound to two pounds of sap.
However, If allowed to remain un
tapped for five or six years, they will
then produce from three to live
pounds of gum.
Much of the chicle is shipped In
rough, uneven loaves to the United
States via Canada, where it is refined
an i dried out to one-half of its origi
nal weight, thereby saving 50 per cent
of the duty of 10 cents a pound.
Repeated attempts have been made
to mix. adultreate, or substitute chicle
in every conceivable manner, but in
vain Its distribution extends in the
Western Hcmispheirt- fropi HudsonBay
to the Argentine Republic; in the Ea>t
from London to Hongkong. Australia
and South Africa.
Mif-ter Johnnie, Mister Johnnie, where
do your fashions grow?
In bloomin’, foggy London, dear old
chappie, don’t you know.
Male Atlanta, parading Peachtree in
sartorial splendor, reflects the right
little, tight little Island, because Lon
don is the city whence men’s styles
originate, as surely as Paris is the
fountain head of all things beautiful
•n feminine apparel.
The question was raised by a young
man who went Into a shop yesterday,
Intent on settling the spring clothes
question once and for all.
That Padl§ss Shoulder.
The salesman enticed him into a
coat,,and then rhapsodized over the
effect. He patted his victim on a
padless shoulder.
“They’re wearing ’em like this, this
year,” he said.
But the young man had been born
somewhere between St. Louis and St
Joseph. Also, the price was higher
than he had anticipated, and his mood
was not the most pacific.
“How do you know?” he asked,
skeptically. “Whose wearing ’em this
way?”
“Why, don’t you "‘know?” said the
spider to the fly. “They’re wearing
’em like this in London. That’s where
all fashions start. Like as not the
Prince of Wales is wearing a suit like
this to-day. That’s why we sell ’em.”
“Ah-h-h,” sighed the young man,
his frown gone. The salesman decid
ed that now was the time for some
close in-fighting.
“And we call that last suit you saw
the Duke of Essex. They do say that
the duke himself wore the first one.
And he wore it only last week. That’s
the kind of clothes we keep, right up
to the minute, and right behind the
House of Lords.
Viscount Makes a Hit.
“And look at that Norfolk with the
vents. You’ve heard about that, of
course. No? Well, it was like this
The young Viscount Moreover, com
ing of age last w'eek, decided to sow
a few wild oats, and did so. Of course
there was a fight, later in the evening,
and the coat of the noble lad was torn
to pieces. But he patched it up, and
started to sneak home, but somebody
saw r him. They thought the pinned
up coat was a new wrinkle of the
tailor’s brain. It made a big hit. The
next morning there w'ere 50 tailors
waiting until the viscount could sub
due his headache and let them beg
him for an opportunity to copy the
coat. You see?”
“’Sat so?” murmured the young
man.
“You bet you,” said the salesman
“And see this one—”
“Wait a minute,” the victim cried,
ready to surrender. ‘Til take that
little check suit over there.”
“Good, good,” said the salesman, ad
miringly. “Now, about that suit they
do say that Lord Buncom—”
The Week's Humor
Had His Money’s Worth.
“Sixtane shillun’s a da’ did they
charge me for my room at the hotel
in Lunnon," roared Sandy, indignant
ly, on hi9 return to Broburgh Burghs
from a sightseeing expedition.
“Ou, ay, it wasna cheap,” agreed
his father, “but ye must a’ had a gey
fine time seein’ the siehts.”
“Seein’ the siehts?” roared Sandy.
“I did’na see a sicht a’ the time I was
in Lunnon! Mon, mon, ye ainna sup
pose I was going to be stuck that
much for a room, an’ then no get the
proper use o’t?”
Consoling-.
“Sorry, Brown.” said the doctor aft
er the examination. “You’re in a very
serious condition. I’m afraid I’ll have
to operate on you.”
“Operate!” gasped Brown. “Why. I
haven’t the money for operations. I’ n
only a poor workingman.”
“You’re insured, are you not?”
“Yes, but I don’t get that until after
J’m dead.”
“Oh. that'll be all right,” said the
doctor, consolingly.
Absentmindedness.
“Confound that cook!” growled the
cannibal king. “Here dinner is tw r o
hours late and still not a sound from
the kitchen. I’ll discharge her for
this. Chamberlain, go to the kitchen
and tell the cook to get a move on.’
“Pardon me. your majesty,” said
the chamberlain, kowtowing properly,
“but has your majesty’s august mem
ory failed to rpprise him of the fact
that he ate the cook this morning? ’
Delightfully Dangerous.
“You should have been in the suf
fragette parade, my dear.”
“So ?”
“It was delightfully dangerous.
Many of the girls were annoyed by
horrid men.”
"indeed?”
“For the first time in their lives*”
Secretary of Associated
Charities Says Even
the Destitute Are
Assets and May
Be Made Valua
ble Citizens.
Atlanta every year, through the
Associated Charities, must support, or
partially support, over 2,500 destitute
children.
They are all little lives with un
known possibilities in them—possibil
ities that in the majority of cases will
never be developed.
Atlanta must every year keep the
wolf from the door of 1,400 families or
more—cases In w’hich the father or
the main support of the family is
worthless, or ill or unable to make a
sufficient wage, or mothers are de
serted or left widowed with families.
How is the city to handle these
families so that they may contribute
their wholesome share to the commu
nity’s affairs and work?
These are the two vitally big prob
lems that face the Associated Chari
ties every day in the week. Joseph
C. Logan, secretary of the organiza
tion, which has some 1,700 members,
says that it is every man’s duty In
the city of Atlanta to contribute either
money or service or something else
to the other man who is down and
out—the man who lives “just next
door around the corner.”
Rests on Brotherhood.
He said yesterday:
“If a man forgets his brotherhood
spirit, he will become selfish, narrow.,
biased.
“The security of our civilization
rests on this spirit of brotherhood.
“For his own good, every man’s idea
and effort should be to try to lift the
other fellow and the other fellow’’s
child to be his own equal in devel
opment.
“It is not the fault of the poor that
they are poor, in the majority of cases.
They are swept by a current of cir
cumstances beyond their control.
They have so little to begin with that
when they lose a little they have lost
all.
“If cities are indifferent to making
good citizens out of their poor, it is
the samp as if they were indifferent
to the spread of contagious diseases.
It has been figured that one family in
New York cost the city and State in
crime over $1,000,000.
“If a man can do nothing else to
contribute to society, he can at least
favor adequate taxes as the minimum
of his services. This will insure the
building up of conditions that will
give poor people good sanitation and
other community comforts.
“A politician can at least see that
the poverty rows of his city are put
Into livable shape—as well as the
streets up where he has his own abid
ing place.”
Mr. Logan’s hand closed on the desk
in the Gould Building while he talked.
As he leaned forward in the next sen
tence and looked at The American
reporter there was something big ana
wonderful and Christian in his face.
“Atlanta Is Generous.”
“I don’t want you to think that I
am finding fault,” he said, “or that I
do not think Atlanta is genferous with
her giving. But can’t you see what a
pitiful thing it is that charity is only
able to give enough to the city’s poor
to keep their souls and bodies togeth
er? To have to go out and find little
children with perhaps the light that
never was on sea or land in their
faces and leave behind you only a
sack of potatoes or a bushel of meal?
There may be no hope held out to
them of development—of real ’iving
and thinking! They Inust only be
kept alive that later they may be- j
come machines to feed hungry mouths.
Great God, it gets next to a man
who has a telescope on the situation.
And that’s our fix.”
He did not speak for several mo
ments.
“I only wish that you could see the
heroism of some of the young boys
and girls in this town. It isn’t hero
ism of a day and the Titanic bravery
couldn’t hold a candle to it. It’s hero
ism of the life-time sort!
“There are hundreds of little chaps
who uncomplainingly are the sole sup
ports of their families year by year.
We can not lay hands upon them and
relieve them of their burdens and send
them to schools. We haven’t got the
money. There Is nothing to draw
from except what is given us to use,
and that is only enough to say to
them: ‘We will add enough to your
earnings to keep you alive.’
A Deficit Last Year.
Conditions with the Associated
Charities last year, Mr. Logan said,
were: In round figures $16,000 was
given to it, and yet there were so
many cases! of actual need that the
organization was compelled to “go in
the hole” over $2,500.
“We had to spend more than $18,-
000,” he said. “How we’re coming out
I don’t know. And yet we did not
give unnecessarily in any case.”
The charity worker declared that
the poor are not burdens on society
—that the idea of most people that
the poverty-stricken are eyesores to
a city was not tru«‘.
“It is estimated,” he figured, “that
every man is worth to any community
the price of the salary he earns be
sides what he makes for his employer,
if no mine. He contributes that to
general life.* Every baby born in a
city increases the value of that city’s
real estate. In New York the in-
Every Man Has Right
To Work and to Play
My way of solving the problem
pf the poor in Atlanta would be
to show every citizen and make
him understand that it is every
other citizen’s right, from a babe
in arms to a man who is out of
a job, to have the opportunity, at
the expense of the common fund
of wealth, to be educated, to be
protected against preventable
disease, to have a chance to v/ork
and a chance to play, and the
opportunity of contributing him
self to the common good.—JO
SEPH LOGAN, of the Associated
Charities.
crease is $280 per child. If a man
makes $500 in a year, he spends $600
—doesn’t that make him worth some
thing to trade?”
Mr. Logan said every man who
Citizens Generous in
Giving, but Some-
timesGive Unwisely
—Organization Far
Behind and More
Money Needed.
gives to charity should know that his
money is really going to help create
an asset for society—not a liability.
Ho should know it goes toward meet
ing a real need. Otherwise he is only
selfishly gratifying a benevolent im
pulse, and nine times out of ten his
contribution is wasted.
“Go See for Yourself.”
“He should either go himself to see
how a family can be helped to work
out its own salvation or else place
his funds with an organized body of
charity workers who will go and see
for him. Often otherwise his money
only goes to encourage vice.
“This, for instance: A person sees
a blind woman led by a child on the
street and gives her a piece of money
without a moment’s thought. In one
case of that sort the woman had
taken five children from poor fam
ilies at different times and traveled
with them from city to city until they
were too large to ride free on the
train. After that she discarded them
in whatever city she might be. Where
they went or what became of them
she could not tell the court when she
was finally arrested. She had made
beggars of five children and the pub
lic had helped her to do it.
“Here’s how charity may be wasted
if not wisely distributed: A family’s
needs become known to a community.
People rush in with quantities of food.
A temporary want is supplied, but no
lasting good is done. A family of this
kind once got so many potatoes and
vegetables that three-lourths of them
lotted before they could be used. Had
the neighbors reported the case to a
charity organization and given i‘ their
donations instead of the family many
more other poor people might have
teen helped and the family itself sup
plied with sufficient for its wants.
Better still, the society would have
been able to provide for the family's
chronic lack.
“We are doing what we can over
here,” Mr. Logan finished. ’ We are
making progress, but the progress is
all too slow. We have five women
workers in theJield who do nothing
but go to the assistance of people, ano
one woman who stays in the office to
hear the pitiful stories of those who
come in, and to see that their cases
are investigated and proper aid given
them. But the little souls and the lit
tie minds of the children! The need
is so great—and so much more could
be done If people only took the trou
ble to know—if they would all help,
even if only a little!”
Replied in Kind.
A young married woman of Chica
go was running down the station
platform In a frantic endeavor to
catch the Northern frain Just pulling
out.
“To Duluth! To Duluth!” she cried,
eagerly, waving to the brakernan on
the rear end.
“Toodle—ee—toodle—oh! Oh. you
kid!” returned the brakernan, face
tiously.
Happy Thought.
Robinson Crusoe had just rescued
the savage from the cannibals. “What
ever they do, they sha’n’t touch a bit
of meat on Friday!” ho exclaimed,
having already thought up a suitable
name for his dark-complexioned pro-
toge.
Needless to say, Friday didn’t make
any bones about it, and they lived
happily ever after.
Nothing To It.
Papa Bostonbeans—Would you like
me to buy you a Noah’s Ark, my son?
Johnnnie Bostonbeans (aged 4) —
Aw, weally, fawther, you know that
the Noah story Is only a phantas
magoric myth.
What Else?
Mrs. FInnigan—I want ter see some
glove#? fer me young one.
Clerk—Some kind of kbd, madam?
Mrs. F.—Shure, Oiristu!
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