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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 +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ +•+ •!•••!- 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! A SUCCESSFUL OFFER RENEWED For One Week Only We Will Sell The Columbia Grafonola “Favorite” and 28 Selections of Music ou 14 Double Disc Columbia Records for $5 Per Month, No Interest, No Extras In the “Favorite” you get $200 tone quality and a guaran tee of satisfaction. 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